Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-06-25
Wccklt Vows Summary.

attempting to burn q school house.
Counccticut's proportion Of divorces to
marriages last year was one in eleven.
Three or four hundred Clapps held
family reunion in Boston Wednesday
night
"A frontier correspondent thinks that
Capt Jack ought to have been washed be-
fore he was ironcd.
Ninaty.eight years ago to-day-Junc
II, 17T5-the foundation Of Bunker Hill
monument was laid.
A bin is pending in the Connecticut
legislature to rc-cnact the usury laws that
were repealed last year
Mr. Knapp, Of Peokskill, n. Y, won
four-dollar bet by turning cofiee-mill 10
hours without stopping.
Chicago falls into the line Of cities
that arc going TO give their poor children
excursions this summer
Vice President Wilson has weak eyes.
That is better than to have weak knees, as
so many politicians have.
The Pope is better, aud wants to in.
crease thenumber Of his Cardinals from for.
ty.four to seventy, the full number
An English paper speaks Of " Arie-
mas Ward Beecher, the great American
humorist" The mistake is only in the FIRST
name.
Some Yale students lately scrcnaded
female boarding school, and then spent the
night in a station-house, on an invitation
from the police.
The civil service advisory board re-
commend that the country be divided into
four districts, each to have a chief examin-
or, etc Fiddestck
-Ignatius Donnely now turns up as an
agricultural candidate" for Governor Of
Minnesota. This is about the last trans.
formation he can undergo.
"A horse that hunts for rabbits and
kills them with his iorc.fcet, merely for
the pleasure Of it, is among the boosted
possessions Of New Albany Ind
Sam Bell announces that he will con.
test Pixies scat in Congress from the Sec
ond New Hampshire district Wonder if
Sam will draw the back pay FIRST ?
Young men with disposition to "bur-
GLE will be interested in knowing that
full set Of burglars tools, including re-
volvcrs and slung.shots, costs about $1,000
They had row among the newspapers
in Harrisburg, Pa, about the printers
contributions to the Greeley monument,
and the money has been returned to the
givers
III. II. says that the best homes she
ever saw were in houses which were not
specially well kept and the worse were tyr
annized over by perfect housokeepers,"
so called.
Now is the time for excursion parties
from San Francisco, Omaha and Kansas
City for New York. Competition has
brought the price Of soda in the metropolis
down to one cent a glass.
A superb silver vase, s inches high,
has been presented to Elbridge 7. Gerry,
by the New York society for the proven.
ton Of cruelty to animals, in token of his
efforts in furthcrancc of their cause.
Three dollars and quarter is the an
nual salary allowed the postmaster at Point
Pleasant, o., and, as no one was willing
this year to accept the position for less than
four dollars, the Office has been closed.
Sergeant Bates has quit his fooling
and entered upon the responsibilities Of
business life. He don't rally round flag
any more-rallies round hod. The Chi
cage Post sees something hodd in his pres.
ent position.
"Woman Purissima, Sanctissima, Carts
slma," was the toast given by William
Nj. Evarts, at a recent banquet in New
York city. The transators insist that
''purest, hottest, most expensive" is the
proper rendering.
"A little child fell out Of bed at Grove.
port, o., the other day, and cut an ar.
terry in his throat upon n broken lamp chin.
ney. The heart-broken parents have the
consoling reelection that they were going to
get new chimney, next day
Theodore Hook was once asked for a
contribution to the treasury Of the Society for
the Conversion Of the Heather He said
he was quite unable to give any money,
but if the society would send him a heather
be would do his best to convert him.
The salary Of Bishop Morris has been
reduced from $500 to 1880, because,
being an octOgenarian, he has married a
young wife at bis home in Ohio, an act
which they regard as scandalous to the
church. The matter creates good deal OF
talk at the West
The members of the New Hampshire
legislature do not sit SO long as they do in
Massachusetts, but they make it up in en-
phass. One member on Tuesday elegant.
ly said Of another, lie lies aud knows he
lies" The Speaker Unlimited that this was
little too emphatic.
The rage for the ie' Termination to
girls names has come to a disastrous con.
clusion in one Oregon family. A farmer
named AXE christened his eldest girl Belle
She had some card printed 10 the " e'
fashion, and-well after looking at the re.
suit she concluded Belle was pretty enough
for her and burned them.
chamberlain, the Cleveland murderer
who got Imprisonment for life instead Of
hanging by sort Of compromise between
his counsel and the prosecution, has sud
denly thrown of the insanity" by which
the result was obtained, and is very gleelu
over his escape from the halter. The pop
ular verdict is that his trial was scan
dalous proceeding.
"A loaded pistol at full.cock, with q
cap on the nipple, four pounds of blasting
powder and FIVE pounds of guppowder and
broken glass, made up the contents of box
which a loving English husband sent to hi,
wife. Fortunately the arrangement foi
the discharge Of the pistol failed to work
and the woman has invoked the majesty oil
the law against him.
"A scared rat took refuge in the trunk
Of an elephant belonging to John Robin
sons circus, the other day, driving the ami
NAL nearly mad with terror, for he had never
had a rat in his trunk before, and he didn'
know how to get him out. At length h
went TO a tank Of water, sucked his pro
boscis full, and elected the saucy intruder
with snort that drove him quite through
the canvas.
An enterprising effort to establish
colony Of New Englanders 10 Bolivia has
after a long career of i'll success, come to /
sad ending. Asahel D. Piper was an en-
thugtaQt On tho c,,tiaot of davalon;o.. Al