Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-04-23
General News.
Gold 1.15R.

President Grant will be SO years of age
on the 9th Of the present month.
The Louisiana legislature met last week
Wednesday, and the compromise seems to be
accepted by all. Order reigns in-NeW
Orleans.
Samuel X. Wells, the noted chronological
and physiological publisher, died in New
York, Of typhoid fever, April IL. He was
80 years old.
Two women aud one man have been sent
to the insane asylum in Washington, on &C.
count Of religious excitement occasioned by
the Beecher trial.
1t is reported that the Turks have MUIR
dered 270 Christians in Roumela and Bull
garia during the last three months, and the
names Of the victims have been communicat.
ed to the foreign representatives in Constan-
tinople.
When Paul Boynton, few days ago, put
on his marine armor and dropped into the
sea to cross the English Channel, he was fol-
lowed by press boat which had cable on
board and paid it out as it went, and flashed
back every few minutes intelligence of the
progress Of the wonderful Yankee. How is
that for newspaper enterprise2
| MAINE. .jI
The Grand Lodge of Good Templars met
Tuesday and Wednesday at Bangor. Gov
Dingley and ex.Gov. Perham were among
the members present.
The Portland city council has voted $4,000
to the state agricultural society, on the con-
dition that the state fair shall be held at
Portland three years in succession.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Julia Mccarthy has been arraigned at
Dorchester for the murder Of Mary Dennahy
at Savin hill, fast day.
About 40 per cent Of the mules in the
Lowell mills are at work, in spite of the
strike, and the help is gradually increasing,
though many looms have been stopped for
want of filling. The Merrimac mills stopped
1000 looms this week.
Freeman p. Sanborn's house aud shed,
about one mile east of Lyme Center, were
destroyed by fire Sunday, the llth inst,
together with the most of their contents,
including provisions, furniture, wearing
apparel and some twenty dollars in money.
The buildings we're insured.
Clarence L. Couch, of Salisbury, under
indictment for manslaughter, was sentenced
to six months in the State Prison, with the
alternative of going to the Reform School if
he chooses. The killing took place on the
9Th Of November last, and was sort of
accidental result Of a boys quarrel, Couch
striking the victim, Roberts, blow on the
head with stick, producing the unfortunate
result stated. Couch is Is years of age and
Roberts was Ia.
Mrs. Wilson, servant who had been in
the Kendrick family at Lebanon several
weeks before the recent supposed poisoning,
and who left Immediately afterward, has been
arrested under most suspicious circumstan-
ces. Her maiden name was Lowell she
was born at Sherbrooke. p. O., she married a
man named Wilcox when she was fifteen
years old He died and she married Will
son, who died suddenly a year and a half
after the marriage. 1t is now supposed that
she poisoned him, as we'll as pair OF twins
Of hers, who died young. Since she left
the Hendricks famiey she has pretended to
be unwell, but has been known to 90 i'm
mediately from the house where she refused
to eat, saying she was sick, to saloon and
eat heartily. Arsenic was found in her
trunk when she was arrested.
MASSACHUSETTS.
The strike at Lowell continues, and the
agents appear perfectly willing.
The wages of section hands on the Boston
and Lowell railroad have been reduced from
SLIGO to Sl.25 a day.
At the request of the weavers, the Po-
tomska mills at New Bedford will begin,
Monday, to run longer in the afternoon, in
order to close at l o'clock, Saturdays
The Springfield Republican has received
an administration (postal) advertisement and
goes into ecstacies over the event thusly
"The Springfield Republican /: The women
read it the children cry for il; even the
federal administration advertiseS in it,"
The centennial of the battles of Concord
and Lexington was celebrated at those
places, Monday, with much eelat. Gen.
Grant was present from Washington, the
governors OF Maine, New Hampshire, Yer
mont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and many
other men of note were there. Altogether
the celebration was one to stir the hearts Of
New Enganders The principal speakers
were Mr.. Curtis at Concord and Mr.. Dana
at Lexington. A letter from the prime
minister of England, expressing regret that
he could not be present, was read. Presum-
ing that a recital Of the doings at Concord
and Lexington hundred years ago will be
more interesting than an extended report of
the celebration, We give up portion of our
space for that.
CONNECTICUT.
The wOrkmen engaged in unloading the
oyster feet at New Haven, who have been