The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-05-27

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As Congress has done little of
~, interest the past week, we
onr usual summary to give place
h. mattersof more immediate interest.
Nearly six hundred dollars have
contnbuted during the past ten
10 tbe treasury of the Christian
r,omis.on by citizens of St Adams,
and forwarded to the Army Committee
at Boston.
II is ontended, and with some
s''iausbility that the habit Of splitting
tobacco juice on the floors OF cars and
,o Sidewalks, is not SO great
nsonce as it would be if the long
,roilipo dresses Of ladies did not sweep
.,Ionp and gently remove all trace Of
the filth.
The annual meeting of the North
Western Consolation viii be held at
81 Adams, at the Congregational
church on the seventh and eighth days
of June. 1864. The Rev. J. II. Lev
ms will preach the opening sermon
Capt Friend H. Barney, of Co C.,
Bill Vermont who was wounded in the
battle of the Wilderness, is now at
svanton on a fulough.
On Friday, May 10Th, the Bur
lngton express tram, otherwise called
'the steamboat train on the Vermont
Ind Canada Railroad, which leaves
Rouses Point at 745 A. NJ, when be-
tween St. Albums and Swanton at the
+ brigham road crossing, ran into a
stone train going north Both engines
Ncrc smashed up, also a baggage ear.
Engineer James Allen Of the stone
irain Was instantly killed; engineer
Shattuck OF the steamboat train broke
b. leg Mr. Shutters, baggage master,
Received severe injuries, bat viii prob
Oily get we'll The fireman Of the en-
gne OF the stone train was also IN
pred None Of the passengers were
but save a few scratches. 1t is near.
\ miraculous that there were SO few
clsHaltes, when it is considered tina
lotA trains were running at high speed
IT, accident is to be attributed TO thu
ereleSsness Of the engineered the ston'
hnn in running out OF time, and he
hs paid dearly for his temerity b,
bNng ms own life Mr.. Allen leaves
. wife and two children to mourn hi
90 fate. He came to the Vernon
n Gnral from the Boston and Fitch
onrs road where he stood high as
rreiul and prudent engineer. Mr.
y g. Richardson has Photographic,
70 scene presented by this casualty
mowing the wreck of the engines an,
cals
MIR. 0. NJ Tinckham, bushes
Tent for Perkins, Stern q Co.. New
iPrk city, claims that their California
VIC arc the pure product of tn
@pe free from all foreign ingredient
an better adapted for medicinal, sac
ra'nental and table use, than the wine
commonly in use.
4 The advertisement Of Brewer ,
nes'on, Boston, publisher of Wor
! csster's Dictionary, will not, we trust
$50 attention. The work adver
q ed is a most beautiful specimen O
! WoTaphy, and as Worcester is he
sonlng the standard lexicoornnbe
4oughout the country, his dictionar
WI receive, as it richly merits, an i'm
ntnse sale,
we desire to present our thank
Charles L. Flint, Esq, Secretary c
massachusetts, Board of Agricul
'or copy of his 18th annual re
" Of the agriculture of that Con
* wealth in every respect worthy {
~ u eonmendation.
10Y Smith and his Secretary, Nj
is who went to the army in VII
20 look after the wounded in til
- oaliles of the Wilderness, r,
+'' 70 ut Adams on the Dist inst
IA "'s done all within their mower fo