Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-02
miscellaneous Stems.

Georgia and Alabama are both talking |
about doing something for their constitutions,
in the way OF conventions.
A chiropodist announces on his business
cards that he has removed cOrns from sew
cral Of the crowned heads Of Europe
It is announced that photography is to be
taught IN the Girls High School in Boston.
Better teach sowing and cooking.
The Colorado plains are covered with |
buffalo, and tha Greeley Tribune says 400 |
were killed by party from that place in II
single hunt lately.
Congress has sometimes been irrevcrently |
alluded to MS the national gas-bag. In view
of recent events, 1t might with equal propri-
ETY. be styled the national grabbing.
The Shelby county (Tonn.) people think
that they have settled it beyond II doobt that
County Trustee Woodward's accounts would
be all right If he hadn't stolen $4,000.
The woman who said the latest thing out
was her husband, was answered by her
noighbor, who remarked that her husband
always came home early--beforc anybody
was up.
pretty bad under foot" said one citizen
to another as they met in the street. Yes
but its fine overhead" responded the other.
"True enough" said the first; "but then
very few arc going that way"
Boss Tweed is not the only cxcongress-
man that has lived on the wrong side of
prison bars. Charles +. Mitchell graduated
from the 26th Congress TO Auburn On. W
prison in the role Of n forgcr.
A new association called the Order of
United Workingmen" has been instituted in
Iowa. The Grand Lodge of the Order was
constituted and held its first session ut Dav-
export, Iowa, on Nov. 9th.
Jinks had been indulging too freely in ar
dent spirits. At strcet-corner his hat
dropped into the gutter. Says Jmks: Il
know-if pick you up, I'll fall-if fall,
you won't -hic-no. Good
nightw
Our national expenses, to-day, exclusive
of interest on the public debt, are $3.50, O0O,-
0OO in 1860, they were S60,000,000. Even
Gen. Butler cannot claim that we have.treb-
led in population, wealth and business in
that time.
| The servants of democratic people
should live with u democratic simplicity
the president, us well us the postmaster.
| Office should be sought for its honor and OPP
portunitics of usefulness and fame, not for
its cmoluments.
Treasurer Spinner still keeps us II relic the
torn and blood-stainod play-bil with which
Laura Keeno attempted to staunch the
wound of President Lincoln in his box at
Fords theatcr on the night of the assasina-
ton.
Fancy the Chicago Times speaking of the
late A. jackson us "in war II respectable
soldier, but in politics Il good deal Of Il DEM
agogue!" 1t is enough TO make the dead
and-gone generations of Illinois democrats
turn over in their graves.
The evidence shows that he sol up with
her night after night. and they squozc hands
ard talked soft, and | think she ought to
have $23 damages" was the charge of n
Kansas judge to n jury in breach of prom
Use case, but the jury thought Sl.75 sufficient.
The Newburyport Herald says: "Quite q
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catching frogs for the Boston frog eaters
One man has taken thousand and another
six hundred this season. They arc kept in
tubs and fatted with meal, and shipped TO
order"
There are no less than 60 candidates for
the Kansas United States Senatorship,
not including ex-senator Pomeroy. States
| Int, A
says there are other men who expect TO be
elected, bnt they are too modest TO say so.
The schooner Zephyr, loaded with fish
and having on board -four decomposed bod
les, has drifted ashore on Sable island, 9C
miles of Nova Scotia, with masts and rig
ging gone aud the hull covered with sea-
weed. Her papers indicate that she has
been floating in the ocean ever since last
July.
As there are about two hundred members
who have retained the back pay, the amount
thus stolen is ut least million and quar-
ter dollars which is pleasing showing fol
the country to consider when the debt is in
creasing ut the rate of twelve millions n
month, and increased taxation is demanded.
Delalcation seems to be 1.-THE style IN
Kansas. Leavcnworh reports II shortage OF
$4,000 on the part of its city treasurer, and
another of $4,000 on the part of the county
treasurer, who has made an assignment Of
his property to his bondsmen. In addition
TO this, the state treasurer is also said to be
in arrears.
Tho exact amount of the dofalcation o
City Treasurer Gage of Chicago is found t.
be $3.50, 1903. Cages bond is for SI,000,O00
and is signed by seven or eight reputed
wealthy citizens. Gage has personal prop
erty, all of which he proposes to turn ovel
to the city. 1t is thought TO exceed $500, 00t
. in value, and the city will probably moi lost
: by the defalcation.
The Chicago Tribune says that 1.-The sup
port of Fernando Wood by tho majority o
the Democrats in Congress rs their candi
date for Speaker, has done more to destro.
the faith OF those who still chung to tn,
Democratic party than any other event tina
has happened during all the years of part
decay and it quotes from several Western
Democratic papers in confirmation of tina
view.
There will be CORY work when the cleo
tions for the Forty-Iourth Congress begin
perfect slaughter of the innocents. Providen
statesmen of grabbing proclivlties may II
well be making friends with the mammon o
unrlghteousness while il is yet called to-day
They have marketable value at present
after next year, neither Tom Sect nor an
other wide-awake man of business will give
u dollar dozen fol them.
: What the department may become shoul
Mr.. Creswell carry out his scheme an
|, bring tho telegraph and savings institution
:. within its grasp, no one can tell. The trut
y of tho old political maxim, that all govern
: ment tends to despotsm," would be wonder