Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-10-27
NeWs and Miscellaneous NcD,s.

The boa.s new lying in the Erie Ca
nal, waiting for water. extend almost
uninterruptedly for distance of nearly
twenty-one miles.
Last Monday evening German hang
cd hims ell in Fosters Meadow, n. Y,
through the deep despair that fell upon
HIM TO- having lost ten dollars in gam
bling. 1t is not often man values his
life at so low a figure.
The impression of number of persons
who have recent visited Utah is that
the Mormons will soon break up, and
that Brigham Young, wEo is worth
some millions of dollars, will go to some
other cline, where he can en- ,oy hi.
wealth and the society of his favorite
wives.
A wonderful monster, 81 feet in length,
half iisn, half snake, has been caught at
Eastport, Maine. In addition to fins, 1t
has two gigantic legs. Is it something
after the fashion of Bari um's mermaid?
John Crabb, who fought with Sir John
Moore in Spain, Is living with Mr..
Crabb in Maine. He is ninety-three,
possession of all his faculties and in the.
apparent fl lsh of 20 lth. This Is because,
beng Crabb, he can go backward.
A woman named Mahoney, who left
Boston three weeks ago for Chicago to
administer OH her husbands estate, has
made complaint to the police at New
York that she was robbed by the con-
ductor and two brakeman on the Erie
Railroad near Jersey City, of 81 600.
An experienced sugar retiner of New
York is about to establish beet sugar
factory in Raena Vista County, Iowa.
The machinery is to come from France
at cost of 100000. Five thousand
acres of land to raise beets have been
purchased
A MI. Morgan has been lecturing in
Boston, and boldly I" confesses an adj
miration" Tor Socrates and Columbus.
This would be very cheering to those
gentlemen if they had no as the late
Ward in another case put it, been dead
too lengthy"
A man at Westchester, N. Y, named
James Courtney was fined SIS for shoot
ing bid on the Sabbath, 1t being
against the game laws. Rather heavy
price for ore bird. We should think
james Courtney would buy his poultry
in future.
A fellow In New York has cured his
sweetheart of the "Glecian Bend"
he adopted it himself. One dose of the
remedy was eftectual.
It is asserted that when a Canadian
begins to write poetry, they make him
paymaster ON lailr.ad, which has O
very rerlessive tendency,
1t is calculated that thlrty-flve thous-
and hats wors 10. o." tho raanlt ~ the
October elections.
Hors eback racing has been introd iced
tn anal Nn,r, Vnrty tIof tint fI>N
the education of young ladies.
1t is less ,han years since the first
miles OF railway were Cpe ned in M :
nesota. 1t las now Ala miles in actual
use.
1t is estimated that there are Z 900, 900
head of S. ock cattle In Texas. This is
nearly 10 10 every man, woman and
child Of that territory.
: During the trial of case in Quincy,
! ILL.,, young lawyer Observation-Disclosures
: ed upon the family of q handsome lady
witness. Af.er the adjournment, the
irate lady entered the lawyers Office,
and, putting her fist under the legal
mans nose, She dared him into the hall
to flight it out" The challenge to
Ia warlike beauty retired In disgust.
large number Of applications have
: been made for the Office OF Brigadier-
General in the U. S. A. made vacant by
the retirement Of General Hooker.
. Among the applicants are several civili-
J.. ans who were volunteer officers during
y tile war. 1t is rumored that General
Stoneman. now commanding the first
military district, will be appointed to
the vacant POSITION,
, The work ofnaturalizato n is progress
a Ing rapidly in New York and the clerks
d are very busy. The numbers naturaliz-
: ed in the sever courts are said to Le
Court of Common Pleas actual nun.
berry $3.50 Supreme Court, about 1000
> The total number of persons naturalized
N Brooklyn since September % is e. $50;
of these l 1854 obtained their papers IN
the County Cou t. and $40 in the City
Court
The work on the. new Supervision
Bridge at Niagara Falls, which was be
" gun a year ago last June, will be finish
ed in about O month. The bridge ex.
tends from a point just below the
"a American Falls to point on the Cana
II dian side just below the Clifton House
i. The span is .264 feet and four inches
Of and the two. cables are 1900 feet long
II In each cable there are seven wire ropes
y, each two and u half inches in diamet
~ err, The span Is said to be longer thar