Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-02-10

of Lewiston, Me.
TIM aggregate cost of the Modoc war j,
footed up at Sill,00O.
SEEMINGLY q paradoNical incongruity-
that iron firms should be shaky.
On hundred and twenty thousand work
men are idle in consequence 81 the lockout
30 the coal mines of South Wales
VINES the Millennium will come-whei
people attend concerts without whispering.
a NEW JERSEY woman lost eight brothers
two sisters and a mother, 10y the Cospatrick
disaster
II appears as though that "frst train
through the lloosac Tunnel never is but al.
ways 10 be run.
RAILROADS complain Of the pecnlation. of
employees and the public complains Of the
speculations Of managers.
IL any ice dealer is cool enough to raise
prices next season, on the ground Of a short
crop shoot him ON the spot
TUE Toledo Board Of Education has in
definitely postponed a resolution TO exclude
the Bible from the schools
kAruARtNr Mccall, of Caledonia. n. Y.
dumb for forty-two years, has suddenly re-
covered the power OF speech.
TnE custom receipts at the New York
custom house on Tuesday, were the largest
for years, amounting to sl.5O0,000
a FAMILY Of six persons were crushed
under an avalanche Of snow near Quebec,
Thursday, and all Of them killed.
\ FRENonNAN has invented q glass for
lamp chimneys that will not break. That
will shut up half our grocels' shops.
4 STATE prison convict says safety is
everything when he goes TO bed he is sure no
one will break in and steal his clothes
The homnopathsts have been excluded
from the clinics at the Philadelphia aims.
house, and there is great row about IT,
SrnscRurioNs are solicited topay the ex-
pcnse Of an American team of rifle shooters,
which IL is proposed TO send to Dublin next
June
DH. GLENN, said to be the largest farmer
in California, has Just sold his last years
crop of grain forneary half million dollars,
gold coin.
Az extraordinary drouth prevails along
the Hudson river valley, the farmers having
great difficulty ia procuring water enough
for their stock
A. +. STEWART says he never saw any
lace worth more than $3.50 yard, and he
don't think the article that is the oldest is
the most valuable.
OccAsfoNALLY somebody inyents a new
explosive which beats powder ont of sight.
This has always seemed to us terrible waste |
of inventive genius.
FouR snelts bought in a fish market frozen /
solid, were put into an aquarium on Broom /
field street last week, aud in an hour they I
were alive and happy.
A THRIFTY rat has been found in tea
store at Salem, Mass. file weighed twelve |
ounces, aud had secreted eighty+eyen pounds |
of nuts for the winter.
A New Yorker proposes that street cars |
exclusively for women be run morning and |
evening. Perish the thought of such an in |
fringement of woman's equality
l.. W. LANGDoN, of Florence. Mass. the
inventor Of the sewing machine, died Tues
day at Jacksonville, Fla whittier he had /
gone in search of health, at the age of forty
Ar Macomb, H., not long since. a real
fesh-and-blood nose was grated upon the
face of young who had been unfortunate
enough to lose that organ by the bite Of dog.
THE New England iron mon have resolved
that further reduction in wages is necrs-
sary to enable Eastern manufacturers TO
compete successfully with those of the West.
Is stirring his fire the fireman on a French
locomotive found human foot i'm his ash
pan, and that was the first intimation they
had that they had killed man some hours
before.
IT is related that after reading the obih,-
AIRY notice OF himself, from the pen of his
friend Redpath, William S. Robinson sent
word g that he would do as much for him
some day"
BosToS harbor is clogged up with ice.
Most Of the docks are frozen up as tight rs n
drum, and even outside of the Boston LIGHT
there are vast fields Of floating ice, very troub-
lesome to vessels
Ii is probable that the complaint of the
brother Of the Prodigal Son, was owing TO
the fact that the wandering young man had
the lated calf, while he who stayed at home
had to put up with the deacons"
BIsnoP WHIrISGHAM, of Kentucky. re-
fused to help consecrate the assistant bishop
OF the diocese, because he had been twice
married. Saint Paul was his authority, who
said a bishop should be the husband of one
WIFE
~ official report states that the Hualpal
Indians in Arizona are quite industrious.
ihey are now carrying out contract for the
delivery OF certain quantity of hay. and
carry II on their backs distance of twenty
miles.
In is estimated that the cost of deepening
the navlgable channel of the rivers connect
ing Lake Huron and Lake Erie, so that they
will be navigable by vessels drawing twenty
feet of water win approximate four mil
lions of dollars.
Tnr Secretary of the Navy has signed the
contract awarded some time since To Miss
Winnie Rean by General sherman and Mrs.
farragut, majority OF the commissioners
appointed by Congress TO select an artist 10
execute a bronze statue Of the late Admiral
Farragut.
WEDNESDAY saw the rails Of the lIoosae
tunnel connected and the continuous track
land through the mountain. The track has
yet TO De blocked up and leveled before q .
tram can pass over it. The date of running
the hrst construction train has not yet been
decided upon.
LAST week, a Frenchman working in the
shaft OF iioosac tunnel, lost his balance and {
iaiilng about twenty feet brought up on
platform, so near the edge that his lef,s
swung OF. Being asked why he didn't con
Time his downward journey, distance of
more than eight hundred feet, he laconically
replied, 81 had no light"
A TEXAS court holds that vegetables
while growing, are part Of the realty. and .
not properly a subject Of larceny. Hence
IN the case of a man indicted for stealing !
onions, It was decided that he was only '
guilty OF trespass, the fragrant fruit never /
having been In possession of the plaintiff {
since they became personal property by be-
ing detached from the soil.
A SHORT time since, love quarrel oeeur.
red between a man and woman on the {
third floor of house in Paris. Made {
furious by something the man said 10 her |
the woman threw open the window and
jumped out There was hard wind blow.
ing at the time and this, making a balloon o
OF her skirts, sustained her weight 80 as 10 '
let her gently down into the deep snow and
she called cab and drove away. ?
A STYLISH young man recently stopped nj !
an inn IN small town in California. He
called for " the drinks for all about the
place several times, and waved his hand in
lordly way TO the innkeeper as though 10
say This is mine" lie was so agreeable
that they all took quite a liking to him.
Next morning after breakfast, he was start
ing oil, when the host apologetically re-
marked " That little bill" "Oh, bless your
soul, my friend, haven't got a cent" said
the fellow. "1'hen why didn't Won Tell me
so before . said the host aWell." REPLIED
the traveller, If you hadn't been SO nai,is.