Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-08-05
Wcekly NeMs summary.

An old gander was recently killed at III,
age it is said, Of ninety years in Virginia.
The light from the Gro in Chicago was Wis
iblo at Kankakoe fity-siN miles away.
There is a tree in Florida, at Lake Harris
which is said to yield 1000 lemons annually.
"A correspondent says that Page painted
his " Christ from sittinRs of Titon.
Bret llartc will have story entitled " War
Lee, the Pagan" IN the September Scribner's
In Dos Moincs the surgeons have taken a
fifteen pound cancer from the neck Of n 81 3.
600 COW
1t is said that Brigham Young has made
his will and given bis friends ten children
each.
Sunday school teacher" Anna, what
must one do to be forgiven 2"-Anna--" lie
must sin"
Publishing a nonpareil paper in long
primer town ~ was what done the. business for a
Kansas editor.
"A German philologist contends that " Eve
is a pre- Semitic word for rib, " and therefore
nm appropriate namo for Adams wife.
1t is said that twelve new churches are
speedily 10 be built in Philadelphia, costing ia
the aggregate about $500 600
"A 6rmer 10 Ford county, Illinois, will. it
is said, this year gather one million bushels Of
corn from one field Of twenty thousand acres.
Herman Nulimm, yiolinist Of Cincinnati
plays Che violin with his toes, having been
born without ofms and be is said to play very
we'll.
-lhe plague Of frogs afllicts Lone Tree,
Ne1. hundreds are crushed by wagons on the
srce,s' and people cannot step without tread.
ins ol tlom.
The Chicago Times and Tribune have
each hired Sunday special train to carry their
editions OF that morning into Milwaukee and
along the line.
Tho Good Tomplars Of New England re.
commend tlo formation OF companies for the
establishment Of Temperance hotels throughout
the country.
"A German at rcrro llauto, Ind, sold last
yoor lH.o)o pounds Of grapes raised on land
which, The same season, would not have pro.
duccd 90 bushels Of corn
In BeiIe0nte, Penn man keeps pet
rattlesnakc secured 10 bis front yard to drive
away lghtuingrod men, sewing machine
agents, and ok-pelilcrs
"A young lady, graduate Of Western
seminary, recently inquired if Bunker Hill
"Nas a relative Of the Rey Samuel Hill who
utci 10 lecture u. On c0nchology"
-Au assault upon the city editor Of The
Nmhcah Baany resulted in the sale Of | ,OOO
extras, ana tie Publisher has invited the u.s..
sauIting gentleman to call again
Verbatim report of a marriage ceremony
10 Town "Join your right bands DO you
want one another "les" well, then,
hare one another. You are man aud wife"
The New York Mail proposes that the
philanthropic have a variation 10 their picnics,
and, having given the children so many air
ings, gi'e one now TO tire mothers Of young
children.
AT Coyingtou, Ohio, ten years ago, Mrs
Z Miller was bitten severely in the shoulder
by mad dog. Dogs hair was then placed
over the wound, the woman recovered and has
now 20 fears.
Mrs Theodore Tilton is the mother Of four
chidreu-FIorence, aged sixteen Alice, aged
fourteen; Carroll, aged eleven, and frankie,
aged Eve. They are said to be very handsome
and intelligent
Pour doctors in Milwaukee where bust
ne.s bus lately been rather light, were OBJ
served 5unging about an express Office and
inquiring who owned four boxes of green APP
Piles which came in 90 the noon train
This Is the season says cynic, lin
which women put their heads out Of the par
lor windows and tell their neghbors how many
dies they cleared out Of the dining room before
dinner, and bow mrny they swept of the floor
before breakfast
Some sharper. DO New York have been per-
suaGine Western farmers into sending them
money or Asatiau cabbage seed, tie seed be-
ing guaranteed to produce cabbages weighing
from .orty TO sixty rounds. They have done a
lucrative business, lut the police are looking
after item, and their harvest is over
Tile friends Of on Arkansas Desperate re-
Gently hanged are making it lively, or rather
deadly fr lhe officers They have killed the
sheriff, are now looking for the judge, and
then propose toattend to the prosecuting attor-
r,y. Che jury and the witnesses for the govern.
mput.
-Spargeou sny- he never had the ability u
manage o small church They are like those
canoes on the Thames you must not sit this
way or the other, or do this thing or that thing
lest you should be upset His church is like
big steamboat, and be can walk horeor there
without any danger Of upsetting it,
AT the Grand Union in Saratoga all the
grinding Of coffee, turning orice-cream freezers
roasting splits, and dozen other, things, are
done by little steam engines that you could
carry OF in one hand. During the regatta
week, the hotel fed five thousand people a day
and on ono day thirty head Of cattle were con
sumed,
"A rcd monster, crossed with black, 40 fee
in length, has been seen in placeryille, Cal
1t was lying in hollow on the side Of hill
its jaws distended, and its bifurcated tongue
protrndiug. Its motion was slow and undulat
ing, and crushing everything beneath it, i
left track in the grass similar to the swath'
ofamoWer.
The Albany Argus presents the record 0
the descendants Of Benedict Arnold, who mar
ried Miss Emma Chippen, daughter of Phils
delphia tory. Contrary to the popular impress
sion, Arnold was well paid for his treason, an
bis children and his children's children hay
eyersince stocked the British army and church
Almost without knowing it, the transport
alton business is tending toward q radica
change by the substitution Of steam cana
boats for the old-lashioned, slow-going kind
Ono company has four Of the new boats runnin
and five more getting ready for the service OF
the Erie canal. They bring cargoes from Builal
to New York in less han week.
"A bright little girl of New Bedford, som
ten years old, desiring to procure some cancele'
executive postage stamps, of her own motiol
and without the knowledge of her friends
wrote to President Grant, asking him to sen
her few After few days she proudly eA
hibited letter from the President, enclosing
full set of uncanceled stamps and his photC