Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-08-23
Social and Personal.

CADET WHITAKER has gone to his South
Carolina home, having given up lecturing
and decided on hard work.
THE New Orleans Picdyune is mean
enough to say that old maids take to cats
because they have whiskers.
Ex-SEcRETARY BLAINE is announced to
make speeches in every county in Maine
before the election in September.
INCLUDING water-rents of 100000, the
annual income of New York, aside from the
monev raised by taxation, is about SS,-
100000.
THE Eaton family had a reunion in Bos-
ton the other day and a dinner, Of course.
Otherwise they wouldn't have been true TO
their name.
A PHILADELPHIA man brings forward
new kind of shirt which, he says, supplies a
long felt want. 1t has a strip of sand-paper
down the back.
An Illinois boy set ten acres of forest on
fire to drive away the mosquitoes which pers-
tered his grandfather, and the old man hasn't
felt bite since.
IT is expected that Sesborn Reese,
young lawyer of Hancock county, Georgia,
will be the successor of Alexander II.
Stephens in Georgia.
Two circular saws had an encounter in
Saginaw mill, and they knocked each
others teeth out so furiously that men were
cut by flying bits of steel.
THE Lady Burdett-C Coutts- Bartlett has ar
ranged for the dispatch to Egypt of small
staff of nurses, with all nursing appliances,
the moment their services are needed.
THE new Japanese minister to this coun-
try, Mr.. Terashima, is spoken of as a man
OF fine capacity and experience, and an ac-
complished scholar. He speaks English
fuently.
A LADY in Portland, Me-, acquired
habit of eating cloves until she consumed
quarter of a pound day. She became
dangerously i'll, with all the symptoms of
poisoning.
TEXAS has 10000 acres Of school land
probably 100000, and is expacted to have
in the no distant future a school fund of
quarter of billion of dollars.
ELEVEN school-boys in Geneseo walked to
Niagara Falls, August 4, 1882, and agreed to
meet there again, if living,.in fifty years.
Last Friday seven of them kept the prom-
Use, coming with their wives and children.
CARDINAL MANNING has Just entered
upon his seventy-fifth year. His health is
still vigorous On the day following his re-
cent birthday he preached two sermons and
officiated in three different churches.
THE stealer of horse in Minnesota could
not find saddle, and took sack o. feathers
to ride on. The sack had hole, the feath-
ers were slowly strewn along the road for
twenty miles, and by means of them the
rascal was hunted down.
Ex-SEcRETARY BLAINE has offered his
new house in Washington for sale. 1t is
nearly completed and is one of the most
spacious and costly in Washington. He
thinks the house in which he has for num-
Der of years lived is good enough for him.
GENERAL SToSEHAM, the democratic
candidate for governor of California. in a
speech at San Rafael, said that he had
found out by experience that unless you
are desirous of ascertaining what a worth
less, rascally fellow you are, don't run for
governor of California"
THERE is movement ON foot among
summer resort landlords to build larger
rooms for their guests. 1t is actually ex-
pected that by another year some of the
higher priced rooms will be big enough for
a man to change his shirt in without hav-
ing to stick his head and arms out of the
window.
Mrs. MARY LOUISA Brooks, widow of
the late Congressman James Brooks of New
York, died on Monday OF last week at Yer
sailles, France, after long illness. Her
maiden name was Mary Louise Cunningham,
and she was the daughter of an officer in the
United States navy. She was born near
Norfolk, Virginia, on March 6, lSl6.
JOSEPH B. STEWART, who studied law
with Henry Clay, fought several duels, and
nearly captured j. Wilkes Booth, has just
died in New York He was a staunch
whig and always bitter opponent of the
principle of states rights. He supported
the nomination Of Lincoln, and in that cam
paign made many speeches in his favor in
the west, and particularly in Kansas.
Mrs. GARFIELD has written letter to
the Womens Silk Culture association
thanking it for the dress pattern recently
presented to her. and saying that it shall
be preserved as an heirloom and memoir
ial, and s}.lng; Had General Garfelds
life been spared it would have given me
pleasure to have put this fabric into dress
suitable to honor some worthy occasion"
MULE team with wagon with locked
wheels was carrying 400 pounds OF powder
along the line of the Southern Pacific road,
in New Mexico, the other day, and the driver
finding it necessary to unlock the wheels
pounded the chain with stone. He and a
comrade who was assisting him suddenly
disappeared, the mule team was strung in
strips along the road and hole fifteen feet
deep marked the spot where the wagon had
been.
THE stout, stumpy figure of ex-President
Grant is as familiar at Long Branch as It
was in Washington, and in his rides and
walks he is continually tipping his hat to
the dear 5000 who claim his salutation. He
has house full, and happy family of chill
dren and grandchildren about him now, and
in his ruddy prime General Grant says he is
quiet and comfortably fixed as he wants to
be. His sons are married and settled near
him, and his only daughter has spent nearly
an entire year in this country with him.
The Zulu king, Cetewayo, and compan-
IONS could not adapt themselves TO the lux
urious sleeping arrangements provided for
them on their arrival in England, and made
up their couches on the floor. The beauty
of the country exceeded Cetewayo's expec-
tations. "If," he said, al could only live
in a country like this, | should want for
nothing more on earth" The cattle attracted
his attention, and he frequently expressed
| MS surprise lHdl dlttI leeulnS ou bucu soli
the herds did not become so fat as to be un-
able TO rise. Later, he exclaimed that the
English were like ants-they swarmed; and
he added, "Why ever did a nation so grand,
a people so numerous, make war upon man
so little as the Zulu ? Why did you not ask
me TO run away-to get out of Zululand
That would have been noble of you and
kind to mel"
SISTER AGNES, nun who died at the st.
Agnes hospital in Baltimore recently, and
whose death we announced last week, is said
to have had voice so extraordinary that If
she had sung in public she would have
ranked among the greatest vocalists of the
world. She was Miss Louise Hubert by
birth, had good musical education in her
girlhood, but took the vail early and never
sang in public afterward-she had seldom
done so before. 1t is related that Cots
chalk called her the greatest cantatrice
in the world" Her voice covered the en-
tire contrato and soprano registers. This
glorious gift was buried in teaching singing
in a convent school. 1t is said that Strakosch
once offered her $4,000 for six-months'
engagement in concert singing and II ap-
pears that Sister Agnes would have been
willing to accept, only that she was prohib-
tied by Bishop Whalen of Pittsburg, in
whose diocese her school, the Dechsutal
seminary at Wheeling, is situated. This
great singer, with power to charm and bless
| thousands of her fellow creatures WAS thus