Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-07-09

fenced to work out fine he hires a substi.
tute.
Georgia will have 200 oranges of the
Patrons Of TIusbandry before the close Of
the year.
Ready made sermons, neatly Autograph
ed, can be bought in London at two shil-
lings dozen.
Kate Field is spending the summer
with Sir Charles Dixie, the English repub-
lican leader, in London.
The Academy Of st. Petersburg has
elected Mr.. II. w. Longfelow and Mr.. W.
Q. Bryant as honorary members.
Judah p. Benjamin, formerly Of Lou
isiana and the confederate cause, is earning
$4,000 a year as lawyer in London.
The tunnel Of the Baltimore and Po.
tomac railroad, one and half miles long
and costing 100000, has just been fn-
ished.
"A son Of Soloa Robinson is building
large hot houses at Bloomington, Illinois,
with a view to making business Of hori-
culture.
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postage stamp can be used twice. The
first time il cost three cents, and the next
$50 90.
"A lady died at Charleston, South Car
olina, the other day, whose husband, son,
brother and uncle have each been governor
of the state.
1t is prophccicd that Holsters are DOOM
ed to determination, and that the present
generation is the last that shall taste their
delicate flesh.
The Sioux Indians declare that if they
have war and the soldiers shave their
heads to prevent sdalping, the reds will
cut ears in place Of scalps.
"A Troy lady's faith in human nature
was greatly increased, last week, by having
returned to her, without explanation,
breastpin that she lost twelve years ago.
DR.. +. W Lacy, Of Connecticut, left
a package containing SAC, 600 90 in money
on the table in the reading room Of Chi
cage hotel, aud it lay there all night undis-
turbed.
The shah took a fancy to a pretty
German girl 10 years cid, who he saw on
the street in Berlin, and after a brief ncgo-
tiation With her mother she was added to
his harem.
Tho New York Commercial Adreytiser
consoles itself with the reflection that there
is great deal Of phosphorus in the flies
served up at the restaurants, and that phos-
phorus is brain food.
I
Mr.. Parker, a Yankee who saw it all,
says JEFF Davis was no, disguised in wo.
mans clothing a, the time Of his capture.
He only had on waterproof cape, such as
he was in the habit Of wearing.
Mrs. Lyster, aged uinety.oue years,
was buried at Graysyille, lud. last week, in
/ the wedding garments which she wore
seventy-threo years ago. They were Of
linen, spun and woven by herself
Three Paris milliners have announced
an exhibition Of specimens Of the art Of
q" padding and Of other devices whereby
unreal graces and spurious charms are
successfully imposed upon credulous men.
An Ohio gentleman who sat on the
fence and demonstrated while his friend
went into an orchard and stole some ap-
pies, fell Of and broke his neck. This
incident contains a useful lesson to the
! young
An old silver mine has been discov-
cred in Serier county, Kentucky, in which
are the mining implements used by some
unknown but ancient race. Their anti
putty is indicated by the fact that some Of
the implements crumble to dust on being
touched
In a contest as to who could, with the
fewest steps, descend a staircase in the
London Junior Carlton Club, Mr.. Peter
Graham made spring over the hand-rail
and fell sixty feet, causing his death. lie
was perfectly sober, and IS described as pro.
iiclent in Athletic exercises
"A young mao was recently arrested ia
Rome for entering confessional box in one
Of the churches and receiving the confess
sions Of pretty girls His conduct excited
general denunciation, the girls being pariic-
uary Mortified, for their confessions were
intended ouy for priestly ears.
An English woman has written the
counterpart Of Miss Phelps's book on wo-
mems dress, and she calls it, " How to
Dress like Lady on Gl5 90 Year. -
She says the chief difficulty in reforming
the fashions is that men think so much
Of pretty dresses aud the women who wear
them.
A round shouldered and inquisitive
stranger kicked an ornamental dog on a
Nelson street stoop to see if it was solid
or hollow. Il was not an ornamental dog
however but one that was there on bust
ness and the round shouldered and inquisi.
tive stranger in now guaranteed with an
aunt.-DaHJHry Neies
&c, c. Fulton writes from Vienna to
the Baltimore American that France has
carried off the palm at the exposition, not
only over Prussia, but over England. Even
} in the machinery department she equals
England, and in manufactures and the arts
as well as in the rich, rare and beautiful,
she far excels all other nations.
There is to our personal knowledge,
bank president in New York who was con-
templating a trip to Europe during the
summer, but who found that this would de-
prive the clerks of their usual vacation
He generously remains at his post, TAX
ing the place Of each one in turn as he
goes for period Of recreation.--ChristiGa
Weekly,
-Woodhulism is rampant at Battle
Greek, Michigan. At meeting Of the
free lovers Of the state, held there, last
week, one Of the speakers in the midst OF
his lecture commanded DR.. Henry aud a
Mrs. Guillon, of Detroit 10 rise, and then
without word on theirpart, hepronounced
them man and wife, and they accepted the
conditions.
Jacob Weinhardt, German youth Of
10, after hunting all over Europe for his
i father, at length found him in San Francis
t co. The elder Weinhardt, however, insist
ed that he was not bis father, even after the
relationship had been clearly proven, and
Jacob, concluding that he hadn't found much
OF father, after all, knocked the old man
B down and left for home.
r A farmer aud his wife called at De-
Q troit photograph gallery, last week, to order
some photographs Of her, and, while the OPP
orator was getting ready, the husband gave
t the wife little advice as to how she must