Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-05-31
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manufacturer, was buried in that city last
Wednesday. lie was born in Charlestown,
Mass, in 1911.
CHARLES LEFEBvRE, French painter Of
considerable distinction between the years
1880 and 1915, died in Paris yesterday, in
the seventy-seyenth year of his age.
GUsTAvE MEEGER, artist, died in New
York Sunday OF voluntary starvation. He
resided in tenement house and led mi
sers life, but had money in several banks.
Mr.. RICHARD SMITH says that if the
Pond Liquor Law is declared constitutional
it will yield a revenue in Cincinnati of
100000, two thirds of which will go TO the
city.
IT is understood that Mr.. Edward Atkin-
son considers position on the Tariff Com.
mission as entirely inconsistent with his
necessary work, and that he is not a can.
didate.
GENERAL GRANTS son-in-law, Algernon
Sartoris, is to swim friendly race on the
Thames in June with another man-stakes
$1,000. He is now in practice at New
York swimming school.
MARY CLEMMER, it is said, will soon
unite her fortunes with those of Washing
ton correspondent Of Boston paper. Her
first husband from whom she has been di-
vorced, was Methodist minister.
GEORGIA claims genuine Bue-Beard in
man one hundred years old, who has had
seven wives and killed them all. A south
ern paper calmly adds that "he has not been
apprehended, but the officers are tracking
him through the mountains"
NJ. DAMALA-BERNHARDT, as the newspa-
,,nr oan 1Nau ,..Nr arl
at all in the light of sinecure He has
formally made it known to the Paris press
that he will personally chastise, on his re-
his bride.
THE Count de Paris, in letter of recent
date to Gen. G. b. Norton in Boston, wrote
81 see with pleasure that the new trial Of
our friend Fitz John Porter is likely to ter
inmate favorably for him in a short time.
He has been a victim of great injustice,
and this tardy reparation is well due him."
THE reason has transpired why the Mar
quis Of Anglesea abandoned in Paris his
beautiful American wife, formerly Miss
King, of Georgia. He had lost heavily at
a gaming table, and feared to face the mu-
sic. 1t is said that she has gone to meet
hi m, with smile on her lip and tear in
her eye.
JoHN r. LYNCH, the colored representa-
tive from Mississippi who has succeeded to
General Chalmers seat in congress, first be-
came known 10 the country by wonderful
impromptu speech which he delivered at the
Philadelphia Convention of 1872. One of
its most effective passages was an apostrophe
to Gerrit Smith, who sat as a member of
the New York delegation.
LoNGFELLow once wrote to youthful
poet as follows: I" No man, think, should
devote himself to poetry as means of max
ing living. True poetry is the offspring
of our best hours. If you make trade of
it you may be sure that it will degenerate
into mere verse making. Therefore follow
some calling or profession for livelihood,
and keep the gift of song sacred and for it
self alone"
THAT genial old friend of the reading
public, Mr.. b. p. Shillaber, receives de-
servedly complimentary mention in an ar
ticle on American Humor," contributed to
the Independent by Rev. Samuel w. Duflisld
of Bloomfield, New Jersey. 1t is more than
a quarter of a century since. "MIs. Part
ington and her mischievous son Ike were
introduced to the public and became uni
versal fayorites.
AT the royal wedding the Princess Bea-
trice was called upon to sign her name in
the register. She gave her bouquet to the
bishop of London to hold and then she
quite forgot to reclaim the fragrant burden
from the right reverend divine. "In his
dilemma" says the London World, "the
bishop turned to the Lord Chancellor, who
was standing near him, and, having con-
suited the highest legal authority in Eng
land on the subject, the bishop decided to
retain possession of the same"
LIEUT.. De LoNG's wife is a daughter of
an old captain in the merchant marine SER
vice, named Wooten. She constantly stim-
ulated his ambition, in the matter of Arctic
exploration. When the older naval ladies
at the Washington Hotel, where they lived
several years ago, whose lives have been
chastened by long separation from their hus-
bands on sea duty, would talk to her OF the
risks he ran, she would say "But he will
be promoted for it. My husband will be
hero"
JAMES FERGUSON of Albany, n. Y, the
daring "Steeple Jack" has contracted to
gild the cross and paint the steeple of st.
Bernard's church in Fitchburg, Mass. He
uses no platform or staging, but simply
raises and lowers himself by means of block
and tackle made fast at the base of the
cross. lie has painted or repaired about
| fifty steeples in different parts of the coun-
| try, and has never met with serious acci-
dent. He assembled the steeple of st. Ber-
nsrd's with the help of two ropes round the
steeple, and carried his block and tackle.
THE Dayton, Ohio, Democrat has this to
say of William c. Howells, father of Will
| liam d. Howells lie used to run a coun-
| try newspaper in these parts, and had to
take hoop poles, cordwood, garden sass, and
maybe even sawdust, on subscription. In
1913 he published a paper It Hamilton.
Ohio, and for short season either before or
after that-we don't now remember was
connected with newspaper here in Day
ton-the old Gazette perhaps. Here and in
Hamilton, William ID. learned TO set type.
Leaving Dayton, the Howells family settled
in Ashtabula county, where Mr.. Howells,
| Sr., became editor of the Ashtabula Sentinel,
the organ of old Joshua Il. Giddings, and
one of the most able and vigorous anti
slavery papers ever published.
WAGNER, the German composer, passed
the winter in Palermo, Italy. While there
one of his daughters, Blandina, was be-
trothed to young Sicilian noble. A Milan
newspaper says Wagner wished his
daughter to embrace the Roman Catholic
faith, having himself at once recognized the
necessity under the circumstances. Before
the afiianced departed Wagner made them
kneel before him, in the car he had engaged
for his family, and addressed them in very
tender and affectionate terms, and gave them
his fatherly advice and blessing, which
called out tears from all present. With his
hands resting on their heads, he instructed
both on their duties and obligations toward
each other in solemn aud almost inspired
tone. In this address, which has demon
strated how Wagner throws his whole heart
into everything he does, the maestro had
touched the finest chords of the human
heart, and ended by invoking upon the
couple who knelt before him the Lords
blessing"
MATTHEW HALE SMITH was writing let
ters to the Journal over the signature of
Burleigh." Smith wrote detestable hand,
and Charles o, Rogers, who was then max.
!. ing the Journal jump with his activity, ell
terprise and liberality, was very nearly his
match in this particular. One day a COM
positor came down to Mr.. Rogers with some
of Burleigh's copy saying that II he had
| got to set that sort of stuff they'd have to
pay him by the hour, because he couldn't
make his salt setting it by the thousand.
Rogers Immediately wrote Burleigh note,
telling him that If he couldn't write so that
his letters could be read he had better
either quit writing or get somebody to do
his writing for him. In day or two there
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