Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-06-26
GENERAL NEWS.

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In Spain the Carlists keep up sort Of
guerilla warfare.
Garibaldi is so III as 10 he unable 10 move,
write, or even feed himself
The wife Of Nathaniel Bump, Of Prov
idence, Il. l., hanged herself on Saturday
evening.
Mr.. Dawes thinks tho West is going to
boss things in this country hereafter, and
New England had better DO making friends
with the mammOn Of unrighteouspess,
81. Louis will celebrate the formal open.
ing Of the new railroad bridge across the
Mississippi and the anniversary Of the ma.
tiOual independence at the same time
The history Of the management Of the
affairs Of South Carolina since the war shows
record Of corruption and rascality which
has never been excellcd in this or any other
country.
A man who was cut up by train Of cars
near Providence, Il. l., on Thursday night,
turns out to have been John Conner, of
Dodgeville, aud there is a suspicion that he
was murdered and placed on the track.
Postmaster.g general Creswell has resigned
and his resignation will be accepted as soon
as the president can find man to fll his
place. We feel sorry, but can't weep. 1t
is thought Hon. Eugene Hale, of Maine,
will be the next head Of the department.
In view of the improbabilty Of settle.
ment Of the dispute between the farm labor.
ers and their employers in England, the ag-
ricultural union OF bennington propose to
furnish free passage to Canada for all locked
out laborers who wish to emigrate,, and ask
that Joseph Arch take out tho first par
ty. The union has appropriated $4,000 as
passage fund.
A party Of negroes attacked the house Of
one johnson near GAINESVILLE, Tenn, last
week Wednesday night, with stones, when
one Of Johnson's daughters fired on tho
crowd, wounding a negro woman in the alb.
domen, from which she died. twenty minutes
afterward. The girl herself was struck on
the head with rock, producing probably q
fatal wound.
The president has dulled the keen edge Of
his memorandum by signing the currency
bill, which throws a new legality over the
issue Of s26,000,000 and permits substan-
tial imitation of the amount Of paper actu-
ally in circulation. This is not accomplished
by the direct issuance Of government green
backs, but by allowing the banks to put in
circulation that amount Of their present re-
serve.
John Sherman's infamous little game Of
Furnishing the newspapers has been blocked
by the House. John himself together with
all his aiders and abettors, will be attended
to in due time by the people. For partic-
ulars Of this game we refer our readers
to an article on "Getting Even with the
Newspapers" which we copy from Sp,iRg-
| field Republican Of last week.
While the senator's have been venting
their spleen in an unsuccessful attempt to
enact gag law, Now Orleans admins
tration Subordinate, it appears, hastens to
give tho principle q practical illustration.
About hahpast IL O'Clock, Saturday night,
when the last forms Of the Bulletin were
being conveyed to the press.room, they were
seized by the metropolitan police, by order
of Chiefof. Police Badger, aud locked up in
the central station, where at last accounts
they still remained. The Bulletin appeared,
Sunday morning. with six printed aud two
blank pages. closing with an editorial, un-
der the captions "Another Midnight Order, y
IAN Outrage on American Liberty" "The
Press to be Bullied and Suppressed" The
Bulletin says: whether Durell, kellogg.
Badger or their underlings are implicated
we cannot as yet say, but that this bold, au-
dacious and villainous robbery on the high
way Of newspapers material on its way
to the press was effected simply because OF
the Bulletins daring and outspoken. expos
ure of fraud and corruption is certain
The forms were surrendered to the propri-
etors aiterward, and the paper appeared as
usual, Monday afternoon.
The provisions Of the new reciprocity
treaty have at last been made public, though
it will probably not be acted upon before
next winter. Article covers the reciproc-
ity field; it concerns three schedules of mer-
chandise, which, being the growth, produce
or manufacture of either country, shall pay,
for the first year from July /, 1875, two
thirds Of the duties now in force, for the
second year one-third, and ever after during
the force of the treaty shall 90 free Of duty.
the farm, the forest, the mines and the seas.
This includes, of course, coal, lumber, wool
animals, meats, tobacco and tow unmanuiac.
tured, grain. flour, butter and cheese and pc.
troeum, also rags Schedule B enumerates
great namber Of agricultural implements
including mowers, reapers, cheese factory
furniture, horse.powers, thrashing- machines
and nearly all hand tools. Schedule G COM
prises the following manufactures Axles
all kinds boots and shoes of leather; boot
and shoe-making machines; buffalo robes
dressed aud trimmed cotton grair
bags cotton demins cotton jeans, un'
bleached; cotton drillings; cotton tickings
cotton plaids cottonades. unbleached cab
met ware and furniture, or parts thereof
carriages, carts, wagons and other wheeled
: vehicles and Sleighs, or parts thereof; fire
engines, or parts thereof; felt covering To-
boilers gutta.percha betting and tubing
iron, bar, hoop, pig pudded, rod, sheet Of
scrap; iron nails, spikes, bolts, tacks, brads
or sprigs; iron castings india-rubber belt
ing and tubing locomotives for railways o
parts thereof lead, sheet or pig leather
, harness or saddlery Of mill, or factory, o.
, steamboat fixed engines and machines, OIL
parts thereof; manufactures of marble, stone
slate or granite manufactures of WOO
solely or wood nailed. bound, hinged OIL
locked with metal materials mangles, wash
ing-machines, wringing-machines and drying
machines, or parts thereof; printing pape
for newspapers paper-making machines o
= parts thereof printing-type presses an
/, folders, paper-cutters, ruling-machines page
numbering machines, and stereOtyping an,
I electrotyping apparatus, or parts thereof
refrigerators, or parts thereof; railroad cars
carriages, and trucks, or parts thereof; sat
iDets Of wool and cotton steam-engines, O
parts thereof; steel, wrought or cast, an
g steel plates and rails tin tubes and piping