Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-03-12
General News.

0eneIA noWB.
Colorado has been admitted as state,
making thirty-eight in the Union.
In May next, the cable tariff between
America and England aud France will be
reduced to fifty cents per word, gold. This
is decrease Of nearly half Of the former
charges.
IL now costs q cent an ounce 10 send mer-
chandise or transient printed matter through
the mail. Still many small packages Of
merchandise will 60 more cheaply aud quite
as safely through the mail as by express.
Congress adjourned, Thursday, because il
couldn't sit any longer. Butler comes out
without any uncommon honor, while Poland
was the hero of the day. The judge has
done better work in the last session than in
his whole previous official career. If Mr..
Poland were TO remove TO Arkansas we pre-
sumo he could be elected to Congress, or
most anywhere else, but in Vermont-"A
prophet is not without" &c.
MAINE.
The Lewiston mills are running on fall
time again.
The stockholders association, genealogical
society and dairymsn's association will meet
with the state agricultural society in their
annual exhibition at Lewiston, next fall,
and about $4,000 will be offered in premi.
ums.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Prof. Young has returned TO Hanover.
New Hampshires debt is larger than that
Of any other northern state in proportion to
population and valuation.
The large grist mill of J. w. Kilton, at
Grafton Center, together with 4 circular
saw mill and store house near by. was burn.
ed last week Wednesday night, at about IL
O'Clock. Loss eight or ten thousand dollars.
The liquor store Of Hart 4 Simons at
Baskerville was broken into ut 2 o'clock,
Tuesday morning, BY mob, aud the stock
was thrown into the street and the river. The
crowd also broke some furniture and large
mirror, leaving placard on the door, TX &.
X. X, per order"
From the conflicting reports which have
been received we judge that the election,
Tuesday, was so close that there is no cleo
ton Of governor by the people. One repub-
ican and one democratic congressman are
elected, and tho other is doubtful, as is also
the state legislature, though probably the
republicans have a majority Of the latter
body.
MASSACHUSETTS.
A six-year-Old girl, named Mary Ann
Keegan, was fatally burned at Lowell on
Thursday, her clothes taking FIRE from the
stove.
The Massachusetts, state grange at Boston,
Saturday, congratulated the country upon
the defeat of the Texas and Pacific railroad
subsidy scheme in Congress.
Joseph d. Moody, of Lowell, has been
sentenced to pay a fine Of $500 and serve
Eve years in the state prison at hard labor
for practicing abortion.
Eleven Boston men, one of them million
aire, were hauled up. last week Thursday,
for failing to clear their sidewalks OF snow,
and all but the millionaire were fined $40,
while he got of for SIS.
Rev. Il. G. Porter, Of Lexington, has been
to Washington, and reports that President
Grant told him he would be at Lexington on
the morning of April 49, aud at Concord in
the afternoon, to attend the centennial cele.
brations.
A Lowell clergyman has offered 5000 Of
his salary to the ladies Of his congregation,
il they will abandon projected church fair.
tor fear that it will prove an interruption TO
a revival now in progress in his society
Good.
CONNECTICUT.
Tho Winstad Herald comes to the front
in the premium business with an offer To
subscribers of either "a very handsome two
bladed pocket-knife," or $50 postal cards. n
A Bridgeport luuatic found 4 cofin.bOx
by an open grave, the other day, and put it
in aud filled up the excavation. The box
was dug up, just before the procession ar.
rived.
james Il. Latin, charged with the muir.
der Of Ellen Lucas at East Bird gepOrt in
October whose case was the first capital one
ever tried in the state by judges without a
jury, WAS found guilty Of murder in the Sec
ond degree and sentenced to life imprison.
ment at Wethers6eld.
George s. Benson was arrested at New
Haven Saturday for obtaining money on
false pretenses, by advertising 10 the Chris.
tian Union for agents for the "Excelsior
sewing-machine motor" promising to send
for 20 cents photographs Of the invention.
He had received a large amount of money,
The state ash commissioners have 450, 900
Penobseot salmon eggs on their way to the
Matching houses Of Connecticut, two-thirds Of
which go to the care of the Westport trout
association, aHd the balance to the Wilton
ian club, New Haven, whose Matching house
is at Northford. These eggs are so far de-
veloped as to show the eye distinctly. They
will be hatehed out and distributed among
the tributaries of the Connecticut river, about
May l.