Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-09-27
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of promise verdict, rs warming TO trihers.
The city Of Washington now owns Powers's
"Groek Slave" the gin of w. w. Corcoran.
Gen. r.. L. Lees room at the Lexington
(Va.) University is to be LEFT "foroverun-
touched"
Butter inspectors have been appointed ut
Paris for tho purpose of putting u stop to
adulteration.
There are 1900 employees in the treasury |
building at Washington, one-thrd of whom
are women.
Chicngo pays s9i7,OO6 for the 5,6iS,79l |
gallons OF water with which its yearly milk |
is diluted.
Miss Lottie Grant, of Tippecanoe county,
Ind, always drank buttermilk, aud now
weighs 4s2 pounds.
The World now assures its readers that not
much can be done in New England witt. eli
ther peaches or Greeley.
Treasurer Spinner decides that when
mutilated note has five eighths left it shall be
redeemed mt its full value.
A Fond du Lac girl did it the other day,
with one of her delicious little iootsies on
each side other gallant palfrey.
A gushing damsel of 30, in johnson county
Tenn, went and hanged herself because her
father would not consent to her marriage.
Eugene now dresses almost entirely in
red and black, aud her beautiful hair is be-
ginning to turn gray.
| II l., q, xynn,t thot no no,,ronu col
vote for Greeley They have not received
liberal education asyct.
\ wife wrote to her husband, absent in
California, that the longer he stayed away
the better she liked him.
An insane Pennsylvania editor imagines
himself mule. The insanity consists in us
suning that he is half horse.
Princess Beatrice, the fifth daughter of
Victoria, who is just reported bctrothed to
the marquis of Stafford, is in her 10th year.
Three persons died in Crockett county,
Tenn, recently after drinking coffee from a
pot into which u box of matches had fallen.
A Philadelphia advertisements reads THE
upper part Of this house to let, containing
three rooms, Il cellar, II Kitchen and n back
yard
Mr.. Tate, of Illinois, attempted to steal
watermclons. The proprietor saw him
through telescope on his rifle The estate
goes to his widow.
l.. II. IL s. S. Merrill are building starch
factory IN Colebrook n. H., which will be Of
sufficient capacity to manufacture 1000 bush
els of potatoes per day into starch.
4 man in Detroit found $4,000 in green.
backs under his kitchen floor, but the bills
had lain so long that they turned to dust ant
mold rs soon us touched.
Stanley is to lecture. lie should draw
good houses,--for there are thousands of per
: sons who are ever ready 10 pny freely 70
the chance to see II celebrity.
The queen of Spain has been in such II stat
Of nervous excitement since the recent ut
tempt 10 assassinate the king and herself, tina
insanity is feared ms the result.
l \ Kentucky groom is ready to swear thl
c Goldsmith Maid is the very horse that wa
0 stolen, five years ago, from stock-raiscr'
q stables in which he was then employed,
But little over three months remain of lea
q year, and the scarcity of marriage notices hi
O been II noticeable fact. If tho ladies eve
p meant business they SHOULD pitch in
y 4 Terre lIauto wor ms pet puppy recent
\ ~ swallowed u diamond ring on her linge
while she was feeding him. lie was consid
N erably "cut up about it soon aiterward.
&c An Iowa man couldn't see his wife die
l. not that he didn't enjoy the sight, but he ieal
d cd she would exact promise that he woul
: not marry again. As it is, he will 'rc-wive.
An Ohio man gave u revolver to his littl
/ boy to play with, and the usual result ensuet
: The pistol was discharged, instantly killing
Of young lady who was sitting ut supper in til
D. room.
70 In paragraph on vacations the ChrtStid
Union says:-"lt strikes us that society is s.
n arranged that the American young lady Ia
= pretty easy time of it, compared with he
N brother
70 Pennsylvania politician has been tryin
Is to fog Carlisle editor for ridculing one {
" his speeches. Tho man should be ut one
removed from the political arena His ski
" is too thin.
:, Mrs Clark is editing paper for Georg
y, Francis Train in Sacramento, and stirs Il
:, her readers with appeals such ms; "YoX pol
> uli, vox Train! We want man. W
should think so.
N Maine now puts in II claim for the mod,
W town. 1t is called Dayton, and has neithC
W public debts, lawyer, liquor saloon, nor loci
A. up, and its morals are so pure. in fact thu
m no minister of the gospel is needed.
rs Boston completed her 2l2d year on Tue
n day. September 18th. She's young thin
T. in fact, but aged for an American city; Ne
i York alone, among our big places, ber
n ahead of her in years.
=, In the Trappist monasteries in Englau
~ there is no flesh meat, no fish, no butter egg
wine, brandy, or whisky, and not n word
,r speech all the year round. They read not
. ing not written by the saints.
# Florida boasts of one-cgged coniedera
It. soldier who has been married since the wa
10 and who has been made the happy father
so four pairs of twins in succession. A mo
s. valuable iight-infantry man.
ny A man in Now Haven has expended $50
% in liddles, and now ho has more music in
D. house than no has in his soul. Butho doesT
do volins to his neighbors' feelings by pla
ing on all these hddlcs ut one time.
he A young man went into florist IS store
lg to buy q rosebud for his afliancod. Sevont
~ five conts was the price asked, "Will
nor keepPn inquired the young man. "Oh, yes.
m long while.n "Then keep it, was the repl
Mr.. William Collins married young
do In Marion Countv West Virginia. aft