Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-15

.uau is III tuv hanusOl the crowned ruler
Sheridan is good soldier but not much Of a
politician, one would Judge. An indignation
meeting was held at Cooper Institute, New
York, Monday evening Governor Brown,
oil Tennessee, in his message on the 9TH, con.
graduated the legislature that "the edct Of
petty tyrant does not here avail 10 dis.
perse the state legislature" The governors
of Ohio and Missouri express their indiena.
ton in their messages on the same day, aud
the Arkansas House also passed strong con.
demnatory resolutions. Protests come in
from all sections, both from the many leois.
latures now IN session and from the mass IN.
dignaton meetings.
MAINE.
Mrs Mcdonald, of Calais, wrapped her
little child so closely for riding, the other
night, that il was smothered to death.
John +. Stanley and Richard McCluskey
OF South Hiram started for Cornish, while
drunk the other night, and tipped over
against stone wall, and the former was in.
jured so badly that his recovery is doubtful.
McCluskey, when found had cut CASA in
his head, both hands we're frozen, and he
had bitten off three of his fingers.
Gov Dingley was iuaugurated for his sec.
ond term at Augusta, Jan. I. His
message shows the net state debt TO be S..
SCI ,076, decrease of 1921 ,575 during the
past year. Nearly $1,000, 900 of state in.
debtedness has been paid in the last 10 years,
and at the present rate the debt will be ex-
tinguished in Ia years. He suggests that
the supreme court issue iniunctions on the
business Of the railroads that refuse to nav
the tax assessed on them, more than half the
roads being thus delinquent. If all the rail.
roads and insurance companies would pay
their taxes the present rate Of 5 mills on the
dollar could be reduced II mills. Gov.
Dingley warmly comments the prohibition
liquor law, and says, at is significant that
during these nine or ten years Of gradually
increasing efficiency in the enforcement Of
the laws against dram.shops, the number Of
convicts in the states prison has fallen off
more than one-fourth.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The New Hampshire press association
holds its annual meeting at Concord on the
18th.
The Boston detectives say that $4,000
was demanded, and probably nearly that
amount was paid, for the recovery of 106,-
900 worth of the securities stolen from the
Souhegan national bank at Milford, though
President Towne denies that any compromise
was made with the robbers. The bank has
declared its regular semi.auuual dividend of
4 per cent.
MASSACHUSETTS
The number Of consumptives at the
Brighton abattoirs, to drink warm blood, Is
decreasing, confidence in the remedy having
diminished
They had $4,000 fire at Northhamp.
ton, last week Thursday. The James block
on Court street, was found to be on FIRE ut
half past in the morning. The fire was in
the basement, and the smoke was so dense in
the streets that it was nearly an hour before
theiire could be found. Tne building was
entirely destroyed.
An illustration Of the temper of the Fail
River factory operatives was seen at the
Durfee mills, Friday morning. The ma
chinery had started before the regular time,
but one of the weavers refused to set his
looms going till the usual hour. A second
hand ordered him to go to work or leave the
mills. He started off at once, and all the
others in the room followed him. A general
strike in the mill was averted only by the
strenuous efforts of the officers. All the
operatives seem only to require some excit-
iGg cause like this to throw them into big
strike.
CONNECTICUT.
The question Of the legality Of the impris-
onment of William Clark in the state prison
at Weathers6eld is called up again by the
New Haven Register in long article, the
result of an interview with him. He killed.
Richard Wight at New Haven, 20 years
ago, on account of a love affair, and has been
in prison almost ever since, though he has
never been sentenced, but only confined on
the ground that he was insane and unfit to
be at large. He claims that he is not in
sane and that his Imprisonment is illegal.
NEW YORK.
The jury in the Beecher-Tilton case was
completed Thursday of last week, and the
trial has comm enced.
David Dudley Field is still devoting his
energies to getting Tweed out of jail, on the
ground that the cumulative sentences we're
illegal But the judges are, 50 far, all
against him