Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-08-27
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

charleston, ;. u, last week, TO Clara Davis,
an American girl
@Nrhe khedive of Egypt has had to give up
his projected visit to Europe by an unusually
early rise Of the Nile.
Two men jailed for rape in Pensacola,
Fla, were taken out aud lynched, last Sat-
urday morning, before day.
Mackerel are reported very plenty off the
Magdaen islands in the gulf Of St Law.
renee, and all the boats are making good
fares.
Illinois reports the first heavy frost Of the
season Saturday night. At Freeport it was
so severe that corn, potatoes and other vege-
tables were badly injured.
The Albion print works at Conshohockeu,
Pa. were destroyed by fire early Saturday
morning, causing a loss of S250,000, on
which there is an insurance Of about S2l5,-
00O
A large oil well located in the Northwest
territory, belonging to Mr. Lamb of London,
Ohio, was struck, Thursday morning, and is
now pumping at the rate of 300 barrels Of
oil per day.
The San Francisco school board has abol.
ished the system of separate schools for white
aud colored children, and opened the schools
to whites, negroes, Chinese, Indians, aud
every nation GU the GLOBE.
G. w. Northrop, a prominent resident
and merchant of Tunkhannock, Pa. and
brOther-in.law Of Jay Gould, committed sui.
eide, on Saturday last, in fit Of melancholy
caused by dyspepsia.
The world is about to lose a valuable con-
tribution te history through bad writing.
Mr. Stendhal has left behind him a life of
Napoleon, but IL is SO execrably written that
all the experts who have been called In have
failed to decipher it.
The Atlantic beach, on the New Jersey
coast is reported as lined with millions of
Colorado potato bugs, washed up by the
waves. In an attempt to "go east" these
bugs have been drowned.
During the performance OF Barnum's hip
polrome at Moline, ILL.,, the other day, one
man fell while riding and was crushed so
that he died in few hours, aud another per.
former was so severely injured that he prob
ably cannot survive.
Frank Reiscb, an old citizen of Spring
field, ILL.,, attempted to pitch a piece o.
scaDtliDg out Of second.story window. and
a spike in the end caught in his clothing and
dragged him headlong out with it, He was
almost instantly killed.
A farmer near DesMoines, Iowa, Will,
driving his COW to pasture by rope tied
around her neck, was thrown down by Q
sudden movement OF the animal, aud turned
a complete somersaut, breaking his necI
and driving his head violently into the earth
The st Louis, Kansas City & Northern
railroad is a very good road not to patron
ize. The recent breaking of trestle wa
due to criminal reckessness in allown
trains to run over rotten timbers and dc
cayed seepers till finally one fell through
and good many bridges on the road ar
represented to be as badly off.
A large and interesting collection of pre-
historic relics, consisting OF stone implem emit
Of every description, fished out from the an
cient and mysterious mounds of Santa Bar
bara island, Cal, has Just been received by
the Smithsonian institute. They are sup
posed to have belonged to race of aborig
nes advanced in civilization far beyond al
kindred tribes, whom an old Spanish admra
reported finding living there more than 3OI
years ago.
MAINE.
Rev Mr. Browne, late pastor of the Bar
fist church at Lincoln, has become Il CONVEX
to Universalism and resigned and ne,
society has been formed to hear him preact
A Portland collector who called at 3
places, Saturday, and got only 70 cent?
thinks that times are hard.
The Hallowell granite company emplo
only $50 men, this season, with MONTH
payroll of about $4,000, while, two year
ago they had some 800 or 600, with pa,
roll Of 100000.
A little Portland girl fell in fainting
while at play on Monday, aud her life WI
barely saved, all because she had eaten Il
meats of peach stoves, and she hadn't d
: voured but 81 either.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Capt Thomas Card, of Dover, celebrate
his Tooth birthday, last week, and is sti
hale and hearty.
The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
Manchester is not suffering much from til
hard times all its mills are running on flu
} time and employing 1000 men, while its pay
, roll last month, was S27 900, the largest i
its history.
A Mr. Sawyer, Of Jaffrey, has what
, probably the oldest nat in the state, il beiu
225 years old, and the wedding hat of job
( Worcester, one Of the original settlers of tt
: state.
Tramps burned up barn and shed ownC
= by Alfred Easton and Lueius Robinson
: Nashua, Sunday. with four cows and 20 tor
Of hay; loss $4,000.
} The Manchester manufacturing corpor
/ tons will suspend work, September 4 to Il
/, during a part of the time the New Englan
f fair will be held and the canal will meal
. while be repaired
: Mrs Peter Casey, from Vicksburgh, Nj
sissippi has come north to place her daug
tiers in Tilden Ladies Seminary. Sever
others from Minnesota, Michigan and 9th
distant states have engaged rooms for t
coming year.
: Isaac Adams, of Sandwich, owns over
farms and 40 houses in Sandwich aud Mou
tonborO, aud gives employment to 30 or 4
, men.
! Over 1000 people gathered at the Tw
Mountain House last Sunday, "to hea
Beecher." They were brought by IL train
E containing 81 cars, from Portland, Me-, Blu
lington aud Plymouth, N. H., White Riv
n Junction, VT, Lancaster N. H., the Fabyi
House and intermediate stations, and by II
vehicles, from Littleton, Bethlehem, JcfIe
4 sou, the Profile House, aud numerous 9th
villages aud hotels within radious OF
miles The sermon was founded on the 7
verse Of the third chapter of John: MA
vel not that say unto thee Ye must be boz
y again" The subject of the discourse W
the a. New Rirth In his very eYtend