The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-07-29


NEWS SUMMARY
In a single town in Cashmere -
900 souls are engaged making tbo e.
nous shawls.
The Circassian Beauty Trade !,
reviving with a vengeance. DemouSS
and supply is enormous. Likely vonn''
girls bring $100
The smallest pony in the world !.
owned by John s. Rarey of Ohio n.
mother, which was brought from ib
Shetland Isles by Rarey, weighs onlV
rs pounds.
Capt. Jolly, of a Pennsvlvo,;,
regiment, has been dismissed from Ia
service for rendering a resirnaton
based on a surgeons certificate that ba
was a confirmed inebriate.
The National InteNigencer calls IL.
Shenandoah "the valley of cur nation.
al humiliation"
The young lady pupils of the Bpf
falo schools are to receive prizes for
the "best loaves of bread"
The Alabama is probably n bund.
red fathoms down in the ocean. Va
hope she is destined to be rebel nest.
egg May twenty like her be laid be.
side her.
A French paper says that by an
accident, charcoal has been discovered
to be sure cure for burns. By lavno
a piece of cold charcoal upon bum
the pain subsidies Immediately. The
remedy is cheap and simple, and DE-.
serves trial.
When Gen. Sherman got to the
top of the lofty Kenesaw Mountains
he had fine prospects; and he has had
ever since.
"A Dutchman, being called upon
to give a toast, said: Here ish to d
heroes what fit, fed, and died at h.
battle of Bull Run-of which | On
one.
-Chasi b. Whaites, a clerk en-.
ployed in the Foreign Department
the post-ofiice in New York, was a.
rested on Saturday, charged with nS
bing from the mails SS,S in Us
Coupon Bonds. The prisoner eN-
fessed his guilt, and will be detEne
to await the action of the Goysn
ment
The rebels assert that they d |
tanned about 1900 recruits during the
: raid in Maryland 1t is to be hops
that this is true. The men who inyaI
ed the invasion and signalled the al
vancing enemy, are less mischieyousi /
US in the rebel ranks than In the ccg /
perhead army at home.
Miss Hattie $. Reifsuyder b.
been decided to be the prettiest grin
Catawissa Pa, the vote being taka
at the Sanitary Fair, the voters parns
twenty-five cents each for the right q [
franchise. The pretty young ladyhr
self is nursing wounded soldiers Il
, the Army of the Potomac.
= 1t has sometimes been said Of DE-
preciated currency that it will holddl
as long as rags and lamp-black are
d sufficient supply. The rebel cureiq
. seems to be suffering from a still moa
4 remarkable difficulty than the lack
$ raw material for paper issue Am /
t respondent of the Richmond Ems
4 ne, defends Mr.. Memminger, hel%I
g ell Secretary of the Treasury, for d
t paying the troops, on the ground uA
r although there are five millions me-
7 treasury, there is no one to counih
+ the clerks all having been conscnE&
e Wheeling, Va, must be a gs
a place, The Intelligencer of that q
a says: Eve saw yesterday, gong
a towards the upper ferry, team
J. four animals-a horse, pony nN
5 and a bull. The horse had the haa
It the pony was blind, the mule "
s lame, and the bull had no pro1s
7 for fly time. In the wagon which "
e an ordinary one-sat white nA
e crippled negro, and a tame sI
: The skunk was firmly bound WIZ
: wisp OF straw. The white man
n the lines, the team held its OWL
J. the niger held the skunk