Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-09-10
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


The total cost Of the mail service on Sep
tember ] was at the rate of S15,723,S 1856
per annum.
Several postuasters have lately been
removed for selling postage stamps at dis
count.
A l6.year.old daughter of w. II. Eckover,
OF Marshalltown, Ia, committed suicide
with stryehnine, last Friday, because she
wasn't allowed to go to a circus.
The colored people at Washington, are
already sick Of the mixed school system,
inangurated two years ago, aud have for
mally requested the district authorities to
give them separate schools again.
The citizens of Georgetown, are numer.
ously signing petiGon praying Congress,
Tor the rctrocession Of the town to MARYLAND.
They have had enough of district rule
One Abbott, postmaster at Laramie, w. T..
has just been removed by Postmaster Gen.
eral Jewell for receiving bride of 500
monthly from lottery dealer named Potter
ito promote care in the delivery of packages"
to the latter.
Secretary Fish and Earl Derby have boon
having a spicy little correspondence, these
hot summer months, over rather important
and delicate maritime question, which isn't
settled yet, namely, whether the sale of the
American ship Gilbert q. Trufant, recently
transferred while at Liverpool to British own
ers, was legal. Fish says it wasn't, accord
ing to United States law, Derby says it was,
in conformity with the English admiralty
laws, aud there the matter rests except that
Secretary Bristow at Fish's request has in
structed the various custom officers to detain
the ship IT found in American waters.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Springfield Republican speaks thus
irreverently Of the Beecher meeting last
Sunday "Another big crowd at the Twin
Mountain House, yesterday, to see the great
show"
LET out you leaders, you id fool, {"
yelled a horseman to Henry Ward Beecher,
near the Crawford house the other day, when
he was having trouble with four-horse team.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Nearly one.half of the stores and shops on
Broadway, South Boston, are now lighted by
Kerosene, and the same lighting material is
extensively used by South Boston families,
owing to the poor and high.priced gas.
A Boston child was poisoned, it is feared
fatally, by the green cooring matter in a
musketo netting used to cover its face.
b Some of the compositors employed on the
b Republican struck because the foreman
would not comply with demand that he
should dismiss one Of his men; their places
we're promptly filled.
Mr. Burt, the Boston postmaster is charged
h with incOmpetency and neglect in the man.
agement of the office.
a Moody and Sankey have resumed eyaugel
;, zeal work in Massachusetts,.
q RHODE ISLAND. ...
! Gen Tom Thumb is mason, and mem
Der Of Jerusalem chapter at Bridgeport.
CONNECTICUT.
David Mayer, the Hartford diamond mer
. chant, has just imported from Paris probably
e the finest solitaire diamond to be found in thi,
n country, for lady who already has over
e $4,000 of diamonds in her possession, and
y yet she is no better than she ought to be-
A very romantic case has just come to
:, light at New Haven. In 1849, Henry Ste.
> vens, prominent dry goods merchant oil
+ New York, being childldess, adopted boy
,, two weeks old, whose mother had died soon
n after its birth, and whose father was unable
Il to take care Of him. When % years old
married and settled in business, he found, fol
;, the first time, that he was not Mr. Stevens,
Il son, and at once began search for his par
: ents, though he was unable to receive any
R information of them from his adopted father,
who soon afterwards died He soon found
>, that his mother was dead and buried at New
Haven, aud came to that city to investigate
where almost the first person he met proved
3. to be his sisters husband, who informed him
b, that his father was in California, though he
;. had been in the city eight months before, anc
telegram has been sent to announce to him
" the whereabouts of his son, whom he haC
l. not heard from for 26 years