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

The Dominion parliament was prorogued
Tuesday.
The New England fair is to be held at
Providence, this year.
The bagglng mills of Lims, Ohio were
burned on Saturday. Loss $4,000.
The business part of Independence, Iowa,
was destroyed by fire on Monday loss not
less than 100000.
The iorty-throe women crusaders who
were arrested at Cincinnati have been ac-
quilted bat admonishcd not to do it again.
The steamer Trojan, from London for St.
John, N. b., has been given up for lost. She
has been out AZ days and no tidings from
her.
Mexcans are stealing cattle, shooting
people, and mixing things generally in Tex
as. Military protection has been asked for
by the settlers.
Two brothers named Fleetwood were sent
to the ponitentiary for life at Seymour, Ind,
Saturday, for numbering a little German boy
year ago to get 50.
A resolution has been introduced in the
Dominion parliament asking the Queen to
grant amnesty to those charged with offences
In the Manitoba troubles.
Deputy United States Marshal IIildreth
was shot near Hissboro', Coffee county, Tenn,
Friday, by man named Saunders who had
been one of party to alleged Ku.Klux out
RACES.
Several suits have been commenced in
Wisconsin which will decide whether the new
railroad law is or is not constitutional. So
far the people seem to have pretty strong
case AGAINST the railroads.
The new Atlantic cable will be laid from
the coast Of New Hampshire to Nova SEQ.
tia, thence to Newfoundland, and from there
to England, and the company promise to do
business at 30 cents a word.
The marriage of Algernon Charles Fred.
erick Saaoris and Miss Nellie Grant took
place in the White House, at Washington,
last Thursday. The couple went to New
York on Friday and on Saturday set sail on
board the steamer Baltic, Of the White Star
line, for their future home in England.
Judge Lynch, Of New Orleans, has
awarded the following amounts to colored
claimants in the suits under the Civil Right;
bill $1,000 to Joseph, v. Bidwoll, propri
etor OF the Academy Of Music, for refusing
him admittance; $3.50 each to George
Washington and Lewis v. McCloskey, fol
refusing to sell them soda water, and S25C
to claimant, v. O'Neill, for refusing 10 sci
him drink.
OF all the southern states which have been
robbed and pillagcd by carpet baggers since
the war, South Carolina has suffered the
most. Her debt has been increased TO q
most astonishing extent, officials have made
fortunes out Of her poverty-stricken people,
and now her state treasurer is defaulter &c
large amount, the governor is suspected o.
having helped make away with the missing
funds, and the latter gentleman is in prison
on another charge Of larceny.
The Right Worthy Grand Lodge, l. o. o
G.. T., is in session in Boston this week
The annual report states that one great ain
of the American branch of the order is t
secure the passage in every state and terri
tory Of the Union of laws prohibiting til,
manufacture and sale Of intoxicating drinks
and the result made sure and permanent By
an amendment to the constitution OF tn
United States, totally prohibiting their i'm
portation, manufacture and sale throughou
the land.
Senior Castillo, alcalde of Jacobo in th,
state OF Sinaloa, has officially reported I,
the project OF his district that on April Z
he arrested, tried and burned alive Jos
Maria Bonilla and his wife for sorcery, i
having been proved that they had bewitcheC
one Silvestre Seacarias The day before tn
execution the citizens of Porrasas domandO'
that final test be made Seacarias tool
three swallows of blessed water, whereupo
the latter vomited fragments Of blanko
and lunches of hair. The Alcalde state
that the people were exasperated agains
the sorcerers aud demaned that they b
: burned. The sentence was executed wit
his approval. Several families in the tow
have since compelled the officer to burn an
other old woman and her son for the sam
cause. The General Government has aske
, the authorities of Sinaloa to send detaile
report OF these proceedings, and to tax
measures to protect the lives OF person
threatened with similar violence.
MAINE.
Henry b. Loveioy, well known citize
of West Waterville, committed suicide b
; hanging himself on Thursday night Of las
week.
The barque Phiena, Capt Davis, frOl
Portland, was totally destroyed by fire IN III
River La Plata. About quarter Of hC
cargo was saved.
The Ship Ocean King, now building /
Kennebunk, will have a capacity of 225
tons, and will be the largest ship ever bui
'. in Maine. She is to sail under the Englis
colors.
!. A villain under false pretext got aboar
; the schooner Annie b., near Monhegan, Me
: Saturday night, and nearly murdered Il
a captain and mate. lie has been arreste
; and is supposed to be insane.
!. There is no little rejoicing at the come
/ ton recently effected at Portland between Il
#. tracks of the Boston and Maine and II
3 Grand Trunk railroads The former wi
1 hereafter use the Grand Trunk depot at !
n station.
o Aroostook county, the most northern pa
}. of Maine, is becoming one Of the most pro
s porous Ii was only a few years ago TIL