The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-03-31
New YonK, March %
Gold l5l.
NEWS SUMMARY.

Iii said that the first well IN q.
Pennsylvania oil region was sunk N
1859.
The following advertisement ap
pears in the Richmond Dispatch oft6s
25th ult "Wanted, lady who under.
stands dancing, and is willing to make
herself useful in burlesque and Etbio.
dian pieces. Aso old cork. The
highest price paid for any kind Of Old
shoppers and cork at the hall
The people Of Morocco have ne
taken kindly to the telegraph, recently
introduced into that country. They gt
the wires, and the Emperor returned
the compliment by cutting of thelesds
Of two offenders, and ornamenting the
telegraph poles with them.
Mr.. Charles Dickens is preparr.
to issue a peoples edition of his vorn
Mr.. H. w. Beecher terms the aF
of \. Y, "a nest of robbers, den d
thieves, whose example familanza
our citizens with pillage, and prost-
tutes the morality of our youth.
Alfred Tennyson's salary and pen
sion as Poet Laureate amount TO 600
year. He is said to have accamua
ted handsome fortune from The
profits of his works.
Cough has lost his voice temper
arily and can't lecture.
The 9th corps Of the army Of tie
Potomac are going to raise $4,000 for
a monument to their beloved General
Sedgwick. The privates are to give 80
to 75c, and officers from 81 to $40
The late food swept away 4OO00
barrels of oil from the Pennsyl,ann
oil regions, and 10000 empty casks
The loss Of property will be bctgesa
$2,000,O00 and S3,000,O00, though
some of the oil will probably be re-
covered.
IF the New Orleans Times MAYBE
believed, the Louisiana Legislature
behaves quite MS badly rs the l. S
/ Congress. Some Of It's members aF
pear in their seats drunk, and the sep-
sion is prolonged when there is Moth
ing to be done.
About twenty-five stores were
swept away at Rochester during the
recent flood there, and scarcely q dry
building can now be hired at any
price. There was great suffering there
The water rose so suddenly that many
families escaped drowning only BY
getting upon the roofs of their houses
and many business men were kept Of
their stores, unable to get home. The
farmers in that vicinity lost tier
stock, their bui dings and even the
surface soil
In the Book Of Revelations, Death
lis represented as mounted on white
horse, but in these days he rides az
iron horse-the locomotive.
The Rutland and Washington
railroad has been sold TO satisfy Toe
claims Of the second and third mort
gage bond holders to William /. HaH
of Boston, for 1865, 600
"A Boston merchant, formerly o.
st. Johnsbury, had 10, 900 pounds O
Vermont butter on his hands when
dropped 30 cents pound lately III
don't feel pleasant over it.
In Illinois genius adyertlses o.
behalf of q certain famous acclden"l
railway, that San experienced coronv'
and six practical jurors will follow Xxx IS
ular trains in special cars, together WIZ
a few surgeons and reporters.
The members of the last Conglte',
voted themselves fully $1,000 worm y
books each, They are literary S'D
men, you know.
Capitalists are raising rents ~
cause labor is so high, and LAHORE,
are raising their prices because REV. /,
are so high. Scarcely a rent can -, =
obtained at New York at resPee@
bic price, and the middling CLASSES 4
) people are aocking out into the ' 'n,
urbs." The earlier emigrants iop JUN
resting places, but those that 60 Nv
have poor picking. "A
Partisan society has been ,l,
dened by the decease of a young ,".
of rank and fashion. On posi- l h.
tenn examination it was found 'Ia' INC
decease was owing to tight i"' I'M
Her stays had forced three oil ie'
into her liver. .n
Some wiseacre predicts that az ~" nj
books of the present day will DC ,o on,
dust in two centuries, in conseq" lara
of the effect of the chemical prePa ns,
tions used in bleaching the P"1 !
Posteiity will be saved gooo wv
poor literature then. ..;s
The wife of the American lie Q
ter. George p. Marsh, was inc In vo
II ball of welcome, given AZ iatItaly
in the Pitt palace. to the KING ;
Vice President johnson t ulhe
the foreign ministers, in his lnconf ak,
inaugural, and said;-"And youS "a al,
there with ribbons and gews.so"'v YOU
lace, / have something to say "
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