Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-07
GENERAL NEWS

De Soto parish, La, was pursued by party
Of indignant citizens, captured the nett morn.
ing, and promptly strung up to the nearest
tree.
This year will be noted for the bursting
of reservoirs. The latest was at Trenton, N.
j., when thirty million gallons Of water
flooded the houses on Pennington avenue.
No lives lost, and but comparatively small
pecuniary damage.
Chicago has been having corner 10 corn
that was a disgrace to American merchants.
BY forming ring few spectators created
an artificial scarcity IN that city, and COM
PEELED dealers who must gil orders 10 pay
such an enormous advance as 10 cause the
ruin Of hundreds, while there was no per.
ceptible variation in other markets. Such
things ought to be indictable offences.
There is no need Of talking about the
Beecher.Tilton scandal The sensational
press do enough Of that. Besides nothing
definite is likely to be known until Tilton's
trial comes of, and perhaps not then. He
refuses to testify further before the commit
tee, claiming that II has not treated him
fairly, and It looks as though the claim was
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or, from among his church, and all but two
are pecuniarily interested in Beechsr's rep.
utation. There may have been no intention
of injustice on Mr.. Beecher's part 10 the Sc
lection OF the committee, aud VIC presume
there was none, but the committee have by
their acts given Tilton fair chance to as.
sumo It,, For further particulars our read
ers are referred to the Caledonian and other
religious or sensational papers, as the scan
dal has Of late been the principal stock in
trade Of those two classes Of journals.
We should think they did need more cur
rsncy at the West What money they
have not only enables them to attend to all
legitimate business, but to get up corners
FIRST in oats aud then in corn, which seem to
set the Chicago operators crazy and which
disturb the market throughout the whole
country. According to one account, the
transactions are the work Of many large
pork .packers in Chicago who transacted
their legitimate business in the winter. and
in the summer, having heavy capital on
their hands, employed it for gambling in
grain. The operation 10 corn is represent
ed as almost entirely fictitious, having been
engineered through a series of ingenious
movements fol- some time in advance. The
cornor in oats is more directly the result Of
an insufficient supply Of this cereal to meet
the demand. and is what the dealers call a le-
Ultimate corner. The small stock in store
less than 10000 bushels-is owned by two
parties, who are squeezing the "shorts" to
their hearts content. Both corners, how
ever, are purely speculative affairs in the
shape they have takeu-reckless, inexcusa-
bic tampering with staple products, to the
great Inconvenience and expense Of the com.
munity. 1t is some consolation that the in.
Fiction will be short, aud that some Of the
parties concerned in bringing it on will get
severely bitten before they get through with
it.-Boston Journal.
MAINE. Gr
They had $4,000 FIRE at Calais Tuesday
morning.
The car-shop Of the st. Croix and Penob.
scot railroad at Salmon Falls, was burned on
Saturday night, with one engine and some
cars. Loss, $1,000 insured for $4,000.
: james Brown and Dominick Winn have
been arrested at White6eld for running an
; illicit distillery for the manufacture of rum.
The still was situated in a swamp in the
town Of Windsor, and it Is said has been
} running ever since the war.
They came very near having riot at
Rockland on Tuesday. The water company
there has got into bad odor, this year, by
compelling tho owners Of buildings to collect
the water rent from all the tenants, and one
6rm refused to comply with the demand
Accordingly, men were set at work digging
to shut the water off, but, as fast rs the dirt
was thrown out, the recalcitra ut firm and
their adherents, who composed most Of the
crowd that gathered, shovoled it back, till
the water company was forced to give uT
the job.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
A Nashua man fell into another mans
; well and was killed, and now the dead man s
friends want the living one to pay them the
little sum of $4,000.
A North Hampton man has gathered, this
+ season, 1900 boxes Of strawberries from
little over quarter of an acre, aud
got IN average Of II cents per box for
them.
} Fred Sawyer, assistant clerk at the Sea
View House, Rye Beach, received charge
Of fine shot in bis face, yesterday from a
gun carelessly handled by boy, aud he will
probably lose his sight
The new Atlantic cable Just landed at
Rye beach has been laid from Torbay, N.
s.. to Newfoundland, and the cable steamers
Ambassador and Faraday, have sailed for
London to receive the deep.sea cable.
The body Of Miss Gross, the Gorhaul
teacher, who disappeared few days ago
: has been found in the AudrOscoggin river.
She was partially insane. and her disorder
was aggravated by trouble in her school.
A boat containing two sea captains and
tive sailors was capsized in Hampton river
on Sunday, and one Of the latter, Albert ID.
Godfrey, was drowned. The surf was very
heavy. but the other three chung to the boat
till they were saved, though they were so
exhausted that they could have held on but
few moments longer. Capt. Palmer was
on the point of giving up to his exhaustion,
at one time, and, turning to one Of his COM
panions, he said, "Good.bye, captain, am
coins !" but the others encouraged him. aud
he chung on till the rsscuers arrived. God
frey, who was drowned, was about 20 years
old.
MASSACHUSETTS.
A Ere at Charlton, Monday evening, did
$40 900 damage.
Elliott, who shot man at Oak Bluffs,
Saturday night, in self.defenCe, has been JUS
tilted by the coroner's jury, aud one Of his
assAilants has been arrested on the charge of
assault.
Thomas Cahill has been arrested IN Ire.
land and will be brought to Boston under
the extradition treaty for trial for the muir
der of Bridget Landergan, at Dorchester
last December.
A hundred men settled down around two
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