The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-12-30

the mayor of New York from $4,000 to
$1,000.
New York drinks 600 barrels of
whiskey a day.
The Chicago policemen release de- |
serters for $40 head.
California has produced 6,OOO,OOO
gallons of wine this year.
The net proceeds to the Philadel-
phia sanitary fair were $1,000, liz.
The Chicago ladies are going to
give President Lincoln a beautiful silk
bed coverlet
"A buffalo and elk are now among
the attractions at Central park, New
York. They came from st. Louis.
Admiral Porter's share OF the
prize-money that has fallen to his fleet
for the last two months is 100000
The Passumpsic railroad will
PROBABLY be extended to Stanstead,
Canada, the coming season.
"A new paper mill is to be erected
in "Sodom,' mile west of North
Bennington.
The dry house of Mr.. Woodward's
wooden factory, at Woodstock, was de-
stroyed by fire Wednesday nj hit, with
100 pounds of wool and 1000 yards
Of cloth. Loss $4,000
AT Woodford Hollow, man sued
cobbler to recover a pair of boots left
to be repaired, which were withheld
till an old debt of IS cents was paid,
and the jury returned this verdict :
I've, the honorable jury, do decide
that the plaintiff and defendant pay
each one-half the cost, and the defen-
dant return the boots after taking off
one of the taps y
The engine house of the Vermont
Valley railroad. at Bellows Falls, was
destroyed by fire early Saturday morn
ing Only one locomotive was slightly
injured.
Surgeon f. f. Phelps, who has
been relieved from duty at the Brattle-
boro hospital and ordered to Louisville,
started for his now station on Mon
day.
Twenty to TWENTY-FIVE degrees
below zero was the figure the mercury
showed in many places in Vt. Friday
morning During the severe storm
of Wednesday several engines were
showed iii at various places on the VT
Central railroad, and II train ran off
the track and was not replaced till
Thursday night.
AT the late Presidential election
Lincoln carried eight of the large
cities, and Mcclellan seven. The Lin
coin rifles w re Boston Philadelphia.
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago, St
Louis. Baltimore and Indianapolis
For Mcclellan New York. Brooklyn
Albany, New Haven, Buffalo, Milwnt-
kee and Louisville
4 newspaper is to be published ir
Paris devoted exclusively TO mat1mo-
NAL interests. Its only advertiser ents
will he wants and replies from
persons who wish husbands and wives
dence, its essays are to treat of the
affections, OF marital duties arsP rights,
and its editorials Will give nsVsrte to
the ill-treated, the deserted anu the
lonely gratis. This is a progressive
age.
A big cake was made on Thanks
giving day, in New York. II was ten
feet long, % inches wide, aud IL inches
thick. 1t took 100 eggs, l25 pounds
of sugar, It's pounds Of -four, and so
pounds of butter to make it.
The excavations of PompeIi have
Just led to the discovery of u temple OF
Juno, on the flags of which were
scattered about more than 200 skele-
/ tons of women and children, who, dur
ing the eruption of Vesuvius, FASTENED
: to the temple to implore the protection
| of the goddess.
"A rebel correspondent at Florence
South Carolinn, states that there are
over ten thousand prisoners in the
stockade there, and that one thousand
have died from scursy. They exchange
rings pipes, ink stands, and straw
hats for potatoes, which are the only
vegetables to be had. On election day
they opened polls. 1884 voting for Lin
coin, and II for Mcclellan.
When Gen. Taylor was elected
President sixteen years ago, he did
not received single electoral vote
from the States lying north and west
of the Ohio river. President Lincoln
carried them all four years ago, but
many of them by meagre majorities
But this year he has in these States a
popular majority of 100000 and 103
electoral votes, This great vote and
| popular majority by the Northwest
. shows that that part of the country
does not Intend TO secode just yet
We regret to announce the death
OF MIR. Geo Desbarats, joint Queens
Printer, an Office which he has held
since the union of the Provinces Mr.
Desbarats was an excellent citizen and
an admirable officer of tho Govern
ment Perhaps no Printing Office in
the world was better managed than
that of the Province under his man
agement, it used to be his boast that
he had the best printers that could be
procured and that nothing sent to
his Office in confidence ever reached
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