Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-08-11
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Inere were over OO,OVV paying Visltorsto
the Philadelphia Exhibition the day after
the fourth, or more than in any day before.
A Baptist minister in Connecticut got 30
cents last week as a marriage fee. The
bridegroom remarked that times were hard.
The Keely motor has set the machinery
Of the courts in motion. A suit involving
200 shares has just been begun in Phiadel.
phia.
The Pennsylvania railroad and the Adams
Express Co. are delivering New York papers
10 Chicago twelve hours in advance Of the
mail.
The counsel Of Gov. Rice of Massachusetts,
voted Eve to four, Tuesday, against the CON-
mutation of the sentence Of jesse Pomeroy,
the boy murderer,
A tramp, who graduated at Oxford. and
who once lived in California and had 500 900
was tumbled out Of box car near Pittsburg,
a few days ago.
August 9TH, and Congress still in session
That body is eight months old, but it is very
small for its age p. s. II is supposed that
Congress will adjourn on Monday next.
Connecticut won the championship of
American skill last year, having 706 patents
or one to 76l inhabitants. Arkansas is at
the foot Of the class Massachusetts, next to
the head.
New York city had but 744 deaths last
week, or almost 500 less than took place
there a fortnight earlier. The change in
the figures was due to the change in the
weather.
Last Sunday Ii persons set out in boat
to cross Putnam's Pond in Essex County, N.
Y. When near the opposite shore, the boat
was capsized by a sudden squall. Ten of the
thirteen persons were drowned. The bodies
OF all but one were recovered.
VIM. NJ Evarts who was present in the
Senate Chamber during the vote upon inn
parchment, says that in his opinion as a
lawyer the Senators who voted not guilty for
want Of jurisdiction took the only tenable,
and constitutional ground
A railroad disaster 10 Spain has resulted
in law providing that when an accident in
any way chargeabe to the railroad com.
paHy occurs, the company shall pay $4,000
to the family Of each person killed, $1,000
to the family of each person incapacitated,
and s. day to each injured person until
recovery.
There is another effort making to have a
new Territory made,-Pembina. The ex-
tent Of territory certainly more than meets
all possible demands, for it embraces 10000
square miles and the number Of residents
is 10000. So that the usual course is re-
versed in Pembina's case the number Of
square miles to an inhabitant being six.
Great Britain's public debt has been re-.
duced since 1858 from GS39,519 1876 to
9775, 34S, $50, being dimunition Of 964.-
l70,64O. The total amount paid off was,
however, much greater, for in the same Is
years new debt was contracted, amounting
to g2S,656,44l.
A powerful battery was attached to a
sleeping attendant in a Philadelphia hospi-
tai, under the impression that he was an APP
parently dead man whom the physicians
hoped to revive. He writhed and swore so
energetically, on the first application OF cleo.
tricity, that the mistake was Immediately
discovered
President Grant sent message to the
Senate, concerning the Hamburg Massacre,
in which he uses very plain language con-
corning that horrible crime, also con-
corning the not less abominable outrages that
have been perpetrated by the Ku.Klux in
Louisiana and Mississippi
1t was decided to-day that He'll Gate is to
be exploded positively on the afternoon OF
Tuesday, September D. The explosive used
will consist ofnitro glyccrine, dynamite anil
rendrock, $4,000 pounds in all The first,
which will be used in less quantity than any
Of the others, will serve to blast out the
heaviest rocks at the bottom Of the workings.
The postal card mauuiactoryin Springfield
is running ten hours day, turning out about
100000 cards per day, and is $500 900 be-
hind its orders. The number Of cards
printed during the quarter ending July was
$4,000, 900 an increase OF nearly 100000
over the corresponding quarter for 1875.
A we'll executed counterfeit of the new
silver dime has made its appearance. The
figure of goddess of liberty as well as the
lettering aud the foliage on the reverse side,
are exact fac-simies of those on the genuine
coin. On close examination, however, the
counterfeit can easily be distinguished, as
the metal is Of the class of nickel used in
the old three and five cent pieces, and the
coin has not the true and well known Jingle
Of silver.
A New York dentist had lively exper-
fence with Don Carlos, 1t took an unusually
large amount of ether to produce uncon-
seriousness, and after seven teeth had been
extracted, the story goes, Don Carlos grew
delirious, partiafiy regained consciousness,
and began fighting furiously. Two aids and
several assistants were hoored and after he
came to his senses, he concluded TO have the
remaining twelve condemned teeth pulled
without the use of an@sthetics.
There are 40 cotton mills in Georgia, and
they have been in active operation during q
very dull season. Tennessee has taken great
strides in manufacturing, and throughout the
South the drift Of capital is toward industrial
pursuits. The farmers, too, have not only
adapted themselves to free labor, but have
also planted new crops, adopted wiser meth.
DDS of cultivation, introduced improved agri-
cultural implements, and begun to SOW grass
es and raise stock. The South is learning
manufacturing, stock-raising and scientific
farming in the hardest Of hard times, and
scarcely knows whether it is going backward
or forward.
George Powell, hay contractor at Fet
terman, brings the following Tuesday eve.
ming Aug ! about thirty Indians attacked
the wagon train of A. IL. Reed loaded with
government stores for that post, killed and
scalped the master, George Throstler, who
was riding ahead, and wounded teamster
also killed four horses and ten cattle, and
burned three wagons with their contents,
consisting Of -four and bacon. 1t is thought
that the Indians will be very troublesome on
this road the rest of the season. Last FRI
day forty-four horses were run of by
them from Horse Shoe and Cottonwood
creeks.
Smugger, the great trotter and winner at