Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-05-03
MisreHaneons.
Personal.


Ex.SEoRETARY EvARrs has bought an
addition to his farm in Vermont
JUDGE BLAToHFoRD is said TO be the
wealthiest man that ever sat upon the su-
preme bench.
MINISTER LOWELL has been invited TO de-
liver an address at a Longfellow memorial
service in Berlin.
Mr.. STURGEON is lover of birds, and he
invites them all to his lawn with daily
showers of bread crumbs.
GEORGE X. GRAHAM, the old publisher
known in connection with Grdidm's Maya
zine is sick in Newark hospital.
GOVERNOR CRITrENDEN of Missouri and
Governor Murray OF Utah are half-brothers.
Both were Union Office in the war.
OSCAR WILDE cannot understand Ameri-
can humor because there are no exclama-
tion marks nor any parentheses full Of ex-
plantations.
JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY has been chosen
unanimously by the officers of the army of
the Potomac to read the poem at the reunion
in Detroit in June.
GUITEAU, since his conviction, has cleared
eight hundred dollars by the sale of his pho
tographs. Give him time enough and he
NAV be able to pay his debts.
6ENAToR Brown of Georgia, who is now
in Thomasville, Georgia, where he went
some days ago for the sake of his health, is
reported TO be much improved.
The death is announced OF Captain John
II. Donovan, formerly of the Goth New
York infantry. Captain Donovan was form
erly connected with the Plattsburgh Rspub.
licdn, and was well known in Vermont.
L IL
thirty years old, is said to be the most en-
lightened and progressive monarch of Asia,
excepting, possibly, the emperor Of Japan.
towards the missionaries.
Ex-SEoRETARY BLAINE, Thomas Ewing
of Ohio, and Senator Davis of West Vir-
ginia, have formed a syndicate to purchase
the Washington and Ohio Railroad, which
will be short line between Washington
and Cincinnati. This railroad will open ex.
tensive coal beds owned by the syndicate in
Virginia.
ADELINA PATTI is credited with saying
very sharp as well as true thing. She says
"that she is as much the wife of Nicolini as
| George Eliot was Mrs. Lewes." But one
wrote noble ideas, and the other only sings
them. There is great deal of difference
'twixt tweedledum and tweedledee, some
| times.-Folio.
Miss FANNIE EVERETT, postmistress at
| West Foxboro, Mass, has been stricken with
paralysis, and is not likely to recover. She
| is eighty-four years of age, and has served
as postmistress for fifty years. She is the
local arbitrator on all technical historical
points, and possessed of literary qualities Of
acknowledged merit.
4 D.u I'm of 10
Sarah Bernhardt's husband d" The bride
groom is tall and handsome, and has pair
| of 'ferocious moustachios. As he has fine
| limbs he is admirable, so far as physique
goes" All Athletic and ferocious. We
always admired Sarah, and think she has
good taste in selecting husbands or any
thing else"
Hon. MARTIN |. TOWNSEND has been WIS.,
iting the Utica Insane Asylum lately, and
it had such an effect upon him that he re-
marked concerning game he was wont to
play in his hours of pristine sanity:
have never yet found words strong enough
to express my supreme contempt for man
who will sit all day on hemlock board
and watch nine jackasses play base ball"
THE late George w. Gill of Worcester
Massachusetts, went to that city fifty years
ago a tall, awkward boy, without any capi
tai except his trade as a blacksmith. Las
week he died one of the richest men il
Worooster, and so complete master of hi
business that his judgment as to the quail
ity and manufacture of railroad iron wa:
considered final by all experts in that de
partment.
SINCE the Sunday Times of Boston wa
purchased by Colonel Albert Clarke, the pa
per has undergone rapid transform alton
greatly to its advantage. Tue department.
peculiar to city weekly such as societ,
news music, art, fashions, ETC., are among
the best of the local press, while the addi
ton of telegraphic news makes the papsr &
desirable epitome of current events. Th
Times descends to no saucy sensations but i
both bright and dignifed.
Ex-PREsIDENT JOHN MAcLEAN of Prince
ton college, now in his eighty-second year
who was a member of the faculty from ISL
1865, in recent letter to the st. Loui
Alumni Association, says, 1t is source o
real pleasure that can assure your associa
ton that the college was never 80 prosperou
. as at the present time with resources vastl
beyond those of former days, and that tn,
opportunities for the acquisition of knowl
q edge in the various branches of science anC
r literature have kept pace with the liberalit
: of its friends"
b DARIUS S. FISHER of Reading, Pa, twer
g ty-six years of age, was taken to the count
r insane asylum on Thursday last. He was
9 theological student, aud in his attempt CON
}, pletely to memorize the Bible his mind CAV
& way Six years ago he began the study c
+ the Old Testament, and, having wonderfr
d memory, made rapid headway. His abilit
h to quote chapter after chapter, and book a
,r ter book, was astonishing. In all the 81
70 years he applied himself assiduously nearl
IS fifteen hours day. He fitted up chap
,r in the attic of his fathers house, and ther
r pursued his studies
r PROFESSOR CHARLES o. THOMPSON hi
is rendered his resignation as principal of IL
Worcester (Mass.) County Free Institu
of Industrial Science, to accept the pres
dency of the Rose Polytechnic Institute,
a Terre Haute, Indiana. He is to receive
~ salary of 1900 and house rent, bonus {
% %r $4,000, and eight months leave of abssnc
- The bonus is in the nature of compensate
y for loss of income as expert chemist. II
y, Nv leave of absence is given with the unde
"a "a standing that his time shall be spent
a, European travel for the purpose of studyir
~ ~ the workings of similar institutions abroa
NJ At the Terre Haute Institute nothing b
~ gone beyond the erection of buildings, al
us Professor Thompson is to organize the
h. stitution.