Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-05
General N ews.

Theodore TIlton is undergoing his exam.
ination in the Tilton. Beecher trial, MouI.
tons examination having been completed
| last month.
1t is thought P;nchback may fail OF OBJ
tanning his seat, yet he was elected senator
by the former Louisiana legislature, aud the
Senate committee on credentials are reported
favorable to him, but it is quite doubtful il
he can carry the Senate, after that commit
tee have made their report.
1t is asserted with increasing positveness
that the majority OF the Arkansas COMMITTEES
will report in favor Of letting we'll enough
| l. e., the new constitution and state govern.
ment-alone. Mr.. Ward of Illinois is un,
derstood to dissent Mr.. Wards notion i:
that the rebel Garland ought to be turned
out, with force and arms if necessary, aud
MIR. Brooks put in.
The remainder of the Louisiana committee,
who went down to see if they could not find
some facts more favorable to the administra-
ton than those discovered by Messrs. Phelps,
Foster, and Potter, seem to meet with poor
success. One of the Kellogg party is report
cd as teegraphing from New Orleans to
Gen. Butler at Washington, "Call of your
dogs the last committee is worse than the
first" 1t was Kelloggss attorney who sent
the dispOtch.
The republican members OF tho House ap.
pear to be honestly trying to accomplish
something, but are prevented by the demo-
Gratis who keep putting insignificant motions
and amendments, calling for the yeas aud
nays on each, in the hope Of occupying the
time until the expiration Of the term OF the
present House, alter which the democrats
will have n majority. Friday was occupied
in this way, and Saturday morning alter
some sparring between the representatives Of
the two parties the clerk was obliged to
read the list of yeas and nays in the sixty
roll calls of the day before. The roll con-
tains 293 names. Large business for the
law-making power of America.
The New England labor-reform league
held a convention at Boston, Sunday and
Monday, and nearly all existing institutions
we're denounced, as usual The resolutions
characterized the religion of the present day
as pious fraud denounced the Sovcreigns
Of Industry and the grangers as banditti ;
declared that "if Gen. Sheridan wishes to
suppress 'baHditti, we commend him to the
national banks, with their retained advocates
in Congress and state Legislatures, and to
their commander.n.chief, Ulysses S. Grant,
president of a military depotism called the
United States = and, curiously enough, saw
in the election Of Andy johnson to the Uni
ted States Senate ian indirect Endorsement
of our doctrine that contracts involving usu
ry are morally void"
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Sawyer tells pretty straight story about
the Piermont tragedy, aud says he thinks it
is a case Of suicide. Still Sawyer is liable
to hang for it.
The state board of agriculture will hold
a meeting in City Hall, Concord, Feb. 10
and II. Valuable papers will be read.
Free dinner in the hall the second day.
Return checks over the b. G. 4 NJ. road,
and reduction on other roads. The poultry
exhibition will be in Phenix Hall, Concord,
at the same time.
The drouth is driving more and more of
the mills TO short time or suspension. The
Hills6oro mills at Wilton aud Morse. Haley
4 Co.'S mills at Milford have stopped. At
Nashua the mills have been running on
about half time, the corporations paying
the board Of the operative when idle. The
Nashua and jackson companies both started
with steam Tuesday, running on three.fourths
time.
MASSACHUSETTS,.
The Bechertown grangers are getting
-four for $3.50 per barrel, kerosene for II
cents gallon, aud other necessities proper
tionately low.
$50 striking lasters in Keene Brothers
shoe mandatory at Lynn returned to their
work on Friday, the company having vrtu-
ally acceded to their demands.
The SOvereigns of Industry devoted a
large share Of their meeting, at Westfeld,
Friday evening, to arranging for buying
supplies on a larger scale than heretofore.
Over 5000 was pledged, and nearly all paid
ill., 1t is designed to double the sum and
secure goods at the present low rate.
At meeting of delegates of the Catholic
temperance societies at Boston, Monday
steps were taken toward building central
hall in Boston, for the use Of the Catholic
total abstinence societies Of Massachusetts.
This is the first move in a general plan for
the erection Of similar buildings in each
state OF the Union. New Hampshire will
soon take similar action, aud the national
secretary, who was present, said New York
would be encouraged by the energy Of Mass
achusetts Catholics.
The trouble in the Fall River cotton mills
probably reached its elimination on Satur.
day, and general aud disastrous strike
seems inevitable. A conference of manu-
iacturers, at which delegation of the dis.
affected weavers were present. was held in
the evening, and, after protracted discus
sion, proposition was agreed upon virtual
ly giving back to tho operatives one-third OF
the 10 per cent reduction; but meeting OF
the weavers Of the Merchants, Granite aud
Crescent mills, who have all along been the
most troublesome employees, was Immediate
ly held, aud it was unanimously voted TO re
fuse anything short Of a restoration of full
pay. The two weeks notice Of the weavers