Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-29
GENERAL NEWS.

bronze, and will be placed in Greenwood
Cemetry. II represents Mr.. Greeley as he
was ten or twenty years ago, and "the old
white overcoat" is used instead Of the toga,
for dignity Of effect. The bust is To rest
upon granite pedestal, ornamented with
bronze tablets one representing Mr.. Greeley
as printer working at the case, and the
other bearing his name together with the
simple record Of his birth and death. The
monument is to be known as the "Printers'
Greeley Memorial" and is to be unveiled in
October.
1t has been ascertained that the name Of
the man whom the police and other officers
have supposed to be William M. Tweed's
travelling companion is not Hunt but Hoff.
man. He is the man supposed to have been
in the drivers seat on the carriage in which
Tweed was driven from his house, the night
of his escape.
Names popular vote on the 11th is the
largest ever thrown in that state, by some
5000,-which shows the interest that was
taken in the result. The total is about 1885,
600. Governor Conner received almost
10000 votes, and Mr.. Talbot more than CO..
900. Were all the states to vote like Maine,
the popular vote, this year would be about
100000.
In consequence Of the extension Of the
manufacture of willow ware in this country
there is a steadily increasing demand for the
raw material, two.thirds of which il i'm.
ported from Europe at an annual outlay Of
So, 100000. 1t is estimated that fully FIVE
thousand different articles are constructed
from willow-shoots, chairs, sofas and baskets
being the most common. The advantages Of
willow furniture especially for summer resi-
dences, has become so apparent that the de-
maud is rapidly extending and this branch
of manufacture assuming an importance
which suggests the question as to whether
larger proportion, it not the whole Of the
raw material could not be furnished at
homo to advantage. Few crops are more
easily raised. The willow grows readily on
wet or swampy lands, requires no wedding,
and grows up rapidly.
The apple crop is very large in central
and western Massachusetts,, and is heavier
than the farmers can handle. In franklin
county cider apples are almost given away,
and sell on a poor market at ten cents q
bushel. At Leominster one farmer has 1000
bushels on hand which he is willing to sell
at 10 cents per barrel.
A tremendous amen" from his vast con.
gregation followed Mr.. Surgeons prayer
the other day that the Turks night be driven
out of Europe and, the whole of the NOLAN.
medan power swept away from of the face
of the earth.
John Hancock received from the Colonial
Legislature in 1894 the first silver.plated
table service ever seen in America. 1t is
now owned by gentleman in Lawrence,
Mass, and has just gone to Meriden to be
replated.
The Smith college Northampton faculty
were quite surprised at the receipt Of 100
applications for admission to the entering
class, but they rejected all but Is as not up
to the required standard. The number fills "a
overlooking all the dormitory room, and i'm.
mediately necessitates a new cottage, with
accommodations for %, which will probably
be located just north Of the dormitory.
Edmund Storer James, one of the abest
of the many able men whose names have been
enrolled among those Of the Bishops of the
Methodist Episcopal Church of America,
died lately. lie was born at Sheffield,
Mass, April 81. 1907, and removed at an
early age to Salisbury, Conn.,, where hi.
youth was passed. He early developed 0
strong mental turn to theology, and, resov
ing to preach, received his appointed in Phil.
adelphia, in 1880, and became Elder for
four years. While engaged in his elerica
duties he studied medicine receiving the
degree of NJ. d. from the University of Yer
mont in 1912. Previous to this he had
been chosen financial secretary of the Ameri
can Bible Society and in 1874 relinquishod
that office upon his election as Bishop.
During the septilateral circuit meetings
Goldsmith Maid won Sl2,500; Rarus, $40,
000 Sam Purdy, s5,500 Smuggler, IS,
400; Adelaide, 50, 100; Planter aud Nam
brine Kate, So, 900 each Maybird, S4,S75
Hannah d., $4,000; Little Fred, S4,375
and Lula, Judge Fullerton and BOdino, 81,
900 each.
Street-car rowdyism has grown TO be a cry
ing evil in Boston. One paper remarks that
"coarse jokes, ribald songs, loose converse
ton, disputes with the conductor about fares
gross profanity, insulting leers and ogling
which can have but one Interpretation, are a
common as trips on tho cars are" Aud
calls on the railway managers to empowe
their conductors to put these fellows off tn
the cars.
A terrible railroad accident occurred a
; Black Lick station. Ohio, twelve miles cas-
OF Columbus, Friday morning. The trai
was running ut the rate Of 40 miles an hou
when, from some cause, four cars of the trail
jumped from the track and rolled down a
embankment rs or 30 feet high. Four per
sons were killed outright, two men and tw
children and another man have diet
Twenty-six persons we're injured.
1t is now positively certain that Twes
has been placed on board a United State
war vessel, aud is at the present moment o
: direct to New York and handed over to tn
United States authorities His extradition
entirely due to the unceasing efforts of Gel
l tain officials in New York aided by the fol
t eigu department of the government, and wa
;. being perfected while Sheriff Connollys in
1 aginary detectives were on what they Gale
: "his track" in Canada and other place
: The Spanish government has also decided o
, surrendering William j. Sharkey the fug
8 tive murderer, to the government Of tn
s United States, and he will undoubtedly
l. Tweed's companion on his voyage hither.
The celebrated stallion "Ethan Allen,
has just died, at tho age of 27, on Amas
Spragues farm in Kansas. "Ethan Allen
IS was Of the Vermont "Black Hawk" stool
It and was raised by j. N. Holcomb Of Tico
!. dOroga, N. Y.
a Vanderbits corps Of physicians arc sal
: to be slowly improving. The Commodo
q exhibits a keen interest in their cases, On
70 Of them has died, but he believes, with props
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