Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-10-04
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marry real, live lord.
WOMEN who ride tricycles in England are
beginning to wear trousers.
AT least twentyone post-ofTice towns in
the United States bear the name OF Garfield.
A CHrNAMAN has just harvested crop
of excellent ginger on Merced river in Cal
ifornia.
GENERAL SHERIDAN was recently elected
president of the Society Of the Army Of the
Cumberland.
"OUR country, one starry banner and one
wife," is the platform of an editor whose field
adjoins Mormondom.
THERE is a. man in Plattsburgh, N. Y,
whose name is Constant Agony. He must
be cheerful companion.
JoHN BRIGHT receives many letters re-
garding Bright's disease, some asking why
he cant find a remeny.
Mr.. GLADSTONE, in answer to repeated
assertions, has denied that he sympathized
with the south during the civil war.
MRs. OLE BULL has just returned from
Norway, with much fresh and important
material for the " Life of Ole Bull" which
she is preparing.
DIR. j. G. HOLLANDS widow and two
stately mansion built by the dead author
five years ago on the st. Lawrence bay.
JUDGE JERE. BLACK, as counsel employed
by the Mormons, is now engaged in prepar-
ing to test the act passed by congress at its
last session, creating the Utah commission.
ANNA LOUISE CARY, according to MIR.
Raymond, her husband, has entirely recov-
cred the use of her voice. This will be good
a. 4l,a f.ta Ia ~ oil toI
singer.
AMONG the convicts in the Texas peni-
tentiary is John Wesley Hardin, who was
formerly the most dreaded desperate in De
Witt county. He is said to have killed
twenty-one men.
MARK DENNETT of Kittery, Me-, voted for
governor, on the 11th of last month for the
seventy-ffth time, never having missed cast
ing his ballot for candidate for that office
since his first vote.
SoJouRNER Truth, now one hundred
and eight years old, lectured in Decatur,
Mich, the other evening, and devoted the
proceeds to furthering the woman suffrage
campaign in Nebraska.
GENERAL GEORGE b. McCLELLAN's sons
and the sons of General Horace Porter,
Murat Halstead, and Ex-Governor Bowie OF
Maryland, have entered their names on the
roll of the entering class at Princeton.
HENRY CLAY's old homestead in Ashland,
Kentucky, after two generations, returns to
his family. 1t had Just been purchased by
Major Henry Clay Mcdowell, husband of
the granddaughter of the great statesman.
A SON of Rev. George o. Barnes, the
evangelist, is about to begin career as an
evangelist. He is twenty-five years of age,
is college graduate and has been carefully
instructed by his father in the methods of
evangelistic work.
KING CETEwAYo wished to take presents
back to his wives in Zululand and the au-
| thorities in England made grant for that
purpose but when it was found that there
were twenty.nine wives the original sum
was increased to $50.
The engagement of Chester A. Arthur,
Jr., the presidents son, to the daughter of
| Congressman Richard Crowley, one of the
presidents most trusted counselors, is an
nounced. The marriage will probably take
place in the White House this fall.
| JEFFERSON DAVIS reviewed the German
militia-meu of New Orleans the other day
while they were on an excursion up the Mis-
sissippi, the first time he has made an ap-
pearance in any public capacity in connec-
ton with military force since the war.
Miss ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS spends
her summers at East Gloucester, Massachu-
sets. She is now reading the proofs Of
Doctor Zay," her latest work, and many
think her best which will be published
early in October, by Houghton, Mifilin & Co.
| A SPECTATOR who stood in the way of
Salvation Army procession at Harwich, Eng
land, was knocked down and kicked by the
captain in command, and his injuries were
such that a Jury awarded him $3.50 which
General Booth will pay out of the army
fund.
Mr.. LOT, who accompanies Herbert Spen-
Ger on his visit to this country, told Buff
falo Courier reporter recently that, instead
of getting better, Mr.. Spencer has grown
worse His trouble is in the nature of in
somnia. lie is not able to sleep except by
fits and starts.
COLONEL l.. III. FTTZHUGH, once door
keeper of the house of representatives, and
the original "bigger man than old Grant" 3"
has forsaken the field of politics, and in
connection with some wealthy Chicago men
has formed company which will conduct a
cattle ranch in Texas.
Two Georgia darkey politicians were dis
cussing the physical condition of their next
governor, when one of them said: "Aleck
Stephens is mighty small man. You could
wrap him up in a pocket handkerchief" :"
d" Yes, dat's So" answered the other; "but
it would take tablecloth to hold his
brains"
} ONE by one the few remaining solitudes
: in Great Britain are yielding place to those
} noisy servants of civilization, the railways.
1t is proposed to make a path for the iron
horse through the famous Pass of Glencoe,
in order to shorten the present roundabout
road to Inverness. 1t is project Of the
North British railway.
A sIxTEEN-YEAR-oLD girl sought sin.
gular and painful death in Naples in conse-
, quence of disappointed love. While her pa
rents were out she went into the cellar
built circular pyre of straw and wood, aud
then stepping into the middle, set it on fire
When the old people returned they found
the charred remains of her half consumed
corpse.
A. b. MARTIN of Mount Carmel, Penn.
has plant which he calls a coal lily. 1t is
now in full bloom, bearing about twenty
flowers of very large size. The plant pos
sesses many peculiarities; among them
5 might be mentioned its ever blooming quail
Q ties, and also that leaves adorn it. Th'
uOWeTs dT6 blaSh 10 bis
: coal from which the plant derives its name
The house of A. T. Stewart & Co. CLOSED
/ permanently at the end of last week. I'm
, der the firm name of Groocock, Sylvester
4 Hilton, Samuel Groocock, Horace Sylvester
\ Edward b, Hilton and Henry Graham Hill
: ton, sons of Judge Hilton, have formed
y partnership for the purpose OF carrying on
part of the wholesale trade heretofore con
i Quoted by A. L. Stewart and Co., and the.
!. will carry on their business at Broadwa
q and Ninth street.
|. A PEKING newspaper tells of the sale OF
IS Chinese wife by her husband She ha
Q fallen in love with the purchaser, who agree
i to pay $3.50 for her, but he neglected t
}. bring the money when he called to take he
i away, and so the husband refused to Civ
e her up. In that emergency the enamore
a pair drugged him, forged his signature :
o the bill OF sale, aud eloped. They were Al
" rested while eating their wedding breakfast
4 and put into dungeons, where both con
o mitted suicide.
TnE announcement is made at Blooming
ton, ILL.,, the home of Senator David Davis
that the distinguished statesman will lea
to the altar in November Miss Annie Greer
:, daughter of a wealthy and prominent ci
u izen of Fayetteville, n. c., who is the dem'
e cratic candidate for congress from that di
j. trict. Miss Green is described as beaut
full and accomplished young lady, abor
- TWENTY-FIVE wears of age, who has spent