Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-24
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


at Boston couldn't agree, and q new trial
will be had. ...r ...I...
The New York Tribune, which has been
sued for libel by I. W. Park, "will under.
take to prove all it said" '''
At last Mormon has been found guilty Of
bigaIhy by court Of justice. Now we may
expect to see some fun out there, next court.
on A great many are out of employment in
Montreal, and last Friday there were bread
riots in the streets Of that city. .., ..... i
One hundred miners we're killed at Fra
mieres, a small village three miles southwest
Of Nous, in the province Of Hainaut Bel.
GUM, BY an explosion OF 6re-damp Thur
day OF last week. un1ul H.- US 15Eu
20 Senator Morton has introduced resolutions
in Congress for the appointment of a COM
mttee to investigate the Mississippi cleo
ton. He claims there was fraud in return
ing the vote. '' 90 '''' ' 81
The entering wedge for a revival Of the
ffAuking nuisance appeared, last week, in
the shape Of u bill introduced 10 the House
TO give free transmission through the mails
to public documents and the Congressional
Record
A political struggle has been going on in
Japan between the Mikado and the mobiles,
which has terminated in favor OF the Mikado,
as proclamation has just been issued which
declares that the age of feudalism is past
forever.
The city Of Montreal is giving work to its
able.bodied paupers at go cents a day,
which, ia Canadian money, with the cost of
living as low as it is in Montreal, is better
than the 80 cents day W ,ich the laborers
on tho Pennsylvania railroad receive.
The suit of Miss Edna Dean Proctor
against the New York Graphic has been
formally discontinued in the supreme court,
the defendants having agreed to make re.
traction Of the alleged libelOus statements
concerning her.
A bill putting the postage on transient
newspapers back where it was year ago.
i. e., one cent for each two ounces, has been
introduced and referred to the post Office
committee. An attempt will be made to
amend it so as to include packages in the
change. 20 .,,f. ....
Congressman Randall, Of Pennsylvania,
presented a petition for the adjustment Of
stamps on bank checks, in the House,
Wednesday Of last week, which was about
the biggest thing of the sort ever seen there,
being about an eighth Of mile long and
containing over 80 900 names. .....
The reductions in the pay of the employees
Of the Western Union telegraph company
extend from top to bottom with savage i'm.
partiality. President 0rtous comes down
% per cent all others over $4,000 year
20 per cent all between $1,000 and So 900,
10 per cent between $1,000 aud so 500,
10 per cent between 5000 and 81 200, ave
per cent and below 5000, nothing.
Several persons have recently been ar
rested in different parts of the country for
! selling TO tradesmen, printers and others an
} advertising card or note, which ia some OF
its features resembles the national currency.
The diverse contains the figure 49, set 10
scroll work, and also the statue Of the god.
dess Of liberty, while the reverse is fac simile
Of that Of the $40 greeuback. Not only the
printers Of these cards, but those who circu.
late them among the public are liable TO 6ne
and imprisonment, and the government is
taking measures to put stop to the ciroula.
ton. No ordinarily intelligent person would
accept one Of these notes in payment for
anything, but ignorant persons have taken
them and gwen good money in change.
The explosion at Bremsrhaven, mentioned
last week, whereby over seventy men we're
: killed and twenty-five wounded. proves to
/ have been the work Of the man who at
D tempted suicide Immediately after the acei-
, dent He was financially embarrassed, aud
had shipped what purported TO be valuable
goods by the Mossl, first getting them heAv.
: lily insured. The Internal machine was con-
. structed so that cock.Work arrangement,
after ten days, would strike lever with a
force of thirty pounds, causing the explosion
of the mass aud the destruction Of the ship
: 10 mid ocean. Then the 6end iucarnate
! would draw bis insurance and proceed to
! murder another shipoad Of peOple--for II
transpired that he had had five Of the machines
made. The diabolioal wretch died from tho
: effect Of the wound inflicted by bis Owu hand.
/, His name was William King Thompson. and
/, he was born 10 Brooklyn. N. Y, about 35
years ago, He married New Orleans
, lady, aud has four children, the youngest 4
baby. He lived in Virginia during the war
and was engaged in the business Of blockade
running commanding for time the steamer
Q "Old Dominion" whereby he amassed con-
! siderable property. After the war he changed
, his name, and removed to Bremen, then to
Leipsic and for q year or more has
resided at Strethlen, near Dresden. A
later report says; 1t isn't settled yet
who this dynamite Rend" was. Brooklyn