Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-25
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together Ia Siamese twins.
The newspapers have Fred Grant engaged
to daughter Of Judge Dunlevy Of Ohio.
A Nevada sheriff locked up an acquaint-
ance and then ran of with his wife.
The dog tax in Washington territory is
$25 per pup.
An Illinois windmill has run 1Sl days
without full stop. Legislative2
Railroad managers control both the old
party organizations in California. A fine
opening for the Changers.
A Texas woman has arrived at 81. Louis
with 1000 cattle, her own property, which
she assisted in driving from Texas.
Saloons are closed on Sunday at Long
Branch, but bar-keepers make professional
calls at private rooms, If desired.
A l9-year old chambermaid in a Chicago
hotel has gone TO prison for stealing articles
to the value Of $500 from the guests.
Judgeships have been dickered for by trad
ing politicians, and ratified for by gambling
politicians, quite long enough in this country.
Sylvester Brown of Ashtabula, O., when
adjudged not guilty Of the murder of bis
wife, rose up and said Gentlemen, think
can stand the soda-wAter on this I"
The Boston Post says that Western Col
lege has conferred the following degree upon
worldwide known citizen, Jubilee Gilmore.
z. 5. Gilmore, Fiddle d. ID.
A Kentucky paper, in announcing Sun
day-school picnic, "truly hopes that our cit
liens will, for once, leave their bOwie.knives
and revclvers at home"
A Florida paper has ascertained that a
healthy alligator can eat seven negro chill
dren in one forenoon, and not display any
symptoms of disquiet.
A Buffalo girl committed suicide on &C.
count Of the degraded character Of her father
and mother. Parents are a great trouble to
young people, nowadays.
A rural citizen Of Peufield, N. Y, was
mistaken by a Rochester pickpocket for a
opal" on the Fourth, and fat wallet was
dropped into his pocket.
An Ohio dog has been trained to walk
home with handsome school .marm, and he
has chewed up about forty young men who
demonstrated with theirpocket-handkerchief
Three women, one at time, married a
rich Philadelphia, in order to inherit his
property, but he has buried them all, and
now, at the age Of 95, is looking around for
another to bury.
The shareholders undertook to silence free
speech and muzzls free press; we all know
the result Of that experiment We shall see
whether the ofice-holderS have any better
luck.
Some Ohio Changers were so forgetful Of
their principles recently as to ask for special
rates over railroad while going to and re-
turning from a convention. The railroad
company logged their memory.
An English newspaper mentions that a
husband and wife recently set sail from Der
BY for Glasgow, Scotland, on the way to Ed
inburgh, the wife having on her knee her 33d
baby. Tweuty-four Of the 33 are living.
And now some scientists are claiming that
instead of being cold the moon is in reality
red-hot,--so much so that no living thing
known to our world could exist there. This
also knocks the green cheese theory.
Clear Greek county, CAL, claims the high
est race course in the world 1t is on the
top Of the highest and most desolate mountain
in that region, 10000 feet above the level Of
the sea. But the races are largely attended
The freedman doesn't gravitate very vio-
lently toward labor. Some colored Migrants,
recently arrested in Georgia, were offered
their choice of IL months in Jail or IL
months indenture to work, and they unhesi.
tatingly chose the former.
1t is stated that all the candidates for
Governor in Minnesota have announced their
cordial friendship for the farmers. Flowing
is their forte, and they all evince a lively
interest in the crops and the potato bug pros
pect.
Andrew Jackson said The best part Of
the population of country are the cultiva-
tors of the soil. Independent farmers are
everywhere tho basis Of society and the true
friends of liberty" But alas he said also
" to the victors belong the Spoils"
No day passes without the announcement
of some new danger to the country from the
abolition of the franking privilege The lat
est is that the negroes Of the South are be-
reft oftheir sources of"poitical information"
Who can Withstand the humor of that
1t is given out from the internal revenue
Office that the railroad men and the whisky
men have struck up an alliance, and arc ma
king their preparations for an assault on
Congress, next winter. The two rings men,
toned arc among the most powerful in the
country.
What will not tho chronic office. seeker dot
There is Donnelly, Of Minnesota, now per-
ambulating the State, delivering furious ad
dresses upon the grievances OF the farmers,
arrayed in the picturesque costume of hick-
DRY shirt, blue overalls and brogan shoes,
without stockings.
Prof Peters is diligently nursing the new
comet Aad, though it is now only mere nu-
cleus, he thinks he detects bushy outline on
one side, which, if the season is favorable,
will develop into a respectable tail He is
at present undecided whether the comet is
coming this way or not.
At the meeting Of women sufragists of
Cincinnati last week, Mrs Talbert. some
what colored woman, was introduced, and in
the course Of her remarks she stated that her
father was Dutch-Indian and her mother
Irish.negro, and then asked, "What am II"
The audience incontinently gave it up"
The Idaho Statesman, thus ISLANDERS an
Oregon minister "Near the close of the day
at camp-meeting in Oregon, short time
ago, the local preacher said: l hope all the
congregation will be here by 10 o'clock, for