Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-01-19
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forl, Conn, he was presented with a magnificent
set of silver worth S2000.--Mr. Burlingame
and the Chinese Embassy have gone to Paris,
and have met with a cordial reception from the
/ Emperor. - Barney Williams and his wife
(commedians) are said TO be worth $3.50, 000.--
Sixteen hundred workmen are now employed in
the Brooklyn navy-yard. The Cuban insur-
gents have declared the liberation Of the slaves
/ in that island.--0n the 10th inst, John Camp
bell, a workman on the Concord railroad, was
found dead in culyert with bottle of whiskey
by his side.-A terrible earthquake occurred
at Colima, Mexico, on the both ult.-YoUNG
LADY-"Oh I'm so glad you like birds; which
! kind do YOU admire most?'' OLD SQUAB-"Well
I think that goose, with plenty of stuffing, is
about as good as any. AT Bath, N. Y, q
boy who was coasting could not stop his sled as
the cars come along, and shot like an arrow A.
/ cross the track, between the wheels of a car, and
escaped without the slightest injury. Queen
Victoria has fifteen grandchildren Lack
! awana, Pa, boy, thirteen years cid, shot q
savage wildcat just as it was going to spring
upon his mother-When Gen. Sherman was u
| lieutenant he was one day summing himself at
at the door of his hotel in Washington in a bran
new uniform, when crowd Of boys collected,
and one of them inquired Mister, where your
engine going to squirt?' He has never worn
an entirely new uniform since.-Rev. Mr. AL
gers Society pay $1,000 year for music, which
is six thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine
dollars, nincty-nine cents and ten mills more
than is paid by any society in Hyde Park, and
We presume the Rev. Mr.. Ayers music is the
cheapest of the two!--At Kcmpsyillc, Princess
Anne county, Va, as sergeant Cullen with a
squad of men were attempting to arrest some
negro squatters, he was fired upon and killed.
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Friday week, Sheriff O'Bricn (of N. Y. city,
broke into the rooms of the Congressional fraud
investigating committee and arrested several of
the witnesses upon a charge that they were
| theyes.-John H. Suratt, it is said, is about
to give his valuable talents to authorship, and
is to give an account of the whole assassination
conspiracy.---Ice boats--yatchs-are used on
the Hudson river, With smooth ice and good
sailing-broeze they can accomplish mile a min
ute.---Harper's weekly has an engraving
which was taken from photograph taken by an
amateur artist on the ground within an hour
! after the event, showing the body Of Rilph Nor
rison, hunter who was scalped by Inc Chcy-
enne Indians on the 9TH Of December, within 4
mile Of Fort Dodge, kunsas.--Sergeant Con
zalcs, q Paraguayian soldier, fought desperately
/ against ten Brazilian soldiers, but was at last
| oyerpowered and captured. Upon being asked
why he fought against such desperate odds, he
replied, ''because | am brave rs are all Para
guayians. The Governor Of Me. says there is
available watcr-powcr inthat State to the amount
Of upwards Of a million horse power-cqual to
that Of fifteen million men.---In Massachusetts,
and Rhode Island water is worth from $3.50 to
! $500 per horsepower, and in many instances
rents for $40 per horsepower per year,
There have been 5000 cases Of bankruptcy in
| Virginia up to the LIST inst.--The Evening
Post abiding to the brigands, fears that Italy
is becoming as bad as New York city.---Solo-
mon says, ''go to the ant, thou sluggard" but,
nowadays, sluggards usually go to their uncles.
Pour hundred and fifty cubic feet is good
measure for ton Of hay.---A good way to
cure dyspepsia is to give hungry dog piece
of fresh meat, and chase him until he drops it,.
Boots and shoes arc now being sewed with cop
per wire instead ofwaxed thread, When tray
cling on the road with team, water your hor-
scs often.--hr. Skinner, an experienced far
mer Of Hermiker Co. N. Y, claims that timber
cut when it is frozen will last longer than when
cut at any ether time is q sick eagle
| flying like bank robbor? Because it is an i'll
eagle proceedings Iowa farmer caught a
rat and poured kerosene oil on it and Let it CO.
The result was that all the rats left his premises
and have not troubled him Since A ncighbor
fof ours wrote ms rats letter, modesty intimat-
ing to them that be had entertained them rs long
fas he could afford to, and that they would find
| better quarters at his neighbor P.'s. They left
and went to p 's.--An old woods-Irlan informs
us that the snow is four feet deep in the woods.
A colored woman who hired herself as a do
nestle with family in Rochester, N. Y, recent
| ly, on the third day after introduced her hus-
band, ponderous Ethiopian, who made himself
very much ut home, and it required the services
of the police to convince the loving pair that
there was room for but one of them in the house.
Alex. H. Stevens has concluded to accent
the position offered to him in the Georgia Uni
vcrsity-Beni. D. Hill, who died in Peabody,
Mass, sailed from Salem, as priyateesman in
1918, but was captured by the British when 7
days out. and was kept prisoner for two years.
-Montreal hasn't water enough to drink, and
proposes to borrow $780, 900 to enlarge her wa
ter works. A white man named UPTON and
three negroes, who confessed having murdered a
man named Martin and his two sisters, in Col
umbia s. c., two weeks since, were taken by
the populace from the jail where they were con-
fined and hung were AS homiciles, 80
inlantcidcs, and 9S suicides committed in N. Y.
city last year. - Monketrek, the Canldiln
magistrate who was arrested in an Eastern town
ship charged with conspiracy TO release Bogar,
who was arrested under the Extradition act, has
been liberated on bail A large portion of the
money stolen by Bogart has been recovered. -----
kossuth, following in the footsteps Of Garbaldi
and Mazzini, has written to the republican lead
ers Of Spain supplicating them not to lose the OPP
portunity Of proclaiming u republic.
hundred persons left Sitka for ST. Petersburgh,
in the month of December, and the place is
nearly depopulatcd.- Joe Tilman, a desperate
character living near Frankfort, Mo-, where he
had been q terror to peaceablc citizens for two
years, was shot one night recently as he was re-
turning on horseback from dance in town where
he had got into difficulty. He was literally
riddled with bullets, being fired at Simultaneous
ly by several persons from both sides Of the road
The Salem Register says that last week a
lady in that city lost about a dozen yards Of vel
vet, which took fire from the rays of the sun
passing through globe in which an ornament
was floating in water. But for the timely dis
covery of the fire the house might have been
burned.-The grocers, bakers and flour deal
ers of Liverpool and Birkenhead have resolved
to discontinue the practice Of giving Christmas
boxes and New Years gifts.--Capt. John
Hensman, of Salem, Mass, reports having been
robbed of q watch and chain worth $3.50, in
that city on Friday night, by person who asked
the time, snatched the watch, and made his es-
cape All hen belonging to ]. d. Whitton, of
marlborough, ~ H., has laid an empty egg.
She was in too great hurry to fill it, or wanted
to get her name in the papers by doing something
odd -Ebeu b. Townc Of Rlynham made on
New Years day gift of one thousand dollars
to Dartmouth College. are SELL
ing in New Orleans ut one dollar per basket
The widow Of Marshal Dayoust has died within
the last few days, at the age of 88, in Paris Her
brother was keelerc, married in 1898 to Pauline
Bonaparte, the Fmpcror's sister---Greenwood
cemetery contains over five hundred acres Of
land, and nearly ono hundred and forty thous-