Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-03-19
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Wolves are very plenty in Iowa.

"A Swedish woman proposes TO fad
DR.. Livingstone some more.
Alex. Greer, the great Albany iobac.
conist, is dead
Poor Illuminating gas is more fatal to
lungs and eyes than any other known cause.
Mary Clemmer Ames writes seven
newspaper letters per week
"A defiant miliner Of Defiance o,
aouncod minister in his pulpit for SANDER.
Amadeus has resumed his rights as
an Italian citizen.
Chicago is gathering her energies for
grand exposition which she'll rival that Of
Vienna.
-Nitro.gIyccriue is said to BIO better
than kerosene to kndle a fire, because you
never know what als you.
The royal family Of Great Britain arc
about to ask for more grants from Par
Lament.
Edmund Yates is going to report the
Vienna Exposition for the New York Her.
AID at 5000 per week.
The Governor Of Massachusetts has
appointed Thursday, April 3rd for Fast
Day.
The Massachusetts, Legislature goes on
the record ll2 to s3 against womau's
suffrage,
France occupies the largest space in
the Vienna exposition, according to the
foreign papers.
-S;bool.teachcrs in Austria are nearly
all females, and the proportion Of males is
decreasing
A New York journal states that the
use Of opium is increasing to an alarming
extent in that city.
Prof Sceley, toe chemist, says the
/ Americans now make better beer than the
/ Germans.
The lnliana Legislature has appropri.
sted $1,000 for a sanitarium for the cure Of
iuebrates.
The New York Times alludos to the
editor Of the Nation as zone Godkin, par
TALLY reclaimed lrshman."
In the streets Of Paris $1,000 vehicles
annually run over 1875 people Of whom
twelve per cent. are MORALLY injured.
Prof Tyudal says Agassiz's "but
shop at Harvard is more complete than
the British Museum.
Notwithstanding sundry denial. Of the
fact there is uuquestiouably strong re-
publican movement in progress in Portugal
Tho death Of Charles Dix, the artist,
a son of Governor Dix, who has lived in
Paris for seven years past, is reported.
Ten per cent annually is the rate a,
which the native population Of the Sand
wich Islands is decreasing.
Two san Francisco school. misircssos
have beca suspended for using oaths that
we're noiin Webster Unabridged
The late james Savage Of Boston,
leaves 100000 to Harvard, aud $4,000 to
the Massachusetts, Historical Society
Deputy Us. Collector Jones, of
Memphis, Is missing Il Is not yet ascer-
tanned how much, if any, money is also
missing.
, More than S2j 600 600 was paid by
i residents of the United States for paintings
d aud statuary, last year most Of which came
o from Europe.
The time for locating building and
completing the Portland aud Ogdcnhurg
railroad was by the Maine Legislature ex-
= tended to Dec 81, 1879.
+ "A man that mnrries a widow is bound
i to give up smoking and chewing. If she
e gives up her weeds for him, he shaud
n give up his weed for her
MI If Christianity means anything it
mo al la fkt r.ntYI fIr.a
! feet to the yard, Just weight ami ju.t
Is measure.
&c A room With pictures in it and a room
Ia without, differ by nearly as much as a
!. room with windows aud room without
~ windows.
10 The Western press ayows it, willing.
ness to accept the theory OF spontaneous
&c generation if potatoo bugs appear sitter
lie such a winter as the one just passed
ie The Delaware peach.growers honestly
70 admit that the prospect for good crop this
year is as favorable as last year, when an
immense crop was harvested.
- "A Louisville man who attempted 20
A' poll an Illegal vote was so indscrect as 10
t pull the nose of the sheriff who opposed
I MN, anu ne gol shol utau'
~ "A cynic says there are two even lul
in periods 10 a woman's life the first, when
a she wonders whom she will have, the other
When she wonders who will have her
Washington gossips say that Geu
az Sheridan will give the results Of his obser'
w yatons during the Franco Prussian war
ct in new book on military tactics.
re The colored people Of Cleveland ar,
.p trying to establish equal rights by a suit
~ for damages against the manager Of a thea
ter who recently elected negro from thc
or dress circle.
81 Somebody has written q book entitled
Of "Useful Hints for Ugly Girls, and tn,
work has had a smaller circulation thar
On any literary production ever published il
:" the United States.
y "A Vermont woman who recently fol-
NJ lowed the remains Of her rather irregular
I'd. husband to the grave afterwards remarked
3st that she bad one consolation She knew
nut now where he slept nights"
N State Treasurer Seeger Of Minnesot,
"a has at length been impeached for his malad
"u ministration, and his trial will commeuc
oil May 20. Mr.. T. W. Dyke has been ap
ro- pointed treasurer ad interim.
90 George Sand has given to the worl,
up her opinion Of Louis Napoleon She say
we he was neither monster nor an idiot, bu
- that his character comprised the attribute
~ Of sincerity and generosity.
" Among the last acts of the Indian
Mt Legislature; previous to its adjournment
hat was to strike out the word "white," an
ore the clause which prohibits negro suffrage, i
mn the state constitution.
The season in California is wet an
late. In place Of the usually pleasau
February weather, there were cold rain
her and sharp frosts and the grass and whea
lnd fields have been seriously affected there
II, by,
-;so The people of Cayuga county, N. Y
propose to erect $4,000 monument I
CTS ex.Secretary William II. Seward, in Fol
Hill Cemetery, paying 81 each for the pu