Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-05-28
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

OOlu1 llOs
ID ecoration day tomorrow.
A candidate for treasurer Of Mississippi
county announces that if elected he will pay
all his debts.
The governor of Missouri has appointed
Thursday, June 3, as a day of fasting,
humiliation and prayer, in view Of the threat
ened grasshopper pestilence. From all ac-
counts it is impossible to resist the convic-
ton that these pests are gradually working
their way easterly.
Hon. George Vail, of Morristown, N. j.,
died Sunday evening, aged ~. He was
twice in Congress, aud afterward Consul at
Glasgow under Buchanan. lie was con-
cerned with Prof Morse in porfecting the
telegraph and maturing the first instru-
ments.
Mrs. Lincoln, widow Of the president,
is pronounced insane by the courts, and has
been sent to an asylum. She protested
strongly against the decision oil the court,
bat undertook 10 commit suicide by poison
ing, the first chance she had, though the
druggist, while filling the prescription, was
warned what she probably wanted it for, and
gave her harmless mixture instead. Mrs
Lincoln Immediately swallowed the supposed
poison, and when she found it did not work
tried to get more.
The lash as q means Of punishment is still
in use in Delaware, aud every six months,
in the presence Of all the spectators that
choose TO come, the prisoners are whipped
In fact, whipping day" is equally as at
tractivc as "circus day" to the juvenile pop.
ulation OF Delaware. A semi-annual exhibi-
tion was opened at the New Castle Jail
yard, on the 10Th and eleven persons whip
ped. One who received forty lashes re-
marked that he would rather Serve a life
time in the penitentiary than undergo such u
punishment again.
The swindling OF poor women by New
York dealers who sell sewing machines on
the instalment plan was referred to 4 few
weeks ago. The investigation has brought
out some disgraceful instances which show
that the wrong aud injustice have been
greater even thaa represented. In one case
S63 Of the $3.50 had been paid, and the re-
naming SO was rendered day or two too
late and the agents kept the 1868 aud took
away the poor woman's machine because
she had forfeited it, and in another, $l02
had been paid out of Sl10, and, after the
machine had been taken, the balance of So
was actually paid at the office of the com.
pany or its agents, and then the machine
was refused to be given up until $50 in in.
terest should be paid.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
HeRry Beck of Loudon, 65 years old,
committed suicide by hanging, on the Goth
Louisa Gardiner, an old lady of Ports
mouth, was burned to death, on the Goth, by
her clothes catching fire from candle.
VIM. A. Richardson, who has been clerk
in the American House, at Lancaster, the
past three years, has purchased the house Of
his brother Francis for $500.
Deacon Josiah Mower, of Jaffrey, while
insane, set fire to his house and barn, which
were entirely consumed, and then, going tC
an unoccupied house half mile away, cut
his throat, aud is not expected to recover.
Another tragedy has occurred in New
Hampshire. John Keyser Place, who kept
dsreputable house ia Rochester, was acct.
dentaly shot Saturday night by his son,
while the latter was aiding bis father in ex-
pelling several roughs
The trial of Moses b, Sawyer for the
murder Of Mrs. John Emerson at Piermont
last fall, which has been in progress at
plymouth for the past week, was conolud-
ed, Saturday, aud the case given to the
jury, but they could not agree, standing
seven for conviction and five for acquittal,
and were discharged.
MASSACHUSETTS.
The strike of the Lowell mule spiuneri
has finally terminated in the defeat of the
strikers, who are now begging for the EN-.
plOymont they spurned few weeks ago.
RHODE ISLAND.
The General Assembly met on Tuesday
aud chose Gen. Henry Lippitt governor, ant
Henry T. Sissons lieutenant governor, tn,
people having failed to make choice at the
last election.
NEW YORK.
Rev. Henry Lake, Catholic priest o
New York, has taken unto himself wife.
A horrible double tragedy came to light
the other morning, at East New York,
suburb Of Brooklyn. Jacob Young, a Ger
man tailor, who lost his wife, siT years ago
bpt married again, about year after, wal
was found lying dead across the grave o
his 6rst wife, with revolver in one hand
having evidently committed suicide and
when the officers went to inform his wife o
what had happened, the doors and window
Of the house were found to be locked, an,
the dead body of Mrs, Young was discovered
iR the cellar