Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-04-17

reserves will be immediate, while the issue OF
the new currency will be gradual If this
should he the effect Of tho law II will sur
prise none more than the majority in both
houses who have secured its passage.
MAINE.
A Portland woman, only 81 years old,
has just given birth to her 10th child.
Thirty-shree vessels are being built at
Portland, nearly all Of which are destined
for the foreign trade, and the capital invest.
ed in them will amount to Sl,500,000.
The Grand Lodge of Maine, l. .. Of G.
t., held its regular annual session at Lewis
ton last week. The attendance was the
largest ever known at a session Of the Grand
Lodge.
All the carriages made 10 the state prison
are now sold outside the state, on account
Of a protest from Maine carriage makers
against being obliged to compete with pris-
on labor.
A teacher at Lagrange, on entering his
school-house, few days ago, found the floor
smeared with blood, and in the stove was
the body of newborn babe, with some
pieces of wood around il, partly burned, in
dlcatug that an attempt had been made to
burn IT, There is no clew to the perpetra-
tor of the crime.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Ex-Gov. ClaAin, of Massachusetts,, is
going to start a shoe factory at Warren.
Manchester patients are trying the fresh
blood cure, so popular at Brighton, Mass.
James Nelson, SO years old, was frozen to
death in terrible snow storm at Newport,
Saturday night.
The Cheshire railroad bridge over Cold
river in Walpoe, new covered one, l4S
feet long, was burned Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Frank Howes, wife Of the we'll
known circus proprietor, drowned herself at
Dover Friday night, from grief at the loss
Of her sister.
The body OF A. j. Bliss, Oh Claremont,
who has been missing for several days, was
found in Sugar river, Sunday. He leaves u
wife aud one child.
Alexander st. John, John Wade, Will
lam Hursey and Henry Albert escaped from
the Manchester jail, by cutting through the
roof on Tuesday.
The grand jury of Merrimack County has
indicted Storrs Of the First national bank Of
Concord for his embezzlement Of S54, 600
but the young man has gone West.
Barney Mcintyre, lately brakeman on
the Boston aud Maine road was arrested on
the train at Dover on Monday evening for
forging an order for $500 on a savings bank
in Andover, Mass. The money was found ia
his boot and he was taken to Andover.
Miss Lizzie White, about 10 years old,
was attacked on the 9Th by one George Ella,
Is years old, who attempted to outrage her
and had struck her over the head with q
piece OF wood several times The indigna
ton against Ella, when the crime came to be
known, was 80 intense that the officers haC
to take him to the Concord Jail to save hi
life
MASSACHUSETTS.
There is large willow tree at Bedford
a hundred years old, which has grown from
tree casually stuck into the ground.
Prof. Alpheus Crosby, formerly Of Dart
mouth college and author Of Crosby's GreeI
Grammar, is very sick at his home in Salem
Ludlow mas appropriated $500 for her
centennial celebration, June II, aud Barre
has appropriated $500 for Eers which comes
: the same day.
Two bulls broke from drove at Brighton
the other day, swan the Charles River snd
rushed irte the yard of Harvard college
One was lassooed aud killed with an Ak ant
the other shot BY policemen.
About two hundred men were thrown ou
Of employment at Fall River on Saturday
, by the breaking OF the main gear Of tn,
engine at the Fall River Iron Works.
will probably take five or six weeks to re
, PAIR.
Some Of the records OF the town of Dux
: bury, dating back to 1857, when Alexander
Standsh, son of Miles Standish, was tow
clerk, have recently been unearthed; alsC
some of the records of 1865, one Of which
reads as follows Voted-That the tow
clerk purchase one-half quire of paper, 70
the use OF the town.
, A vessel is being built at East Bosto
without frame, NJ an experiment, the hull
being made Of spruce logs foot square
fastened together every SIX inches by incl
: bolts three feet long Forty per cent. les
> Of wood is to be used IN her constructor
4 than in an ordinary vessel of her capacity
and it is expected that she will be les
liable to decay than vessels with frames
while any leak in her can be stopped from
d the inside. Ship building in general a
y East Boston is opening briskly. this spring
The senatorial convention in Boston hav
9 continued their game another week, the onl
e material alteration in the situation being tn
bringing forward Of William B. Washbur
: on the late ballots. Dawes has had a plu
n rality every time so lar, but the thing
: getting tiresOme aud there will probably be
Il break of some kind in the dead lock With
4 week The following is a summary of a
|. the hallota nm IN Tuesday NIGHT