The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-01-12
I'm General.

A man has been senton.
three months imprisonment ~ 'Vv y to
England, for attempting to hang iG.'
-Brevet- Brigadier W u &
("Baldy, ? late Maior-Generol % S', ll
unteers, has been granted siv ~ 'o''
leave Of absence ON account Of ,f' n'
health ~ poor
The Secretary of Troas,.
ruled that the recent act Of c", las
while prohibiting the important 's
cattle from Canada, does hot as ,'0i. d
cattle transported from one n fini 70
the United States to another VIZ ' y. o
ada. -" O'l
The Floyd acceptance case.
come up in the Court Of cl "l's
in Washington. The anon, o'''l'
volved is about 100000 Tbe ID
ton is whether the government 4ui''
gally liable for the amount NJ "''
acceptances. Among the connso lucy
ployed are Caleb CUSHING J, .-'
Black and Mr. Beckwith. of Cbicosa
The Collector of Internal Rsr.,
for Montana Tcritory in a lelto,
ceiyed by the Secretary of the Tr'.'
ry. says that the product of the g9g
and silver mines Of that Territory f.,
the year 1866 will be upward ofSe
100000. In 1862, the Territory wa.
wilderness, uninhabited exceptb v ss,
ages.
A traveller at the South say.
take a list Of names of every soll;..
Of the late confederate army and II
the whole lot you could not get a en-.
perals guard that will ever eng.,
against the flag Of the United States
In Ireland the Fenian trials cam.
tinue. One man, 0Leary. has baen
sentenced to 20 years penal servitpd.
and others to long terms. Captor
McCatlerty. an American. had been
acquitted because he was an alien
The safes Of Adams Express Com.
pany, en- route from New York 10 Bos.
ton. Saturday night, January 6,b
were riilcd of all their contents with
the exception OF two parcels. SS0OOO
ia grcenbacks aud 100000 in Govern
ment notes were left by the Thieves on
the floor Of the car The extent oithe
loss is supposed to he not less titan
half million dollars, in money and
bonds. The latest report in Boston
on the 7th, was that $4,000 would
cover the loss.
According to later accounts tie
whole amount Of money recovered
from Adams Express robbers is two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars
and four men are under arrest two
being arrested in Norwalk, Conn
The temperance people Of Cnda-
natl have opened n cofiee-room FER
working men, where at all hours q
the day and till late at night, hot col
fee and crackers or q plate Of hot sony
may be had for the small sum Of av
cents Connected with the coffee
room is a reading-room, supplieiwih
the leading newspapers and period
calls Of this country and Great Britain
and that is free to all
tt viii require two million dollars
TO establish the lighthouses Of the
Southern coast destroyed by the nio
els.
1t is stated that the Peruran
Minister is endeayoring to purchase
some of our monitors for his cover
ment
-Lemuel Cooke, one Of the three
surviving soldiers Of the Revolution.
hundred and seven years old, LIVING
! in Orleans County, New York Vs
J lately sued by his son, an oetogenal'
an, for debt Several otheF sn
! were witnesses on trial, the youHs@'
; being sixty-fye years old.
t Tile sales of II. b. Claim To-
= dry goods merchants of New laA'
4 for 1865, have been, according lg ,m
| mors, $70,000,OOO, against siuV"'
= 600 in 1864.
] A Missouri girl, daughter o. .
j. wealthy farmer, who was a niue ,u'
rebel during the war, has now eoYsa \.
with Il colored man, who leaves gn'
and several children of his own . cow,
= The Herald's special NasnIlS ~,
2 dispatch says the delay in prosiuhL NJ
] for the trial of Jefferson DAVIS . =
coming the general topic OF con,@ ,,,l
ton. The feeling is becoming ss .9
S that he should be tried or llOei"''~
The Chicago papers report
gross insult to Mr. Wehh' the iisF
pianist" 1t seems that Solls't,b e
spread a thick coat of talloW 9'S Ssro a
keyboard of the piano, just De pei. 700
, concert began. Mr. Wehh Na as and
5 much for his tormentors, hoTe''' a.'sr,
played his pieces through IN ~ o ~
. table manner in spite OF the ,,,is
A story is told OF an ln .,'or,nce
drinker, who signed the ten ae, in.
pledge, but was found soon S s;s friend
, billing as often as ever. To DE .n l
who demonstrated with HIM no lIf ticp.
, that the document which he had d s'f 3.
: ed was invalid. because II III"
ternal revenue stamp.
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