Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-05-15
Notes About Toscm.

School meeting next Monday evening at
Z O'Clock, for the purpose Of raising money
DR.. Billiard and wife have gone to Bos-
ton and Now York for a months recreation.
Moses HuOtley isl good shot. The other
day he killed seven crows at one discharge
of his gun.
Last Saturday it was 50 dark that many
people had to light up in the middle of the
day, to do their usual work.
Ira Bagey has put in nice brick wal k
for Mr.. j d. Miller, making quite an im-
prOveuent to Mr.. Miller's place.
We regret to hear Of the indisposition of
Thaddeus Fairbanks, Esq, from sore leg
which seems likely to be a difficult case.
M. @. Hooker is about moving to Wash
,ngtou, D. c., to live A large circle of ac-
quaintances will be sorry to have Mr.. H.
and his family go away.
Mem bers of Green Mountain Grange who
ordered -four through the grange are notified
that it has arrived aud can be had at A. H..
McLeods store next Tuesday.
Monday was the first real May day Of the
season. The Goddess of Liberty on the
soldiers monument improved the occasion by
coming forth from her winter quarters.
William H. HILL of Plymouth, N H.,
has sold to JAS. Stevens of Concord, N. H.,
and he to Jacob b. Rand of the same place,
house and lot on Caledonia street for
$4,000.
Rev. W Il. PufFer, the presiding elder
for the st. Johnsbury district, has decided to
locate in st. Johusbury, and has bought a
house on Charles Street of George Gross for
$4,000.
1t is gratifying to know that Mr.. John
Dea, who was SO badly scalded at the scale
works last winter, is steadily though slowly
improving. On Wednesday he was got up
aud into an easy chair in which he can be
moved about the room.
The Passump sic Railroad Company have
been surveying the past few days to find
where their real estate lies, and the lines
come little close in some cases. Wards
block stands only eight inches from the line ;
ST. Randall's fiat rooted building stands two
thirds on the railroad grounds, and l.. Q.
Woodburys house ten feet over the line.
Rev. F. E. HeAley, of West Burke
preached at the Church OF the Messiah last
Sunday, on an exchange with Mr.. Tllotson
Rev. Henry Jewett preached at the South
Church. Rev ID. E. Miller commenced his
labors at the Methodist Church in the MORN
ing and Mr.. Cooper gave a farewell dis
course in the afternoon. Rev. l.. b. Tasker
commenced preaching at the Free Baptist
Hall in the forenoon.
We have before spoken of the concert by
the Hampton colored students, but as the
time of their visit draws near we desire to
give an extract from the It6eral Christian
showing how their concert has been appre-
ciated in other places. The singing of this
band of pupils is very instructive and af.
fecting. 1t is the songs they sang in theiI
slavery that we catch the echoes of in their
new freedom. 1t is wonderful how well
trained they have been in bringing their wild
music into order and moderation. They ex
Gel in the softer strains and really equal il
their pianiSsimo the most skilled choruses Of
the clubs md theatres"
The business of the St. Johnsbury granite
WOThS lnCISdslnS lucy ud'O
started new shop at Ryegate, and are GO
ing to put up more sheds at this place as
soon as they can get the grounds to put them
on. They are having machinery built for
polishing granite, and have engaged the
basement of Mr. Warmers mill for polishing
shop. The company now employs thirty men
and have orders on hand for S30,000 worth
of work Orders come from almost every
state in the Union. At their works we saw
the plan of monument twenty-eight feet
high, which is going to Cleveland, Ohio
The Messrs Laird are practical exemplif
cation of the meaning of the word energy.
DR.. NJ. G. Edmunds, of Weston, one o
the Vermont fish commissioners, is stocking
the upper Connecticut and its tributaries
with salmon. He was in town on Wednes
day, and put 10000 of the little fellows in
to Moose River in Concord, aud 10000 int,
Wheelock Branch in Wheelock. The DR.
returned by night train to Connecticut where
the salmon are Matched intending to bring
up another lot which he will drop into th
Connecticut at Mclndoes Falls. The fish h,
brings are only about an inch long and for som,
time will subsist upon the umbiIical sack, anC
after that they will begin to feed. When abou
three years old they will weigh pound to /
pound and a hall each, and will then star
for salt water, but will return to these river
to spawn. AT Buoksport, Me-, are now pro
duced all the salmon eggs to supply the New
England States, and the cost is about $500
per thousand. By agreement of the fish
commissioners Of New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts and Connecticut all the seeC
for those states is to be deposited in tbs
Connecticut and its branches until the ex
pertinent is thoroughly tried Of propagating
salmon in that river.
la the death Of Mr.. Hull Curtis Of whic
a notice will be found in the proper place
St. Johnsbury loses one OF her longtime res
idents and one Of her best citizens. Nj
Curtis was born at Hoosic, N Y, Nov. ~
1903, but spent his youthful days at Man
chester VI Having learned the tailor
trade he came to St. JOhnsbury about forty
six years ago and opened tailoring shop i
a small building near where Higgins stOr
now stands Being good workman he iii
a large and successful business and had Gus
tom from twenty TO thirty miles in all d
rectlons. He continued in the tailoring bus
iness twenty-five years, and during that tim
was the only tailor in the place. He the
bought the st. Johnsbury House and kept
about four years until the completion Of tn
railroad to this place. On selling out the hot,
he retired from active business, built tn
house where his family now lives, and worl
ed few years at the scale works Durin
the remainder of his life he spent his tim
in improving his premises and in gardening
for which he had great taste, aud in otht
light employments He has had care Of tn
vegetable department Of the county fair
was school district clerk sexton at the Mort
Church and janitor for the Union Schoo
and held many other little offices of trui