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

NEWS SUMMARY.
Some London publisher is going
to publish ''slang dictionary"
The Indian troubles in northern
California are about over.
Thirty steamboats, laid up at st.
Louis-causes, low water and guer
illas.
The New York and Erie railroad
has earned $6,147,262 since January
1864.
"A New York lady has hired three
men to go to the war for her since hos
tilities commenced.
Whole number of national banks
authorized 6S2, with a capital of 49,
1927, 800.
-Fox's cigar mandatory at Buff
falo, N. Y, was burned Sunday, loss
$4,000.
john Fayal, formerly enditor of
the Watertown, n. Y, Journal, lately
died at Saratoga Springs.
The London organ grinders make
100000 year. No wonder they
don't want to be put down.
Mr. Volks monument to Senator
Douglas at Chicago will cost half
million dollars.
New Jersey promises its biggest
peach crop. One man has 10000
trees, and will send a quarter OF a
million of baskets to market.
st. Louis claims to be growing in
population faster than any other city
in the Union, and has not houses
enough to put her inhabitants in.
Center church, Brattleboro, which
lost its steeple in the late tornado, is
to be repaired and enlarged at an ex-
pense of $4,000 to $4,000,
Ten farmers at Shrewsbury have
made this year $4,000 pounds of ma
, ple sugar, and have wintered 1900
: sheep, 1872 head of cattle, and 30
horses.
The French are beginning to cheat
s in their wine bottles, making them
S smaller and thicker, so that they will
n hold from 10 to 20 per cent. less than
It formerly.
Q Many hundred acres of wood and
. grass land were burned over neal
e Lakeland, on Long Island, las week
Is doing many thousand dollars worth o.
. damage.
Il Over 1000 more emigrants at New
ii York last week. making 100000 fol
,e the year,so far. Our losses III the wa
20 are more than made up by this tide o
ID new population from Europe.
Sc -Gunpowder bridge on the Balti
=, more and Philadelphia railroad ha
10 been made as good as new, and all tn
H. trains between New York and Wash
ington are running regularly.
An English married lady has cor
as suited her lawyer ON the questio
if whether, having married her husban
H. for his money, and that money BEN
Id all spent, she is not widow and
nd liberty to marry again. Decision r'
en- served.
he Summer visitor at Brattleboro
painter of the lunatic asylum, SUI
posing him to be a farmer: you ha'
he a fine pair of cattle there" "Ah, ye
no sir. but they are not what the used
Ssh be. Why, l can remember when tn
he off OK was a bob-tailed mare
- The tonnage of coal from the PEN
10 sylyania mines now reaches the We
ne large aggregate for the middle OF Il
zen summer of over 5,0OO.OOO tons, an
crease over the tonnage to the CORE
ponding time last year of over 5oo,o'
:. tons
40 A New Jersey lady, who was lat
ON " going across this North river mo
old New York to Hoboken, n. j., lost
the valuable gold watch overheard, al
,ile two days afterwad the superintende
of the ferry handed it to her, nothll
damaged by its wetting.
mt Canadian manufacturers are 81
one fering for anthracite coal What
III dug there is sent 10 Bermuda for &C
ter; fsderate blockade runners, and I
uch United States has stopped the eNp'
'rNs tation from our territory,
an In France the waste steam fr
the locomotives is made TO heat
cars in the train behind. 1t is g
the Quoted from the escape pipes throu
ture tubes, which inside of the cars
cted copper, but outside are OF vulcani
with India rubber, with couplings VII