Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-07-24

Of rum in bottle was fastened inside with
the neck close to the faucet so that tho pur-
chaser could test the liquor.
The Boston aud Maine house at Old Orch.
ard Beach took fire from some unknown
cause about 0 o'clock, Sunday evening, aud
was soon completely destroyed, while the
neighboring hotels aud other buildings were
saved with difficulty. The house and furn-
ture are a total loss, and we're valued at &c.
600 insured for $1,000. A steamer arriv.
ed from Saco too late to be Of any assistance.
The fire is thought to have been incendiary.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
William w. Foss, Of Manchester, jump.
cd from ain near Amoskeag Falls, last
week Thursday afternoon, aud received prob
ably fatal injuries.
The people Of Canaan are considerably
excl ted over a supposed murder. Theodore
Boullett suddenly disappeared on the third
Of juno and William II. Comstock is sus.
pected Of having disposed Of him on account
Of jealousy Of Boullett and Comstocks
wife's sister, Miss Nettie Paescott.
Joseph Ruff and John Currier have been
bound over at Keene to the October term of
court as principal and accessory in placing
distractions on the track of the Ashuelot
railroad few days ago.
MASSACHUSETTS
Horse thieves made a raid upon Great
Darlington, visiting the horses of Mr.. NJ.
Il. Bristol and Mr.. Richardson, superintend-
ent Of the Berkshire wooden mills, Saturday
night, stealing two horses, one top and one
open buggy, besides harness and other
things, amounting to about 800. Mr..
Bristol started on their track. Sunday morn.
ing and followed them to Hudson, N. Y,
where he found the horses hitched and the
property just as it had been taken; he re-
turned with the thieves, Monday morning.
Kate Sullivan, of Haverhill, was dlscov-
cred on Sunday attemting to set fire to her
dwelling by saturating the cellar with kero.
sene and applying the torch, and was arrest
ed.
Boston has raised s44,975 for the Louis
lana sufferers, the last installmeRt of which
was forwarded on Saturday
John A. McGann, Of Lowell, was drown
ed in canal. Saturday night.
Robert Hill, Of South Boston, 20 year
old, and Rosinack Royle, %, were drowned
, ed while bathing in creek in Dorchester
Sunday afternoon.
The Brighton police made a haul of II
J railroad thieves, Sunday night, who hav
been operating considerably upon car
: switched on side tracks.
The skeleton Of little Katie Mary Cur
ran, who mysteriously disappeared fror
s South Boston last March, was discovered o
Saturday in an ash heap in the cellar of
. house formerly occupied by Mrs. Pomeroy
mother Of the young boy who is now in ia
: awaiting trial for the murder of little DO,
in the marshes last spring. 1t is believe
that young Pomeroy also murdered the CIR
!, Il. NJ. Smiths large twine.factory, abol
= two miles out Of Athol, to which he ha
just added S8U00 worth Of new machinery
9 was burned last week Thursday Afternoon
The fire caught in the card.room, and sprea
], so rapidly that the force.pump on Ii
" grounds could not be operated loss 800
600.
The manufacturers of Fall River held
meeting, Thursday, and, after lengthy col
\. sderation, decided that 1t was impruden
a. under the present condition Of matters,
"a shut down, even for week, and, finally, Il
:. question was postponed indefinitely two
n. the mills, however, are obliged to shut dow
soon for fortnight for the annual repair
A copy Of the London Times was recei
!. ed at the Boston post.ofice, five or 81
= weeks ago, loosely tied with string, vii
Z the address on the margin of the paper, an
a between the pages of the paper the pos
~ Office official discovered some four or fN
. letters, addrcsted to parties in Londo
n These letters had probably been put into
l. street letter-box which was full, the Tim,
being at the top, and in this way straye
= across the Atlantic. The letters wei
promptly forwarded to the London postma
ter, who returned his thanks to Gen. Blu
in pleasant communication.
RHODE ISLAND.
2, Jane Mctilane, an unmarried Scot
~ woman, drowned herself in n pond at Pa
r. tucket, Saturday night, while intoxicated.
he Martin Brennan, 26 years old, who we
a. to Providence, Saturday, with a party
q. friends on an excursion from Fitchbul
of Mass, became intoxicated, missed the ira
of and lay down on the track he was remove
i'll but went further up the road and lay do
all on the track again, when he was run o'
rs. by the cars and killed.
re. CONNECTICUT.
&C. The chapel of Hartford's new Jail v
opened on Sunday, with addresses by Fatt
ed Hawley and others.
*, Elliot G. Boards house, near Naugatu
lat Junction, was broken into, Friday night,
nut Alonzo Parker, Milford negro aud co
pm pletely ransacked, the burglar taking
rs. sorts Of things that pleased his fancy, to
ID, value of $3.50. He was followed by
lst Bridgeport police to Southport depot, {
'c- there arrested with his plumber in his P
IN, session.
nd b. N. Beardsey, Terryville farm
ay who keeps 30 hens, gives the following
ost swer to the question, Does it pay TO
Ias hens? Total product of tho hens from
III uary to July l, 1898, bringing $50.
ltn total cost OF feed, S23.30 net profit, 81
Iui "a; or over one dollar per hen for
le' month.
80 While Albert + Jones was cutting
III hair Of Ogden M. Brooks at his hOus'
ia Moodus on Sunday morning, Charles Me
o. eustern, German shoemaker, living u
oy door, stepped to the open window with
hte gun and fired. One hundred aud two s
wi. entered Brooks neck and body, and Jo
out had his arm aud hip we'll filed.
IN Brooks was Immediately conveyed home
70 physician summoned 1t is thought
M will recover. Meckensteins grudgo
N against Jones over some dog dispute.
nsI claims he did not intend to hit Brooks.
MS was arrested.
nn Thomas Morrison, an elderly man of
ne temperate habits living in Hartford,
,n' frightfully and probably fatally inju