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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-09-23
NEWPORT, SATURDAY, SEPT. %, 1871.

The corn is manured broadcast by spread
ing from the cart the accumulation in the
hog styes. This includes the horse manure,
muck and other additions. The corn gave
heavy crop last year and promises well this
season. The potato ground is prepared very
similarly, and this year the potatoes were
covered by horse hoe. The same hoe was
used to form the ridges where the turnps
were sown. The turnip seed, also the beet
seed, are sOwn with Il seed-sOwer that rapidly
and evenly distributes the seed along the
rows and also covers it properly. The beets
are looking well Gin july and will doubtless
make n good crop.
1t would be instructive to enter more mi
nutely into details inregard to all these crops,
for the yield of them year after year is much
above the average of the state but | will
only say the success seems to be founded
upon an intimate acquaintance with the char
acter of the soil (and farms differ in this),
then putting the soil in fine tilth by good
blowing, (formerly with double plow,) and
narrowing, and by applying the manure
(Which is saved under cover and contains all
its valuable qualities) near the surface and
thoroughly mngling with the soil, and by
proper care of the crop while growing and
timely and careful harvesting.
The sugar crop is of considerable value.
naples in all this woodland, but about 400
have been tapped Last spring about 5000
pounds of sugar were made. In the largest
sugar place the arrangements are very COM
plete. The teams that draw the sap stop up
on higher land than the sugar house, so the
sap from the drawing tub is conducted by
spouts into several large holders which are
in one apartment. Then spouts conduct the
sap from these holders into the four large
boiling pans set in two long, low arches. Sc
there is no use for pals and dippors after the
sap is once gathered until the syrup, thick,
transparent, luscious. is dipped out of the
boiling pans In the second story upon the
floor, is set another arch and pan used exclu-
sively for sugaring off. So the process need
not hinder the regular boiling. Two men
and an OK team can attend thousand trees
in an ordinary season and make ton o
sugar.
The buildings have all been built new ol
newly repaired within about five years. The
house was built in 1859, and is perhaps the
largest and most convenient farm house ir
the county. 1t is two stories in height and il
thoroughly finished with brown ash, the
beautiful grain plainly showing through the
oil and varnish upon it. The rooms are
large, and for health are considered desir
able.
The dairy rooms are such MS years of expe
rience show to be necessary in IL large dar.
where both butter and cheese are made will
care and excellence. A deep, cool basemen
is under the milk, room and from il coolnes
; comes up through the somewhat open floor
Above the milk room is the large room fo
, curing cheese. Milk Tor butter is now KEEP
in common pans in racks, but when warn
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-09-23
BEN FISHER.
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Ben Fisher had finished his hard days work,
And he sat at the cottage door;
His good wife Kate sat by his side,
And the moonlight danced on the floor.
The moonlight danced on the cottage floor;
Her beams were rs clear and bright
As when he and Kate, twelve years before,
Talked love in her mellow light.
Ben Fisher had never pipe of clay;
And never dram drank he,
But lived at home with his wife to stay
When from daily labor free.
cherub rogue, with a rosy smile,
On his fathery knee found rest,
And merrily chatted they on, the while
Kate's babe slept on her breast.
Ben told how fast his potatoes grew,
And the corn In the lower field
That the wheat on the hill yellow turned,
And promised glorious yield,
A glorious yield In the harvest time
And his orchard was doing fair,
His sheep and his stock were in their prime,
his farm in good repair
Kate said her farm looked beautiful;
U
The butter Tommy this morning churned
Would buy him Sunday hat;
That Jenny for papa shirt had made
Twas made, too, "by the rule ~
That Neddy the garden could nicely spade
And Annie was the head I" at school.
Ben slowly passed his toi-worn hand
Through his locks Of gray AMI brown;
81 tell you, Kate, what think" said he,
"We're the happest folks In town."
"I know" said Kate, Z" that we all work hard
Work and health are friends, I've found
There's Mrs Bell does not work at all,
And she's sick the whole year round
They're worth their thousands, so people say
ne'er saw them happy yet
'Twould not be me that would take their wealth,
And live In constant fret.
My humble home has light within
Mrs. Bells gold could not buy
Six healthy children, merry heart,
And a husbands love-lt eye"
l fancied "a tear was in Ben's blue eye
The moon shone out still clearer
could not tell why the man should cry,
But he drew to Kate yet nearer;
lie leaned his head on her shoulder there,
And took her hand In his
guess-though looked at the moon just them
He left on her lips a kiss.
-Frdncis ID. g,
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-09-23
VOL. I, No. AZ.
Terms, S1.OO per Annum.

rapid and healthy growth. Mr.. Baker desires
to have the very best dairy in the country,
and has chosen these large famous Dutch
cows rs breeders and mixers in preference
to Ayrshires or Jerseys, and so far he is sat
isfied with his choice.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-09-23

Most of this land has received dressing
Of manure. The wheat land is prepared in
the fall, the stable manure is left in the Gel
lars of the barn through the summer, and is
then applied upon the oat stubble and plowed
in or applied upon the furrows after plowing
and narrowed in.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-10-21

Colonel Wilson and General Bower
man were on Thursday sentenced by Judge
Giles, the former to pay a fine of SO, 1870
and to serve three years in the Baltimore
City Jail, and the latter to pay fine of
$e,346.72, and to four years term of i'm
prisonment. The amounts in each case
are those of which they were convicted of
ENLIGHTENMENT.
This is the way Republican Admins
tration deals with Republican officials,
when they are caught stealing. Who ever
heard of the Democratic party visiting
punishment upon any of its official thieves?
The whole party attempt to screen Tam
many; and in New York the Tammany
ticket has been nominated for State offices.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-10-21
CONFEDERATION of the North West.

Last week the world was startled by the
contlagration of the city of Chicago; this
week the news from the fire demon is more
appalling, if possible. The shores of the
great lakes of Michigan and Lake Huron
have been the scene of one grand devastd-
ton by fire. The great scourge has swept
large portions of Michigan, Wisconsin.
Minnesota Kansas Indiana, Illinois and
other States and Territories of that region
of country. The dense pine forests have
been swept by the flames, in which thous-
ands of people persisted; they have consum-
ed Cities towns villages and farms. The
fires have swept entire counties, destroy
ing everything in their course. About the
time the flames were Clevouring Chicago,
the prairie south of Breckenridge, Mimi,
took fire. The flames ran faster than
the fleetest animals, and soon reached
the Big Woods, extending for more than
one hundred miles from north to south
There the fire seized upon the underbrush,
which was dry as finder, and presently the
forest was burning in all directions, and
a clean sweep of the heavy timber was
made for many miles. This fire extended
through several large counties, reaching
from near the Red river of the north to
the Minnesota river, near Mankato dis
Through the vast lumber region on both
sides of Green Bay, Wisconsin, the fires
have ragged for upwards of ahundred miles
in extent. In Michigan the destruction
has been of the most fearful character
But it is impossible to give even an outline
of the vast destruction which has been
caused by these fires. The whole country
has been parched to 4 finder by a long
drought, and the fires once lighted were
carried by the winds in all directions, The
destruction of life is very great, willie the
value of property destroyed amounts to
millions of dollars without estimating the
incalcuable loss which the country sus-
tains in the hundreds of square miles of
magnificent timber which has been the pro
duct of a thousand years. 1t is heart-rend-
ing to read the details of burning cities,
towns, villages, FARMS and mills. many of
the Inhabitants perishing in the flames,
while thousands of families are left desti-
tute, escaping, many of them, almost as
naked as they were born. The "Grand
Bois." Or Big Woods of Minnesota, is
national loss which cannot be replaced
Great as the destruction of Chicago has
been, it is but spark compared to these
immense seas of flame which have swept
the great northwest.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-10-21
WhY

Surprise seems to be the universal senti-
ment at the extraordinary majority thrown
by the people in our late election. The
Democrats feel it because they did not look
for defeat at all. The Republicans feel it
because they did not look for SUI CHI a vic
tory. Everybody is trying to find out the
secret. But does it not lie upon the sur
face? Is it not plain to all eyes? The
Democratic party is dead by its own hand
very dead. 1t perishes from a csmbna
ton of disease any one of which would
have been sufficient to finish it.
The "new departure" was fatal stab.
The New York riots of the 18th of July
were another.
The Tammany Hall frauds another;
The Democratic Ku-Klux another;
Hostility to the amendments of the Con
stitution another.
How can any organization expect to live
pierced by as many wounds. each self
inflicted? So the Democracy passes off,
not in fair conflict with fair foe. 1t ex-
pires by suicide. Its leaders need no Ion
ger be troubled about the secret of its dis
solution. They know why. Press.
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Suggestions.

MIR. EDIToR:-Asy yet. we believe, Elkton
has done nothing publicly, and perhaps
very little in the matter of private sub
scription, towards the relief of the western
sufferers. The citizens of Elkton and
vicinity have enough, and to spare, and
should not fail to give of their abundance.
to alleviate the suffcrings of the distressed
people referred to; and this they can do
without feeling it much. 1t is only about
two months till Christmas. No entertain
ments have rs yet been announced for the
holidays. Would it not be well, then, for
the ladies, irrespective of denomination, to
get upa Fair and Festival. for the occasion,
and devote the proceeds to the object men-
toned? Come, let us see who among our
philanthropic ladies' will take the lead in
this matter. 1t is noble cause, and one
which calls loudly for your sympathics.
Again, sewing society might be organ
lied, and their work shipped monthly
This would systematic the matter, and
would better meet the wants Of the needy.
But again; their immediate necessities
may be met, in one particular, by the con-
tribution of clothing. Hundreds of gar
ments for men, women and children, can
be gathered, in town, at once, and eX-
pressed Immediately.
Let all who favor one or all of these sug-
gestions, meet at the Court House on Mon
day evening next, 23d inst, at y o'clock,
to take action in the matter. CHARITY.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-10-21

LAST DAYS OF REGIsTRATIoN.-Ihos
who failed to Register and become voters
under the recent sittings of the Registers
in the several districts of this county, have
one more chance to place their names on
the registration list. The Registers will
sit again on Monday and Tuesday, the Esd
and oath days of the present month. We
hope every Republican voter, will have his
name placed on the Register. Remember
no man can vote unless his name is on the
books of Registration.
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National Bank of ElktOh.
ELKTON, October 18th,

ELKToN, October 18th, 1871
For sale at the National Bank of Elkton,
at par and accrued interest, NORTHERN
PACIFIC RAILROAD LAND GRANT BONDS. in
denominations Of 800, $500 and $1,000,
bearing interest at $50 per cent. per annum,
payable on the first of January and July,
i'll Gold, in New York, free from US. taxes
U. S. $50 Bonds can be converted into
the aforegoing n. P. r. r. Bonds at pro
fit of 12 to IA per cent, if disposed of at
the present price of gold besides increasing
the annual income from the investment
about 50 per cent.
For full particulars, all parties wishing
information about the N. P. 7-3O Gold
Bonds, are requested to apply Immediately
to r. MCFARLAND, Cashier.
SO
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Attention, Company ~!

In Montgomery county, Ohio, near the
city of Dayton, there is Military Asylum,
where over six hundred MANNED and Grip
pied veterans of the late war have home.
These men were MANNED and crippled,
beyond all power to work, while in the
army of the United States, fighting to put
down the rebellion; and having no strength
or health to keep homes for themselves, a
grateful people have made them home at
this place. At the election held in Ohio on
the 10th of October, 1871, these manned
and crippled soldiers offered to vote, but
the DEMOCRATIC Judges of Election
refused their votes, and they were deprived
of the right of suffrage, by the arbitrary
act of Democratic Judges of Election
This was done because these judges feared
the old soldiers would not vote the Demo
cratic ticket, and they were determined to
elect Democratic members Of the Legisla-
ture. This result was effected by the
exclusion of the votes Of these old veterans
We make no comment.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-10-21

eY- Every subscriber should read the
Address to Voters, printed on our first page,
and then hand the paper to his Democratic
neighbor. THE Wig has SO exposed the
villainies and shortcomings of the Democ-
racy, that the preadomite fossils of that
party affect to dcspise, but really they only
hate, the paper; and yielding to prejudice
before good sense, are determined not to
believe anything originating with The Wing.
Give all such to understand that the Ad-
dress is not THE Wigs manifesto, but has
been carefully prepared from the county
and State records, by n competent commit
tee appointed for the purpose.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-10-21
C.o,lopse Of the Democratic Party.

The election news from Pennsylvania,
Ohio, and Iowa was so overwhelming that
all parties were astonished. The Republican
party confidently expected victory, but not
such an annihilating defeat to the partisans
of the "Lost Cause" The Democratic
party has not only been consistent, but
persistent, in sticking to that "Lost
Cause" and now, it would seem, they have,
like shipwrecked mariners in mid-ocean,
gone down with the wreck they chung to as
their only hope of safety. Their defeat
was heralded, it would seem, by the very
elements. Earthquakes and contiagrations
have lent terrors to the scene of that party's
disaster. The tidal wave of ruin came upon
it mid the earthquakes shock and the
devastation of the demon of flame.
Can the doomed party longer maintain
its ground in Maryland? We think not.
The terrible calamity which has fallen upon
it lust over the line, and in the West, must
reach i. here, also. 1t cannot escape the
fate that is so surely overtaking it. The
enlightened judgment Of the world lisa against
it, and Sodom and Gomorah were not more
surely doomed than that party, throughout
the length and breadth of this whole coun-
try.
Every Republican should arouse his ener-
gies to the task of driving the enemy to
free government, free schools, free thought
and free men. out from power and place.
Let the work in this county-right he:e at
home-be carried on with renewed earnest,
and a resolve to conquer, and the victory is
ours. The robberies of Tammany, and the
murders and riots in the streets of Phila-
delphia, on the 10th inst, are signs that
the Democratic party has lived till it has
become curse to man. Let it die! The
widow and orphan are its accusers. The
blood of the innocent witnesseth against it.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-10-21

1t is proposed in England to erect mon
ument of some sort to Charles Dickens, and
it seems probable that the testimonial will
take the shape of some grand endo wment
for the benefit of the poorer classes, for
whose elevation his pleading was always so
eloquent. Whatever its shape may be, a
worthy monument should be erected to the
memory of the man who charmed the world
to laughter and to tears, and always to it's
own uplifting. In ordinary times, Ameri-
cans would claim a full share in the work
of honorinS him, but could he speake to us,
that he would point to poor Chicago as the
proper object for American liberality just
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-10-21

"A correspondent sent us, last week, an
article for publication, on the "absquatu-
lation" of the Rising Sun, which arrived
too late for publication in that issue, and
would not serve any good purpose, that we
can conceive, if published. Any one con-
versant with the business of newspapers,
might have predicted the result from the
start
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-10-21

B"The following eloquent passage oc-
ours in the speech of Postmaster General
Crcswel, at the laying Of the cornerstone
of the Boston Post Office OH Monday last:
With SO much accomplished in the past,
who can predict the future? We are now
100000. We arc adding to our popula-
ton at the rate of one and il third millions
per year. Before the present generation
shall have passed away the population of
the United States will number 100, 900, 900
of the best educated and most enterprising
people on earth. Here all the intellect in
the land will be developed by universal free
education, mind will be sharpened by intel
lectual conflicts, invention will be quicken
ed, and science, known to us as but an I'M
tutored maid, will become the vivifying
mother of thousand gigantic powers.
which now lie dormant in the bosom of
nature. Subtle fol ces that outstrip the
winds and run in advance Of the winged
hours are already at our command Steam
and caloric, and pneumatics and electricity
are vieing with each other in their contri-
buttons to civilization. We must accept
and utilize them all. We must employ
them in due time as Gods agents for the
elevation and advancement of the human
race. The speeding post borne upon the
seal of the Post Office Department is the
emblem of progress We cannot retrograde
nor yet stand still. Our duty is clear-to
labor increasingly to provide and maintain
for the people ofthe United States the most
perfect system of communication known
among men.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-10-21

-Democray this year has carried three
States. only one of them legitimately.-
New Hamshire, lost through Republican
discussions, can be easily redeemed; Ken
lucky we admit is and will remain Demo-
cratic; while Texas if we convict dozen
or more Ku-klux, will reverse her recent
decision.
The Safes carried by the Republicans are
Connecticut, North Carolina. Maine. Ohio,
Pennsylvania, California, and Iowa. These
settle in advance the Presidential contest
next year.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-10-21
MARRIED..

WHITAK ER.--M MCDOWELL
18th, at the church, Arch and Tenth
streets, Philadelphia, by Rev. Isaac Riley.
of New York, CECIL N. WHITAKER, of
Principle Furnace, this county, and MARY
Z. Mcdowell, of New York.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-10-21
We make no comment.
had the pleasure of a &ll,

PERsoNAL-We had the pleasure Of call,
one day last week, from Francis Vincent,
Esq. of Wilmington, who has become quite
a celebrity in the world of letters. He won
his first distinction as journalist as edi-
tor of the famous Blue Hens Chicken,
which journal was known by its spicy local
character. After running through the
field ofjournalism with varying success, he
entered the lists as historian, and gave to
the world the history of Delaware. But
the work which gave him reputation as
philosopher, as we'll as author, in both Hem
ispheres, was an pamphlet essay advocating
scheme to unite, first the whole English
speaking race-the United States and Great
Britain, with her Colonies one gov
eminent, after which other nations shall
be added as they apply, till all the govern
ments of the civilized world form but a
single nation, with one common Federal
Head. This essay attracted much atten-
tion in England; and even in France, Mr..
Nincent's theory Of universal government
had won so many warm friends in the Old
World, that he has been urged to make u
tour across the ocean and delivera course
of lectures on that and kindred subjects of
political economy. He is at present lectur-
ing on these subjects, as an experiment,
near home; and is attracting considerable
attention to his philosophy of government.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-10-21
Notice To- Creditors.

Notice to Creditors.
TIM is to give notice. that the subscriber Of Cecil
county. hath obtained from the Orphans Court said
county, letters of Administration IN the personal estate
Of SARAH HAMILTON
late of id county. deceased All persons having claims
against the said deceased hereby warned exhibit.
the same. with the vouchers thereof duly authenticated
on or before the eth day Of July, 1872;
they may otherwise. by law he excluded, from all benefit
of said estate. All persons indebted said estate are
requested {" make immediate payment to the sulscr-
her. Gista under my hand, tis list day Of October
ISL. JOIN T. WILSON
Administration of Sarah Hamilton. deed.
Trt-HEuBEN d. JAMAE Register
Oct q. 1S1l-6w
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THE ONLY SURE RoAD.-The road to
success is very hard travelling, and full of
awkward places. Fortune-hunting is like
a handful of pennies tossed into a scram-
bling crowd; only the strongest Or most
unprincipled get any. Rushing for fortune
is a mistake. Steady perseverance and
careful economy are the sure paths that
have success at the end. Lay the founda-
ton of a fortune at once by economizing
your means, and save a large percentage
by purchasing your clothing of BENNETT
& Co., Tower Hall, No. 51S Market street,
halfway between Fifth and Sixth streets,
Philadelphia.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-10-21

All new styles, and all new goods, select
ed for the season, at LEWIS, the Emporium
of Fashion, at prices which are marvelously
low. All goods as represented, or the mon
eY refunded.
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A Statement from the Andes Insurance Co.

CLIFTON, Oct. 8, 1890 p. NJ.
have tonight carefully examined all
Chicago assurances in the Andes Insurance
Company of Cincinnati. We shall author
ize our adjusters to draw upon us at sight
for every correct claim as rapidly as ascer-
tanned. Our losses by this great calamity
are considerable figure, but nothing to
cripple us. The hour of duty is upon us,
and we shall meet it in the lion-hearted
manner that the occasion requires. Never
theless, l fully expect, in addition to sur
mounting this serious obstacle, to pay the
stockholders of the Andes Insurance Com
pany comfortable dividend next July.
Respectfully, j. B. BENNETT,
President
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-10-21

We have good stock of goods, and are
Offering everything at the lowest possible
prices for Cash. BEE HIVE
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-10-21

Down WITH THE KU-KLUx.-The Pres
ident has placed nine counties of South
Carolina under martial law. The military
power is all those fellows regard.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-10-21
Blankets and .tlannels at the BEE HIVE.

A large assortment of Boots and Shoes.
at RULEY's, at extremely low prices.