Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-09-03
Meekly News Summary.

MAJ Harry Gilmore, OF confederate
cavalry fame, sells cabbagcs in Baltimore.
The Siamcse twins have been summon
cd to sit on a jury They will sit next to
each other.
Gen. Jubal Early appeared, recently,
at a ball at White Sulphur Springs in his
uniform Of confederate gray
-Ex Empress Eugenio has stopped hav-
ing photographs taken. She realizes the
fight Of time and her charms
There was but one liquor shop open in
Troy. last Sunday. and the proprietor Of
that one wishes 10 had been shut
baltimore has over 100 fruit packing
establishments, aud they are now busy with
peaches putting up several hundred thou.
sand cans a day.
a throc-pound fish paid a delicate
compliment to a Washington young lady,
last week by jumping out Of the waters Of
the Potomac into her lap.
-Gcorge William Curtis expects to re.
sumo his editorial labors on liarper's Week
Is, next month, but will take work modcr-
ately till be fully RECEIVERS.
There is a prisoner in the jail at Moy.
amcnsne, Pa, who has been under sen.
tonce Of death since $50, waiting for some
governor to sign his death warrant.
-Jacksonyillc, ILL.,, has forbidden the
sale Of OH kinds Of fruit and vegetables,
and the doctors protest against the proscrip-
ton Of ripe fruits and fresh vegetables.
Speaker Blano's son Walker and Pres.
idcnt Grants two oldest sons are making
pedestrian trip over the Aleghanies to
Washington, Pa, Mr.. Blaines old home
The personal column of the Cresco
CIa) PlaiRdealer is made up Of the names
Of those who visit saloons during the day,
with thenumberof times, AMI other interest
ing statistics.
-Bayarl Taylor says that the galleries
at the Vienna exposition show more clearly
than anything else how enormously modern
French art is in advance Of that Of all
other nations
Mrs Sylvia II Crump, Of Reading,
Pa, has dreamed Of an excellent method
Of preserving corpses While she was about
il, she might just as well have dreamed one
for preserving live folks.
Hardly any hoop skirts are sold to city
merchants now, though the rural districts
keep up moderate demand. There is a
fair trade in bustles, but most manufacturers
are turning their attention to corsets as
they were never in such demand
The Singer sewing machine company
had good luck at the Vienna exhibition
They received the first prize, the medal Of
progress, the medal for the best specimens
Of work done, and three medals to employees
for superior excellence Of productions
After the Lisbon folks get their cable
hitchcd at Rio Janerio Brazil, company
will be formed to connect the Brazilian sys-
tenn Of telegraph with the cables now laid
in the West Indies, which will put us in
direct communication with South America
There was a curious abduction at New
port, Ky, across the river from Cincinnati
theother day. Mrs Fuenst, a young German
woman, gave birth to her first born child and
shortly after, two strange women came in,
and having bound and gagged the mother,
carried off the child and robbed the house
"A constable at Paw Paw, Mich, or
dered a pedder TO put a collar on his dog
The peddler asked him who was running
that dog, aud the constable drew revolver
and shot the dog dead. Tho peddler drew
his revolver and shot the constable dead
and, having piled him up with the dog,
drove on
The causes for divorce suggested by
Detroit woman are that her husband is
drunk about seventeen days in each month /;
that be cut her hair of while she slept !;
that he wakens her at daylight by throwing
pail Of water over the bed that he has
tried to force kerosene oil down her throat
and that he puts hot potatoes into her hands
and then mashes them by squeezing her
fingers.
DR.. John Stockton lIough contends in
the Medical Record that feminine longevity
Is greater than masculine be bellves wo.
man was created first man, being see.
ondary development, will soonest decline,
and woman will survive him in the process
of final extinction. If this is 50, Miss
Anthony had better take rest and wait
for that glad day when men shall be nc
more 1t will seem but little while to
her.
John Culigan, of San Francisco, lost
his dog, the other day, aud, while he wa,
brooding over the uncertain tenure Of ca
niue possession, a man drove by with biz
identical dog in his wagon. John pursued
and boarding the craft from the rear, com
menced furious assault upon the occupant
After he had pounded him into pulp, b,
turnsa to the dog, and discovered that il
was not his dog after ALL but one closely
resembling him. The unfortunate driyel
is under the care of three physicians, anC
John broods upon the error, for he is il
Jail.
"A steamship of 1900 tons burden i
now in construction at Bordeaux, France
en- plans drawn by NJ. Bazin, inventor
Of Bazin's express ships The hull
Of the vessel consists of three vas
rollers which sink into the water to the
axis. 1t is claimed that the reduction o
friction secured by the adoption of thi
shape instead of the usual keel, will resul
10 the attainment of speed by which thu
Transatlantic journey can be accomplished il
four and one-haf days. The steamer nov
building is to have engines Of 450 horse
power, and is to carry $50 tons of freigh
and $50 first class passengers