Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-14
Personal.

MRs JULIA WARD HOWE has been refused en-
tertainment Mt Minnesota hotel because she is a
female lecturer.
| SESAroR.ELECr PLUMB, Of Kansas, commanded
a regiment during the war and performed very
active and creditable service
Mr.. JEFFERSON DAVIS is about to write the
"reminiscences of his public career which injudi-
cious friends have been demanding.
SECRETARY MORRILL, who has been suffering
from poor health lately, is much better, and his
| friends feel confident that he will recover.
THE Smith sisters of Glastonbury, have pub
shed in pamphlet form, a history of their trials
and miseries incurred under their resistance to
the law.
JUSTICE DAVID DAVIS, the United States Senator
elect from Illinois, is millionaire, a second Dan
lei Lambert in size, very jolly, very genial and
very agreeable.
Mr. LoNGFELLow received from Mr.. Bonner,
three thousand dollars as the price of "The Hang
ing of the Crane, the poem filling about one
column of the Ledger.
The prosecution of ex-Secretary Bellnap has
been abandoned by the government, note
proseqH having been entered in the case by order
Of the Attorney-General
The wife of President Grant has sent a basket
of flowers to the bedside OF Representative Alex
ander II. Stephens almost every day since his
present severe illness began.
THE conviction of DR. Mouck, the Spiritualst
medium, under the vagrant act sentencing him to
three months imprisonment, has been confirmed
by the Court of Exchequer in London.
SENATOR CAMERON has been sued for breach of
promise by n woman who claims fifty thousand
dollars to mend her broken heart The Senator
says the suit is an attempt to backmail him.
Mir MooDy was forty years old on Monday,
and has not had picture of himself taken for ten
years So it is no wonder the likenesses of him
hawked about the country are very poor ones.
Miss MINNIE MATTHEWS, of Waterville Maine,
the only young lady in her class, has been
awarded the prize for the best preparation for col
lege in the freshman class of Colby. The prize
will pay her term bills through her college course.
REAR ADMIRAL WILKES, on the retired list, died
at Washington on the Sth instant lie conducted
the famous Wilkes exploring expedition to the
South seas in 1886 During the rebellion he cap
tured the confederate ministers, Mason and
Slidell
W. W. HuNGERFoRD, who was quite active in
securing the building of the Bethel & Rutland
road, has been appointed general superintendent
of the Ogdensburg Lake Champlain railroad.
He is said to be an experienced and efficient rail-
road man.
Mr. j. j. r. RANDALL, the Rutland architect,
will probably accept an offer from the Russian
government to become government engineer and
take charge of a system of iron railroad bridges
to be built in that country, and if so will leave
for St Petersburg in June.
The Grand Duke Alexis is to arrive at Pough-
keepsie on or about the 1lth, and will be the
guest of Mr. John A. Roosevelt His object is
to personally inspect ice-yachtng in all of its
bearings, and with view of introducing pat
terms of American ice-yachts in Russian rivers
not only for amusement, but also for modes of
conveyance"
Mr.. MOODY announces to the Christian public
that the contributions for the family of Mr. p. r.
Bliss have been so liberal that, with the addition
of what they left, they are well provided for and
collections should now cease 1t is understood
that besides the contributions so secured there
was an insurance of ten thousand dollars upon
the life of Mr. Bliss