Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-15
Weekly News SUMMARY.

According to Kansas decision husband
and wife can enter a show on ticket reading
"admit one"
There is rumor that the Duke Of Edn-
burgh will succeed Lord Duiferin as Governor
General Of Canada
The Bishop Of Manchester, England thinks
cremation is not very bad idea, and that urns
for the ashes Of the dead would be more pctu-
rescue than collins.
For selling boy liquor enough TO kill him,
last Sunday, a GROCERY in Brooklyn has been
deprived Of its license. That looks like letting
murdercrs of very cheaply.
The last theory about Bald Mountain Is
that, three years ago, man built a fire in
coon-hole TO smoke the animal out, and that
this FIRE is burning still inside the mountain.
The French Assembly is considering law
providing that every newborn child shall have
its name and the date of its birth tattooed on
its arm. The object is to facilitate Identified
ton.
The fellow who thought cremation meant
to be buried in cream, wanted to know how
this could be done in localities where they only
have chalk and water for their coffee, straw
berries, etc.
Down in the little State Of Delaware few
days since, an old gentleman's last request was
that no poetry" lines should be written
upon his death. That old man retained his
senses to the last.
Judge Perkins, Of the Indiana Supreme
Court, has decided that colored children have a
right to attend the public schools Of the state
in any township where separate schools are not
provided for their use.
"A. 7. Stewart has fixed the price for board
at his Grand Union Hotel, Sara toga, at three
dollars day for the coming season. Ofcourse
the landlords Of the other hotels will be COM
PEELED to adopt the same tariff.
Did it ever occur to you that all this music
in the schools and in the halls is fast eradicat.
ing the Yankee nasal twang, and will after a
while make gruf, harsh voice as exceptional
and offensive as rough manners are?
The Chicago Tribune says that first class
carpenters in that city, who were employed a
year ago at SO per day, are now glad to get
$50 per day, and that this decline in the cost
Of labor runs through the whole scale of EN-.
pigments.
The absurd Warden, who is making hotch-
potch Of Chief Justice Chase, says when be gets
well enough he is just going for the libelous
Cincinnati Commercial. The quarrel" he
says, " is not mine alone. Il is the quarrel of
biography and history"
The Peoples Cafe Company is organizing
in London to open cheap and attractive places
for the working classes, something after our
American Holly Tree Inn fashion, 10 lead them
away from the gin-shops. Lord Salisbury
is interested. The capital needed is about one
million dollars.
An anti-secret society organization has
been formed In Illinois, its purpose being to
"eXpose, withstand, and remove secret socie-
ties, Free Masonry in particular, and other
ant-Christian movements in order to save the
churches Of Christ from being depraved-to
redeem the administration Of justice from per-
version and our Republican government from
corruption
When Miss Nelson delivered the epilogue
in " As You Like II, at San Francisco, few
nights since, and spoke Of " kissing as many
of the men as had boards that pleased her " the
qualification Of the masculine part Of the audi
ence found expression ina long and ardent sigh
from the gallery, which brought down the
house, and compelled the lovely actress herself
t. join in the laugh.
hen the news Of Charles Summers death
was received at Port au Prince, all the flags
were dropped to balfmast and the government
Offices closed. The event was regarded by the
llaytiens as a national calamity, and the pub
lie grief was evident. funeral service was
performed at the cathedral on the Goth ult. ,
shared in by the President and all other Of
fcials, the foreign consuls, the army and the
people, and minute guns were fred all day.
Judge Edmonds, the leading spiritualist
in the country, few days before his death
wrote. respecting his burial I" | wish to be
buried in Hudson, in the same grave with my
viie,-not BY her side, bat in the same grave
that our ashes may mingle, and be one on
earth az our souls will be one in the spirit
world. In the monument to her memory,
erected there by the bar Of New York, there arc
two vacant spaces left purposely for me-" 10
one Of these, he continued, he desired his name
and the dates Of his birth and death in the
other, the lines Death joins the ties which
death destroys
The members Of the Beecher Congrega-
tonal Council went home with various ideas
Of their verdict, especially as to its bearing on
the status Of Plymouth church The Rev. +.
NJ. Boardman, Of the Chicago Theological
Seminary, who was one Of the influential dele
gates, looks upon the decision as an unequiv-
ocal reprimand to Plymouth, and says that dis.
fellowship will follow any further breach Of
discipline like the dealing with Tlton. 81
think, be says, THAT Plymouth members
ought, for their own sake as well as for the in
terests Of the denomination, to make full in
yestigatlon Of Tilton's charges, and clear them
selves, if possible, from the cloud Of doubt and
sugrigion in which thav ~ roxx apvalnvo1 =