Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-08-25
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7AfiN tN Nt'NN i'GiiNf ttiiNis stliNl AN0NSNiiN-
ton is just as good as new, and driving
business again.
An old Dutchman said the reason
why PendletOn was not nominated, was
because "Seymours iellcrs vos too Tam
many for ~horcc.'
Blair has seven children, all of whom
will have to be provided with offices
when they grow up. Horatio Seymour
Is not Il parent now, nor will he be APP
parent after the election.
The fish in Lake ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
Maine, are said to be superior to those of
either LallcW ooleyoks cDacock of Moose
toekmegautic. Those of Lake Chabuun-
gogungamaug were very fine, but they .
all got cholicd to death trying to tell .
where they lived.
Toothache, according to the London
Lancet, can be cured by the following |
preparation of carbolic acid: TO one |
drachm of collodium add two drachms
of Calvcrt's carbolic acid. a gelaten-
Gus mass is prcciptatcd, small por-
ton of which, inserted III the cavity of
an aching tooth. invariably gives inn
mediate relief.
West Point since its first establish
ment on March Is, 1907, has admitted
1899 cadets, of whom 2,2lS were gradua-
ted. The total appropriations Tor the
Academy for the period of siXty-siX
Yeas have amounted to SO, 552, $3.50. This
includes the cost of the grounds, inn
provements and educational apparatus,
It's well rs the pay of the professors and
the subsistence of the cadets.
Rebel Commissioner Ould is out in
the papers, to prove that the treatment
| N nriCnnnrG in tho nriSnn hollis nf
the South was the work of Gen. Grant,
because he would not agree to exchange
prisoner Cn JEFF Davis terms. Tell
That to soldiers. They will place their
| fingers on their noses III Il certain mys-
ferrous way, and wish Mr.. Guild good
morning.-Sun.
According to the New York San the
''King of the Turf" Mr.. Robert Bon
ner's famous horse Dexter, trotted Il
mile in the unprecedented time of ia,
on the Fashion Course, last week, and
also one quarter of Il mile i'll thirty
seconds. The New York correspondent
of the Sunday Times telegraphs that on
Saturday morning Dexter trotted half
dertul animal is expected to make one
mile in two minutes by November.
There are numerous Instances on re-
cord where one man has run away with
another's wife, but the idea of coping
with Il whole family is something deer
dcdly unique. Last week an indlvidu-
al named Joseph Fisher took woman
and two children "belonging" to one
Jacob Eyes, of Akron, %, and started
for Cleveland. BY the use of the tcle-
graph they were all arrested in the lat
ter city, on complaint charging them
with stealing, though wnat they took
does not appear. Fisher might prove
an attraction in Barnums new museum.
AN ENOCH ARDEN CASE IN HoL-
YoKE.--Wm. Il. Marsh, son Of the late
Robert @. Marsh of H0lyole, who has
Tor since 1867 and for 1tif ouT " ave Years
has been accounted dead, reappeared
without warning in Holyoke on Thurs
day. He had heard nothing from his
home the death of his father, which
occurred three years ago, was news to
him and the strange story Of Enoch
Arden is renewed in his experience,
and even intensified; for his brother
Albert, having obtained a divorce from
his former wife, married Williams sup
posed widow year or more ago.
a lady riding in a caron the New York
Central Railroad was disturbed in her
reading by the conversation of two
young men occupying the seat before
her. One of them seemed to be q stu
! dent of some college, on his way home
for n vacation. He used much profane
language, greatly to the annoyance of
the lady. She thought she would re-
buke him, and, begging pardon for in
terrupting them, asked the young stu
dent if he had studied The languages
"Hcs, madam, | have mastered the lam
guagcs quite we'll" ''Do YOU read and
speak Hebrew" "Quite tluently.n-
"Will you be so kind as to do me a small
favor with great pleasure, | am at
your service" "Will you be so kind
as to do your swearing in Hebrew ~
stipulated boundaries of this territory
miles, on 6S, 4S0,0 900 acres, an extent of
country considerably larger than all
New England, New York, New Jersey
and Pennsylvania combined. Gold,
silver, copper and iron abound in the
mountains, while strata of bituminous
coal of superior quality undcrlie the soil
in every direction. AS most of its sur
face is covered with natural growth of
nutritious grasses, upon which cattle
and sheep subsist the year round, stock
and wool-growing may be carried on
| WIN auNaltaSe. Inc Iaclllc railroad
when completed, will pass over 4s0
miles ofits SOIL Along this track, set
Elements and towns are springing up
with rapidity. The population already
numbers some 5000 and promises to in
crease fast.
Wyoming did not originally belong to
Dakota, but was laid out at the time
Montana was organized, and was then
attached to Dakota only for temporary
purposes, their being but few white in
habitants within its limits. Its chief
need Of territorial government lies in
the fact that the only administration of