Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-12-18
GENERAL NEWS.
Gold, Ill SIS.

Gold, Ill 5-S.
One James L. Stevens, who has been APP
pealing, as agent for the American tract So
ciety, for aid for the Nebraska sufferers, is
denounced by the officers Of the society as a
fraud
The suit of Miss Edna Dean Proctor
against Moultou, for libel, has been com.
promised, Mr.. Moulton paying the costs on
both sides, about $4,000, and acknowledging
that he knows nothing against Miss Proc
tors character.
A couple of burglars were shot at Bay
Ridge, X. l., Monday 1.-THE CaledOnian says
yesterday morning, one Of whom lived
half an hour and confessed that the two were
the abductors of Charlie Ross, but did not
know where his accomplish had concealed
the boy. New York detectives think they
can find Charlie.
There is to be another investigation, going
back into the worst era Of corruption, that
Of the AID Congress. 1t is matter of pub
lie nOtoriety, if not Of court record, that the
agent of the Pacific Mail in the winter of
1872, spent half the subsidy in order to get
the whole. Mr. Davies and his colleagues
on the ways and means now propose to know
how it was done and who got the plumber.
A second rise Of five cents per 100 pounds
in eastern-bound freight on the part OF "the
Saratoga combination" has resulted in the
withdrawal of the Michigan Central from
that crowd President Joy doesn't see any
occasion to raise rates over the present fig
ures, and is disposed to keep his line open on
those terms all winter. The Saratoga pro-
jcct has served one healthy purpose, and that
is, the practical impossibilty OF any further
"grand railroad combinations" among CON-
petiDg lines over long distances,
A gang of counterfeiters got to fighting
among themselves in house at St. Louis,
Mo-, Friday, and made so much noise about
it that the police were attracted to the spot
and arrested the whole party, finding to their
surprise that they had captured the very
gang who for some time have been so extern
sively initiating the currency of the larger
western cities with spurious bills, including
the skillful counterfeits on the Traders bank
Of Chicago. Two of the fellows, Robert L.
Wilmer and S. s. Watts, had nearly killed
each other, and had to be taken to the hos.
pital. Over $4,000 of counterfeit money,
principally in $50 notes, and two $500 Uni
ted States bonds were found in the house.
MAINE.
The first instance Of grand jury meeting
anywhere in the state for many years with.
out finding an indictment has Just happened
in KuoX county.
w. w. Knight, Boston commercial trav-
0ler, encountered a highwayman between
Bangor and Cherryield, the other night
and both fired their reyolyers. knight got
q hole 10 one of his cars.
The Rockland shoe company has suspend
cd, the entire capital having been absorbed
in the two years and a half the company has
been doing business the liabilities will ex.
coed the assets about $4,000.
All the architects and engineers of Port
land and two leading business firms have
agreed to use the metric system of length 10
all their professional work, provided the en-
gineers of four other cities will do likewise.
The state fish commissioners report that
they have taken 900 900 salmon eggs from
the breeding works at Bucksport, the past
year, and in addition 100000 have been re-
ceived from the United States government
and 100000 from California, but the latter
was so much damaged that they yielded very
few fish, These eggs have been distributed
in the principal rivers, and have yielded not
far from 92 per cent, though the yield in the
natural state is only about 2 per cent. The
fish have grown with gratifying rapidity, but
in many cases they have been wantony de.
stroyed through non-enforcement Of the fish
laws, and in some quarters the land-locked
salmon are nearly extinct The crying evil
is the lack Of 6sh-ways, aud in some places
there is an organized resistance 10 the law
concerning them. The breeding works at
Bucksport, which are Independent of the fish
commission, have turned out 3,O39,606 eggs
from 500 breeders, the past year, at cost
Of so thousand, against 1921 300 from
652 breeders at u cost Of 1913 a thousand,
last year the cost per thousand in 1871
was $l6.25.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
A Portsmouth fellow went into a dark
cellar, the other day, to get drink of pecu-
larly fne hard cider that he had laid away
for his private use, but the half piut or so
OF ley be got by mistake made him feel quite
unhappy, and gave his physician job.
MASSACHUSETTS,
jesse FOmsroy has been convicted of muir.
der in the first degree.
A fellow is selling City cent speOtaoieS foT
$3.50 pair, in the towns about Boston,
warranting them to cure deafness and blind
moss by means of "galvanism," with which
he says they are charged.
The labor market at Fall River is unus-