The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-03-20
Summary of News.

Sir Morton PetO refuses to resign.
Washington has strawberries At - n
pint
Belle Hoyd has given up acting.
-Greely is to preside az the Dickens
dinner in New York, vice Bennett deelin-
ed.
George Peabody and the SCULPTOR
Story are living together in Rome.
Young men who are drafted in the
army of France can be exempt bv paw
ing twenty-five hundred francs.
Iowa has already built loo miles
OF railroad at aeO~t OfOver forty millions
Of dollars
In North Carolina they are gathers
ing radishes from the gardens.
The thermometer stood at s. in New
Orleans on Thursday, March L.
Lord Brougham sleeps ten hours q
day. b
The Chinese are manufacturing
whiskey.
-Chauier, the new Partisan tenor. Is
a hunchback.
"A Mrs l.. G.. Kent i leeturing a
Texas. in behalf OF wOman's rights.
"A ferry boat in Detroit Is frozen 10
the bottom in water 70 feet deep.
-WashingtOn's autograph recently
sold in New York for - -.
Richard BullymOre, Buffalo pork
dealer, divided the profits Ofhis business
for the year among twenty-five Of his
oldest employees and himself, first de-
Quoting ten per cent for the capital in
vested.
Forts Reno, Smith, and Phil. Kear-
ney are TO be abandoned, a. no longer
useful the line OF emigrant travel hav-
ing changed to the Missouri river route
via Fort Benton.
1t is stated that Congressman MOr-
rissey has gone to the Arkansas not
springs 10 get rid OF rheumatism.
The Pensioners OF Rev. DR.. Hunt
ingtOn of Boston have presented to him
a so, 600 policy on his life.
Under the head Of the . Peoples
Movement" the Buffalo Adrerfiser sayss
"Day by day the demonstration grows
stronger that the movement in favor II
Gen. Grant for the next President comes
from the people, and that it is a spOnta-
neOus expression which cannot be 81
fenced or controlled"
The present estimate OF the number
of cattle in Texas is 5,OOO,O 900 head
Raising beeves and selling cotton to the
Mexicans are yielding a good profit 10
the people Of that State.
Influential members OF the English
aristOcracy are engaged in a mOvement
for the establishment of acOllege for wO-
man on the plan of Oxford. Ii is pro-
posed to raise ESQ, 900 for a building.
The death is announced Of an emil
nent Welsh bard and antiquary, Nor
gan Owen, at the age of eighty years
1t is stated that he had never been mOre
/ than four miles away from home, he
had never written a letter 10 any one
during his whole life, neither had he
ever received one himself
The indianapolis Herald says: The
County Recorder put on record yester-
day mortgage given by the newly con-
sOlidated Columbus, Chicago and Indi-
any Central Railway Company, to se-'
cure the consolidated sinking fund bonds
the amount Of which was Sl5. O00, 900.
| The stamps upon it amount to $4,000.
1t is reported that a manufacturer in
New York city has an order for 20O, 0O0
thimbles, at Il cents dozen, for gift
enterprise tickets 80 cents, and no
blanks
"A bank officer went TO prominent
lawyer in New York and said - ! am
a defaulter to the tune Of 100000. I
have not vet been detected. What shall
/ do ~ $50 back" said the lawyer,
take another s10O, OO0andreturn tome"
The officer Obeyed. when the lawyer
wrote to the directors that his client had
taken 500, 600 but would return half OF
it if the affair was hushed up. The Ill
rectors took the half loaf.
A young Chic;'gO girl, one Of the
first families, y replied 70 personal"
advertisement lust for fun, - and wrote t
four notes to the advertiser which her
father has just paid the low scoundrel
$500 to deliver up.
A brook trout, seven and a quarter
pounds in weight, and measuring twen- s
ty-five and One-third inches in length,
was caught in Connecticut last week
The Lynchburg Va Nel0s thinks the
result of the New Hampshire election is
rather incompatible with the idea so
seduIously inculcated by the Democrat
ic press of an immense revolution in the
popular mind against the Radical par
ty."
The Pail Mall Gazette announces
that Lord Derby expressed in the strong
est terms to the Queen the confidence
he felt in Mr.. Disraeli, and his cOnvic-
ton that he was the only possible Pre-
mier at this juneture.
The Hon. H. b. Vance has declined
the Conservative nomination for Cover
nor of North Carolina, from both pub
lie and private considerations
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