Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-01-16
Ne,C.i OnH other II ms.

The San Francisco Times intimates
that a Vigilance Committee Is needed to
clean out the organized bands of bur-
glars, garrOters, and other rOgues which
abound in that city.
When man and woman are made
one by a clergyman, the question is,
which is the one? Sometimes there is
long struggle between them before the
matter is finally settled.
A Florida correspondent says they
have great trouble in trying cases before
the mixed white and black juries in
that State, because the ju,ymen will
go to sleep"
1t is pro >osed by Mr.. Pickering, the
velOcipede maker, to Obviate railway ac-
cidents by sending man on veiocipede
ahead of every train to give warning of
any danger that he may discover on
the track.
During the past three months there
have tetn 10000 new rifles sent from
Providence, Rhode Islard, to Europe.
Over 5000 have been sent to Cuba, and
breech-loaders, shipped to Mexico.
Ferdinand de Lesseps declined to be
nominated by the electors of Marseilles
| lOI Vic NdCuut Scitt Ill TIE II Tt.ICll AS
sembly, for the reason that the direction
of the work on the Suez Canal was alb
sorbing all his time, energy, and facul-
ties.
The Correc tiOnal Tribunal of Borde
aux, France, has just fined and sentence
ed two Jesuit fathers, teachers in an in
stitute for boys, for having us ed the rod
little too freely and heavily upon the
backs of some of their pupils.
The italian General Cialdini, after a
visit to Paris. ard a conference, it is
said, with the Emperor and the Spanish
Ambassador Olozaga, has gone to Mad
rid to advocate with the provisional
Government the election of the Duke
d. AOsta, the second son of Victor Eman-
uel, as King of Spain.
One of the most cogent reasons ever
given why married man should get
his life insured, Is, that the money would
prove great help to his wife's second
husband, ana might be the means Of
starting him in business.
| The entire legal fraternity of Nashua,
| N. H.. were out of town on the 5th and
remarking on this fact, the Telegraph
inhumanly says that it was an unusual
| ly orderly, busy, brotherly, successful
sort of day.
| n cnuIcn III SdIIlDTluSe, MdSS., idtely
refused its building for the funeral of a
man who had during his lifetime kept a
restaurant in which liquors were sold;
but happily for the cause of Christian
charity, the church of another denomi-
nation was opened for the purpose.
An inveterate tobacco chewer was in
the habit ofdeclaring abou. once month
that he would never chew another
piece" but broke his pledge a. often as
he made it. On one occasion, shortly
after he haG b." broken off for good" he
was seen taking another chew. "Why,"
said his friend, "you told me you had
given up that habit, but see you are at
it ag lin." Eyes" he replied, ~ have
gone to chewing and left off lying.
AGES OF PROMINENT MEN. - Gen.
Grant is AZ, and Mr.. COlfax 46; Andrew
Johnson is 81; Mr.. Seward, s.; Gen.
Schofield but So; Mr.. Wells, 81; Mr..
McCulloch, So; Mr.. Randall and Mr..
Browning, so; Mr. Wade, the Presi-
dent of the Senate, is 60; Senator Sum-
ner is So; Senator Trumbull. SO. The
members of the House of Representa-
tives are nearly all young men. James
Brooks and f.. b. Washburne are among
the oldest, and are respectively SO and
SO years of age.