Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-01
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VI A ten years lawsuit for 100000 has driven
II Kingston (N,Y.) man crazy
Uncle Sans barking is done by el,OOO,OOO
dogs.
Pennsylvania wedding brok through
tho floor and fell into the cellar.
Mr.. Stewards real estate at Auburn is vail
ned Mt S2oO,OOO.
Some Georgia ladies logged bogus doc
tor for quackery. ....,
Oh horrorsl Laura Fair is invited to the
lecture field.
A paper suit of clothes, for two shillings,
is thc latest novelty In London.
A 100000 indianapolis girl advortiscs
for scaled proposals for marriage.
A birch bark canoe factory is said to be an
institution of Duluth.
A New Jersey nurse fed the baby pins be-
cause she had grudgc against the parents.
"what Shall IIindcrP" Is Anna Dickin-
sons new lecture. Ask us something easier.
A twenty-five dollar fire was the biggest |
Chicago could raise on the anniversary of
the great blaze.
The horse attached to Quebec horse car
refused to run over drunken man, the other !
night.
Owens a. Pondleton oiWaverly, r. l.. have
lost $4,000 by the escape of 200 minks from
their minkery.
Two s0-pound Goldfish were recently
brought into Nowburyport Mass, "thc larg-
est they ever saw" say the fishermen.
DIR. Carl Booth Of Boston says it is want
of salt in the blood that leads to smallpox.
Pass the salt-ccllar please.
People who advertise only once in three
months forget that most folks can't rcmem-
Der anything longer than about seven days
So many accidents occur from infants med
ding with matches their parents can't be too
careful to keep their children in close metal
| ic boxes,
Some prophet asserts that whenever the
wages of the mechanics arc raised to Ss and
$40 u day the workmcn will not come at all,
they will merely send their cards.
The widow of Hon. Levi Woodbury., once
the belle Of Washington, may still be seen
Mt n good old age, riding hoSeback about
the suburbs of Portsmouth, N. IL.
A lady who has been boarder for several
years has set of hair jewelry MS tho result
OF careful research into the pie and soup
dealt out to her.
It is very touching to hear that Mr.. Sew
ards last words were, Love one another"
1t is really amazing that great generals and
statesmen manage to say such neat little bits
of sentiment on their death-beds.
Jerusalem is agitated over her water sup
ply. The pool of Sloan and II few others
like it are all that can be depended upon, and
they are full of bugs and other live organ
isms.
A father in Titusvllc, Pa, who has two or
three courtable girls, placed Il notice on his
front door one night, which read Shut down
for thirty days. No stove in the parlor, and
but one lamp"
A lady, who asserts that her opinion is
based upon u close observance, says that
men,. rs u rule, regard their wives rs angels
for just two months, namely-a month be-
fore marrying her and n month after bury
ing her,
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daughter in-law, created so much scandal by
the intimacy in which they lived, that their
morality loving neghbors tarred and feather
ed them, rode them on II rail, and ducked
them in n irog-pond.
A man got up at night in Iowa City, Iowa,
and thrashed ns wife till he woke up the
whole house and then made her aud every
/ do 1sn ,n hnI oil
time, and didn't know what he had been
about.
Tho relatives of the Pussian Licutcnaut
Won IIaiiten, who eloped with the two young
sisters from Berlin and who is now with them
ut salt Lake City, have published card. in
which they assert that he is insane on the
subject of freeloye. A good many are.
Ono of the saddest sights in this season of
the year is n young man who has waited out
side the church of an evening until he is
chilled through, only to see his girl walk of
with some rascal who has been inside all the
time toasting his sinful shins at the stove.
A Canadian family lately crossed Lake
Michigan, bringing with them an ancestor
who had lain in Dominion soil for twenty
seven years. A storm arising, the supersti-
tious sailors attributed it all to the presence
of the dead body, and promptly pitched il
overheard. ....
A Maine soldier has given up his pension
for this reason II am n firm believer in the
immediate return of our Saviour to earth
have felt condemned FOR some time for
taking this money, II being the price of blood
from the pension list"
There is difficulty in finding jury when
an Indian comes before an Omaha court.
One of the panels being asked if he had any
prejudice, replied mo, only I've been
chased by EN-, been in several battles with
'enr, and would hang every devil of 'em at
sight
Our most distressing and immoral poor
rates are those which go to maintain in local
and federal offices men who would other
wise have to earn their own living. Our
laws now exclude ordinary paupers from the
polls but allow this class Of able-bodied pau
pers to do most of the eedtionecring
At u banquet given in honor of the new
Archbishop of Baltimore, Bayley, ut the ar
chiepiseopal residence on the 18th, the bishop
expressed himself in favor of liberty of con-
science, and said, says the correspondent of
the New York Herald that "he was an ear
nest advocate of its fullest exercise"
Tho wife of benjamin White, an Osborn
(Q) man, recently elopod with O. Judson,
andhor husband thereon sold all that he had
and followed the guilty pair to South Brit
ain. Here the unlaithful wife attempted to
bride her deserted spouse, but without avail
and Judson q Go, now await trial in New
Haven Jail.
Henry Lotus of the English nobility got
separated from his wife and daughter through
q divorce, and some years afterward married