Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-06-12


Congress at its next session, with his rec
concentrations thereon.
Secretary Richardson, before his resigna-
ton, issued a call for S5,000,000 of the
6ve-twenty bonds, the principal and accrued
interest on which will be paid on and after
September g. from which time interest on
said bonds will cease The bonds called 10
are Coupon bonds Of $50, numbers TO- |
COLLIE, 100 inclusive; 500 Nos. 34,001-
81 400 inclusive $500 Nos. II ,60l-19,-
800 inclusive $1,000 Nos Al ,O0l .40, 100 |
inclusive total s4,500,000; also regis
tered bonds Of $50 Nos 1411-1450 inclu-
sive 800 Nos. 10,601.10,680 inclusive
$1,000 Nos. 630l.6390 inclusive; $1,000 |
Nos. 25,65l .26. 100 inclusive $4,000 Nos
S10l.8300 inclusive aud $4,000 Nos. |
10,32l.l0, 500 inclusive.
The people Of Louisiana are dodbly afflict-
ed, this year. Before they have recovered
from disastrous results OF too much water,
they are suffering from lack OF that indis-
pensable fluid. 1t is 40 days now since it
has rained there, and while there is so much |
water in the rivers and bayous as 10 food a
large portion Of the state, those portions not
flooded are suffering so much from drouth |
that all hope OF raising crops, this year, is
gone. Corn has been three times planted
and each time burned by the drouth. Cot
ton, where growing, has been ruined by cat.
erpllars and by new enemy Of that tender
plant--snails. The city Of New Orleans is
described as filthier now than for years, ow-
ing to want Of rain. The cisterns, which
are depended on for family supplies Of wa
ter, are drying up.
MAINE.
A Belfast woman prevented man from
breaking into store, the other night, by
throwing Jumps Of coal at him from her
window, on the opposite side Of the street.
On Thursday night at Rockland, Frank
st. Clair, young man about % years Of
age, belonging in the town, had quarrel
with another young man outside 4 hall in
which dance was in progress, and was SO
terribly beaten with piece Of plank that
his recovery is doubtful. The assailant was
a stranger and has not been arrested.
The suit Of Bradish johnson against Neal
Dow, Of Portland, the well-known temper.
ance lecturer and formerly general in the
United States army, to recover property
seized at New Orleans during the war, has
come up 10 the United States circuit court
at Portland. johnson has once obtained
judgment against Dow from New. Orleans
court, but Dow claims that the court, being
established under military rule, had no juris-
diction.
NEW HANlPSHIRE.
Richard Cove, of Laconia, has sued San
| arkf for ,ufr Re
patent handspring for watches, asking
S250,O00 damages.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Catherine Donovan, of Fast Boston, 80
years old, was fatally burned on Saturday.
The american Canadian, weekly devot-
ed to the mutual interest Of the United
States and Canada, has appeared at Boston.
Gen. Butler, who has been dangerously
sick, is getting better, and with some empha-
sis says nobody is authorized to say that he
won't run for governor, this fall.
The coroner's jury have returned a ver-
dict that Julia Hawkes., whose body was re-
Gently found floating in the water at Wey.
mouth, was killed by james II. Costley, the
Hanover hotel keeper.
The Massachusetts, press association starts
on the 18th upon an excursion to Montreal,
Quebec and the Saguenay river, going via
the Boston, Concord and Montreal, the
Passumpsic and the Southeastern railroads,
the trip consuming about u week. Maj
Merrill, Of the Laurence American, has
charge Of the affair.
j. Warren Carswell, Of Lynn, had Just rid.
den into his door-yard on Saturday evening,
when his brother, Charles H., rushing upon
him, exclaimed, with an oath, Zone or the
other Of US has got to die !" and plunged
wound that will probably result fatally.
Charles had been drinking.
The Junction railroad" project, which
prosos to carry the traffic of the Fitchburg,
Massachusetts Central, WoonsOcket, Hop
kinton, Boston and Albany and Providence
railroads TO deep water at South Boston, and
TO concentrate the termini of these roads for
merchandise traffic on the South Boston
fats, has developed into the formation of
the "Boston aud Northwestern railroad COM
pany," Of which Edward Atkinson is one Of
the directors, and a considerable subscription
has already been made to the stock.
The recent brewers convention came in
for good deal of denunciation in the
churches of Boston and vicinity on Sunday.
Rev. j. w. Hamilton said that he had visit
ed the hall where the convention was held,
and Notwithstanding the assertions Of the
brewers that malt liquors and light wines
were the proper drinks, he had noticed that
that part OF the hall in which alcoholic
drinks were kept was much better patron
lied than the place where the brewers own
products were to be had.
The conductors on the Eastern railroad
who have been spotted" as embezzlers Of
, fares declare that il is impossible for the
detectives 10 have made out such case
against them as they pretend in the way
I they went to work. But three of the con-
, ductors have confessed to embezzling large
, amounts, aud one officer of the road says
that some Of the conductors have stolen
$50 day, while the total steal has been
$500 600 year. Two of the guilty ones
have offered to make over some Of their
property to the road, but this has been re-
fused.
CONNECTICUT. H
A Hartford man is making from 500 to
1000 pounds Of the tallow butter a day.
A. N. Ives, Of the frm Of kellogg 4 Ives,
ut Fair Haven, has been arrested on suspi-
, con of having had hand in the burning of
: the company's peg factory last winter.
The Times says that there are 600 men
out of employment in Hartford, and pre-
diets hard times for both laboring and bust
! ness men, not only in Hartford, but all over
! the country, during the next 10 months.
Pascal Converse, of New Haven, stepped
!, out ofhis office for moment on Saturday
evening, leaving $3.50 in a drawer, and
shortly after some unknown person stepped