Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-15
THE STANDA ARD.
New England Homestead.

We are pretty shabbily used by the pub !
Usher of this paper, if we are a proper
Judge of i'll usage. He offered to sell us his
paper for 81 80, for which price we sold it
to our subscribers, and we have collected
that sum from about % or 80 individuals,
or about $40 in the aggregate. He has
been paid according to contract, but does
not in any respect fulfil his obligations
We give the following letters as samples of
the kind we are daily receiving:
EAST HARDwICK, Feb. 7.
A. A. EARLE-Dear Sir: AS you request
ed | write to let you know about the Home
stead. | only got one number previous to
January, and two have failed to come since.
Please say to the Homestead man that he
cannot expect me to take his paper anOth-
er year, unless more than half of them
come. 7. ;. PAINE.
If Mr.. Paine has lost but half his pa
pers he has less cause to complain than the
rest, for they are not generally so well used
as that. Here is the wall of another VIC
tim:
CABOT, Feb It'll.
FRIEND EARLE write to inform you
that my new paper that paid you for, has
come to me but once fortnight. 1t is the
New England Homestead. | don't like to
be cheated out of the other half. Please
to send back my money or the paper.
L. l.. SANBORN.
Here is the epistle of another sad mourn
er:
CRAFTsBURY, Feb. 9TH.
Mr.. EARLE-Dear Sir: | have not re-
ceived the New England Homestead for
two weeks As you requested your SUBJ
seribers to write you, do so with pleas
ure. Yours
\. F. HARVEY.
In addition to the above VIM H. Morse,
of North Troy, writes US that he has had
but two papers since he subscribed, which
we think was in December. We would
like to publish his letter, but cannot, as we
have sent it to the publisher of the Home
stead to study.
Another Mr.. B. II. Currier of this vii
lage paid US for the Homestead about the
last of December. He has received but
three copies up to this date, and he received
none until after we had written for it three
times.
Still another George Ingraham of this
village has paid for the Homestead; gets
it once in two weeks, and not oftener.
One more While we were putting this
article into type, Amos Cook of Glover,
dropped into our office and told us that his
Homestead came once in two weeks, at
first, but he has had none for the last three
weeks. Subscribed in December.
One more. John Bean, who lives near
this village, subscribed about the first of
January, and up to February 18th, he had
not received a copy, though We had written
the proprietors twice in relation to it.
In conclusion, VIC ask our readers what
IS the most charitable construction to be
put upon .heir conduct? Are the publish.
ers of the Homestead knaves, or nothing
but fools? We think they are both, since
, none but knaye would do as they are do.
+ ing, and none but fools would expect tc
received second subscription from the SAINT
person. We ask those who have paid fol
the Homestead to hold on four weeks more
and if it don't come a. it should. to writ,
Us and we shall refund the money w,
shall keep faith with our subscribers
, Shall not turn swindler just yet, for by Sc
doing we might throw the Homestead PEG
I,,1o e So ~