Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-26
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Four men we're killed by powder explo.
sion Saturday morning at Wilmington, Del.
The Ancient Order Of Hibernians is under
the ban of the Catholic church in New York.
The president talks of taking trip round
the world when he gets through at the White
| House.
The American Minister at Constantinople
has telegraphed for a naval force to protect
Americans from the Moslens.
The venerable Peter Cooper declines the
greenback nomination for president on &C.
count Of his age. He is 81.
JEFF Davis, accompanied by his wife and
youngest daughter, sailed from New Orleans
for Europe on Saturday.
1t is expected that the expenses of the trip
Of the Prince Of Wales will not exceed the
100000 appropriated.
The Atlantic and Pacific telegraph lines
reduced rates 10 to Is per cent more, Mon.
day. Aud the Western Union follows suit.
1t is alleged that Swedish woman who
lived on Smutty Nose Island has confessed
on her death bed to numbering the two
women for which Louis Wagner was hanged.
Commercial travellers will not be likely TO
trouble the merchants Of British Columbia,
tax Of 5000 per annum having been levied
upon that class
Some San Francisco people propose to
charter several clipper ships, and offer
strong inducements in the way Of low fare or
no fare at all, for the Chinese to return to
China.
1t is alleged that the managers of the
direct cable have positive evidence that the
line was maliciously cut or broken in four
different places
They have law in Pennsylvania which AL
lows a man to be locked up for ninety days
on suspicion of being thief or pickpocket.
1t is having very salutary effect.
Charleston, S. c., is making great prepare
tions for the celebration Of the Fort Moultrie
centennial on the 28th Of June, and il prom
ises TO be as much Of q success as the
Bunker Hill anniversary of year ago.
Rev. Nathan z. Foster, who died at New
London, Conn.,, recently, was rather eccentric
and used the upholstery Of his sofa as bank
Of deposit for s2l00 in railroad bonds, and
schedule of his property shows that all
his hiding places have not yet been disCOv.
cred.
Captain McNeeley and his Texas rangers
had fight with cattle thieves, as they were
in the act of crossing the Rio Grande with
cattle, on the 18th inst. He killed two and
wounded one Of the thieves, and recaptured
some horses and cattle.
The widows Of the consuls assassinated in
the riot at Salonica are TO receive as indem.
nifty from the porte the sum Of 100000.
1t is rumored that the sultan has caused the
arrest Of several princes of the imperial
family on suspicion of conspiracy.
A private fair in aid of the Catholic char
ity held in Baltimore, last week, realized
nearly $4,000 in two days One man gave
$4,000 for an afghan, and another $4,000
for an album containing the portraits of the
prettiest young ladies in Baltimore.
A New York girl is trying to collect
million delaced postage stamps before the LIST
OF July, on the promise that if she succeeds,
a rich old fellow will settle an annuity upon
her sufficient to support her for life. She
has nearly 100000 SO far.
A Paris woman has perfected a new
method Of picking pockets. She enters an
omnibus with a very pretty aud beautifully
dressed baby, seats herself close to the like
lest passengers, aud works under cover Of
the baby's ample drapery. After succeeding,
she pinches the baby 80 that II cries fear
fully, and leaves the omnibus suddenly 10
buy candy for it,
An Extraordinary suicide, even for a
Frenchman, is related by the French Jour.
nal de Chatoaubriant. A well.to.do- farmer
got up at two in the morning, went to the
bake-house, filled one side Of the oven with
wood, lit ii, and laid himself down length.
wise on the right side, facing the wall.
When discovered the upper part Of his body
was roasted the lower limbs we're uninjured,
being outside OF the oven.