The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-02-21
Summary of News.
George Sand is worth 500, 1000.

/ mis-. AftOIAt lulb II III
Washington.
Charles Kean left S250,OOO.
Three houses IN New York contains
40 persons.
-" II. Gu drinks tea
Weston is walking in Buffalo.
/ Toronto, 2. o., has the small pOx
Council Bluffs, Iowa, is having
Temperance fever.
E. D. Whipple islecturing on Loaf
ing and Laboring."
Knapp, the revivalist, has crowded
/ houses in California.
Rockland, Me, shipped million
casks of lime last year
-Gov. Pickering, of Washington Ter
rltOrN, says that 400, OOO, 900 feet of lum-
Der are annually edin Puget's Sound.
-On the 29th ult., one hundred car
( loads OF railroad iron and ties left Oma-
ha for the end Ofthe Union Pacific Rail-
road.
The st. Paul Press estimates that
the amount of wheat now in'AIinnesOta,
awaiting shipment, j. ., 10 900 bushels
according to official returns the
number Of special constables enrolled in
/ England under the Fenian alarms
reaches one hundred and thirteen thou
sand six hundred and seventy-fOur, of
which number fifty-two thousand were
in the Metropolitan district.
1t is reported that Robert Lincoln,
son of the late President Is TO marry a
daughter of ex-senator Harris of New
York.
in Montreal, on Friday, last, little
iOV-A cripple too and but nine wears
old-was sent oJUH iOr two months to
keep him ftoHa starvation, AS no inSti-
tuition would take him in. he G0zctfc /
well says This i- q blot on the Chris /
tianity our city
The New York Heroldh has goneever,
bag and baggage. 10 General Grant. and
now abuses The President r0undly every
morning.
Representatives Maynard of Ten
ne~see and D0neily. of Minnesota. left /
Washington Friday, for New Ilamp-
shire, to make speeches on behalf of the
Republican candidate for Governor.
At Zurich University, the other day,
"a Russian lady received the degree and
diploma of Medical Doctor, and Prof.
Ross, who made an address on the Occa-
sion, reminded his hearers that a woman
took the degree of Doctor Of Physic over
UIJN years ago IN tTlc--cu.
A Paris correspondent describes the /
new head-lress as consisting Of Il lovely /
black lace or black blond veil. which is /
thrown over the chignOn and hangs /
down the back; the front part il Il black
or cOlored velvet diadem, with a ruddy
flower on one side, and moreover SPAN
ned with gold and steel cOrOner. II i
very becoming over a low dress on snowy
white shoulders.
A pious sunday School teacher Of
Gerry. Pa. event for his bible in the
presence of his class, on "a recent Sab
bath. and drew from his pocket instead
a copy of HOvle's Book of Games. He i
said TO be- competent To instruct from
both.
The water used for baptising babies
on recent Sunday at Mr.. Beecher's
church was brought from the River Jor-
don by the Quaker City tourists.
The prospects Of the coming spring
of a good wool clip are Illinois i more
than usually promising.
Horace Greeley. in his reminiscent
ces, speaks Of first meeting Abraham
Lincoln when he was a member of Con-
gress. and adds: % II viii surprise some
20 hear that. though ] was often in his
company theuceforward till his death,
and long on terms of friendly intimacy
with him. ! never heard him tell an an
ecdote or story
The Swedenborgian Society of Chi
cagO has meetings Of q social nature
every week, when the pastor joins them
and dances when they dance This has
caused SO much dissatisfaction i'm cleri-
cal circles in that town, that the ~wed-
eubOrrian pastor j. not recognized by
4 N.rH
>ucn Ievity, say iney, cannot be part Of /
Christian character.
England imports eight million |
pounds of tea annually.
The New Bedford Mercury reports
that Merritt Scribner, of the firm of
Scribncr < Tripp, provision dealers in
that city, has fled to Canada with funds |
belonging to his creditors in Boston.
Gen. Cassius NJ. Clay has rendered
his resignation a. Minister TO Russia.
The London Spectator, referring TO |
the Presidents last message, says " We |
can only lay down his message with a |
regret that the United States. at the |
close OF "a great war, should be ruled by |
9 man who does not know. or VIII not |
acknowledge, for what the war was |
fought
philadelphia is now said to be the /
second manufacturing city i'm the world, |
and has twelve hundred and siXty--iX 1
mills and manufactures.
~ Tennessee paper announced that |
Andrew Johnson wants to take the /
stump during theapp rOaching campaign. |
We DO not believe that any party would |
accept his services-unless the Republic |
can Committee should engage him a. /
dreadful warning.
Gen. Grants pay is SIS, 67S peryear,
and Lieut.. Gen. Sherman's Sl3,5lS. |
Each Is allowed fifty horses. \ Major |
General gets $, 500 per year, and is allot- |
ted five horses. The pay Of a Brigadier |
is s., $40 80.