The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-02-07
Summary of News.

"A bushel of apples will buya divorce
in Indiana.
The Quebec Parliament fears emf
grafton.
The Pope has twenty-one Cardinal,
toappoint.
-Napoleon's boy will be twelve in
March.
Chicago has $4,000, 900 invested in
Lager Beer breweries.
An Ohio baby swallowed a snake
and now Kisses in its sleep.
"A soprano singer in London is paid
~, 900 q month.
They have had black snow at Ash
tabula, o.
Kansas Legislators are allowed by
their own vote, ten daily newspapers,
each to choose for himself.
Fresh shad are abundant ia Georgia,
and other luXuries Of the spring-tiIne are
beginning to appear there.
The Tallahassee (Fla.l Sentinel says
that half-grown peaches, English peas
and tomatoes are plentiful around that
city.
The Rutland Herdid states that Miss
j
plain last week, from Port Kent to that
city, distance of ten miles.
1T Is difficult to approach Mobile by
water, owing to the thousands of piles,
sunken vessels and torpedOes that still
ill its channels.
A live fish, five inches long, was
found in an oyster shell recently opened
in Nashua. That's TOO much to swal-
low.
"A shipment of 100000 salmon ova,
packed i'm ice, has been made from Lon
don 90 Dunedin, New Zealand, for the
purposc-of stocking the rivers Of CHAT
colony.
bishop Hopkins is succeeded As
Episcopal PTimarc by Bishop smith Of
Kentucky. Bishop, Hopkins, smith
and MCIlVaiue were cOu-ecratcd at the
same service iu lo32, and in the same
order ass named.
The charge chat Gen. Grant was in
t0Nicated i'm the streets of Washington,
al a certain definite time and place, j.
effectually refuted by the statement of
Maj.-Gen. Alfred II. Terry, who was az
that time in Washington, and In con-
slant communication with the General.
Fred Douglas having been invited
10 lecture in Meriden, Con-, stopped at
the leading hotel in that place over sun
day. The landlord informed him that
his bOareiers would not allow negro TO
sit AT the public table, and 80 he was
served with his meals ut his own room.
One Of the cheerful employments Of
prisoners at Cadiz, Spain, consists in
lifting heavy iron balls, carrying them
several feet, throwing them down, and
repeating the performance for hours
MaXimilian saw il, and wrote in his
journal that it 'must surely kill all sem
tinent.n Quite likely.
A Georgia exchange says that whilst
a majority of planters in the southern
and western portions of that State have
become bankrupt by their attempt to
raise cotton, almost every farmer in
northern Georgia has made money bE
raising wheat and corn.
in France "A statement j. published
by which it appears that the hospitals Of
Paris have contracted for the supply of
,Os1 900 quarts of milk for the coming
year. 1t has been calculated that this
enormous quantity Of milk would suffice
10 turn an ordinary mill during forty
eight hours.
According to the report of the As
SCISSOR, Loss Angeles county, California,
last year. produced l,0O0, 900 gallons Of
wine, and 100000 OF brandy; and this
wear. Isl. 900 bushels of corn, and lj0,-
900 OF barley. and 1900 Of wheat. The
annual crop Of oranges is worth S527 900;
of walnuts, Sl05,0 and of lemons,
so, 900. The average value Of prGduc-
ton per acre cultivated, is given at SIS
Capt. Lewis found, on the coast Of
the new Arctic Continent, quantities Of
coal which answered for fuel as well as
the best anthracite. HealsO found birds
resembling the American partridge very
abundant there. and great variety of |
flowers in full bloom in the month of |
August. He collected a bOquet of sew |
eral varieties. which, though beautiful, |
We're generally devoid Ofmuch fragrance. |
1t ought to be generally known, but |
il j. not, chat every loyal citizen, being
the head Of a family, Is entitled 70 one |
and sixty acres Of land, upon |
the payment of ten dollars in fees and !
actual settlement thereon. upon any Of |
the vacant lands in either of the States |
or territories unOccupied. \ great deal |
Of land of first quality yet remains UNI
appropriated i'm Arkansas, Louisiana, |
Missouri, Iowa, and other States and !
Territories.
Some of the New York Democrats |
still adhere to thc wish 60 nominate HO- |
ratio seymour for Inc next Presidency, |
n their strongest and most available /
man buI GOV. seymour, in recent !
note, says he is hOuestln his defamation /
and viii not accept anOminatiOnona any /
condition. The latest combination pro-
posed puts Senator Doolittle with Sey-
mour as Vice President.
William Prentiss, young Chicago
ln. about Is years of age, was shot in
saloon in Memphis few days ago. lie
lad only stepped into the saloon with
friend, when he was acOsted by an eX-
rebel soldier. who seemed TO know him,
With the question. How long have you
been in Memphis? \ id Yankee has
no business herern whereupon ne drew
/ revolver and shot Prentiss throughthe
head, killing him instantly.
-Four hundred and ten novels are
aid TO have been published in England
Turing the past year, nearly One-and a
lalf novels a day; politics and religion
ank higher than fiction among the
looks of the day, since of the works be-
onging to these two classes of literature
here were published during the same
I
Y the English are a reading people!
Some labOrers employed by Mr..
Vanderbilt applied to have their time
educed to the eight-hour.s system. The
ordered their time reducedtO
even hours, and paid them, pro rata.
)ne of the frishmen who did not like
his turn of affairs, said TO his neighbor:
We'll, Mike, / wish the Commodore was
n IT ooh" said Pat, "Bedad, and
hat wouldn't help you for he'd have
ontrol of the whole place inside Of q
week"
A Western paper, speaking of the
abroad disasters caused by overturned |
toyes and broken kerosene lamps, offers
suggestion: 1t would be well, we
hink, at least until q law is not only
assed, but enforced, forbidding the
Dclling of the doors Of passenger cars,
Or each able-bodied person, buying
ailway ticket, to invest in a heavy axe,
D be used in case of accident, in clearing
he way for escape from the fire that lat
orally seems to be associated eparably
lith railroad disasters"
One hundred and sixty-four persons
we're killed outright by horses or car
iages last year in London, and it is pre-
M, al that no Iaca than I I-tt v-aro moro