Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-05-07
General News.

Judge Edwards Plerrepont is to be attor.
ney general.
The strike in the Philadelphia coal mines,
instead Of abatiug wakes 6ercer, and the
miners declare they won't give in Contrbu-
tions for their aid pour in from all drec.
tious.
The rebels in Cuba are rapidly destroy.
ing the productive capacity Of the island,
and will starve out the Spanish officials, if
they continue in their devastations. Sugar
estates to the number of 100 and to the val
ne of over S20,000,000, with FIVE or SIX
million dollars worth Of sugar, have been
destroyed, this winter.
Mrs. Tlton has written letter to Judge
Nelson protesting that it is grossly unjust
not to give her au opportunity to testify.
Mrs. Tilton explicitly denies the charges Of
guilt preferred by her husband, who, she
says, forced her to tell falsehoods, and ear
nestlY requests permission to testify. Judge
Nelson refuses to grant her request, on ac-
count of its illegality, statute expressly
fOrbidding a wife to testify for or against her
husband.
The Chinese are apt scholars. Already
they have learned the American trick of
striking, and even exceed the Americans at
it, as witness the following telegram The
Chinese taiors Of San Francisco have struck,
and have posted bills throughout the Chi
nese quarter offering a reward OF $500 for
the killing of any boss tailor who won't pay
the wages demanded, and an additional re.
ward of $500 for the killing Of any tailor
who consents to work for less money.
The total receipts for the fiscal year TO
April 80 are, in round numbers, 1928, $780,
81. OF this Sl33,752,000 are customs
receipts, and S99,75S,S7l internal reve-
nue. returns. The internal revenue
receipts for the four months of 1875 are
$50, ass APO, and receipts for April are ST.
022,33l. This is large falling of from
the receipts for the corresponding period Of
last year. April alone falling nearly 49,
100000 behind as compared with the returns
of 1874
That outrageous performance Of the
Louisiana conservatives don't seem to have
affected Mr.. Kellogg nearly as much as it
did Mr.. Frye. The former gentleman tele-
graphed to Mr.. Wheeler, last Tuesday "AIl
working well better feeling prevailing than
at any time since the war" Simultaneous
ly, we get news that he has commissioned
number of conservative officials 10 the vari-
GUS parishes who were counted out by the
returning board. We shall probably hear,
in few days, that he has been bought up
by the banditti,-SprinGfea Republican.
Thomas Morrison, repairer of mail bags
at ST. Louis, whose contract was recently
abrogated because Of the frauds he had been
practicing went to Washington last week, to
prove his innocence and reinstate himself in
the postmaster. generals favor, but was some
what discounted upon being shown sworn
afhdavits Of every workman in his employ, to
the effect that he had given them orders to
mutilate good bags, so that he might have
repairing at an excessive cost and on being
further informed that, If he would return to
st. Louis, the department would order his
arrest aud afford him an opportunity to es-
tablish the ialsity Of the charges in court
of Justice, he wisely concluded he was sick of
St. Louis and the mail bag repairing busi-
ness, any way, and wouldn't bother the de-
partment further.
MAINE.
The republican state convention will be
held at Portland, june Is.
The latest proposed centennial celebration
is at Portland, in commemoration Of o
fight between boats crew of British
schooner and party of militia in ITS, neal
the present site of Fort Perbe, and it il
proposed to incorporate in tho celebration
: the bi-centennial anniversary Of battle be-
: tween whites and Indians 10 the same spot
in 1875.
An interesting case has just been decided
in the Maine courts, in which tho question O
Spirituaism is involved. A Topsham wo
; man left will doing up her estate in trus.
/ teesbip, and giving only small annuities t.
her daughter, who was married 10 a mar
= whom she believed to be possessed by malig
nant spirit. The will was made, as she said
c in accordance with the advice of her dead
husband, and her daughter tried to set /
y aside as having been made under undue in
fuences, aud while the testatrix was Of un
sound mind. The jury, however, alloweC
the will 10 stand.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
$ Large fires are raging in the woods nsa
b Manchester, doing much damage.
~ ~ Thomson q waalfhv a. rnnar 90 Kanns