Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-04-09


national bank, bought DADDY Of tea while
in Boston, recently. When he got home,
himself, wife, ard BIS mother. drank some of
nc tea and were immediately taken sick,
aud his mother has died. Tho tea appears
10 have been poisoned. W
LrrrLEroN. honey is selling by
the gallon for S1.25 TO S1.50.--Hay is
more plenty than usual, and there will prob
ably be some left for another year. The
best -four is selling for S7.5O.--Last
Monday little daughter Of Charles Smith
fell while going TO school aud broke her
arm. glL-Lg FrFI,.
7 MASSACHUSETTS. lf
Geo. w. Pemberton was on Tuesday in-
dicted BY the grand jury for the murder Of
Mrs. Bingham, 10 Boston.
Mrs Lowe, who was thought TO have been
fatally shot by her husband at Lowell, as
reported two weeks ago, will probably re-
cover.
Addie Andrews, Of Lawrence, rose from
her bed, the other night, in fit Of somuam-
bulism, aud walked to Lowell, a distance Of
10 miles, clad only in her night-dress aud
waterproof.
The hotel Columbus at Boston il TO be
built on the plan Of offering holders Of stock
an equivalent in lifelong lease Of single
rooms or suites. Tho capital Of the compa-
ny is to be 100000.
The demands Of the strikers at Lowell
have not been aeceded TO, and no compromise
will be attempted. The agents Of the vari-
Gus mills are busy hunting up men to take
the strikes places as soon as their two week 8
notice expires.
In spelling match at Music hall, Boston,
on Saturday, between so Harvard students
and as many girls from the high school, the
collegians were ingloriously beaten, three
girls still remaining after all the students
we're down.
The fancy prices for mining lands at New
buryport are falling, for, although there is
no diminution of valuable ore, it is found
mainly in few veins which run in straight
lines, and do not cross everybody's land as
at first supposed.
A letter passed through the Boston post.
Office, Saturday, addressed as follows ITO
Brigham Young, prophet, seer, revelator,
third man from God, trustee-in-trust, presi.
dent of the Bank Of Deseret, chief of the
Mountain Meadow massacre and president o.
the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day
Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah"
The strikers have been victorious 10 the
Pacific mills at Lawrence, and wages will
not be cut down, as threatened. The Wan
sutta mills, at New Bedford, have also raised
wages to the figures paid before the reduction
| .r - 4.
corporation has voted to increase the capital
stock 5000, 900, and will build and equip q
new cotton mill to cost, with tenement houses
S750,000.
: Two clerks 10 n large wholesale establish
I ment at Boston thought it would be fun !,
fool" boy employed in the store, and OF
Wednesday afternoon told him to 20, earl
the next morning. to some unheard-ot plac'
at East Boston on an important errand
The boy said he was willing, but had t.
sweep and do other chores, but the clerk
promised to do this work, and he consented
About 10 o'clock the next morning, just as tn
! clerks had finished the work agreed upon
the boy came around smiling, having take
: the chance to lie ia bed aud have lat
breakfast, and the clerks didn't think April
fools day much of day, after all.
CONNECTICUT.
> The $50 hands employed in the Meride
' wooden factory struck last week, in couse
J quence Of the oompanys starting up at iul
{ time, after running on reduced time a
winter, and cutting down wages 10 per cent
J. A cruel April.foOl hoax was perpctrate
4 on nearly all tho Hartford c!ergymen b
sending invitations to them to come to tn
United States hotel to unite couple i
o marriage. About "a Of them came around
o to the great delight of the crowd who ha
A assembled 10 see their discontinue.
f The state election on Monday resulted i
: a sweeping victory for the democrats, VIII
" reelected Gov. Iugersoll by an increase
y majority over last year; elected three Of til
d four grcssmen--Landers in the first dil
,. trict over Hawley, Phelps in the secon
q over Kellogg, and Barnum in the fourth
his old seat-a gain Of two as compare
70 with the last delegation and carried bot
branches Of the Legislature.