The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-04-17
Summary of News.

we're fainting fit.
The receipts ofInternal Revenue for
the past week were =, 705, OH
French papers mention an unusual
activity in the silk business at Lyons.
There are seven million Jews in the
wcrld One-half of whom live in Europe.
1t is claimed that Chicago is the dis
tributing point for nearly 10000 post Of
fees in the country.
A submarine diver in Illinois e-ti-
mates that he has spent three years ofhis
life under water
Many thousand elms have been
planted in the streets Of Chicago this
spring; many are from twenty-five 10
fifty feet hight
The professors of medicine in the
/ Michigan University threaten to resign
/ because school OF Homeopathy has
been established therein.
The French railways have relieved
themselves OF the serious embarrassment
caused by snow drifting into deep cut
tingS, by planting pine trees along the
banks on either side of the tracks.
1t Is proposed in Chicago to build
residence block fOrtwenty families. each
family to have separate suits Of apart
ments, all heated and supplied alike
with kitchen and laundry for common
use
Rev ;. II. Tying, Jr, has again been
cited TO show cause why he should not
be suspended from the ministry. for
preaching in Methodist meeting house
as he did Immediately after his admoni-
ton.
Yale College cabinet has lately re-
ceived from Prof Marsh probably the
largest fossil elk in the world. The span
OF It's antlers l. u feet inches 1t was
brought from iceland, number of wears
since.
The Central Pacific Railroad is TO
cross the sierra Nevada mountains al am
elevation Of 1000 feet above tide water
through fifteen tunnels. A million Of
dollars have already been expended on
blasting powder
a woman in New York. aged 3
years, Is now living with her fourth
husband, having been divorced three
times since She was is years old.
-Ihec cost Of the Austrian army. nc-
corluE TO official report. Is SIX hundred
thousand dollars a day: ora little les
tian 2d million dollars year.
--A new visiting card has the figure.
.A'fiia tf - bAl taAt ittlAitt. " IiItil iltl-
many angles. one of which is 20 he
turned down TO indicate the hourof Che
call
AT indianapolis verdict of $500
damages has been found against the
Columbus, Chicagoand Indiana Central
railroad. in favor of the family Of am en-
ginecr who waS killed by The explosion
OF an engine The case il important.
and has been taken Oh appeal 10 the In
dlaIa supreme Court. The railway
company claimed that il was not bound
to pay for amy accident occurring 10 en-
ployee-.
a Nashville paper publishes quite a
long list OF colored men in that city, who
have accumulated property ranging
ma the several cases from 5000 tO so 900
Many of them bought their freedom and
that of their wives and children before
the war.
The Hon. John Bel Of Tennessee Is
still alive and lives on the Cumberland &
river now. He is upwards Of seventy 2
six years Of age, and compared with his
ormer self Is but wreck His health
Is by no means good. and he butawait- !
me dread summons which must take
aim from earth 70 eternity.
Cleveland, Ohio, has 10000 inhabi- l.
ants, and is growing
Philadelphia has Ius. 600 buildings q
,nd 10000 gas lights, public and pri-
'ate.
w l~couSin presents the uame Of SEN =
Tor Howe for Nice-President.
u nder the internal revenue laws =
ettels acknowledging the receipt Of
liher drafts, checks or money. exceed
ne twenty dollars, are subject To a
lamp duty Of two cents, the same as if ,
formal receipt had been given for so
much money This fact is sometimes
lrgotten, or Is nor known. even by good
u-lncSs men.
At the funeral Of father Taafe. which
gently took place in Lawrence. Mass.
light hundred ladies wore black dresses u
nd white wells 10 their waists.
The belle of Portland does the cook
~ for her father and mother and in
le afternoon drives ont with the finest
pan of horses in town, thinking il an tl
onor 90 be able 10 prepare meal Of "
lctuais. This her sister bellies declare
Idaho raises mahogany in such
mount that it takes six cords of il To
~ for one ton Of hay, which L. scarce.
There is % rush Of emigration 10
ildlisi- -NtbIuSh a. those who UrOU0Se v
engage in agriculture. say the local
.pers, will do well, but such a. seek
nployment as clerks and bookkeepers
stores will be disappointed \
There are in Chicago ,o01draymen.
ho each i'm good times, make from $
$40 per day, and 1,0G0men gain alive c,
lood by driving express wagons.
Charles a. Steward a millionaire of
e9i Plains, New York, married a
Jung wife fortnight ago, and died
ddellly of appoplexy last week.
One hundred dollars per acre are
lde in North Carolia by the peanut
PIP this year, while the cotton planters
We not funds to procure mules or sup
les
Mr. Beecher's advice toa poor young -
n-get married and run i'm debt for a
m.
Upper sandusky, the local paper La
:, has twenty whisky shops, but no o,9
0kstOres. -i<