The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-05-08
Summary of News,

Summary of News.
Fred Douglass has decided not to 90
20 Nineland.
Several mad dogs have appeared in
Syracuse.
Charleston, :. c., is reioiced at the
speedy completion Of a shell road.
Fanny Ferns hand writing is like a
hawthorn hedge in blossom, round.
pretty and rather struggling.
r. II. Alexander, of Morgan county
H., owns and works farm seven miles
square.
Charleston. =. c., has German
population of 5000, with property worth
five million dollars, or 81 .9O0for each in
dividual
Gen Trowbridge who settled in East
Tennessee just after the war, and took a
prominent part in the development of
that region, has gone to Detroit to live.
We seem to have the same trouble
with the Gull stream this year which
We had last, and the prospect il it viii
rain all summer.
-UnpOetical Lowell Is the only city
in the country that regularly on each re-
curing 23d of April. celebrates the birth
OF Shakespeare,
Mr. Charles +. Dunbar. edit0rof the
Boston Advertiser, has gone to Europe
for his health, and Mr.. Goddard of W0r-
cester takes his place. Mr.. c. II. Doe.
assistant editor is TO retire, and Mr.. \.
Ross, marine reporter, succee Dis him
1t is announced in the Chicago
40
he viii make q speaking tour through
the country 70 vindicate himself Such
an impending calamity ought to be a
good argument for his acquittal.
"A gentleman Of New York offers a
prize of one hundred dollars for the best
two barrels of white winter wheat one
hundred dollars for the best two barrels
of red winter wheat, and one hundred
dollars for the best two barrels of spring
wheat, to be exhibited at the next annual
meeting of the New York State Agrieul-
tural Society.
Wages in st. Paul, Minnesota, are
about Is follows: Masons, per day, So;
carpenters, =. 80 10 IS stone cutters g
plasJerers, IS, 80 to "a; Iahorers 81 so 10
3; blacksniths, $3.50 painters 81.
Prayer Books, it is reported, are now
got up with looking-glasseS placed ON
the inside of the covers
The wheat prospect in Minnesota
was never better ut this season of the
year, and the settlers having the most
experience predict larger crop than
ever before.
-Davy Crockett's farm, in Gibson
county, Tennessee, is for sale.
The California Legislature has pass
ed.a bill offering premium of $ per
ton on the first one thousand tons of pig
or blast furnace iron produced from ma
tive ore in the State,
One of the smart old men " is Mr.
Nathaniel Whitehouse of Tuftonhoro',
n. H., eighty-two years of age, who has
the past winter, taken care of thirty-two
head of cattle, besides horses, sheep &c,
and has found time to cut up and haul
a stock of wood for the coming year
NEW PATENTS.-T following pa
tents We're issued to Vermonters during
the week ending April 20: 1868:
Thomas Jenkyn, ThetfordsCentre, as /
signee to Bartlett Burr of Fairlee, for
on saving machines.
G. a. Watkins, Proctorsville, for i'm
proved chair seat.
Urban A. Woodbury., Morrisville, for
improved looking glass.
Chas. Walker, Chester, for improved .
bed bottom.
David Young, East Topsham, for i'm
provement in sugar pan derrick.
3. b. Choate, Springfield, for improv-
ed mop wringer.
Henry ]. Ruggles, Poultney, for inn
provement ON moving machines.
An Englishman who had been bad
oh Nv, 4
for damages received ON three accounts:
LIST, for business losses; I'd, for structural
and Sd, for agony endured
in the anticipation of an untimely end.
He was awarded $1,000.
1t is noticeable that four of the lead
ers in the great trial are Massachusetts
men, Judge Curtis and Messrs Boutwell,,
Butler and Evarts-for Mr. Evarts,
though practicing law in New York, is
a Boston boy, town born and educated
at the Latin School in that city.
Seth w. Payne, who started from
New York last fall to walk to San Fran
cisco, was at Omaha, Nebraska at last
accounts, still marching on towards the
Pacific
"A japanese author, it is reported, has
written one story of 100 volumes. 1t
" 90 % Sttio SSOAAiS5 thASuSA SAiS pASoo.
Capital amusement-the impeaeh
ment trial.
"A married woman says that the
last thing out y is her husband.
An Indian girl has drowned herself
for love of a railroad conductor
The Episcopal Convention of the
diocese of New Hampshire will meet at
Claremont on Wednesday May 18th,
The negro walters at the hotels at
Memphis, Tenn, struck on Saturday for
higher wages. They were getting ten
io1lars per month. White walters will
probably take their places.
The Montana oil works, located a
nile from Pittsburgh, Pa, were totally
by fire on Saturday morning,
ogether with 100 bbls of oil. Less be-
ween $4,000 and $4,000: insured
n 900. Three frame buildings adioin-
ng were also burned.
1T is estimated that the poetry called
orth in Canada by the murder of Me- {
zee. equals one stanza for every man, ! !
woman and child in the New Domin-
on. haf
Strawberries, blackberries, and almost
very kind Of garden vegetables have
commenced arriving in Chicago from
he gulf of Mexico region, via the Mo- :
Tile and Ohio, and the Illinois Central
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