Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-07-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Gold ll8a on Tuesday.
A war against Professionalism has been ia.
auguratcd in Spain.
Heavy rain storms have prevailed IN GER
tain parts Of England, and the country is
inundated ' IHt
The peach crop 10 Maryland aud Della
ware peninsula will be not less than 8,000,-
600 baskets.
The Baltimore American has been served
with three suits for libel, each calling for
s20, 900 damages.
A schooner was struck by lightning a few
days ago of Prince Edward Island, and two
men killed.
The crops in Dakota Territory promise
handsome harvest. Seven million bushels
Of wheat is the anticipated yield
Chief Clerk Avery of the Treasury De.
partment has been indicted at st. Louis for
participation in the whskey frauds
The crop reports from all parts of Mime.
sofa, except in the southern districts, where
the locusts have ravaged, are very encourage
ing.
Americans are warned by cable that forged
notes Of the banks of England and France
are likely to be offered over here in large
numbers.
The crop prospects Of Indian territory are
most favorable. The wheat and corn crops
are the largest ever known, and the terri
tory will ship over 81 900, 900 worth of cat
tie east this fall, and will fatten 100000
worth Of hogs.
A New York man has sued out manda-
mus on the postmaster, compelling him to
accept mail matter at the old rates, on ac-
count of the nconstitutiouality of the recent
increase. The point is that this provision
originated with the Senate, whereas its pur.
pose was to raise revenue.
Beecher has been engaged to deliver from
fourteen to twenty lectures in cities west of
the Mississippi, the coming season, at the
average price Of $500 each. Under the cir.
cumstances this is rather notable.
The political troubles amo ng the Chero-
KEGS Of the Indian territory are growing
worse instead of better. Within the past
two months, l6 men and two women have
been murdered, most Of them by reason Of
quarrels growing out of the feuds between the
Ross and Downing factions. This in pop
uation Of less than 10000.
1t is believed that Prof. Donaldson and
N. s. Greenwood a reporter on the Chicago
Evening Journal, who assembled from Chicago
in balloon last Thursday, were drowned
in Lake Michigan, as nothing has been heard
from them, while something resembling parts
of balloon has been seen by incoming ves-
sells. Later dispatches are conflicting il
regard to the Wronauts having been found
They are probably lost.
Mr.. Sankey, at the conclusion of the SER
vices in London conducted by Mr.. Moody
and himself, started for Paris, where he ex-
poets to take part in some revival meetings
From France he will travel to Switzerland t.
recruit his strength, aud will return to Am err.
lea by way of Liverpool.
The Nevada farmers have a plague oil
crickGts, which devour all the crops as thor.
oughly as grasshoppers. In Bull Run val
ley some of the farmers try to keep them of
their ranches by running the water in bitches
around them, while others kill them by run
ming rollers drawn by horses over the ground
which works quite successfully, as those that
escape uninjured stop to feed upon the les
fortunate ones which have been crushed OF
wounded.
The postal rates with Europe, as fixed by
the late general treaty, which went into
effect, July |, are five cents for letters weigh.
ing one.half ounce or less, two cents for pos.
tai cards, and two cents for newspapers
weighing not over four ounces, TO all coun
tries except France, to which the rates ar,
nine cents for letters and three cents fol
newspapers. To Egypt and Asiatic Turkey
the postage has ALSO been reduced to fv
cents on letters and two cents on papers.
The body Of the deputy collector of il
ternal revenue who accompanied Revenu
( Agent Beech on an expedition against tn
, illicit whiskey distilers of northern Alabama
, few weeks ago, and who was murdered b
them, has been found in the Coosa rivei
, Three of the murderers have been arreste
. and are confined in the Huntsville Jail, bu
they cannot be tried in United States court,
s and there is little probability of couvictio
a in state courts. Three United States officia
have been murdered in Alabama within
/ year, but no one has been punished for h
G crimes.
d MAINE.
John Ii. Rogers, 80 years old, prom
: nent lumber dealer and mill owner at Batl
was killed by runaway lumber team, FIR
day.
A little four years old of Mt. Vernon fe
into the water, the other day, and was barrel
saved from drowning. Being rescued au
: resuscitated, she looked up at her father an
said, at seems so funny"
Howard Kngsbury, Bangor druggist
= clerk, made a most deliberate attempt q
suicide, Sunday, by taking morphine anc
dressing himself in his best suit, lay dow
upon the bed with his hands folded over h
brea st. but was discovered when nearly gont
and was resuscitated by physician.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
2 The Hilsboro mills at Wilton hav
}, u stopped manufacturing carpets on account
l. the dull times.
. A. p. Welcomes now summer beardin
, house and l., barn and sheds attached, a
. Newport, were entirely consumed by fir
y Monday night, The house contained
sleeping rooms, and was valued at 5000
a furniture $4,000; insurance $4,000.
n MASSACHUSETTS.
n Twenty pounds aud two ounces is exaetl.
1t what Springfield baby weighed just altc
y BIRTH
: The manufacturers Of Fall River have re
- duced wages ten per cent.
!. The Salisbury mills will be closed sil
n weeks from the first of August.
6 jesse Pomeroy, the boy murdere r, ha
II written a statement in which he retracts hi
}, former confessions. He claims that he WI
!. goaded by the police into making the con
fessions, but there was no truth in them.
CONNECTICUT. ra
a The paper mill of Brown Brothers,
q North Colchester, was burned Monday nigh
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