Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-05-08

n lew uhys bluNos btuflluR buu DFhuulng MIN
with red.hot IRONS, and aherwsrd pouring
spirits Of turpeptine over his body and low.
er limbs and setting hiin on FIRE. He is now
IN aahOspital at Baltimore, and his recovery
is doubtful. II is reported that the perpe-
traitors Of the outrage have been arrested.
The Signal Office has for some time past
been compelled 70 omit the Mount Washing
ton Reports from its published tables. An
electric fash which made everybody think
Of condagfation "burnf out" the telegraph
offices on the summit and at the base OF the
mountain, aud also at Littleton The dam.
age NJ the summit was 70 great that IL has
been impossible TO make the needed repairs,
as supplies cannot be sent up the mountain.
The case Of George @. Cannon, delegate
to the house Of representatives from Utah,
is being investigated by the committee on
elections Mr.. Cannon received majority
Of the legal votes cast but being Mormon
with four wives, thus living 10 open viola
ton of the law Of the United States, the
house questions the propriety Of his having
a voice there His case was brought TO no
tice by the 10Th wife Of Brigham Young
who is in the East lecturing against the
prophet, aud who called attention to Cannon
10 recent lecture IN Washington. 1.i
The republican forces entered Bilboa,
Spain, Saturday, the carlists retreating in
great disorder. Bilboa never passed out Of
the hands of the national forces, having
been besieged by strong Carlist army,
which was in turn beleaguered IN its trench
es by the army Of Serrano. Between the
impregnable town upon the one hand and
the attacks of the republicans, the Carlists
have stood a good deal of fighting and
their success was for long time an even
chance. Their final failure has evidently
broken the cause for this generation and
probably forever.
A law regulating freights has just gone
into effect in Wisconsin, and two railroads
the st. Paul and the Northwestern, have
through their presidents sent letters to the
governor protesting soemnly against the
law, claiming that their charters secure Il
the roads the fixing of their own rates. and
that they cannot pay expenses and the in
terest on their bonds at the rates fixed by
the legislature, to say nothing of dividends
to stockholders. Gov. Taylor responds with
a proclamation, expressing profound regre
at the course of the roads above mentioned
sin marked contrast to the patience ant
submission Of the people under railroad ex'
actions, and enjoiniug all parties peaceably
to submit to the law Of the land. He ha
appointed Joseph II, Osborne, late pur
chasing agent OF the state grange, Geo. H
Paul, democrat. and John w Hoyt, for
long time secretary Of the state agriculture
society. railroad commissioners under To
new law.
A shocking tragedy occurred at Home
stead, Pa, last week Thursday aud the fol
lowing confession Of the perpetrator give
the substance. He was arrested Friday
He gave his name as Ortwein, aud said b
was native of Stuttgart, Germany, an,
had not been very long in this country
On the day the deed was committed he ha
been at work digging fence-holes. Whe
he came to supper he found Mr.. aud Mr.,
Hamnet had gone on visit, and there wa
, no one about the house hut the two childre
aud the adopted boy. All at once ther
came over him q strong temptation to TO
} the house of what money it might contain
duh tuOu W. hutWy u ne 0tu uc WOut
he discovered. He killed all his victim
with an ak. The first victim was the adopt
: ed boy, Ii years old next he killed tn
, little girl four years old, and, finally, III
I girl Ida, eight years old. He then searche
} the house and could only fad about SIG
5 money. Mr.. and Mrs. Hamnet returned
! the evening. As soon as Mr.. Hamnet cam
5 to the door he struck him 4 well-directe
e blow with the AK which rendered him con
D pletely lifeless. Mrs. Hamnet, when strucl
, screamed, aud fell iainting on the foo
o when he soon dispatched her. He said b
s did not fire the house, and it was not pa
q of his plan to cover up the murder. Whe
! searching the house, he put an oil lamp
q the sitting-room aud when rushing ava
I from the building il was overturned, but
( thought it would 60 out; he did not thin
e the house would burn.
$ MAINE.
: A poor woman was burned to death
I Portland Tuesday.
:. Nathan X. Hall, Of Clinton, was run ov
j by a train of cars on Saturday, and vi
probably die.
The state agricultural college at 0rol
has Just closed its winter term with II
students, five of whom are women.
= The wife Of Mr. George Wing, Of Nor
. Fairfield, committed suicide by hanging Ia
!. week She was subject to fits Of insanit
e A large eagle was caught at Portland, d
other day, in the very act OF swooping doV
upon young child, but was scared ava
and afterward shot.
Isaac Thompson and Cochran Seave
about Is years OF age belonging in Gus
Ing, were drowned April %, while setti
Al lobster pots, by the sinking Of their BOZ
Albert H. Wing, son Of DIR. Wing,
re- Auburn, was recently murdered near MINI
apolis, MINI, it is supposed by Samuel q,
- well, the murderer's object being to get s.
u or $40 Wing had in his pockets.
james Davis, an insane man, 30 yea
old, murdered his father, Saturday, at ST
!; son, by cutting his head nearly off with
Ak. He was taken into custody, and, VIII
= asked why he did it, replied, "Washingt
ordered me to do it." He was released frt
"a an asylum, a short time since, having be
u pronounced cured.
- The murder of Slas Davis, Of StetsOn,
his insane sou, james p, GU Saturday, v
~ one of the most revolving crimes ever 90
ns United in the state. The wife of the mi
S' dered man witnessed the deed from I
nc house, aud Immediately had her son ARE
cd and put in irons. He appeared calm a
III uncoucerned, aud told the story Of the dc
ne as follows: Father aud / we're in
I'D yard cutting wood, when he said jam
he | am getting old aud want you to cut |
head of do it quick Father laid his he
o. on the block, and | struck at him once,
ed the AK glanced; the second blow cut b
Nc badly, aud the third tune | hit him,
he head came off and rolled away. | had
do it, as it was my duty, and ! am gla,
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