Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-07-28
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

cy have joined the hostile bands.
1t is rumored that us clerks at Wash
ington will soon be discharged
The savages lost over three hundred in
the recent fights with Custer and CrOOkc.
A turkey, dropped from a balloon at a
height Of three miles, alighted in New Bed.
ford uhhurt.
Two families, of eight persons, in New
Jersey, have beeq poisoned by the use Of
canned corned beef.
Report says the Indian chiefs Sitting Bull,
Crazy Horse and Black Moon were killed in the
recent fight with Custer.
Boss Tweed is hiding in a range Of noun
tains in Arkansas, holding one hand on his
heart and fighting mosquitoes with the other.
An iceberg 1000 feet high has grounded
Just outside Of the harbor of st. Johns, New.
foundland, and the inhabitants are cool AMI
happy.
A company has been organized in st.
Louis to build q new hotel that will cost
$4,000, 600, contain 1000 rooms, and accom-
modato $500 guests.
A very singular coincidence is reported
from Pulaski N. Y. James Clark, aged 70,
and his wife, were born, died and buried on
the same days, both being killed by cancers
There arc 100000 tons Of ice unsod on
the Kennebcc river, the owners refusing
$3.50 ton and Brooklyn pays at the rate
Of $40 ton for her ice.
The Philadelphia Item has not offered a
prize for Fourth of July poem, but 500
for the best poem on the centennial, 500
for the best essay on the Centennial and 500
for the best conuudrrn on the centennial.
There is q threat Of trouble between China
and Spain China wishes to put an end to
the trade 10 coolies, and the SpaniArds wish
for coolies. There is hardly room for a
compromise
Vienna had very smart earthquake shock,
last Monday. 1t set the church bells airing
ing, and violently moved the foundations Of
houses, and split the walls Of some Of them.
The shock was felt all the way from Passau
to Prcsburg,-and on the Danube.
Capt. Webb, who achieved fame by swim.
ming across the English Channel, announces
his intention Of attempting in tho latter part
|
Scotland TO Ireland under the same condit-
ions as when he crossed the Channel.
The Bank of England clips every light
sovereign that it receives. The weighing is
done very quickly, 5000 an hour being
weighed by one machine. ln 1875 tho bank
weighed G22, 100000 worth Of coin, and re-
jected GS40,000.
The mortality among children in New
York city is fearful, during the hot weather.
OF the 1900 persons who died last week, 649
were under one year Of age, and S62 under
Eve years. The board Of health have em.
ployed so additional physicians, this week,
TO visit the children in the tenement houses.
A telegraph wire runs through the IIoosaC
Tunnel, and warning is given whenever a
train begins or ends q passage. A small
force is still employed in examining the sides
and roof and removing loose rock wherever
it is found. Trains move very slowly, 70
minutes being the schedule time.
Edward s. Stokes, since his transfer from
Sing Sing to Auburn Prison, has been treated
like convict. He sleeps in cell eats prison
fare, and is to be employed as packer in
the collar shop. He entreated the store
keeper not to compel him to wear an ill-6tting
pair of striped trousers.
In Mexico, President Lerdo's reelection
needs only the formal approval of Congress
In Hayti, Gen. Boisrond Canal has been
chosen President by the National Assembly
Both these rulers are friendly to the United
States, aud are likely to maintain cordial
relations with us during their respective
terms.
Cornell won in the University Race, at
Saratoga, on Wednesday, though Harvard
pushed her hard, coming only about length
behind her. Columbia was more than four
lengths behind Harvard, which is attributed
to the fact that an accident befel her boats
ruddor, at the start. Union came next and
the rest were nowhere Cornell won also in
the single scull and freshmen races.
At the late national brewers convention
at Philadelphia, interesting comparisons Of
beer consumption were presented. The aver
age annual production, and, we may presume
consumption, of Germany is about 80 gall.
Ons per head Of population, Bavaria being
the greatest drinker, where the average rises
to about 60 gallons. In England it is about
20, 10 the United States nearly 8 gallons,
in Holland the same, in Sweden, Norway aud
Russia it is very much less, Russia at least
reaOrting to stronger liquors to a frightful
extent, and, it is claimed, Sweden aud Nor
way, also. The production of beer in this
country 10 1875 was slightly less than in
the proceeding year.