Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-02
GENERAL NEWS.
Gold, LILO.

GENERAL NEWS.
Gold, Ito.
Orders have been issued from Washing
ton to discontinue recruiting for the navy.
Time.
The notorious Virginius has at last solved
the problem Of what shall be done with
her." She lies at the bottom of the ocean
off Cape Fear, where she foundered last
Friday.
There has been an extensive strike of rail.
road engineers, West, and some violence in
stopping trains, &c. 1t is thought the diff.
Guilty will soon be settled.
Industry continues to improve. The mills
at Lawrence and Fall River are running on
full time again.
A steamer was sunk on the river Tyne in
Scotland, Friday morning, and thirty or forty
men were drowned.
The resumption of business by Fisk a.
Hatch the New York brokers, was followed,
last week, by an entire absence Of anything
like run on them by depositors, all having
confidence in their ability to meet all de-
mands.
A canvass of the famine-stricken counties
in northwest Iowa shows that the number
Of destitute families in $50, embracing 1000
persons. In Osceola and Sioux counties
there arc 200 families, and Lyons county
100, the number in the other counties vary
ing from 10 to 80. The state grange has
made call of twenty cents per member
throughout the state, which will furnish
large sum.
Two sons OF IL. S. Read, of Amherst,
Mass, his only children, were drowned last
week in mill pond near that town. The
eldest, William II. Read, aged 81, was
promising member OF the sophomore class in
the college, while the younger boy was study
ing in the grammar school. These young
men lost their lives in rescuing another boy
who had broken through the ice. They
saved him, but were unable to extricate
| themselves.
One OF the first things that Mr.. Hale, of
Maine, means to do, after the re.assembling
Of congress, is to introduce bill for the
complete repeal Of the grab, move suspen-
sion of the rules, and have square vote
which the whole country can understand.
There is an awful row in Washington
over the confirmation of Encouragement
Williams Of Oregon, nominated by the Pres
ident for Chief Justice in place of Mr..
Chase. Williams is charged with being unfit,
as lawyer, for such position; with being
guilty Of gross corruption in his Office of at
torney-general with buying carriage for
his wife for $1,000 and paying for it out Of
the contingent fund of his department. &c.
&c. The women Of Washington are also
down on Mrs. Williams as being unfit, by
reason of too much good looks or too many
good clothes, for the position Of Chief JUS
ticess. Altogether, such pother never
was known. The friends Of Mr.. and Mrs
Williams reply that if they did steal their
"landaulet" from Uncle Sam it is no more
than other great officials are in the habit Of
doing. A Washington despatch says The
combat deepens over the private carriages
and servants. One cabinet officer is report,
ed to have sold out his establishment, and
returned the original amount to the eontin'
gent fund. Not only are the department
officers provoked and indignant at the i'm.
pertinence of the Senate judiciary committee
but they are incensed at the attempt Of
Williams friends to defend him by saying
that everybody else about the Department.
were driving themselves and families in sim.
liar stolen teams. Before the subject is dis.
posed of the chances are that half the of.
ficials of high rank in this city will be by
the ears. The last discovery of an extra
fine carriage and span is thai Of the chic
clerk Of the agricultural department, Fred
erick Watts, Jr., who comes over to tn,
city regularly to his meals, and his driver
sits in state outside and waits for him
Senator's and members here say the ma ttel
has become such a public scandal that il
must be investigated at the meeting Of Con
gress.
Caleb Gushing is nominated to repac,
Siekles as minister to Spain.
, Leaving out of the account the army, na
Wy, pensions and interest on the debt, tn,
expenditures of the government in GA
were s37 ,970,9Sl. During the last fsca
year, they were SSl ,279,Sl5; during tn,
present supposing the estimates of the de
} partments to stand, the total will pass 800,
100000.
Merchants Of New York are being ex
amined as to the working of the nationa
, bankrupt law. They say they rarely o
never get any dividends from estates il
2 bankruptcy under this law, as all the prop
erty is absorbed in fees. According l.
them it is "lawyer's law got up by tn
lawyers to give them fat pickings. One
halfway, three-lourths--of all our law
are of the same stripe, and always will b
: so long as we allow lawyers to make and ad
minister them unchecked.
1 A freight car containing over S2,000,00
, worth Of silk worms eggs, on their wa
from Yokohama, Japan, to Milan, Italy
arrived at the Hudson River depot in NeV
York on Friday last. The cargo consiste
Il of 800 eases, weighing altogether nearl
8 nine tons.
i The state constitutional convention a
t Harrisburg, Pa, adjourned sine die, Satul
9 day night, after counting the votes and re
:. questing the governor to issue prOclama
% ton declaring the new constitution in fore
L after January |. 1t is hoped that this nev
n constitution will put an end to some of tn
y rascalties practiced by the officials in tha
! state.
q Huntington, the investigator of the Pl
Q cifc railroad scandal in the Canadian PA
lament which has caused the downfall {
Sir John A. MacDonald's government, VIZ
entertained at q grand banquet in Montrea
last Tuesday. There were at least 40
4. prominent public men present.
y Manchester, n H., Dec. "a The Ma
N tiers of subordinate oranges through the stat
accompanied by their wives, assembled at th
y G, A. r. hall this morning and organized
n State Grange. The constitution and bylaw
d. were adopted, also resolutions against speciI
d, privileges; asking no more for themselvo
To than they were willing to grant to other il
ID dustries; denouncing trickery, bribery an
" corruption in elections; iavoring equal an