Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-11-17
Weekly News Summary.


TnEoponr TirToS received vote in brooklyn
for secretary Of state, Elizabeth Cady Stanton one
for sherff, and Pope Plus for charity commissioner.
An old county jail in Michigan was recently
sold at auction for ten cents Nobody there ought
to complain OF hard times, when the luxurics Of
civilization can be had at such price.
TUX have found petrihed Mormon in Utah,
and from the number OF dents in the head, evil
IDENTITY made with poker and fatiron, It is judged
that he had at least thirty-three wives.
BLACK duck flew against the lighthouse ut
Sankaty, Nantucket the other day, with such
force az to break large plate-glass window,
almost half inch thick killing itself instantly
A YoUsd woman who inquired in Lebanon
Ondlanal book store for " Good Morals and Gentle
Manners" was informed by the proprietor that
he didn't have EN-, rs there was no call for EN-
nowadays.
Mrs. HADDocK, wife Of Judge Haddock, Of
Iowa, has been admitted 10 practice in the courts
Of that state She is in demand az an advocate In
her husbands court, and Is reputed to be genor-
ally successful.
IN California sinners were again warned to re-
pcnt by m earthquake on the 7th Inst A de-
cded oscillation in stocks occurred on the same
day as everybody tried hard to shove off all their
fancy articles.
THE remarkable absence Of smoky atmos.
phcre Turing the Indian summer at Omaha and
other Western points is accounted for by the fact
that the tobacco served out to the Indians was too
poor 70 smoke
SEVERAL cases Of poisoning from the use Of the
fashionable striped stockings have occurred in
Chicago chemist who has analysed the col
oring made Of pair Of " seal brown " stockings,
finds that il contains arsenic.
WOMAN whose child had recently died, at
tended tho funeral Of a noighbors in Bridgeport,
Mass, and tho sight OF the dead body was such a
reminder Of her own bereavement, that she fell
into commissions and died within a few hours
BosroS collector Of autographs has an auto
graph letter Of the late Horace Greeley. No per-
son to whom this letter has been shown was ever
able 10 read H. nor could the owner II he had not
known what the answer 20 his own letter must
necessarily have been
TE REV ISAAC HANKS for many years min
ister Of an independent chapel in Malmesbury,
England, fell down dead In his pulpit, just as he
had given out his tcHt, which was "But man
dieth and was,cth away yea, man giveth up the
ghost, and where is hep
THERE /. a rising boy in Springfield, H. His
father said " Sow, George, you may take your
ehoics-eo with me 10 yisi, grandpa, or have a
new veloclpede" The urchin scratched his head.
and answered "rn go and soc grandpa, and
make him buy the ,elocipede.
is Clinton, Iowa there is a law firm under the
title Of Foster & Rice. Foster IL Rices wife and
Rice is Fosters husband Madam occupies her
self with the cases of gentlemen, and mister with
ladies business The frm prospers in every way,
and is considered decided advance on the old
style.
\ rLucKl woman is Mrs McKeen, Of Belfast
Maine. Her husband who commanded Phla-
dephia vessel dying on the voyage to Genoa, she
assumed command, put in At Fayal and procured
metallic coffin, in which she placed the remains,
continued in command ~ Genoa, and attended TO
dispensing Of the cargo.
THK great astronomer Of Paris, Leverrier who
discovered the planet Neptune, which could eat up
this little earth Of ours and not suffer from indi-
gestion in consequence. has made prediction
which Is noteworthy 1t Is that the winter Of
ls75-7G will be uncommonly severe Enormous
quantities Of snow are to fall in December and
January
BIZ careful how you manipulate autumn leaves
for preservation a lady in Worcester, Mass.
pressed number OF leaves Of the silver maple
species with a hot iron, and shortly afterwaId her
hands and wrists broke out with an eruption Of a
scalding humor somewhat similar to acute erysp-
elias. She is likely to be laid up Tor some time, II
no worse results ensue.
II Is something 10 preach three or four times
every day in the week, brother Moody does
It would be impossible for him 10 do so II his ser.
mons were in the grand orstorlcal style. But hi.
preaching Is Of the very simplest and painest
kind--he merely talks " on some religious doc
trine or passage Of Scripture. Yet he produce.
effects such as the highest eoquence and greatest
intellectual power have rarely ever produced and
he attracts multitudes such never before lis
tened to any preacher in this country.
PREsDENr OF a good assessment mine" How
can We make $4,000 between now and spring
The stockholders won't stand another assess
ment" Sharp director" Herr, have it. Sup
pose we fall back on the mine aud get GU. soms
ore ?" President" Capital idea I'd forgotten
all about the mine I'll telegraph TO the foreman
TO start in on the pay lodges We cornered up las
is in the pockets Of stockholders; bat hate tn,
bother Of working it''-.SaH Francisco Paper.
TIM Swedish polar expedition, under Professor
Nordenskald found at the mouth Of the Yen
esei, which no previous expedition has reached
traces Of man an altar built Of bones, in the cente
Of which stood two roughly hewn idols, that haC
vsibly been besmcared with blood. Close by wa
fire place and heap OF bones, apparently thu
remains Of sacrifice. They sailed north until II
latitude seyeuty-fye degrees and thirty minutes
The professor is confident that he has discovered
great commercial highway northeast passage
OREGON has new cereal which looks lik
wheat, rye and barley, and isn't either OF them
and the leading agriculturists OF the state ar
puzzling themselves about it. Its history /
strange. About four years ago a farmer living il
Tilamook county, Oregon, killed a wild goose, ii
whose crop he found peculiar looking grain
lie planted III it multiplied wonderfully, and h
subsequently raised forty bushels on half an acr
Of land lts growth is peculiar, from seven to tel
stalks sphnging from one root. The kernel
very thin and compact, OF bright straw color, an'
extremely hard
Ara Kentucky dinner and between the sherr
and champagne, to which period the eiVdnt teT
rible Of the family had been unfortunately pei
mitted to linger the host had gone to praising hi
own wine in fashion which was certainly a
evidence OF It's intoxicating qualities " Tina
sherry, sir cost me SEQ dozen. ! bought 1t a
the auction of the Emperor Napoleons wines, an
imported 1t myself" "Why, papa" interrupts
the eiVdnt that was all gone long ago, an
mamma filled the bottles up from that Calforni
keg. She said you never had any friends VIII
could tell the difference"
IT must be pleasant TO go to those hotels /
Chicago, where, it is said, the proprietors hay
been so frequently swindled that they now requir
travellers to pay in advance. One traveller VIII
did not Immediately appreciate the necessity {
tic fashion, was interrogatsd by the clerk I" 70
viii not object to paying before you go to you
room, sir p Certainly not. Make out the bill.
A" For how long, sir p "wel, says the strange
"you may charge me for about ten minutes, o
the European plan BY the end OF that time,
think, shall be at a hotel where the clerks wes
smaller diamonds and have more confidence
,huaan nature
PnILADEIPHIA is getting ready to lodge an
feed all creation next year 1t calculates that I
least one hundred and twenty-five thousand PEI
pie can be comfortably lodged that is, thirty-h'
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