Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-01

ity, even in dog. A certain st. Lawrence
county IN. Y boy cant go in swimming
without being at once seized and dragged
ashore by his devoted Newfoundland.
The shipments of fresh beef to England
by steamers in retrigerators continue unex-
pectedy successful, the meat arriving 10 good
condition, fresh and tender as if killed two
days before. The English cattle merchants
are amazed. The American beef was bought
up at less than half the price charged for
English beef.
Don Carlos made an application to the
police for protection against band OF or
ganized and armed men who were in the
habit of following him, and suspected OF
being agents of the Spanish Government.
Tha request was acceded to, and persons
annoying him in the future will be arrested.
The Prince evidently suspects an attempt at
assassination.
| An old popcorn peddler named Emery,
at Old Orchard, Mass, was so much
chagrined at losing his basket through viola
ting the camp.ground rules that he crawled
under locomotive, and put his neck on the
rail close to the wheel, cinging so persistenty
that several men had hard work to get him
out.
What is the difference between happy
death and SANKEY'S body servant You see
it, Of course. One is euthanasia, and the
other is a youth in Africa. -[Graphic. Why
is the author of that conundrum like Sir
Samuel Baker or the dscoverer ofpetroleum
Give it up. Because he's seen Nile
Inter. Ocean.
William Richards, for many years a miner
in the Hoosac tunnel, lost his footing while
at work In the central shaft, last week, and
fell a distance Of Al feet to the floor of the
tunnel, striking upon the rocks or the rail,
and his skull was shattered and muthated
horribly. lie breathed nearly an hour and
a half aiterward. lie was very estimabe,
steady and skillIul man, and leaves wife
and two young children.
A young man who was engaged to be
married recently committed suicide in Gin
cinati and the mother of the damsel whom
he was to wed brought in bill agaisst his
estate Of SIPS for board, and $50 for we'd
ding expenses incurred by the prospective
bride. The court allowed 800 of the ac-
count, and the matter was finally settled BY
, the payment of SS5.
. Six more of the Molly Maguires have been
convicted as abettors OF murderer. They
had participated in council which formally
made an award of $500 to mau who had
, killed poor fellow because he had been sus-
pected OF killing an lrishman, though he had
. been acquitted by a court The Ancient
order Of Hibernians in New York city and
elsewhere is accused Of countenancng thi,
D sort Of proceedings.
I Ex.Door keeper Ftzhugh's famous team
b. has been the cause of still further trouble
5 When that worthy was removed from thC
5 House doorkeepership two Of his subor
0 dinates organized joint stock company fol
:. the ownership of his carriage and horses
:, with shares at So each they then bought
c in the stock at fifty cents on the dollar, solo
c the team at a handsome profit aud peckcted
C the proceeds
e 1t appears that the projectors Of tunnel
: under the English Channel to connect Eng
IT land and France are really in earnest about
d this seemingly almost impossible undertaking
@ A London despatch Thursday states that thu
d English surroundings for the tunnel will b.
d finished by the last of this month, aud tn
" engineers report the results very satisfactory
II What will be the next great scheme t
= startlc the increduous and mark mile
l. stone in the progress of the world?
d Three jesse Pomeroys at Genn's Falls
y N. Y recently enticel another boy into tn
\ woods on the pretence Of going fishing
"a and when they got him there tied him to
vs. tree, and then gathering leaves aud placn
nd Fat -
= small boy who started to give an alarm wa
III knocked down and beaten SO that he dare
i not go, but larger boy ran for help, an,
IS meeting man the victim of lieudish cruet
a was quickly liberated, with fee. aud leg
! badly blstered His tormcntors took
light. All the boys were about fourtee
yeats of age, The boy maltreated ha
given offence to the others.
The leading dry goods houses OF Chicag
=. have for several years been buying in EuroI
instead Of New York. A. T. Stewart & G,
,s are to opcn next month, Il huge dry.good
'' house in Chicago, and make straight bi
for the country trade. Their agent, Sabi
d. *. Smith, told n reporter of the Post thu
they "would take a stand from the start
ig though they had been established for to
years in Chicago; there would be no que
OF tons about time, style, credit, or anything
but they wouls continue their trade as the
is had been doing in New York, saying to the
country customers on their way East, "Sto
If right here and get your goods, and save th
journey"
IN Daniel Hannah, aged Il, of Worceste
n Mass, while on his way to that city la
:, week Thursday, got off the train at Dove
~ Plains to relieve his WEAKNESS, and while
~ was standing near the other track freigt
train came along, and before he could eX
y trcate one of his feet from the rail the trai
n ran over it, lie exhibited wonderful ner,
and presence OF mind. Intense az was tn
20 pain he did not alter his upright position
g for to have moved forward would have pr,
ciptated his whole body under the trail
es and to have fallen backwards would ha,
It thrown both legs under the wheels lie su
/. lered the whole train to crush his foot,
order to save the rest of his body. He wa
v. brought to this city, and is now in Bollevu
= Hospital.
q NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The N. IL. state fair will be held at MAJ
n chester October 3, 4, Il 8.
W Mr.. Daniel Barnard of Goffstown con
Of mittod suicide last Friday by cutting h
TO throat with u razor.
, Mount Washington and some of the az
n acent peaks were white with snow on MOI
20 day Aug n.
Mary Lynch, who was arrested for Il
A., murder of the Turney boy at Manchester,
70 70 discharged for lack of evidence, and the cas-
is more mysterious than ever
an The reform clubs of the state are to uni
in an ii days camp-mceting at Lake VIII
O. nipiseogeo, beginning September 4, and Mr.
/. Mary A. Livermore, Wendell Phillip