Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-05
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

IL IL DelltNeu tnuJ lne ueleghIeS
are generally in favor Of Tilden.
Mr.. Moody had 5000 persons at his open
air meeting last week at Augusta, Ga.
The California Republican delegates TO
Cincinnati will make James G. Blaine their
6rst choice.
The general NJ. Il. Conference is in SEES.
sion at Baltimore, Md, while the African
brethren are convened at Allan ia, Ga.
Judge Davis is having l776 white oak
trees set out around his residence in Bloom.
ington, ILL.,, all on account Of the centennial.
Fever is making sad havoc among the
Americans in Rome. Last week nine bod
les we're sent to Leghorn To await transpor-
tation to the United States.
The newly discovered fields of iron ore in
the south Of Russia are said to be very rich
They are estimated to contain 90,000,000
tons of ore. A railway is to be constructed
to the mines.
Prof. Proctor's last appalling announce.
ment is that a comet may rush out of dark
space any day, right for our sun, and if it
strikes him fair, the heat will suddenly
wither up this little globe of ours like
Gran berry in a furnace.
The public debt statement shows q reduct.
ion Of S2,7Sl ,lSl for April coin balance,
ST., 60j,4 2S; currency balance, s5,l6l,-
1856 special deposit held for the redemption
of certificates OF deposit, 1885, 900; out
standing legal tenders, S370,527.S7.
A negro named Ben Greer of Clear
Springs, Ky, was married few weeks ago,
ut the age of lib years, to 4 woman 90
years, his junior. His age is attested by a
bill of sale given by his old master, James
Greer. He is still smart enough to cut and
split hundred rails day.
Capt. Boynton, the celebrated swimmer
and llie.saving suit inventor, started, Satur-
day. from New York, for a trip around the
world, intending to give exhibitions of his
lte.saving suit along the rout, in Mediter-
ranean ports, India, China, Japan and Aus
tralia. He gives himself three years for
the trip.
Minnesota has no state building at the
centennial, but the city of Minneapolis pluck
lily built one and shipped it, last week, to
Philadelphia. She will exhibit the prem
ium -four, as handsome blankets as were ever
made ia this country, plows, carriages, and
cutters. Twenty-Five years ago, the city
was an Indian reservation.
The Montreal Witness says that the grave
of Joseph Guibord already wears a look Of
neglect. 1t is depressed several inches, as
though the earth had settled after the excava.
ton had been filled in, and no headstone or
monument marks the spot. Near by are the
pieces of Nine. Guibord's cross, splintered,
muddy, aud well whitfield by curiosity hunt.
| ers
A newspaper lightning calculator says
that the proposition Of Senator Hamlin, that
postage on thrd.cass matter be gagged ac-
cording to distance, would require that each
one of the SO 600 post-ofices keep a table Of
distances. The preparation Of these tables
would require the work of 100 men for
seventy.threc years aud the volumes Of dis
tance-tables, when prepared, would number
>, 100000, of 300 pages each.
Owing to the financial depression, the in-
come OF Amherst College will be seriously
diminished this year. The Hitchcock fund
of 100000, the Income of which is devoted
to scholarships aud prolessorships, will be
reproductive this year. The fund Is inves.
ted in Ogdensbug and LamoIe Valley Rail.
road bonds, which have passed two divi-
dends. As consequence about fifty stud
ents who were recipients Of scholarships Of
800 each from this fund, are greatly en-
barrassed, and some fear they must leave
the college.
Though Dolau, the murderer Of Noe, who
was finally executed, persisted to the last in
declaring his innocence, it has leaked out
since the hanging that he made an inadver.
tent but conclusive confession Of his guilt, a
few days ago. He had been reading in one
of the newspapers what purported to be a
true story of the murder, and in moment
of abstraction, said, in the hearing of sew
era of the keepers, THAT is not true. |
did not strike Noe before he came down the
steps" Then shuddered, appealingly glanced
at the prison officers, and said, "For Gods
sake, don't repeat what l said,"-which they
did not do till he was dead.
The twenty-cent piece is a feature Of the
new circulating medium which will prove a
novelty. This coin was authorized by the
act of March 81, 1875, and has never APP
peared in public except in rare instances,
when it has been an object OF great curios'
ity. Its weight is five grains, and it is a
legal tender at its nominal value for any
amount not exceeding five dollars in any
one payment. 1t is nearly az large as u
quarter, and is just like it except the figures
denOting the denomination, and is smooth
instead of milled edge; the latter renders
it easily distinguishable by the touch, though
at the first glance it could easily be mis-
taken for The quarter.
The dates appointed for special agricul.
tural displays during the centennial exhibit.
ion are sufficiently important and interesting
to our readers to justify us in giving them il
detail. Theyare stated as follows in the
official circular Pathological Products and
Vegetables, May III to "a Strawberries
June to 49, Early Grass Butter and
Cheese, June 10 to II Early Summer Veg
etables, June 20 to ~ Honey, June 20 10
"a Raspberries and Blackberries. July tC
Southern Pathological Products, July Is
to ~ Melons, August - to 26; Peaches
September to o; Northern Pomologica
Products, September IL to l6; Autumn
Vegetables, September 10 to %; Cereals
September 25 to 30 Potatoes and Feeding
Roots, October to 7 Autumn Butter and
Cheese, October II to 81 Nuts, October
% to November Autumn Honey and
Wax, October 23 to November Moving
Machines, Tedders and Hay Rakes, June Ii
, to 80; Reaping Machines, July to Is
Horses, September ! to IL; Dogs, Septem
Der TO 8 Neat Cattle, September II Il
October 4 Sheen, October 10 to Is Swine
October 10 to 10; Poultry, October " Il
} November 6. BY preserving this list fol
, reference, those Of our readers who are inter
ested in one or more special displays of agri
cultural products, stock or implements cal
SO time their visit to the exhibition as to b,
/ in philadelphia nj tho date designated il