Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-05-13
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Hon. George w. Hendee IS soon TO
speak in the House IN favor Of Caugh-
navaga aud Niagara ship canal bill.
Some of the lower districts Of Tenncs'
see are in despair. After being thorough
ly drowned out by the spring foods. they
were treated with midwinter snow storms
last week.
All has been given up of the shio Gar
den Reach of Boston. Captain Gilmore,
974 tens, from Boston fer Liverpool, Feb.
IL. She bad a crew of twenty men and
a cargo worth sIl9 7l9.
The total number of Oranges in the U.
IS. is 10, S62. and the total number OF
members $50, goo. The only States iu
which there are no Oranges are Connecti-
cut, Delaware, and Rhode Island.
It. is stated upon good authority that
Vice President Wilson desires the APP
pointmentment of Judge Il. II. Hoar, as
Secretary of the Treasury in place Of MIR.
Richardson whose health has failed.
Baltimore market reports having a Sc
ductive sound just now Shat are six
teen cents apiece I; green peas, strawber-
ries, asparagus, rhubarb, radishes, etc.,
are becoming plenty. aud the peach crops
fight bravcly against The rumors Of the
growers.
Tso fellows at South Haven, Michigan,
rivals for a young lady's hand, agreed 10
90 out and fire at a mark-thc one hav-
ing the steadiest nerves and so able to
make the best shot was TO have the girl.
Thep went and fired, and when they got
back they learned that she would not
have either Of them.
Thomas Taffe of Benford, N. H.. his
wife, two sons and a daughter ate hearth.
ly Of poke at dinner on Tuesday, strange.
Iy enough supposing it to be horse-radish,
but in about half an hour they were ia.
ken with cramps, purging and vomiting
blood, and all arc in a critical condition.
The Irrepressiblc Barnum, last week
opened at New York with great success,
his Roman Hippodrcme. said to be the
largest place of amusement in the world.
The building covers the entire site of the
old Harlem and New Haven Railroad de-
T OF. and seats 10000 persons.
A Washington despatch states that an
appeal has been prepared by members of
Congress and other prominet men from
Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi aud
Missouri, calling on the churches. Mason.
ic lodges and all other benevolent organ
throughout the courtry ito take
immediate action for The relief Of the
destitute in the oberfowed districts. They
estimate the number of people needing
help daily in all these States as high as
100, 900, and say it will require $40, 600
per day for a long while to feed and rro-
vide for the starving people.
South Carolina must be IN adeplorable
condition at the present time, juding from
he following statements called from some
II the southern newspapers: The COVER
,or, a fortnight ago, p~ardohed twenty
seven c%onvicts out of the penitenliary be.
'ause the State was too poor to keep
hem. They marched in a body to the
house and asked for relief. Out of
hlrty-one county treasurcrs in the State,
wenty are in default to the sum of $500.
'O0. Of sixty grand and petit jurors
for the last county court at Beau
ort, only one was white or could read.
Waltz, the murder of the sissors grind.
r, was hung at Catskill, N. Y, on FRI
ay. lie was i'll all respects one of the
iost ugly and brutal of mankind, and on
ne day before his execution, he obtained
piece Of iron with which he struck
own and nearly killed officer Ernes. who
ad him in charge. Ernest was alive at
'st accounts but it was not supposed he
ould recover. The approach Of his mo-
her and sister to bid him farewell and to ,
fer him the consultations of religion he
with violence. Had he been an
indian he would have been regarded as
inst class savage. but being one of the
'ore "civilizeI" race he was regarded by )
as "insane.'