Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-10
GENERAL NEWS.


died Friday, at Brooklyn. lie was native
Of Boston, aged 20.
A little boy in Milwaukee public school
died of nervous excitement, on receiving q
slight whipping, recently.
Between 1000 and 5000 government
clerks and chiefs of bureaus left Washington
for their homes to vote Tuesday.
The democratic majority Of West Virginia
proves to be between $4,000 and $4,000,
against 2,746 majority for Grant in 1872.
p. T. Barnum estimates that 81, AGA, 900
persons have entered his different shows in
this country and Europe.
The smallpox seems to be dying away in
San Francisco, but severe type Of dipthe-
ria has succeeded it, which is extending over
the State.
The cod fishery in the gulf of St. Law
renee is very unsatisfactory, this year, the
catch being two ffths below the average,
and the smallest known for 80 years.
James Gordon Bennett is reported to have
bet S25, 900 with August Belmont on the
election Of Hayes, the money being deposited
with Drexel, Morgan Il Co.
The population Of Peru is 2.720,735.
This is said to show large decrease, which
is attributed to earthquakes, diseases, civil
war aud brandy, especially the latter.
A boa constructor eight feet long was cap.
tured fortnight ago in the hold Of 4 ship
that arrived at Greenock, Scotland, from the
West Iudies.
st. Louis has new asylum for the refor-
nation of drunkards. 1t is said that the
first patient in a similar institution in Chicago
is now Supreme Court Judge in Wisconsin.
A reward Of $4,000 has been offered fol
the recovery Of Philip Ottmann, the wealthy
New York butcher who has been missing SO
long, and $500 for HE body.
Twenty thousand dollars will be the cost
of one piece in the display of fireworks al
Delhi, upon the occasion of the proclamation
of Queen Victoria US "Empress Of India.
The trade in horses between England anC
Canada is rapidly increasing and promises tC
become of great Importance. They are
found precisely of the stamp desired for use
ful purposes.
Two hundred and sixty .ono miles of new
railway were opened in India in 1875, max
ing the total length Of completed lines 6,497
miles, of which 1876 miles are Of the feet
q inch gauge
The Rev. DR.. Storrs, the Boston journal
says, was offered as gift by New York
millionaire 4 handsome furnished residence
ithe would become paster Of the BricI
Church.
The nickel coins struck in Germany un
der the new law represent q total value o
between ten and eleven millions dollars
This is the maximum figure allowed, anC
minting has been suspended.
And still we get no news Of Tweed. Tn
first date set for his arrival was ten days o
fortnight ago, and the first or middle u
last week was the latest time that his vesse
was expected to appear in New York har
Dor.
A London specia! says q private lette
from Berlin mentions that Bismark's nerv
GUS system is seriously impaired that pa
pers, pamphlets, etc., are denied him anC
insanity is feared.
A Sacramento boy believed that anotbe
boys shotgun was not effective at long range
and as proof allowed himself to be shot q
from certain distance. The entrance Of
handful Of shot into his skin convinced hin
he had been mistaken.
An old resident of Midway, Mass, wa
sent to the poorhouse the other week, on tn
same day that his son laid the foundation {
fine house for his own use in the most arii
tocratic part Of the town.
The farmers of Wyandotte county, Kansas
having been for several mo0ths annoyed b
horse thieves, appointed an exterminatio
day, hanged two Of the culprits, and drov
tho rest out of the region.
Mrs. Hardy's parafine mould trick has agai
been exposed in Boston. An investigate
slyly put coloring matter into the pailful {
parafiiue from which the spirits were suppose
to make the mold, yet the mould came on
as white as usual.
A report from Camp Stambough, wy
ming, says village Of 500 lodges of ShOl
homes was attacked October 80 by a lArg
Sioux war.party, estimated at 1900 lodge
at Painted Rock, about 80 miles from Cam
Stambough. AS far as learned only OF
Shoshone escaped.
Rev. Glendenning Of Jersey City an
Mary Pomeroy notoriety has at last bee
smoked out of the ministry, and returned
the city of his triumph and fall to study Law
Gov. Tlden was registered, Friday, in Il
twenty-third election district of the sixteen
assembly district. He said he lived at N
lis East Twentieth street, had resided
the election district eleven years, in the q
sombly district twenty-three years, aud
the county thirty.seven Year, and was siHt
two years old.