Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


The monster Piper has confessed to set
ting several fires aud TO other outrages.
Sixty.seven persons we're made members
Of Beecher's church the 7th inst.
Calcutta has a population Of $4,000, &C.
cording to a census just taken.
Rev. DIR. Taylor refuses to be the custo-
dian of Bowen's great secret.
There is a growing disposition to sneer at
the "Great Unknown" as myth.
Beknap has been formally indicted by the
Washington grad jury.
Montreal is to be the next principal OBJ
jective point Of Messrs. Moody and Sankey.
About twenty liquor firms in New York
city have been indicted for frauds on the
! revenue.
California has 100000 acres of wheat
this year, and expects yield of 5O,OOO,OOO
bushels.
1t is thought that the greenback party
will nominate Gen. Butler for the presi-
dency.
The Connecticut democratic legislative
caucus has nominated VIM. II. Barnum for
United States senator. English spent $2l,-
900 to be defeated.
Montreal is infested by lot Of scientific
and scrupulous burglars, who apply chem
ical test to the family plate and reject rig
idly all that is only plated.
DIR. VIM. Hall, the woll-known editor of
Halls Journal Of HEALTH" died suddenly
in New York City last week Wednesday in
ct. His age was sixty.throe.
The head Of the California bandit. Chavez,
for which reward Of s., 600 has been out
standing for some time, has been brought into
San Francisco.
English capitalists are said to have lost
about Eve hundred millions Of dollars in II
mouths in Turkish, Egyptian and Peruvian
securities.
Fitzhugh, the jolly democratic doorkeeper
of the house Of representatives, is likely to
lose his head, Notwithstanding that he is
"biger man than old Grant"
Five miles of the first railway in China
have been completed. 1t lis between Wasung
and Shanghai, and will be fifteen miles long
when finished.
A great physical change has come over
Brigham Young within the past few weeks,
and the doctors think that he cannot live
much longer.
Another scallywag has left Chicago for
Chcago's good. City Collector George Won
Hollern has fed to Canada, after robbing
the city treasury to the tune Of 100000.
1t is said to DO common To see farmers
wives aud daughters at work in the fields in
Pennsylvania, planting corn and potatoes,
or managing q cultivator.
A Southern paper has unearthed the
"Great Unknown" He is 4 business man
who doesn't advertise, and Mr.. Blaine has
no reason to fear him.
Dwight and Davenport, the young ruf6ans
who murdered X. j. Farnsworth in Coleraine
last year, were Tuesday sentenced for life in
the State Prison Of Mass.
Salmon ought to be cheap, this year.
Fine fish weighing Is pounds apiece were
selling at San Francisco for % cents apiece,
q week ago.
TO maintain their hold of Metz the Ger
mans maintain a garrison Of $4,000 men
there, and provisions and war materials suffi-
cent for 10000 men for three years.
A Kemper's Bluff (Tcxasl young man
named Thomas acquired the habit Of tossing
a cooked and loaded pistol 10 the air, and
catching it as it fell The last time he
caught it was Immediately before he died.
Upward of one hundred million posta
cards were used by the public last year
Their entire cost is Sl.395 per thousand,
and they are sold to the public at one cent
each.
The Baltimore Sun recently offered list
of prizes for stories, and the first FIVE prizes
were carried of by female writer's, and only
one, the smallest prize, was awarded to Q
male.
Saturday morning Mayor Cobb Of Boston
received cabegram from London stating
that Winsow the forger, had been further
remanded for ten days at the request of the
government authorities.
At San Francisco, the six Chinese COM
panies have decided to send a dispatch Il
Hong Kong, not to ship any goods on vessels
carrying more than 100 Cinnamon, 30 as to
put check to the Influx Of their country
men.
Last Sunday morning eight children goI
into an old, leaky skif on the Ohio river
near Weary, Indiana, and pushed out into
the stream the skiff sank and FIVE of the
children, all belonging to one family, wer'
drowned.
At l O'Clock Monday a school house at
BOrdeau, p. o. was struck by lightning. The
children were playing in tho yard at the time
and nearly a dozen we're knocked down
One, Thomas Scott, was instantly killed
Six others were seriously injured.
BY railroad accident near Plymouth
Quarry, Connecticut, last week Thursday, q
car filled with exoursionists was precpitated
down 9.ioot embankment into the river
and, strange to say, the worst mishap was a
broken arm.
: A barge of wool left Stockton, Cal, the
other day having the most valuable cargo
that ever left that port, being worth $780,
900 in round numbers. The amount of wool
in the load has been taken from 100000 TO
$50 900 sheep.
. The Great Salt Lake of Utah has been
steadily rising for the past fifteen years, and
the people are afraid that it will submergC
all the lOw-lands and swallow up Hot Spring
lake. Thousands Of acres have already been
! rendered useless.
A second case Of cremation has taken
place at Milan. The remains of SignorH
Anna Pozzi, who died in November last
were burned here, April 20, in the presence
of her husband and few persons represent.
ing the medical faculty, the municipality and
the cremation society.
The Vicksburg (Miss.) Herald Of the 9th
inst. says that Another large slice of the
peninsula went into the river on the previous
morning, carrying trees and shrubbery with
it. The paper expresses q fear that the
ont;ra naIta mill Ia oarr;ad auou hy tha