Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-10-23
WATCHMAN & JOURNAL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. %, 1878.


London this TALL.
MOODY says that during the coming winter he
will give six hours a day TO study
FoRrY officers have been dismissed from the I}os-
ton police for drunkenness and other bad habits.
FARMERS in Gonzales county, Texas, give half
of their cotton to picSers, the crop is so abundant
FIFrY windms were lately shipped from New
York city to New Zealand, to raise water on farms
OFFICIAL returns of the Congressional vote in
Ohio give nine Republicans and eleven democrats
AN elderly lady Of AclSey, Iowa, recently died
of Joy which family reunion after long years Of
separation induced
CORRESPONDENT Of n Paris journal informs
his readers that thieves and murderers are often
elected to the American Congress.
THE guardian of the Paris cemetery, In which
criminals are buried, says that the mothers are
the only kinsfolk that ever visit the graves
THE New Zealand government telegraphs that
there is no truth in the report that five mission
aries were murdered and eaten by the natives
IT is hard times with the butternut trees in
New England Last year the yield OF nuts was
large, but this season it barely pays for gathering
TWENTY cases of yellow fever, imported by SOL
ders returning from Cuba, occurred in Madrid
last month; the scourge never reached that capital
before.
CHICAGO has just organized normal class of
one hundred Sunday school teachers, under the
leadership of DR.. j. NJ. Gibson Mr.. b. f. Jacobs
aud others
THE Commissioner General of the Land Office
decides that the benefits of the soldiers home
stead law are intended only for those who served
through the rebellion
SMITH COLLEGE, for women at Northampton,
Mass, has begun its fourth year with one hum
dred and forty-lour students, of whom sixty five
are in the entering class.
a FASHIONABLE young woman amused friend
the other day by stating that she spent her sum
mer vacation at the seaside at Saratoga, and it
was perfectly delightful"
AT recent sitting of medical congress in
Pisa, one of the doctors present, Parin COM
mtted suicide Immediately after the subject
Suicide" had been deliberately discussed by
that body.
The number OF failures in the United States for
the quarter ending September Both was 1883,
with liabilities Of sixty-six millions, against $40
failures with liabilities of forty-two millions in
the same quarter in 1877.
A BOY of ten and girl of eight eloped from
Brookline, Mass, and went to Boston, where they
soon got lost in the crooked streets. Their ex-
pectation was to get married and live in a fine
house somewhere The result was a spanking
A DUBLIN confectoner built wedding cake
eight feet high and weighing three hundred
pounds, for the marriage breakfast of Lord Gran
vile Gordon and Miss Roe. It was finely orna-
mented with family arms and monograms, etc.
The Philadelphia Ledger says; There are to-
/ day over eighteen thousand vacant houses within
the city limits" This state of things has led to
radical reduction in house rents in Philadelphia,
/ which have been excessive for the past if
teen years.
/ A MALE bear in n Belgian geological garden re-
/ Gently got mad with the female companion in his
cage tore her to pieces, and was on the point Of
becoming cannibal, when the corpse was
snatched out of the cage. The quarrel occurred
at their dinner table
| Two physicians in Ohio are quarreling in print
as to their skill. They accuse each other of kill
ing patients, and give the names of the alleged
victims, with criticisms Of the treatment and other
information of a character highly interesting to
/ relatives of the deceased persons.
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON celebrated the six
tieth anniversary of his apprenticeship in the
| Newburyport Herald office last Saturday, by set
ting in type one OF his own poems from memory.
lie was given a complimentary dinner by the
New England Franklin Club, at Young's Hotel,
Boston, last Monday
PARTY of hunters near the Canada line, one
day recently, discovered one of the moose let
loose last spring by the Adirondack Club in the
northern wilds, holly pursued by panther. The
moose, as soon AS it saw the hunters made for
them for protection, when the panther was driven
away and the moose allowed to 60 on its way re-
| jUicing.
! The October returns to the Department of Ag-
riculture place the average condition OF the corn
crop at ninety-six an increase of four over Sep
TENDER This brings the figures up to those of
any crop, and will not vary largely from thirteen
| billion bushels The October returns do not
materially change the statistical aspect of the
wheat crop.
A GEORGIA horse thief who was serving out a
| fifteen years sentence escaped from the peniten-
tiary the other day, leaving a note toaay that he
could have left at any time, but had come to the
conclusion to act honestly and work out a few
/ years us pehthce' ihe sehlence was 50 iohB,
however, that his heart failed him, and he begged
/ to be excused.
| Mr.. CYRUS W. FIELD promised the village of
| Williamstown, Mass, four hundred dollars after
| the last fence on the village street had been taken
| down. All but one had been removed, but the
owner of that obstnately refusing to yield. about
midnight on Thursday night band Of one hum
dred and fifty disguised men removed the fence,
and piling the material up in the center OF the
park in front of the house, burned it,
COMMODORE C. X. GARRISON, aged seventy
and Miss Iettie Wilet Randall of St. Louis, aged
twenty-four were married last week. The groom