Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-11

nuisance.
An Omaha hotel waiter has inherited
$4,000 fIOm rich uncle.
Mrs. Frances Grindle, Of Penobscot. Me.
died, lately, from the poisonous effects of
rhubnrh leaves eaten ne greens.
The women of Wisconsin town have or
ganizcd to prosecute the men who leave their
teams standing on the street crossings.
There is society Of unfnshiOnablcs in
Philadelphia, and any member who puts on
style is fined 80.
An old chap NJ Oil City. Pa, likely to die,
has burned up $4,000 that there may be no
quarreling over his will.
Serenading parties who go bowling around
New Orleans are apt to get II job Of picking
shot out of each others legs.
Several horses and carriages were stolen
ut an Ohio camp-meeting. but the local paper
says the religious interest continued undated.
A Scranton (Pn.) woman put her tongue
on fat-iron to SEQ If it was hot. She found
out, and has been so quiet since that her hus-
band has stayed at home almost every night.
After two years of divorced life, and con-
slant but vain endeavor to marry somebody
else, an indianapolis couple have reunited.
Young men with disposition to "burgle"
will be interested in knowing that full set
of burglars tools, including revolvers and
slung -shots, costs about $1,000.
A stick OF hewed pine timber was hauled
out of the woods at Peshtego, Wis, recently,
which measured LOG feet in length aud 90
inches square.
A murderer ut Meridian, Miss, asked to ho
hung on the Fourth of July, and the nudge
kindly consented, rs it would help along the
proposed celebration.
Girard Pa, claims u little child, perfectly
developed, which weighed but three ounces
at birth and seven ounces when three weeks
old.
A horse that hunts for rabbits and kills
them with his fore-feet, merely for the pleas
ure of it, is among the boastcd possessions of
New Albany, Ind.
During the warm weather the principal
occupation of the "girl of the period seems
to be sitting on the stoop waiting for the
looming man."
Mrs. Junk of Ohio disclplines hst husband
by holding his head in pail of water. She
held it little too long, while ago, and ac
complished his eternal sSbjugation.
Miss Baxter, pious old maid of Dundee
Scotland, has given 1000 guneas toward
sending a ship-load of missionaries to feed
the starving heather of New Guinea.
Forty-six young ladies graduated at Vassar
college, Wednesday, being tho largest class
ever sent out from the institution. Nearl.
one-third of them were from New England
They make coffee from almost everything
nowadays, but Mrs. Stearns of Keokuk de
clares that when she gets new husband anC
family, she shall use no more rat extermina
tor.
Justice Hunt of the United States supreme
court perpetrated but one joke in his life. II
was at Canandaigua, lately, when he
asked Susan b. Anthony il she had anything
to say"
Little Rock, Ark, furnishes the first tra
under tho law prohibiting the sending of OBJ.
scene messages on postal cards, Michac
Quinn having been bound over for trial for
that ofiense.
A young man from the country slapped )
big copper cent under the ose OF tho staml
clerk at the Troy post-oflice recently, saying
81 guess I'll take one of them ere pastoral
cards, mister !"
The Cherokee, Iowa, Times of June 9Th
says" As we go to press the air is fille'
with millions of grasshoppers. The cloud il
so vast that the sun seems to shine through
All Indian summer fog"
Gen. Horace Porter is introducing military
rules into the Pullman car service Porter:
must hereafter take off their caps whel
speaking to passengers and conductors; su
the Africans rebel.
In his oagcrGess to catch II fox that had run
into hollow log North Carolina hounC
forced himself so firmly into the hollow tina
he could not withdraw and there he died.
and SO did the fox.
After doing London by gas-lght in compa
ny with Albert Edward, who knows the ropes
the shah of Persia wonders what possible OBJ
lection the English could have to his bringing
his three wives along.
Texas is large and sparsely populated, but
the poor people are doing the best they can
A Wade county man is the father of so chill
dren, having had 10 by his first wife, 10 by hi.
second, 10 by his third, six by his fourth, and
thus far, three by his fifth.
A MsAdvillc Pa.) girl, who was looking
at u circus clown whirling II hat with stick
remarked 10 her young man that she " use'
to do that" The young man was looking n
a contortonist in another part of the arenf
who had his legs tied around his neck, an,
an explanation was necessary
Pickpockets do not enjoy life in California
An old bull whscker felt IL strange han,
in his pocket there, recently. and. pulling hi
penknife, with blade that weighed pound
cut of the mans hand at the wrist and threV
it after him, with the advice to put it i
whisky, where it would keep"
Eben Sumner of Vinton, Ia, was dischare
ed from Jail, last week, after four months
sentence, for attempting to murder his wife
and the very first thing no did WAS to get I
double-cdged butcher-knife and plunge
into his wife's throat, killing her, and tn
next thing no did was to kill himself
After bevy of children in Somorville
Tenn, had fooled with revolver for half Al
hour without accident the oldest brother bo
came disguised at the harmless character O
tho sport, and, arranging his little playmate
in single group, he fired into them, killin
one brother, woundng another in the arm
and shooting off his sisters nose.
Two Pittsburg negroes covered shagg
Newfoundland dog with tar and benzole an
then set him on fire. lie ran through tn
e town like n comet, and took refuge under
small tenement in which u woman was lyin
sick. The house caught fire. the woman Wi
a thrown into commissions and her life is d.
e SPARED of but the negroes have not been n