Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-14
GENERAL NEWS

The parish Of Bazile, Portneuf county, p.
O., is being shaken by earthquakes.
The Indians are assuming more decided.
ly warlike attitude, and there is danger OF a
warm time with them.
Fires arc raging in the woods around OF
tawa, Z. o., and some buildings have been
burned. Unless they have rain soon serious
results are apprehended.
The treasury department has information
that the Spanish government has imposed a
new tariff on vessels in whica those from the
United States are unfairly Disseminated
against.
Friday night negro named Morley,
while being taken to Jail in Elzabethton,
Tenn, AFTER confessing to rape and murder oil
a white girl, farmers daughter, was seized
and hanged.
They have been having q riot in Somer'
Vile, Alabama, aud several persons were
killed. The trouble seems TO have been be.
tween the whites aud blacks, and the whites
sent for troops to keep order.
A cable dispatch states that the ship John
Tucker, of Boston, Capt. Taylor, bound from
Iloilo (Phillipine Islands) for England, was
totally wrecked in Macassar Straits on the
9th Of August. The crew were saved. The
remains of the wreck were sold for 1000
Ruilders. The John Tucker was a good YES
sol Of 100 tons register, and was owned by
Messrs. Howes Il Crowell, Of Boston.
Secretary Bristow seems to keep on doing
the good thing which he commenced on hi
accession to the office, by cutting down ex'
penses. One of his late moves was to pro-
hbit treasury employees from employing de-
pendent relatives as clerks. The practice, II
seems, has been quite general and lucrative
IL has come out that one revenue officer has
carried the name Of bis wife on the rolls
paying her 800 month another has EN-
ploySd his daughter, eight years old, at I
salary of S75 a month and other cases are
mentioned Of an equally improper charac
ter.
James bassford, a fireman, lOApsd from
train on the West Wisconsin Railroad, re
Gently, to rescue child on the track. liz
was hardly quick enough, but fortunAtely
struck the child in such q way as to throw
it down between the ties, while he himsel
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train stopped with the 6re.box Of the loco
motive Just over the child. which was res
cued completely unframed aud restored b
its mother, who had come shrieking toward
the train, expecting to find her little on
killed. NJ. BAsstOrd escaped with FEY
bruises.
Congressman Plat, Of Virginia, got fires
dose from the Sunday Gazette, Sunday
s. A. Stafford, the writer Of the previous al
ticle, which called forth the libel suit, reiteT
ating over his own signature, the charg
that Platt ought TO DO in the penitentiar
instead of in Congress, and promising to sui
5 stantiate his assertions. lie also complain
that he was arrested by Mr.. Patts procure
ment 80 late on Saturday evening, as to rer
der it unlikely for him to procure bail b
} fore Monday morning the object OF this,
! charges, being to detain him in loathsom
. cell IN which he was placed over Snnda,
. He charges further, that no was harshl
Q treated, aud intimates that the judge WI
/ conveniently absent in order to effect NJ
$ Platts purpose of OBTAINING him until MOI
day.
Mr.. G. s. Merriman, Of New York, hi
invented life.preserVer which II is elaine
will superssde all others. IL consists OF
IS rubber tube which passes several tint
: around the body and thighs, and WHICH 81
}: ables the wearer to stand upright in the W
q ter or lie on his back or in any other posti'
IS with perfect ease. Mr.. Paul BOyntOn hi