Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-04-14
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

rapidly.
The army headquarters are being trans.
ferred to Washington.
Secretary Fish has demanded the unoon-
ditioual surrender OF Winslow.
The tariff bill has been completed. Tea
and coffee remain on the free list.
The English revsers of tho Old Testament
have reached the torty-iourth chapter Of
Jeremiah.
The queen has presented Disraeli with a
portrait of herself painted in oil by a German
artist.
The merchants aud bankers of New York
are preparing reception for Dom Pedro of
Brazil.
DIR. Mudd, who set the shattered leg Of
j. Wilkes Booth, has been elected to the
Maryland senate as = republican.
A. T. Stewart died at his residence on 34th
street and 9th Avenue N. Y, Monday after
noon from inflammation Of the bowels.
The instantaneous" census Of Philadel.
phia, taken by the police, last Saturday,
gives the city population of Sl7 AIS.
South Hadley had $4,000 fire on
Sunday recently, and 800 seminary girls
stood in the lines and passed water to the
engines.
A bill is to be reported in congress divid.
ing the territory of Dakota and creating the
territory Of Pembiua out of the northern
half Of it.
A note addressed to Horace Greeley was
received at the Tribune office, the other day
1t is needless to say that it contained a re-
quest for money.
The japanese centennial commissioners
forty-oue in number, have arrived. The
japanese contribution to the centennial will
be 400 tons of goods.
The Rhode Island election resulted in no
choice for governor Hppitt, representative
having S,2l2. Howard, prohibition, 6,627,
and Beach, democrat 3,t72 votes.
Thomas McNulta of Santa Barbara, Cal,
has a cluster of barley stalks, over 400 in
number, and five feet long, all Of which
sprouted from single seed
The platform of the colored convention
held, last week, at Nashville reaihrms devo.
ton and adherence to the national republic
can party and its principles.
The regents OF Michigan university have
voted to restore Prof Rose to his position
in the university laboratory, in the accounts
of which a deficit Of 81 900 was found, some
time ago.
There is a serious schism in the Brooklyn
Association of Congregational ministers, grow.
ing out Of the Beecher scandal. Budding
ton, Storrs aud three other lights have al
ready withdrawn.
Mrs. Benjamin T. Butler died at the
Massachusetts, General Hospital Boston,
Saturday from the effects of surgical oper-
alton performed on Thursday, for the remov-
al of cancer from her neck.
magnetic spring is the latest Saratoga
discovery. II is so highly charged with
electricity that knife just dipped into tho
water becomes so highly magnetzed as to
pick up shiuglc nail.
A Canadian Pacific railway is conten.
plated. The termini would be Lake Supe-
rior and Fort George on the Frazer river and
the length OF the line 1920 miles. Three
hundred miles more would reach tho coast.
The annual boat race on the Thames be-
tween the Oxford aud Cambridge UNIVERSE
ties crews took place last Saturday aud re-
suited in the victory for the Cambridge crew.
Time 22m., l9s. Won by three lengths.
The Albany Argus says that the country
never possessed 80 many beautiful marriage
able young women as it does at the present
time, and asks: And why do wo not have
more marriages SAKE has answered.
The bishops of the Methodist church have
issued pastoral letter inviting all minister:
of the church to unite in observing Friday
April %, as day of fasting and of special
prayer for Gods blessings on the genera
conference, to assemble soon after that date
There was a terrific powder explosion a
4 Salt Lake city last week. Many tons o.
powder stored on Arsenal hill, by somt
means unknown was gnited and the oonse
quences were awful. Several lives were
lost in the city, and it is estimated that $50 !,
900 worth Of glass was destroyed.
The value of the Signal Service warnings
was we'll illustrated in last Fridays high
wind. More than $50 vessels which would
otherwise have set sail remained in the har
Dor and thus were saved from exposure to q
gale that at one time reached a velocity oil
So miles an hour.-NeW York Tribune.
Messrs, Henry w, LongfeIlow aud james
Russell Lowell, with other prominent citi
zens Of Massachusetts,, have petitioned thu
state legislature for the establishment Of /
state park of diversified land five or six mile
in extent, to be used as forest conservatory
for the preservation Of the fauna aud hori
of the Commonwealth.
France aud Great Britain have selected
as arbitrator to decide the questions at issu
between the two powers concerning the New
foundand fisheries, the emperor Of Russia
The arbitrator who is to decide what canno
be agreed upon by the fisheries commission
ers Of the United States aud Great BrtiaI
is to be named by the emperor of Austria.
The day is coming When man has got Il
be careful how he speaks about his lad.
friends. A man in OnondAga, N. Y, ha
been mucted in $4,000 damages for calling
Miss Charlotte Long "a withered-up ole
maid" aud a Georgia oOOred justice of tn,
peace has sent man to Jail for abiding u
a young lady as "that duck legged heller.
These Judgments prove that the spirit Of chiV
airy is slowly reViying,