Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-07-17
GENERAL NEWS

The New England Fair is to be held at
Providence, X. l., Sept. l, 2, 3, and 4.
Mr.. Beecher asks for full Investigation
of the charges made against him, aud Titon
says amen.
An attempt has already been made to
punish the editor of the Nep York San I'M
der the notorious gag law, but the district
jury failed to find an indictment. Boss Shop
herd, in whose direct interest it it claimed
the bill was drawn up, says, however, that
no will make the press suffer yet.
The ministry of Manitoba has been de-
feated on direct motion of want of conf
dence, and new Anglo.French coalition
ministry has been formed as follows: NJ. A..
A. Gerard, premier X. A. Dawes, f. H.
Hay, j. Duboe and Il. 0gletree. Its policy
will probably embrace the fixing Of the
qualification for representation ON an extend
cd basis, the abolition of the legislative
council, an improved judiciary, and the re-
duction Of public expenditures.
The neatest tit for tat of modern times is
the formal expulsion of Pic Mono from the
Masonic fraternity by the grand orient of
Ihdlls II HCNilS NuuI WuCu luC NtuCTuDiC
pOntff was yet young Signor Massetti and
ignorant of the onerous greatness which the
future had in store for him, he entered the
Masonic lodge at Palermo. To his bulls oil
accommodation the fraternity at last re.
spond with this decree of expulsion. 1t i,
signed by Victor Emanuel, grand master Of
Italy. The holy father knows how it is
himself.
With certain manly reluctance the peo
pie Of Minnesota have RETAINED from making
a formal appeal for relief in the great dis
tress which has been caused by the grass.
hopper scourge. A half dozen counties have
been already devastated, and the crops are a.
completely destroyed as if the hot breath
of the simeon had blasted them. The loca
authorities have done everything in their
power to relieve the people thus afflicted
Gov. Davis has vainly sought from the gen
cral Government an equivalent IN rations
for the States quota Of arms, and everything
else having failed, we have at length state,
ment of the case, from st. Paul, which takel
the form Of pathetic appeal to the people
Of the United States to do what they can
and that promptly, to furnish relief in the
present emergency. A circumstance that
adds to the hardships of the situation anC
gives peculiar froce to the appeal for aiC
is the fact that the settlers thus visiteC
were impoverished in the same way las
year.
Chicago Burned OUt Again.
Hardly had the great metropolis of tn
West recovered from the great FIRE Of 1871
when she is again smitten with wide
sweeping aud hardly less destructive conAa
grafton. The section doomed this time i
the same as that stricken in the former fir,
the southern-between the river and tn
lake, but this time it is the southern portion
of this section, instead of the northern, il
which the fire began, aud its direction north
ern, instead of southern. The FIRE begal
about 4.3O o'clock, Tuesday afternoon, in I
paint manufacturing shop, corner of l2tl
and Clark streets. Some workmen wer
mixing paint, when an explosion occurred
the flames bursting forth in an instant AM
firing the building. 1t was at first blow
southwark by stiff breeze, but the win,
soon shifted to the southwest, aud by sun
set it blew gale, sending the fire towar,
the central part OF the CITY. AT hali-pas
q o'clock the flames had made almost
clean sweep up to the corner of Third Ave
nue. aud Polk Street. AS it was very evi
dent by $50 o'clock from the course of tn
fire and the strength of the wind that tn
post.Oiiicc building was in all prObabilit
doomed, the mails were removed to
place Of safety. At 10 minutes past s
the building caught fire, and at $50 it wa
mass of flames in spite Of all the efforts Q
the whole fire department at 1880 the fir
had progressed northward and taken in tn
block on the east side Of State Street, whic
} consisted Of low wooden buildings, aud O
Wabash Avenue north from Harrison stree
one block and half, taking in both sides G
the street. aud working over along on Mich
igan avenue toward the exposition building
About midnight the wind changed to III
west, driving the fire back toward the dii
trict already burned and toward the lax
assisting the 6remeu much in staying tn
, flames. A dispatch at o'clock Wednesda