The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-04-15
April 15.

The reports Of the commissions
of agriculture are to be issned l.;
monthly the present year. instead a.
monthly MS last year, thus giving tiroa
for more correct compilations of tbo
statistical matter furnished from de
ferent parts of the country. The re-
port for January and February is lust
issued
-Eben Merriam, whose weather re-.
ports and predictions used TO be fea.
ture Of tie metropolitan papers. died
ut Brooklyn, n. y, recently He was
born at Concord, June II, 1894. He
has been at different times engaged in
manufacturing saltpetre, in the dry
goods trade and in the soap and can
die trade, but the main portion of his
life has been spent in observing mete-
geological phenomena and compiling
the results Of his observations for the
press. A man Of many eccentricities
his impulses were all humane and kind.
and his life was singularly unselGsh
and devoted 20 the interests Of science
and the benefit Of humanity.
An event at the opening of the
New York Metropolitan Fair was a
parade of pickpoekets These chcla-
hers d Hdusirje had assumed the dis
guise of honest men and hoped to grow
rich suddenly, but the keen eyes of the
officers detected the rogues in spite Of
white choakers and garments of sub
dued cut They were formed in pro-
cession and marched through all the
halls accompanied by tho police, the
people giving them "A wide berth The
handsomest of the pickpockets led the
band with great sign "pickpocket'
hanging to him.
During the quarter just closed, the
number of three cent stamps sold at
the New York Post Office was two mil
lions and five hundred thousand, an I'M
crease of one million on the returns of
the previous quarter The business Of
the Office in all its departments has m-
creased ina similar proportion. Among
the numerous articles awaiting their
owners at the Office are black silk
aprons, wooden shirts, and bundles of
tobacco
Among the extraordinary adyer-
tisements in the London papers is the
following This is leap year I'll
wait no longer So here | am, twenty
one years healthy prepossessing, me
dunn size, full chest, educated, pru-
dent, large, sparkling eyes, long, black,
flowing HAIR, and as fun of fun as u
p chestnut is full of meat, born to make
some man happy and wanta home
d Does anybody want me :.
An English newspaper gives this
q extract from a letter from Melbourns
Professor Newlnager on a three years
scientific visit from Bavaria, tells Ms
that in 1865 n comet shall come So
close as to endanger this our earth;
and should it not attach itself las one
globule of quicksilver to another, nor
annihilate us. the sight viii be most
beautiful to behold During three
nights We shall have no darkness, but
he bathed IN the brilliant light Of the
blazing train :" Ii this comet reaches
here about the Fourth of July, our mu-
htCll'ai ""lilOl4llea N"H SaNc l"i ~ sums
on fireworks
The Committee on Manufaetures
have made a report relative to the du-
ties on wool They say that the ez-
pectation that low grades of wool
would not compete with domestic pro-
, ducts has not been realized Seven
Fights OF all the importations last year
were iuyoiced below the minimum q
3 Is cents per pound, the whole average
less than II cents This has defraul-
ed the treasury and done great inius-
S tice to wool-growers. The total amount
e of wool imported during the last fiscal
5 year was lisp, l23 pounds, costing
= ST., $50, $50.