Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-04-07
Nrrs ana Ofhcr items.

IL. IL. Clallln, the large dealer in dry
goods in New York, reports nm income
of S350,000.
"A Cincinnati Base Ball club has re-
Gently dissolved wit debt of 81 900.
A Shanghai rooster killed Il small
child in Kentucky the other day.
A Kentucky blacksmith who was too
lazy to support his family was lately tied
to Il tree and given siXtytwo lashes TO
quicken him to his duty.
A Georgia paper knows man who
went all the way from Cassville Il At
lanta. On his return he looked so cmn
with the weight of garucd wisdom, and
said, If the world was IA big t'other
way rs was that, it was a whol pcr!'
What's the difference between an
overcoat and baby? An ovcrcoat is
what you wear (were), aud baby is
what you was.
The colored Lieutenant Governor Of
Louisiana was recently expelled fom
an omnibus in Louisville on account of
his color, his fellow white passengers
threatening to throw HIM out of the
window.
a negro preacher, recently arrested
in New Orleans as disorderly person
was unable to pay the fine imposed.
He was about to be committed, when a
happy thought struck him" If your
Honor will trust me till Monday, I'll
take up a collection Tomorrow He
was trusted.
Preparations are making in Kansas
City, Missouri for a buffalo hunt. The
eXcurtionists propose to go by rail 400
miles from the city.
Necklaces, brooches and earrings,
studded with diamonds, and costing
thousands of guineas, have been bcstow-
ed upon Patti by tn > Emperor Of Rus
STA and other noos 1T st. Pcteisbur,'.
A number of Frcnchmen have appear
ed at Decatur, Illinois, with patent traps
to catch bulllrogs for the New York
market.
The lady who furnished the means to
send a hundred HON cless children from
New York t. the West was Mrs. Jacob
Astor. who thus celebrated the twenty
first birthday of her son.
About eight millions of dollars are in
vested in the beer brewing business in
New York city, and the annual product
OF beeris nearly a million barrels.
An oflice-sceker is thus depicted by a
st. Louis journal: "He is a genius of
such unive.sality, that if the office of
doorkecper of the internal regions were
at the disposal of President Grant our
Bittman would certainly be candidate
for Cerberus."
The income of the Sheriff of New
York city is estimated at 500, 200 per an
nun and that the fees Of the Ludlow
street Jail alone are worth about $50, 600
per year.
4 young gentleman in Connecticut
town recently ans vered a matrimonial
advertisement, found in a New York
paper, apparently inserted by young
and wealthy widow. A correspondent
ensued the admiring gentleman went
on to meet the Advertiser, and found her
to be a perfect beauty in appeara nee,
very wealthy, but entirely insane. A
constant watch had to be kept over her
to prevent just such affairs. He re-
turned to Connecticut disappointed
man.
A few Sundays since, the Lewiston
Journal says, clergyman in Maine, in
the middle of the sermon, had occasion
to use his handkerchief, and to his as
constituent, scattered in all directions
some so specimens of paper dolls, which
his little girl had lodged in the parental
pocket for safe keeping.
A travellers of Texas: "The
best women and the meanest men, more
sickness and less health, more corn
less labor, more pretty ladies with little
feet and no calves to match, than any
other State of the UniCn."