Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-05-25
orleans County Munitur,
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Local News.
BARTON.

evening, May 80.
Crumbs of Comfort" is the name of
a new kind of stove polish, for sale. at
Twomblys 1t is a superior article.
Try it.
The attention of poultry raisers is
called to the advertisement Offering for
sale the fancy fowls of the late Barney
Robinson. Mr.. Robinson had consider
able pride in his collection. and spared
no pains to get the best blooded fowls
the market afforded
George Reed went to Coventry one
day last week and brought back as many
bags Of suckers as his horse could draw.
He caught them IN the Wheelock brook
with his hands-waded in and threw
them out He says he is going to plant
them on his land, and that he has got
done buying phosphate.
o. D. Owen has new advertisement
prepared, but we are obliged to disap-
point him as to its appearance this week.
He returned from Boston Thursday night
and now has in his store larger assert
ment of new goods than he has ever had
at one time before. He reports goods
remarkably cheap in market this spring,
and thinks he will be able to satisfy all
bis customers as to price and quality of
goods. See his shelves this week and
advertisement next week.
The Spring Term of the Barton kcad
envy and Graded School closed last Fri
day. A large number of parents and
those interested in the welfare of the
school, attended the examinations on
Thursday and Friday. The examina-
tons were more severe. and the result
more satisfactory than at the close of
any previous term for long time. Pa
rents are we'll satisfied with the progress
their children have made, under the in
struction of Miss Gleason, who has we'll
sustained the recommendations she had
when she came here, of being one of the
best teachers in the state. We have a
record for the three departments of the
attendance department, average scholar
ship and standing of the scholars, which,
on account of the press of other matter,
and for want of time to put it in type,
We are obliged to leave over till next
week.
We spent last week in Massachusetts:
and Connecticut, and found vegetation
but little more forward than it is here
The farmers are in the midst of spring
work, and claim that it is a very lat,
spring. The apple and other fruit tree
will blossom very full. Manufacturing
business is exceedingly dull and very
little building will be done during the
season. Hay, oats and potatoes are
scarce. Labor commands better wage:
here than in any of the manufacturing
cities We visited the scene of the late
catastrophe in Massachusetts, and. car
confirm most Of the reports given in thi
issue. Some things are little exag
gerated, but there was much that word
cannot make equal to the reality.
will not be too late to visit the ruin
any time during this season, as all tina
can be done in one year toward restora
ton will hardly make a mark toward
celebrating the marks of the food.
Orange Mosman, who went from her
TO California the first of last month
writes home that he is much pleased wit
the country. and is making preparation
to stay. He and his brother.in-la law
Mr.. d. G. Whiting-have purchase
three hundred acres of land in Peac
Tree Valley. and five hundred head
Angora Goats, and are going into the m,
hair-growing and kid-raising bushes
The Angora is said to be the most prof
able of the twenty varieties of heec
bearing Asiatic goats, shearing, on
average, five pounds per head, whic
sells at one dollar per pound. The a
vantage of the goat, in California, ov
sheep, Is that they eat almost every SD
cles Of vegetation; they travel farth
to water and back to feed than shee
grazing six miles from water and kee
ing fat, while sheep will not
well over three miles; they increa
more rapidly. generally bearing twin
and will lamb twice IN year on 90
feed; they yield more than one-half
much wool as the best sheep in the worl
and 1t brings double the price of wool
market; they live one-third longer tn
sheep under the same treatment; tn
tatten more readily. are more secu
from drouth, and will live on brush VIII
grass gives out, thus being reliable
dry years when other stock are starvi
or costing more for feed than they {
worth. According to the above sta
ments which we gather from a pamph
entitled History of the Angora Goat
sent to Mr.. Mosman, we don't see W
The goat is not very profitable amin
and why Orange has not hit good sp
We wish him success.
\ curiosity in the shape of m;
stayed at Cantain r II Iittle's hot