The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-02-09
In SscIlcl.nl.


Tho people of New Brunswick
are propounding to each other a co.
Whether or not is our
Governor Fenian?' They arc all
obliged TO give it up"
Tickets to the Seventh Regiment
ball in New York wero in demand at
SO each several days before the event
-General Cass who is at home in
Detroit, is said to be seriously i'll and
failing fast
Spain held her first Anti-slayery
meeting not long since, and paid II
handsome compliment to the memory
of Abraham Lincoln.
More than 1000 persons have
died Of the cholera in G uadaloupe,
West Indies
The Internal Revenue rolled up
last week reaching nearly nine mil
lions Of dollars, almost double the
amount of tho previous week
Obediah Page was shot and killed
by his son, near Raleigh, y. c., a few
days since. The boy demonstrated
against drunken abuse OF his mother,
when The father attacked the son with
knife, aud was shot dead.
--Ex-Goy. Wise is out with calm
and powerful appeal to his country
men Of the South TO let by cones be
by cones and rally rs one man around
flto Hou cf tloir p,rD4r.-
Two New Orleans editors, Mr.
Limet Of the Bee and Mr.. Lafranc of
the Remonstrance, fought duel Jan.
18th, with small swords; Lafranc was
wounded.
The War Department has ordered
the discontinuanco of the Military
Districts of Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island
and Connecticut
Mrs Robert L. Lee has sold her
farm near Warrenton to Dr. Drewry
Of Richmond 1t contains about 500
acres, and the price paid for It was
$40 per acre, or $4,000 for the entire
tract
There is more skating in Central
Park, in New York, on what ought to
be the day of rest, than on any other
day. The crowd there last Sunday
was estimated 100000, OF whom So
600 were skaters
In Illinois the farmers forty miles
from Chicago find it economy to cart
their grain with oxen to that city, III
stead Of sending it by rail. A com
ment on railroad charges.
"A petition for TIE extension Of
suffrage to women is being circulated
in Kansas, and will be presented &c
the legislature after sufficient mum
Der OF names have been obtained
The London underground rail
way is three and three-eights mile.
long, and cost over E442.942- more
than two and quarter million dollars
per IAiie Even at that enormou.
cost, it pays seven per cent.
The National IateHigencer state,
that General Grant has contributed
five thousand dollars to aid the cree
ton Of new Methodist Episcopa
Church in Washington.
Mrs. Lincoln realized twenty-five
thousand dollars from the resolution
giving her one years pay Of the late
President, less what the administrato
! had drawn She has directed Gen
! Spinner to invest it in Government
securities for her
Miss olympia Brown is the reg
ularly ordained and settled ministe
over church il Weymouth, Mass
The question has arisen whether sh
can legally unite couple 10 marriage
, The Judiciary Committee OF the Mas
sachusetts Legislature have decide,
that she can.
= The Washington correspondent
| Of the Philadelphia Press says nearl
T. 100000 yards Of fnc French broad
f cloth, stored on board the late rebe
a ram Stonewall, at the navy yard, is t.
n be destroyed by fire, as it is suppose,
b that the material is infected with tn
), yellow fever.
"A st. Louis despatch says th
G county clerk, sheriff and deputy-sherii
e Of Pope County, Arkansas, were al
4 recently assassinated.
} The commissary and quartermas
> ters warehouses at Fort Riley, Kan
srs, was burned Wednesday. Los
estimated S1,000,000 Nothing wa
saved.
l. General Forrest passed through
j. Vera Cruz on his way to Alvarado re
2 Gently. The unconstructed rebels il
S Mexico are described as seedy anc
/ blue, and one lettor says: "Almos
o every confederate who comes dow
Z from the interior ends the narration
: of his experiences with, Whenever
T. can scrape enough money together t,
l. leave this Id country, I'm going
t home again"
/ Alarming intelligence to the but
!, ter spectators. Butter is declining
= in all the Western markets. At Cleve
land it is dull at 25 and soc for til,
d best tub and roll; at CHICAGO the bes
! dairy brings only % a SOC. while fai
i tirkin is 20 n Doc: at Milwaukee til,
t best roll is as low as 2lc.
q The thieves ale getting sharper