Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-29
Notes and Comments.

more generally observed than ever this year
What Eastern people call barber
shops" the Toledo Blade ploasingly terms
" tonsorial facilities" The B1ode lisa strong
initiation paper.
The Governors Of all the New England
States, New York and New Jersey, have
been invited to attend the election parade
at New Haven, Conn.
The New York Express wishes that a
fire or something would smoke out some Of
the dead beats who hold official chairs 10
some Of the life insurance companies
Nellie Grant is to i've in Enghud as
soon as she is married, aud her father and
mother will 60 over to make her visit
when they get through at the White House.
- During the present year eighteen
States will elect Governors thirty.dye Con-
gressmcn and twenty-five United States
Senators, besides the vacancy yet to be filled
in Louisiana.
Mrs Stowe has resolved to write NO
more at present. There arc those Who enc
terrain the opinion that she never should
have indo'ged in book.makins after 'hc
completion Of Uncle Tom Cabin
lit is reported that Horace Fairbanks
has disposed Of the bonds OF tho Lamoille
Valley railroad at such aiyantagcou rato-,
in New York, as viii enable Che company
to speedily complete 'hcir road 20 Lake
Champiain.
"A correspondent Of TIE Christian
Union says you can no more Keep mclls
out Of apariy bypu,iiug iheword purity
into tho platform, than you can keep crows
out of coru-Geld by writing " Nothiey.ug
on the fence
In Hamburg, Germany, custom l,u,
s,calings have been discovered which Az.
calculated, from their magnitude, to mak,
the steulings IN this country appear quit,
diminu,iye. One Grm has been robbed Of
the rate Of 100000 per year
The ease of the Boston ladies who weg,
elected on the school committee Is now be
fore the Supreme Court writ Of manda
mus being prayed fer by Miss Peabody ap,
the voters in her ward. The facts hay
been agreed upon at i preliminary hearing
and the matter goes to the fall bench at ib'
June term.
Ralph Waldo Emerson at last consent
to have his name used as q candidate 10
the Lord Beoiorship of Glasgow Uu,sei
o sity. 1t seemed at first very much ik
i Joke to him, but assurances Of such war;
g respect came so thick that be was lei .
10 think seriously Of it, and the prospect Is b
will be elected
Is Sixteen Boston husbands have cubbo
together for the purpose Of learning 't
W culinary art Well some one about N
,t house should possess such kuowledse, au
IF when the wife does not possess and wiil %,
y acquire it, the man must either be center
,r to eat uupalatable food or don tae apr,
st and 60 into the kitchen.
ii The latest project is TO tuunc! a su.a
G. experimental shaft under the Straits
ie Dover, lust to see If there are any Do
he cracks in the ocean bed, and to serve if
10 should succeed, as sewer or drift way e
large tunnel, railroad size, from Engar
to France. The small tunnel can be bort
lie in about thirty months, for s5,0000O0
~ Persons who prefer paper money
=, coin because it i. lighter need not quar-
" with specie currency. They had the
bank bills, and bills Of exchange, aud &C
y tiieates Of deposit and all, before the wa
and will always have them Ifihey pref
y Deprecated paper 20 COLA, they vilI hard
- like paper less because it hos been irous
to par with gold.
10 The Democratic politicians Of n.
Hampshire are celebrating over DE q
tributiou Of the spoi's at theopeuiag Old
zee session Of the Legislature To- June. IT
at Secretary Of State, treasurer, aud otnlr G.
be ecutiye officer, are elected by the I.cg.l
no ture, and, Of course, the slate viii an
se made up beforehand The warehouses
he the party are snuiiiug the battle alal o.
so The Ohio legislature, which has j,
an adjourned, does not appear to have been
on very remarkable body. Although the Der
Of ocrats were in the majority, their newr
IRE pers are most unspariug in their deuune
tions of the work of the session. The De-
ocratic legislature Of Ohio has not be
yes a success, and another dose Of it is r
as likely to be taken BY the Ohioaus for 60
mt while.
ne General Schenck says the "wealt
zen widow to whom he has been reported {
ich gagged is hoax. Extensive family th
w. and no end of nnocents have married il
pei it--too many of them to be left very ri
10 when the old man dies. Lucky for Schen
snt that he knows about her now. Sol
oil men discover too late after marriage, Il
the wealthy widow who has caught TIL
is hoax.
-. The Committee on Patents, to WHIT
was referred the "bill for the encoura,
- ment of new aud useful Inventions" viii
.nr proposed to appropriate 81 100000 out
H., the treasury to the inventors and discoyerc
bo, have reported that they do not eonoe
NJ, that the present state of theinyentiye gen
no of the country requires any such stimuli
-. nor that the state Of the national trcasr
warrants any such outlay.
The premium on gold declined on
Ter, day following the veto from / Is 3.4 to l
,m- 3-S. The Boston Advertiser has made
of calculation and states that this added to
ms gold value of our currency over seven Il
sed lions eight hundred and ten thousand d
the Extraordinarily more we should s