Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19
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tenders to be exchanged for silver was de-
feated by close vote, only two or three
more names being needed to give the neces-
sary two-thirds for suspending the rules.
10 the Methodist conference, last week
Thursday, memorial was received from
colored ministers in Georgia saying that
there are 10000 colored Methodists and
asking the appointment Of a colored bishop.
Referred. Also q memorial protesting
against the division ofthe annual conferences
on the color line.
A recent resolution passed by Boston
women. ReSolUed, That, as woman suffrag.
lists. no party will be entitled to our future
political support in state affairs, unless it
makes the establishment of woman suffrage
one of its avowed objects, and also admits
women to full membership in its organization,
with an equal voice aud vote in its primary
meetings, in the nomination Of candidates
aud the transaction Of business.
A deplorable affair occurred at Dahlgren,
Hamilton county, ILL.,, Friday night A
party OF young men gave John Sturman, re-
Gently married, a charivari, and Sturuan,
greatly annoyed by the uproar, ordered the
party off, but they not leaving at once, he
fred into them with gun, killing Willis
Lowery, and wounding Bud Burton and
Frank Taylor. All the parties were highly
respectable, young Sturman being son of
Judge Sturman, sene of tho most prominent
citizens Of tho county.
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useful trade or profession, as a security
against the reverses of fortune, aud Mile.
Bettina de Rothschild, the lately married
daughter of the head Of the Paris house, at
the age Of l6. successfully passed the examin-
alton for teacher at the Hotel de Vile.
She brought a dowry of 100000 francs
to her husband.
plymouth church affairs were lively again
last week Wednesday night, aud in discuss
ing proposal to excommunicate Mr.. Bowen,
there was an amount Of excitement that is
dangerous in warm weather. A new scheme
now requires Mr.. Bowen to spread his "bot-
tom facts" before Mr. Beecher and DR.. Tay-
lor of the Broadway Tabernacle. DR.. Tay.
lor is to be bound to secrecy about them
but whether Mr.. Beecher will be also bound
is not so certain.
Mr.. Josiah Boothby has prepared statis-
teal sketch showing the progress of South
Australia since the settlement Of the colony
40 years ago. Its present position is thus
summed up Fifty thousand men support
thrice their number of women and children,
occupy 100000 square miles of pastoral
country, aud possess 100000 sheep; own
100000 acres of land, and grow 12,000,-
600 bushels Of wheat; conduct an external
commerce of 100000 sterling, and raise
Fl ,000,0 900 of revenue.
1t is estimated that the railroads in the
United States consume annually $4,000, 900
seepers, and for fencing the roads, wood
costing not less than S13,000,000, with an
additional cost of at least $4,000 annually
to keep these fences in repair. For the
more than $4,000 miles OF telegraph in oper.
alton over 100000 trees for poles were
destroyed in their construction, while the
annual repairs call for some 100000 more.
For the 20 600, 900, 900 matches manufac.
tured annually in the United States $50 900
cubic feet of the best pine lumber is required
1t takes at least 100000 cords of wood to
bake the bricks made annually. to furnish
which requires the resources of $4,000 acres
For shoe pegs it takes 100000 cords Of
white birch, worth Sl,000,000. For pack
and of agricultural implements, amounting
to $4,000, 900 in value, the cost of wood is
not less than 100000. The value of
logs sawed into lumber 10 1870 was Sl03,-
000, 900. Since 1850 more than 50,000,-
900 acres of forest covered land have been
cleared for agricultural purposes in the
United States, aud many of the trees burned
as the easiest way Of getting rid Of them-a
sacrifice of millions of feet of good lumber.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
New Hampshire claims to have now seven
ty-six reform clubs, with membership mum.
bering 80 900 persons.
The elegant residence of Chester Pike of
Cornish, N. H., was burned Wednesday, the
10th inst. Loss about $4,000.
Two looms were recently caught upon
hooks set in forty feet OF water, in Lake
Winnipisogee. The hooks were baitcd with
live miunows.
Portsmouth, N. H., proposes to merge
arbor day with memorial day, the iorcAooi
to DO devoted to tree planting and the after
noon to decorating graves.
A Hampton woman who put small de.
post in savings bank, many years ago, and
forgot all about it, has been recently notified
that it amounts to $4,000, and that she must
take it away,
Tho lad Jimmy Blanchard, whose chief
end in life seems to be to make items for tho
papers, is now stopping for a few weeks at
the reform school, to see what effect it will
have on him.
The printing department of the Manches-
ter mills has shut down for an indefinite
time, owing to the low price Of calcoes, and
800 hands are thrown out of employment.