The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-03-13

Summary of News,

-Barnum has lost three museums bv
fire.
Nasty is going to Washington to
lecture.
There are 5000 Methodists in Hi
n0is.
North Carolina has nine daily pa
pers.
Lettuce is already in the Alton mar
ket
The Seminole- % Florida still hold
slaves.
There are fifteen hundred lakes in
Maine.
There are ! 100 John Smiths in New
York.
bishop Whittingham's health is inn
proving.
Wisconsin is cutting pine trees six
feet in diameter.
Cincinnati insurance companies lost
$500. 900 last month.
Queen Victoria has twelve gn,nd-
children.
No wonder politicians quarrel so
much. Quarrels are their common
feud.
A new lot Of Artemu- Wards UNI
published productions are soon to Dee
published
Louis Napoleon says 1.-THE Empire
is peace If ne dosen' look GU. twill
be pieces.
The new Constitution Of Mississippi
declares that duellistS shall not vote.
Mile Sarah Felix, sister Of Rachel.
Is IA vender Of hair dyes and has sold
100000 bottles.
The value OF u Whitrorth gun-not
worth "a whit.
The last OF the revolutionary he-
roos' is still dying in every section of
the Union every few weeks.
-Rumor says Louis Napoleon is NOW
a devOtee 10 the American cocktail
That j. the only republican institution
he has ever favored.
"A Western minister went To- church
% few weeks ago and took his seat with
the congregation, refusing To preach be-
cause his salary had not been paid.
Whatever the difference " opinion
among philosophers. there is little
doubt that organ-grnder~ obey the law
Of their own organization.
The Kentucky Legislature are con-
sidering the prOpriety Of repairing the
dcfaced monument u Daniel Boone 1T
Frankfort
"A country editor, having heard that
King Theodore never sleeps more than
half am hour at u time, has sent The royal
Abyssinian his paper for year.
The Papal troops are to be armed
with the American Remington rifle,
which IS considered better than the
much Landed ChassepOt rifle Of the
French infantry.
The conductors of the New York
and New Haven Railroad are 70 have
the initials Of their road in gold letters
on their coat lappels, and they are 20 be
uniformed in blue.
A dispatch from Montgomery, Ala
bama, says the official returns Of the
late election have been made up. or
III 900 registered votes, little over 70
900 were east, and not all Of them for
the constitution. The white vote Was
insignificant, not over one in twenty.
The English language in the West
is rapidly approaching = high degree ~
perfection. The correspondent Of
Minneapolis paper takes exception 10
something said by your local tOpician:'
and another journal of the Northwest
says of an opposition print, that it, edi-
tOrial articles are as lugubriOus as they
are longitudinal.
An English paper says that Gen.
Mcclellan has claim % a share in the
Banda and Lirwee prize money. He
has proved himself To be the nearest Of
kin, and, consequently, heir to Miss
Adelia Campbell. who inherited from
her brother, the late Lord Clyde, 10
whom Gen. McClellan's father was
cOusin-germRn.
1t Is reported that the Fenian pris-
Oners who were captured recently at
Dungarvan were offered their Parkinson
condition that they would give their
parole 10 leave the Kingdom. 1t j. fur
ther reported that the prisoners unani-
u.ousiy refused Co assent 10 this PROPOSES
ton.
A fast young gentleman in Paris re-.
Gently made a bet that he would secure
his own arrest without committing any
crime. He won, by going to a fashion,
able cafe in q shockingly rakish costume
and pulling roll of large bills from his
boot when called upon 10 pay for what
he had eaten and drank. NOtwithstand-
ing his protests he was carried before
Justice and had 10 procure testimony
10 his responsibility.
A gushing girl from Illinois writes
home that Buckingham Palace 81 is GER
tainly excelled by many a block Of
buildings in Fifth avenue, and is utter
~ eclipsed by Michigan Terrace Chica-
GO As an architectural critic that
young person Is "a success.
Col Shepherd Of Washington coun-
". Texas, has realized S30O from an
investment OF only 5000 in sheep five
years ago. Sheep raising is profitable
in the q" Lone star" state.
-POgram resides temporarily in Nova
Scotia. Here i the way he closed his
Grafton in favor of repeal the other day
Had | 10000 voices, each a. loud d a
dozen cats in garden-aye, louder still,
with those Ia, 900 voices / would cry till
my 10000 Threats We're raw, Repeal, Re-
peal, Repeal.'
-Beggars are bad enough in Ameri-
can cities, but no American, il Is said,
can form any conception Of the amount
of beggary in London, unless he has
been there. As YOU walk the streets 10
seems a. if everybody were asking you
for pennies, and you are forced to yield
to Importantly if not TO charity.