Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-04-30
General News.
Gold. l.15I.

death at syracuse, the other day, while
boiling molasses candy with some play
mates.
The president is Offering the attorney
general ship around, and is now waiting for
reply from ian eastern lawyer quite W idely
known"
England is more Of success at press gag.
ging than America. All persons not mem
bers can be excluded from the House Of
Commons, and it is proposed to enforce the
rule, or change it.
The annual session of the X. w. Grand
Lodge l. o. g. T., at Bloomington, ILL.,,
commencing May 23d) will probably last
eight or ten days. Representatives will be
present from all parts of the world.
The steamer John Kyle, lying at New
Orleans, caught fire Friday afternoon
and, together with the Exporter and the
Charles Bodman, was burned to the waters
edge. Quite number Of lives were lost.
A convention, to take into consideration
the best means for the speedy union of the
United States and the Canadian Dominious,
will assemble in Buffalo, New York, on
July 4, 1875. Three delegates to every
congressional district is the rule on the
American side.
j. Frederick Klennen, convicted Of steal
ing the funds of the Hoboken Savings Bank,
while cashier, aud for forgery, has been sen
fenced to the New Jersey State Prison for
eighty -four years. Hope he will learn q
trade there, 80 when he gets out he can
commence life for himself with good pros.
poets.
The Louisiana Legislature has fairly run
away. Both houses adjourned without day
on Saturday, after voting an appropriation
Of SLY 900 to defray the expenses Of the
extra session. They have very little per-
fected reform to show for the money. Even
the impeached state auditor is left undis-
turbed in his off ce.
Brigham Young was summoned before
Chief Justice Lowe of Utah, Saturday, to
show cause why he should not be held for
contempt for failing to pay Ann Eliza
$4,000, or monthly allowance of $500 ALI
mony, pending her suit against him. The
case was argued for an appeal to the SUI
preme court. The judge took the papers,
and reserved his decision.
Last week Thursday a desperate fight
took place between two companies OF the 9th
regiment, United States calvary, and a
raiding band Of Cheyennes, near Monument
station, $50 miles west Of Kansas City, in
which q Indians and two soldiers were
killed. The fight lasted two hours, when
the Indians broke aud fed, leaving their
horses, baggage, tents aud dead companions
behind them.
The printers in the Office Of the WASH
ington ID. C.) Chronicle struck, last week,
because two or three hands were employed
in the Job department at lower rates than
those fixed by the typographical union.
The Chronicle has since been trying to fill
up with non-union help, and quite a num-
Der of compositors have come from other
cities, but the strikers watch the Office aud
buy the new hands of as fast as they come.
They pay from $50 upward, aud expenses
home. Probably in time the Chronicle will
secure all the help needed, though Sunday
the union had bought off all but four of the
arrivals
1t is currently reported in Havana, aud
in certain circles which should be we'll in-
formed in New York, that the Spanish Casino
has, unknown to Captain General Valmaseda,
sent urgent appeals to Madrid. imploring
the government at once TO cede Cuba to the
Cubans The Spaniards, many of whom
own property still undestroyed, and all of
whom are convinced of the impossibility Of
saving 1t, implOre the home government to
grant to the patriots all they ask aud all
they are fighting for, provided it can obtain
from the Cuban Government valid guaran-
tee that the work Of devastation shall cease,
and that the lives and private properties Of
Spaniards shall be respected.
Beechers testimony was completed last
week Wednesday, hut our reporters neglect
ed to telegraph the important fact, so We
reported him still in the swearing business. II
now looks as though the testimony wOuldn't
all be in much before the close OF May, and
then they talk of having a vacation Of 4
week or two before the summings-up, 10
order to let Judge Nelson attend to somC
regular work in the Brooklyn city court thai
imperatively demands attention. II this il
done the final speeches won't be begun till
into juno, and as there are to be three o.
them, aud each lawyer is expected to cover
the better part Of q week, the wretched
jurors will hardly get the judges charge
much before the LIST Of July. The Benning'
ton Banner says these jurors work for 81
per day and board themselves aud that
there is danger that they will strike
The raid of the South Carolina rascall
upon the newspapers that have exposed then
is failure. The libel suit that G. o
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he left because he had too many wives, and
now sheriff of Charleston, brought agains
the NeUs and Courier Of that city, has re
: suited in disagreement Of the jury, though
! it is understood that they were eleven u
one for acquittal the failure to convict il
generally regarded az the end Of the case
and the court announced that none Of tn,
seven other indictments brought by the same
party against the paper will be tried at th
term, and they will probably never be heard
of again. The Nelos described Bower
, as a bigamist, a convicted forger, publi
robber, an employer of assassins, and bat
man to leave alone with ballot-box AND
3 the evidence put in bore out this character
! ization. The public are now watching I
suit brought against the Springfield Repub
Lican by one Willis Phelps, railroad boss
who feels aggrieved because the Republican
likened him to Tweed.
D MAINE.
The republican state government is no
illiberal enough to suit some Of the demo
4 cratic organs there. 1t has appointed
, democrat to be a judge of the supreme court
lust as a hullabaloo was about to be raise
over his rejection.
n NEW HAMPSHIRE.
. The Alton Bay AdventiSts think the.
J, are going up, to-day.