Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-05-29

appointed trustees OF the state agricultural
college at Hanover, and Hiram T. Morrill,,
Of Nashua, trustee Of the reform school
at Manchester, vice David ellis, resigned.
Concord people are agitated about the
longitude Of their town, Prof Quimby, Of
Dartmouth college, having discovered, he
thinks, an error Of Is seconds in the old
calculations, thus moving the state-houso a
mile or 30, and the matter is to be investi-
gated right away.
A passenger train on the Syracuse and
Northern railroad ran into an open draw
bridge at Beaverton, N. Y, last week
Thursday, killing the engineer, Higgins,
and Conductor Church, and severely iniur-
ed the fireman and baggago-master. No
passengers we're hurt.
MASSACHUSETTS.
A whale 40 feet long got aground near
Now Bedford, tho other day, and the fisher
men finished him.
The Qunboag river at Palmer has been
stocked with salmon. $4,000 Of them having
been thrown into its waters, last week.
An autograph letter of George Washing
ton was sold at auction from the library Of
the late Charles w. Moore at Boston on
Friday for S25.
The customs officers at Boston seized GO
struggled scwing-machines, last week
Wednesday they were made at Montreal,
where the patent is not protected,
About $4,000 worth of iewcry has been
taken from j. @. Ayers office safe. 1t was
placed there for safe keeping some months
ago, and has but just been missed
The new schooner, William G.. Shattuck
the hulk Of which has been made by the
novel way Of boiling timbers together, and
which is entirely without knees or frame,
was launched at Boston last week.
A bill has been passed by the legislature
abolishing the state constabulary, and the
Boston Methodist ministers arc signing pc
titious to Gov. Talbot asking him to veto it,.
Richard Hill, who recently sued Arthur
A. Winsor and others Of Boston for injuries
received by the collision of the tug Argus
against bridge on which he was standing,
has recovered S21S9
The National Convention Of Dunkards
"a religious sect) met at Girard, ILL.,, the
other day, and the associated press reporter
mentioned the fact. The Boston Journal
read the word drankdrdS, and asks What
shall We have next?
The Boston home for little wanderers has
cared for 1861 children during the past nine
years, and, in the year ending on the first of
this month, it received 24l and provided
homes for 245. A good many mothers car
ry their children to the home in the morn
ing and take them away at night, after they
get through work.
The general sentiment of the public in re-
gard to where lies the responsibility for the
Mill River disaster is pretty clearly express
ed in the following words Of the Springfield
Republican, speaking Of the investigation
by the coroner's jury: 1.-The issue has
already been tried in the large sense before
the general public in the press, and this for
NAL investigation is not likely greatly to af-
feet the verdict already rendered before that
tribunal, that there was the grossest care.
lessness in tho construction of the ruined
reservoir. As to the question of personal
responsibility too, the coroner's jury are
hardly hkoYto 90 much farther than the
general public, which seems to have settled
down into tho conviction that, between stin-
gy capitalists, careless engineers and hasty
contractors, the blame is so distributed that,
if we were going to hang anybody for it, it
would be hard to decide which one it should
be-" The AsIeriug is far from past Many
who were in comfortable circumstances be-
fore the flood but have lost all are actually
suffering for want of food and clothing but
refrain through pride from asking for aid.
The relief committee are cndeavoring to
6nd them out and relieve their wants, though
it is a delicate task. About S75, 900 have
been subscribed, but the relief committee
say they cannot meet the pressing wants
Of the sufferers with less than 100000.
The general committee have voted to give
TO each single man entirely destitute q sum
not exceeding $50, while every single
woman in similar circumstances is to be pre-
scented sum not exceeding 500 and q
trunk. With this gift the committee will
consider themselves relieved from all further
responsibility for such persons; those with
families they want to help not only through
the present emergency, but to give a fresh
start. Numerous impostors ask for aid, and
the committee are using every precaution to
see that only those really needy shall obtain
help.
CONNECTICUT.
The Adventists have seven days camp
meeting at Warehouse Point, beginning
July /.
Glaring errors have been found in the
controllers report Of the expenses of the
state board Of education, by which its OK
penses are made to appear much greater
than they really are.
One Of the most disastrous forest fires
that ever occurred in the state has Just been
extinguishod at Killingly, after several days
fighting, and the loss is about $4,000
about thousand acres having been burned
over.
Palmer Lopez, Son Of Capt. Lopez, Of New
London, who has gone through so much Of
his fathers property in getting out of scrapes
has been sent to prison for seven years foI
his recent crime of arson in New York
Several years ago he burned the house and
barn of Dir. George Il. Palmer, of Stoning
ton, friend of the family, but was released
from the clutches Of the law, on an agree
ment that the sufferer should be repaid. The
payment was never made, however and Lo
per has never been punished.
NEW YORK.
David Mead was fatally Injured at w ar
rcnsburgh, last week Wednesday, by the ex
plosion of nitro.g ycerine which he packed
up in the street.
The wholesale dry goods store of +. T
Prankard, in Brooklyn, was entered las
week, Tuesday night, and robbed of SIC, 900
worth Of silks, laces, and velvets.
The state Treasurer of New York being
insane, the treasury cannot pay out any
money, There is no provision in the law
| or constitution for the emnrnancv