Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-30
News Summary.

News rAAhAAAls
TN income tax for the last fiscal year
amounts 10 $50. 0o1. 0o0; OF about ~ pr
bead
CopuoDoEE AsHnUHT has reoonsidered
lis determination not b send the yacht
LivOnia 10 America
yEaMoSr's elections are hereafter b
be held biennially. There viii be no
election in that State this year.
OrPOsTrIoS 70 the prolongafion Of
President Theirs term Of Office Is said
to be apidly growing in Franoe.
The total imports at New York for
the past week amount 10 S9,690, Az,
against s., 2l4, Ii6 for the corresponding
week Of last year.
THE next elections are 10 he held in
September, in the States Of California
aud Maine. The former viii be most
vigorously contested
The city government Of Paris has voted
$50. OO0. 600 10 rebuild and repair the
public edifces destroyed or injured
during the reign Of the Commune.
The first cost Of stock in Texas is light
the price there paid being for year
lings, from 81 TO $3.50; twO-year olds,
$3.50 to 81 cows with calves, Sc to S.
A FARMER in Mercer county, Mo-,
killed a viper fifteen feet long. His
snakeship was looking leisurely over the
fence at the man blowing, and he shot
him.
The apple crop throughout Pennsyl-
- : r.. ~, -. ova olla 20 laarn from
our exchanges, promises even a larger
yield than last year, when they we're
plentiful.
ELEVEN thousand barrels of flour have
lust been shipped from San Francisco
for Hong Kong, and another like ship
ment will soon follow, with 5000 barrels
for Singapore.
An order has been issued by the Minis
ter of Worship, forbidding throughout
the Russian dominions the holding of
divine services according to the forms of
the Protestant Baptist religion.
THE Grand Jury of Baltimore signed
and presented indictments against Mrs.
Elizabeth G. Wharton for the willful
murder of Gen. William Scott Ketchum
and an attempt to poison Eugene Van
Ness.
IT is said that the rapidly-increasing
population of Minnesota, by destroying
the timber and tilling the prairies, has
so changed the climate of that state as
TO make its value as a sanitarium for
consumptives exceedingly doubtful.
A mLLINER in Troy, Mrs. Grimes, told
her little apprentice, who had baked in
arranging a bow on 81 hat, that she
would shoot her for her offence and
the youngster, believing this to be true,
went into commissions for the rest of the
day.
The St Louis Democrat describes how
Deputy United States Marshal got
drunk, lost prisoner, was himself ar
rested by the police, was dismissed by
the Marshal, was put off train of cars,
aud was run over and killed, all in one
day.
LIEUT.. James Carlins, U. S. Cavalry,
has been dismissed the service for con-
duct prejudicial to good order and
military discipline" in ordering pri-
vate to fire at target before which a
trumpeter was standing, thereby killing
the trumpeter
A CoLD-BLooDED murder was commit
ted thirteen miles, from Denver, up the
Platte River. George NJ. Bonacina and
Mrs. Newton, his sister, were shot by a
German Farmland named Theodore
Myers. Bonacina is dead and Mrs.
Newton will probably die.
A YOUNG man in Missouri espied a
flock of wild turkeys, but as they were
too far off to shoot he secreted himself
under the bushes and "called " them.
Another hunter coming along heard the
call, and concluding it was a turkey Sc
creted in the bush, fired and killed HIM.
CoURBET's defence before the court
martial which is trying the communist
prisoners is a novel one. He claims that
he joined the Commune for the purpose
of effectiug pacifcation between its
members and the Versailles authorities,
and that to his personal exertions was
due the saving of many objects of art
during the siege of Paris.
Mr.. EDWARD RICHARDSON, q Yer
monter, after residing eighteen years on
the island of Hawaii, owns an estate of
400, 900 acres of land, plentifully inter
spersed with lava from the volcano of
Mauna Loa. He went to the Sandwich
Islands poor man to earn his livelihood
as carpenter. Among his other pos
sessions are 500 head of cattle.