Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-21
Personal.

BISMARCK says drunkenness was the cause o
Midhat Pasha's disgrace
GRAND DUKE ALEXIS and Constantine arrived
In New York last Saturday
OSE sentence in Evarts argument on the Florids
vote contained three hundred and sixty-one words
TWEED is educating himself by reading novel.
and newspapers. Above all things he breads tn,
interviewer.
TnE engagement OF Fred May, who met Mr.
Bennett in duel, to daughter of the late Pa.
| ran Stevens, Is announced.
The Princess Louise IL total abstainer. Vic.
tora allowed none Of her children under seventeen
to touch alcoholic drinks.
RoBERT T. LINCOLN, son of the lamented Abra-
ham, has been appointed railroad commissioner
| by the Governor Of Illinois.
| Hon. 10 d. HATCH was unanimously renomin-
ated for Mayor at the Republican caucus on Sat
urday evening last at Burlington.
THE New York Herald says: Senator Hoar,
OF Massachusetts, promises to redeem that grand
old state from charges Of mediocrity'
Ex-PREslDENT LERDo, General Escobedo, Man
ual Romero, and other Mexican refugees arrived
In New York on Saturday Of last week.
Miss WINNIE REAM has finished the clay model
OF her statue Of Paragut, and now 1t is to be cast
in bronze for the admiration Of the ages.
JONI RUSSELL YouSG, OF the New York Heraid
now In Europe, is about to take permanent charge
OF the London bureau Of correspondence for that
journal.
MONDAY Of last week was Alexander II Ste
NH II, a. m.
Mr.. Stephens has little here below, but he keeps
that little long.
THE Uncle Ton" of Mrs. Stoves romance
has been giving lectures in London on 1.-THE
Story of Forty-two Years Slave Life" He is now
in his eighty eighth year
Tue landlord of Wizards Hotel has rendered
10 Governor Hayes the rooms Nos 13and a. from
which five Presidents-elect have been escorted to
the Capitol to be inaugurated.
THE Free Press states that Judge Smalley, Of
Burlington. has resigned his office as United
States District Judge. When the resignation is to
take effect is not generally known
GENERAL JACKSON once told General William
G. Harding of Tennessee, that he twas as badly
frightened as any man ought ever to be when he
fought the duel with Mr. Dickinson
DuHiNG recent session OF the Electoral Com
mission, George Bancroft fell asleep. whereupon
Representative jerks wrote on a card History
sleeps while Fiction speaks" Senator Howe had
the floor.
THE nearest living relative of General Stark.
who commanded at the battle OF Bennington in
1877, is a granddaughter unmarried, who is liv-
ing at Dunbarton, N. Y, and who is about eighty
years old.
WE regret to learn of the indisposition of Ma
jor J. II. Cushman OF the Bennington Banner.
lie has a host Of friends, who take deep inter
est in his welfare, and wish him speedy renewal
OF strength
MIR. CALEB TicKSoR, formerly of Middebury,
now of Great harrington, Mass is interesting
himself in an enterprise looking to the organza-
ton OF n colony Of New Englanders to settle ia
the state Of Texas.
THE Grants will leave the White House on Sat
urday OF next week. and the old folks will stop
while with the Fishes at their Washington resi-
dence. Ulysses, Jr, will 90 at once to New York
and begin practcing law, and Colonel Fred will
return to General Sheridan's headquarters in
Chicago Nellie Sartoris and her husband will
stay with her aunt, Mrs Dent, a while, but expect
to accompany Mr.. and Mrs Grant when they sail
for Europe in May, taking little Sartoris with
them.
REAR-ADMIRAL l.. NJ. GoLDsBoRouGH died Mt
Washington Tuesday morning, making six officers
of this rank who have died within five weeks.
This Is thinning out the small list of some twelve
or fifteen of Rear-Admrals pretty fast Admiral
Godsborough entered the navy in 1872 from the