davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-22

means of illustration, a farm, gardens, or
chards, stock, chemical laboratory, collec-
tions in natural history, &c. Manuel la
Dor and expenses very moderate.
The Vermont law does not require stu
| dents to labor. Other states require two
or three hours work and furnish means by
which the student can earn money to re-
duce expenses, and many consider it ad-
visable that the practical details of hus-
bandry should be taught with the theory.
Senator Morrill, advocated it in Congress
when he was pleading for the greatest gift
ever known-nearly ten million acres of
land to the cause of education.
Hon. Horace Capron, the head of the
agricultural department of the United
States government favors the laboring OF
the student; and | believe we ought to
have college in Vermont, where, by labor
upon the farm, the student can raise his
own living-pay his expenses while he
pursues his studies.
President Angel refers to the amount
of money received by other agricultural
colleges. Vermont need not closely imi
tate them in the grandeur of commence
ment, but she can do something.
Illinois model farm comprises 1000 acres
Iowa $40, Massachusetts nearly 400, Ken
lucky 4S3, Michigan 676. besides 5000 acre,
swamp land adjoining. All the land
granted the last state mentioned 240,O 0(
acres are located in the state, and valued
at $3.50 per acre.
A glorious future is before such colleges
so splendidly endowed. May they ever b
in the front rank of agricultural knowl
edge, and their model farms, under tn
willing hands and intelligent minds ofsuc
cessive classes of students, be made superi
or to anything the world has ever seen, il
its fOcks and herds, fields, gardens, vine
yards and hot houses and when this ma
ton receives reports from the institution
its more than prncely iberality has ell
dowed, will it be for Vermont to say, "Lor
behold. here is thy pound which l hav
kept laid up in a napkin"
: I. +. JAMESON.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-22
1t will be consoling to your aged
readers. whose wears admonish them

1t will be consoling to your aged
readers, whose years admonish them
that their stay on earth is short, to
know that Mr.. John Spence, born in
1862, and an old revolutionary sol
der, is still alive and in sufficient good
health to come from Baltimore to
Washington on Thursday, to pay his
respects to the president, and honor
the halls of congress with his pres
ence. The above date of the birth
of Mr.. Spence, shows him to be los
years old. In conversation with the
president, the old veteran stated that
he witnessed the surrender of Lord
CORVALLIS at Yorktown, and had met
every president of the United States,
but feared that he would not survive
to meet the next.
There is a growing feeling in the
senate in favor of a provision requir-
ing appointments to the supreme court
to be made hereafter from citizens of
the Circuit over which the Judges will
preside. 1t is not at all improbable
that the nominations of Messrs. Strong
of Pennsylvania, and Bradley of New
Jersey, for the Supreme Bench, will be
delayed by the senate for some days.
The southern senator's of course are
a unit in favor of equalizing the Judi
cial appointments among the districts.
The late legal tender decision is
creating quite a hub.bub here. This
decision requiring all obligations made
prior to 1862 payable in gold, will
affect the south more than any other
portion of the country, and especially
in these hard times when it is utterly
impossible in most cases to pay ever
the interest in currency on the princi
pal. The fact that the decision virtu
ally adds one fifth to the obligation;
of the several states, now amountin!
to about two hundred millions of dol
lars, and which in most part is paya
bic to corporate companies, indicate
that there must have been great anx
iety on the part of the bene6ciaries o.
this decision; and if it had been
question to be decided by congress;
much lobbying would have been occa
stoned.
The General Land Office has JUS
received returns, showing that durin
the month of January last, one hui
dred and thirty eight farms, embracin
1929 acres, were added to the pr,
ductive area of the state of Arkansa
! under the operations of the homestea
law.
The weather still continues to t
) delightfully."- warm and pleasant. Tt
snow has all disappeared and Il
streets are again dry. LIFE,
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-22

RoBBERY.-A German pedlar by
the name of Strouse was overtaken
with snow in Sheldon on Saturday,
29th ult., and hauled up at the resi-
dence OF a good farmer and asked for
a place for himself and horse, cart
and goods, which was granted. The
next day he borrowed the fsrmerS
sleigh and went to St. Adams or Swan
ton, and returned Monday afternoon,
with his own sleigh. While absent
his cart had been opened and goods
taken therefrom. He made his loss
known to the farmer and his wife
Search was at once made by the lady,
and one shirt was brought forward
which the pedlar said he thought
must be his as it was like another in
his cart. The farmer had a young
man in his employ who came forward
and claimed the garment found as his
property and gave the name of Its ma
ker and when he got the materials
The pedlar had his doubts and so he
took the garment and called on the
young woman who the young man
said had made it, and she honestly
told him it was none of her making -
Then the young man told the pedlar
he was mistaken, it was his mother
who made it. Again the pedlar took
the garment and called on the mother
Of the young man and she told him
very politely she never made it. FL
nally the young man "owned up that
be did take the garment. The ped
lar being positive other goods were
missing, offered to settle with the
thief for a small sum if he would bring
forward the goods, but the thief said
the shirt was all he had taken Not
to be outwitted, the pedlar and the
farmer searched the premises for the
missing goods and found some S75
worth secreted in the hay-mow. The
pedlar caused the thief to be arrested
and his father and others became bis
bail to appear for trial on the 10th
inst. There being some uncertainty
in the law" the young thief has very
quietly cleft for parts unknown
Hence we fear he won't appear fol
trial.
We have given facts aad suppressed
names, for the reason, that the parents
and relatives of the young man are
among our good inhabitants and fee
deeply their humiliation. -Richforo
Sentinel.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-22

MIsSING.-The town talk" for the
last few days has been the sudden dis
appearance of one of our merchants,
Mr.. Mark Banister, who was owing
farmers in this town and merchants
in st. Adams and elsewhere $4,000 or
more. He has been in the grocery
business for the last two years, and
has been accustomed to buy butter
every week and take it to St. Adams.
For some weeks past he has bought
butter quite extensively on credit and
in some instances has offered as high
as 40 cts, which was two or three
cents higher than the market would
warrant. On Monday, the 31st ult.,
he went to st. Albans,-as has been
bis custom on Mondays,--to dispose
OF his butter, and has not since re-
turned. Inquiry shows that he dis
posed of his butter, bought some -four
and other groceries,-for which he
got trusted and then disappeared.
AS soon as it was found that he had
decamped, what few goods he had in
his grocery, were turned over by his
family to one of his creditors. He
owes over $4,000 to farmers in this
town and vicinity for butter, and to
merchants in St. Adams and else
where $500 to $4,000 for groceries.
Mr.. Banister has been in business
many years in this place, and the fact
that everybody was willing to trust
him, shows that he has hitherto been
considered an honest, reliable man.
His whereabouts are unknown
Richyord Sentinel.
WASHINGTON, FEB.17.-The committee
on Ways and Means this morning heard
Mr.. Bailey of New York on behalf Of equal
lzIng the tax on American and foreign life
and ire insurance companies. The COM
mlttee has resolved, s to (Mr. MAYNARD, J
| to reduce by thirty millions the Internal
Revenue bill which is on the basis of col
Letting S160,000,000. The income tax is
to be reduced but not abolished. Presi
dent Grant and the Administration favor
reduction of the tariff by $4,000 900.
and ofthe Internal Revenue by $4,000 900.
The reports are that it being found i'm
possible to fund the national debt at low
er rate OF interest the project has been Civ
en- up this year.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-22


The March Riverside" gives for a
frontispiece, another of Stephens's ia
nous animal pictures, illustrating La
Fontain's fable of the "The Cat, the
Weasel, and the Young Rabbit" A
new series is begun, in " Pictures from
Froissart," by Paul H. Hayne, po-
cts renarrating OF the Old Chronicles
for youthful readers. Travel is illns-
trated by two papers" On the ice in
the Baltic" by the Sculptor Kuntze,
and Chile" by Pelham W. Ames.-
Some of the stories are How Little
Patrick found his Way over the Sea-"
Princess Eva" and "How the Cap.
tain came by a Legacy by Vieur
Moustache. The drollest thing is
"The Romaunt Of the Sleepy Prin.
cess" with its killing pictures, altho'
Anne Silvernaips Little Quaker Ar.
fist" and her highly excited drawings
will make households merry. The
Editor gives an account OF the Histo
rian Prescott, and pictures with
rhymes are happily grouped under the
headings Little Folk Songs by AL
ba, and " Father Gander's Rhymes,
by Cranch. "The Settle" creaks un.
der the weight of puzzles, and /" The
Calendar" shows how many thing:
have happened in March. Published
by Hurd & Houghton, New York
$3.50 year.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-22

Mcssrs. Lothrop d Co. have issued,
and are still sending out, many of the
best books for the young that can be
found in the market. Their eight vol
umes Of $500 prize stories are hailed
in every part Of the country as some
thing especially excellent. A leading
religious journal says their appear.
ance marks a new era in the history
ofjuvenile literature" Their bright
Day Series" Grown Jewel Library
Rainy Day Stories" and many other
volumes, are among the best of theiI
class. They are to send out a frest
list the coming season, Of rare merit
for whose coming our readers will dc
we'll to keep on the lookout.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-22
BY TELEGRAPH.

NEWPORT, Feb. 1913 30 m.
Camp says in his last number that
certain kinds of articles find their way
into his ",caste basket" 1t has long
been the opinion OF many hereabout
that his taste and judgment is better
adapted to filling his scaist basket,
than the columns oil his paper.
STATIsTICUs.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-22

Below Visalia for some fifteen miles
the land and timber are much the
same as from Kings river, then an
other large treeless plain stretches far
to the south.
The drouth here-south of Kings
river-is now Jan. Sth) very severe
cattle dying on the plains by hun
dreds, and farmers are looking with
great anxiety for the much needed
and long expected rains.
A. B. MATHEwSON.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-22
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS PRACTICE

In the treatment otDiseases incident to Females,
has placed DR.. DOW at the head of all physi
clans making such practice specially, and en-
ables him to guarantee a speedy and permanent
cure in the worst cases of Suppression and all
other Menstrual Derangsmeats from whatever
causes All letters for advice must contain 81.
Office, No. ENDIcoTT STREET. Boston.
n. B.-Board furnished 10 those desiring to
remain under treatment.
Boston, July, 1868. 29yl
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-22
ORLEANS COUNTY COURT.

Persons in attendance upon our County Court
this month will find excellent accommodation
in the way of board at 5. Stantords, but if they
want anything in the shape OF drink aside from
tea coffee, or cold water, they will have TO ego
further and fare worse" as he has no rum about
his premises. JUrymen can have place all BY
Observation-Disclosures by no one. Please give
me call. Charges reasonable as the times win
admit Of S. STANFORD.
Irasburgh, Feb. 4, 1870. 6w3
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-22
A Good Dairv Farm for Sale.

will sell at private sale, my FARM pleasant
y located on the Creek road near East Albany,
containing 100 acres Of excellent land well fenc-
ed; ore OF the best springs in Orleans county
running TO house, barn good ueighb1rs; good
hop ward on the premises, buildings good, nice
house and splendid horse barn, 81 good school
near BY; also, a large sugar orchard with 600
buckets and sugar house, pans and holders, all
iu good order. Said farm will keep 10 cows and
team the year round; also, -gody quantity OF
fruit trees This farm is known as the Fairman
Farm. Also, hay, grain. farming tools, sugar
tools aud stock with the farm.
36rf NATHANIEL CHAFFEE.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-22

TROUBLE IN MEXICo.-Mexico is
once more in trouble. What il is all
about we do not know, nor do we care.
The time has been brief indeed when
that country has been at peace with
itself, within the memory Of all living.
Revolutions and counter revolutions,
plots and counterplots, treasons, rob-
berries and foul assassinations have
been the rule. No sooner is one pre-
sident put on his throne than a move
is made to overthrow him; the result
of all which is that Mexico is sunk so
low in the scale Of nationality that
there are "none so poor as to do her
reverence" The best thing that can
possibly happen to her is to come I'M
der the protection OF the United States,
becoming one of them, though we can
not conceive Of a worse disaster to
our own country we therefore hum
bly, pray heaven that such a catastro.
phe may long be ayerted. There is
something inefably dirty and mean
about Spanish blood-if the mongrcls
who inhabit Mexico may be called
Spanish. Spanish blood everywhere
is incapable Of self government. 1t
lacks energy, life, perseverance, sta
bility, and what is more than all these
it lacks solid principle. Cuba has fol-
o year or more been fighting for indie
pendence; it is Spanish blood agains
Spanish blood; hence We have small
sympathy for what are called thu
struggling patriots of that island
for we well know that whichever part,
triumphs, the same blood is dominant
and in the end either anarchy or tyr
amy will prevail. The Cubans ar
incapable of selfgovernmcnt, we sac
ly fear. They lack intelligence-th
lack of all Spanish colonies. Spai
has been in a ferment for over yea
and what has come of it? She ha
dethroned a wicked and prohigat
queen, it is true, but what has she g
in return? Are her people any be
ter off? Every few weeks we hea
of trouble there, and of her poop
hocking to the barricades, a little bloc
is spilled, when all is quiet again.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-22
Cheap Reading! Good Reading
FARMERS SAVE YOUR MONEY!
sr,xn.pp and STOCK JOURNAL

The American Stock JOURNAL first
class monthly, containing thirty two large
double column pages devoted to armlhg
and Stock Breeding, containing regular de-
partments for the Practical Farmer, Dairy
man. Stock Breeder, Wool Grower and
Poultry Keeper, &c, &c, Illustrated with
numerous fine Engravings and bound IN
handsomely tinted covers. Farmers Will
find this monthly very efficient aid in all
the departments of Farming and Stock
Breeding. 1t has Veterinary Depart
ment under the charge of one Of the ablest
Professors in the United States, who an
swers through the Journal, free Of charge,
all questions relating to Sick, Injured or
Diseased Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine or
Poultry. Thus every Subscriber has a
Horse and Cattle Doctor free.
We are now prepared to offer the Amer
lean Stock Journal as a free gift for one
year, to all near subscribers or renewals to
the Standard, who shall subscribe immedi-
ately and pay for one full year in advance.
This is a rare opportunity which the intel
ligent people of Orleans County and Vi
entity will no doubt duly appreciate
Hand in your subscriptions at once and Sc
cure the Stock Journal free for a year
The Standard must be paid for a full veal
ahead to secure the Journal. Elever
months in advance viii not answer. Al
who want the Stock Journal must order i
l when they pay for the Standard, else W
, shall take it for granted that they do no
care to have it.. Pay for the Standard t
, Jan. l, 1871, and get the Stock Journa
: FREE.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-22
Observations while in California.

On the oath of December we left
San Francisco for Yisalia, travelling
by rail through the San Jose, Or Santa
Clara, valley, south easterly so miles
to Gilroy. For the two or three pre-
vious days we had been having warm
refreshing rains, and the grass and
grain were already green, and cattle
of good quality and fine condition
were grazing in the pastures. This
of all the valleys in California is the
most celebrated for fertility of soil
and beauty of scenery. Much OF this
land. cultivated as well as uncultiva-
ted, is covered with scattering oaks
which add much to its beauty. 1t is
thickly settled, except such portions
as are held by spectators, and which
at present they refuse to price. The
valley is we'll dotted with towns and
villages, the principal one being San
Jose City, which is City miles from
San Francisco and contains about
10000 inhabitants.
At Gilroy we took conveyance by
stage, our party consisting of eleven
passengers, including a state senator,
whose rich brogue and voluminous re
marks on various topics, plainly indi-
Gated that he was not long since an
inhabitant Of the " Green Isle" For
the first twenty miles we followed the
same valley, then crossed the Coast
LANCE of mountains, by the Pacheco
Pass, to the San Joaquin valley
The rains had barely reached the
eastern base of these mountains. Be-
yond could be seen nothing green and
the ground was dry and parched.-
We followed this plain or valley about
one hundred miles, and in the whole
distance scarcely saw tree or shrub
Neither did We see any buildings, ex
cept at stations where we changed, OF
occasionally shepherds cot in the
distance. In some parts of this plair
the land is very good, but most Of il
is low or of inferior quality. In ad
dition to the Aocks of sheep and band:
of horses, there were thousands of
cattle grazing on those plains anC
most of them were looking fair fol-
the season. There were also many
poor, little, i'll shaped black hogs,
few antelope, and wild geese anc
ducks without number.
Passing Kings River Ferry we stop
ped thirty minutes for dinner. 1t be
ing christmas the table was bountiful
ly covered with the best tne countr
afforded, prepared and arranged b
an experienced Chinese cook. Their
was neither tea nor coffee, nor col
water on the table; the only bevel
age being the best of wine from thei
native grape, set on in bottles wit
corks already drawn, and each on
was expected to help himself. W
left feeling rery much refreshed an
perhaps a little erhiIarated.
From here to Visalia, distance {
twenty-five miles, the land is genera
ly good, covered with wood suficien
for fencing and fuel.
With pleasure we there parted wit
senator -, deeming his verdaI
cy-if not vanity-in some measur
excusable. Knowing him to be ca
tie broker who for few weeks onl
had laid down his whip to mingle
affairs of state, but apprehend tha
his constituents will not be so unkin
. as to again insist upon his breathin
t the malarious atmosphere of Sacr,
mento.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-22
STANDARD and RURAL AMERICAN.

STANDARD and RURAL AMERICAN.
For =, 50 We viii send the Standard and
the Rural American to January /, 1871.
The Rural American is a large % page az
ricultural monthly, printed in New York
City, at 81 80 a year; it is purely an agri-
cultural journal, and we regard it as unex-
celled byany similar monthly in the coun-
try. Send Us 80. Old subscribers a.
well as new can have the benefit of thi.
otrer
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-22
DR.. Johnson's CaIisaya Bitters.
DEATH 10 PIN-MORMS

DIR. GOULD'S PIN-wORM SYRUP is the
only known remedy fer these most Troublesome
and dangerous all worms that intestine human
system. 1t is also the most effectual vermifuge
for all other kinds ofworms in children. Purely
vegetable; safe and certain. A valuable cathart-
ic, and beneficial TO health. Warranted to cure
Price IS cts. GEO. C. GOODWIN s. CO., Bos-
on, and all druggists 42m6
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-22
z. G. STENENS-

S L E G. Z q Y u Z list.
Wishes to inform the public that he will be at
VEST ALBANY the last full week in every
month Uu.I further notice ready 20 perform
any dental work that may he required OF him.
Coventry, Jan p, 2S1U. 5w4
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-22
NOTICE..

All that are favorable TO the formation of an
Anti-Masonic Party in the town of Albany, will
meet in the school house in West Albany, on
Saturday, Feb. 10, 1870, at one O'Clock, for that
purpose, and TO nominate men to pc elected TO
office at orr next March meeting. +. PIERCE.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-22
NUMBER 8.
THE WORST PILES CURED.-I "

THE WORST PILES CURED.-I wish to
spread abroad the great benefit | have derived
from the use of DIR HARRISON'S PERISTAL-
TIC L0ZENGES. 1 have suffered years from
the worst Piles. l used everything TO no pur-
pose until | found the Lozenges in less than
month | was cured, and have only to resort to
them when costiveness returns, and always find
instant relief S. o. NEAL. For sale at No. /
fremont Temple, Boston, by E. a. HARRISON
& co. Proprletors, and by all Druggists. Mailed
for so cents 6wS
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-22

A Lady writes to the London Stan
dard saying that scarlet fever and
kindred diseases may be treated sue
cessfully by means of the Turkish bath.
One of her children, aged four, being
attacked by scarlet fever, was wheeled
in a perambulator to Turkish bath,
and was much better when she return
ed home. For four successive morn.
ings she underwent the same process,
and the progress OF the disease was
rapid and satisfactory.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-22
SECOND YEAR.
THIRD YEAR.

Agricultural economy, relation of agri-
culture to the other industries and to COM
merce, the several branches of agriculture,
agricultural book keeping, the farm book,
herd book, &c. Rural law of tenures and
conveyances of land, of highways, of cattle,
of fences, of noxious weeds, &c, veterinary
surgery and medicine. Landscape gard
ening and laying out of large farming es-
tates, rural architecture and engineering
foreign agriculture, history and literature
ofagriculture.
Collateral .Sudies.-Geology, meterology
physical geography inductive logic, polit.
ical economy, history and civil polity, Eng
fish literature.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-22

Philip Hubbard of Quidneck, Rhode
Island, is at the head of a weighty
household. He weighs 225 pounds
and bis wife 100. Fifteen children
have been the result of the marriage
the youngest beng eleven years Of
age and weighing 100 pounds, and the
Oldest thirty-nne years of age, weigh
ing 237 pounds.-Register.