Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-05-14

The fifteenth session Of the American
Pathological Association will be held at
Chicago, Sept. ., 8 aud 10. All horticul-
tural, pomoogical, agricultural and other
kindred associations in the United States
and British provinces are invited To send
delegations as large as they may deem expe-
dent, and all persons interested in the cul.
tivatiou Of fruits are invited to be present
and take seats in the convention.
We quote from letter Of Ex.S Secretary
McCulloch to the New York Tribune
"Tho actual debt at the dsbanding Of the
Federal army was not less than $4,000, 000,-
600. On the LIST Of March last Il was 81
1877 ,315,9S9, the reduction in nine aud
half years having been 1862 ,6S4, GIL, or at
the rate Of over 500 100000 per annum.
The debt is large, but If kept at home, as it
is desirable it should be, with n judicious
system Of taxation, il need not DO oppres-
sive." e I'D. I.faIr .mrH Ill.
A terribly destructive tornado swept over
the state Of Georgia May LIST, leaving tract
Of death and destruction from a half TO
three-quarters Of mile wide The tornado
looked like funnel.shaped cloud, with the
apex on the ground, and moved with great
velocity Trees two feet in diameter were
torn up by the roots and carried several
hundred yards. Persons were caught up
and lodged in trees, buildings we're destroyed,
stock killed, and the destruction Of life and
property was terrible. Fity-iour persons
were killed, and sixty three wounded.
j. NJ. Douglass, commissioner Of internal
revenue, has been suddenly informed that
his services we're no longer desired, and now
come the reasons. IL is not because he is
believed to be dishonest, but because he has
had too much confidence in those under him.
1t appears upon investigation that frauds
have been practiced by whiskey distillers
whereby the government has been the loser
by some $1,200,000 year, through the
his position because he wasn't awake enough
to catch them. Several officials had share
in the stolen money for keeping whist.
A letter from Abingdon, Va, dated May
6, says a raid on the illicit distillers in New
mans Ridge and Blackwater Valley, on the
border of that state and Tennessee. has Just
been made by mounted men under Major
Jacob Wagner. Sixteen distilleries with
their contents and large quantities Of mash,
beer and whisky were destroyed. The in-
habitAnts of the locality named were bush
whackers during the war, and are particular
ly lawless. Illicit distilling has since the
war been their principal occupation, and
large quantities Of spirits were made by
them. Eight arrests were made at a place
where a number of distillers, heavily armed
with carbines aud rifles, had congregated.
The large and first.class steamship Schiller,
Capt. Thomas, of the Eagle line, which sailed
from New York April % for Hamburg, with
26l passengers, and l24 officers and crew,
owing to thick fog struck a ledge at 10
o'clock p. NJ. on Friday, near the Scilly
Isles, which lie off the southwest coast Of
England, about 80 miles west southwest Of
Lands End, county of Cornwall, careoned
aud sank, 34l persons going to the bottom.
A we're saved. The captain is highly
praised for his GOODNESS and persevering de-
votion to duty. He was among the lost.
The following are the names Of the saved :
Cabin passengers: Silas Hexter, Ashland,
III Louis Riederer, New York Leo w este,
Philadelphia Carl Kuhn, New York John
Williams, Newburg, N. Y; Charles Frahm
Davenport, Iowa. Strange passengers
Marcus Pauwitzer, G. II. Percy, New Y ork
Il. Schsllenberg, New York John JOINS and
wife, New York; Jean Rink aud Joseph
Legmore. Officers and crew First officer,
II. Killers; second officer. Il. POLICEMAN
fourth officer, II. Heintze; boatswains, Jen.
sen and Packendorf; sailmaker, Hirsoh
stokers, Smike and Bullig; sailors, Gould
berz, Wallis, Peterson, Pesth, Blusiner,
Packendorf, Weiser, Dan Blackhouse, Reh.
berg. Adamseu, Hanmann, Bohm, Jurge.
Jensen, Werneckl, Fahler, Hoffman, Ernst
Pierson, Piel Ninsch and Schweinske.
MAINE.
TIE bank of Portland, private banking
institution, has failed, badly.
The insane wife Of Hugh Smith, Of Buxton
has just died---it is said, from the effects of
the crime of keeping her in cold room q ]
winter, for which he is now under indict-
ment..
The Free Baptist church at Topsham has
rather strange notions Of consistency. A
young man named Stimson from 81. John
N b., who recently became its pastor, rep
resented that he had received a call from
Thomaston, with an offer of $1,000 salary.
This statement was found to be lie, and he
was expelled from the church, but 4 letter
Of recommendation to other churches was
granted.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Frank Silly, of Peterboro, is under arrest
for committing an outrage on his step-daugh.
ter, ii years old.
Belle Stuart, nine years old, caught her
clothes in bonfire made by some children
at Merrimack, last week Tuesday night, and
was burned to death. .I
Mrs. Edwin Hough, wife of well.to-dC
farmer in Lebanon, is missing, and having
been traced 10 the river, is supposed to have
drowned herself caused by depression on &C.
count Of the dangerous illness of her hus-
baud.
Six cars Of the morning mail train east
on the Grand Trunk were thrown from the
track by the spreading of the rails near
West Milan, Friday. Two passengers in the
second class car were considerably praised,
and three or four others slightly injured
none seriously. The baggage car was thrown
down O steep embankment. The Pullman
car remained on the track.
Mrs. Harrison, wife of John Harrison, Of
Raymond, in company with Sylvester Brown
aud Frank Robinson, all partly intoxicated
started to 60 home from Gambia station, a
distance Of several miles, Thursday night
On the way she was deserted by the men,
one Of whom wore her shawl, and in the
morning she was found in the road, dead
The men are blamed for deserving her, aud
may be dealt with by law.
The grand jury of Hillsborough county, ia
session at Manchester, has returned 10 in.
dlctments against the republican selectmen
of Weare, for illegalities in making up the
checklist, also against several persons for