Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-12-04

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new election must b. had, ia which case he
would stand about as much chance of an
election as Ben Butler does Of being elected
governor Of Massachusetts,.
IL seems that Congressman james IL.
Plat, n West Virginia carpet Dagger FROM
Vermont, was reelected in November on the
republican ticket, but the democratic COM
missioners are trying to count him out by
fraud. The entire vote in several precincts
where no had majorities is thrown out by
them, and the clerks offices in one or two
counties have been broken open and the poll
books and ballots from those precincts CIV
ing Platt maiorities stolen. Talk about the
purity of either party They arc as pure as
hell is righteous.
A shocking massacre Of white settlers by
the Esquimaux Indians occurred at the set
Element Of lndian-Tickle, Labrador, on the
18th inst, two whole families, with the ex-
ception Of a young girl, being the victims.
For some time back the Indians had been
committing robberies, and several of the
dcpredators being captured, they were pub
licly whipped. In revenge, on the night of
the 18th inst, they attacked the families Of
William j. Morrison and his two sons
Thomas aud Herbert, and Robert Morrison
and wife and their children, William,
Charles, james and Lizzie, numbering all
except the last named. This is the first in-
stance Of criminal or troublesome conduct
among the Esquimaux in Labrador in the
memory Of the Oldest fisherman.
Agriculture has enriched no section of the
country with the suddenness aud the album.
dance with which it has poured wealth into
California. While. commercial San Fran
cisco has had the blues, rural California has
suddenly grown rich. Everybody, says the
San Francisco Bulletin, has capital to lend.
"And the bank on California street is to
raise its capital to So, 200, 000," and money
lending overtops all other business. Private
citizens open offices to dispose Of their own
capital, and "laboring.men and servant-girls'
join the army of lenders. The city savings
banks, which used to refuse to lend on coun-
try property, are now receiving remittances
for Investment from the savings banks which
have been established in the country itself
Ia fact, the surplus Of idle capital is greater
than that in st. Louis or Chicago, which
have double the population of San Francisco,
and the demand is urgent Tor manufactures
commercial investments, or something tC
do" California is a hard money state.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
All the Manchester manufactures, except
the print-works, nave been running only five
days a week for some time, but they are to
resume on full time in a fVW days.
The investigation Of the affiirs Of the
Milford savings bank, recently robbed, re,
suits in cutting down the accounts Of de
p%ositors 10 per cent, though the bank had
estimated the loss at only 4! per cent. The
actual loss is probably about s per cent.
MASSACHUSETTS.
James McCann Of Boston upset a kero
sene lamp Wilde drunk on Monday night,
aud was burned to death.
An officer Of a large manufacturing corpo.
ration, having his headquarters at Boston,
gets as big a salary as the president of the
United States. Wonder if the mandatory
he represents is running on half time on &C.
count of poor markets and the high wages Of
operatives
A West Roxbury fireman heard what he
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burning building, last week, and, seizing a
blanket, he rushed into the binding smoke,
and, catching up the child, made a hasty
exit. When he carefully unwrapped the
blanket before the crowd, he disclosed
three months pig.
CONNECTICUT.
The Connecticut poultry society propose
to make their exhibition at Hartford, next
month, the best one of the season in this
country. The premiums amount to Sl6ll.
RHODE ISLAND.
Eliza A. Cranston, wife Of Jackson Grams.
ton, recently from Boston, was burned to
death a. Providence, Sunday morning. Thc
husband was stupidity drunk in bed, witt
his clothes on, aud the wife. partially in
toxicated, upset n table, with u kerosene
lamp, and was fatally burned when the 9th,
or tenants of the house reached the scene.
NEW YORK.
Mayor Havemeyer, of New York City
fell dead while engaged in his official bust
ness at City Hall, Monday.
The inspectors in the custom house ar
alarmed over a prospective reorg ~anizatiol
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who have not done enough political work tc
please their suporiors and replace them with
more serviceable tools.
A New York jury and a New York judg
(Barrettl have actually gone and done it
broken the spell of % years immunity, anC
convicted and sentenced a liquor dealer, on
Sigismund Schwab, to 30 days in the cit,
prison and to pay a fine of 5000 for sellin
without a license. The Judge Furthermore
warned the liquor-dealers that, if their OF
ganized resistance to the law continued, I'll
full penalty would be melted out in all fu
turo cases.
The conviction aud sentence Of Sigismun
Schwab in New York City, for selling liq
uor without u license, has thoroughly scare
the liquor dealers, as is evinced by the sud
den aud overwhelming increase in the de
mand for licenses, many Of them from mel
who haven't taken out a license before for 4
decade. Friday, the excise board receive,
200 applications and took in $4,000, an
many went away unable to be attended t
from want of sufficient clerical force. Here
tofore 500 a day has been an UNUSUAL.
good days work, and 500 a week not in
frequently the average.
A horrible tragedy is reported from Ham
ilton county. A carpenter named Ella
Williams aud an assistant named Georg
Smith, who were erecting a frame house i
he midst Of the forest, got into a drunkeI
quarrel, when Williams in the course OF th,
struggle threw Smith over a wooden saw
horse, aud then with a hand.saw, which h
all the time held in his hand, sawed off tn.
head Of his antagonist, severing it entirely
from the body. His rage cooling, remOrs
, followed, and he cut his own throat with the
saw, falling II corpse beside the remains o
Smith. A lad named Grant witnessed tn,
tragedy and conveyed the news two miles tC
people who reside nearest the scene of tn