Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-06-28
M General
Personal.

OSCAR WILDE is scattering estheticism
in Texas.
QUEEN VICTORIA kicks the beam al three
hundred pounds
Born Longfellow and Emerson died from
the effects OF imprudent exposure to chilly
air.
WILLIAM BLACK, the novelist, is seeking
information by hobnobbing with Arab Bey
in Egypt.
IT is rumored in Washington that Senator
David Davis is shortly to marry distin-
guished Maryland woman.
FRANK L. HARRIS, the only survivor of
DIR. Hayes Arctic expedition, is janitor Of
one Of the Boston public schools.
IT is said that Congressman Crapo of
Massachusetts declines a denomination, re-
gardess Of the results Of his gubernatorial
boom.
WILLIAM II. VANDERBILT and seven mar
ried children will soon be living on Fifth
avenue, New York, in houses costing nearly
SS,000,000.
GENERAL Tom THUMB went blue fishing
the other day at Wareham and landed ten
fish whose combined weight was greater
than his own.
LIEUTENANT DANENHowER says he does
not expect to complete the report Of his
Arctic experience asked for by Secretary
Chandler before the 1st of September.
Ex.VICE PRESIDENT WHEELER will give
up fishing for matrimony. He may find out
in time that there is about as much lying TO
be done in one as in the other.-LoweH
Citizen.
DR.. HELMBoLD, of buchu fame, is in the
Pennsylvania insane asylum at Norristown.
The property which formerly belonged to
him at Long Branch was sold the other day
for $4,000.
ALREADY the Princess Louise has come
near being killed by the swinging about of
boom of yacht. She'll begin to think
pretty soon that Canada doesn't somehow
agree with her.
CAPTAIN PAUL BoYToN, who has swan
more than 25,000 miles, is reported Off
cially by the life saving service to have
saved seventy-two persons from drowning in
American waters.
An eccentric and wealthy Frenchman, NJ.
De Molier, has built a private circus. He is
an excellent horseman, and has enlisted
number of fashionable young men in Paris
as performers in his troupe.
M. RoUsTAN, the new French minister
to this country, is described as being
handsome man with full, roundish face and
"a beard running in line from one ear to
the other by way of the lip"
THE Baltimore Sun credits Governor Hall,
of Delaware, with saying that the demo-
Gratis of his state have "got the voters, the
pluck and the money too," and will keep
Delaware steadily in the democratic column.
THE grave of Emerson is always covered
with fresh flowers. This is done by the
young people of the town, who have regu-
lar system about it, so that the flowers are
never withered, but always bright and beau
tiful.
REV. DR.. JoHN Brown of Bedford, Eng
land, now travelling in this country, is a
successor to John Bunyan, author OF the
Pilgrims Progress" in his pastorate, and
is only the sixth minister that church has
had since its organization 25O years ago.
THE New York Tribune says it is author
lied by the family of the late Chief Justice
Chase to say that the letters of General
Garfield to their father which have lately
appeared were obtained by the press with
out their consent and published without
their knowledge.
THE appointment of Judge Underwood to
the tariff commission calls to mind an Incl
dent of his early years. Some one asked
his father, then a federal judge in Georgia,
what his sons politics was. al don't
know" was the nonchalant reply 81 have
not seen the boy since breakfast"
ANTHONY TRoLLoPE, who has been very
much out of health lately, is about starting
on tour through Ireland. He intends to
write a novel descriptive Of Irish country
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well acquainted with Ulster, as he was sta
toned at Belfast for many years when he
was in the post-office.
Mr.. GLADSTONE never lays down any
general principle or any future course OF
action without qualifying it. II, Tor In
stance, he says that he is absolutely deter
mined to take particular course, and no
other course, he finishes the phrase with
"under, of course, certain well defined limit.
ations," or some such words, which leaves
things precisely where they were so far as
his initiative is concerned.
Hon. WILLIAM NJ. EvARTs was recently
the guest of friend at dinner and was
asked what part of the turkey he preferred.
He replied that it was "quite inconsequen-
tial to one Of his recognized sbstemiousness
and supersenstive stomachic nervation
whether he be rendered an ininitessimal por-
tion of the Opaque nutriment of the neither
extremities, the superior fraction of pinion
or snowy cleavage from the cardiac region.
He got it.
THE tragic story about the domestic in
felicity of Rev. Adirondack " Murray,
which has recently found its way into circu-
lation much to that erratic gentleman's dis
credit, proves to be scandalous invention
of the enemy. All about his living in il
legitimate relations with his amanuensis,
and about her fathers suicide at the door of
Murrays cabin, is pronounced sheer stuff,
neither of the parties having been in Texas
at all. On the contrary Mr. Murray is run.
ming large and prosperous sheep ranch and
expects to make money enough at no dis