Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-05-21

TnE fashionable wedding ring il a plain gold
band, with diamond deeply mbedded in it,
A BABY died Of blood poisoning at Easton, Md.
the other day, caused by rat bite on the hand
GANG Of students Of the University Of Mich
gan have been caught at counterfeiting and sys-
tenatic stealing
FERNS and geraniums are placed among artiG-
cial flowers, which highly perfumes them and gives
them natural appearance.
Tnr magnificent villa at Newport, n. l., known
AS the Barreda villa, was sold on Saturday IN
John Jacob Aston for 500, 900
Bon ISGERsoLL il to lecture in st. Louis soon To
aid the erection of n colossal bust of Thomas
Paine by his admirers in that city.
SOME visitors Mt great shoe mandatory in
Lynn, Mass, recently saw pair Of kid boots
made from the stock in Just eleven minutes.
The ten dollar certificates are being delivered
at the rate Of ssO0,0OO per diem, and by next
week the delivery is expected to reach s2.OOo,OOO
per diem.
SEVERE thunder storm passed over Washing
ton county, Indiana, last Thursday night, during
which five persons were killed and much damage
done to property.
Nhw Brunswick, N. j., borrowed money in
1871 to build opera house for its fifteen thou
sand inhabitants costing s27G, OOO and has Just
seen it sold for $4,000.
MICHIGAN has had a cold, dry Spring, but has
| larger acreage Of wheat than ever aud hopes to
match last years crop good percentage of old
wheat is still in the farmers hands.
ABOUT a dozen mechanics in Lewiston, Maine,
whose funds are limited, are trying to charter
box-car to take them to California Their plan il
to board themselves on the way doing their cook
| ing in the car.
TnRoUGH the vigilance and energy Of three
| liie-Saving boys Of New York ON the Fast river,
about forty persons have been pulled out Of the
water within year and half, within the limits
| Of a few blocks
LoUis BARRON, n machinist of Watertown, N.
| y, recently went home from work sick fell faint
| ing in his yard, and exclaimed to his wife, " am
| dying" This frightened his wife 50 that she
died shortly after.
| WILLIAM TyNDALE, the first English translator
Of the Bible, is to have a statue on London's
Thames embankment The Archbishop of Can
terbury is chairman Of the committee having the
| enterprise in hand
GOVERNOR ST. JomN, of Kansas, speaks cheer
|
the refugees deserve as kind treatment as they
| extended to the Union soldiers who escaped from
Southern prisons during the war
Ir shows how fast Kansas is filling up that the
| books in the general land office at Washington
record two million two hundred and fifty thou
sand acres taken up under the homestead and pre-
emption laws in the last nine months
| CANADAs commissioner to our Centennial ex-
hbtion spent $4,000 in his few months Of ser
vice and the recent publication of his bills shows
such items as - for champagne cigars twenty-five
cents, aud other expenses even less creditable
MEssI,s Il. l.. Il A. STUART, of New York, re-
Gently gave so, 600 to the Home Mission Board,
$4,000 to the Foreign Mission Board, $50 900
to the Board of Church Erection and St, 600 to the
Board Of Ministerial Relief OF the Presbyterian
church.
A MNDEN o. " farmer has been before a
magistrate and formally sworn off on indorsng
the paper of his friends lie has lost several
thousand dollars by indorsng, and now whips
out a copy Of his affidavit to scare off persistent
applicants.
THE fruit growers along the Hudson feel con-
ident of abundant harvests this year The late
ness of the seasons regarded more fayorably than
otherwise, as it will prevent damage from May
frosts by which serious injury has been effected
in previous years.
THE biggest wheat farmer in the country is
DIR. IL. j. Elan, of Colusa county, Cal. lie has
1900 of his GD,OOO acres in wheat this season
and hopes to raise 800, 900 bushels-enough to pay
the interest on the 81 100000 he is said to owe
and have some profit
BEECHER ectured to four thousand people at
Memphis Tuesday night of last week. and after
his lecture gave 500 to the City Orphan Asylum
His Chattanooga and Atlanta engagements have
been Cancelled, and Beecher returns to Brooklyn
on account Of i'll health
The Brooklyn Presbytery on Wednesday took
final action In the Talmage case committee
was appointed to defend the action of the presby-
terry in acqutting Talmage before the synod. The
trial, which lasted seven weeks cost $40 day,
which the churches will have to pay.
THRouGHour Minnesota, northern Iowa and
northwestern Wisconsin, II region which annually
E sends thirty To forty million bushels of wheat to
mark t. the weather for ten days past has been
cool, moist, with almost daily rains and pecu-
liarly favorable to the growth of the wheat crop
AN exchange says: Sc All, do you begin TO no.
tice Just about now innocent little items about
this lake and that lake, and the wall-eyed pike
{ aud the pickerel, and the black bass and the
carp, and the yellow perch, and the drumheads
and thingsl The Summer resorts are beginning
to tell fish stories"
Turpr was a siugnlar incident in one NJ the
Hartford churches last Sunday. Wong Shing,
in full Chinese dress-pig tail, cork shoes and
mantilla OBLIGATED AS deacon at the communion
service in the ASYLUM Hill Congregational church
lie was one Of the first Chinese boys who came to
New England to get An education
IL Msxr,ox il made M n lady WIN saves the com.
,,re,,,i,r ,,here sbe ,yorshin. s,o ooo a year A
women ~ ,,eolth and b,,h s,,iol c,,,ra and ma
siton, she makes it her rule and the fashion to
dress for church in so plain and inexpensive a
manner as throw the whole influence Of the con-
gregaton against extravaganza in dress.
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. var in wiscorsin nm, chiof In.tioa pan ., tho
Snrrnme Cam, decded ,ho, ,ho word :, nor.or ;,
in Tho Ia,, ,,,d NO, o,,n, =, ,or,on rho ,o,isI,
tnre suhse,en,,y rosIei an ,ct adn,i,,;n, women
= >, tho har ma rn., ,ra,,o p,an ha. a,io,rna1