Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-08-25

An eating match came off in Dickinson
county last week. One man Tailed on the
outside Of 81 roasting ears in 13I minutes,
while the Other fellow smiingly dropped the
10Th cob at the end Of the 18th minute.
East Kingston, II. l., has modified
Enoch Arden case Charles A. 0sgood
went to Canada eleven years ago, leaving a
wife and two children, and, not returning,
tho wife married again, bore two children,
and died. Osgood appeared Sunday and
claimed bis daughter, now fifteen, but paid
no attention to the son. The girl refused to
leave her step father, aud, after giving her
now clothes and kissing and being kissed,
the disconsoate father wandered off again.
A notorious villain named "Jim" Har.
rington is under arrest for killing John Sui.
livan in Virginia City, bis ony offence being
that he was urging the murderer to 20 and
take drink with him. Two balls were
sent through his heart, one into his breast
and the fourth through the right breast.
lie is known to have Killed four men and
wounded two before, and is suspected to
have killed two others. Judge Lynch
should put checkEto his career.
A dispatch from Rosebud Greek, dated
the lltb, confirms the union of Terry's and
Crooks forces on the day previous. Traces
Of Indian camps aud their trails show that
they have left for the Northward, leaving
everything in flames, and it is believed that
their ponies are nearly starved. The force
was to move on the 9th on the rear of the
Sioux, taking four days rations, but there
was great uncertainty about the Indians,
and it was impossible to conjecture where
there would be fight.
The cheap grotesquely figured ian now in
use here are made in japanese homes, all
the members of families working on them.
The pictures are drawn on thin paper,
pasted on slab of wood, and then engraved,
u separate block being used for printing
each color. Children do the splitting of the
bamboo and the FASTING of the paper. La
Japan that kind Of fan is used by women,
and the men carry the handsome folding
article 1t is customary there to exchang
fans, as we do photographs, and to inscrbe
them with autographs aud sentiments.
The vote of Colorado ia favor of tho
State Constitution is announced by the local
papers in the following startling fashion
"Sovereigns, assume your rights. Colorado,
youngest, larest state. In the Union cluster
No. 3S No more government wards in ours
We eau vote in congress now. Amt you
mighty glad you're out of the wilderness
Good by Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona
Montana, Utah, Dakota, and Washington
We leave your pleasant company and join 0
bigger and better crowd"
Ladies who meant to buy their dresses
and ribbons while silks were cheap, but have
postponed doing so, have lost their opportu.
nifty. Until u few months ago raw silk and
silk goods Of all descriptions, whether i'm
ported or Of domestic manufacture, were
cheaper than they had ever been before
Exactly why the silk worm Of Italy, China
and japan, and in fact all over the world
should simultaneously reduce their produc
ton, does not clearly appear; that they
have done so, there is unfortunately no doubt
AS consequence the price of raw silk ha
gone up enormously.
A recent official investigation of the Par
sian libraries has furnished the following
statistics. The library of the Arnsel posses
SEES 100000 volumes and 5000 manuscripts
the library Of the Sorbonne 10000 volumes
the library of the School of Medicine, 80
600 volumes the National Library, 200
900 volumes, 81, 900 manuscripts, 900, 00
engravings and maps, 10000 medals tn
Library Mazarin, 1000 volumes, 400
manuscripts, and 80 relief models .Pelasgi
monuments in Italy. Greece, and Asia Minor
the library Of Sainte.Geneyievo, l60, 00I
volumes aud $4,000 manuscripts malsin
a total for all the public collections of Pari
Of 1915, 900 volumes and 442,00 manu-
scripts.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
: There are III rum shops in Dover, GS G
them being managed by women.
, Alvin p. johnson Of Bridgewater is uude
arrest at Bristol for the murder Of his wife
whose decomposed body was found in tn
river near Bristol, last week.
A large forest fire has been raging on the lin
oithe Portland and Ogdonsburg Railroad nea
+, North Conway. Considerable timber an
wood have been burned.
All the walters at the Profile House, saw
three, are students from Harvard, Dartmouth
Williams or Amherst colleges, while in tn
kitchen there arc girls from various norm,
schools and seminares.
, The vein Of silver mine in BridgewatC
has been traced for distance of some 800
{ or 1000 feet, and the developments on
are said to be most encouraging. A sha
has been sunk on the vein to n depth {
about 80 feet, the vein widening as I'll
, shaft decends, and at the bottom a larl
body Of ore is reported.
: John Sullivan of Newmarket, aged 2
years, visiting at Welch Tavern, at Port
mouth Plains, while at the bottom of an oil
well attempting to recover dipper, wa
} buried alive last Friday by the caving in {
. the same. Large gangs of men at once con
menced digging for him, and, though tn
we'll was Gfty feet deep aud the soil yer
sandy he was rescued at about ll.30 tbs
4 night 1t was one Of the most remarkabl
= escapes on record.
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