The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-04-24
April "a.
Summary of News.
The Pope's disease is enilnn.,.

The Pope's disease is epilepsy.
The Cretan Fair is open in Boston
William b. Astor's tax is S245.0 1000.
Troops are being sent 10 Alabama
The Paraguayans still hold Assun-
eion. '79''''-
adjourned
w ashington is the first city that has
raised a monument 70 Lincoln.
The town elections in Ohioand Indi-
ana show decided Republican gains
The President. on Saturday raw.
Sergeant Bates fifty dollars in gold.
Some Of the leading dentists Of Bo--
ton approve of Gov. BullOck's last veto
The Continental Hotel Of PhiIadel-
phia employs three hundred servants.
The banks OF New York city with
a capital OF eighty-four million dollars
nave surplus Of twenty-eight million.
Patrick Henry died in 1893. LEAVING
living
o. --9,.one6ody has computed that 2,762.-
VJj llVeS have been lost in the variou.
wars which afflicted Europe from 1,I5
to 1864,
u year ago a man paid $1,000 for
some land IN Omaha. He has lust sold
it to railroad for $4,000.
Near Talladega, Alabama. mail
agent opened all the registered letter,
and made off with "a thousand dollars.
\ man has been fined in Herkimer
County, New York, for selling 10 a
cheese factory milk with fish ina tt.
An Illinoisian has. within the last
two years, married iourwives and buried
three Of them.
In the Lower House Of Pe-th. after
preliminary conference OF the mcm-
hers, the election Of kO-suth wa- verified
without debate.
The jail at Monmouth. H.. il now
empty, but the sheriff ADVERTISE that il
has been thoroughly cleaned and relt-
ted.
The Democrats OF Usage. La sale
County, ILL.,. last Tuesday elected coll
ored man to the office OF justice of tine
peace.
Bishop Meade. OF Virginia once
said our girls are poorly educated. hut
our boys VIII never find il out.
The View York Times thinks it is
proper now TO pay for the new territory
when Boston has named one Of itsstreets
Alaska street.
Hon. 3. +. Wade has just been pre-
scented with an eiabOrately carved cane
which was intended for Abraham Lin
colin
New York now expects to have an
.N.. Il
70 forty-secOnd street within three years.
Enoch Hubbard. of Shelburne. y. H..
lost four sheep last fall. After the snow
left in the wood this spring. he found
two of them dead, and the other two in
good condition, considering the severity
Of the weather.
William J. Handy. white eating
breakfast at a hotel in Greenwich. on
Sunday, the 18th inst, chOked, and be-
fore he could be relieved, died. \ c0r0-
ner's inquest was held, q verdict rem
1ered. and the funeral took place at three
o'clock the same day.
There Is a family named Bell, liy-
ing in Crystal Plantation Me-. consist
ing of seven persOns-father, mother,
two sons, and three daughters-wh0-e
'eet each on the average
The funniest incident that has LATE
v transpired il the case of a dOting
mother, who, being satisfied that her
,hild merited "a fiOgging first had him
placed under the influence of chl0rO-
orm.
"A North Carolina paper says that
he celebrated kaOlin clay, large quanti-
les Of which are shipped north, is not
'nly used in the manufacture Of pOrce-
ain ware, but also for making 'meer-
chaum' pipes, adulterating -four, etc.
Prof. Agdssiz says he has never made
predictions regarding the weather, ''well
that meterOlOgy is not vet
advanced to justify the at
empt"
Mr.. +. r. Randolph. editor Of the
tuscaloosa Ala MOHitOr, has surrcn-
cred himself to the military authori-
Ies of the district, he having stabbed
egro with a knife. He will be tried by
military commission.
-Brevet Col. H. G.. Gibson. Major Of
he Third L. :. Artillery, has been tenn
orarily relieved from duty at Fort
reble, Maine, and assigned TO the COM
land at Fort Adams, Rhode Island
There is a story of Cornelius o.
IOwd's about a husband and wife who
uarrelled because the wife maintained
rat eternal punishment was essential
Christianity. The husband declared
lat ne never could believe such a mon
rOus doctrine. His father-in-law, re-
embering certain traits of his daugh-
rs character, met the objection toeter-
Al punishment by saying: "Ifyou only
, back and live with her, you'll believe
it yet: she'll convince you.