Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-25
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Milwaukee, Wis, has an a~rtesian we'll
1919 feet deep, which discharges 5000 gal
Ions Of water per day.
Boss Tweed was released from the PEN
l~tcntiary Monday night, aud sent to Ludlow
street Jail on Tuesday in default Of S3,000,-
600 bail on new indictments.
1t is calculated that 10000 Americans
have gone over to Europe to see what they
can see this summer, and that the husbands
will lay out over there fifty millions Of dol.
lars in new whistles for their wives and
daughters.
News comes that the gentlemen employed
in the interior department at Washington
have been afforded an opportunity to help
the republican cause in Ohio to the extent
of | per cent on their salaries. 1t is graf
flying to know that it was not an "assess-
inent" but a purely voluntary subscription"
They all subscribed, however.
At Nottingham, England. June 4, a man
fell into a manure pit. As he did not try
to get out nor call for help two others jsmp-
ed in after him. These too were suffocatod
by the foul air. The assistance of the fire
brigade was obtained as quickly as possible,
and the fremen, by the aid of smoke jack
cts and air pumps, at length recovered the
bodies, all three being quite dead.
The revenue officials at Philadelphia have
Just discovered one of the ways in which
Havana cigars get into this country free.
A smuggler on board the steamers from
Havana, whose arrival off the Delaware
capes is always reported at Philadelphia,
quietly drops overheard rubber bags full Of
cigars, which his confederates on shore
gather up in boats.
Thirty railroads in New England have
agreed to charge extra for baggage weighing
over 100 pounds. They claim they we're
forced to the adoption Of this measure, as
many Of the commercial travellers were in
the habit of carrying anywhere from 200 to
400 pounds Of baggage each, while some Of
them took their goods along with them to
supply their customers. Sometimes the
baggage charges are double the drummers'
fare.
The new United States treasurer declined
a public dinner, tended him by his fellow
citizens Of indianapolis, for the reason that
he was entering upon a new aud untried field,
and had, as yet, done nothing to merit the
compliment. This exhibition of that geuu-
inc modesty which always accompanies merit,
and which is as rare as it is commendable,
has found a follower in Attorneys eneral
Pierrepont, who, preferring to wait for the
approval of good men until the end of his
official course, declines u similar compliment
from the New York bar. He has but to
persevere in the way he has begun, and he
will be sure to meet and deserve that APP
proval.-Ruland Globe.
MAINE.
Wagner and Gordon, the murderers to be
hanged to-day in the state prison at Thomas
ton, appear almost exactly as they did last
spring, just before being reprieved, Gordon
being very respondent, and Wagner still as.
sorting that "God will not let Louis Wagner
be hung" There is no hope for them, as
the last efforts of their counsel have failed.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
A letter from Whit eield, says
The lumber interest in New Hampsh irC
seems rather dull at present, and nearly al
the small mills are shutting down. Browns
Lumber Co., of Whitefeld shut down one
mill last week and discharged so men
They are erecting a building l36x40, two
stories high, monitor roof, for the manufac
ture of paper pulp from wood. The power il
supplied by a $50 horse power stationary
engine with five boilers. The Sovereigns OF
Industry are increasing in membership quite
rapidly. They have a cooperative store
that is doing a very good trade especially
ia the line of clothing. Summer tourists
are beginning to flock to the mountains
About 10000 are being laid out on the
Sinclair House in Bethlehem in additions
and improvements.
MASSACHUSETTS.
From the returns of the different railroad
it appears that over 200 900 people wert
transported into Boston on Thursday, distrib
uted as follows; Eastern $4,000 Boston
aud Maine, $4,000 Fitchburg, 10000
Lowell, $4,000 Providence, $4,000; Ole
Colony, 10000; New York and New
England, 5000 Boston and Albany, 81,
900.
CONNECTICUT.
A case which is interesting the New fla
ven people is that Of a mar in that city, VIII,
owned a lot in the Roman Catholic cemetery
in which two Of his children were buried
and was also an Odd Fellow. Last week
he died, but the priest denied him burial il
his Own lot, on the ground that be ~forfeite,
!, his right of a burial in cOnsecrated grounI
by joining a secret society. His widow
complained of this when the priest offered h
, make it all right if she would sign over h
him all money she should receive in nt
from the society, but this she refused to do
aud thus the case now stands.