Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-03-05
General News.
Gold LII rs.

The prohibitonsts of Ohio last week put
a full ticket for state officers in nomination.
The attempt to repeal what is known as
the Potter railroad law was defeated last
week, in the Wisconsin legislature.
Striking miners in the Lohigh coal region
have been burning buildings, shooting men,
and breaking into the houses of those who
would not join the strike and destroying their
furniture.
The locomotive works Of the Dickson
Manufacturing Company at Scranton, Pa,
were burned Saturday. Loss 100000 !;
insurance slS5,000. $50 men thrown out
Of employment
The Carlist war in Spain does not seem to
have come to an end. after ALL The tele-
| graph tells US Of an attack by the Carlists
on Biboa in which the Alfonsists lost $50
killed aud wounded.
The House has recognized Kellogg's usur-
patton of the Louisiana governorship, but
recommends the legislature to seat the. five
democrats who were marched out Of the state
house by United States troops little while
ago.
1t is reported that there have been seve-
raj deaths from starvation in Kansas. The
legislature on Friday instructed the ways
and means committee to report Immediately
bill appropriating $500, 900 for the relief
Of the sufferers
The extraordinary session Of the Senate,
will not, it is supposed, continue more than
n week. The business will be in secret ses-
sion on the Hawaiian and Belgian treaties,
and action on such nominations as the presi-
dent may make, which will be few in num-
Der.
The Pennsylvania miners have resolved
to demand after March 5 the basis Of 80 IS
for contract and So for day labor This
will be an advance Of ST per cent over 1874
prices, whereas the offer OF the operators is
about 40 per cent reduction from last years
rates
The Senate has passed the civil rights
bill, and it has received the presidents sig
nature. The democrats threaten to carry
the war into Africa by appealing to the
courts, and they feel confident the supreme
court will pronounce the law demonstrations
al. Reckon they will find themselves mista,
ken.
Judge Poland's Arkansas report was
adopted by the House, Tuesday against
strong opposition. The judge is reported a,
having delivered "the ablest speech he ever
made in Congress" on this bill. This was
carried, it will be remembered, against the
minority report, against tho recomme nda.
tions of the president in his special message,
and after the passage of the force bill, and
it was passed by a vote of $40 to 80.
The New York roads have now dropped
their freight rates to Chicago to 30 cents q
hundred on carloads of sugar and coffee
The sugar and coffee business had been grav-
itating toward Baltimore, from which poin
to Chicago only Is cents hundred i:
charged. The freight war has now evident
ly begun in earnest, and will probably b,
fought for while with desperation. Hurry
up the completion Of the peoples p. Il D
so Vermont can take hand in.
1t is reported in Berlin that Bismarck in
tends to still further disembarras the Prus
sian state of relations with the church by
taking the schools out from under the con
troll of the clergy entirely, and even Of tn,
commuueS or parishes, and by administering
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it is now, the clergy are the official examin
ers who certify to the sufficiency Of the pu
pills education when he or she leaves school
Such policy will make fearful inroad
however, on that practice Of local seli-gov
eminent which is the saving distinction be
tween German and French Imperialism.
What is known as the "lorce bill" tina
reported few weeks ago as having beer
adopted by a caucus Of republican member
Of the House, passed tho House Saturda.
night. 1t would not have got a majorit,
at any time previous, but the filibustering o
the democrats against it so disguised the dis
affected republicans who would have votet
against it that they returned to the part,
, fold and the bill was passed by a vote o
l35 to III.
, Mrs. Ann Eliza Young has won her sui
, for divorce with alimony against Brigham
Young, and is awarded by Judge McKea
$4,000 to pay the expenses Of the prOsecu
ton and $500 a month, according to the dis
] patch, to maintain herself aud TO maintain
, and educate her two children. Young
: grounds of defense were that Mrs. YounI
had another husband when he married her
of whose existence he was ignorant, aud tina
5 he Young had another wife to whom h
was legally married in 1884. Judge Nc
Kean alleged that these points were "argu
Q mentatve and had not been determined o
trial pending the suit" and ordered a decis
ion for the plaintiff.
= Serious floods are reported In the vale
of the Housatonic, in Connecticut, the waite
, has been the highest known for years. TIL
water covered roads and bridges ten fee
j deep, and Toe was piled up in some places b
a feet high. At Port Jervis N. j., the waite
q rose to the second stories Of houses on Kin
Street, and the inmates were rescued IN boatl
= The Schuylkill River at Manayunk, Penn
q rose 30 as to stop fourteen mills there, throw
Q ing 1000 people out of employment. A
$ Knoxville, Tenn, the East Tennessee, YiI
8 GINA aud Georgia railroad was broken in 81
places, the damage being such Os it woul,