The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-05-06

Boston celebrated Shaken,
three hundrcdth birth day Sotn,ogle
by "A meeting Of the New FnGuay
Historical and Geographical society 5'''d
An English officer at VIM
England, undertook for IA woen ',''oi
run a quarter Of mile. hon a o 9,.' 70
Of a mile, ride on horseback n ,n Oi
ter of mile, and row quartz ir'',
mile, all in quarter of an bmr ~
did it with four minutes and fort, s s''
onds to spare.
How ladies' may give abrightoi
to their checks without danger of '''
picion that they use cosmetics. Tol
fragment of bright crimson sill
it in strong spirits Of wine and ,mt
over the checks till e moderate tint
pears This defes detection. mj
harmless.
Harriet Davidson Field wifi.
David Dudley Field of New York d;i
Friday morning after ten DAYS Ghc
occasioned by excessive labor IN
half of the Metropolitan Fair Nh
Field was an energetic and generr
Christian woman, and, like her fre,
Mrs Kirkland, lost her life in fnrtb..
ance of the grandest of American eb,,
tiles.
"A complete list of soldiers NJ
have died in and about New Ym
within the past year embraces lem
names, and fills nearly seven newsn
per columns. OF the entire nmb.,
about one-third have been claimed Nv
friends
The number of small birds da.
troyed by the cold weather of the via.
ter i'm France is estimated at sey8
| millions, and years must elapso ion
the places Of these useful friends Of
rculturc can be supplied
"A young man who was carrie
fifteen or twenty times around a sLt
in Taylors soap-stone works at Pr
kinsyille, Vt, the other day, had ever
article Of clothing torn from BIN b.
escaped without scratch upon d
/ person.
The largest elevator in the uu
g is to be built this spring in AIilwams
Its storage capacity is to be 1,50UU
q bushels 1t is to have nine recciN
y and FIVE shipping elevators, capable
a taking in $4,000 bushels and civ
out 25,000 bushels of grain in an ho
u The late John c. Rives, of Wa
3 iugton, married one of his bind
= girls, whom lac fell in love With al
most people had given HIM up s
r. old bachelor He was man Of m
s. but mosteutatious liberahty Sl
the war commenced he has paid n
$ ing "a single wear $4,000 for I'll. 1
II port of soldiers wives in the Distuc
Columbia besides many other .hi
ties.
g The Free Press learns that Go
i. Smith and the Commissioners Hen
S p Hickok and John b. Page iutre
e with the care and disposal of the Do
scrip Of the Agricultural College DIV
7 effected "A sale Of something ogah
of the scrip, a portion at so cent.
T. acre and the remainderat 50. reau
Z upwards of 100000 which has b.
invested in Vermont State skies
Tins sale is considered very tn
y able one, being much better than 9
= expected If the remainder u d
. scrip can be disposed Of at the san
= rate q fund Of $4,000 viii berea1
for the purposes of the grant
Il A monument in commemorn
n of the surrender Of Nicksbug, Is Us
8 erected ON the spot where the il',
I view took place between Grant a
i Pemberton, on the 81 of July last
VIII consist of marble pyramid tve
ty feet high, suimounted by a gas
- and eagle with appropriate devices
10 The Springfield RepuNrn al
nj Boston Daly Adre,1ser, Journals vLl
stand Mt the head at the New FL.
to land press, have recently protws
j. special Washington dispatches at g&
n cost They are fuller and much M
, interesting than those sent in theAa
10 York papers.
IS james NJ Stevens, well Know
X. printer, and long foreman OF the V
g. mint Patriot at Montpelier, died rec,
~ " al New Haven, aged 50 years d
in was foreman of the New Haven <
,o iadium office at the time OF hls deal
). Among the patents granted AZ.
ut 18Th, 1864. were the following b..
Kidder Of Burlington, vt, i@ p
rd proved apparatus for fumigahng 3
ay hives Edward A. Smith, 81 At'p
i'll Vt, for improved process in bafl'
he lime.
ga An agent of the Russian Go'a.
'ld ment was in Taunton, Mass, a guy.
time since, in search of machlns'.' N
o. workmen for the Russian fsiap1
en- ments; but business in al deparilA'.-..
Is is 50 good in that city that heme' VIZ
he no success, finally obtaining o S's''0
part Of his men from Mystic, Conn =
~ TIM LATE Rev. DIR. PES h
IN Rochester Democrat in alludlns " \
nj z. Al A u