Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-12-16

through Il % inch pipe under the ground
three-quarters of n mile and furnishes the
motive agent for an engine at the railroad
station used for saving wood.
A filial 10 year old of Williamsburg, o.,
gathered and sold chestnuts enough, this sea-
son, to present his widowed mother an ele-
CANT sewing machine with the proceeds. He
would make n good subject for u Sunday
school book were it not that having to hook
the chestnuts would be rather damaging.
The minister in charge of II colored church
in Washington is creating quite an excite
ment by denouncing the colored people living
together rs man and wife without marrying,
and threatening to turn all out of church and
not baptize their children who do not, in n
given time procure license and be married.
New York has become so corrupt and her
traders so dishonest that ii is almost impossi-
BILE for n person to deal there without being
swindled. The city is full of sharpers ras-
Gals and swindlers. Her Bulls and Bears,
Rings and Cliques. rule the market with n
tyrant's hand and use every device to cheat
! anu utlItuu Int anu tut
men out of their earnings.
In regard to fruit raising rs business. it
has its ups and its downs, and disappont-
ments in common with other branches of
business. and the man who expects to sit I'M
der his own vine and fruit tree without Ia
Dor and care, will be disappointed This lat
ter sentence is rs true in every department
of agriculture, as in horticulture. 1t is the
practical and careful cultivator, who reaps
the sure reward.
However faithful Mrs. John Strader of
Port Jervis, N. Y, may be rs n mother, as
wife she doesn't come up to her husbands
notions, and he thus informs the world of
the fact in his local paper; John Strader
wants four shirts made. Is willing to pay
reasonable price. Mrs. Strader has two in
family besides herself, and says she has got
no time to make them. Address
JOHN STRADER."
A negro member of the Texas Legislature
was met upon the street with large roll of
greenbacks in his hand, looking at his pile
and cacklng so loud that he attracted the
attention of n by-stander, who said to him,
"What are you laughing at. .Jim?" Jim re-
piled, "You see that money!" yes"
"Wcll, boss, l just got that for my vote.
Use been bought four or five times in my
life, but dis is the fust time ever got the
cash myself"
A Kansas man lately found II tenant of his
moving away because the house was haunt
ed by some person sweeping it every night.
Resolved to find out the trouble, he moved
in himself, and the third night the sweeping
commenced. The cat first attacked the
ghost, and was whipped at once. When the
proprietor came to the rescue he found II
large rattlesnake, that was taking his usual
midnight perambulations, more dangerous,
certainly, than the usual run of spirits
A man in Elizabeth, n j., went to the
train to see his daughter off, on Thanksgiving
day. Securing her seat, he went round on
the outside. Meanwhile the daughter left
the seat, and a very prim-looking lady moved
into it, The deluded parent, unaware of the
change, put his face hastilyup TO the window
and said, "One more kiss, sweet pet!' In
an instant the point of blue cotton umbrel-