Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-10-27

Congregational ministers, Tor scandalOus con-
duct, has Just been expelled from the min.
istry by the Piscataqua association at Rye.
A Chiuamau, arrested in San Francisco,
the other day, was found to have on a coat
Of mail made Of cloth, cotton batting and pa
per, thick enough TO turn a knife or bullet.
II also had pockets for knives and hatchets,
and rings TO hang an iron bar on.
The sagacious editor Of the Fall River
Herald has discovered new way TO estab-
lish Irish independence, and has applied for
patent. II is that 10 case Of war tho Irish
men in the Euglish army and navy refuse to
fight until the Fcnian prisoners are liberated.
A triple murder was committed in Bucks
port, Maine, last week Friday night, the
victims being an aged man named Trim, his
daughter Mrs. Thayer, and her little girl.
The buildings in which their remains were
left were set FIRE by the murderer, it is sup
posed, and burned. A man by the name of
Sanders has been arrested, and the evidence
against him is said to be very strong.
The Freshmen classes at various colleges
stand as follows Harvard, GAG Cornell,
100; Yale, $50; Amherst, S3 Williams,
So; Dartmouth, 60; Oberln, So; Trinity,
80 Hamilton, 80; Tufts, 26.
In Thomaston, Me-, last week 700 bushels
Of apples we're sold at auction for $40 or a
little less than one and one-half cents a
bushel.
The war probabilities in Europe have al.
ready sent the price Of -four up, and our ba,
/ Ln-, lo "a .oLor .Juoutooo cf 10 20 ra;sa .ha
price of bread. We don't now remember OF
any reduction 10 the price Of the "staff oil
life" no matter how heavy fall there was
in -four
During the last year there were 22,40S
applications for patents received at the Uni
ted States Patent Office, and 1911 patents
issued during the year. besides 1912 patents
allowed, but not issued, for want Of the tinal
fee also, 1887 trade marks and 400 labels
registered, and 2,943 caveats were filed dur,
ing the same period Only two patents
we're extended
BY the last official report of the Hartford
| (Jt.) insurance companies it appears thai
2l2,4 people have their lives insured ii
Hartford
The Illinois corn crop for this year is es-
timated at go, 900, 900 bushels If it could
be sold at New York and Boston prices -
say 60 cents bushel-it would bring Sl62
000, 900 to the Illinois farmers. But it will
be sold for only about 20 cents on the aver
age, bringing S54,000,000. New England
farmers who raise corn can sell it at 80 to
90 cents bushel, but Illinois farmers are
generally thankful to get 20 cents q bushel
for theirs; frequently, Of late, years, many
Of them have been forced to take 10 to Ii
cents.
Tilden has already picked out his cabinet
according to a leading Western Democratic
paper, and it is as follows Charles Frauci
Adams, of Massachusetts, Secretary of State
Hugh McCulOch OF Indiana, Secretary o
the Treasury George b. McClellen, of New
York, Secretary of war Gideon Welles, o
Connecticut, Secretary of the Navy Joe
Parker, Of New Jersey, Secretary Of the in
terror Gilbert Walker, of Virginia, Post
master. & eneral; and Jere Black, Of Penn
sylvauia, Attorney. General.
A terrible railroad accident happened OIL
the Cheshire railroad about five miles fror
Keene, N. H., Saturday night, by whch two
men were killed. aud two engines badly
wrecked.
A young countrymsn at Reading pa.
fair, the other day stopped to watch mont
man who was tossing three cards on board
You see this ace of hearts" said the gam
bier, "bet you go you cant pick it off tn
board" The money was staked, the card
tossed, and Instantly the young man sweT
both hands across the board. and picked a
three cards at one grab. lie got the money
A Montana squatter built a small fran
shanty on another mans land, and when h
= was requested to move, positively declined
do so. Ono night small company Of Sc
tiers gathered around his cabin while he an
his wife we're asleep and lifting the who
concern, occupants and shanty, with grei
deliberation and care, carried it to the rive
and set it on a small raft. Then they pushe
the raft out into the stream aud cast it adrll
When the squatter got up in the morning }
found himself many miles down stream. Ii
genious fellows, these Rocky Mountaiu-eC
itors.
Tho prosecution Of the Mountain Meade
> murdcrers will not end with the convIctio
Of John ID. Lee. 10 passing sentence
death on the prisoner on Oct. 10, at Beave
Utah, Judge Boremon stated that the wi
nesses, whose mouths had been unseale
would be ready to testify against the 9th
leaders who had plotted the Wholesale slaug
{ ter Of the emigrants 10 years ago. If Il
Mormons, by consenting to his death, tunciC
n that public indignation would be appeasC
by his conviction, they were greatly mistake
Those who had planned and executed Il
awful deed would all be brought before Il
> bar of justice. The dread crime would n
stay down.
A new count Of the Indians At Standir
> Rock agency shows that there are but 234
) including women aud children, instead
47S2, as was recently reported. Ratio
n and annuities have always been drawn {
= some 1000, and this new count will save
= large amount Of money, which heretofore b
passed through the hands of John Burl
y tho agent. The saving will aggregate
20 least 100000 per year.
o The eight men who attempted to rob t
Mortified Bank, in MinnesOta, a fortng
ago, gained fifty cents by their ventur
ID They lost in their flight property worth o.
r thousand six hundred dollars, three ba
. been killed, three are prisoners, apd two q
d being savagely hunted through the woods
: Nebraska.
, A few weeks ago, the authorities of Ora
y Rapids, Mich, took it into their heads to
}, force the Sunday laws, and the results We
~ very ludiorous. More than $50 arrests w
:, made, the largest number being for gong
IL the post-oflice to send or receive mail. Mi
peddlers were arrested for selling their Aui
VI BARRIERS for opening their shops, and caterC
u for opening their restaurants journalists
u working after II O'Clock, Saturday mig
-, and several prominent citizens for driving
Jul tho aIraafa It'a a 0nnd waua Mast for en-