Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-03-25
Items Of Interest.

Compulsory Education bill.
New Jersey has killed the local optior
bill by vote Of fourteen to six.
Bishop Cummins is called to Ottawa,
Ont, to organize there one of bis Reformed
Episcopal churches
Marshal Serrano, President Of the
Spanish Republic, is 10 receive a salary of
100000 per annum.
"A hundred thousand persons have an.
piled for relief in the Tirhoot District, In
dia' during the last ten days.
Wouldn't it be the spoedicst and most
economical way Of carrying out the inna.
ton doctrine, to simply repeal the law
against counterfeitingl
The Michigan House Of Representa-
tives has voted by sixty-seven to twenty.
seven, to submit the woman's suffrage aues-
ton to the vote Of the people.
In a street.cutting at Napa, CAL, the
remains of nearly one hundred skeletons
have been unearthed they had been par
tally burned, aud beside them were arrow.
heads and knives Of obsidian.
Several of our ministers and consuls
shock the feelings of their circumspect
countrymen abroad by giving receptions and
parties on Sunday evening. Mr.. Bancroft
is classed among the guilty.
When a Chicago paper rcjoces that
the attempt to drag down the radiant robe
of Divinity into the dirty pool Of politics
has failed, he simply refers to the fate Of
the God-in-the.constitution movement.
Now it is the lawyers who are to be
ruined by the cheap Chinese labor that is,
If Celestial succeeds in his little game
out in Truckee, California. le is studying
Blackstone, and proposes to work at half
price.
-" You are from the country, are you
not, sir " asked city clerk Of Quaker
who had just arrived. Yes" Well,
here is an essay on the rearing of calves"
That" said Aminadab, as he turned to
go, thee had best present to thy mother"
The St. Louis Republican very pictur-
esquely describes the Washington Chronicle
as a seven.and-a.half octave moral paper,
with Chandler-cherubim attachment" 1t
is the Republicans correspondent who has
just been turned out of the Senate report
er's gallery for talking in meeting about
Chandler.
In the very latest Chicago elopement,
the persecuted but devoted lover snatched
his bride from the enraged parent in the
fourteenth story of fashionable hotel, and
made good their escape by wildly tossing
her palpitating form into the descending
elevator, just as the old man reached, too
late, the empty landing.
--Snooks's mother and old Mrs. Stubs
we're talking about little babies. Why"
said Mrs. Snooks, "when | was baby,
they put me into quart pot and put the lid
over me-" And did you live 2" was the
astonishing inquiry. They tell me | did,"
was the peculiar reply. Well, did you
ever " and Mrs. Stubs fell to knitting like
one bewitched.
President White, of Cornell, says that,
as rule, the young women of the univer-
sity average about ten per cent. better on
the examination papers than the young gmcn;
that they raised the average Of conscience
and manliness and decency more than ten
per cent. and that the young woman who
took a degree at the last commencement
stood easily among the first fifteen in
class Of one hundred.
The residence on Lafayette place. New
York, from which William d. Astor lately
moved up town, is in the market. 1t is not
an ordinary house. The basement windows
are protected with strong iron bars; the
French windows Of the parlor have iron
doors which slide open and shut, in addition
to the blinds, aud even the windows of the
second story have gratings. 1t must be
very pleasant to be millionaire.
Miss Grant and Mr. Sartoris are to be
married Just after Easter. The brides.
maids, it is said, will be the daughter
of Surgeon Barnes; Miss Kitty
Cooke, daughter of II. d. Cooke; the
two Misses Borie, nieces of the expert
mental navy secretary; and Miss Drexel,
of Philadelphia. This will be the second
wedding at the White House, the previous
one being of President Monroe's daughter
to Mr.. Gouverneur, of New York, in 1920.
An engine-driyer and stoker on the
Midland railway recently called at the
shop of well known temperance man and
good templar, in Derbyshire, and asked him
if he could show them where Messrs. --'s
spirit vaults were situated. Yes" re-
piled the good templar, come this way )"
and, taking them through his shop and
house. the back of which faces the parish
church h-yard, he said, pointing to the graves:
There are the vaults, but the spirits are
all gone"
The champion pass-gatherer was q
half.sheet editor in Michigan. He went
for" superintendents until he had a pass
over every road in the State; then he sent
abroad, and among others addressed the su-
perntendent of an Ohio road. No answer
The editor wrote again. No answer.
He wrote third letter, and an answer
came back, go to h-lw The editor
turned the letter over and wrote: "Send mel a
pass on your road, and will" OF course
the superintendent yielded.
1t is said you can always tell French
woman in the street by the adroit and
graceful manner in which sho gathers her
skirts about her at the crossings. The
same may be said of American women,
only instead of being adroit aud graceful
at this sort of thing they are clumsy and
awkward When the roadway is dry and
clean they raise their skirts sufficiently
high to wade a creek, and when It's wet
aud muddy they allow their dress to cling
about their heels in an almost nauseating
manner.
The octogenarian Peter Cooper means
to keep little ahead Of the times, rather
than fall behind them, and so he too has
been getting up a rapid transit scheme for
New York. He proposes an elevated,
double-track, narrow gauge railway, with
perpetual train of passenger and freight
cars,-the latter being sandwiched in, one
in every halfdozen, running by an end
less wire rope, moved by stationary engines
at each end of the route, and stopping once
every five blocks. This he would locate in
the center of the Third avenue. from the
city hall to Harlem bridge.
ALI the Gladstone ministry went down
TO Windsor castle, two weeks ago, each one
with his seal of office in little bago case.
Eight of them, with the lord chancellor at
,ha haa1 Thay laid down THAR nraeious