Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-09

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THE Massachusetts, Supreme Court has
decided that swing signs Across the street
are illegal
TcOIE q. CLAFIIS publicly announce.
herself IS q candidate for Congress in
the Eighth District Of New York.
THE Australian Meat Preserving Con-
pany have profit Of E5,OO0 a year ON a
capital Of 5000.
DnaocRATs OF Wisconsin have settled
upon the Hon. Andrew Proudft as their
candidate for Governor in the coming
campaign.
ALVAREZ aud Hernandez, the Caban
agents from Cespedes, who were recently
captured, were executed At Matanzas.
The members Of the Montreal volun-
teer Corps deny that they have joined
the Cuban expedition.
The records in the Treasury Depart
ment show that S67, 900, 900 OF the new
funded loan had been subscribed for.
CHIEF Justice Thompson, of Pennsyl-
vania, is spoken Of as a democratic can
didate for President.
The Republicans OF Mississippi have
called State Convention, 10 meet at
Jackson on Wednesday, August 30.
The yellow fever has ceased TO be cpl
demic at Buenos Ayres, aud thanksgiving
services had been held in all the churches
A PIN, carelessly dropped in the loom
by a female operative, spoiled seven
hundred yards Of clorth in one Of the
mills OF Lawrence.
SOME of the French journals report
that President Theirs and NJ. Gambetta
are negotiating for the establishment of
q moderate Republic.
THE population of Great Britain at
the present moment is about twenty
per cent. smaller than that of the United
States.
SOME trouble has occurred in an Illinois
town by the discovery that a Judge has
for several months past been swearing
witnesses on a dictionary.
CAPTAIN Com of the steamer China.
refused 500 from the japanese Govern
ment for rescuing four of the Japanese
from a wreck.
ONE hundred and seventy-nine trains,
carrying passengers daily arrive and de-
part from Chicago, eighty-three of which
carry the United States mails.
HoN. FREDERICK WATTS, of Carlisle,
Penn, has been appointed successor
to Gen. Capron as Commissioner of
| A sat,lt 20 date ffDp, ba led sNf A.,
gust.
A FEARFUL hail-storm passed over
Western Iowa, doing much damage at
Atlantic. The postoffice building and
several houses were destroyed and two
men fatally injured.
1t is stated that he IRON of Pennsyl-
vania is so far superior to that in use on
the Clyde, that the foreign underwriters
have been forced to recognize the differ
ence in making their rates.
IT has become known that NJ. Gam
beta, during his Dictatorship, author
lied the opening of private letters, for
the purpose of discovering who were
inimical to his Government
Count DE PERsIGNY has been writing a
letter to the London papers, in which he
is said to attribute the disasters to the
French arms in the late war to their iso-
lation.
A TRACT of about one hundred acres
of Clinton Mountains, Arkansas, has
sunk, carrying big trees entirely out of
sight, and the hole continues to enlarge
its borders.
The annual report of the Albany Pen
itentiary for 1870 gives a tabular state
ment of the convicts received at that
institution for twenty-five years. The
total number was 20,514. '
The effect of the decision of the Sole.
itor of the Treasury in regard to the in
come taxes, will be that they will not be
collected. Making loss to the govern
ment of four million dollars.
New YORK devours nearly thousand
barrels of eggs day. Each barrel con-
tains eighty dozen or more, SO that the
actual consumption is not far from a
million eggs, and the cost to consumers
about ten million dollars year.
A TRAVELLER stopping at the railroad
depot in Harrisburg, was robbed of O
satchel containing S150,000. He had
carelessly left the bag under the seat oil
the car while he went to get some re-
freshments. .... .r. ....
i THERE is one house in Cincinnati that
pays $4,000 year for advertising.
II There are several in Cleveland, even,
who pay as high as $4,000 year.
Somehow these men don't break up 8
liberal advertiser never does.
The survivors of the Massachusetts
regiment which served in the Mexican
7 war, have formed an organization, to bt
known as the Association of Massachu
sets Volunteers in Mexico. Col. Isaac
II. Wright was chosen commander
A SERIOUS riot occurred at Greenwich
London, on the occasion of the acquita
of an alleged murderer named Pook
On his release from confinement he wa
set upon by crowd numbering 4,00t
persons, but the mob was quelled.
The town of Fredonia, ILL.,, was ex
cited by the discovery of the dead bod,
! of little girl, aged six, the daughter o
= Richard Handel, in his house, six mile
! from the town. The body was a mas
, of bruises and cuts, which indicated tina
the child had died from violence.
Playing at War.
During the present summer shan
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