The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-05-20

AVID unreliable list of casualties in re-
cont battles, and presume our readers
nrefer one that is complete and official.
Those published in the daily papers
are necessarily defective and sometimes
grossly erroneous.
The death of Capt. Lewis Med.
Smith of the 5th Vermont has been
reported as having occurred on the 10th
inst A letter from him to his father,
William n. Smith, Esq, under date of
May 18th, represents everything as
looking encouraging, and himself, prov
identially, alive and well
The large gilt letters on the front
of the store on the corner of Main
and Fairfield streets are an outward
and visible sign that the First Nation
al Bank Of St Adams has local hab
itation and is "open for the dispatch
i Of business"
Guy C. Noble, Esq, has recently
purchased Of Loren H. Edison, Esq,
his dwelling house in the northerly
part of this village.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders Of the Vermont Central Rail
road Company will be held at Mont
pelier on Tuesday next, oath May
Among the monuments partly fin
ished at the Franklin County Marble
Works, on Champlain street, Of which
Mr. Charles W. Green is proprietor,
we have noticed one intended for the
memorial stone of the Hon. David
Olmsted-a large-hearted and gifted
son Of Franklin County, whose death
in the prime of life and usefulness win
long be deplored.
4 The new wooden store on Cham
plain Street which Mr. Amos Hagar
has been building this spring, is well
nigh completed and ready for occu-
n pancy.
i MIR A. o. Brainerd has rented his
store for year to Shattuck, futile &
4 Co., Of Burlington who have already
taken possession and have fitted il m
for the accommodation of their bust
ness
n There seems to be no good rea-
son why we should not have in our
village market frequent supply of
I fresh lake fish. For some reason how
ever, the supply is intermittent and is
% meagre indeed.
= The price claimed by day laborers
IN ot. Adams is dollar and half per
diem only
Some peddlers' carts got mired in
a deep bed of mud a few DAYS ago
{ "itnln the limits of the st. Adams
corporation and remained in stain
quo irom o'clock till o'clock P. NJ.
"heh some benevolent operatives from
'le car factory came to the rescue. and
"i'er much hitting and Juggling, extri-
Gated the carts, and the pedlers went
On 'ner way out of town rejoicing.
Alter considerable rain we have
been favored with succession Of warn,
and sunshiny days. The trees have
put forth their leaves and the grass in
cue meadowslooks green and luxuirant
'uhdry fruit trees have blossomed
very proiusely and the season, although
somewhat late, seems as promising as
'"' could reasonably expect
"eSsrs Lamson & Goodnow. of
,, aoto'uih Falls, Mass, have not offered
SiO'ooO for the Canal Water Power
property at Bellows Falls, as the
A0is can be had for $4,000.
ar, D. r. Arlington has laid the
~ lO"ndation for new building on
oH'mplain street, Immediately West of
l' afrar Block, which is to be occu-
r w as a harness shop by Mr.. Charles
T. Thompson.
81 r' William Driscoll has com
p'eIed the cellar-wall for a new store
= ohamplain street Immediately West
shop.
MI. Dennis Gilmore and MIR. o.
D'alnerd have formed co-partnership
O. the livery stable business near the
Station House.
\ ihere is manifest increase of in
importance in our village and occa-
street quarrels and drunken
'o~s indicate an alarming state of
public morals. "