Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-13
GENERAL NEWS.

An actress and a writer Of considerable
celebrity, named Ada Glare, died in New
York Wednesday evening from hydrophoba,
The Maine Legislature adjourned sine die
last week, after passing one hundred and
forty-two acts, during a session Of forty-nine
days.
An organized system Of mail plumber is
said to exist in Kansas. All parts Of the
state report lost letters, papers and even
whole mails.
The Michigan House has, by large ma
jority stricken the werd "male" from the
elective franchise provision in the new Con-
stitutiou.
Adams Bedell, Of Bath, N H., was ia
tally burt by his horse running away in
Monroe on Saturday. He died on Sunday,
aged "A.
An enormous amount of snow has fallen
in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Califor.
mia. Passenger trains cannot move, and
freight trains have been abandoned for tho
present.
A bill has been introduced in Congress- to
allow newspaper publishers to exchange pa
pers free of postage, and papers to be sent
free to subscribers IN the counties Of pub
LEGATION.
After voting "a reconsideration, Congress
has again, and we hope finally, voted down
the bill for the revival Of the ranking priv
ilege, by q vote, in the House, of III yeas
to l20 nays.
Ex.President Fillmore died at his res
idence in Brfialo, Sunday night, from the
attack Of paralysis with which he was seized,
some days ago. Mr.. Fillmore was born at
Summer Hill, N. Y, in 1900.
Charlestown, Mass last week. was the
scene of another shocking tragedy. james
Dwight shot William Mclaughlin, and
afterward attempted to take his own life, but
failed. Mclaughlin is dead.
Deputy o. d. Hinckley of Wisconsin, is
organizing Farmers Oranges in Maine.
Quite number have already been organ
lied, and it is anticipated that next month a
State Grange will be organized
The Carlists in Spain are having run Of
luck, and "Charles VIZ is thinking Of
putting on his crown in earnest. The Mad.
rid government, nominally republican, has
made Serrano dictator, and there are signs
Of big fight.
In Cuba, the insurgents have won quite a
victory in pitched battle, and would have
made it still moro decisive if their ammuni-
ton had not given out Gold is up to 202,
the sugar crop is short, the financial pros
pect gloomy, and the feeling toward America
very bitter
Blaine has the credit, with some of the
Washington correspondents, OF stopping the
further investigation of Attorney General
Williams contingent fund. For man who
wants to be president, and is cultivating
the grangers, who don't have landaulets, the
speaker is behaving very recklessly.
Mayor Havemeyer, of New York. in his
annual message, dweIls at length on the
causes Of decline in the commerce of the
State and city, and makes an urgent sppea
for speedy action before they are ground to
powder between the millst mes Of their own
negligence and tho enterprise of less favor
ably situated neighbors.
Senator Simon Cameron has succeeded in
palming of on the president and driving
through the Senate surveyor-general fol
Colorado, who, according to sworn testimony
furnished before confirmation, openly re.
joiced over the killing OF Mr.. Lincoln, and
was only sorry he had not been killed before
and who boasted all through the war that he
was rebel.
The "Sovereigns of Industry" have beer
holding session of their National Council
at Springfield, Mass. The address of Grand
Master Earle claims very rapid growth o.
the new order, councils having been formed
in eleven states and commissions given t
deputies in ten other states within fifty day
after It's establishment. Prominent officer
Of the Patrons OF Husbandry were present
and arrangements are to be made for tn,
purchasing of all goods used by the familie,
at producers prices.
The New Order Of Independent Grang
ers," composed OF those who, because no
farmers, could not gain admission to tn,
Patrons are to have gathering at Albany
n. Y. These independent grangers do no
hesitate 10 own that they are leagued fol
political purposes. They say that there is
certain ground that neither the Patrons no
the Sovereigns can cover, aud they are goinj
to fill aud till il. We advise the three pc
litical oranges Of Vermont to secede iron
the Patrons and go with these Independent
grangers, where they would he more at home
The list of interrogatories sent to tn
various agricultural colleges by the Hous
committee on education aud labor include
the following: Organization and endow
t, ment value of property financial manage
ment income expenditure; debts; sui
, sequent occupations of the students; charac
. ter Of the instruction graduates and their dii
, cipline; conditions Of admission and finally
has the gift Of the United States been pr,
, served unimpaired and devoted to the pun
! posed objects of your institution If no
q to what extent has it been impaired or d
verted, and under what circumstances?
A reduction Of 5000 men in the army
probable, In relation to this question, GeI
8 Sherman says IF reduction is forced apo
. the army by the financial condition of tn
: country, | unhesitatingy say that you Ia
: better cut of at the head than at the foot
. that the most valuable part Of our militar
a establishment is in the inverse order of I
general arrangement. look upon two cay
airy regiments Tor even infantry regiment
as worth more than the whole general stat
!. myself included | would rather see Coz
r. gress abolish me and my office, and turn II
4 loose to get my living and tear out the FIR
!. thirty.eight pages Of the Army Regste
" than to soc it disband two such regiments
n Among the business transacted at the r.
e cent session of the National Grange, was
d revision Of the organic law giving electOr
o representation from Stateto National Grang,
If providing for fifth degree oranges (branch
IS Of the State Grange) in counties, to whi'
'r fourth degree members shall be eligible r
ducing the fees from State to Nation
Grange simplifying various branches of d
>; general business of the order, aud providil
Il for direct exchange of products betSe
~ the different sections Of the countr