Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-04
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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Two millions of gold will be sold during
the month of June, by order Of Secretary
Bristow.
New York has TINS far contributed $780,
600 toward the Philadelphia Centennial
Exposition.
The Sioux chiefs have finally consented to
accept $4,000 for the larger portion Of
their hunting grounds in Nebraska.
Clouds Of grasshoppers have appeared in
the counties Of Canada bordering on Lake
Huron, and are devouring the herbage
They are coming East.
The business part Of Great Bend, Pa,
was burned, last Saturday morning, by an
incendiary fire, causing loss of $4,000
with an insurance of about 100000.
Sir A. Il. Calf has been appointed to rep
resent Great Britain upon the Commission to
settle the fishery claims between Canada and
the United States.
A Mrs. Rohne, aged 30 years, weighing
FIVE hundred and eighty-three pounds, died
in Baltimore, Friday night. She was the
largest woman in the country, and at one
time travelled as a side show.
A series of terrible earthquakes occurred
at the beginning of May in the province of
Boroussa, Asia Minor. Six hundred houses
we're destroyed. The accounts so far re-
ceived show that 100 lives were lost and
1877 persons injured.
1t has been given out at Washington that
suit is TO be commenced against +. A. Saw
yer, recently assistant secretary of the treas
ury, for some twenty thousand dollars which
he failed to pay over when serving as collect
or of internal revenue in South Carolina.
The steamer State of New York, of the
Hartford line, in lodging two mud scows in
He'll Gate on Sunday ran upon rock which
smashed hole in her bottom aud filed her
with water. The passengers were transfer
red to another vessel and landed in safety.
Paul Boynton has successfully crossed the
channel between France aud England by
swimming or floating in his India Rubber
clothing He was 23 hours and 38 minutes
in the water. This is regarded as a salts
factory test of the value Of the invention as
means of saving life in case of ship.wreok =.
At Pompeii they recently found a curious
kitchen wall, and has thus been translated
"Lighted the fire, cooked his meals and
swept his house for him $4,000 times to this
day, and he refuses to take me to the circus"
Beneath this in different hand is written
"Women are never satisfied"
The other day a man in Milwaukee found
four boys playing cards on Che hay-mow,
and he was proceeding to give them "6ts"
when one Of them spoke up and said NV Q
want playing keerds. Tom Testers mother
is dead, and wO we're UP here showing him the
pictures on the keerds so he would not feel
lonesome.
A dispatch from Kansas City on the 2Sth,
reports very heavy rains extending over a
large extent OF country and lasting for
thiTty.six hours. While some damage was
done to roads, &C., the greatest damage was
done to the grasshOppers, which were drown
ed by untold millions. 1t is believed that
their ravages in the districts covered by the
rain are at an end, and the people rejoice
accordingly.
A horrible suicide took place near Kempt-
vile station, Ontario, Monday. w. Il.
| AuucI5Oui WSh-huOHu ClblLcu VI hounpJ-
vile threw himself under train on the St.
Lawrence and Ottawa Railroad and was
instantly killed. His legs from the knees
upward aud his body were frightiully man
gled. lie was a much respected citizen and
apparently in good circumstances. Finan-
cial difficulties are SAID to have been the
cause of the act
President Grant has at last spoken freely
concerning the third term question. In a
letter to General White, chairman of the
Pennsylvania republican state convention,
the president says he did not seek the presi-
Dental office either the first or second term,
and he certainly will not for the third,
Furthermore, he will not accept third
nomination, if it should be rendered, unless
il should come under such circumstances as
to make his acceptance an imperative duty.
Gen. Frank P. Blair, Jr., is kept alive
at st. Louis, aud may be made to recover by
transfusiou Of blood. About two years ago he
was attacked by slow disease Of the brain
aud nervous prOstratiOn, induced by hard