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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-08-31
Pacific Mail Steamship Limo
FOR CALIFORNIA, CHINA AND JAPAN
GREAT REDUCTION IN RATES, PASSAGE, AND
.EREIGHT. To CALIFORNIA, VIA PANAMA.

GREAT REDUCTION IN RATES, PASSAGE, AND
FREIGHT, To CALIFORNIA, VIA PANAMA.
The magnificent Steamships of this Line will be
despatched from Pier A. North River, New York,
under:
August -, mt Il NJ, COLON, Capt, j. NJ. Dow
Aug. %, at II NJ, ACAPULCO, Capt. \. g.. Gray.
And every fortnightly Saturday thereafter, con-
Meeting al Panama with all steamers for Central
America Mexican Coast and South Pacific ports
Passenger steamers will call at Kingston Jama
Ca, both on their outward and homeward trips, ar
irving at that port Friday the sixth day after
leaving New York, and leaving Saturday T. NJ, for
AspnWall.
Extra steamers, for freight, ETC., will be dis
patched on intermediate Saturdays, whenever the
necessities of transportation may require it.
TO JAPAN AND CHINA.
The splendid steamers of this line, carrying T..
5. mails, leave san Francisco for Yokohama, Hong
Kong. and Shanghai, as follows:
COLORADO, AUGUST II.
CHINA, AUGUST -.
Tea.will be brought from san Francisco to New
York, fast, in IS days at $40, sod per ton of 1000
pounds. -
(Incuding Berth, Meals, and ali requisites for lhe
trip
currency, according TO location.
New York to Kingston, as or $50 gold, according
TO location.
san Francisco to Yokohama, $50 gold,
San Francisco to Hong Kong, $500
For Freight and Passage, other information,
apply at the Companys Office Pier A, North River,
foot of Canal Street, New York.
RUFUS HATCH, Vice President and Managing
Director.
febl3-tIy II. j. BULLAY, Superintendent.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-08-31
Amazon Insurance Co.,
or Gin G N N a /.

Financial Exhibit, July ], 1874.
Cash Capital, pad in, $4,000
Surplus, s35o,957.l7
ASSETS
Cash on hand and in Bank. S27,532 AZ
Bonds of the United States (Market
valuel 2l2 ,T9 so
Bonds Of Ohio Corporations, (Market
valne) 1890 90
Bonds of the State of Alabama, deposit
ed in that State in compliance with the
market value) G.8,2 10
Bonds of the State of South Carolina,
deposited in that State in compliance
with the Laws thereof, par value, $40.
COO, (Market value) $500 90
Loans Bond and Mortgage-iirst
liens on improved real estate In Ohio, SIG, 1876 o3
Cash in hands OF Agents and in course
OF transmission net, GIBBS 10
Collateral Loans and Accrued Interest, S0,796 OF
Personal Property, cash value) 1900 90
Bills Receivable, (Cash value) 90 els As
Due from other Insurance Companies, 69jS 01
Real Estate in the City Of Cincinnati,
Cash value) 7oOOG &c
Gross Assets, SSJ095I II
LIABILITIES.
Outstanding Losses, S62,9I5 ),
All other actual Liabilities
not exceeding 1000 90 --92, 9.5 81
Net Assets, $757,9sl so
Reinsurance Reserve, full y. Y. Standard $22I90O
M. w. FAIR. Agent.
aug2l.tlaw3w AUGUSTA. ME.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-09-18
Ni;ttmant Eatmet
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
TT ST. JOHN'SBURr, VT.
ROYAL CUMMINGS, Pub'r and PrOp'r.
WIN. II. WHEELER, Editor.

Tcrms.--One copy, per annum, $3.50
II paid strictly in advance.
No paper discontinued until all arrearagcs are paid,
except ut the option Of the publishers.
We desire that al subscribers should send their pay
ments directly to instead Of waiting for agent to
call, or handing them to third party who is apt to
ence in looking them up When sent directly 10 US,
S2O0 will pay Tor year fnot more than half the year
has ehpsed and $500 will pay for two years " not
than one OF them has passed But, u only mon
ey enough s sent 70 pay up arreareges or less must
except In of understanding in reference 10 FUR
ther payment.
Money should by sent by postal money order; pay
able 70 ROYAL CUMMINGS, or by registered letter,
and when in either Of these ways the safe
mission will he at risk. money order for $40
or less costs but Eve cents Registration fees have
been reduced TO eight cents. Money sent by ordinary
letter will seldom fail to reach but we do not as
sumo the risk,
subscriber wishing his paper sent tn different post
Office must give the Of the Office it is sent to
as well AS the one IL is 10 be sent 10.
The date your address label is the time 10 which
sae b ato aa nsySSce @ ANY sub
scrber ticng mistake In the date Of his label Is
quested to notify the publisher at once.
Advertising Rates.
Legitimate business advertising IS cents per inch for
first insertions each subsequent insertion 25 cents per
inch. Special Notices, 50 per cent additional Farm.
ers advertisements and the like IT paid in advaAse
81 90 an inch per month No lottery, whisky or other
swndling advertisements inserted at any price. Cuts
must be on solid metal. Advertising space limited.
Newspaper Decisions.
The Courts have decided that
|. Any person who takes paper regularly from
the postocc whether directed To his nano or another
name whether he has subscribed not is respon-
p Ifa person orders his paper discontinued he must
pay all arrearages, OF the publishers may continue to
send IL until payment Is made, and collect the whole
amount, whether 1t is taken from the office not.
B. The courts have also decided that refusing to take
newspapers and periodicals from the post-Oice,
moving from the place and leaving them uncalled for
is prma facie evidence of intentional fraud.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-09-18
VERMONT STATE FAIR.

The weather throughout was splendid
Everything seemed to conspire to make the
affair success, and such it is pronounced
to be.
Notwithstanding the rush Of those, at the
gates aud different Offices who had entries
to make, everything had been so ystemat'
ically arranged by the officers and different
superlntendents of the halls, that no contu.
sion or incompeteness was noticed the first
day and but little fault finding was heard.
The entries were larger than at any fair for
the past few years.
The Show OF Horses
is extremely good, and shows that the
breeds Of horses for which Vermont
was once SO famous are not entirely extinct.
The list of entries comprises those from all
parts of the state, and all are in fine order
and look almost as if they knew that each
one must take the premium for being the
best horse. And indeed among the largo
number entered it seems to an outsider as If
it would be difficult matter to make a
choice.
The show OF Cattle
is remarkably good, the pens that extend
the whole length of the spacious grounds on
the north being almost eAtirely taken up by
them. The stock comprises some Of the
choicest selections from the herds of many
Of the best cattle raisers in the state. Every
grade that is popular hereabOuss is repre-
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-09-18
For the VERMONT FARMER
PROFESSIONAL DIGNITY.

Our republican equality of " American
citizens " seems sometimes disturbed with
ill-lounded distinctions in society savoring
more Of the castcs of the old world than of
free government.
In the working effects of established mon.
arches distinctions of rank and different
degrees Of honor may be inevitable between
the ruling and the subjected classes; but,
whether republicanism be fixed fact or an
experiment, as long as it is the law of the
land even as an experiment, the most essen
tial basis of its vitality is the matter of uni
versaI equality for seli-ruling people from
the chief magistrate to the humblest citizen
who calls him to office or gives him power
to rule or serve for given time in the chair
of state.
We discard all thoughts of royal limo.
age-that one is born to rule and another to
serve, one to honor and another to inevitable
ignominy. There is, however, an acknow-
edged necessity Of the different professions,
learned or unlearned, as we may choose to
call them. They are the different depart
ments of producing and governing whole,
involving mutual dependence and the just
claim Of mutual, equal honors and respect,
and if there is any just claim for distinction
Of honor it is only in that fidelity to Office or
devotion to a special calling which rises
above the temptations Of wealth or fame to
be taken aside from that calling to another.
Let it be conceded as it ought to be that
tho different professions, calings or enter
prises Of labor are based upon the well.rec.
ognized wants OF society as mutual helps in
its progress. Then whether producers or
consumers, whether ruling or being ruled,
whether teaching or learning, whether serv-
ing or being served, natural obligations must
be everywhere acknowledged and distinctions
of rank must vanish.
1t is often amusing aud sometimes scken.
ing to see a small village with one or two
aspiring limbs Of the legal profession, a
cheap minister, doctor, and two or three
bankrupt merchants, with their aspiring
families, lead society, making from three to
half dozen grades in society, when one good
country farm, we'll stocked and cared for
would eclipse in usefulness the whole concern
all their chief seats in the synagogues, in.
cludiDg the head singer in tho choir. Both
wealth and learning in small quantities are
more productive of unjust distinctions in So
ciety than fuller measure of the same ele-
ments would be. The best interests, howev-
er, in mutually helping departments of
life, demand some measure Of devotion to
each and every calling which will often rise
to pride of position justly entitled to dis
tinguishiDg hOuOrs. This deserving merit
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-09-18
WHOLE NO. 1913.

Bee honey, f. b. Holden, North Claren|
don, SO.
Maple honey, Charles Gilbert, Dorset
So Enoch Ives, Tinmouth 4 F; A. $. Cram
ton, Rutland, 2.
Fruits.
Lot winter apples, j. NJ. Kctcham, s 4
c. A. Lyon, Shelburn, B.
Six varieties autumn apples, j. NJ. Ketch
am, 81 G. A. Lyon, 3.
Lot pears, c. A. Lyon, 81; JIM. Ketch
am, B.
Six varieties eating apples, J. NJ. KGtch
am, 81 G. A. Lyon, 3.
Vegetables.
Largest and best display, W. Y. Ripley
SIS; Second best, p. p. Hall, Is; thirC
best, II. N. Morgan Castleton, 4.
Best show Trophy tomatoes, Newton Kel
logg, Pittslord, 81.
Display Of seed corn, bcets, squashes
pumpkins, Ozias Amcs, Castleton, 81.
New queen onions, Samuel Everts, Corn
wall, 81.
Seeding potatoes, Il. S. Brownell, Esse,
junction, S.
The committee recommend diplomas a
follows:
To j. Remington, Wallingford, on colder
rye; j. w. Remington, Rutland on Bel
gian oats John O. Stewart, Clarendon, OIL
surprise oats.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-09-18
Pen-SpHtterS.

The nearest approach TO confidence
game is pulling mules tail.
1t has been noticed that nothing makes II
woman laugh so much us II new set of teeth.
A man adyerliscs in New York paper
for bar-keeper, "who must be rccO mmend-
ed by his pastor"
"Oh, ma. There's an angel with wings"
"Pshaw that's only Nam street girl with
her ears spread.
In u Montana newspaper appeared tho fol-
lowing; "A number of deaths are unavoid-
ably postponed"
GLOW much do you charge for weighing
hogs" asked II gentleman lately of one OF
our ''weighmastcrs." "Oh, just get on, I'll
weigh you for nothing" was the bland reply.
Hope deferred mnketh the heart sick, has
been translated by Detroit boy to read II
you hope you will go TO the circus, and dad
won't let you, it makes you have the slom-
ach ache.
Well, how did you get alongm inquired
a country landlord, one rainy morning, of u
guest whom he had put in top-noor
room, under losky roof "Oh swimming
ly,n was the reply.
When they tried to force Miss Gay, of In
dependence, Missouri, into marriage
against her will, she kicked the minister's
hat OIL, Knocked the young man down, and
rode of on IL mule, with one foot on each
side of him,
In the Savannah market, the other day, Il
man from the country sat down upon the
Stats of box which happened to contain 4
huge turtle, The turtle reached for him
and the reporter who describes the incident
predicts that the man " will carry the marks
10 his grave"
1t may interest the champion baggage
smasher to learn that New Yorker, who
last season had 5000 worth of trunks destroy
ed, has had five new ones made to order
and supplied with compartments containing
five pounds each of nitro -glyoerine. lie
proposes TO travel from Maine to Texas, COW
ering all the water places, and will have q
coroner along TO hold inquests on the vic
tins,
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-09-18
A TALE OF A NOSE.

Twas hard case that which happened in Lynn
Haven't heard oft, eh' Well then to begin,
There's Jew down there whom they call "Old Mo:
Who travels about and buys old clothes.
Now Mose-whel the same Is short for Moses
Had one Of the biggest kind Of noses
1t had a sort Of instep in it,
And he fed II with snuff about once a minute.
One day he got in bit ofa row
With German chap who had kissed his frau,
And trying to punch him, a Ia Mace,
Had his nose cut of close up to hls face.
lie picked it up from of the ground
And quickly back in its place twas bound,
Keeping the bandagc upon his face
Until 1t had ihiry hOaled in place.
Alas for Nose Twas a sad mistake
Which he in his haste that day did make
For, to add still more 10 his bitter cup,
lie found he had placed II wrong side up.
"There's no great loss without some gain,"
And Moses says, IN n jocular VEN,
lie arranged 1t so for taking snun
AS hc nsvsr before could got enough.
One thing, by the way, he forgets to add,
Which makes the arrangement rather bad
Although he can take his snuff with ease,
lie has to stand on his head to sneeze.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-09-18
Correspondence.
For the VERMONT FARMER.
THE EARLY YORK POTATO.

This potato was highly commended by you
in the issue OF Sept 4, in contrast with the
Early Rose and humbugs. The Early York
you admit is only good as an early potato as
it soon grows strong
The Early Rose potato is now very justly
the most popular potato in the world. 1t is
valued by the market gardeners near the
cities Of New England, as it yields well and
sells readily to those who are the only relia.
BILE jury to decide on the merits Of potato,
that is, those who cat them. The hotel
keeper, boarding mistress, and the Irish
mother, alike buy the Early Rose. Last
year $40 barrel was paid for them to eat
the 6rst week in July. Along all the lines
of railroad they were bought through the
fall, winter, and spring in preference to all
other potatoes. In the West they like them,
as they mature quickly while the farmer
fights the Colorado potato bug. / have no.
ticed a recent item that while American po-
tatoes rarely succeeded in Europe, the Early
Rose is an exception.
. You also commend the jackson White to
60 with the Early York to make the COM
plete supply the year round. The jackson
White does not sell WE'LL Its deep set eyes
aud irregular shape make it a wasteful po-
tato to cook, and it is quite apt to rot, both
dry and wet rot. Instead of the jackson
White, that most dealers refuse to buy, the
Chill potato is the popular late variety.
Now in regard to "new varieties put upon the
market late years by persons desirous of
making money more easily than by hard
work. consider it almost impossible
to put poor potato upon the market and
make it popular or make money from it.
a score of men are testing new potatoes,
and they work in harmony with B. X. Bliss,
the most prominent scotsman in New York
city. The growth, yield, freedom from rot,
flavor, shape, color, size, and texture of flesh
are tested. There are three or four very
promising new varieties that have just come
before the people, Early Vermont, Compton
Surprise, and Snowflake.
In regard to the Snowflake originated by
G. G. Prngle, of Charlotte, there is now
great hopes. 1t is believed to be an inn
provement Oil the present varieties. Mr..
Pringle is a most conscientious experimenter,
diligent botanical student, and practical farm
er. 1t has been much hard work and little
money during all his farm life. He has hybrid.
lied or crossed many varieties of oats, wheat,
apples, gooso5crries, raspberries, currants,
potatoes, aud various flowers, with devo-
ton that prompts the true scientist. Those
who know his labors hope for many good
results, but the Snowflake is his first tri.
umph and the seed sold last spring at three
dollars per pound. One pound with me
yielded this year two bushels. | do not
know to whom you refer as parties who in.
troduce new potatoes so as to make money
more easily than by hard work, but it is not
Pringle, aud the bumbugs are not the Early
Rose, Chill, or, as believe, the Snowflake ;
if the last is not mertorious none will mourn
more sincerely than the originator So be-
lieves u. T.. JAMESON
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-09-18
ADDISON COUNTY FAIR.

In former years the fairs of this society
were considered to be among the best, but a
year ago no fair was held, the time being
given up to horse fair. Early last spring
several persons who had been connected
with the society began to make arrangements
for holding fair this season that should be
equal to any former one, and the entries
show the hearty support that they have re-
ceived from the farmers Of Addison county
The weather was clear and pleasant Wed.
nesday, and the attendance was fair, though
the rain on the second day kept some at
home who would have attended.
The morning OF the second day opened
clear and pleasant, and everything augured
well for the society, but in the afternoon the
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-09-18
Votes and Queries.
Foot Rot In CoNYs.

Feed ground bone and wheat shorts; ap-
ply blue vilriol dissolved in strong vinegar,
hot. 30 years ago my father had the disease
among his CATTLE and lost several, said to be
caused by spear grass. lie went TO drawing
leached ashes from an old potash works and
spread II ON his meadows, and we never
have been troubled with the distomper since.
|. IL. RICHARDSON.
NorlhGcld, august %.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-09-18
THE BEST MEDICINE.

Take tho open air,
The more you take the better /;
Follow natures laws
To the very letter.
Let the doctors 90
To the Bay of Biscay;
Let alone the gin,
The brandy aud the whiskey.
Freely exercise
Keep your spirits cheerful ;
Let no dread Of sickness
Make you ever fearful.
Eat the simplest food;
Drink the purest water
Then you will be we'll,
Or at least you ought to.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-09-18
CHARGE OF THE CHRISTOPHER BRIG


Half league, half league,
Half league onward,
Right from the west they came,
More than SIX hundred
Out from forest and glade
"Charge for the corn =" they said,
Then iof the fields they made
More than six hundred.
Fields to the right Of them,
Fields to the left of them,
Fields in front Of them
Pillaged and plundered
Naught could their numbers tell,
Down on the crops they fell,
Nor left a stalk or she'll
More than six hundred.
Flashed all their red legs hare.
Flashed as they turned in air,
Robbing the farmers there,
Charging an orchard while
All the world wondered.
Plunged in the smudge and smoke,
Right through the corn they broke,
Hopper and locust;
Peeled they the stalks all bare,
Shattered and sundered
Then they went onward-but
More than six hundred.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-09-18

Girls do not always know their power.
1t Is far greater then they think and, were
they true aud brave enough to exert it, they
mi ght, almost in generation, revolutionize
society about them, Exert your power for
good upon the young men who are privileged
to enjoy your society, Gentle and good, be
also brave and true. Try to exhibit the
ideal OF wOmau-a pure and good woman
whose life is mighty as well as beautiful
in its maidenly dignity and attractive loyeli-
ness, Do not let it ever seem that lriyolty
constitutes your only thoughts but let the
elevation of your character and usefulness of
your hfo lift up the man that walks by your
side. Some Of you are in intimate associa-
tions which, under exchanged promises look
forward to a nearer and more enduring re.
lation. In these hours do nothing to lower
but everything to refine and ennoble each
others character.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-09-18
Eairtar, Sept. s

Honey Cake. One cup of butter, two
cups Of honey, four eggs well beaten, one
teaspooniul essence of lemon, half cup full
Of sour milk, one teaspooniul of soda, -four
enough to make it as stiff as can well be
stirred bake it at once in quick oven.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-09-18

Butter, Dana II, Morse, West Randolph,
$50 o. Whipple, 10 IL. T. Cuts, Or
we'll, 10.
Cheese. Don Baxter, Tinmouth, $50
Noah 5, Walker, 10; ID. l., Strange, Tin
mouth, 10.
Factory cheese. Horace S. Clark, Tin
mouth, S25; Rutland cheese factory, 20 4;
Dorset association, 10. There were eight
entries of factory cheese aud all of very fine
quality.
Sugar and Honey
Maple sugar Il. l.. Holland, North Clar-
endon, s5; A. s. CramtOn, Rutland, A A.
B, Ingrem, Rutland, 2.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-06-20
CURIOUS NATURAL FACTS.

Taking the surface OF the sea as a
mean level, the life of man is limited
above the plane to 49, $40 at Larsa, in
Central Asia, the highest inhabited
portion of the earth, to the mines of
New Saelzwerk, in Prussia, 1898 feet
below the sea level. The perpendicu-
lar or vertical extreme is three and
half miles. But the permanent dwell
ling places of man on the earth's sur
face are limited to perpendicular
line of three miles. The lowest places
where men live are in the valley ofthe
Dead sea, 1900 feet below the sea level,
and the highest at the convent of
Haule, in Asia, which is 1917 feet
above the sea. 1t is inhabited by twen-
ty Thibetian monks. The port house
of Santa Anna, in the Andes, is at the
same height.
The limit of perpetual snow decreas-
es in latitude as we leave the equator,
north or south. On the equator in
Quito, it is 1900 feet. In Mexico it is
14,65O feet. In the Rocky mountains,
420, it is l2,5O0 feet. In the
Alps, latitude 45', it is 5000 feet. In
Norway, latitude 10, it is $3.50 feet.
These are facts we gather from the
lamented Commodore Maury, in his
great work on physical geography, the
most exhaustive work of the kind ever
teeming with the dry de-
tails of scientific discoveries and the
of the earth and the sea,
in a manner as interesting as the
lighter literature of romance. Truly,
Commodore Maury, aside from his
discoveries on the winds
and currents of the ocean, has left !
another legacy to mankind in his phys
ical geography. 1t ought to be in eve
ry advanced class of students in the
and,
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-06-20
Information WnnIeSl.

OH SPRINGS, c. N. June 5, 1874.
To the Editor of the Dallas Herald:
Two men passed here on the 1st in
stant, for Caddo Oil lSprings-said they
were from Dallas, Texas--with one
brown mare pony end one dark mare
mule, ha,d lace, with white spots,
branded 1 on the left thigh. Said mule
and wagon was found in the woods,
about five miles from Caddo, and is for
identification. A man was found dead,
with hole in his head: a sack Of flour,
Spencer rifle and check lines were
found six hundred yards from said
wagon. The dead man had a NOUS
tache and goatee~-sandy beard.
HGufs, ETC., ROBERT II. LORE.