Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01

Columbus (Ga.) man of % has just mar
ried his fourth wife. The three previous ones
died each leaving two children.
A scenery def,,cer has been fined 50 ut
Port Henry N. Y, for painting advertise.
mcnts on rocks Served him right.
The body ola boy who was drowned. New
years Day, was found in the lake ut Chicago,
the other day. with skates still on the feet.
A professor of philosophy in the university
of Kiel. in Schleswig- Hostein, recently cele-
brated the 29O9d birthday Of Plato with
ball.
Miss Nettie Mckee, u young lady of 90, liv-
ing in Allegheny, Pa, has inherited the
whole of her fathers estate, estimated ut
g., OOO, 900.
great interest in temperance has recent
ly been developed in Richmond, Va. All
trades and professions are included in the
movement.
Gov. Carpenter, of Iowa, will call con-
vention ofwestern and southern governors in
the fall, to consider the transportation ques-
ton.
Colorado cattle-driver got mad when
some young men he had engaged to assist
him asked him to provide them with UNI
brellAs.
Death took three generations from Ma
rysvile (Ky.) family, recently,--a Mother
daughter. and granddaughter,-all in one
day.
Ex-Mayor Oakley Hall, of New Y Ork, is an
| ~ l.art 4 I .,,,I
Divorce" Tweed and Connolly haven't an
nounced their subjects.
A Washington territory man offers to con-
tribute 1875 toward fund to buy off the men
who have made it their business for 10 years
past to hold all the offices.
The mess system at the university of
Virginia makes living cheap. Board is on
ly 80 u month, and one student lived one year
on $l4O, which paid all his expenses.
Those who want to be toetotalers should
let up on eating bread. A New Yorker has
discovered that "a pound loaves of bread
contain as much alcohol as a bottle of port
wine.
Recent developments convict the Russian
ladies of having strong bias toward free
love. Such is the effect of climate on feel
ings. 1t is expected to break out soon in
Minnesota.
A Pennsylvania man owns Bible III years
old that has never had its leaves cut. If
such careful usage continues, the sacred vol
ume will answer for his descendants for
twice rs many years to come.
A Sioux chief, after following u surveying
party on the Northern Pacific for some days,
mildly remarked that they might go on, for
he'd be id If he'd freeze to death for what
hair there was in that crowd.
A Kentucky WAGNER finds from his &C
count books that in thirty years journeying
ever the turnpike between Maysville and
Lexington he paid $50, 900 toll which, AS he
justly remarks, told heavily OH his business
profits.
A Maine paper announces, as an item Of
State news, that the first naval battle of the
Revolution was fought at Machas Harbor,
in ITS. This is an interesting fact, but il
has been n little slow in finding its way into
the local journals.
Talk about England being free-trade No.
ton when her customs revenues have risen
to ECO, 900, 900 year! So long as nations be-
grid themselves with duties on imports and
exports, IL is mere hypocrisy to call them
free-trade nations.
Witchcrafl Is still on the rampage ut Ber-
tie. N. G. A mans hogs were recently be-
witched by an old white bag. but, after many
Of them had died, the spell was removed by
n blackamoor wizard, and cast upon the
witch herself and it killed her.
Sixteen gallons of water were taken from
drOpscal patient in Stamford, Ct. recent
ly. That is to say, about one hundred and
sixty pounds. 1t seems rs if it would have
been easier to have tapped tho water and
drawn off tho patient.
II n man clerk and n woman clerk in Mr..
Richardson's treasury department at Wash
ington love and marry, he turns one of them
out. He thinks it is not right to have too
many of one family in office. He got this
idea from Gen. Grant.
A st. Louis jury in libel suit brought by
II woman against newspaper brought in n
verdict Of $500 damages, with the eXplana-
ton that they at first agreed to call it one
cent but not wishing to be rough on the plain
tiff changed II to $500, knowing that she
couldn't collect it.
Some women are so delicate that they are
afraid to ride, for fear of the horse running
away; afraid to walk, for fear the dew might
fall; afraid to sail, for fear the boat might
upset; but they are never afraid to get mar
ried, which is more riskful than all the 9TH
ers put together.
The Louisville Courier-Journal thinks "it
would, indeed. be shame to hang Stokes
Such thorough gentlemen, when they choose
TO Undue their bejewelcd hands in the igno
BILE blood of an adventurer like Fisk, should
not be punished as the common herd are
but, If punished at all, should simply be ban
ishsd to tho gardens of Gul in their bloom
there to revel eternaly in the elysian sweets
OF loves young dream"
An Oil City (Pa.) sheriff is in u quandary
lie has levied upon torpedo magazine con
tanning several cans Of nitro-glycerine, anC
the owner refuses either to give up the key
or TO open the door. The door could be burst
open, but the sheriff has comfortable home
few thousand dollars in the bank, and hi!
wife is quiet and aflectionatc consort, so he
don't want to go TO fooling around that dool
with sledge hammer Hence his hesita
ton.
gentleman who had occasion to visit
Long Island" an island lying about three
quarters of mile from the main land and
nearly opposite the town of Bremen, Maine
says that he visited school on said island
where there were 40 scholars all Of whom
were the grandchildren of Mr.. Thomas Col
lamore and wife. who have lived thore =
large part of their lives. Mr.. Collamore il
now 10 years of age, and the most GRANDPA
ther we ever heard of.