Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-11-12
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Cotton goods are now being shipped from
New England to old England,
Alexander Stewart Of Montreal died sud.
denly, in church, last Sunday.
Pere Hyacinthe, his wife aud baby are
coming over to see us, this winter or next
spring.
A Swede, with a 1900 check in his
pocket, hung himself at Half.Moon Bay,
Cal, last week.
The official vote Of Pennsylvania gives
Hartranft, republican for governor, a ma.
jority of 1850.
The German arsenal at Rendsburg in
Holstein was almost totally destroyed by fire,
last week, including 40, 900 rifles. The loss
is estimated at 5000, 900 marks.
Kansas papers claim that the state will
sell twenty.seven million dollars worth of
produce this year, aud have plenty left to
last another year.
The steamship City of Waco caught FIRE
at Galveston, Texas, on Tuesday, and burned
to the waters edge, and there is great reason
to fear that all on board we're lost.
Applications for board and lodging at the
Utica N.Y. police Office have dropped from
thirty day TO two or three since the tramps
have been forced 10 break stones for the
highway for half-hour before meals.
The work of rebuilding Virginia City,
Nevada, is going forward rapidly, although
the scarcity Of lumber, owing to the destruc-
ton of the greater part Of the stock on hand
at the yards; is cause Of much delay. The
people are reported to be in good spirits
generally.
The steamship Pacific foundersd on the
Pacific coast last Thursday evening, aud as
yet only one man is known to be saved
She was side.whecl steamer of about 900
tons was valued at 100000, and had on
board $4,000 worth Of hops and 10C
passengers.
The Prince of Wales has had a magnifi.
cent reception Mt Bombay. seventy native
chiefs and princes having assisted in hi,
reception. Two hundred thousand specta
tors lined the route of the procession to tn,
Government House, Europeans aud native
being alike enthusiastic.
Orville Grant, a brother of Presiden
Grant, Gen Babcock, the presidents privat
secretary, ex.United States Attorney PatricI
and Krum, ex. United States Marshal g. A
Newcomb, and number of prominent citi
zens Of St Louis, including William Mckee
principal proprietor Of the Globe Democra
newspaper, and Constantine Mcclure
formerly collector of the district, were in
dicted, at st Louis, on Tuesday, for com
plicity in the whisky frauds.
MAINE.
A family well at Leeds was found to b
poisoned with large quantities of arsenic.
neighbor of the owner has been arrested o
suspicion.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Elizabeth Allen, a widow of Bartlett, d
appeared last Sunday and was found mil
up the mountain having hung herself to
tree with wooden scarf. She was once
Inmate of an insane asylum.
There have been 81 business failures, wit
an aggregate of $500 900 liabilities, in Ii
. state during the last nine months.
Concord was thrown into the greatest el
element, Friday afternoon, by the arrest
Charles j. Connor, deputy sheriff for Me
rimack county and a well-known bushes
, man, on the charge of having attempted t
set fire to his store.
MASSACHUSETTS,.
The complete vote of Massa chusetts give
Castor 7S,249, Rice, 80, 523, Baker, 1861
Adams, LIZA, Phillips, 30l.
Twenty-ons hundred tramps were care
) for during the nine months ending Septemb'
30, at Newton.
A number of Boston clergymen are liabl
to fines ranging from $50 to 500, for neg
Letting to make returns of marriages to tn
city registrar.
! RHODE ISLAND.
One Smith, who is in Jail for lack
\ money, has fallen heir to $4,000.
A Providence jeweler has contrivau,
f to catch snatch thieves, consisting of vii
, running back of the couater, by pulling viii,
. the door is locked.
The census Of Rhode Island has been con
5 pleted. Providence has l00,675 iDhabitan
and 1925 dwelling houses. The who
: state has 258,238 Inhabitants, 1885,
+ dwelling houses and 52,245 families. A
but 6,27l are white, and the females are
the males as 1872 ,537 to 1885, 602. The pr
D portion to the whole of those born
> strictly American parents is so IL per Ger
. NEW YORK.
y A nGgress died in Brooklyn on Suudl
! who is claimed to have been 107 years oil
: having been born slave ia Columbia coun
Q in 1868. ..