Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-06-17
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is killing her.
The Brud Med,cai Journal says the itch.
borne claimant is employed in his prison asa
tailor Let us hope he is not engaged ON
new suit
Prentice Muliord has found one street in
Paris called " The street Of the bad boys" As
yet, he says, discover no corresponding street
Of the bad girls.
The prominent pious women Of Boston are
described by Norah Perry as given to lanki-
ness slinkinoss and an ironed.down.in.tho.
back expression"
Leagues have been formed in " the best
socioty" Of Paris Rome, Florence, Milan and
Venice, against the immoral plays that hold
the modern stage.
jeremiah llorrox, an English astronomer
who is credited with being the first to have
recorded the transit Of Venus, is to have
memorial in Westminster abbey.
Among the cementing attractions Of the
centennial is proposed Reunion in Phladel-
plia Of The federal and confederate soldiers
The proposition comes from a confederate
FIX Gov Bowie. Of Maryland. has recovered
a verdict of 10000 against the Baltimore G
Ohio railroad for injuries suffered by the mare
" Australia, 30 while being placed upon the train
-Grcat dcstitution among the colored people
in Richmond, Va, is reported it being almost
impossible for them 10 find employment there.
ooc hundred men left last week to labor in
the Ohio coal mines
A crusty old gentleman, not liking the
way bis lanindy's daughter had Of making free
with his huiroil, filed the bottle with liquid
glue, the day before a ball 60 which the gin
had been invited. and She stayed at home
The advent Of the grasshopper causes our
entire social fabric to tremble " Maria"
writes young Minnesota farmer to his girl
down 10 Maine " lm afraid we can't get mar.
ried, this year the grnsshoppcrs threaten to
clean out my crop.
A man who was seen coming out Of
Texas newspaper office with split nose, with
one eye and one ear, explained to a policeman
that be entered the office simply to inquire it
The editor was TO- A." And he was in, " H., VIC
tim mournlully added
The cornerstone Of the new Ilamline Uni.
ycr-ity, at St Paul. Mimi, wa. laid last week
Bishop Merrill, Of the Methodist church. and
ex-Goy Marshall, making the addresses This
Methodist college was founded at Red Wing in
1851, and is q considerable institution.
~ woman Of Pleasant Ridge, Kan, went
to catch "a horse 10 a pasture, the other day.
md came back in less than half an hour in
state of frantic excitement and quite speech
less. What SD suddenly struck her dumb she
bad not been able 70 reveal, az last accounts
Mr. siriori. is having steam yacht built
on The Clyde, 10 which the happy pair will
take a cruise with party Of American friends
10 August. The company will probably in
cude one or two Of Mrs sartoris'- brides.
maids, al of whom she has invited to visit her.
-lti- hard 20 Imagine what other portion
OF their personal apparel the ladies can put
beads on save the pocket handkerchief or the
shoes The last article thus ornamented was
the lace scarf Worn around the neck, which is
now covered with beads as large a. hens eggs
The trachina is said 10 infect the hogs over
an area Of fun fifteen thousand acres Of the
kaskaskia bottom, 10 Illinois, and to be spread
ing, the hog, dying at great rate If the re-
port. DO the s.. Louis GLOBE are correct, il
would be cheaper to kill the whole lot, and be.
gin anew.
WORTH newest lancy is 20 concentrate On
black silk walking costumes oil the trimming
on the front width Of the skirt and back Of the
waist Il is an economical within, at al events,
for the front width can be taken out and in
serted in every new dress. " A word to the
wise, etc.
The Chicago gambler who played faro for
fifty hours without cessation for food or sleep.
and lost several thousand dollars, has now
gone back on the bank, and won't pay The
merchant princes who sustained the combina-
tion' ard the police who shared in it, are said
to have lost their faith 10 human nature
1t sounds quite Ike old times to read that
certain members Of the volunteer fire depart
ment Of Wiliamspori, Pa, confess to having
set the fires which have DESTROYED more than
million dollars worth Of property there during
the past two or three years The boys must
must have their little exercise and fun, You
know.
On Decoration Day the citizens of York
vile, s. c., joined the nited States soldiers
stationed at that post in the mournful work Of
adorning the graves OF the federal and conied.
crate soldiers. The ceremonies we're exceed.
ingly impressive, and Major Hart, gallant e1-
confederate, deliyeredan address This, friends,
is practical reunion.
A truly remarkable company Of tourists
will leave Chicago to-day, for trip in Col.
orado, says the Tribune. Prof Swing, Who'll
now hunting and fishing in Wisconsin," far
from all sypods and from all diyines, WILDE
one Of them, and Henry Ward Peecher. T.. II.
Chaplin, William X. Alger, and Henry Powers
are among the list "a yeriiable Broad church"
modified
Pope Plus IN completed the eighty second
year of his age on the 18th of May His Holt
nessreceiyed one hundred and seventy thousand
letters Of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES thousand Of
them from ltalians-durlng the one day, and
huge baskets, filed with other epistles Of the
same sort were being carried to bis chambers
in the Vatican after be had retired
Mr.. Marion Oates and several others were
visiting Miss Ialmadge at Athens, Ga, last
week, and were having nice time swapping
caps on a pistol-the layorite toy. The girls
turn came on the last barrel, and, though she
objected, she pulled the trigger and shot Mr..
Oates in the stomach, Then Miss Tamadge
went crazy, and Oates went out of the world.
The American woman who induced the
nephew Of his uncle, which uncle is the Car Of
Russia, to steal his mothers jewels and give
them to her, is the daughter Of a clergyman in
one of our American cities, and was a girl Of
unusual beauty and charm of manner carefully
taught and tenderly loved. But she early
chose brilliant life of Tgohgacy and crime,
was married and divorced once or twice,
dragged her men before the courts Of New
York, and finally, having exhausted that city's
sensations, went to Europe for fresh fields and
pastures new, and is now in Paris with her st.
Petersburg plumber.
The sale Of stock at the Kansas stud farm
If Sprague & Akers, Lawrence, was very i'm
'ortant. Col. Amasa Sprague and bis partner,
With prominent horsemen from Eastarn and