Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-10-06

new IN tho SHIPS boat, and on reacnlng the
village we're attacked by the natives. Capt.
Anderson was killed, but the agent succeed
ed 10 escaping TO a neighboring village,
which was, fortunately, at enmity with the
natives who had attacked them. He was
we'll treated, and conveyed TO the ships
boat, to which the Captains body was
brought down by the murderers who gave
il up on being literally supplied with hatch
cts and other utensils.
There were sixteen yellow foyer inter-
ments in Savannah Saturday.
A dispatch from Rome Of the 30th ult.,
reports the very serious and alarming illness
Of both Pope Plus Ninth and Cardinal An
tonelli.
Secretary Morrill, is advised that the sub.
scriptons received by the syndicate for the
four and one.hRlf per cent. bonds exceed
$50, ZOO, 900, and that there is steady and
growing demand.
The safe burglary conspiracy case, in
which Gen. Babcock was one Of the defend
ants, which has been on trial for the past two
weeks in the Criminal Court, at Washington,
ended in verdict Of not guilty in each
case.
The Boston school committee has voted
a salary Of 81 900 TO james Robinson, aged
95 and an old teacher. The old gentleman
is dependent on this money, and is to believe
that he is still liable to be called on to teach
arithmetic aud bookkeeping,
The Workmcn's Congress will sit 10 Paris
from the I'd to the 10th Of October. About
500 provincial delegates will attend it, The
railways having refused to carry them at re-
duced fares, the men are raising subscription
to pay travelling expenses.
The London Times growls at the defeat
Of the English oarsmen in America, saying
that the change of climate disturbed their
training, and that the contest at best was a
lottery. The Times likewise ntimates that
their boat was twice Intentionally fouled.
The new tunnel being built under the
Thames is intended chiefly for the use Of
about 5000 workmen who have TO cross at
that point, and who are often detained by
fog that stops the boats. 1t will be an iron
tube nine feet in diameter, lighted with gas,
thoroughly ventilated, and only for Pc
| destrians.
The running of North River steamboat,
the Walter Brett, on a fiat rock uopn the
shore, last Friday night, was not unlike the
wreck Of the steamer, Champain, on the
west shore Of Lake Champlain, two years
ago. 10 each case the pilot was asleep
the pilot on the Champlain from an over.
dose Of morphine-the pilot Of the Brett
from over.work and short allowance of Sleep
At "a very large aud enthusiastic meeting
of the various classes of Cornell university
Friday night, it was decided to send chal.
lenge to the winners 10 the Cambridge OK
ford race, which occurs in March next. The
challenge will be for tours or Fights, with q
coxswain, as the Engishmeu may decide,
and for four mile race over the regular
course from Putney to Mortlake.
The baby show proved to be one of the
most attractive features OF the Kansas City
Industrial Exposition. There were twenty
nine Of them gu exhibition, and after the
award, twenty-eight Of the angriest mothers
10 the entire city and vicinity. The Judge:
were ladies, and after the decision they fed
to the police for protection from the fury of
the twenty.eight indignant mothers who
failed to obtain the recogni, on which they
sought for the babies.
Capt. Bates and wife, formerly Miss Anna
Swan, the giants, whose marriage in London
attracted much attention several years ago,
have retired ;iom show life, and built a it.
ting residence near Rochester, N. Y He is
seven and a half feet high she is an inch
taller and each weighs over four hundred
pounds. The rooms Of their house are eight
cen feet high and the doors twelve feet
Their bedstead is ten feet long aud all the
furniture is proportionately large.
Joe Butts was in Cincinnati Jail accused
Of robhing bank in another part Of Ohio.
He wore long, heavy beard, aud the sheriff
who daily expected the arrival Of one OF the
bank officers who could indentify the pris
oner, gave strict order that the whiskers
must not be cut off. One morning, however
Butts face was found clean shaver, aud thu
alteration 10 his appearance was so grea
that the bank officers could not recognize
him as the robber. An investigation is to
be made to fnI out who enabled him to
shave or to be shaved.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Nashua has an active reform club Of 2,50(
members.
Asa Holt, OF Franceston, aged Co. haugeC
himself to a small tree, Monday night, beiul
found with one knee resting on the ground.
Four boys escaped from the reform schoo
at Manchester, last week. two Of whom wer
returned, the other day, by the police author
tiles of Dover. The others are under ar
rest at Concord, Mass.
Fred Brown and Il. Parsons, two wei
known young men of Dover, went to tn
home OF Parsons at STAFFORD, Blue Hills, gun
ming, Sunday, aud by premature discharg,
Of Browns gun the contents we're lodged i
the bowels Of Parsons, killing him almos
instantly. Brown is overwhelmed witt
grief at the sad occurrence. Parsons was
carpenter, employed in Boston.
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