The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1877-10-25


December.
10 lows, tie Rspublioabs carried sixty.
two counties snd The Democrats three
/ The Gucsbsekers gog one,
The proposed exhibitors =, The Paris
szposiiloa OF ISIS have organized wiz
6eu. Joseph fiAwley - President
The steamer J. D. walker has jast sail-
ed from Neg HAvtn With g. 900 900
worth Of ammunition for Turkey.
The recent Indian visitors At Washing.
ton took very kindly to Secretary Schurz
whom they term "Old-mkn-wh o-sees-
wilh-foar-eyet.n
The soiulion Of the tramp question In
Bridgeport, Conn, is 10 build cheap
lodging house, where trsmps may get s
breakfast, for which they shall pay BY
breaking stones for Two or three hours.
Col Forny has sold bis paper, The
Philadelphia Press, for 3 handsome sum,
reported 10 be $4,000. The late man
aging editor Il one OF the purchasers
Msjor Ben. Perley Poore, the sccom-
plished Washington correspondent aud
miscellaneous author. is fifty-seveu years
OF age. lie has jos, gone TO Washington
10 connection with The session Of Con-
gress,
Tweed testified about his property aud
bis disposition OF it Wednesday. lie
says be is not the owner Of any property
on which $50 900 could be realized.
Mr.. Apgsr, Secretary Of the Demo
cratic ale committee, says that be was
howled down in the convention at Alba
ny by a mob instructed beforehand by
Mr. Kelly
II has been feared that severe frost in
Florida, last winter, had so Injured the
orange trees that they would not bear
well this fall. These fears have proved
grouudless; there will be larger crop
than ever before,
Gen. Sheridan telegraphs to the war
department that 100 Apaches, including
three chiefs, have surrendered to Gen.
Pope, and that probably the whole band
of Warm Springs and Apachcs viii soon
follow suit.
Ia the years 1907, the State OF
North Carolina produced l25, 900 bushels
of peanuts; Virginia 7S0, 900 bushels, and
Tennessee 500 200 bushels. The United
States can "point with pride" TO the fact
that in the last four years 3 1920, 900 bush
els of peanuts were harvested.
The great work of tunnelling the Eng.
lish channel from Dover 10 Calais is max
ing some progress, and promises TO be
completed ut not a very distant day.
Two wealthy railroad corporations, the
Great Northern of France and the Chat
ham aud South eastern of England, have
combined to construct this new wonder
Of the world.
The centre Of population of the United
States Is said TO have travelled westward
keeping curiously near tae thirty.ninth
parallel OF latitude, never getting more
than twenty miles north or two miles
south OF il. In eighty years it has trav-
eled only 400 miles, and is still found
nearly fifty miles eastward of Cincinnati
About 250,0 900 pistols have been made
at Norwich this year. Orders are in
creasiug, aud many OF the works are
running day aud night. The Bridgeport
cartridge works make some 700 900 cart
ridges a day. They have supplied Russia
with 100000, Turkey with 10000, 900,
aud have just got an order for $4,000, 900
from Italy. The Russian and Turkish
inspection officers have been working
side by side at the factory.
The aggregate debts of the six New
England States amount to S50,S3l, 1l9,
and the net debt to S3s, 2l9,357. The
debt of Massachusetts is nearly two
thirds of the whole. The annual interest
account OF the six States is $2,702 ,5GS. Is,
of which Massachusetts, pays 81 ,677 $780,
20 gold, and the other States combined
pay 81, OPS, 044. % In currency. All the
loans of Massachusetts are at five per
centum, and all those Of the other States
are at six per centum.
Fred Douglas talks to his race In the
following sensible way: "The question
with us is, will we work as hard for our
selves as we once did for mastersf II we
don't we will 20 to the wall, for liberty
is as essentially a state Of hard work as
slavery is of disgraceiul sloth. 1t is only
by hard labor that we can ever catch mp
/ with the white race, aud by initiating
their virtues instead OF their vices Emf
grafton is delusion and sham. The
whole race is everywhere on the face Of
the globe, and we could not get away
from them if we wouid"
Mr.. Cox, with perhaps pardonable pet.
ulance, is speaking OF Mr.. Hayes as
Governor Hayes" This is certainly
not very witty; il Is certainly not likely
TO be very effective, and If IL were Mr..
Hayes might plead as an Offset the fact
when, on the 18th of last March, Mr..
Cox wrote to hin 10 ask The appoint.
ment OF Mr.. George II. Butler as post
office agent TO the Black Hills, Mr.. Cox
addressed Mr.. Hayes as "Mr. President
aud directed bis letter to "The Hon. X.
b. Hayes, President OF the United
States - New York World.
Governor Prescott, aroused by the
statement thar New Hampshire had no
boulder as large a. those OF Vermont aud
Massachusetts. hAs been hunting them