Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-03-16
GENERAL NEWS.

England causes the death of $4,000 elephants
annually.
The Susquehanna river is fifteen feet above
low water mark. The flats are overlooked,
and travel is greatly impeded.
The Connecticut House has defeated bill |
giving women taxpayers right TO vote at
certain local elections.
"Babcock has been ordered into the light
house service" Well, that is more respecta-
BILE than light-6ngered service.
Barnum won't have tho "the greatest show
on earth" this season. He will content him
self with Gan unparalleled Aggregation"
Three steamers sailed from New York on
Saturday for Liverpool, loaded with fresh
beef, amounting in all to two hundred tons.
Tho sulphur cure for scarlet fever appears
to be perfect remedy, aud is said TO prove
more effective in hard cases than in slight
ones.
Six girl babies were born in one house in
Emanuel county, Georgia, in one night re-
Gently, and one poor man had to own that he
was grandfather of the lot
Senator Kellogg of Ptts6eld is credited
with saying that the climate Of Boston was
invented by the devil in moment OF iusau-
ity.
The country rake manufactures have
started for the season, but the manufac tories
Of city rakes are in operation the year
round.
Last week, more than one hundred aud
fifty emgrants lett New York for New South
Wales. and about the middle Of next month
another cargo is expected to start.
A man who jumped overheard, recently,
to save his wife from drowning, has explain
ed his action satisfactorily to his friends.
He said she had good deal Of jewelry on
her person.
The first public performance of the tele-
phone in New York will take place in Stein
way Hall in April, when musical selections
performed in Philadelphia will it is promised,
be distinctly heard by the audience.
The two hottest days ever known in Aus.
tralia were the 18th aud 10th of January,
when the thermometer registered one hundred
and FIVE degrees 10 the shade 10 Melbourne.
1t was several degrees cooler than that here.
A terrible panic occurred in the Roman
Catholic church Of ST. Francis Xavier in
New York city last Thursday evening re-
suting in the death Of six women and lit
tie boy four years old.
An English company with S25,000,000
capital headed by Sir John Rose is buying
up 1000 square miles Of timber land 10 Can
ada aud purchasing lumber-mills on the Of
tawa and Gatineau rivers.
Young Sears of Boston, the "richest
young man in America, has western rival.
The newspaper story is that Charles S. AL
bert of Richmond, Ind, just out Of college,
has fallen heir to s7,000000. A German
bachelor uncle left it.
Several ex.congressmen, an ex-assistant
secretary of the Treasury, an ex-Unted
States senator and a prominent Judge from
South Carolina, were found in Washing
ton gambling house Saturday night and up
over night.
A man at Placerville, Cal, having occa-
sion recently to erect a new building where
an old one stood, some miners offered to dig
out the lot, fill it in again and give him half
the proceeds. They found the earth so rich
in gold that they made a large profit
Russian Grand Duke Constantine was
spectator of Inauguration, aud the crowd
hadn't the slightest suspicion Of it, so sue
cessfully did he CONCEAL his identity. Both
he and Alexis are taking special pains to
avoid fuss and feathers.
William Rock. employed by japanese
merchants to remove their exhibits from the
centennial grounds at Philadelphia, has been
arrested, charged with stealing, $1,000 fans,
and about $4,000 worth of goods were found
in his house.
The Boston library is taking vigorous
measures against mutiators Of books, and
the first victim college student, has been
fined $40 for tearing leaves out of Latin
translation to take into recitation as q
"crib."
The Bangor Wing was the only republican
paper in the country which employed whole
columns in assailing the Hayes Cabinet"
The Maine senators, however, did not vote
against the confirmation of any of the nomi-
nations so far as has been made public.
Gladstone has published a pamphlet, in
which he shows that the conduct of the
Porte towards the authors of the Bulgarian
outrages is q distinct encouragement to a
; Turkish government is fully p roved.
One hundred years ago not a pound Of
, coal nor cubic foot Of illuminat ing gas had
,, been burned in this country. No iron stoves
were used and no contrivance for economic.
ing heat were employed until DR.. Franklin
G invented the iron-framed Fireplace which
still bears his name.
Prof. A. Graham Bell. the inventor of the
= telephone, was born in Edinburgh, in Scot
land. His father, Prof. A. NJ. Bell, who be-
: came noted as the inventor Of method for
) teaching deaf mutes to speak and Of q uni
versal system of photography, is now living
in Brantford, Ontario.
1t is estimated that not less than 5 10 900, :.
900 are invested in the wholesale florist
business, in land, greenhouses, and stock, in
the vicinity Of New York. The lighthouses
cover 45 acres. At Union Hill, N. j., there
/, are perhaps 20 acres under glass for the Gull
tivatlon Of flowers for the New York market,
=. A Lowell (hlass.) newspaper announced
4 that twins had been borne to the wife Of ohm
Dixon Mrs. Dixon, who lived in Lynn,
read this news, aud WAS certain that no such
thing had happened to her. She went to
Lowell and found the motttr of the twins
/. in a second wife of Mr.. Dixon. The biga
(, mist was arrested.
/ Said fond mother, at the table Of a fash
/ iopable Chicago hotel, the other day; "Do
+ you know, my little son, that the word
menu is French for bill of fare 2" "Oh,
f yes, mamma" was the assuring reply, "menu
itw The mother tainted right there. She
/ was afraid her boy would grow up to be q
:, paragraph Chicago Journal.
Vice President Wheeler has adopted the
n following policy with regard to official pat
ronage flo will recommend no person to