Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-09
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Belknap Will not be tried until Novom Der.
Both Vanderbilt and Drew are improving
in health.
Maine expects an unusually big hay crop
this year.
Judge Pierrepont will leave New York
for England on the 22d Of June.
Judge Taft, the new attorney general, is
an accomplished shorthand writer.
Peter Cooper will be "a years old when
he completes his second presidential term.
Think Of it.
The executors of Carruth's estate in Vine-
land have sued Lands, who shot him, for
$50, 900 damages.
Brigham YouDg's wives arc down with the
measles Number Of wives and number Of
measles not stated.
j. q. Aver, patent medicine manufacturer
Of Lowell, was sent to the Insane asylum in
New Jersey, last week.
1t is stated that there is great depression
Of cotton manufactures in England. Prices
are lower than for 40 years.
1t is now confidently expected that through
trains will be running from Boston TO Troy
in July, by way of the Hoosac tunnel.
The ex-Sultan Abdul Aziz committed sui
eide last Sunday morning by opening the
veins of his arms with pair Of scissors.
The coordination" coal mining companies
have stopped work from June LIST to Aug.
ust lst. This throws 10000 people out Of
work.
1t is stated that the litigation over the
right Of English Wesleyan ministers to the
title of reverend" has cost the body the sum
of $4,000.
King Victor Emanuel has accepted the
honorary presidency Of the Philadel phia
committee for the erection of \ statue Of
| Columbus.
Dartmouth college, finding it impossible
to raise funds to pay the expenses, it is now
settled that the college will not send crew
TO Saratoga.
A party Of 40 Cinciunatiaus on their way
to the Black Hills were cut of from their
train, killed and scalped by several hun
dred indians.
The portrait of Samuel Adams, which is
to be sent to the national GALAXY at Washing
ton by tue state Of Massachusetts is now
due at Boston from Italy.
Mehemet Murad, the new emperor of
Turkey, was married few years ago to a
beautiful Circassian slave, who was pur.
chased for the sum Of $4,000.
The British government is backing and
filling strangely in the Winslow matter.
He was again remauded TO prison last week
Wednesday until the 18th inst.
President Grant has received a telegram
informing him of the death Of his grandchild
at London, on the second anniversary Of the
marriage of her mother, Mrs. Sartoris, at
the White House.
Preliminary work on the Channel tunnel,
TO connect England and France, has been
commenced. At Langattc, France, shafts
have been sunk to q depth Of 40 metres
lover 1870 feet) below the sea.
The coinage for the first ten months Of the
fiscal year was about s14,750 900, of which
So, 100000 was in subsidiary silver. Dur
ing the past month, additional silver change
was coined to the amount Of S2,l90,0O0.
While a salute was firing in Union Square,
New York, Decoration Day a mirror was
shaken from its frame in Tifany's establish
ment, and falling upon some valuable goods
in the ceramic department, caused a loss Of
81, 400.
A great revival is in progress among the
Pennsylvania railroad men in Jersey City.
Their reading room, which was donated by
the railroad company has been stocked with
religious publications, and prayer meetings
are held twice week.
Free.Trade journals, which have been try.
ing to work themselves into excitement over
Mr.. Morrison's Tariff bill, have just discov-
cred that it doesn't stand ghost Of chance
Of passage, and are thereupon moralising in
subdued and saddened strain.
James Bailey OF Brooklyn, for himself
and various other blood relatives Of A. T.
Stewart, have instituted proceedings to con-
test the will on the ground that Mr.. Stewart
was improperly and unduly influenced by
Judge Hilton in making his will.
A new cookbook, centenaially named
"'76," issued by the ladies Of Plymouth
Church, Des Moines, Iowa, puts this bit Of
mosaic in its title.page "Al the labor Of
man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite il
not filled. Solomon. what say you to q
piece of beef and mustard ?"-Shakespeare
In Paris the American residents are pre-
pairing TO celebrate the centennial with due
honor. They purpose also to commemorate
the event by placing 4 marble slab, appro
priately inscribed, upon the tomb of Lafay
cite. The patriotic feeling thus evinced can
not fail to excite generous rivalry amosg
Americans elsewhere in Europe.
The water tank on the top of St. George.
hospital at New York, gave way Saturday
morning, aud thousands Of gallons of water
crashed down through the wards underneath,
carrying the patients 10 their beds before it,
tearing OutIths walls and deluging the entire
building. Several patients were killed aud
many were seriously injured. The building
was badly wrecked.
A teapot called the Glider Brewster Tea
pot" and purporting to have come over in
the MayhOwer, was sold ia New York few
days since for fhy.fve dollars. The pur-
chaser was very much pleased to learn
shortly after buying it that an English man-
ufacturer was engaged in supplying the do
mand for this particular teapot at forty dol
lars apiece and that all the first families"
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