Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-05-19
Odds and Ends.

opens next saturday.
Mrs Jas. X. Polk lives in Nashville.
Weston is in Boston.
Napoleon is going to Egypt.
Arkansas citizens are going to Tex
Mobile has five steam engines.
John Morrisey is in New York.
Charles Reed is fifty-one years old.
The fruit orchards of Patterson are
i'm blossom.
The rain has damaged the crops of
Central Illinois.
Charleston, Mass, will celebrate the
18th of June.
Oliver Wendell Holmes dislikes
long dresses.
Goodwin Smith is coming to Ameri-
ca to live.
Chambers Journal is in its thirty
seventh year.
VIM. Hewitt, the poet, is seventy
three years old.
Plug tobacco packed in barrels of
peanuts is the latest invention to avoid
taxation.
THAT fragrant flower, the cape jessa-
mine, is now in bloom throughout the
South.
Mining claims in California are to
be taxed like other private property.
Boston has but 435 policemen.
Boston pays $4,000 for church mu-
sic.
A pretty new hotel will be opened
this summer at Caldwell on Lake
George.
L. p. Walker, of jeff. Davis Cabi-
net, lives at Huntville, Ala.
1t is illegal to vote on anything but
white paper in Ohio.
Fifty cars leave Omaha daily, load
ed with iron for the end of the line.
The venerable Peter Cartwright,
now SO years old, has been minister
for GA years. He preached in Chicogo
last Sunday.
Sheriff Darcy, of Buffalo, has a pet
goat which sometimes takes stand by
the side of the Judge of the supreme
Court.
On Saturday afternoon Il mob of
roughs compelled the New York Irib-
a,ne to take down list of the names of
Senators who voted against impeach-
ment headed TRAITORS"
A New London physician was re-
Gently asked one starlight evening If he
knew Ursa Minor, and replied, with but
brief hesitation, "Oh, yes, there is a
family of Minors in Hartford and l
guess it's one of them.'
Two MeXicans We're arrested in New
Orleans on Friday with $150,000 in gold
bars in their possession, the proceeds OF
robbery in Mexico.
The Trustees of the Douglas Monu-
ment Association have decided to re-
move the remains of Senator Douglas
to the sarophagus, under the monu-
ment, on the Sd day of June next, the
anniversary of his death.
A Mississippi editor forcibly re-
marks: "We want fifteen or twenty
red-mouthed Radicals to settle immedi-
ately in Iul1a. We have nobody here
to abuse and we are almost dead to ar
rogate some scalawag."
1t has been found that steel rifle bar
rels, when fired off several times in &
nOrtherly direction, acquire magnetic
properties.
"A Chinese Prince has arrived il
Belgium to study the theory and prac
tice of the military profession, and has
taken service as a volunteer in the regi
ment of carabineers.
Mr.. Cyrus w. Field sees no reason
why year should elapse without sut1i
cient submarine cables being laid from
Suez to Bombay. at can be done-i
ought to be done-and believe it would
yield good return upon the capital in
vested.o
The 100000 gift of Conrad Popen
I, .>f( ~ Do;pf fn
the establishment and endowment o
an institute for education and art in tina
place, is deservedly attracting publi
and private commentators
England is about to be treated Il
another first-class scare General o.
Neil having, it is said, contracted witt
the Colt Manufacturing Company fo
the supply ola large number of Berdal
rifles, Colt pistols and Calling batter
guns.
The New York Express of Saturda,
defines the characteristics of the differ
ent parties in that city by stating tina
the friends of the President are drink
ing "whiskey straight" in all the ban
rooms, while the radicals are bathin
their aching blows Mt the drinking foun
tains.
The cotton CROP according to est
mates carefully and methodically con
piled by the trade at Charleston, wher
the dealers put on record annually in tn
first week in May their several computa
tons of the crop of the current yeal
promises to reach this year from 1900
600 to 100000 bales, nearly the bulk {
theyield of 1868.
George Robbins, the noted Englis
auctiOneer, used to indulge in some pre-
ty tall highfalutin in describing prope
ty committed to him for sale. For il
stance, referring to country place, b
said the only drawbacks to it charm