Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-04-02

ran in the direction they had started, and
va the bet.
Oostley, the murderer Of Julia Hawkes.,
Of Dsdbsm, is to be hung on Friday, June
25.
The Lowell mule spinuers have demanded
an increase Of wages in the Lawrence, Mas
sachusetts, and Prescott mills, and if il is not
granted, will strike at the end Of fortnight.
A man named Sullivan, Of Natick, to
oblige his boarding mistress, recently, shot a
stray cur, which enraged the owner, who put
IL in Sullivan's bed Sullivan threw il out
Of the window, but Il was there, the next
night Then no buried il, aud il came back
again, and, after throwing It in a mud-pond
and finding II in his bed, the following night,
in despair he changed his boarding place.
Two agents of the treasury department ar.
rived at Boston. last week Thursday, aud be-
gan an investigation Of the alleged frauds
10 the new post.ofiice building, with which
Hugh Flood is said TO be connected, and,
finding their suspicious well.founded, seized
his books and papers on Saturday. Flood
has had charge of the painting and frescoing
Of the new building, and was allowed to dis.
burse to the workmen. He is accused Of
falsifying the rolls and charging the govern
meut moro than he paid the men, also of us
ing government paints and materials on pri-
vate jobs.
Mrs. Bingham, of East Boston, whose
murder was recorded last week, had between
ono and two hundred dollars in money and
some jewelry about her, which probably
we're the object Of the murder. The probs-
bic murderer has been found, identified as a
man who was seen to enter and leave the
house about the time Of the murder, and who
sold some Of the stolen jewelry, and has been
committed for trial. He gives his name as
Elias johnson, and has been known by the
name Of Pemberton. There seems to be lit
tie doubt that he will be convicted go po-
licemen were detailed to protect him from
the people during the examination, the peo-
pie manifesting an inclination to lynch him.
CONNECTICUT.
The weavers at the Mill Brook wooden
company's mill at South Coventry are on q
strike against a reduction in wages of 10 per
cent.
The Litch6eld Enquirer "goes for" Sheriff
Baldwin for putting the earnings Of the pris-
Oners in the Jail into his own pocket, and dc.
clares that he has cleared over $1,000 year
from it.
A Incorporating young man named Jamei
Harvey Wescott came TO Branford, some
eight months ago, married fine girl and
was an ornament to society, but, last week
he disappeared, leaving his wife and severa
unpaid bills, aud having borrowed 500 t.
pay his travelling expenses.
NEW YORK.
Thurlow Weed says that money enough
has been stolen from the Canal fund of NeV
York to have given ship canal from LAX,
Erie TO the Hudson river.
A New York court has decided that
Spiritualist society, who vacated a hall they
had leased because the proprietor let it
week days, to a can-can show, thus render
ing it disreputAble, are not liable for rent.
Abe Hummel, well-known New Yorl
lawyer, has been stricken from the roll of at
torneys, on his own testimony that he bribeC
Westchester county magistrate with $500
TO discharge certain prisoners for whom h
was counsel.
A dispatch from Hudson dated March 30
says that Monday afternoon three boys o
Philmont named Wallace, Hickey and Con
roy, about thirteen years old, while huntinI
for artichokes, gathered wild turnips BY
mistake, Of which they ate. Wallace died
in convulsions about half An hour afterward
Hickey is in very critical condition.
The revelations that are following Gov
Tilden's onslaught on the management Of tn
New York canals are more than justifyinp
past suspicion and present deuuuciation
The victims vince good deal, protest thei
innocence and ask for an investigation. Blu
enough is already proven to sustain the gov
ernor, and make somewhat Of a reform herr
Of him.-RepuJ(ican.