The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-02-14
Summary of News.

nave new hundred thousand dollar
theatre.
1t is believed that about this time
New York spends 500, 900 per day for
sleighing.
Grant clubs are forming in Oregon.
Eggs for twenty-five cents a dozen
in Savannah.
JEFF. d. is the guest of Gov. Hum
phrys, of Miss.
st. Louis billiard saloons are kept
open OF Sundays.
-Artemus Ward said that the man
who wrote, - | am saddest when / sing. -
was fool to sing much.
The Ohio River Bridge, at Louis
vile, viii be finished in 1869; 1t will
cost 81 800, 900. be ninety feet above high
water, and be one mile long.
The Springfield Republican says
gate stealing is the popular style of mis-
chief in New Haven, and piiing them
by the dozen on the railroad track il
considered an extra point of the Joke.
Goldfish are so plenty in Newbury-
port Bay that they sell in that village
for 81 % per hundred pounds, and fish
ermen sometimes have to throw them
AT Princeton, H., the other day. a
horse was sold for So, and local journal
faceiti0usly adds: "The poor attenuated
quadruped looked as though he had
been for some time engaged in publish
ing a country newspaper"
The Congressional Directory gives
a brief biography of every member Of
either House. and thus informs us that
John MOrrissey Of New York, was born
in Tipperary county, Ireland Feb. Is,
1881; came TO this country in 1888 re-
ceiyed public school education worked
rs mOulder; was elected to the FOrtieth
Congress rs a Democrat, receiving 9 1872
votes against 6 SOB votes for Taylor. in
dependent Democrat, and =, 2y3 votes for
Elliott. Republican.
An unknown man, i'm a beastly
tate of intOXicatOn, was taken to the
stdtiOn-hOuse in New York on Thurs
day night by the police to prevent him
freezing 10 death, and when examined
by the officers $34 900 in greenbacks were
found on his person.
Near the Sierra Nevada last winter,
the average level of snow was fifteen
feet full, and forty-fOur feet and seven
inches fell during the winter. The
drifts are often sixty feet high, and in
one or two instances We're twenty feet
higher.
In Bates county, Me-, in the year
lS5S, a young man named Agee and a
fair young girl named Francis were
married, but after living together for
seven months the young woman got
tired Of her man and left him to cook
his own grub and mend his own clothes.
She Immediately applied for divorce,
but owing to the war did not get il un-
til recently. After she had obtained the
document required, she again fell deep
~ in love with the same man, and, after
a new and lengthy courtship, they were
again married, and are once more living
under the same shelter
The Prince of Wales, who is a very
fast young fellow, is deep in debt He
il said to owe $50, 900 TO his uphOlsterer
alone. But when he gets to be King he
viii pay it all Oft with money got from
the people.
Thirty house servants of a member
Of the British Parliament lately threat
ened to quit unless their fare was i'm
proved. Inquiry showed that they had
for breakfast tea and coffee, eggs, bacon,
toast, bread and butter; for lunch, bread,
cheese and ale; for dinner, hot Joints
and pastry; for tea, toast, bread and but
ter; for supper, meat. bread, cheese, and /
ale. They wanted muttOn-chOps and /.
5eef-steaks for breakfast, and the request f
Of the poor creatures was granted.
"A horse mart is about to be establish +
7d in New FORK upon the plan Of the IA
nous London establishment known as
he Iartersalls.' Like that il Will be
he general depot where turfmen,
sports, jockeys, " book " and betting
men, and all mankind generally who
re d" hOrsey" win meet on common
round discuss racers, make up books
or races, sell and solicit sales, etc.
-Commissioner Rollins offered, some
ime ago, a reward of $500 for such in
as would lead to the detection
( any illicit still and the conviction of
lave been putting up $50 stills, and then
the authorities and obtaining
he reward. This Is the latest fraud on
he Revenue
The renowned thorough bred race
Orse Kentucky, which is regarded by
AMY experienced indges as the best
ace horse that ever trod the American
Jrf, has been sold for the sum Of forty
rice n ives paid for him by Mr.. Leon
ri W. Jerome two years ago. He is
Ow owned by Messrs. Charles Bathgate.
kiddy and Constable, who have each
lvested $40, 900 in him, Mr.. Jerome re-
inning an interest Of one-fourth. 1t Is
ltended to bring Kentucky on the turf
gain this season.
Vallandigham being the unsuccessful
a Iaf ~
now begin to revile him.
he World calls him a reckless dema-
Ogue. an active, restless politician of
nall calibre, and drunk with the aleo-
oil of egOtism.N
-Burrillville r. l. ladies, forty or
fly of them, had sleigh ride to WOOn-
'cket without e'er man, dined, wined,
nd paid their bills-the landlord fur
ishing the cigars free.
A sister-in-law of Charles Dickens is
eeping a boarding house in Chicago 10
lppOrt herself and children. Her hus-
md, Augustus Dickens, the favOrite
other of Charles, died there two or Z
rec years ago.
AT a meeting of the corporation of \
rOwn University, Providence, r. l.,
| Friday last, Alexis Caswell, d. D.,
Il. d., was elected President, and Prof.
Gorge /. Chase, PrOfessor.Of Moral and
tellectual Philosophy. DIR. Caswell is
e father-in-law of President Angel of
e Vermont University.
Bishop Simpson, of the Methodist 7
piseopal Church, recently delivered an
dress TO the students of the Universe
at Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Doctor
liott was on the rOstrum, and the
shop, pointing to him, said that near
rty years ago, he had walked eighty
lies, carrying little bundleof clothes, 5,
become a student with the Doctor G.
len he was President of Madison Col =
ge.
An Independent candidate for sher-
in Kentucky, puts forward as his
LET claim, the fact that he once slept III
tn Andrew Jackson. ca
Mrs Reuben Z. Lamb of New Lon
n, has obtained a divorce from her e
sband, who sailed fOrthe Cumberland
let in 1865, remained there with the ST
quimaux, adopted their customs, and &c
ok to himself an Esquimaux wife, BY ca
lOm he has had two children.
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