Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-07-16
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The BURBERRY crop promises to be excel
lent in quality and quantity.
A desperate attempt to rob an express car
liza railroad, last Thursday night Two
robbers jumped on the engine. at a
way station, killed the engineer, cut
the engine and express car loose and
drove ahead mile or two, where they un-
dertook to enter the express car, but the
messenger barricaded the doors and kept the
robbers at bay until help arrived.
A man at Kingston, N Y, was 80 badly
bitten by stallion that he died the next
day.
Letter boxes are to be placed on stree t
cars in Cincinnati.
AT two engagements between the Spanish
troops and the insurgents, in Cuba, on the
18th ult., % insurgents were killed. The
loss Of Spaniards was small
President Grant has become the happy
grandfather of a little lOi pound English
man.
The new postal card is to be ready about
the middle Of August. 1t is to be printed
in black.
A Canadian exchange says: 1t has been
discovered that, during the races at Mutch.
more park, $50 kegs of gunpOwder were
stored away under the grand stand. Only
a thin board partition, full Of holes, divided
the powder from the smoking room. If a
lighted cigar had got among those kegs,
there wouldn't have been Mutchmore racing
done that day.
The cash vault of the treasury at w ash
ington requires three keys to open it, and
these are in charge of three gentlemen, each
holding one key, and the presence Of all is
necessary to unlock the vault. The secre-
tary Of the treasury appoints one, the treas
urer one, and the bureau Of engraving aud
printing one.
An alligator put an embargo on a II lorida
steamer the other night by jumping upon one
of the padde.wheels, and causing general
smash.up of the paddle-box and things.
The amount of ice required daily to keep
Washington cool is 325 tons.
Some of the leading capitalists of Califor-
MIA have Just formed corporation, called
the national telegraph company, for the con-
struction of telegraph lines between New
York aud San Francisco and other cities of
the Union and IN Canada The capital is
S25 600 900, and the estimated length Of
the lines 10000 miles.
An iron mountain, riyaling its Missouri
namesake. has been discovered go miles
north of Duluth, MINI. 1t is eight miles
long, one aud half miles wide, and 1900
feet above the level of Lake Superior.
The sale of the st. Joseph and Denver
railroad has been ordered by the United
States district court of Nebraska, at the ia.
stance of the Farmers loan and trust COM
pany.
Passenger fares from Chicago to New
York are down to SIS.
State Auditor Clinton of Louisiana puts
the entire bonded aud floating debt at S2l,
900, 100 state taxation, Sl4500 900 T;
yearly expenses of the government, SO, 222,
900. The committee of experts who have
examined the auditors books report sch emes
aud Jobs TO the amount Of 81, 900, 600 in
which such republican officials as ex.Speak er
Lowell, State Senator Hearwig and Con-
gresham Frank Morey are implicated.
A movement has been inaugurated in
Washington to establish a newspaper to be
conducted solely by colored people.
The basis Of the settlement between Ian.
dis and Carruth, the Vineland IN. J.)
shooter and shootee is that Lands shall pay
all the expenses growing out of the shooting,
aud Oarruth shall bring no suit against him,
but the district attorney may interfere with
this program by bringing lands into court,
that is, if he can fnd him, for he has left
Vineland.
MAINE.
There was a severe thunder storm at
Portland, Saturday morning. Several church.
es were struck by lightning and slightly
damaged.
The sheriff's officers had hard work to
hand-cuff Wagner, the Isle Of Shoals muir
derer Just before his execution, he having
sworn to kill any man who should enter his
cell, aud they had TO draw him to the
gratings with two boat.hooks while the
sheriff pinioned him.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Lebanon has had but three town clerks
since 1902. Stephen KendriOk served "a
years, Timothy Kendrick 3S years, aud Ed
ward j. Durant, the present incumbent, Is
just completing his 18th year.
Mrs. Margaret Evans Of Concord cele