Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-06-20

at Fast Greensboro, with Matthew Ferran
for his farm in Wheelock.
1t was Mrs. WIN. Kilby (not Kelley, as
misprinted last week. who was hurt by being
thrown out of wagon at Newpart Center.
Sol. NJ. Field has sold his farm in the
North Western part of Newport, late rented
by Mr.. Fox, to Stephen DIN and Henry III
liott price Sl,7O0
The Orleans County Medical Society had
Il very successful meeting in Newport, on the
4th. IL will hold another at Barton Land.
ing, August LIST.
Amasa Scott, Of Craltsbury, OF whose sue.
cess as hayist, Mr.. Collins has given our
readers so good an account, begun haying
last week.
Daniel Randall, of Glover has returned
from Boston, where he had been to have a
diseased eye removed. The operation was
successfully performed.
The landlord at Irasburgh has got an ALI.
gators head, brought from Florida as an os-
scous curiosity. 1t has a very open countc.
nance, when its jaws are extended.
An unaccounted-lor infant was found
buried under a manure heap in Newport
Centor last week. Gossip and suspicion arc
having good time over the poor little thing
The Lady Of the Lake now makes daily
trips on lake Memphremagog, connecting
with the mail trains south in the morning
and with the trains north and south at I p
NJ
A. Perrin, OF Greensboro has cat that
captured woodchuck, bringing it into the
house alive. The same cat brought in a
weasel, recently, and the weasel held mouse
in its mouth,
Duncan McFarlane, OF Greensboro, has a
hen that has laid six eggs consecutivcly, that
have measured seven by eight inches, and
the six being weighed together ION Fairbanks
scales), averaged four ounces each. Now,
when any Que can beat this let them speak
until then Greensboro boasts the heu Of the
period
The Express says the necessity Of police
force in Newport is almost every day appar.
ent. What makes folks stay in place they
are always dcnouucng as drunken and dis.
orderly in the cxtrome We are in New.
port more than half our time, and we don't
believe there is Il more orderly village Of its
size in New England.
A correspondent writes Grin French
x Son, of Glover, have well developed rose
in full bloom, on crab apple tree. Two
similar cases have occurred in the State this
season (Which cannot be strictly correct
since "roses grow only on rose bushes
But both the rose and apple belong to the
same botanical family, and produce very
similar blossoms. When an apple tree pro.
ducos an unusually large flower, as sometimes
occurs, it generally gets reported as above
but it is still an apple blow, and il any fruit
follows it will be an apple and not rose
hip.
| The NeU Yoek TriJlme says 1t is an.
nounccd that N. p. Boyer, Of Pennsylvania
who has had some noteriety in connection
with live stock operations, has "fied to parts
unknown" This is the gentlemen whose
swindling operations were exposed in the
FARMER a year or so ago, after his having
been extravagantly pulled in the Newport
Express and his advertising circular, under
the name of "Stock Journal" offered as q
valuable premium to the Express subscribers
This journal" cost Camp ten cents year
but it cost some Of his subscribers, who trust.
ed in its false statements, a good deal more