Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-07
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The Fair Ground Company's meeting ha;
been postponed to the 18th.
We notice boots hung out of two Railroad
Street stores, marked down 80 and IS cents,
That's good; keep on.
G. II. Mutt found ladys valise in the
street, which the owner can get by calling
on him and proving the ownership.
The Passumpsic road will run an extra
train from this place TO Lyndonvile the
morning of the picnic. Let them have full
cars.
Orr Poland the restaurant man, was ar
rested for liquor selling and had trial by
jury on "Wednesday, but nothing was proved
against him, and he was acquitted.
Read what Rev. b. NJ. Tilotson says in
our advertising columns about the new tenn
peranco book, The Rumseller's Daughter"
for which Mr.. Osrrick is now canvassing the
village.
The owner Of lap robe which was picked
up at the north end of Railroad Street,
wants it, and will thank the young man who
carried it away to leave it at the FARMER
office for him.
Mrs. Clarissa Stone, of Harjwick, former.
Iy of this town, fell and either sprained or
broke her ankle while engaged in taking
care Of Mrs. Laura Rowland a few days
ago. Mrs. Stone was conveyed to her home
in Hardwck, Monday evening.
Work on the Railroad Street cut pro-
crosses. A track wide enough for the pas
sage of teams has been completed on the
east side. james Mutt has sign on his
front gate that reads no admittance." To
understand the sign one only needs to know
that the street is eight feet perpendcularly
below the gate.
g. A. Carr, of st. Johusbury Center, SUBJ
scribed for the FARMER last November, and
sometime since left for Canada Since then
his brother, Earnest Carr, has taken the
paper, and few days since we found the
facts in the case and asked him for our pay
which he refused. He had no property, so
we are out about 50 on account of two dead
beats.
One of our Railroad Street merchants
becume I" sole proprietor of something
stronger than water, Saturday evening, and
rather unceremoniously applied an onion
poultice to John Dufhelds right eye, as DUFF
field was sitting on a railing minding his
own business. Monday morning Jerrauld
paid Duffield FIVE dollars for backing his
eye, and Tuesday he paid the state S. and
costs.
Farmers, rally to the caucus tomorrow,
and show the politicians Of st. Johnsbury
that there are such things as farmers and
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just as well send seven Mead men to White
River Junction, as to let the scale works and
railroad shops send Poland delegation.
All that is wanted is a quarter of day s
time from the farmers in attending the eau.
Gus.
Jerry Grogan, the barber, who works in
Burkes shop on Railroad Street, shot him.
self Tuesday morning. He had pistol iu
his hand and was running down the steps in
front of the Avenue House in pursuit of
rat, when the pistol was accidentally dis
charged, the ball entering the back Of his
leg just below the knee The ball is among
the cords of the leg where it probably can
not be extracted.
A musical convention has been talked of
considerably of late, and now the idea takes
tangible shape. The Connecticut Valley
Musical Association will hold its convention
ut the town hall, commencing the 18th and
continuing four days. No pains will be
spared to make the entertainment first class,
and the names of the committee are suffi.
cient guaranty OF success. Railroads will
carry for fare one way and extra trains will
run from Lyndonville. We understand
board can be had at the Avenue House for
Sl00 per day, and at the st. Johnsbury
House for 81 80.
A correspondent of the Union calls loudly
for some wealthy man to build large hotel
in the village which snail be equipped in all
respects in first class manner, to attract
the patronage of summer visitors. The
scenery in and about st. Johnsbury is as fine
as in any village in the state, the drives are
beautiful, the air bracing. He thinks it a
pity that while many other villages in the
state are drawing many from the cities to
spend the summer months, st. Johnsbury
should take no pains to secure any. If the
hotels we now have could fall into the hands
Of some enterprising men there would be an
improvement We hear, almost every week,
Of boarders changing from hotel to hotel,
but they hnd one as bad as the other, and
several travellers have said that they would
make it in their way frequently to stop over
week at St. Johnsbury, but the hotel ac-
commodations are 80 miserably poor that
they get out of town as soon as possible.
We should be as glad as any one to announce
that our hotel accommodations were second
to none, and We hope such a change may be
made before long as will enable US to do so,
but we do not think the interests of the viii
lage, or any other honest interest, can be
subserved by concealiDg the fact that this is
one OF the most crying needs Of the place.
Boss SHEPARD STILL BOss.-The SUMS
Washington correspondent, journalist who
has been so often ana iiorcoly denounced rs
an Inscriptions slanderer, and so often and
conclusivcly indicated by tho event, that
most people in newspaper Offices have be-
gun to suspect that he generally knows what
he is writing about, asserts that the new
Washington government is simply the old
ring governed by proxy. 4" Boss Shepard"