Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02
Woody News summary.

ice is that 1t leads TO cruelty.
Will the glowing accounts from the Black
Hills produce another gold fever2
More than hundred thousand pieces Of
print cloths were received in Fall River last
week
Comparing notos-Talking Of the few
chances this season 10 sport their summer
clothing
Little occasion this season for packing
away blankets and wooden garments in camphor
or cedar.
The temperature Of every week Of the past
month has been below the average for the past
halfcentury.
n day with nothing about Beecher in the
morning dispatches Has sunrise been acct.
denially omitted2
"A recent writer takes the ground thathus.
bands IRE, for the most part, to blame for the
unhappiness that is so common in married life. |
"A French military officer says the human
being is ten times stronger 10 battle when bis
pulse continues calm and bis judgment remains
free,
The benighted joifcationst who nistook
the morguc for station house, and applied
there for quiet lodging, was accommodated,
and feels sobored if not rested
Love is said to be the great solvent, rciincr
and omalgam in this worlds erucible, and it
probably is 50, though one can't believe oyery-
thing one reads in the papers.
High Living The CHEST inhabitated spot
in the world is the Buddhist cloister Of llane
in lhibet, where twenty-one priests live at an
altitude Of sixteen thousand feet.
"A large number Of ladies congregatcd around
some of the polling places in Cincinnati, dur
log the recent vote on the constitution, reso-
lutely canyanssing against license.
The butterflies Of fashion are at Saratoga
10 lull force this season In fact, that fashion
able resort never saw so many Of them at any
one time since the days Of the rebellion.
New York il Justly excited over the dis
cIycry that thirty Of the English sparrows had
been killed in Madison square by the incon-
cci,able depmyity ola person who fed them on
poisoned bread
This premature autumnal weather makes
the farmers anxious as 10 the fate Of their In
dim corn the crop Of which has not been
nippcd by the frost for how many yoars-can
anybody tell us2
Asa bloody duel never settled any prnci-
pie u honor, says the New York Express, so a
personal contest in the courts as to character
never came to satisfactory conclusion, and
very seldom to jasi one.
-George William Curtis truly says Of the
Boooher matter 1t is the tragedy Of great.
generous. credulous heart caught in net Of
vile Circumstance which it does not comprc-
bend ard cannot break
The Triiuae says that the Brooklyn case
ha- been cnyelopod from the first in a maze Of
subteriuge., plots, bargains, petty treaties and
lies, and almost every soul concerned in it comes
out with o damaged reputation.
Forty years ago Judge Joseph Story and
Jared Sparks delivered excellent popular ~
ceum lectures for $40, and in many cases paid
back the fee, to aid the institutions that had
been thus liberal toward them.
The number Of assaults on the policemen
of London decreased one thousand one hun
bred and scyenty-one last year compared with
the previous twelve months--a fact that has
excited much attention in London.
The swftness with which summer passes
makes it little more than brief episode Of the
year in New England but then it is an cpl
s5dc full ofbeauty and joy, until times eff.cing
fingers &c, busy as they are already beginning
to be.
In general the reports Of the growing crop
Of cotton are favorable. 1t may be considered
beyond contingency that We will have good
crop. bat whether it is to be the larges, since
the war depends upon some two weeks more Of
favorable weather
An old custom Of the last century is being
reyiyed-the custom Of calling oil women Mrs.
the abhreyiation to mistress--w whether married
or single. This was the general custom in
England in the old time. " Miss " was con-
dned to boarding schools and young ladies IN
der twenty-five
a female stock dr0yer recently appeared in
pitt-hurg, having in charge two carloads Of
cattle. sho was from Cynthiana, Ky, and re-
Gently assumed the management Of a Eve hun
dred acre farm on the death Of her husband. 49,
The cattle were raised by herself, and /, was her
dr-t trip in business.
There is not iu the whole world, says
European author, a surer sign Of poor aud
little soul than this striving to recommend one 5
self aud gain respect, by such despicable means
as dress and rich clothes None will insist,
none depend upon these ornaments but they
who have DO other.
"A Bridgeport Comm man who started for
the West ten days ago, intending to settle
there, Las returned disguised. lie got as far
as Kansas city and found one hundred lawyers
there and the thermometer one hundred aud
fifteen degrees in the shade. Tire combination
was too much for him, and he came right home
again.
OF all tho arts for mnisteTing to human
vanity, says c. d. Warner, the Photographic
is the most useful, but it is poor aid in the
revelation Of character You shall learn more
Of a mans real nature by seeing him walk once
up the broad aisle of his church to his pew on
Sunday, than by studying his photograph for q
month,
The Chinese newspaper, just commenced
in San Francisco, has n nice look, the paper
being Of yeowish, silky material, like whst
We have been accustomed to see from the
Orient. Two or three lines only, appear in
English typography. The rest, to the uu
lcttercd, is like ay-tracks, though in regular
lines, withal.
LEATHER MANUFACTURERS MERES0 - A
large meeting OF prominent leather manufac
turcrs in Vermont was held, last week Tues
day, in Burlington. The meeting was pre-
limnary one, and organized by calling Charlei
d, Keeler, Of Vergennes, to the chair. Son'
discussion was participated in. Il. I. Hol
brook NJ Titan Fred Johonnott, Burlington
George Il. Graves, Rutland g. 4. Chandler
Fairfax, and A. G. Clark, Factory Point, wer,
appointed committee to draft constitution