Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-08-14
THE CROPS

DEAR FREEMAN The people OF this State
are rejoicing over the good prospect for heavy
crops this season, particularly the wheat
crop, and there are good reasons for rejoicing
as flour has been so high for the past six
months that it took a small fortune to pur-
chase barrel of good -four. Farmers have
already commenced to cut their grain, and
in most parts of Wisconsin harvesting is
going on briskly. 1t is said that the wheat
never looked better for heavy harvest than
now, and if good weather holds on there will
be the largest run of wheat into this market
that has been for years.
The receipts last year, 1866, were 12,117,-
557 bushels, according to the annual report
of the Chamber of Commerce, and this year
indications are that these figures will be
largely increased but of course unfavorable
weather may blast all the hopes of the peo-
pie, both farmers, consumers and dealers.
The hay crop in this State and Minnesota is
the largest for years. The peach crop in
Michigan, across the lake, is very large this
season. Peaches are not raised much in
Wisconsin, owing, probably, to the unfavor-
able winds from Lake Michigan.
BASE BALL
There has been some excitement among the
lovers of base ball playing for the past few
weeks The % National - base ball club of
playing with the leading Western clubs of
the large cities. They were victorious in
every game until they reached Chicago, where
was Base Ball Tournament, and about forty
clubs represented. The 81 Forest City" club
Of Rockford, Illinois, played with the s. Ma
tionals'," and the latter were beaten % to
% The I" Forest City r" club is one of the best
in the Northwest, and this victory is good
thing for their reputation. The two best
clubs of Chicago. Excelsior and 90 At
Iantic were badly beaten by the . Nation
! ais Base ball playing is in its infancy in
| the West compared with the East, and this
season we notice that both parts of the coun-
try are being aroused in this national game
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Your worthy Governor Dillingham; was in
the city last week on a brief visit to his
in-law, Hon Mat III. Carpenter Vermont
can well be proud of such man their
Executive officer, and we hope, native of
the old State, that she may always be as for
tnnate in her chief rulers. The Republican
nominee for election this fall is one of that
kind of men, and loyai Vermonters will tes-
tify to it by rolling up heavy majority for
Gen. Stephen Thomas at the coming cleo
ton. The Green Mountain State is politi-
| cal model for the Union.
THE WEATHER.
| The weather has been fine here for the
past month or six weeks, with an occasional
rain to moisten the ground and lay the dust {;
hut in Minnesota, on the upper Mississippi
| md its tributaries, there has been a heavy
freshet recently, though it did not visit the
| largest grain region.
EMIGRATION.
| This season the tide of emigration to this
country from Germany and Norway has been
heavy, every few days a party of three or
four hundred emigrants pass through this
city, destined mostly for Minnesota and parts
IF this State. The come to this city by
steamer around the lakes. aud from the
Grand Haven route across the lake.
| 1t is said that corporations have no souls,
but we have an instance here To the contrary.
Among the many emigrants passing through,
some get entirely destitute of money! and ar
rive in very hungry condition. and unable
! for want Of means TO get food. This class
when sufficiently evident that they are poor
md needy. the Milwaukee and St. Paul rail
way feed and pass free over their road 10
| their destination. This is a generous act
| which is commended highly by the press of
the State. and elsewhe This is done
through the cxcrtons Of 4. Y. H. Carpenter.
General Passenger Agent Of the railroads di-
verging from this city. He is Nermonter
and formerly Twelve or fourteen years ago)
was on the Vermont Central railroad some
years. He ranks very high among railroad
men in the West, having gained this reputa-
ton from long and varied experience.
BUSINESS.
Business of all kinds is increasing as the
prospect for crops increase, and busy a fall
trade will soon open in September. and the
latter part of this month VERMoNTER
UNIVERSITY OF VERMoNr.--The Commence
ment exercises of this College occurred last
week. They were unusually interesting, and
were attended by large number of the
Alumni of the Institution. The Free Pres,
says
1t was highly successful Commencement
from President Angell's earnest and excel
lent Baccalaureate to the close. Rev Mr.
Vincents discourse was finished and wor.
thy productio DR.. Peabodv's Grafton was
one of the very finest of its kind ever pre-
sented on a Commencement occasion in Bur
lington, strong, clear. profound, addressed
not to popular appreciation but to scholars
and full of strong meat for the ripest of them
MIR. Eaton's Grafton was timely. spirited anC
effective Mr.. Mars poem was conceived
IN a genuine poetic vein, and pleasantly
wrought into verse. The impromptu speak.
ing at the dinners was of a high average, anG
the Alumni Reunion was a successful inau.
guration of a feature of Commencement time
which will, in years to come, be greatly i'm.
proved on, both in its minor details and in the
numbers of Alumni it will bring together
These things, and the success of the Alumni
subscri ption, mark the sixty-third Com
mencement as well worthy of remembrance
The graduating class consisted of the fol
lowing eight young men
Albert Gallatin White West Milton
Washington Spencer Cilley, Jericho Joseph
Shonion, South Hero Ira Edmund Shattuck
Burlington Albert Phelps, South Hero
Charles Edmund Parker, Gorham, Me.
Henry Orson Whe eler, South Hero Walte
Perrin Smith, Hardwick.