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


the plan, aud said that the nearer the pro-
Queer and consumer could be brought togeth-
er the better it would be for both, and the
more dignifed the farmer would become
The plan proposed by Mr.. Round was
grand one. He would be able to bring the
producer and the consumer together from the
most distant parts Of the country, and the
former, by owning his own means of trans
portation, would receive better pay for his
labor, while the latter would pay less for
his food. Wherever these clubs are estab-
lshed the farmer was elevated to high
standard of Christian manhood. Col. Need
ham seconded the motion of the appointment
of committee of one from each New Eng
land State and one at large to take the mat
ter under consideration. He thought it
would be an excellent movement to have re-
ports from the farmers every two weeks, con-
tanning a record Of their experience, forward
ed to secretary.
The motion was carried, and the following
gentlemen were appointed as the committee:
At large, Daniel Round; Massachusetts,.
Daniel Needham of Groton; Maine, b. M.
Hight of Skowhegan; Vermont, DR.. T. II.
Hoskins of st. Johnsbury Connecticut, L.
Ii. Hyde of Stra ford; Rhode Island, Geo. +.
Wilson of East Providence; New Hampshire,
Matt Head of Hooksett.
A Yale divinity student took it upon himself
to do a little missionary work among the In
dams this summer. Soon alter reaching
Nebraska he was invited by the Pawnee chief
to accompany his tribe on their annual hunt
ing expedition. Describing the apparel of
the effeninate civilization, the theologian
donned the Pawnee costume and for the nOnce
became regular Indian. While the Paw
nees were on their homeward jaunt, heavily
laden with game, they were suddenly surpris-
ed by large body of their ancient enemies,
the Sioux. The Pawnees, though fighting
bravely, were overpowered, scattered, one
fourth of their number killed, and the re-
mainder pursued until darkness concealed
them, when they escaped. Young Platt was
captured by the Sioux after giving them the
last shot in his locker. He would have been
scalped, but the Sioux chief forbade it, ant
pointing him to the Republican river, babe
him run for his life. lie did, and saved it,
escaping unhurt among the pursuing bullets
Remarking that the back pay swindle il
universally condemned, and that there wal
no good ground for the increase OF salary
The Cincinnati Gazette, observes: This i!
the verdict OF the people, ID when President
Grant said he would have no policy to en-
force against the will of the people, he set az
example that it would be well Tor Congress
men to follow and if, in furtherance OF thi
idea, be had vetoed the salary grab bill, ever
at the expense OF the increase OF his Owl
salary, it would have been the most popula
act OF his life.
uNllo . Env liz
| traveller, who is now over IS years Of age
has Just left London on his ordinary tw,
months tour for Nijni-Novgorod. Sir Henr,
has made eight voyages to the United State
and Canada and one to Jamaica; he has tou
times travelled over the East; has made tire
tours to Algeria, two in Russia, and ha
severa! times visited Sweden and Norway
yet be says he has never lost patient by hi
wanderiugs.
| \ respondent of the New Haven PaN1
dunn writes from Woodbury., Conn, to sa
that IN 1910. when raking In rye field, b
struck black snake, out of whose mout
ran striped snake, and out of the latter
mouth thirteen smaller snakes. each about
| foot IN length. He also, in 1915, discovere
a nest containing dozen young snakes all
twice as many snakes eggs, from some G
which the heads of the reptiles were alread
pro trnding.
\ Texas journal, in publicly welcoming t
| it's staff new editorial associate, mention
him as - of HuguenOt descent and souther
! birth trained and skillful journalist VIII
entered the profession in lS49 a soldier un
| der Sterling Price. and since the war an ed
| tor of a reputation that is State wide, an
that has reached out beyond wherever Their
was a true democratic heart that responde
to the music of a Jefferson construction @
the tenets of the democratic faith"
The State geologist of Texas has reporte
| the discovery near DEVILS River of cave
| the interior of which contains very remark
able paintings and sculpture, apparently Q
Aztec origin.
Buyers prices for produce at Empire City
80 to SO cents butter, Is cents eggs, 2
cents wool, D cents bacon sides, 9 to L
cents hams, II cents.
The dwelling house of Judge Howard, Q
| Townshend, came near being destroyed b,
fire one night last week. A girl that ha
lately been employed in the family of Mr.
Howard, after retiring, INDUCED In the yer,
careless habit of reading. holding at the sam
time the light in one hand Thus epgag e
she Tell asleep. About IN ldnight she awok
and saw that the bed clothes around he
were on fire, AMI barely escaped from being
burned to death. while great efforts were re
| quired to save the house.
The Boston Herald says - Get the demo
cratic party out of tie way. 1t bears nc
fruit, and 1t should no longer cumber thu
ground. Its claim that it is alive is the one
thing that prevents the growth of new
party of reform
A New ENGLAND FAaMER.-Frye Tillotson
OF Orford. one OF the most extensive farmer,
and d4irvmen ia New England, has farm o
about IL 900 acres in the valley of the Con
meet cut river. He keeps 2lO COWS, au,
made 100 cheeses the past season, averagin.
AS lbs each. Lust TALL he fattened and sol
As hogs and 40 shotes. The old hogs aver
aged $50 lbs. He had 90 acres of corn tn
past season, and ted to the hogs about 100
bushels He cuts about 300 tons of hay
He has an apparatus Tor steamlng his corr
fodder and also steams about $50 TONS o
nay ANNUALLY, making saving vi one-tnlru
as he says, by this process.
His COWS are mostly native. He has Gu
5000 cords Of wood during the past yeac an
sod to the Passumpsic railroad company
He has a stta am saw mill in which be ha
sawed over | 900 900 leet of lumber all frou
logs cut on his own land. And with thi
care on his mind he laughs and grows IA,
His cheese factory cost $500 and it take
only two men to run 1t. He employs in a
twenty sewn hands.-Beston Ca:.tiuator.
The independence of the press has bse
INDICATED, even in the cannibal isles, wher
a curry not only acquitted the editor of tn
FiJi Times 10 the libel suit brought agaIns
bin by the government for asserting that it
officers were trying to incite the native
against the whites, but declared that the ed
ltor's charge was true.