Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-04-28

3 ~ students, only about fifty remain uncon-
vertod, and these have not entirely escaped
the revival influence.
There is bitter fight going on between
English and Barnum for the United States
Senatorship from Connecticut. They have
both got long purses and It is said are draw
ing on them very freely to secure success.
Barnum is said TO be ahead.
A diver operating in the wreck Of the
steamer Sunnyside 10 the Hudson river be-
came entangled, GO feet under water the
other day, and il was nearly six hours be-
fore he could free himself but though some
what scared, he was unhurt.
Several hundred workmen on the Sudbury
conduit, near Boston, have struck, and are
driving off the new hands engaged to take
their place. They are willing for any one
to 20 to work for $3.50 but swear vengeance
on any and all who work for sl.25.
The potato bug is turning up in equally
devastating quantities on Staten island as
upon Long island. In Richmond county,
the fields where potatoes were grown, last
year, are fairly crawling with the vermiD,
and the farmers hesitate about putting 10
new crop.
1t is authoritatively said in behalf Of
Carl Schurz that under no circumstances
will he support the republican ticket in the
coming presidential campaign, if either
Blaine, Conkling or Morton is nominated
but that he will stump the country against
either of them.
A family of emigrants named Baker,
comprising father mother and two children,
hailing from Pennsylvania, were massacred
by the Indians, last week Thursday, about
100 miles northeast OF Custer City in the
Black hills. All were Drained with hatch
cts or tomahawks aud then scalped.
Tue Moody and Sankey revival meetings
in New York closed the 10Th inst. The
subscriptions to the 5000 900 fund have
only reached s l43,000 The total expen.
ses Of these meetings have been about S45,.
600. Moody and Sankey have not been
paid dollar.
The path to the Black hills isn't all
flowers, as large party who have Just
arrived at Custer City by way Of Yaukton
testify; when 60 miles out from Yankton,
they were forced to leave the coach behind
by reason Of the bad going, shoulder their
packs and foot it into the hills, aud it took
them SO days.
The revolution in Hayti has won. Dom.
Unique, the late president, has fed, Vice.
President Rameau and Lorquet, the general
in command Of the government forces, have
been shot, and Bieron Canal, who was exiled
from the country, is now in Port au Prince,
aud it is presumed will take charge of the
government.
The plague in Asiatic Turkey is on the
increase, aud has crossed to the left bank of
the river Tigris, which had previously es.
capped it. At HilIah, town 60 miles south
of Bagdad, from March % to 81, inclusive,
there were 66 new cases and ~ deaths, and
at Bagdad, from March % to April /, las
new cases and IS deaths.
Thomas w. Piper, condemned to be ex.
ecuted May rs, for the murder of Mabel
Young, in the belfry Of Warren avenue
church, made a sworn statement last Friday
that she received injuries that caused her
death from trap door falling on her head ;
that he was frightened lest he would be &C
cused Of numbering her, and therefore denied
all knowledge of the matter, trusting that
his connection with it would not be dscov.
cred.
Visitors to the centennial are to be regis
tered by telegraph. By an ingenious contrv.
ance every one Of the eighty turnstiles set at
the several entrances Of the grounds will be
connected by wire with dial in the man
office. When person enters through a
turnstile he is simultaneously registered on
this dial. At any instant OF the day. there
fore, it will be possible to know, by glancing
at the dial, the exact number of people who
have entered the grounds.
The cigar-shapcd submerged torpedo pro-
PEELED and exploded by electricity from on
shore, was tested satisfactorily in the Poto.
mac river, last Saturday. 1t is an iron boat
about 20 feet long and 3 in diameter, and
contains motive power sufficient to drive it
two miles. The machinery is controlled by
au electric battery, to which the operator
communicates through a wire which rolls
from reel as the boat moves The opera
tor is able at will to turn the boat in any
direction, stop or back it, or fire the charge
which blows the boat to atoms, and must
certainly destroy the strongest ship afoat.
1t moves under water at such depth that
no shot can reach it, and travels faster than
the swiftest steamer. Officers of the navy
who are familiar with this implement of
warfare say harbor protected by it need
fear no enemy.
Vergennes people are agtating the sub.
ject of having celebration upon the "glori-
Gus fourth"