The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-06-23

Is. Sowles, President OF the ST. Adams
Bank / am sorry to learn that in the
"Welden House" in your city, beg par
don, in your village, his taste in this
regard could not be gratifed.
Mr. Samuel +. Villas is building on
an eight acres lot about fifty rods
west Of the L. S. Custom House in
Pittsburgh, mansion so by so, with
kitchen-part and outbuildings. Mr..
Randall, of Rutland, Vt, is the archi-
tect, and as Mr.. Villas is the President
of the Second National Bank OF Platts-
burgh, and man whose wealth is
measured by hundred thousands OF
dollars there will be no paucity of
means to hamper the expression of
cultivated architectural taste The
design Of finishing different woods
the parlor with oak, the library with
butternut the sitting room with ma
pie, &c, &c, is not only unique, but il
thoroughly carried out will produce n
very pleasing effect.
Mr.. C. L. Norton is rebuilding a
saw-mill upon larger scale than his
former one and with great improve
ments. The mills on the Saranac riv-
er are supplied with logs from all &C
cessible points. These logs are driven
by "river drivers" whose work this
year is completed a month earlier than
usual. On Tuesday last he gave his
workmen and few invited guests, a
dinner at the "Park House. and the
occasion was gay and festive one.
The repairing and remodelling of
the old Presbyterian Church, of which
the Rev. Mr.. Buckley is Minister, is
going on rapidly and will involve an
expenditure of $4,000 The seeding
Church occupies Norton Hall at pres
ent, but intends to build a new and
elegant Westinghouse. OF this socie-
ty the Rev Mr. Hall is pastor-and is,
as we'll as the Rev. Mr.. Buckley, n
man of ability and scholastic attain
ments.
The Mercantile Bank, of which Mr..
julius NJ. Noyes, brother-in-law Of Mr..
Oscar A. Burton, is President and Nj.
Merritt Sowles. formerly of Swanton,
is Cashier, is about to close up its af-
fairs and will not, probably, organize
under the late act of Congress.
Those persons in Vermont who be-
long to the Vermont Historical Socie-
ty and have made unsuccessful efforts
to obtain copy of the History OF
Lake Champlain from its first explora-
ton by the French in 1909 to the close
of the year 1914, by the Hon. Peter S.
Palmer" will be glad to learn that
Judge Palmer is preparing to issue a
new edition with additions. emenda-
tons, foot-notes, maps, &c. &c. Joel
Munsell, Esq, of Albany, (Aldi disci-
pulus Albanus) and long may he wave
will print and bind it in his inimitable
style during the ensuing autumn
The Rev. Daniel Tompkins Taylor
of Rouses Point, who has been occu
pied for several years in preparing al
elaborate History of the town o
Champlain, N. Y, of which he is a ma
tive, has nearly completed it for the
press, and of this valuable addition tc
local history, Mr.. Munsell will, prob
ably, be the publisher.
/ must not forget the Circuit Court
of which the Hon. A. b. James, of Og
densburgh, is the presiding Judge
and the Court of Oyer and Terminer,
, in which he is assisted by Judge Peter
S. Palmer, surrogate and associate
) Justices Yale and Allen. Before the
| Circuit Court an important case emit
tied ''The Bank of st. Adams VS.. Johr
= H. Phinney and Rufus Heaton,' was
y pending in which Col. Thomas Arm
, strong OF Mooers was counsel for the
plaintiff, and the Hon. Lemuel Stetsor
| was counsel for the defendant Thu
9 trial which occupied nearly two day.
r and one evening, resulted in n THIRD
: verdict for your old Bank of st. Adams
e Among the criminals against whom
= indictments were found was hand
I some lad, of seventeen years, named
d Stephen Cooper, of Wostford, VT, who
4 figured in the so-callod "Rouse's Point
g raid" He was found guilty Of biga
. my and sentenced to three years o.
b imprisonment in the Clinton prison.
4 The Plattsburgh Republican about
: to begin the fifty-sixth year OF its pros
S porous existence, still moves and has
# had a profitable being under the edi
S torial management OF Col. Roby q
Q Stone, since 1853.
1t is an institution of the place like
u Fououets' Hotel. AS the proprietor