Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-03-26

One editor, Q. X. Lands, shot another. |
Mr. Carruth, at Vineland, N. j., Saturday |
morning. 1t seems Carruth has habitually |
printed personalities with the intention Of |
provoking Lands, and the last one was too
effectual.
II really looks as II the negroes would ac-
complish more for temperance at Nashville,
Tenn, than the most determined band of
woman crusaders could do. They so persist
emily demand their rights that many Of the
grog-selers have shut up their shops in dis
gust
II is said Beecher won't be candidate for
president in 1876. If he we're elected, the
scandal trial would be likely 10 interfere
with the performance Of his duties as presi.
dent. Beecher belongs to long.lived fam
lily, and may live till the end Of the trial
Lady Mordaunt has Just been found
guilty Of adultery with the prince Of Wales.
In this trial the prince was put under oath
and denied the charge. While the woman
suffers the penalty Of her crime, the prince,
being of royal blood, though guilty Of both
adultery and perjury, goes scot free.
There has been much damage done BY
floods on the Susquehanna river in Pennsyl.
vania. The towns Of cambridge and Mar.
ietta were flooded and much damage done.
AT Marietta Ice was piled ten to forty feet
high for mile along Front Street, and it
was estimated that il would take 1000 men
five days to clear the railroad track at that
place alone. Over millien dollars worth
Of bridges were swept away.
Having put his hand to the reform pillow,
Gov. Chamberlin, of South Carolina, Is driv-
ing very straight furrow, and he shows no
disposition, thus far, TO look back. In his
recent message vetoing the floating debt BILL
so called, he not only took the legislature
sharply to task for its extravaganza, but
stated in the plainest English that one of
his reasons for the veto was the character Of
the commissioners designated to carry out
the proposed funding. The work, be said,
was one calling for the very best quality of
Intelligence, honor aud incorruptibility"
which the state could furnish the commits
sioners, in his judgment, did not Gil the bill.
The defeat in both branches Of the address
for tho removal OF treasurer Cardozo shows
that the reforming governor is still master of
the situation. More pswer to his elbow =
Republican.
MAINE.
A car load of cotton belonging to Far
wells mills was burned at Lisbon, Sunday
morning, together with the freight-shed loss
$4,000.
The temperance reform movement at Lew
iston has shown fruit in the reduction of the
police force to ID members measure rem
dcred possible by the absence Of crime in
town.
A man died at Smith6eld, a short time
since, from very peculiar disease called
dry modification, which began at his great
toe and worked gradually upward until it
reached his throat, when he died.
The temperance reform movement 10 Ban
gor, lewiston Auburn, Ellsworth, Bidde.
ford and other places is the most successful
for years. Former drunkards by the hun
dreds have signed the total abstinence pledge,
even the drinking of cider being prohibited.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The grange at North Monroe is growing
rapidly. About twenty persons expect to be
initiated at their next meeting
The vote for town officers in Langdon was
so close that the first seectman, q democrat,
who was also n moderator, voted for himself
to prevent tie.
Twelve mule spinners in tho Great Falls
cotton mills struck on Thursday, the 18th,
and in less than an hour their places were
filled with new men and the machinery run
ming.
The governor has re-appOintod Hiram Or.
cult, Of West Lebanon, trustee Of the state
normal school, and has appointed Il. A. Hib-
bard, of Laconia, trustee Of the asylum for
the insane.
The lasters in banks shoe factory at
PittS6eld struck for higher wages, Monday
morning, and the firm can i'll afford TO spare
them, being overrun with orders, and all the
other employees depending upon the lasters
for work.
In North Litteton on the evening Of the
10th inst. the dwelling house and shed Of
John Elliott was consumed by FIRE, together |
with most of the contents. The family was
absent at the time and the origin is unknown |
Loss $1,000; insured for $1,000
All the mills at Manchester are running
on full time. and business prospects begin to |
brighten several new blocks are being pro-
jected, and the Amoskeag company will
push their improvements on the Merrimac
River as soon as thel stream opens. employ
ing several hundred hands.
The express train running between Bos-
ton and Montreal over the Boston, Concord
and Montreal railroad was thrown from the
track Saturday night just north Of Pixies
station in Haverhll. The tender was thrown
from the rails, but the engine and baggage
car held the track, while the passenger car,
Passumpsic car, nearly new, followed by
the Pullman car, left the track, tearing up
the rails for hundred feet in their pro.
gress. Had the accident happened hum
bred feet further on, or had they been thrown
to the left instead Of the right, they would
have been precipitated down an embark
ment some thirty feet. Only one person, a
lady going to Barnet, was injured, and she
but slightly.
Now that the Hoosac tunnel is completed,
by far the greatest work in progress in New
England is the construction Of the Portland
and Ogdensburg railroad through the White
mountains, a route considered impracticable,
a few years ago. 1t is wsll-nigh an accom-
plished fact, however, the track being already
laid TO Frankenstein cliff, about three miles
from the old Crawford housas From this
point to the Notch, six miles, and from the
Notch to Fabyan's, four miles, is all that re-
mains to be completed, 80 that the road will
easily be ready for travel, the coming sea-
son, three months Of open weather being
amply sufficient to finish the work. The
chief difficulty in constructing the road was
in obtaining accurate surveys, the only cut
of note being just at the Notch, where &c..
600 cubic yards of rock was removed. The
highest point reached is 1900 feet above
tlde.water, at Portland, and the average
grade is 80 feet to the mile, only seven miles
having grade of 1l6 feet, over which