The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-09-29
In General.

iugham, Methodists, are among the
members elect of the next Legislature.
AT the annual meeting of the Yer
mont Central Railroad Company. the
old board of directors were reelected
as follows:
Geo. NJ Dexter. c. O. Whtmore
Boston; Joseph Clark, Milton; John
Gregory Smith, Lawrence Brainerd
Jr, st. Adams; Levi Underwood,
Joseph ID. Hatch, Burlington.
On the night of September 18th,
MS Mr. " b. Munson, Of Burlington,
iather Of Sheriff Munson, was going
the rounds of the jail, locking up, four
prisoners attacked him, choked him
severely and succeeded in making
their escape.
Cattle stealing has been practicod
to a large extent in Chittonden county
recently.
Josh Billings says, Good save the
phools, and don't let EN- run out, for
if it want for them, wise men couldn't
get a living
Parau Stevens, who is building
private palace Tor himself at Newport,
through some odd notion, has his
house framed in Boston the stone
prepared there The joiner work so far
as possible done, and everything else
made roady The materials are then
transferred 10y railroad and put to-
gether by Boston worEmeu.
Owing to the facility with which
countcrfoiters gain access to the kinds
Of paper used in printing government
bonds, the Treasury Department has
determined to make its own paper,
an has actually begun the process in
the Treasury building.
General Mitchell has been intro
duced 60 the Executive Council as
Administrator during the absence
Of Lord Monck, Governor General of
Canada.
The receipts Of the American
Board FOR the month Of August, includ-
ing moneys intended for the last fnan-
cial year, which did not reach the
treasury until the early days of Sep
tember have been more than $4,000;
SO the bOard is clear of debt
The Ohio State Fair closed on the
18th. Receipts, $4,000
There are now over one hundred
unemployed generals in tie service.
Water impregnated with iron is
said to have stopped the cattle plague
in Poland
Chicago dispatches describe the
potato rot as ola1ningIy prevalent to
various sections Of Michigan.
The New York P9si SAYS the safe
recovered from tha FrigateCumbelland
contained only a twenty dollar gold
piece
Forts slocum, Stevens. Sumner.
Lincoln, Reno and Totteu, of the
Washington defenees, will be djsmant-
led during the present autumn.
1t appears that during the rebel
hon the quotas Of public documents
for all the States were printed by Con
gross as usual and laid aside. They
viii now be distributed
The first overland mail to Charles
ton since the rebellion, LIFT Washing
ton last week, via Orange and Alex
andua Railroad
20. f. Twombly, special govern
mont agent, has arrived at Washington
with 100000 principally in gold.
captured from JEFF. Davis train.
Parties from the North and else
where having repeatedly Of late visited
the battle fields in Virginia and appro-
priated to their own use PROPERTY
found there belonging to the govern
ment, Gen. Terry, commanding the
Department of Virginia, has issued an
order prohibiting the purchase, sale or
shipment to the North by private
parties, of fragments Of shell, fragments
of arms, the metallic parts of equip
ments or Announcements, or of any
other article designed for military use,
excepting such articles rs are, or have
been, sold by the authorized agents Of
the Treasury Department.
The State debt OF PENNSYLVANIA is
about $3S, 100000.
During the last twelve months the
Fifth Ayenne Hotel, New York, has
cleared $4,000, the metropolitan
$4,000, the St Nicholas, Sl5O.OOO
and the Astor House $l25,000.
A daily mail now leaves Washing
ton Tor Charleston, and a train las
been run from Philadelphia to Lynch
burg, without change Of cars. feat
never accomplished before the war.
The BuHefin and the Crescent are
about to be revived in New-Orleans
making SIX dailies in the city.
A Newburyport man has Just re-
eeiyed legacy of $4,000 from a man
to whom he rendered protection and
assistance when he was drunk and i'm
want, in the streets Of Boston.
In the Saratoga arrivals it is Gus
tomary to abbreviate the attendants Of
Il magnate. Thus a married couple
with their daughter and four horses
thus appear; Mr.. and Mrs. Hobbs
A., Id.
The editor of q French paper in
speaking OF the dedication Of new
cemetery near Lyons, says that IN
Gascoigne had the pleasure of BEING
the first individual who was buried in