Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-05
All Sorts of Items.

ernl Jewells dispatch to the Newport post
master the other day, in reply to telegram
saying his office was burned, but Il had a
Kind Of New England common sense mir
about 1t. "All right. DO the best you can
and try not TO spend too much money; but
do not let the mails he delayed anywhere"
Somebody dressed in women's clothes
asked Wnnatah (lnd.) man for ride, the
other night, but, suspecting the person to be
II robber. he dropped his whip and requested
him to get out and pick II up, rs he Che
drivoD didn't dare to leave the reins in the
hands of n woman. When the stranger had
got it, the man whipped up his horse aud
drove off. A muif left IN the wagon was
found to contain two revolvers and dag
ger.
The Montreal Witness says 1--WE under
stand that nm order has been issued by Mr..
Hickson, of the Grand Trunk, addressed to
the officers, agents, foremen, &C., forbddlng
them to coerce any of the men under their
charge to vote for either OF the candidates
for the approaching election in Montreal
Center. and enjoining them to leave every
person free to vote us he pleases. Anyone
transgressing this rule will be dismissed
This is policy which corporations this side
of the line would do well to adopt in similar
cases.--S. Adams Messenger.
Twenty years ago, Giuseppe Garibaldi and
John Thompson were making soap on Stat
en Island. Last Sunday Garibaldi made his
entrance into Rome as member of the Itnl-
i'm Parliament. Tho whole population
turned out to do HIM honor and he was
greeted with tumultuous enthusiasm rs the
deliverer of1taly. His partner in the soap
business, John Thompson, is now president
of the First National Bank of New York.
A story is told of u newly-married couple
who commenced house keeping with tur-
key dinner. The wife took great pride in
having it ready when John came home.
John came and shortly after the young hus
band, with n very pale expression of coun-
tenance was seen to stride across the back
yard and throw whole turkey over the
fence. The inexperienced housewife had
roasted it without removing the interior
works, and it was altogether too much tur-
key for him.
The Practical Farmer says: X. A. vii.
lard, in his recent address before the Dairy
mems Convention at Binghamton, New
York, said he had known the simple employ
ment of n dog on dairy farms to decrease the
yield of cheese per COW nearly 100 pounds
per annum. The OHIO assessors returns for
1873, show 65,440 sheep worth SllO,0i5 kill
ed by dogs in that state. In addition to this
IS, 035 were injured. The aggregate amount
of loss is given ut $l53,3ls. This keeping of
thousands of worthless dogs seems an expen-
siyc luxury, and one that unfortunately falls
on the whole community, and not only those
who indulge in it.
John Stanton Gould has made extensive
inquiry, especially among the stalls of the
horse railway companies in New York and
Brooklyn, rs to The method adopted in feed
ing their horses. These animals though
hard-worked are mostly in good condition,
as it is the interests of the companies to have
them. Their general food FOR the whole
year, except in the warmest weather. is ~
pounds of hay and 10 pounds of Indian meal
per horse per day. All the companies have
settled down upon this allowance and kind
of food. But all of them water their horses
Mt one o'clock IN the morning. under the he.
lief that it adds greatly to their digestive
powers and prevents i'll consequences.
As n Maple Street woman was doing her
washing, one of the children fell into n ket-
tie of water. The mother seized the infant,
whose heart-rending cries indicated the ter
rible nature OF its injuries and deposited it
on II bed, while she ran to neighbours to
get him to run for doctor. Before the doc
tor arrived, all the neighbors had gathered,
and among them had undressed the scream
ing inlant-very carefully, so that the scald-
ed skin should not peel off-and sprinkled it
with flour. At length the doctor arrived,
reaching the door Mt the same moment with
the ,error-strickon husband, whom also the
messenger had found and hidden to Ego
homo and prepare for tho saddest news"
The doctor made careful examination of
the infant, and promptly advised the moth
CT to put shirt or something on the child,
SO 1t might not freeze to death. The assem-
bled elghbors, one after another, felt of the
water in the kettle, found 1t icy cold, and
quietly departed.
The validity OF the gag-law stands chance
of being soon tested Some time last year,
A. G. Buell., then Washington correspondent
of the Detroit Free Press, charged Senator
Chandler, of Michigan, with having been
drunk and made fool of himself at Wash
ington. On Monday, us Mr.. Buell., who is
now living mt st. Louis and employed ON the
Republican Of that city, was leaving the Of
flee to go to dinner, he was accosted by u
United States attorney and marshal, who in .
formed him that the department of justice
had ordered that he should be arrested and
sent to Washington, to he put on trial there
for the alleged libel upon Mr.. Chandler. Mr..
Buell. gave pledge to appear before the
United States commissioner for prelimina-
rs hearing; prominent lawyers have voun-
tcered to defend him, and it is proposed to
have the question settled whether anybody
ut Washington that gets disgruntled over
what the papers say about him can drag the
offending journalist to the capital to be tried.
-RepubiicdR.