Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-09-24


are the main features of the Changers plat
form as laid down in. the West:
l. The protection of honest industry in
all it's branches against the encroachments
of aggregate capital.
2 Equal and exact justice to all classes
aud special privileges to none.
3. The control OF railroads and other cor
porations by national and State legislation.
4. A tariff for revenue purposes, but none
for the support of special interests.
5. Opposition to salary grabs and alEoth-
er government steals.
6. Rigid economy in all departments of
the public service.
7. No more land grants for railroads or
other corporations, but reservation Of the
public domain for actual settlers.
s. Honesty and capacity the only test for
official position.
The Vermont Cotton Mills at North Ben
| nington are run by stock company with a
capital of $3.50 600 all OF which is owned by
| three men. The company run 1000 spin
dies, 1872 looms 90 selt-operatng cardlng
machines, employ 100 hands, and their pay
roll is S2l00 per month. Their annual pro =
| auctions average 2 1000 900 yards of the cot
cloths, W hich weighs seven yards to a pound
the present market value for which is : 3 600
per month, all of which has been taken for
the past SIX months by the celebrated Pacific
mills print works. The motive power is
principally water, though they are provided
with a 60 horse power engine which is used
as helper, and the buildings are all heated
by steam.
UTILIZING THE BUFFALo.-IIomesteade
and other settlers of email means in western
Kansas. derive considerable profit from the
buffalo The meat, sailed and dried, is used
in families or sold in towns. The skins are
in good demand as they are now not only
used for robes, but are tanned for leather
Some of the longest hair is manufactured in
to mattresses, while the shorter hair is used
in mortar TOR plastering purposes. large
business is also done in collecting bu tfal D
bones, which are sent to the East to be
ground up or manu- featured into b1ne phos :
phates. Several hundred car loads have
been sent East over this road the present
season, and vast quantities are piled up at
nearly every station awaiting shipment
The average price paid for these bones at the
station is S. per ton.
As the butf4lo is driven west, it is noticed
that the peculiar grass on which it feeds
gives place to other varieties. On many OF
the bluffs in this region there are little hills
of sand from which issue streams OF cool and
very pure water. variety OF dwarf wild
plum trees, and wild grapevine flourish in
these places, both OF which furnish an abund-
auce of fruit-Prd,rie Farmer.
The politics Of Virginia seem to be more
mpletely in the hands of the railroad in
terests than those of any other State in the
Union The hands of the railroad men were
scarcely concealed in the manipulation of the
| late Conservative Republican Convention
and now one of the parties interested has
published full statement of the bargain by
which Kemper, representing President Gar
rett of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, was
nominated for Governor. The Orange &
Alexandria Railroad was to have had the
Lieutenant Governorship, but the wrong man
was nominated, ard now the candidate. MIR
Withers, is to 90 to the United States Sen
ate, to make way for railroad man for Pres
ident of the State Senate.
A certain Prof. Daniels of Vermont at.
tempted, recently. to illustrate to some
friends the reputed power of the human eye
over dumb animals by entering lot in
which ferocious bull was grazing. He
fixed his eye on the bull, but the latter re.
sponded by tossing the professor q feet into
the air. Fortunately, he landed on the safe
side of the fence, not much hurt. He still
asserts that his theory was all right, and
the trouble was with the bull, but has given
up testing it.
The Southern Pacific Railroad extension
southwark from Los Angeles, CAL, is EN-.
ploying a force of about two hundred men ;
the grading has been completed to within
half mile of the San Gabriel river. Work
has also been begun On the main line, with
nesrly equal force.
IPRoTEcrIoN AGAINST FIRE, and the best means
of putting out fires in cities, towns and
villages with Practical Suggestions for
the security of Life and Property. By
Joseph Bird. Hurd & Houghton, New
York, publishers.
1t is Justly said of this book 90 1t is one
of great practical Importance, and should be
read by everybody, for the good reason that
there is no man, woman, or child in the land
who is not liable to lose property, home, and
even life, by that fearful element which for
the last two years more particularly, in this
county, has made such fearful havoc in the
destruction of all that man holds dear in this
| life.
IS From reading this book it appears the
author has made the subjects therein treated
the study of q lifetime. and we believe use
fully has he devoted that time if only the
book shall arouse the public 60 proper atten-
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