Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-16
miscellaneous Stems.


falsely accusing an innocent subordinate.
II has just turned senator uut Tor these
comparatively trivial moral cccentricities.
A lean editor was bttcn by dog. which
evidently took him for bone. Diggins
says, TOO thinl' but does not state whether
lIe means the editor or the story.
II your parents won't lot You marry him
write u letter to II convent asking for II sit.
uation rs II nun. have the letter intercepted
by your mother, and finale of white satin,
lace. orange blossoms, and things will fol-
low. At least it worked that way with II
Troy girl.
The year 1874 will be revolutionary in
more senses than one, and we shall not be
ut all surprised if II rcvolutionizes Congress
If not IL its politics, assure,lly in its pol
ticians. New issues call for new men, and
new combinations for new candidates.
Plain people ask what compensation tho
Government gcts from the national banks
in return for the twenty million dollars it
pays them ON bonds deposited TO secure
their circulation, and why the Government
cannot furnish legal tender notes instead Of
national bank notes, and save the twenty
millions by converting intercst-bearing debt
into debt bearing no interest.
The death of John Z. Hale brings to light
u fact often limited ut pretty broadly before,
but in which no latly's name has ever been
given in print till now, to our knowledge.
The fact is that it was II daughter Of Mr..
Hale who was engaged to Wilkes Booth,
the man who shot President Lincoln In
Booths diary. which was taken from his
body, there was picture of this lady.
The editor of the Vicksbury Herald spent
$500 on church fair, hoping 10 get the
prize of $4,000 in gold. and he drew II brass
chain and photograph OF George Washing
ton.
A lady from the rural districts Of Virginia
went to Richmond recently and paid $50 for
four applications of maidstone TO bite re-
ceived from mad dog and which caused
her much pain. Each application LASTED
twelve hours. The pain was removed. The
owner OF the stone, which is u pebble the
size of Il walnut, paid $1,000 for it, Sensible
folks out there.
| Mrs. Sherman, widow of the late b. f
| Sherman, late agent of the American ex
press company ut Buffalo, n. Y, has flee
| from her house, because the ghost of her bo-
loved husband will enter her house. every
day. invisible, and then sit down on the bed
and pull off his invisible boots.
Kleptomania has broken out among the
girls in Chelsea, Mass, school. Several
shop-keepers have missed small articles, oil
late. and ~ little search led to the arrest ei
Hattie Dale, Annie Hughes and Emma Nun
roe. in whose possession was found abou
$50 worth Of small wares, cologne, toys
rings, etc. The misses probably took then
from the counters while they were beinl
shown. and they say they intended then
for y table at the Young Mems Christian
Association fair. They are all Of respecta
| bio families.
County trcasurers are pannng out very
well rs defiulters, this year. George S
Smith, treasurer of Leavenworth county
Kan, however, gets ahead of most of them
his defalcatiun amounting to $4,000. A!
for James A. Bryan, of jackson county
Iowa, tho grand jury think that he got only
Sal 900, but his bondsmen are beginning tC
make themselves penniless by assigning
their property to near and dear friends. Elk
City Treasurer Dcckelman, of Leavcnworth
is only $4,000 short in his accounts.
Michigan will hereafter educate her con
victs and when they are discharged viii
give each suit of clothes, $40 in cash, ant
such money as he may have earned by over
work.
Charles Davidson, treasurer of Emme
county, Mich, while wandering about tn,
streets of lansing, intoxicated recently, fel
into Grand river and was drowned.
A Portland jeweler who has been plod
ding along in comparative penury for 4
years has become sole proprietor OF $4,000
by the death of one relative and $4,000 By
the death of another. Ones rich relative
don't always die right off, slap, in that way
1t seems sometimes rs if the Legislative
and executive departments of the govern
ment were struggling to see how much eacl
could spend and blame the other for.
The town of Wampum, Wis, has been ii
II high fever for some days over the eccle
siastical trial of Lawyer Eli Hooker, mem
Der of the Methodist church of that hamlet
on charge of adultery. He was founC
guilty OF immoral conduct toward lady
and was duly kicked out of the church.
There is II Father" down in Salem, Mass.
writing in the Salem Gdzette, so obtuse tina
he cannot see the difference between gam
bling in the "hells" which the police pounc'
upon and shut up, and rafiles in the Churcl
Fairs and Fairs of Benevolent Societies
Can you?
A young lady of logansport, Ind, recent
ly sent young man four quarts of butter
nuts rs II token of acknowledgment for hav
ing saved her from drowning,
They have queer way of supprcSsing re
bellions in Mexico, nowadays. The 10
revolutionists of Sonora, who promised sucl
great things, last September, beng short o
cash. recently, accepted from their enemie
an offer of $1,000 for their arms and the
disbanded..
When Agassiz, while engaged in som
scientific investigations, WAS invited tO lee
ture before western lycoums ut the rate q
$500 night, he replied, somewhat impa
ticntly, IL can't afford to iOaSte my Time il
making money! 1t was supposed that he wa
insane at the time, but that kind of insanit
is not CATCHING
The fashion of granting subsidies 10 rail
road corporations having become II little un
popular, our government now seems TO b
looking about for INDECENT but deservin
canals on which to bestow its charities.
This is not the time to decide between tn
respective abstract merits of protection an
free-tradc The tariff question, AS 1t is rath
er clumsly called, is not at present II vita
issue in politics and legislation; it is nc
likely to be for some umo to come.
L. Il. Munell has forged paper on tire