Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-01-17

California is making brandy from figs. |
The liquor is very pleasant, and after drink |
ing quart or so man will stand any
amount of abuse from his wife, with ushaken
fortitude.
The Delaware Indians live in frame
houses wear cut-away coats and stand-up
collars, fail in business and compromise Mt
fifty cents on the dollar. and nrc getting quite
civilized.
The students of the Michigan University
concluded not to pay Henry Ward Bcccher
~ 600 for one lecture seeing that sum would
purchase 10000 glasses Of beer aud other
brain-mnking material.
Colorado is to be admitted ms - State. The
population Of that Territory is nearly 100000,
and II is pointed out that seventeen States
have been admitted while their population
was under that number.
James r. Thompson, n wealthy farmer of
/ lIarrodsburg, Ky, is said to have absconded,
| leaving liabilities 90 the amount of $4,000.
| Twenty threc attachments have been levied
| on his farm of 700 acres on Crane River.
! Ifthis age is remarkable for anything, it
Is for the freedom with which it critcises
pulpit preaching, which, we are sorry to
learn from the Jc,riSh Messenger, is no better
in the synagogucs than in the churches
The coolest man yet discovered is he who
stopped II train on Pennsylvania railroad,
the other night, and handed the engineer
some currency, requesting him to bring him
down IL quarter of II pound Of fine cut.
Joseph Lala, the carver of the Cardiff
giant, resides in Troy. lie received $4,000
for the job; aud, on the exhibition of the
giant being so successful, was presented with
I'm additional -, 900 by the grateful managers
of the humbug.
Among the persons convicted of drunken
ness, the other day. in the municipal court
ut Boston, was sister OF prominent mem
her of the Suffolk bar and the wife of II man
in Brooklinc, who appeared in the dock
ROBBED IN II 5000 shawl
They have lee mt st. Paul fourteen feet
thick. This eXcites the local jealousy o
| Duluth, which boasts that it is so cold Their,
, that feather bed has been frozen rs stin n
I poker The controversy is warm one
G ut any rate.
5 Tho Richmond ERqaircr makes mention
I of II projected recumbent statute of Genera
Lee, on n sarcophagus-thc whole to be mad
of Vermont marble Vermont would hav
U Willingly furnished the marble for that mon
: ument years ago
= A foolish FOX sat down on the track of tn
l. b. Il =. Railroad near South Lagrange, on
!. evening, so Us to get better view of tn
headlight of the approaching locomotive
o The man who picked up the skin said
|. wasn't worth half-pricc, there were so man
\ pieces oft
o The Rhode Island Medical Society has nc
If mittod Miss Anita +. Tying to membership
Y She is the first female member. Miss Tyn
# -cxcuse us, DIR. Tyng-was once pupil {
the Editor of the FARMER, and he can certil
- to her ability to cope successfully with tn
ablrst male practitioners.
The chaSm between Rev. j. Sella Marti
and Mr. Frederick Douglass would seem
y be rather widening than otherwise. w
are gricvcd to hear that Fred now alludcs t
:, Sella us ~ miserable subterfugc fora colore
man. and that the Orleans divine rctorts ii
calling Fred n cross and crazy old Niger.
- This is not scemly language