Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-02-27
GENERAL NEWS.

murdered bachelors at Halifax, Mass, has
been arrested on suspicion Of being the
guilty party in the case.
John Il. Simmons of New York, who
murdered Duryea in December, 1872, has
been sentenced to hard labor in the State
Prison for three years and six months
The Missouri state grange on Friday adop-
ted resolutions indorsing the platform recent
ly adopted by the national convention, advo.
eating private economy and inviting the co.
operation Of the women in their movement
for reform.
A congressional committee is after the
agricultural colleges II is expected that
the investigation will be of the most thor
ough character. II is already known that
in many localities the fund has been per-
verted.
In England they have had general
election for members Of Parliament, aud
the Tories have carried it, the House of
Commons standing, Conservatives, 351, Lib
erals, 302. This makes DIsraeli prime
minister, with Tory cabinet.
A dispatch from Biddeford, Me-, says
that through the aid of an eminent legal
gentleman Of that city, who is trustee of
Dartmouth College, valuable woodland has
been secured which will realize to that insti.
tuition 100000
Gov. Dingley, Of Maine, has cited the
sheriff Of Knox county to appear before
him and show cause why he should
not be impeached, for not obeylDg the
law in regard to seizing liquors. The char
ges against him were made by Good Tenn
plars' lodge.
The respectable, " or Harvard College
ring, in Boston, is quarroling with the dis
reputable, or ward.politician ring, over the
customs collectorship. Butler, who leads the
latter, will probably win, and the result is
likely to be split in the republican party of
Massachusetts,.
In the matter of practical benevolence the
National Grange shows its faith by its works
by cheerfully appropnating $4,000 to the
needy oranges in northwestern Iowa, 81 900
to Minnesota oranges that have suffered
from the drouth that prevailed during last
summer in portion of that state, and $3.50
to oranges in Dacotah Territory for the
same reason.
Tally another bloodless aud (highly) NOR.
al victory for the American agriculturist.
Congressman Burchard Of Illinois, after
painful mental conflicts of which the UNI
feeling world will probably never know, has
refunded not only his 1890 of retroactive,
but also $500 of pay drawn by him for
the present Congress under the act of last
March. And the granger is still marching
on.
At the meeting of the Kansas State
Grange, Feb. 90, resolutions were adopted
requesting the Kansas Legislature to pass a
prohibitory liquor law, and declaring that
no person who retails liquor shall be admit
ted to the order also declaring that the
greatest good and highest happiness of an
enlightened, virtuous, and prosperous people
are the legitimate results of thorough and
practical education dffused among the
masses.
A gang Of freight-car burglars has Just
been broken up at Truckee, Cal, on the line
Of the Central Pacific railroad, and $4,000
or more Of stolen goods recovered. One of
the four thieves captured is said to be a mer-
chant in good standing. They got into the
cars by false keys, replacing the seals in per-
feet order, and have succeeded in stealing
$4,000 worth Of freight, the last two or
three years.
The Utica Herald says: An excellent
demand and higher quotation for butter is
reported from New York. The scarcity Of
low grades continues A better time for the
introduction Of the suet butter could not be
desired. We are informed that many lead.
ing hotels in the eastern cities are RECALLING
their guests with " Oleomargarine " and that
there is good sale for it at from 20 to SOC.
Those who have the genuine article to sell
find the opportunity correspondingly good.
The legislative, judicial and executive ap
preparation bill in Congress is a curious in.
strument IN several particulars 1t cuts out
sums which have heretofore been severely
criticised, but causes them to appear again
in new shapes and under new names. The
sum heretofore given each secretary, to dis.
tribute among such clerks as he chooses, i,
done away with, but seven new divisions
with large salaries and seven chief clerks tC
each, with unusual pay, are created. Thus
our servants try to deceive and rob us.
A meeting of the farmers cooperative as
ISOLATION was held at Topeka. Kan, Friday
night, with view to forming new political
party. Speeches were made by Senator
York, ex.Gov. Robinson and others, ant
resolutions passed in favor Of a repeal of the
national banking law; revision OF the tariff
so as to raise the revenue from imported lux
uries, instead OF articles necessary for the
comfort of the masses in favor of Congress
controlling the railroads and regulating
freights and fares.
Tho Ohio women continue their unique
campaign Of praying down rum-shops with
undated vigor. Cincinnati papers prin
columns daily about the progress of tn,
work, governors and judges are interviewed
on the subject, clergymen make it the tex
: of sermons, newspapers discuss its variou,
bearings,-in short, the state is very thor
oughly walked up about it, The movemcn
attracts only less attention in New England
than in the region of its birth, and certainly
takes rank as one of the most unique phe
nemena of our American life.
. Among the work at the late meeting o
the state grange of Wisconsin, the executiv,
committee presented charges against Secre
tary Brainerd Of acting as a middleman be
tween the oranges and the parties who sup
, piled the grange with stationery, regalia
, etc. he pocketing eight per cent. on eacl
transaction. After the report had been pre-
scented, Brainerd made an affidavit that til,
eight per cent. had been credited to tn,
grange and afterwards showed his books al
tered to that effect. The committee wer
{ not satisfied with the matter and asked anC
obtained leave to make full investigation.
7 The murder trial at Lewiston, Me-, ha
terminated, and in manner satisfactory Il
c a majority Of those who have followed tn
4. testimony Of this remarkable case. Jane
, NJ. Lowell has been found guilty of murde
0 In the first hanrnn Thia mnn snmn thrn