Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-10-28

and had to be shot.
That was very good joke of the squirrel
hunting 1rishman, whose gun kicked him
over while the furry twitterer ran away, that
che wouldn't feel so nice if he had his end of
the gum" but II good many people this year
are making II practical test of with fatal
consequences. The latest is Joseph Delaney,
prominent citizen of Chester, H.. who
struck at squirrel with the butt end of his
gun, but instead of hitting it discharged his
piece into his own abdomen, killing him in
stantly.
Mr.. Blob is Il temperance editor in Cali
fornia who tries to initiate Cough, and this
! is how near he comes to it: 80 brothers,
why will ye, and why will we not? Lo! the
crystalline liquid drippeth from the rock and
wasteth upon the plain-and ye will not.
The fiery poison moveth itself in the glass
and We will o miserable and blind; there
is no safety for thee but in our band of tee
totlers! Come up and teetotle! Come and
join thy thirsty spirit unto ours, even as
drop is joined unto its ocean,"
At Rye, n. H., lately, three gentlemen
heard II cry of "Oh," us if from some person
in distress. Full of benevolent intentions,
they started at full speed to succor the per-
son who was hurt, and soon, out of breath
with their run, they discovered the bare
head of Il man above the bushes. As soon
they could recover breath, one of them asked,
''Are you much hurt? we thought you were
about dead" IL am dead to this world
young man, and wish you were too" was the
reply from an itinerant preacher who had
arrived the night before, and who had re-
tired to the wood to have quiet prayer all
to himself and such persons who were not
deaf within circuit of half mile.
Though the following salutatory of an Or
egon ediress is certainly commendable, we
should hardly agree that doubtful chances of
success in the journalistic field was the most
desirable reward of life of toll 1--WE have
served regular apprenticeship mt working
washing, scrubbing, patching, ironing. darn
ing plain sewing, raising babies, milking,
, churning and poultry raising. We have
! kept boarders, taught school, taught music,
written for the newspapers. made speeches,
and carried on an extensive millinery and
DuSlHcSS. We Cul plONc NY IHt
l public that this work has been well done.
Now, having reached the age of SO, and hav-
ing brought up family of boys to set type,
and daughter to run the millinery store,
5 we propose to edit and publish newspaper,
. and we intend to establish it us one of the
permanent institutions of the country"
y Tennessee is alive with 'caterpillars, and
S on the line of the Mississippi and Tennessee
l railroad their corpses have made the track
y so slippery that the trains are brought to a
standstill until it is cleared off and sanded
The locomotive rolled over the insects with
IL popping, swapping sound for few feet and
when the wheels were well creased with fat
> it would stop, and not until the track was
: swept and sanded, would the wheels perform
their duty. Shortly after passing, the cater
' pillars swarmed over the rails, land the mex
7 train passing had the same work of sweeping
), to perform, A little lake or sheet of water
seven miles from Memphis, near Fonconnah
!, is literally swarming with caterpillars, which
S having crowded its borders in countless NUM-
l.. hers, are crowded into the water by force o
il numbers from the vast army in the rear