Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-22
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

was $50 square miles in area is now small
pond, and fast dwindling.
The president of Dartmouth College re-
fuses to permit Theodore Tiltou to lecture
before the students who had engaged him.
ooh! my prophetic soul My Uncle"
Tweed's fear OF Mast is justified. II was by
n caricature that the Spaniards recognized
the Boss.
The largest sea turtle ever seen on the
northern coast has just been caught in the
Vineyard Sound, near Woods Hole. 1t
weighs nine hundred pounds.
1t is reported at the state department that
upon the return Of Secretary Fish negoti.
aiions will be Immediately begun for new
extradition treaty with Great Britain.
Winslow is reported as looking about Lon
don in search Of situation in vain. If he
had only come back to Boston he could have
had one right away, and a permanent one,
too.
A party of three hundred good cooks, and
FIVE hundred house girls, all English servants,
visiting the Centennial, have been induced to
settle in Richmond, Va, where steady en-
ployment is guaranteed.
There are signs of intellectual life in
China. Tho Shanghai Debating society is to
be reorganized, with spiritualism, free trade,
evolution, Shangtiology, and New-Shakes-
pearianism as favorite topics
Gov. Seymour having positively declined
the nomination for Governor Of New York,
another convention was called and Louis
Robinson, after an informal ballot was nomi.
mated by reclamation.
The great dismal swamp in Virginia is on
fire. More than two thousand acres are
now burning over, destroying timber and
doing great damage to the land the surface
of which is rich vegetable deposit several feet
deep.
A London woman with a baby in her arms
provoked her husband so that he SHE'D knife
her. 1t killed the baby, entering two in.
ches deep into the head. The jury acquit-
ted the father by rendering a verdict of
Accidental DEATH" and severely repri-
manded the mother for having aggravated
her husband.
Hard times check European immigration
to the East hard treatment Asiatic immi-
grafton in the West Ambitious foreign
workmen also return home and the perse-
cuted Asiatic laborer gladly joins the COM
pany Of those whose departure forces the
American to do his own work. During the
Sonth of August there were 474 more Chi
nese and japanese who sailed from San Fran
cisco than arrived.
1t now appears that the Centennial build
iDgs at Philadelphia were for more than
month exposed to the danger Of fearful ex-
plcsion, several bottles Of nitro-g ycerine,
dynamite aud other powerful explosives hav-
ing been placed on exhibition in glass case
in the u. 5. building by an officer Of the
torpedo station at Newport, Il. |. Any
slight accident might nave set these tremen-
dous compounds going, and the result would
be fearful to contemplate. On representa-
ton at Washington they were ordered to be
removed.
A fatal explosion occurred at the War
rem powder mills, Rockland, Me, Wednes-
day morning. Lyman Banner, one Of the
workmen, was engaged in the wheel mill
cleaning the wheel, and it is supposed the
explosion was caused by copper hammer
which he had been using. The wheel mill
and another connected with it were totally
destroyed and third building shattered.
Benner was blown under the wheel and in.
stantly killed. Another workman who was
engaged in sweeping on the floor about where
Benner was at work, was blown into the
river. lie is still living, but is thought to
be fatally injured. ..
There has been considerable export Of
low-grade butter to England this summer,
but this trade seems to come up much more
slowly than the cheese export. The latter
amounted in 1875 to over l00,000,O00
pounds in 1876 (year ending June 3O) to
97,676,000 pounds, thus becoming the third
export staple in the line of provisions bacon
and lard exceeding it. The expectation Of
cheese now exceeds its former highest point
lin 1860, but that Of butter, which then
amounted to about 100000 year,
suddenly fell off, perhaps from the repeal of
the Canadian reciprocity treaty, and has
never recovered. During all the years Of war,
the expectation Of both butteT and cheese was
large.
The sensation Of the week, perhaps of the
month, at Washington, will be the trial of
Gen. Babcock, Dick Harrington, Col. Whit
ley, Nottleship, Somervile, Miles, (alias
Bliss, alias Wiliams) and Brown (alias Ben
toni for conspraey-the old "safe burglary"
affair. The case is to be called in the Grim
inal court of the District, Tuesday. Gen.
Babcock will be defended by Cook, the
Washington criminal lawyer who helped in
the St. Louis case, and by Judge Fullerton
of New York. 1t is supposed that Whitley
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first endeavor of the defence will be to
break down his testimony. Also that the
theory Of tho defence will be, the so.called
burglary was nothing more serious than an
elaborate practical joke; and that this view
of the case is showed by the lawyers for the
government. Whether this is true or not
the probability of any Washington jury con-
victing Gen. Babcock is not great enough to
cause his friends any anxiety on his account
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
A gang of lightning rod swindlers have
been operating among the farmers OF Milford
aud other towns in that section Of New
Hampshire.
A Mrs. Foster aud her daughter Hannah
were killed at East Concord station, last
week Wednesday evening. They were driv.
ing across the track, aud were so intent upon
the passenger train, just passed, that they
did not heed the whistle and ring of a spare
engine that followed and were run over.
Mrs Foster was instantly killed, but the
daughter, with both legs gone and arm and
shoulder broken, lived some time in such
agony that she begged the physician to kill
her. Mrs. Fosters husband died last July,