Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-05-07
All Sorts of Items.

The Woodstock Post says, It's all very
well to talk bosh." The Post practices what
it breaches.
Girls are not admitted to the public schools
in New Mexico. where the theory is that
they should be educated in separate schools.
The New York Commercial AdUertiser
says that the Indian department bids are to
be marked " u. S. l. D." U Steal, l Di-
vide n-ehP
Attempts to muzzle the press and drown
free speech are contrary to the spirit of our
times, and must be resisted, from whatever
quarter they come.-BoStOn Journal. Right.
The doctors are now denounclng tea drink
ing rs destructive TO the nervous system.
Many serious cases are cited to show the
evil effects of imbibing strong tea.
The civil damage law of Illinois makes
liquor selling perilous business. AT Am
boy. in that state, seller has been compell-
ed to pay $4,000 10 the widow of drunkard
killed in his saloon.
The main question between parties is
Which would steal the larger percentage of
the public money! We may remark in con-
iidence that the executive capacity of tho
democratic party is SO great that it fills us
with the most lively apprehensions. Gin
cinnah Commercial.
The Boston Journal very properly sides
with the Montreal Witness in its present per-
secution by the Catholic church, but we can
hardly understand why it should feel called
upon to say the Witness /" is the only paper
in Lower Canada (which is not under Catho-
lie control" Isn't that statement little
broad, Mr.. Journal?
We see by our exchanges that the Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher, II pastor of some note
in Brooklyn, N. Y, is having little misun-
| derstanding with some of the members of
the church His father had little msun-
derstanding of the same nature when he was
running n female seminary in the West
| Gazette.
When a man hands an editor an article
| Republication, and asks him to fix II up "
because he " wrote it in hurry" and chad
MT time to revise It, you may know that he
commenced the article directly after supper
and wrestled with it until after midnight,
rewrote it fourteen times, destroying quire
of foolscap, and "blessed" his pen every
two minutes. That's the way they general
ly write an article when they arc in a hur-
ry," and have " no time to revise It,"
| lfthe canvass Of next year takes one shape,
the bulk of the Independent vote will pretty
certainly go to the demOcracyi If it takes
another, tho great majority of these detatch-
ed voters will be found supporting the repub-
lican ticket. If there is little margin for
choice, they will divide their votes between
the two. If both parties put the worst foot
foremost, there is very liable to be third
ticket in the feld,-SprinQfeld Republican.
The .Brooklyn Eagle reports Mrs Tilton
rs being very mad at not being called as II
witness by the defense IN the language Of
tho Eagle, her agitation was intense, she
detained with extreme volatility and with
the outward manifestations of intense ex-
element on the horrible injustice Of her sit
uation." 1t seems that the Beeoher lawyers
had been telling her all along that she
would be witness, and when she learned
that Mr.. Evarts had declined to call her, af
ter tho Iilton lawyers had given their con
sent she even threatened to appeal to Judge
Nelson herself, and " it required all the per
suaslon OF her friends and even the authority
of legal counsel to prevent the wrongeC
woman from carrying out the determination
of throwing herself on the mercy Of thu
court and demanding to be heard" She hai
since made the demand.