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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-22

n The St. Louis Democrat
thinks the back pay grab is not
likely to be forgotten, and says:
"If there are among the mem
bers of either the old or the new
Congress, those who think that
the enormity of the measure in
creasing the pay of members and
Senators will be quickly forgotten,
that it will have faded entirely
from the public mind before next
December, wheh the forty-ihird
Congress meets, we assure them
they are very much mistaken. 1t
is just precisely one of the things
which the people are not likely to
forget, and which political parties
cannot afford to ignore. So we
advise all whom it may concern,
to make up their minds to face the
issue Of repeal. and prepare To
meeti at the earliest opportunity"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-22

An Alabama 1paperIsays of a
recentlyelected member 0.tthe
Legislature that he has already
shown his devotion to the State
by nine years gratuitous service
in the penitentiary.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-22
Two thousand six hundred an,

Two thousand six hundred and
Eeventy-two women have petition
ed the Illinois Houss of Repre-
sentatlves to amend the temper
ance law so as to make it more
stringent: not a single woman has
asked to have it repealed or modi-
fed.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-22

A Toledo man reckons that
the recent increase in the price
of woollen rags has added three
per cent. to the valuation of his
family.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-22

You exhaust my patience,
cried a doctor who n as engaged In
a quarrel with his wife. You
exhaust your patients worse than
l do" was the retort.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-22

,1aIA Silver City miner remarked
after attending a prayer meet
ing, a few weeks ago, that it
'''was the first time he had hearn
the Word Of God handled for
nigh on to forty years"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-22

so.s'l should have no objection, "
said a henpecked husband, ''to my
wife's having the last word, if /
could only be assured that it would
be the last"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-22

Ga one OF the gentlemen in Con-
greSs saying: 1--WE must return t.
the food OF our ancestors" some,
body asked: "What food DOES be
meant" ''Thistles, l suppose, u
said Tierney.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-22

Several fashionable clergymen,
have had tLeir salaries advanced
lately from $4,000 and 81, 900 To
$4,000. Consequently, they
have more favorable view Of
worldly wickedncss than they had
before. The power that pays Is
seldom vicious, aud there is alway 8
hope of its paying more.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-22

A Wisconsin justice divorced
a couple recently as follows: He
stood them in the middle of the
floor, backs together, and as they
walked away from each other he
the marriage ceremony
backwards.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-22

A Fort Scott editor doubts if
Charles Dickens could have writ
ten so well if bis name had been
John Smith. s.l
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-22

There is an anecdote of an
English juror who, in trial for
murder, stood uutedoggedly for
acquittaE against the unanimous
opinion of his fellows, and who
confessedmany years afterwards
that he did so because he was
himself the murderer. I'll {
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-22

The announcement that "truih
is stranger than fiction is said to
depend chiefly upon-who tells it.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-22

A Detroit butcher has a sign
hanging, over his retail scales
which reads: ga false balance is
an abominatioh to, the Lord, but a
Just weight risEi1is delight"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-22

Q An Iowa man now languishes
ia prison because his wife, to.whom
be had decided I'll his real estate,
refused to become his surety for
81 900 bail in a criminal suit.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-22

The new dictionary will define
delirium tremens as tight fit.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-22

The New York San has
twenty-eight libel suits Gsd
years, and never had 4 seven
Of damages. opay IL cent
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-22

\ Rhode Islander has married
his former mothcr-ir-law.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-22

A Connecticut is going
to move out of the State right
away because the trustees of a
cemetery objects to his raising
onions on his cemetery lot.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-22

A wedding party in the church :f1
of, Notre Dame de I.orrete, Paris,
were all victimized by a pick
pocket who went SO thoroughly ly
through theirranks that notenough
was spared TO pay the marriage
fees 5sk,ats EsbEE
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-22

A young man in the ardor of
his affection promises to cher
i.sh one Of our young 1adies with
a love that would survive an ar
NV overcoat. -sases9 .--i s5f
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-22

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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-04-09
yerbenas from Sctds.

Secure paper Of seed saved from the
choicest named varieties we have, especially
such seed as are grown perfectly isolat-
cd from seedlings, are Of course much
the best Do not expect to get a very
large amount Of such seed for the choice
old-named varieties mature but very little
seed, and please remember that cheap seeds
are dear at any price. Quality and not
quantity is what we should look for. If
you have dollhouse, SOW the seed in Shall
low boxes or seed pans any time from jan
uary to April Or they can be easily
Started in the dweling-room in this way.
Procure box one foot long and FIVE inches
wide and four deep. Fill to within an inch
Of the top of the box with fine, sandy soil /;
sow the seed, cover lightly, shade from
bright sunshine, and water when necessary.
Cover the top of the box in which the seed
is sown, with window glass to retain the
moisture, and with plenty Of light and heat
your seed will start and grow up quite as
well as though they we're in a plant-house.
After they have grown to sufficient size to
bear handling transplant them to other
boxes or small pots. Give them plenty Of
room in which to grow, SO as to secure
stocky plants. AS soon as the ground will
answer to work, make your beds where they
will have the full benefit of the sun, and
please bear in mind if you want your YER
benas to do well, on no account try to raise
them more than one year in the same place
A change Of soil is what they need each
year to do well
As soou as all danger Of freezing has
passed "a light frost will not injure then, J
they should be turned out into the beds pre-.
pared for them. Set them about Is or Is
inches apart each way. This will give
them sufficient room to grow in until they
show flower, when those Of the least merit
should be pulled up so as to make room for
those of first quality, for they will rapidly
run and fill up all such vacancies in short
time, and your verbena beds will be far
more beautiful and every way more salts.
factory than il all were allowed to grow
| Homestead.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-04-09
AND STATE JOURNAL.
wATCHMAN l
Oxen in Harness.

Who has not noticed the painful strug-
giles of oxen when engaged in hauling a
very heavy load by the yoke ? They lean
outward from the tongue, their bodies are
twisted out of the direct line of draft, and
the waste even in the best broken animals
must be very considerable. In many coun-
tries, and in some parts Of our own coun
try harness made with broad eathern
bands is used instead of the yoke. 1t
would seem, however, that Yankee ngcnui-
ty should discover some better form of the
yoke. The theory is that the weight. bear.
ing and pushing power Of the OK lies in his
fore shoulders and legs, and in his neck and
forehead. 1t is surely a mistake to place a
heavy weight upon his neck aud then re-
quire him to use the place where this
weight rests as a point of traction. As VIC
write this paragraph many picture comes
up of half frenzied cattle engaged 10 haul
ing load which at once held them back
and pressed them earthward. Now we
may 90 TO nature for instruction in this
matter The OK instinctively pushes with
his forehead when he wants to overthrow an
obstacle or an opponent He has a short
aud enormously strong neck but the space
between his horns and his shoulders is sure.
y not calculated to sustain heavy weight,
such as is often placed upon it.
The yoke, as we use H. does not ia its
best estate place the strain farther back
than the base Of the nsk Notice where
the hair is neck worn on your cattle, and
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-04-09

Sugar Making.


Messrs Editorsi l noticed in your col
ums Of March Goth, short piece on SUI.
gar making, and it being without signature
my curiosity was somewhat excited to know
who it might be, and whether some one had
not been looling him. Finally l came to
this coucuson--that he was trying to live
over the days of bis great.graudlather, and
was about one hundred years in the rear
Of what we style modern improvement
When a man undertakes to make me be.
lieve that sap will sour quicker in a tin tub
than it will in wooden one, he undertakes
very difficult task for experience has
a power to convince men that the thousand
and one false notions presented to the pub
lie are without foundation. And I would
here appeal to all experienced men in su.
gar-making.
use about 700 tubs, and they are about
half tin and half wood take particular
pains to cleanse my wood tubs after sugar.
ing, and also before using in the spring,
and by tho time we are two.thirds done su.
caring the sap will invariably begin to
sour--and the last Of sugaring it will be-
come Shiny, and string from the tub to the
ground while in tin tubs it will turn as
clear as water. And in regard to the tiany
taste he speaks Of, impaired to the syrup
made from tin tubs, if the gentleman will
show me man on whom he can make such
an impression, | will show him man who
| think must have been schooled under the
tutorship of some old maids, who are as firm
believers in all the whims Of the times as
the ancients we're in wooden gods, and yet
never able to come to a knowledge Of the
truth.
In regard to the sumac spouts be speaks
Of l admit they are perfectly harmless.
well remember those old wood spouts in my
boyhood days, and also the huge wooden
trough that played out in the earliest days
of my recollection. | think | would dread
going back to those days, about as man
would dread going back into prison after
he had gained his liberty by service at hard
labor for twenty-five years.
Without casting any reflections on any
one, must think that my friend that rec
ommends the wooden tub and spout, in
preference to tin, must belong to the old
style Of the ancient worthless and were |
to sec him, should expect to sec him with
the long swallow-tailed coat and a bell
topped hat that would bold anywhere from
half a bushel to three pecks.
But what are the facts in brief in regard
to making sugar2 | think it is a conceded
fact that no sugar from the maple can be
made so pure and white, aud with that beau.
tiful maple flavor (which can have no sub.
stitute to equal it) as that from tin buckets,
and boiled in an eeaporator. Are these
things SOP
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-04-09
Berlin, VT, March 10, 1873.
The Agricultural Position OF New England.

The Agricultural Position OF New England.
The New York Erening Post, comment
ing upon the agricultural returns from the
various sections Of the country reads the
New England farmers the following lee.
ture
The agricultural position of New EGG.
land is puzzle which Gdipus himself could
not unravel. A people in the foremost
rank for intelligence, force and good sense
more bent usually than most others in do.
ing the right and the best, when oppertuni.
ty offers taking time by the forelock and
not putting off till tomorrow what can be
done to-day having before them line upon
line, precept upon pre1ept, supported by
experience on experience, as to the posi-
bility, propriety, and advantage Of very
greatly increasing their agricultural pro.
duct, at little or no increase of trouble ;
they stand face to face with deteriorating
position, with bountiful Nature ready to
increase her product to almost any amount,
and put millions of dollars in their pockets,
but they don't put forth hand to help her,
or show any desire to be the recipient of
her increased bounty.
They are content to 60 on year after year,
with every important crop decreasing in
amount. Wheat, corn, oats, sheep, butter,
swine, fax, wool, and potatoes, all "getting
small by degrees and not beautifully %
bat miserably "less " with even the bee
no nj pr rf bntr G.,
if ashamed of the situation, leaving, and
honey and wax becoming diminishing pro-
duct The only item in which New Eng.
land has any credit, during the last decade,
is cattle, Of which there is large increase,
both in the value Of the slaughtered and
the live stock; to this Connecticut adds a
large increase in tobacco, not exactly the
direction in which VIC should expect "the
land of steady habits and utilitarian pro-
jects to be most progressive. The increase
Of manufactures will not put money into
the pockets of the farmers, unless they have
something to sell but, going on as they
have been, their bread products will soon
hardly suffice for their own families, and
New Eogland agriculturally, will be like a
withered branch on a fruitful tree, or a
sluggard's field, brought into bold relief by
contrast with its neighbor, New York, ac.
tive, energetic, progressive, always excell-
ing in the most useful and paying products,
aud those especially which New England is
so much nsglecting.
With their brains and money, there is no
excuse for the people of New England oc
cupying such a position; but little effort
and change of position is needed to make
this country beautiful garden, afTording in
richest abundance, the choicest and most
desirable products, and they owe it to them
selves and the nation, but especially to the
high character of New England in other re-.
spects, to make their agricultural system
also excellent.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-04-09


The Providence Journal dscourses ap.
petizingly of certain pals of butter which
have gladdened that market, coming all the
way from an Illinois dairy, sweet, fresh aud
possessing a delicate aroma, uniform in
quality aud hardly distinguishable from
each other though made in summer, autumn
and winter
They contain little salt and no butter.
milk. The perfect butter is churned daily
from fresh milk. Here lies the secret
Milk one hour--butter the next. No set.
ting Of milk pans and skimming and stor.
ing up of cream. No subsection of milk
and cream 10 atmospheric, electric and
thermal changes. Ne expensive cellars
with running water to secure fresh air, and
equal temperature, or, in default, perpet.
ually fuctuating product Of butter. In
place Of the hand churn, the power churn.
In place of inefficient hand working of the
butter, jaws worked by power, squeezing
out the buttermilk, just as the melted Stag
Is squeezed out of the sohened iron pub
ding"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-04-09
Disadvantages Of Western Farming.

Disadvantages Of Western Farming.
A correspondent Of the Congregational.
ist, writing from Iowa, draws the following
dark picture of the condition of the farm
ers in those grain growing regions
We are seeing now at the West hard
times, yes very hard. just think 1000
bushels Of corn or oats or potatoes have
been worth in our market $3.50, for the
last three months dressed pork, SO so
per cwt beef little better, SO per cwt.
on the foot Wheat has ranged from IS
cents to 81, barley from II cents to 40
cents. Every thing the farmer has to buy
costs him nearly one half more than it
would in New England Between the up
per and neither mill stones-huying aud
selling-th farmers are ground down hard.
"The railroads are making money for they
have it in their power to take the lions
share. When corn is worth 5 cents a
bushel in our market, and 10 cents in the
Boston market there is wide margin be.
tween the producer and consumer. Sixty
cents per bushel is paid to the middle men,
the buyer, transporter and seller. In other
words it costs the producer and consumer
four bushels to get one between them.
"The same has been true in respect to
nearly all the grains, together with beef
and pork. Money brings 10 to ID and 90
per cent, and scarce at that, since the "Chi-
cago Fire." aud worse since the "Boston
Fire. Millions Of dollars must be absorb.
ed in rebuilding those cities which otherwise
might have found their way to our relief.
Farmers who owe money cannot pay this
high interest, and many of them are losing
their places by the foreclosure Of mortgag.
es."
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-04-09
Sailing Butter.

m. r-l-. m -,
Inc following appears IN the Bucks
county, Pa, Agricultural society's report
A short essay by Miss Kate Craven, Of
Newtown, was read in response to the
question, " Can butter be packed to adj
vantage in June Or July for winter use 2"
Miss Craven was decidedly in favor of
packing butter in carly summer, when the
price is usually SO low as to be unprofta.
bic. If properly put up then it cannot DO
surpassed. 1t must be fresh and good, or
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-04-09
Xurtcultrtral.

~ Communications on subjects Of interest TO the
farmers Of Notwithstanding Of either the results
Of experiment, vol considered speculation and com.
mont or pertinent inquires-wili always DO wei.
coined TO this department Of the WArcHuAS
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-04-09
Advertisements.
VT. CENTRAL RAILROAD LINE
WINTER ADVANCEMENT,
Commencing Monday, Dec. 2, 1872.
TRAINS GOING soUTH AND EAST.


Leave Montpelier at 500 n. M. 2is D. m. g60p. IN.
Mail Train leaves Osdensburg at 90 p. NJ ~. Al
bans at 9 20 2. M connecting 81 White River june
ter &c, at White River Junction with trains on tho
Passumpsc Railroad ut south Vernon for Springfield,
and New York. ut New London with steamers for
Day Express leaves Montreal a, 10 a. M, st. Johns
az 1000 a. M. Ogdonsburgh at 3. 20 A. M. Pittsburgh
at 6. 20 o. m, NJ. Adams at 1900 m, arriving IN
Boston via Lowell at 1000 pm.
Night Express leaves 0gdonsburg at 1900 m. Platts-
hurgh $40 ,, m, Montreal at JJO p. m, st. Johns at
t.5Op M, st. Albans at ~ p. M, connecting at
White River Junction and Bellows Falls with trains
$50 o. M at South Vernon with train. Tor Springfield
and New York, arriving in New York At l250 p. H.,
New London at Hos n. m.
TRAINS GOING NORTH AND WEST.
Leave Montpelier nt 9.oo.a a. M, 7.i5 O. M, il1and
Day Express leaves Boston via Lowell at soDa. M,
for Burlington, st. Adams Montreal &c., arriving In
Montreal at 0.i5 y. m, and ugicnsburg at iija IN
making connections for the West.
Mail Train Tor Burlington and st. Adams leaves
Boston via Lowell at 7OJ a. NJ. via Lawrence and
Fichburg AZ 7,J0 a. m, Springfield nj $50 o. M New
London AZ 5.n A. m, south Vernon at Co., 90 M, Bel
lows Falls HIS p, m, White River Junction so D. NJ
arriving In st. Adams nt g.2j p. IA.
Trains leaving Boston via fitchburgh no 1.30 q. m,
and Springfield at 500 a. M, connect &C White River
Junction with Day Express train
Accommodation Train leaves Northlcld at TO- tn.,
Rutland at 300 n m, Burlington At guO M, st. Al
bans at l2vJ M arriving In Vgdcnsburg at slOp No.
Night Express leaves New London ut $40 p. M,
nuuth vernon NJ FF1 y. M receiving passengers Rom
Connecticut River Railroad, leaving NCw York nt
300 b. M, Springfield 40 y. ~, Bellows lallsltlU
p M, connecting with train over Cheshire Railroad
leaving Boston at 5.jO y. ~, connecting at Nhitu
River Junction with train leaving Boston IL 0.0Op. m.
Tor Burlington ST. Adams, Montreal &C. arriving in
Montreal a. 9.i5 M, Plattburgh 80 a. me- ana in
Ogdcus1utsh 90 i4l1 b.. u connecting with Grand
Trunk Railway for the West.
sleeping cars are attached 20 night EApres. Trains
running between Montreal and Boston, and Montreal
and Springfield, and 81. Adams aud Troy
Drawing Room Cars day Express Trains De-
tween Montreal and Boston.
Through tickets for Chicago and the West flr sale
at the principal stations.
q. MERRILL, General sup,riHtni,nf
St Adams, December @, 1871
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-04-09
CIAPlTOL DENTAL RoOMs.-C.R.

4 'APIIOL DENTAL ROOMS.-C. r.
~ PILL, Surgeon Dentist, formerly with Dr. J
81 Nomogys 81 Altaus, VI, respectfully Announce o
10 the people Of Montpelier and Vicinity that he la
opened an oitce over j. {. Emery's store state ST.
aud Is permanently located. All work warranted
frlces reasonable. save your natural teeth hy hav
ing them hiled. liz has given special Atteniionto
ths branch OF the profession ana prepared DO sk-
mlly perform the most d.fiault operations Nitrous
oxide Gas or Ether, administered lu the e1iraetion
Of teeth
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-04-09
w ISTAR RS LSAM OF
VIII ID CHE RRY,
THE GREAT
REMEDY FOR CONSUMPTION

WHICH CAN BE CURED by A TIMELY RESORT
TO THIS STANDARD PREPARATION, AS HAS
BEEN PROVED by THE HUNDREDS OF TEsTI.
RECEIVED BY THE PRoPRIEToRs.
TT IS ACKNOwLEDGED BY MANY PROMINENT
no DE THE MOST RELIABLE
EVER INTRODUCED FOR THE
RELIEF AND CURE OF ALL LUNG COMPLAINTS,
AND IS OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC, SANCTIONED
by THE EXPERIENCE OF OVER FORTY YEARS.
WHEN REsoRTED TO IN SEASON 1T SELDOM
FAILS TO EFFECT A SPEEDY CURE IN THE
MOST SEVERE CASES OF COUGHS, BRONCHITIS,
GROUP, wHooPING COUGH, INFLUENZA, AsTH-
MA, COLDS, SORE THROAT, PAINS OR SORE
NESS IN THE CHEST AND SIDE, LIVER COM
PLANT, BLEEDING AT THE LUNGS &C, &C
wISrARs BALsAM DOES NOT DRY UP A COUGH
AND LEAVE THE CAUSE BEHIND, AS IS THE
CASE WITH MOST PREPARATIONS. But IT
L0osENs AND CLEANsEs THE LUNGS, AM
ALLAYs IRRITATION, THUS REMOVING TIL
CAUSE OF THE COMPLAINT.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-04-09

Why do honest ducks dip their heads
under water 2 To liquidate their little
bills.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-04-09

Melancholy suicide---a little boy, on be-
ing threatened with whipping hung hi,
head.