Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-05-11
GENERAL NEWS.

Tue lumber prospects are not bright. Ine
lunbermau have only half sea-
Ion's cut on hand. The water 10 the tribu-
AIRY streams is too low TO float timber.
William White and james Confer, who
made such desperate effort TO escape from
The Manchester, N. H., jail recently, robbing
The turnkey Of his revolver and kegs in the
operation, have been sentenced 10 20 years
10 tho state prison.
A football match between Harvard and
Princeton teams took place at Cambridge, on |
in the presence Of $500 specta- |
tors. Harvard was declared the victor by |
one goal.
Rosa Brady, an Irish woman, has just
died in New York at the age Of lob, and
Henry johnson lcolored) life convict at
Sing Sing, at the Same age.
A Troy N. Y, paper says the seventeen
year locusts have appeared in that vicinity.
They come out Of the ground in the form
Of large grubs, but soon after their wings are
developed and they take fight. They are
not destructive to crops, but feed upon trees.
They were, it is said, last seen there in 1860.
A mocking bird entered a Methodist
church at jackson. Tenn, the other day, and
after circling around the room, lit on the
railing Of the altar, where 1t sat in attentive
silence till the close Of the sermon, when II
warbed some Of the sweetest notes aud
sailed away.
The tobacco crop Of Tennessee this year
will be larger than usual, and the prospects
are that the acreage will continue TO increase
for some years. There are 10000 square
miles in the state we'll adapted to the growth
of tobacco, while only $4,000 acres are en-
ployed in that way.
The trustees Of the New England agric III
tural society prepared last week list Of
premiums for the fair to be held at Portland
to beannounced till the second day of the fair.
Il is reported that Kate Olaxton, the ac-
tress, and her husband, Dore Lyon, have
been reconciled, and that the cross suits for
divorce are discontinued.
During the 6fty-eight years which have
passed since American Odd Fellows Zip was
established over 100000, 900 have been col
lected, Of which upward of S22, 900, 900
have been expended for the relief of those
entitled. Some 100000 brothers have been
aided.
An interesting case is on trial at Nashua,
N. ii to decide whether the majority Of the
first Congregational church of Francestown,
who have seeded, constitute the church, or
the minority remaining. The point at issue
is the possession Of the communion service,
which the seceders carried off, and which
the minority sue To recover.
There is considerable excitement 10 Brown
county, Texas, over reported rich gold dis
coveries made by man who was sinking a
we'll, and great rush Of prospeCtors to the
supposed treasures has already begun.
A West Brim6eld, Mass, mao who wanted
to dig we'll in his cellar says be struck the
skeletons Of three human bodies in as many
holes aud at the same depth. Then he dug
bis we'll out Of doors rather than further
disturb the burying ground of some previous
tenants.
The President has issued an order for the
consolidation ofpension agencies. The agen-
cies 10 Fitchburg, Hartford and Providence
are consolidated with the agency in Boston
| UEcht uuAltty Is NJ uOutTchl iOT Tue
safety of the steamer City Of Brussels, on
which the Irish Catholic pilgrims to Rome
sailed. 1t left New York for Liverpool the
same day as the Germanic, which arrived
Monday.
Five ladies wero fatally poisoned and
three gentlemen made seriously i'll on a
Virginia plantation few mornings since by
arsenic or strychuine which had been incor.
porated into the food they ate for breakfast
The Secretary of the Treasury has called
for the redemption of $40, ll4,550 Of five
twenty bonds of 1865, May and November
The amount called in constitutes the residue
Of those issued under the act Of March 8
1865, dated Nov. /, 1865. Tho call is fol
l,533,550 registered bonds.
The Rome, N. J., Sentinel says: "By
way OF experiment We caught ten delinquent
subscribers last Thursday, set them in row,
in our back yard aud placed blue glass over
them. They did not develop Just the way
we expected but we have now the most
Furnishing bed Of bee's 10 Oneida county
and we should like to sell them at an aver
age Of $40 beet, which is what they cost.
A man who was recently sitting on tn,
banks Of Rockcastle river, Kentucky, quietly
fishing and with no one near, was nearl,
frightened to death by the sudden appearance
Of q large man, with q head Of enormous
size, coming to the surface of the water as b
drew in his line. 1t afterward proved to b,
the body ofan Italian who had been drowned
few days before.
George" the black horse ridden by Gen
Early at the beginning of the war, has jus
died in Virginia at the age Of rs years. III
lost an eye at Williamsburg, was wounded
in the leg at Cedar Run, aud was perma
nently disabled for war purposes at the bat
: tic of Sharpsburg. But he maintained hi
appetite aud vivacity to the last, and Vir
ginia paper says that he was "oonfned to hi
bed only 20 hours before he died"
The death of James Hutchinson at tn
North Haverhill poor.house recently at tn
age Of 80 closed a strangely chcckered career
He graduated at Dartmouth college 10 1905
r was one Of the first scholars in his class an
an intimate friend of Daniel Webster. IL
: studied law, and after his admission to th
bar, opened an Office at Lebanon. He a
once took prominent position in his pro
fession, and his prospects Of future distinctio
were most aattering, but, for some unknown
cause, he took 10 drink. aud the death Of hi
wife, which occurred soon after, complete
4 his wreck. He wandered aimlessly abou
for many years. and finally returned to hi
? old home, where he died peuniless and anon