Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-03-19
General News.

ty.
The Tennessee farmers are calling in Chi.
nese to take the placeof the negroes that are
leaving the state in such large numbers.
A law forbidding the payment of different
salaries in the public school on account Of
sex has just passed the California legisla.
ture.
The consolidation Of the through line Of
the Z Il D. road from Portland was com.
peted by vote Of the eastern division at
Portland, Tuesday.
1t must take Prophet Brigham Young
down peg to be sent to Jail by a United
States court, but he has been, on sentence
Of "a hours, for contempt.
The price Of the revised statutes is fixed
at S3.71 per copy, being an advance Of 10
per cent on the cost The book-trade are
buying largely, but the secretary Of state
will furnish copies to anyone at the above
price.
If there is a paper in the country that
has not announced that "the Beechsr trial
drags its slow length along" we should be
| pleased to hear from it. The bennington
Banner says: We observe among the
news items in the NewYOrk papers this week,
that Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has u per-
sonal law suit pending in the Brooklyn
courts" which is refreshing, being apparent
ly an original remark, as Bro. Cushmaus re.
marks usually are.
The new Wisconsin railroad bill raises
the rates SO that the companies can save
per cent moro. The companies asked for
20 per cent. The Springfield Republican
says: "The Wisconsin railroad law, as now
amended, is not changed in policy and oper-
alton at all, except that the Limitation of
the rates is loosened little. 1t is the same
harness 'let out another hole The legis-
lation is much less liberal than what we were
led to expect by that complete overthrow OF
the grange movement, which we were assur.
ed had taken place."
MAINE.
Two hun bred men employed at the Saco
water machine-shop were discharged on Sat-
urday. there being little work on hand.
Luther Curtis and A. b. Warren, of New
Sharon, who have been on trial ut Farming
ton for defrauding an insurance company by
representing that u healthy woman was the
applicant for insurance when in fact the ap.
picant was nearly dead with consumption,
have been found guilty.
The state board Of agriculture has decd-
ed to offer one half of the state bounty con-
trolled by it in premiums for the planting Of
native grown trees or the growing Of native
nursery stock ,-the offer to continue three
years aud to apply only TO orchards and nur-
series planted since January l, 1875.-aud
to use the remainder Of the bounty for the
encouragement Of the introduction of thor
ough-bred stock, or the encourag sment Of
general agricultural interests.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
l. ID. WOodmau of Ashland is running his
hosiery mill on extra time, aud has ord ers for
six months ahead.
The report OF the school committee in
Thornton says "there is not one decent re-
spectacle schOolhouse in town"
Horace Ames, of Holderness, lost a flock
Of sixteen sheep in one night recently by the
teeth of some stray dog Eleven were kill.
ed and tho rest fatally injured.
William f. Gordon, OF Bolton, VI, COM
mtted suicide by shooting, Friday, on the
morning express train on the Northern rail-
road, between Grafton and Daubury, aud
Jesse Thayer, a well.kuown merchant OF
Toronto, Canada, who was on the train.
feeling faint at the incident, went upon
the platform for air, and, falling off, was
killed.
1t appears that the republicans of Farm
ington treated what democrats they could
induce to drink, on drugged liquor, election
morning. When they had q democrat we'll
laid out for twelve hours sleep it counted
as well as republican vote. One Of the
drugged men named Trask died on their
hands in the club.rooms, and two others are
still suffering from the effects of the poison
The election seems to have gone substan-
tally as reported in last weeks FARMER. No
governor elected, but a republican legislature
which will elect the republican candidate for
governor. The republican majority in the
House Is about dozen. The Senate stands
FIVE democrats and five republicans Demo-
cratic congressman in the first and second
districts and republican in the third. The
two candidates for governor ran within 100
votes of each other. There was no election
of senators in districts two and four.
MASSACHUSETTS,.
Work has been suspended at the Park sT
and fremont nail works in Wareham, aud
800 workmen are out Of employment
Thirty-four stores, and perhaps twice as
manJ, on Washington street, b Oston, between
State and Dover streets, are occupied by
shsrif's keepers.
Nineteen conductors of Metropolitan horse
railway ears at Boston were discharged,
much to their surprise, on Saturday night,
and they themselves do not know why, but
it is supposed that they have been caught
knocking down." that is, stealing fares.
There was a fracas in "La Palais Royal"
the other night between keepers placed there
in by w. l.. COlamore, who leases the build
ing, and Benjamin Thayer, who holds
mortgage on the furniture, the former being
victorious. Afterwards a number Of attach
ees Of the billiard saloon beat down the door
and in the scrape James Coyne and Charles
Thompson were stabbed by Charles j, Storey,
one OF Collamores men. Storey was arrest
ed and held for trial.-BoSton Letter.
A settlement of the long.continued labor
troubles at Fall River now seems probable,
the spinners, weavers, card-rOom hands,
slashers and spoilers in convention, Saturday
night, having resolved that they wOuld re-
turn to work within "a hours, provided the
manufacturers will guarantee that on the LIST
of April they will coucede the 10 per cent
asked for. This resolution is signed by all
the unions, and it remains for the employers
to accept the proposal, which it is claimed
they will do. LATER.-The employers have
made the concession and work was resumed
yesterday Thursday.
CONNECTICUT.
A postal.card picked up in the street at
Norwich. the other daY bore this sOlemn an