The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-01-06
NEWS SUMMARY.

Mr.. Everett is among the persons
spoken of for the mission to Paris.
Spain has sent squadron to the
Pacific to prosecute her war against
Peru.
There is horrible rumor that but
ter will be rs cents per pound before
spring.
After the LIST of January there will
not be a penny paper published in the
United States
All the pretty girls in Northamp-
ton, Mass, have been kissed in the
street by desperadoes who watched
their opportunity.
The Sec etary of the Treasury
has announced his intention of issuing
another hundred millions of ten-forty
bonds, the interest payable in gold.
There are a good many farms in
Illinois that are larger than some of
the German principalities which have
a host of dukes and such like to gov
ern them.
"A young lady in New Jersey,
daughter of well-to-do farmer, has
Just been married to soldier, whom
she got acquainted with by an adver-
tisement for correspondence.
The Newburyport Herald calcu-
lates that the amount of cotton
captured by Sherman at Savannah,
would supply all the factories in New
buryport running all their works, for
five years.
The drouth in California has been
so severe that the wild geese are una
bic to obtain food in their usual haunts.
They are 50 plenty near Stockton, that
the farmers fear their entire crops will
be destroyed
In 1868 Nathaniel Thayer,of Bos-
ton had the largest income i'll the
State, or at least he gave in the largest
1865, 600, just a thousand a day. The
second largest WINS that of Charles j.
Anthony of Worcester, $4,000.
Coal oil springs have been discov-
cred near Fishkill, \. Y, and COM
pany with 100000 is going to bore.
How to cleanse Chicago river is
the agitating question at Chicago.
( They fear pestilence unless it is at
tended to.
William Colley, bachelor grocer
at Lockport, n. Y, lately died, and
$4,000 three-cent pieces were found
buried in his cellar.
The New York Herald SAYS that
sailing the horse railroad tracks to
melt the snow is injurious to horses
and productive of diptheria.
The bill making appropriations
for the support of the military acade-
my for the year ending June 30, 1860
appropriates in the aggregate 1882,
/ 504
The Buffalo, New York and Erie
railroad and the Rochester and Gen
essee Valley railroad are leased by the
Erie railroad company for term of
1870 years.
Big guns cost money. A ten-inch
Parrot gun costs $500 n ffteen-inch
Rodmon gun costs $4,000 a fifteen
inch Krupp's gun S29,400 a twelve
inch Blakely gun cost $4,000 The
Krupp and Blakely guns are made of
steel.
The Chicago milkmen water their
milk with river water. One of them
stopped at a house thu other day to
/ thaw out his cans and the lady of the
house saw schools of little fish at the
bottom Of the cans
About two hundred diseased
horses and mules are daily killed at
the government corral near Washing
ton. Flesh, bones, hides and hoofs
are all made use of for manufacturing
or fertilizing purposes.
President Lincoln has been made
LID. by Princeton college.
Life at Richmond Three respect
able citizens walking up the street,
met three walking down the street,
and, the sidewalk being narrow, there
must be turnout or fight. The
chiyalry chose the latter, and FIVE of
the six were seriously wounded.
A Providence clergyman, in a
sermon preached last Sunday on the
subject of tobacco, stated, among other
things, that a smoker commencing at
fifteen years old, and ending at seven
ty-fve, averaging five cigars a day,
wonld smoke over five miles of cigars.
During the severe cold snap, a
man, living block at Hartford, Shut
off the water off the block so that it
should not freeze up in the pipes, and
in the morning found that one of his
neighbors had been up all night trying
to thaw out the pipes
The exports of oil during the past
eleven months have amounted TO 80
600, 1000 gallons, worth about $2I ,OOO,-
600 /; and the domestic CONSUMPTION
for the same period was, probably,
10000, 900 gailons-making the whole
value of the oil product from S35, OOO.-
600 to 100000.
The Ohio people are moving to
present Gen. Sherman fine farm in
Fairfield county, in the rich valley of
the Hooking The General was born
in Fairfield county, and the people of
that locality are very justly proud of
hlm, and want to have him come and