Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-07-19
gin General
Personal.

PRINCESS LOUISE is catching salmon in
New Brunswick.
PAUL BoYToN is preparing to float down
the ST. Lawrence.
PRINCE HENRY of Prussia is preparing
for visit to America.
THURLow WEED, who is in his eighty.
fifth year, is nearly blind.
KING KALAKAUA's coronation will take
place on February II, 1883.
ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS is said to spend
most of his income in charities.
IT is the opinion of his friends at Atlanta
that Senator Ben Hill is steadily improving.
A STATUE of Theodore Parker is soon TO
be placed in public square at the south
end of Boston.
THE lord mayor of London draws salary
OF $4,000 and spends one-fourth Of it on the
first day of his term.
BosToN CoRBETT, the swarthy man who
slew j. Wilkes Booth, is importuning con-
gressmen for pension.
BENJAMIN p CHENEY Of Boston is the
gentleman who offers the statue of Webster
for the state house park in Concord, N. II.
Miss FRANCES WILLARD has started
wish to do effective temperance work in the
lecture field.
JEREMIAH S. BLACK, who has Just pre-
dicted the nomination of Blaine and Han
cock in 1884, predicted the nomination of
Garfield early in the spring of 1880.
THE wife of Ex-Governor Alexander II.
Rice Of Massachusetts, to whom he was
married about one year ago, has become in
sane, and the physicians report her incurable.
GARmALDI's family refused to give his
sword to the Italian government that it
might be preserved in its archives, prefer
ring to keep the precious relic as a legacy to
posterity.
In the reign of Victor Emanuel's father,
Charles Albert, Garibsldi was sentenced to
be shot in the back for melting mutiny of
troops and attempting to undermine by
bribes the fealty of officers.
REV. DIR. HENRY w. BELLOWS, while liv-
ing, was thought to be in good circum-
stances, but an examination into his fairs
after his death proved that such was not the
case. His former parishioners on learning
this fact raised for his widow purse of
$4,000.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, his son, the crown
pliuCcJ lluCt w lllldul Jut CiOhu DlluCt
son, and the infant son of Prince William
representing four generations of German
rulers-were photographed in group re-
Gently. The old emperor proudly held his
great-grandson in his arms.
MAYOR WILSON of New Bedford gave
some homely advice to the graduating class
of the high school, telling the boys that
trade was desirable requirement, and the
girls that housework ought to be included in
their accomplishments. Some of the boys
and girls listened with manifest scorn.
GENERAL SHERMAN has placed upon the
wall of his office in Washington a new pic
ture-a fine wster-color sketch of the Union
army crossing, by torchlight, the Big Black
River, near Vicksburg. He considers it
remarkably faithful representation of one of
the most memorable scenes of the war.
Ex-Governor HUBBARD, who weighs
three hundred pounds, and who is combat
ing General Weaver's greenback arguments
on the Texas stump, began speech the
other day " If | sit down on Weaver I'll
crush him. The audience all got so up
roarious that it was necessary to adjourn.
HERE is pretty anecdote respecting Vic
tor Hugo Francois Coppee was dining, in
company with several other guests, at the
hotel on the Avenue d'Eylau, one day, when
some person made remark relative to "you
two poets" 90, MASTER" said Coppee,
modestly, and turning toward Hugo as he
spoke, " | acknowledge here the presence of
one poet only" "And what about me -
made answer Victor Hugo, with his usual
kindly smile. "Do |, then, count for
nothing ?"
THE first wife of Brigham Young died at
Salt Lake last week. She became a convert
to Mormonism at Avon, New York, in 1881,
and went to the Mormon colony, then in
Ohio, where she married Young. 1t is said
that, having accepted the doctrine of polyg-
amy she made no opposition when her hus-
band began to practice it extensively, though
she invariably fell i'll from excitement and
grief at every new marriage. She lived
separate from the other wives, and kept her
children as much as possible apart from
the rest.
THE candidacy of General Stoneman in
California on the democratic ticket is re-
minder of his army career. During the At
lanta campaign General Stoneman, with his
cavalry, made raid for the purpose of sew
ering the railway connections of the rebels
and releasing the Andersonville prisoners.
His achievements were small. One brigade
was captured and one dispersed, while
third escaped. The general himself was
taken prisoner. Some one expressed regret
to President Lincoln that Stoneman was
prisoner. al can make twenty just as good
generals as Stoneman any day." said Lin
coin, " but those horses cost the government
1925 apiece"