Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-10-06
GENERAL NEWS.


In the year 1874 there were 69,29 ille-
Ultimate births 10 France.
Dramatic entertainments for the SaVan-
nah sufferers, are all the rage in the South.
According to Adjutant. General Slide,
there are 1913 fugitives from justice in
Texas.
"Zeb" Lockwood was buried 10 a well
near Peekskill, N. Y, last week, and lived
some "a hours, but was dead before he could
be taken out.
The number of admissions to the main ex.
hibition Saturday, the last of the half-fee
Saturdays, was l03,204, and to the live
stock exhibition. 1887.
An Illinois girl couldn't secure a certii.
cate as a school teacher because she couldn't
tell the committee why the hind wheels Of
wagon were the largest.
Gen. Braxtou Bragg, conspicuous on the
wrong side in the late unpleasantness, drop.
ped dead 10 the street, at Galveston, Texas,
last week Wednesday. He was I'll years
old.
Mr.. Frank Harper's famous running horse
Ten Brock, ran four miles lately in the as
tonishing time of seven minutes. fifteen and
three.q quarter seconds. This is the quickest
time on record by more than three seconds.
A special from Nisch to the London
Times reports that the Servians attacked the
Turkish out-posts at the bridge below Trujan
on Friday. The Turks replied with artil.
lery, and after an hours firing the Servians
withdrew.
The thieves OF Philadelphia promise not
to do anything wrong if Mayor Stokcly will
permit them to visit the exhibition. They
desire him to name day. One Of the mum.
Der states they are afraid to Ego there for
fear Of getting 80 days"
This is what they call farming in Georgia !:
MANY country people are selling their eggs
and butter to buy their bacon, aud using the
bacon to feed the hands who make the cot
ton, which is mortgaged to pay for the fer
tilzers used in making it,"
A letter from gentleman in Philadelphia
says there are now 5000 unclaimed and lost
trunks at the Pennsylvania Railroad depot.
800 cars left Jersey City on the 2lst, and
on that night it is estimated that 5000 per.
sons slept in and about the station.
Two revolutionary leaders named Padilla
and Melquiades, Of Mexico, recently agreed
TO settle a difficulty with broad.swords
Padilla severed Melquades' head from the
body by stroke of his sword. A friend of
the headless chief took turn at Padilla
next, killing him on the spot, and all were
happy.
The oyster trade of New York City,
amounts to 100000 annually, a sum
greater than the entire European trade.
Several hundred vessels are engaged bring.
oysters to that market, from Maryland, Del.
aware and Virginia, as we'll as the waters in
the immediate vicinity.
The American barque Norway, put into
Falmouth, England, Sunday, in consequence
of damages received in collision Saturday
night with the barque, Wave Queen, belong.
ing to Shoreham. Ono seaman climed on
board the Norway, aud is the only person
saved from the Wave Queen, which disap.
peared.
The superintendent Of the United States
marine hospital service, has taken all posi-.
BILE precautionary measures against the
spread of yellow fever in the Atlantic coast
ports. Marine hospital surgeons who had
great experience in yellow fever during the
dread season at Shreveport have been order.
ed to Savannah.
The journalists Of Europe are almost
struck dumb by tho calm, Indifferent, demo.
cratic conduct Of Dom Pedro. They observe
with awe that he refused the place of honor
in the St. Petersburg congress of orientalists,
| onI in anmmnnnlaaa chair anR fhau
discuss his condescenson in using the equi.
pages OF the hotels where he lives. and in WIS.,
iting schools and scientific institutions.
A Boston tea firm have adopted the idea
of giving to everyone who purchases anything
at their establishment cup of fine coffee
with rich cream. Another Boston firm,
probably lavorably impressed with the lber-
aIlity Of the 6rst-named firm, and DESTROYS
Of emuating their example, pay their shop
girls SO per week, and then charge them Eve
cents each per week for ice.water.
Saco, Maine, has sensation. A young
man in the U. S. navy came home the 9th.
or day to see his wife, aud found her prepar-
ing to 20 to the Centennial with gay Lo-
thario. He Immediately got some soft coal
BACKED portion of his breast. then pierced
the breast to make it bleed, discharged a
revolver under his arm, aud fell over as il
dead, aud caused great scare in the house.
hold.
The Shah Of Persia, who, since his visit To
Europe, has tried to govern his country on
constitutional principles, has been terribly
disguised by the Sultans reinforcement
f through his ministers. He has ordered that
not more than four ministers shall meet al
each Council, that these shall change month
ly, and, according to the latest accounts, the
Shah has adjourned the meetings Of his
t Council for six months.
J, A red cross badge was agreed upon at the
Geneva International Convention as a dis
tinctive mark for non-combatants who desir
ed to alleviate the horrors Of war by philan'
. thropic labors on the battlefield, and all
. who properly wore such badges were to have
0 free passage everywhere. Of late, however
it has been discovered that masses of Russi'
an officers were travelling through Hungary
under the red cross badge into SeryiA, there
to enter the army as fighting men.
Another horrible murder has been com
4 mitted by the natives Of New Hebrides
) Capt. Anderson Of the labor schooner Lucy
aud Adelaide, and the Government agent
went ashore at the Island Of st. BarthOlO