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

Commodore Vanderbilt is not as well as
last week
The Sharon, Ct, Charlie Ross of course
did not turn out to be Charlie.
The war department figures up 10 nation.
al cemeteries in the country.
Capt. Samuel Lennox, the oldest Free
mason in the United States, aged "a years,
is lying dangerously i'll at his residence in
Trenton, Nd.
The newspapers are full Of reports of sui
eide in all parts of the country, committed
on account of hard times, the scarcity of en-.
ployment, or the extreme heat.
A senator who was requested by valued
constituent to send him copy of each House
investigating report and accompanying tes-
timony, had to pay postage on 81 pounds of
printed matter.
The strike of the brakemen Of the Ohio
4 Mississippi railroad has ended, the strik-
ers agreeing to 60 to work at the reduced
rate the company promising to restore the
old rate as soon as business will justify
them.
On the LIST Of uext January it will be
seventy years since the Emperor OF Germany
entered the Prussian army, even before he
had accomplished his tenth year. The usage
now is that the Prussian Princes enter the
army after completing their tenth year.
Aunt Patsy Vaughn, colored woman
claiming to be | II years old, died recently
near Amelia Springs Va. Her youngest
child rs living and Is a woman 70 years
old
Hank Monk, the California stage driver
who figures in the well known story Of llor-
ace Greeley's uncomfortable ride, is old,
impecunious and drunken. Carson miners
recently took him prisoner, scrubbed him
clean, and dressed him up in new clothes.
The barque Catalpa, Of New Bedford,
George S. Anthony, commander, arrived at
New York on Saturday, having on board
the Fenian prisoners who on the 18th of
April escaped from the penal colony of
Western Australia.
The weather being damp and murky, the
attendance at the exhibition Saturday, the
first 25.cent day, did not come up to the ex-
pectations Of the managers, The paid ad.
missions are estimated at 52,4l9.
A veuturesome Yankee has won wager
Of $4,000 by making a voyage from Boston
to Detroit via the Atlantic, St. Lawrence,
and the lakes, in a skiff weighing 100 pounds.
lie made the trip in 100 days, having Ii
days 70 spare,
There is base ball club in Hartford
called the Potato Bugs, Another nine has
sprung up, who style themselves the
Exterminators, who have challenged the
Potato Bugs The farmers in the neighbor-
hood are anxiously awaiting results, They
hope that the p. b. will be exterminated,
but they don't believe it.
Up to the close of business Thursday, the
only omploye of the treasury who had taken
advantage Of Secretary Morrill's concession
of leave of absence with pay, to those who
would resign at once was clerk in the
office of tho comptroller Of currency. lie
sails for England on Monday to take posses.
sion Of u fortune Of several millions of dollars,
which has been left to his family by some
relative. His title to it was decided by the
English courts after two years litigation.
A wealthy resident of Holland died il
1901 leaving large estates but no heirs Of
his own body, The property was appropri,
ated by William OF Orange. These estate,
are said to amount to Sll6,000,000, and
have been withheld from the proper heir,
whose decendents have now taken stops Il
recover the same. Several OF these heir
are in this country, one Of them being Chris
tian Metzger, stone mason, ofBuaalo.