Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-03-07
miscellaneous Stems.


Chester HIS lovely little Irish girl, not
quite 80 years old, who avordupoises $40, and
hopes to do better soon.
Out in Colorado they fine lawyers for con-
tempt of court whom they sling Latin around
too voluminously.
An ingenious colored resident of Mobile
got rid ofhis mothcr-in-law by tarring and
fcntherlng her and setting her on fire.
Newfoundland has u fleet of 81 steamers
and 1850 sailing craft, manned by 10000 men.
engaged in the seal fishery, this season.
A grave elder in an English church for
babe the banns of certain young couple be-
cause he had " intended Hannah for him
self"
Tho lower house of the Nebraska Legisla-
turo has declined to concur with the Senate
in bill legallzing marriage between white
people and negroes.
A woman juror in Wyoming recently took
her baby with her into the jury box, and the
man who lost the suit asked that the verdict
be set aside on that account.
A beautiful girl of Montgomery, Aha. was
killed while on her knees in prayer, the
other night, by the explosion of n kerosene
lamp.
The obscene literature dealers are writing
letters to congressman. protesting against the
passage Of the bill tor the suppression of
their business. Every trade has its " lobby ="
now
The Waco (Tex) Register says: Fred
n al fo NJ ,rt (Vff Nm
He is second lieutenant and his modest,
unassuming department renders him popular
with officers and men,
Kansas has often been tantallzed by in
dcations of oil in boring artesian wells, but
an actual 100 barrel well Of petroleum has
mcnt of the natives.
The Louisville Courier-Journdi sent out
an expedition IN search of Mast and found
him in the Sandwich islands suffering fro
impaired vision. There are scales on his
eyes.
Six thousand men are now grading the
! Texas Pacific railroad, and track laying will
begin rs soon rs the rise in the Red river en-
ables the necessary supplies to be brough
| up.
A negro minstrel troupe which performed
at Lewiston, Me-, lately. didn't know there
were two entrances to the hall, and studied
long to reconcile the overlooking house with
the handful oftickets sold.
Dryden WAS so bound up in his books that
his wife exclaimed: II wish were book,
/ tbat ,,;,,ht N 1,,avs l,a In vonr eOai,tv ~
wish you were an almanac, so | could
change you every year." replied he.
Flirtations on the stairs ara so popular in
Washington society, and the stair-ways are so
blocked up thereby. that there is talk OF hav-
ing temporary staircascs distributed through
the rooms for the accommodation OF these
fond people.
In the transformation scene of ?" Roughing
IT, now on the boards ut the Grand opera
house, New York, six little girls are intro
duccd who are triplets and the children Of
two sisters attached to the corps OF the the
alter.
Miss Emma Hoadley of Felchville was
killed at Cavendish, recently, where she had
been teaching school, She was driving
home, when the horse took fright and. col
liding with an OK team, she was fatally kick
ed IN the abdomen.
Kansas has made itself nearly bankrupt by
It's lavish assistance to railway projects
Over %, 100000 in bonds have already been
issued 10y counties and precincts and in some
instances the railroad debt exceeds the as
| al ali los ,,fa La nd
cincts or county.
st. Louis has II iuathered mouse. He was
taken out of bed-tick, and the feather $
that, in some way, had penetrated his skin
remained there and commenced CROWN z
There is AN affidavit to the statement, so we
are bound to believe it.
American girls need not be ashamed Of
themselves as long rs such advertiser ents
rs this appearin The London Lancet WANT.
ed-A respectable and responsible female
attendant for Il young lady addicted tn in
temperance
A widower named Busson of Spantland
H.. deserted the girl he was engaged to,
charging her with want of chastity, and
married rich widow. lie couldn't support
his charge, and the girl has recovered SlO,OOC
from him for breach Of promise.
A Methodist elder ut Westvile, o.. was
little too caustic in his remarks upon the dis
tilhng business, and upon two rich men OF
the place, in particular, who had made theil
money in liquor. and when he left the church
he was met by u voley of very bad eggs.
Mr.. Cook of Cincinnati lost his wife, abou
eight months since, on which account he hai
been much detected, and the other night he
was found lying ON her grave with both leg.
frozen. He refused to submit TO an amputa-
ton, saying he would rather die.
There was u revolt, not long since, agains
the authority of the sultan of Morocco, an,
after the government troops had quelled thu
disturbances 40 of tho ringeaders were be
headed by order of thc.pAsha, and the heads
after being sailed, were boxed up and sen
to the sultan,
Aristocracy in the 10th century is tn
league, the coalition, of those who wish Il
consume without producing, to live withou
working, occupy all public places withou
becoming competent to fill them, and seiz
upon all honors without meriting them
that is aristocracy!
The wife of "A German boarding hous
keeper named Weber, in Albany. ran of
, the other day, with one Whistler, taking he
three children with her. Webber followe,
! and found her, but, though she gave up tn
t children, she positively refused to go HON
E herself lie is trying to get mad enough /
9 shoot Whistler.
( A venturesome New York miss of IS "a
: mad with her parents, the other day, AM
{ started for New Haven with IS. She spen
one night ut hotel, when, her funds bein
div danIntad a gnnflau,on EindIv car.d r.