Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-07-29
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He that strikes with histongue must
guard with his hands.
1t has been asked, when the rain
falls, does it ever get up? OF course it !
does--in dcwtime.
--Alabama will raise this year 400,0
bales of cotton, worth $40,000,0O0, says
Gov. Patton.
"A cargo of corn, measuring $4,000
bushels, said to be the largest ever ship
ped from that city, left Chicago for Buff
talO last week.
--Blair's worst enemy is the bottle.
Ink or whiskcy--it makes no difference.
Either will ruin him.
There is to be picnic Of fat men
at Utica next month. No person will
be allowed to participate in the festivi-
ties who weighs under $50 pounds.
-The Philadelphia Post says: "All
the Democratic papers are busy trying
al during the rebellion. Nobody takes
this trouble for Grant, because it is not
necessary
If we would have powerful minds,
we must think; if we would have faith
full hearts, we must love; if we would
have strong muscles, we must labor.
These include all Chat il, valuable in
life.
The Cape Cod G0zcHc reports that
Sandwich woods are filed with blue
berries. One day, over one hundred
and fifty men and women were engaged
in picking them.
Great complaints are being made
by visitors to Mount Vernon of the
wrctched condition in which they find
the estate. Visitors landed there are
taxed fifty cents, and hundreds go there
every week. Who gets the money?
Somebody has made good thing out of
Mount Vernon.
Queen Victoria is about to visit
Switzerland.
A Virginia letter says that State eX-
GELS in " fried Chickens" if i'll nothing
else.
A Mr.. Charles G. Atkins has recent
ly succeeded in Matching about forty
thousand shad at Augusta, Me.
George ID. Watts, Of Salt Lake, has
ten thousand silk worms, all doing we'll,
producing Il fine quality of silk
Newport is moro thronged with
visitors than ever before, and it is eX-
HtCttu tlJdJ IAINIcW COililSOIl anu ildli.
Stevens will soon be added to the num-
Der.
Divorces are harder to get i'm the
South than in the West. Instead of go
ing to law, husbands in the sunny Sec
ton mistake their wives for burglars and
shoot them.
The Watson Manufacturing Com
pany at Springfield has contracted to
build for the New Jersey Central Rail
road twenty-five passenger cars, in adj
dition to the ten previously ordered.
! They are to be first-class railroad coaches
and will cost $4,000 each.
Gen. Napier with ten children, has
a peerage Il $4,000 a year ust enough tC
make him miserable by keeping him in
genteel poverty.
1T seems as though I'd never get
square with that grandjury," remarked
a disconsolate rogue; "they never gets
together without bringin' in little bill
ag'in' me-"
Raw beef, according to the accounts
of travellers, has for long time been a
common article of diet in Abyssinia
The correspondents of the English pa.
pers attached to Napier's army therefore
directed their attention to this point
and found the report confirmed. The
correspondent of the London Telegraph
made Il trial of this kind of food. He
says that it is eaten with great deal of
Chill pepper and mustard, and the pre-
judice against it being once overcome
there is nothing unpleasant in the flavor
of raw beef.
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