The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1877-12-06

The tallest mau III Indiana is Andrew
S. Hart OF cambridge, who measures six
feet eleven inches aud half in bis stock
ings
The Tamaqua bank forgers have been
arrested 81 New York, They are seven
in number, and il Is thought they have
circulated so 900 in spurious bills
1 Robert l.. Case, president OF the Seen.
rily life Insurance Company Of New
York, has been sentenced to five years 10
the State prison for swearing TO false re-
turns.
a. Oakley Hall has taken the LECTURE
field, making bis opening in Boston,
Tuesday evening.
The fisheries award OF s5,500,O00 is a
stunning surprise, as bad to us as the Ge-
neva award to John Bull.
A woman lacking only few days Of
being hundred years old recently sp.
piled to the authorities Of an English
town for relief, remarking that she
"ddnt feel able TO support herself"
Hon. Moses II. Grinnell died in New
York, Saturday, aged "a years. lie was
noted man, and, in connection With his
brother Henry, fitted out two Grinnell
Expeditions In search Of Sir John Frank.
lin.
A little girl in New York city has been
poisoned by sucking fancily painted slate
pencils, Paris green, Prussian blue and
other deadly poisons being among the
material used in coloring them.
The Paymaster General of New York
has made up his accounts for military
service last summer in suppressing the
railroad riots. The whole bill is $780,
coo.
New York city has "penny restau-
rant" where small cup of coffee, bread
and butter, pork aud beans, slice OF
corn beef, mush, oatmeal, and boiled
rice may be obtained at cost OF one cent
for each item. II is a newspaper mans
enterprise, was started on the 9Th ult.,
and is proving success. Five hundred
people now get their meals at tue restau-
rant daily.
II has been the custom since The death
of General Robert Il. Lee for the students
of Washington and Lee University to
mount and keep guard over his grave. A
short time since that custom was discon.
timed, aud the Virginia editors cried out
against this neglect on the part of the
students. Under this provocation the
students naturally and pertnently retort
that these editors had better try it them.
selves awhile.
According TO the Washington Star the
cause OF Senator Blaiue's illness Is that
he undertook 10 superintend some altera-
lions and repairs in his house in Wash
ington, and while so engaged imprudent.
| ly slept in the premises. As there were
no fires In the house at the time, aud the
newly plastered walls we've damp, he
caught typhoid fever from the miasma-
! tic air.
/ According to decisions in New York
state, mans arm is worth $4,000, a
woman's knee pau $500. aud a husband
q whole man) $500; a Utica man who
lost hi, arm, New York school teacher
who fractured her knee pan, aud d
! Brooklyn woman who lost her husband
\ by the caYing OF an etnbankment, being
awarded those amounts respectively. II
man in that state, without having fat
life insurance policy, wishes TO be of any
particular service to his family, be should
not allow himself to be taken oil all Al
once.
The latest New York sensation is The
eopement Of daughter Of Mr.. Arnold,
of the great dry goods firm Of Arnold,
Constable & Co She Is 10 years old and
belle. She fell III love with clerk III
berl. fathers store. he Is 80 years old,
and poor, his special employment being
that Of loor.walker, Mr. Arnold sought
to break off the intimacy, bat the girl
was self willed. Saturday, the couple
sailed for Europe, having previously
been united Ia marriage. She has for.
tune 10 her own right, and is therefore
independent
The New York Mercury reports the
| importation iuto that city Of lepros By
Chinese from California. The reporter
saw a well marked case Ia tenement
where a Chinsman lay slowly dying. At
the Chinese hospital be saw two children
OF Irish-Chaese birth suffering from tie
disease, aud also the body Of Cbinaman
at Belleviile, ~ J., who had suceumbed
/ to the disease. A prominent CbinamAn
ssic be leegrsphed the Chinese consul a,
san Francisco TO stop Chiaamen coming
there, aud received for answer" No
more Cinnamon coming to New York
We move TO amend the silver dollar'
scheme 10 Congress BY the substitution Of
quicksilver ia place Of Tie metal used by
''0ur fathersp This would Al least &c..
sore us "howlng cnrreney," aud one
whose superior variability 10 accordance
with ils surroundings would be an add
tlOBAi recommendation Ia the eyes Of our
Western Gnsnelers Besides, q would
more readily elude The grasp OF The rich,
aud henca benefit The working classes.
We make DO charge ior lhe suggestion
Vermont PLGnix.