Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-26

Presby terian assembly at New York, Sunday,
showed that lO45 home missionaries organ
lied SO churches and 2l0 Sunday schools,
aud 10000 people were converted. The re-
oeipts were S2S7,717 and the the expendi.
lures 1884 ,226.
A boiler used for boiling rags in the Key.
stone paper mills. opposite Reading, Pa, ex-
plodsd with terrific effect, Saturday evening"
fatally Injured an employee named Daniel
Rothenberger. Tho boiler, weighing eight
tons, was carried across Tulpehooken creek,
distance Of 100 yards.
1t is said that q single manufacturer Of
perfumery in France uses every year 140,0 900
pounds Of orange blossoms, 10000 pounds
Of acacia flowers, 100000 pounds Of rose
leaves, $4,000 pounds Of jasmine flowers
10000 pounds Of violets, 5000 pounds Of
tube roses, and proportionate quantities of
rosemary, mint, thyme. lemons, citrons, ETC.
Tho cultivation Of such plants for this pur.
pose is quite an important industry in
France.
Few are aware Of the cost 10 the country
Of keeping dogs at one cent per meal, which
is low estimate. 1t costs nearly Sll.00 to
keep dog year in food aud to keep the
81 dogs in this town 81 900 and the 40 900
IN the state S1,540,000 and 100000 in
the United States (which is reported as a
low estimate) the snug little sum Of $685.
600, 000-and this only for food. From the
official reports Of the different states for the
year 1866 there were 100000 sheep killed
by dogs and 300 900 were injured, the whole
valued at S2,600,0U0. The above items do
not include the tax on dogs, which 10 this
state amounts to about 100000.
The famous (Daniel Webster place at
Marshfed, Mass, mansion house, 100 acres
Of land, etc., is to be sold at auction on the
LIST Of June.
In the house, Monday, the report of the
committee on rules in the case Of door keeper
Fitzhugh closed with the resolutions, first
that the Office Of door keeper be vacated by
its present incumbent second that the duties
of doorkeeper be devolved upon the sargeant-
alarms until otherwise ordered. The reso-
buttons we're adopted.
A recent report says the mental condition
OF the Sultan causes grave apprehensions.
He is subject TO delusions, tearing that he
will be buried alive or be poisoned.
At least FIVE hundred people were arrested
in New York, Sunday, for violating the
Sunday liquor law and the police
justices were up till after midnight
hearing cases and bailing criminals. There
is great excitement among the liquor aud
beer sellers, and many threaten to take
measures forcibly to prevent their being ar
rested next Sunday. The law is state law
aud cannot be abrOgated by the municipal
authorities.
A Washington special says that the Pres.
ident told Gov. kellogg that if he was at
home in New Orleans, attending to his
duties, there would be no trouble IN Louis
lana.
Last Monday the president nominated aud
the senate confirmed Edward Pierrepont, now
attorney general. to be minister to Great
Britain; Alphonzo Taft, now secretary Of
war, to be attorney general; and j. Donald
Cameron, son Of Simon Cameron, to be secre.
tary of war. ....
Thirty thousand troops, including three
crack cavalry regiments, are under orders
to sail from Spain to Cuba September 10.
The average wages Of men teachers in
Connecticut is about $40 mouth, and Of
women teachers only S37.
In seventeen weeks the Prince of Wales
travelled 1000 miles by land aad 1900 by
ocean. Dom Pedro has beaten him in seven
teen days.
Bowen threa tens TO make another state
ment before long, which Nill fall upon the
community like thunderbolt out of clear
sky. Beecher's friends, however, still claim
that Bowen has really nothing new to make
public.
Winslow was again remanded Tuesday
morning, for eight days, thus being consigned
to prison until May 3lst.
DIR. N. II. Camp sued the Troy Budget
for libel. Not only did the jury bring in
verdict Of no causesof action, but the judge
awarded the defendant 5000 for extra costs.
Had the plaintiff pressed his case little
more, he might have been found guilty.
Wednesday was the 57th anniversary of
the birth Of Queen Victoria.
Ugly reports about Theodore Tilton are
frequent in the western newspapers. The
Cleveland Leader charges distinctly that
during his lecture at Wellington, Ohio, re-
Gently, he was irresponsibly drunk on the
platform and at his hotel. A similar report
comes from Meadvile Penn, aud from other
places. In several instances he is said to
have insulted his audience and engaged ia
noisy dispute with individual auditors.
The potato bugs are appearing in immense
quantities in many places in the Delaware
Valley. Farmers will not plant half the
usual crop in consequence. Farmers Of this
state should take heed.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Dartmouth boys have at last got a
poet for commencement week, Joaquin Miller
having promised to deliver some verses to
them.
The will of the late Hon. Isaac Spauldiug
OF Nashua was made public Monday morn
ing. The property amounts to about $780,
600, and over $4,000 has been given to
public institutions.
The Brown lumber compauy's factory for
the manufacture of paper-box board, at
Whhe6eld, was burned early Sunday morn
ing, and the loss is from 100000 TO $780,
900, fully insured. The FIRE was started by
sparks from an engine.
Mr.. Charles Allen. now living at North
CharlestOWu, at the age Of 50, produces the
following rather remarkable record He
lived with his father till he was thirty.th
years Of age. He then worked by the day
for forty years save one, saving 10 the mill,
hewing, shearing sheep aud haying. He
never owned horse, dog. watch or gun. He
never smoked, chewed, took snuff, and never
drank but little rum-and for p years new
er a drop for drink or medicine. On the
18th day Of last July be moved an acre of
grass in four hours and thirty minutes. Dur
ing the forty years he worked by the day he
saved money to buy one Of the best farms 10
that vicinity, besides losing $1,000 through
debt. He has family Of eleven children.
A Roman Catholic church in the vicinity