Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
Items OF Interest.

THE president is getting cross, and calls his
cruel stuff" It is encouraging.
LORENZO DE1MoSioo, the celebrated New York
caterer, died Saturday afternoon.
QUEEN vIcroRIAs annual income is 81, OOO, 600,
one-half OF which she saves to add to her principal
SINCE the treaty Of 1868 the different tribes Of
Sioux Indians have cost the United States &c.
100000
SOUTHERN California wants TO secede and form
a state by itself A convention is called to con-
slider the question.
GuTEAu was burned in efllgy on Niagara square,
Buffalo, Saturday night in the presence Of about
three thousand people.
THE last comet which made It's appearance Is
rapidly fading away and will soon be seen no
more in the evening sky.
ONLY one-fourth Of the silver dollars coined
last month was distributed. There are now &C.,
100000 silver dollars in the treasury.
THE health OF Mrs. Lincoln has improved very
much. She will soon leave for Washington to
spend the fall and winter with her son.
BoNFmEs were lighted over large portion of
the north Of Ireland Saturday night, as a mark Of
gratitude to Gladstone for the land act.
REDMOND, the notorious outlaw and moon.
| sinner, IL sentenced at Greenville South Carolina
to ten years in Auburn prison and fined $1,000
THE letter which the president sent TO hi.
mother a short time ago has been reproduced IL
fac-simile in Cleveland, and the sale Of 1t is sale
to be tremendous.
| The net reduction in the star route and steam
boat mail service during August is sos, 800, ant
the total reductions and discontinuances sine
March 4th are 1,i79,700.
| CERTIFICATES to the amount OF 1926 900 In gov
eminent bonds have been placed in the hands o
Mrs. Garfield, as part Of the subscribed fund o
$4,000 which Mr.. Field started.
THE whiskey product OF the United States 70
last year was 100000 barrels By calculation
that would give eighty-one drinks to every man
woman and child Of the population.
In is reported that the emperor Of Austria ha
personally warned the car against the probabit
that continuance Of the panslavist agitation
endangering his good relations with Austria.
BARGE company, having a capital OF $1,000
900, with Jay Gould as head, has lately bee
formed for Mississippi freight traffic The con
pany has twenty-three powerful tugs and on
hundred and fifty barges plying between st. Lou
and New Orleans.
THE drouth in Virginia threatens the total d.
struction OF the tobacco crop. Corn is burning u
and other crops are badly injured. Mills hay
stopped, and farmers experience great difficult
in getting water for their stock. The James riv'
has not been so low for fifty years.
WHOEVER advised the pope to start a new
paper of his own gave the holy father pret
costly advice. The aurora OF Rome has goi
under, and the papal treasury is " out 800
lire. Even an infallibe pontiff takes his risl
, when he embarks in the newspaper business.
THE wife of municipal officer died at Hende
, son, Kentucky and her husband left the last {
, fees prior to interment to two Of her friends A
ter the coffin lid had been partly fastened he cou
, not resist taking one more look. lie discover
I that the iewelry which be intended to be BURT
+. on her was gone. That was two years ago.
said nothing but lately detected one of the frien'
wearing the articles. lie said to her: will 81
, you three days to leave town." and she went.