The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-12-15

Albany IS overfah win ou' S'uiS'
Buffalo il to have first class
opera house.
France produces hundred mil
lion pounds Of beet sugar annually
The hog crop of Western Illinois
will not be half as large tins year as
usual.
Rochester q. Y University, has
recently received nm additional cndow-
mcnt Of 500 600
At Il recent auction sale OF coal
in New York prices ruled 81 to $40
lower than a month ago.
Horace MAYNARD Of Tennessee If
likely to succeed Judge Catron on the
L. $. supreme bench.
--"The patriot Palmerston- was he /
saved 2" is the interesting title of n
pamphlet Just issued in Elgland.
Bradshaws hotel at Hoi'mans
Ferry, Schenectady county, n. " was
totally destroyed by ire a few nights
ago.
John II Lyon x Co., paper and
rag dealers, lost $4,000, and Edmund
l1elmsen, picture frame manufactures,
$4,000 by fire at New York, Sunday
night
The Montana Post reports the
finding of a, monster gold nugget
weighing Ii II pounds avoirdupois,
almost free from quartz, and worth
$4,000 in groenback~
The Hudson River railroad, with
characteristic meanness, refuses to
stamp its freight bill receipts but re-
qutres It's patrons to do SO.
Instead Of $500 worlmcn, as dur
ing the war, Watervlet West Troy
arsenal has now only $50, and half OF
these will soon be discharged.
The steamer Worcester, which
sailed from Baltimore for Liverpool on
the 29th ult., has been obliged to re
turn on account Of defective machine
ny.
John I Hoffman, in taking the
position Of mayor Of New York, vacates
that of recorder, and John X. Hackett,
the present corporation counsel, is a
prominent candidate 70 the place.
"A pretty woman whose dress was
scnndalously low IN the neck, was re
Gently Kissed out of the stalls of a Lon
don theatcr If she had been on the
stage 40 objection would have been
made.
England has revolution in an
unexpected quarter The little is
land OF Lundy, celebrated for its
granite, aud always the home Of pr
rates, refuses to allow sheriifs or po-
liceman to land on It's shores.
II b. Carton and son, Mr. Gaskell
and young Mr.. Seiby, of Grand River,
, Wayne county, Ia, when on their way
across the Plains with a drove Of cat
tie, recently, We're attacked by n party
Of Indians and killed.
/ AT a recent plize fight at Helena,
3 Montana territory 81 rounds were
fought and night compelled a suspell-
} sion of hostiites. No loss than 300
| people at 50 apiece, including several
women, witnessed the contest
: w hat Becomes Of al the tire
cent pieces Since the first of Jane
: this year, seven million four hundred
2 thousand OF the latter coins have been
issued from the mint at Philadelphia
, but one is very rarely seen in circula-
ton.
An elegant tablet and monument
are to be erected at Westminster Alb
hey to Lord Palmerston's memory
The spot where h. lies is now indica
ted by piece Of cardboard, on which
is the simple inscription, Lord Pal
merston's grave
Mr. Dennison, an opium cate
and disappointed candidate for doc
keeper Of the House Of Representative
E at Washington, has three times at
. tempted suicide. though unsuccess
fully, since his disappointment in no
Z, getting that position
r Tho bill introduced in the Hous'
n yesterday, by Representiye Blain 0
n Maine, and referred to special com
: mttee, meets with much favor. |
!. provides for the assumption of the wa
!. debt of the loyal state without takin;
G money directly out of the public traas
ury
9 According to the address Of tn
It State Teachers Association of Tennes
= see, there are So 900 adults in tina
# Stute who can neither read nor write
: and 100000 children without schoo
= advantages. 1t seems that one-quar
S ter of the adults are totally illiterate.
n When the news Of Captain Cook
IS death at Owyheo came to England
y the poetasters, of course, FASTENED t
u improve the OCCASION One OF the re
e suits of their enthusiasm was mono
i dy commencing:
r Minerva in heaven disconsolatc mourncd
The loss OF her Cook
an opening sufficient to upset tn
gravity OF the great navigator deares
friends.
A Western paper observes, as
notable feature of the past few months
that in ali departments of productio
farming, manufacturing mining
pl and even IN buying and selling -thei
D. is scarcity OF men to perform til
laLor.
/, -Richmond papers complain tia
81 tha etot,ta pf Hgnrp Gla, Ia a.