Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-04-10

company at Chester, Conn, is paying cred.
itors 3 per cent. Of their claims.
At Mount Vernon, Ohio, Sunday last,
the Mayor attempted to enforce an ordi.
nance against obstructing the sidewalk aud
ordered the sentry box used BY the crusaders
removed from the front Of grocery. A
crowd of men and women interfered and
prevented the removal of the box. The
affair occasions excitement, and fears are en-
tertsined Of serious disturbance.
On the oath of March the senatorial
convention in Massachusetts balloted for
senator to occupy the seat rendered vacant
by the death Of Mr.. Sumner, which ballot
resulted in tie. The same operation has
been repeated every day since, and the pros.
pect is good for an indefinite continuance Of
the game. Henry l.. Dawes and K. Rock
wood Hoar, republican, have had from 81
to 95 votes each, and Benjamin r. Curtis,
democratic, commenced with "a and ranges
from there down to SO.
The state election in Connecticut, Monday
resulted 10 an Unexpectedly complete dem
ocratic victory, that party re-electing
Charles Il. Ingersoll for governor by vote
1000 larger than that Of last year, and
carrying both branches Of the legislature.
The senate, consisting of twenty-one mem
bers has q democratic majority Of from
eight to ten, while 10 the house the same
party has City or sixty majority. Butler
aud the Initiation Of the currency proved too
heavy load for the republican party, and
there we're large democratic gains from last
years vote all over the state.
Considerable stir has been made in the
eastern cities by the statement that large
! quantities of tainted meat are being shipped
East by Western dealers. The decayed and
improperly packed meat is usually sold at a
lower price than the sound and wholesome
article, and is therefore bought to great
extent by the poorer classes Of people.
Besides the bad meat which comes already
packed much that comes by the carcass or
whole hog unpacked becomes partly spoiled
before its arrival and is doctored with Pc
cular salts and chemical compounds to dis
guise the faint and deceive purchasers.
The situation in Spain is very critical
Marshal President Serrano with the largest
force he has been able to concentrate is en-
gagged in a terrible struggle with the carlst
army before Bilboa The issue Of the bat
tie, if il do not prove a drawn battle, will
have a decisive effect on Spanish affairs
II the carlists are defeated their cause will
be Frustrated, and the government freed
from further immediate danger in that quar-
ter On the other hand, should Sorrano bt
decisively defeated, it might lead to tn,
overthrow of his government, and would
open a way to Madrid and perhaps to thu
throne, for Don Carlos. The military re
sources of Spain have been nearly exhaust
ed by seven years Of war at home aud il
Cuba. Both the Spanish and the carlis
armies are filled with boys. 1t certainly
seems to foreign eyes that the side triumph
ing in this, the greatest battle Of the lon,
war, will have its enemies nearly at its mer
cy. But Spanish affairs are very uncertain
the despair of prophets.
The bill for the imitation of the currency
to S400,000,0OO which has passed th
house, causes much anxiety in financial cir
cles In Boston Saturday evening Faneui
Hall was crowded with citizens OF all classe
joining in protest against the bill becom
ing law. Resolutions expressing the senti
ment Of the meeting to that effect, and re
questing the president to veto the bill, SHOULD
it pass the senate, were unanimously adopted
J and committee appointed to present thei
request to the president. Edward Atkinson
made the concluding speech, the drift O
: which can be seen from the opening Sen
E fences: "Faneuil Hall has been crowds
, before, in many times of danger to the stat
and to the nation, hut never before under
graver danger than now threatens us. w
, are here. tonight, shameful as it is to &C
knowledge it, because we fear national dis
honor,-because those whom we have chos
en- have betrayed our trust,-because, Will
one place in the senate OF the United State
has been made vacant by the death oil
great, true and noble statesman, the othe
place to which Massachusetts is entitled
worse than vacant. and we have no on
there to speak and act tor us in this emer
gency, who is ready to keep our faith un
furnished. The solemn faith of the natioI
is being betrayed, the evil power of brok
, en- promise is being made greater, yet Their
J is no senator of Massachusetts standing fri
and true to prevent the wrong or even b
} protest against it. Thank God, there wer
true men in the house Of representatives.
able and ready to resist the disbonor nov
being attempted, and, by the uuanirncu
, vote of all the representatives Of the stat
present at the issue, from whom anythin
but fraud is expected, the act lately passe
. for initiating the currency was resisted.
The inAationsts felt very confident of carry
ing the bill through the senate at first bu
, the GOODNESS of President Grant toward tn
measure, and the general cutlery against
by the people, (who, by the way, are gettin
= disagreeable habit of coming around an
y poking their noses into their own business
8 Of late,) gave some hope that the republ
: would be spared this humiliation; Monda!
4 however, the senate declared for imitation
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