Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-01
Weekly News Summary.

Nobody will feel very bad to hear that
,ochelort has escaped from New Caledonia.
John Hay and John q. Nicolsy, both
ormerly private secretaries of Lincoln, are
writing his life.
No club-handed parasols next summer,
out pretty, useless, little sun. shades covered
with Cluny lace.
The placidity Of expression worn by man
who is " next " in full barbcr-shop, cannot
be countcrloited.
There was a rumor in Paris on Saturday
Of the death Of the ex. President Of France
Hence these Theirs.
A bachelor in Springfield keeps twenty
seven cats, and why bis neighbors do not muir
der him is mystery
We have heard Of white blackbirds, and
now a report Of the market for lumber speaks
Of green black walnut.
--Georgetown, Mass, has been scandaliEed
by the marriage of a consulate widower the day
after his hrst's funeral
"A singular instance Of scepticism is re-
corded Ia the case Of the man who said the
Bible was " too good to be true"
A ioyial party of five Indian skeletons sit
ting in one grave round succotash kettle has
been disntered at Nantic, Conn.
Australian preserved meat is considered
an abomination in the British poor-houses, and
10 several Of them has occasioned revolt.
1t is said that there are old people living
in the mountains Of Kentucky who have never
tasted or seen tea or coffee in their lives.
"A lady hearing that tunnel cost FIVE
thousand francs a yard, inpoTtuned her hus-
band to buy her q dress Of that material.
n grayesione in New Hampshire grave
yard has bull engraved on IL, as follows
4" Sacred to the memory Of three twins"
What is the difference between jew and
lawyer? One gets his law from the proph-
ets, and tho other his profits from the law
When Portsmouth man steals iron the
Times calls him miscreant. They don't deal
gently with the erring in New Hampshire.
A cabinet maker in Michigan is makingA
cabinet which shall exhibit the fty-three va
rieties Of woods which grow IN that State.
John Cowdin, Of Boston, offers to give
$4,000 to have the old South Church and the
land around it preserved as monument for.
ever"
Jeremiah Cox, eghty-fve years old, Of
Richmond, Ind, chopped cord Of wood and
sent it as a gift, last week, to the Home Of the
Friendess
In Harrington, Me, G. f. Smith nearly
lost his life the other day by aayiug poisoned
fox. Milk and the whites Of a dozen eggs
saved him
Thomas Dunston, Of Weathersheld, VI,
is just dead, aged CT years, leaving a widow
XCl years old, who has lived with him
LXXlV. years.
How many shoes are made in Massachu.
sets may he conjectared from the fact that
North Brdgewater alone turns out thirty
thousand pairs daily.
A well known sage Of New England is re.
ported 10 have once defined Life as :" the con-
centration Of the Identities and the dispersion
Of the Municipalities
An impecunious bachelor signs that there
is so much truth 10 the statement Of the fashion
writers that there's no change in gentemen's
panialoous, this season"
"A clergyman Of Springfield, who has bad
habit Of adding ah " to many Of bis words,
told last Sunday Of those who had been brought
up on the Lords side ah.
They say that 10 Florida eolored school
the boys are taught to sing this verse " | AIN
a little Radical glory in the name would
not be Democrat, Because it is shame "
The Louisville young men are holding in
dignation meetings and passing resolutions con-
demnatory Of the course pursued by Doe young
ladies who keep their wells down in tie streets.
Five Governors Of New Hampshire sat at
one table at a supper lately given in Manches
ter by the Amoskcag Veterans. They were
Messrs, Straw, Smith, Weston, Stearns and
Hartman.
The champion potato grower Of the West
is Joseph Long, OF Margaretta, Ohio. Twen.
tyrone Of his Shaker russets make a plump
half busbel, and some Of them individually
weigh two pounds.
Somebody in Congress proposes to pay $40
600 for picture made by Carpenter We shall
have them buying statues Of blacksmith next,
and with prospect Of their being better than
some already purchased.
Two smart Detroit damsels have been ar.
rested for taking a locomotive, opening the
throttle-vulye, and starting the machine. They
jumped off, leaving the locomotive 10 run into
freight train, and do 500 worth of smash.
Somebody boasts in Western newspaper
Of being the happy possessor of new frst-
class orode watch which runs an hour in forty
minutes, and with the assistance of two hands
has gained enough to pay for itself in three
weeks.
Sharp Supervisors they have in Macoupin
county, Illinois. Being fined for contempt. of
court in refusing to levy the taxes in dis
pute in tina, county, they Immediately voted
an appropriation out Of the county treasury to
pay the fine
The Good Mrs. Brown" Of Dickens is
outdone by a Liverpool woman, who has been
committed to trial for stripping little children
whom she met in the street, and turning them
adriit in the cold with scarcely any covering
on their bodies.
There was Jumping match between seven
young ladies In Wsupun, Wis, for a silver
medal. The contestants wore loose trowsers,
and are described as so bewitcbing that the
spectators cheered themselves hoarse Sarah
Jane Smith won.
Fanny Crosby, the blind poet, and author
of " Sweet Hour of Prayer" is in very desti.
tute circumstances in New York, being in deb.
$1,000. Those who desire to contribute to her
aid will address Rev c. U. Goss, o. Vsrick
street, New York.
The anniversary of the coronation of Jimmu
Tenno, the first of the mikado's family, who
assembled the throne two thousand Eve hundred
and thirty-iour years ago. was celebrated in
Japan, February 18th. A Centennial isn't of
much account over there
A patriotic woman in Burlington, reading
in the papers that some women in Davenport
had hair thirty-one inches long, Immediately
sent to Chicago for some thirty-three inches
long. Burlington isn't going 10 he heat on long