Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08
GENERAL NEWS LIENS


Twenty-one of the thirty.oight States elect
Governors this fall.
The losses by the fire in San Francisco on
Aug. 2Sth, will aggregate sTS0,O00. Eighty.
eight buildings we're burned.
The sentence of jesse Pomeroy, the Bos-
ton boy fend, has been committed TO impris-
onment for life.
Harvard college has received an anony-
nous gift Of Sl2,375,62, for tho use of the
college.
The international chess tourney at Phila-
delphia closed Thursday. Mason wins the
first prize, Judd the second, Bird the third +,
Elson andDavidson divide the fourth and
fifth prizes, and Roberts wins the sixth.
The Mayor of Philadelphia, the Centen.
NAL Commissioners, Gov. Hartranft., and
the invited guests disposed Of 1,200 quart
bottles Of champagne at the opening Of the
Municipal Building on the Centennial
grounds.
Another man is making the attempt to
cross the Atlantic in small boat, Charles
Madison, who started from New York for
London, and was found by ship to be all
right when 80 days out. His boats dimen-
slons are, length 10 feet, beam feet depth
10 inches.
A Nebraska gentleman asks us to insert
an advertisement and take our pay in grass.
hoppers preserved in alcohol. We must re-
specially decline. Dead grass-hoppers will
not be accepted as security at the bank, and
alcohol Is equally useless in temperance
State like Maine.-PreSS.
We have 100000 farmers 100000
trade people, 100000 mechanics, $780,
600 professional men, $4,000 clergymen 40
600 lawyers, 1913, 500 teachers, $4,000 doc.
tors, 1900 actors, 6,200 journalists, l,900,-
900 laborers, $4,000 domestic servants.
O'Brien's aud Forepnugh's circuscs pitched
tents at Marysvile, Ohio, on the same day,
and the rivalry was exciting. Prices of ad-
mission were reduced to five and ten cents,
and, in the street parades. a man stood on
the top Of each animal cage, shouting the
merits Of the show to which he was attached
Press Palmer, city marshal of Lewlsburgh,
| Ohio, was shot and instantly killed Thurs
day night by N. A. Wireman. The latters
wife confessed to her husband lately that
she had been having criminal intercourse
with Palmer, and Wireman shot him at
sight. The murderer is now in Jail.
The aggregate receipts for internal revenue
for the fiscal year ending June so, 1876,
were Sl10,717.7S0 OF this amount Hi.
nois contributed S23.730 ,694, or over one
fifth Of the entire amount; Massachusetts,
S2,752,2l5; Maine, $3.50 New Hamp-
shire, s260,26l Vermont, S47,125 ;
Rhode Island, S222,672.
A persistent effort is being made to SC.
cure the division Of California into two
States, The proposed division is on tho
line of Santa Cruz county, giving fourteen
counties in the south for the new State, with
10000 vcters and hundred millions taxa
Bile property. Los Angeles is mentioned
for the capital 1t is said that several prom.
inent citizens of San Francisco have moved
south to further the project.
A prize fight took place, Thursday be-
tween Weldon and Walker, two pugilists
Philadelphia, near Peunsvie, and after
sixty-two rounds Weldon was declared the
winner That night, the police while search
ing for the principals in the fight, discovered
the dead body Of Walker at Salt wharf,
Greenpoint. The body presents horrid
sight, the face and neck being battered and
swollen out of oil proportion.
The debt statement for August reports a
reduction of the net debt during the month
by SO, l19, 1859 this effect is reached part
ly by contraction Of the debt bearing no in.
terest, and partly by increase of the cash in
the treasury. The legal.tenders stand strict.
ly where they did a month ago, at $780,
100000. The fractional currency has shrunk
to S3l $50 900, reduction of about n mill.
ion and half. Otherwise there are no
changes to speak of.
The Concord Monitor states that upon a
post norton examination of the body Of u
German who died recently at Plainfeld, the
principal Internal organs were found to be
in n reversed position, the heart on the Eight
side and liver on the left. He was man
OF immense physical development, and with
the strength Of Ave ordinary men. His health
was unexpectionably good, until near the
close of his life, and he finally died ofdisease
of the heart.
jenkins has learned that girl at Saratoga
"can saddle horse and ride him, harness a
team and drive it, swim and shoot, and is,
perhaps, the best croquet player in the coun.
try. She is good billiard player, and agile
and active as professional gymnast." AS
to her mental accomplishments, "she can
speak French, German, and Italian; she can
sing well, and play the piano and harp ad.
mirabIy. She has comprehensive acquain-
lance with English literature, and a know.
edge of the higher mathematics"
There are now in the State of New York
alone nearly 1000 cheese manufactures,
which use the milk of more than 100000
COWS making therefrom S0,000,000 pounds
of cheese which is 1000 pounds
for every three cows. The cheese production
Of the whole United States, is over 250,-
100000 pounds, of which 96,000,000 are
exported. England scarcely exports 25,-
600, 900, while little Holland, which used to
to be the principal cheeso-producing country
in the world, exports at present 6O,000,O00
pounds.
There is native dog in Newfoundland
now l6 years old. He is gray, and his fangs
have fallen out but he is provided with a
coay kennel and food that does not need
much mastication. Around his neck is
glazed collar bearing three medals, one of
silver and two of gold. One of the latter is
from the Royal Humane Society Of England,
the other is the gift of an American captain,
and the silver medal is from former Mother
Superior of st. Michaels Convent in St.
johns. All three testimonials are in rec
ognition of the animals sagacity in saving
lives.
Chicago is in rebellion against gas extor-
ton. The city has shut down on the gas
companies, notifying them that after the LIST
Of September it will pay only $3.50 per
thousand feet if it is not furnished at
that rate by some company then tho jets
are to become lamps again and are to be
supplied with "kerosene, whale oil, or
other illuminating agency" The companies