Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-12-27
Items Of Interest.

PHuARArioSs are being made in Constant
nvple ior the national conference. and there is a
growing feeling that war may yet be avertcd.
MicHoAN has voted to so amend her consiitu-
ton that tho legislature can substitute II they
choose b license Law for the present prohibitory
statute
Mn MIiLGR an American banker at Chihuaha,
Mexico has been captured hy the revouioulsis
and eiglty thousand dollars demanded for his
ransom. colonel Andrews, with force Of United
States infantry, cavalry and artillery has gone to
his rescue
Tnr vie Of Er-Unlted States senator render-
son, OF " Iscorsin has dedicated book on cookery
which she has just written to tie wife Of General
sherman, whom in her dedication she calls "a
lady who studies the comforts Of her household %
SEcRErAsY GonnAM. Of the Senate, who was
married lat week, received q wedding present Of
silver ware which cost two hundred and fifty del
lars, from ,enators who are his personal friends
lie aimed high for groomsmen, our friend j.
II. Flags beng one Of them.
PEW days ago balloon twelve feet long and
ten feet in diameter fell in the township Of Frank
lin, Sussex county, New Jersey It bore the in
scripton, sent up by I. c, Brown Co., 1876
Cheapside street, London, L. c, The finder will
please Communicate with the above irm.
OWING IN the action Of the waves the great
pyramidal rik oyerlanging the shore Of Lake
superior, few miles east Of Silver Islet, and
known as MacDonalds Peak, has fallen The
peak was a column Of granite measuring at its
base one hundred feet in circumference and rising
to the height II two hundred and eighty feet
TuE fate Of Donaldson the aeronaut, lost in
the tempest over Lake Michigan, over wear ago
has been definitely aseertained heapof bones
some ragged clothes, and skull were recently
found in NeWaygo county, Michigan The cap
aud vest led TO the Identification of the remains.
ALL the latter reports Of the Bengal cyclone
confirm the frt statement made Of It's magnitude
and its fatal results cannot be estimated hy any
facts or figures The loss Of life is nut at over
two hundred and fifty thousand. being two tbirds
Of the population. Nocalamity since the destrue.
ton Of iercnlaneum and Pompe has been 50
terrible in lis results
\ MONSTER sea serpent has been seen by Can
tain Webster Of the English steamship Nestor.
lie writes to a Bfooklyn friend that he and all his
passengers and crew saw the sea serpent i'm the
Straits OF Malacca, the 10Th of September. lie
say 1t was five hundred feet long, fifty feet across
the back, and carried its head full fifty to sixty
feet out Of water at times
ASoTnIn important railroad deelsion-tliat ms
sengers need not pay extra for palace-car accom-
modations when there are no unoccupied seats in
the coaches. Henry Peck, Of Norwich. \ Y
was put of of the Delaware Lackawanna and
western railroad for refusing to pay extra for
three palace-ear seats, but now gets three thou-
sand dollars damages because of il in the conrt ~
appeals
WHES Mr.. ". II. Seward was de,atiuc the
speech delivered In Rochester, n. Y, in October.
1858, known in his works by the title "rha IT,
repressible Conflict he had used the word ire
sis'ible, but presently stopping as he walked
about tile room, aud looking over the shoulder of
his amanuenqis he observed the word, and said
That is not exactly the word rrepressible-irr
pressibleiis what | mean, and so the lannon's
phrase was completed.
"PooR CARLorrA Is incumble A ,o,,o..
pondeut Of the Boston Adrcriiser saws tha, a..
refuses to believe in the existence Of those a,onrd
her, while, on the other hand, she imaginos !,
world Of her own, with which she lives. talLs ana
enjoys herself 10 those actually snrround,no
her she never speaks. She attends To ber o,, :,
toilet, dresses her cwn hair ia od-fashioned
puiis, and separates herself as it were, from ALI
contact with humanity She orders her dinners
In writing, and II any change be made, or a dish
not 10 her taste, she notices il a once aud writes
her reproaches. which she deposits in one place
where she expects IN find an answer next dav
She imagines herself Empress OF Mexico. and
MAMMALIAN Is, To her mind absent only for a
short time; Her health is good, and her beauty
augmented by this strange, unnatural Tranquility