Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-08-01
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The Southern rice crop this wear
will amount to 10000 barrels. against !
5000 last year.
London has been langushing under
Il heated term of almost unexampled in
tensitv. The thermometer reached SO
in the shade. We should call that cool
weather here.
The Muscatine Qowa) journal states
That many farmers in that vicinity are
adopting The plan of working nights and
resting daytime, in order to save their
men and horses.
II is said that the earnings of the West
crn railroads continue to be largely in
excess of last year, and with at least
twenty per cent. larger crops to be moved
this year, their prospects for dividends
are very encouraging.
The Paris Epoque announces that
Madame Italia Garibaldi, the lately mar
ried wife of Menotti Garibaldi, proposes
raising battalion of amizons. Two of
her friendsar now in England, endeav-
orr ng to recruit the force.
The proportion of officers to men is,
in the British army, one officer to TWEEN
ty-eight men French army, one officer
W 'iiii'y -'iiiNN iiiNii, EhtStiitii NY viz
officer TO forty men Prussian army
one officer to forty-ninc men.
A train on the Columbus, Chicago and
Indiana Central Railroad recently ran
1873 miles in 4 hours and IL minutes,
which is equivalent to As miles per hour.
This is the fastest time ever made on a
Western road
In Peoria, H., the other day, gen.
1x,N ell Il. L. H.
luxury of sulphur bath. He remained
there two hours and half, when the
keeper. of the establishment, fearing
something wrong, broke the door open
and found him quietly snoozing, his
nose just out of the water, his head APP
parently having been slowly slipping
down into the tub.
One Marcus Tourtellotte, of Spring
field, Mass, in order to compel the col
ored Methodist church in LOring street
to sell the premises, has built a fence
, around the church rs the caves only
eighteen inches distant on one side and
about yard on the other. To render il
| still more offensive, the fence is painted
black on the side next the church. The
: church is, of course, rendered dark in
+ the midst of day, and the heat on hot
, Sabbaths is absolutely sitting, The
iC.iooiI o-oiS5 iiCU IVA tIiio pCloCSuViOh IL
= that the people are noisy.
1t is said that rats may be etlectually
I driven from any building by sprinkling
! their place of resort with yellow ochre.
Q An Englishman, describing wonder
: full parrot hanging in cage from thu
g window ola house which he often passed
t said: at cries stop theft SO naturally
: that every time hear it | always stop
e a prominent Democratic politician 0
e Marion county, Ind, upon hearing thu
t result of the New York Convention
, hOisted banner inscribed "FOr Presi
q dent, HoratiO G. Moore"
: The names of Dickens children ar
). Mary, Kate, Charles, Walter Landor
i Francis Jeffrey, Alfred Tennyson, sgd
o. ney Smith, Henry Fielding, and Ed
= ward LyttOn Bulwer.
The following is from La Vie Paris
u ienne:
# A RUSSIAN.-YOu cannot form al
v idea Of the power concentrated in tn
e hands Of the Russian Emperor. 1t
IT omnipotence itself. Nothing simpossi
n BILE to him; nothing can equal him.
IS a FRENCHMAN-God, perhaps.
o THE RUsSiAN-Why, yes; but the
@ the Emperor is still very young.