Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-01-26
GENERAL NEWS.


Small pox prevails in New Orleans TO an
alarming extent. lit new cases have been
reported since the first of January.
The state of Maine paid IS each for
killing 549 bears, last year, though ii is
thought many Of them were killed in Can
ada.
Six tons Of gold from San Francisco, I'M
der guard Of twelve cavalry men we're placed
in tho sub-trcasury at New York one day
last week.
Charles Collins, chief engineer of Lake
Shore road, has committed suicide for fear
that he would be held responsible for the
Ashtabula disaster.
The Dartmouth college boat-houso was
destroyed by heavy gallo, Saturday night,
and all the boats, shells and sculls are de-
moished loss between $4,000 and $4,000.
Rear Admiral Joseph Smith, tho Oldest
officer in the navy, died at Washington
Thursday. His naval career began only
eleven years after the first formal creation
of the navy department.
The case of Mrs Sanford of Boston and
her sister for injuries on the highway at
Gambia, N. H., has been tried seven times in
about ten years. The last judgment for the
plaintiff is 81, and the case goes up higher.
San Francisco is coming more and more
under the rule Of the "hoodums." Unoffeud-
ing Cinnamon are constantly maltreatcd in
broad daylight on the crowded streets, and
no arrests are made, is the invariablo rec
ord.
Theodore Thomas's unavoidable failure 10
give his promised concert at Watertown
caused poet Of that town to burst into this
pathetic strain "Oh, Thomus, oh, Thomus,
Why did you stay from us, And not keep
your promus 2"
The finances of New York city are in an
interesting condition. Mayor Ely states
that some portion of the city debt is SO in.
volved that it is difficult to estimate its mag
nitude. He thinks the grand total is not far
from s150,000,0OO.
John H. Willis of Gorham, N. H., for
many years deputy sheriff Of Coos county,
was caught in the deep snow ut Milan last
Saturday and carried about twenty rods
When extricated he was lifeless and terribly
mangled. He leaves family.
good story is told of Nashua physi-
clan who recently vaccinated n family of
IL, and charged Sl2. A few days after, he
took dozen cabbage plants in part pay, as
he supposed, but upon final settlement
learned to his surprise that Mr.. Farmer
charged doctors price-"one dollar head"
Suit has been commenced against Samuel
j. Tilden to recover the $4,000 income.
tax which he was charged, during the cam
paign, with having swindled the government
out of, and the case is to come up in the
United states district court at New York on
the 9th of February.
Senator Morton's health is said to be pre-
carous. He walks with difficulty, using two
canes, and is unable TO 60 up and down
stairs without the help of two strong men.
Senator Conkling cannot use his eyes DOW
without the greatest pain, and he has grown
old faster IN the last year than during the
previous ten years.
The Chicago Journal seems to approve OF
Mr.. Moody, because, as it says he "never
brothers and sisters people much. He calls
people Mr. or Mrs or Miss, as the case
may be, and doesn't 60 into sentimental sea-
sickness, and eye.dropping, and far awayness
any more than he can help"
The postal officials believe that the gov.
eminent is swindled in the aggregate to n
large amount by the washing and second use
Of stamps. To check the practice a new
three.cent stamp, so made as to show any at
tempt to efface the cancelling mark, is soon
to be issued
The teachers in the Unica, N. Y, public
schools drill the pupils in the popular way
to get out Of the school houses IN the short
est time without confusion. Not bad idea
but better one would be to so remodel
and construct public buildings that they
will not be mere death.traps in case of a
panic in an audience.
A new coutrvancc, consisting of tackle,
and hook with a spring, has been perfected,
designed to supersede the present laborious
method Of dragging hose up a ladder to the
top of building by hand. A fireman takes
the apparatus, mounts the ladder, snaps il
on the upper round, aud receives the hose
when hoisted by the rope.
Two persons were once disputing so loudly
on the subject of religion that they awoke
big dog which had been sleeping on the
hearth before them, and he forthwith barked
most iuriously. An old divine present. who
had been quietly slipping his tea while the
, disputants were talking, gave the dog kick
and exclaimed "Hold your tongue yor
silly brute! You know no more about i
: than they do"
A dispute has risen at Portland, Me-, be
| tmoon tho Nm, karlonI ronar- nj Al,
. Oriental powder company regarding the sup
: ply of water in the Presumpscott river
= The paper-mils hold forcible possession o
a the Aood.gates with force Of 80 men, an,
. the powder company have applied for an in
= junction. 1t is feared that the water sup
. ply of the city may be endangered by tn
4 foolshness.
\ The locomotive is still deemed an unweI
come visitor in China. Although the shorI
IS experimental line between Shanghai an
il Woosung is in time to become government
g property, the Chinese rabble regard it wit
/. hostility and have interrupted its traffic.
r Japan, on the other hand, railroads are re
e garded with popular favor, and several line
It are to be built this year, which ma
,, afford an opportunity for American entel
i. prise.
d The Toledo Commercial and the Toled
lie Blade, the first morning aud the other a
y evening paper, have been united into OIL
III property with a single Office, but their sept
W rate publication is continued with iudepen,
ir ent editorial management and distinct ma
le ter. BY this combination there is groi
q. saving in the machinery and tho expense
publishing aud printing aud reporting,
a, which the public ultimately reap the chi
OF benefit in getting better newspapers for ii
to same money.
Of Friday morning, a cargo of potatoes a
ID rived at Sherbrooke, p. O., and was set {