Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-23
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seem to have reached about the bottom on
prices
A. II. Mcleod is selling corn at S1.10
per bushel and meal at s1.05 per bushel
See ad.
Rev. p. N. Granger gave a temperance
lecture to full house at the South Church
Sunday evening. nh
Eighty-threo applicants were balloted on
and accepted by st. JOhnsbury Council, $.
Of L., Monday evening.
The house on Horace Fairbanks ground
opposite the South Church is being removed
to A. d. Pixies lot on Spring Street.
We notice A. II. Perry, Esq, formerly
superintendent of the Conn. Il Pass. Il. r.,
on the street to-day looking hale and hearty.
The spiritualists held their state conven-
ton in Avenue House hail Friday, Saturday
and Sunday. The convention was very sue.
cessful.
John johnson, of st. Johnsbury Center,
stole blacksmith's hammer from man in
Lyndon, and on trial before Justice Powers
was fined s21 l0.-Caledonidn.
b. f. Rollins horse power and separators
are well aud honestly made, and sold at low
prices for the quality of the material and
work, on the reform principle of cash and
low prices.
A new bell on the Catholic school house
calls the Young America of that persuasion
to their studies. The grounds around the
school house and church are being consider
ably improved
Matthews x Pettengill keep as good APP
Piles as can be found in the village, and sells
them as cheap. They also have some splen-
did oysters and full stock of other articles
in their line. Read their advertisement.
l. z. Magoon left Wednesday for Europe
to sail by the Inman line from New YORK
tomorrow. He goes TO superintend the az.
plicaton oil his patent for utilizing the heat
from the exhaust steam Of steam engines.
A lady in this village short time ago
bought barrel Of -four Of Main Street
merchant for S10.25. The other day she
tried bag of McLeod's $500 -four, aud
pronounces it far superior to the other. As
this is in one of the first families, and the
lady superior cook, her judgment is sgni6-
cant.
Emily Powers, daughter of j. w. Powers,
on Portland Street, received an ugly and
painful wound by falling and striking her
knee upon sharp rock in the sidewalk on
Tuesday last. The wound was two inches
long and quite deep, aud it was with great
difficulty that she reached her home. 1t is
hoped the injury will be but temporary.
Bartlett, Lewis, Il Co. have adopted the
cash basis, the only sound aud Just one, and
propose to sell at reduced rates. Read their
advertisement. Several other firms are COM
ing out on the no credit platform. A firm
doing business on the credit system, however
cautious, cannot fail of having some bad
debts, and the customer who does pay has to
pay for his own goods and those of his dead
beat neighbor. Daniels, Sylvester, q Co.
have something to say on the subject in our
advertising columns.
On the day of Beecher's speech on the
fair ground, while Judge Parks and Calvin
Morrill, were upon the stand, and before the
speaker arrived, an elderly couple from the
suburbs were seen looking at Morrill,, sup
posing him to be Beecher. Why" said
the old lady, how much he looks like Judge
Morrill," Her husband only partly over
heard the remark, and thinking the lady
was saying something about morals, he re-
sponded, Yes, he is a id immoral look
ing cuss." Who says it isn't Morrill's treat
Mr.. Orvis is charged by the Caledoaian
with endeavoring to show how railroads
were detriment to larboring classes, farm
ers in particular" We beg leave to inform
the CaLedONiaN, enlightened as it claims to
be, that Mr.. Orvis did not make any such
attempt He only showed, as did Judge
Poland at the Bradford fair, that the great
railroad corporations were oppressive to the
laborlng classes under their present system
Of management, and should be controlled by
the laws of the land. Slight and ridicule
the new order as much as you please, but
don't misrepresent and abuse u public lee
turer, simply because he belongs to it. 1t
don't pay.
Some of the merchants organs have said
that by demanding IA reduction in prices,
and exposing the fact that prices are out
rage6usly high here, we are working against
our own town. We fail to see lit SO. The high
price Of goods here drives much trade away
which would naturally come here. So long as
these high prices continue, trade will contin-
ue to 60 away. But prices will come down.
The Patrons and Sovereigns have decreed it,
and they will bring it to pass, and the sooner
merchants accept the situation, the better
for them. Prices Of goods once brought
down to their proper level, st. Johnsbury
will receive two dollars worth of outside
trade where she now does one, parties in the
village will cease going to Newport, Barton,
Montpelier, and other distant places TO make
their purchases, and we shall then see the
place grow with a really healthy, thrifty
growth.
John Orvis, of Boston, the lecturer and
deputy of the National Council of Sover-
eigns, was native of Vermont About 30
years ago he lectured in many parts Of the
state upon slavery when the advocacy of the
abolition Of African slavery even in Vermont
subjected men to mob violence. While in
this section he was the guest of Jonathan
Lawrence, of Passumpsic, the present gen.
eral deputy of the National Grange Of Pat
rons. After a separation of over 80 years
they had the pleasure of renewing their
former acquaintance at the FARMER office
last week. They had lived to see the curse
OF slavery, for the abolition Of which they
had labored and prayed, banshed from the
land. Each finds his friend of former years
now laboring for the abolition Of the slavery of
labor to capital, Mr. Lawrence having the
honor Of organizing the first grange of Pat
rons in New England, and Mr.. Orvis that
of organizing the first council of Sovereigns
in his native Green Mountain State. May
these pioneers in reform live to see the tyr
amy of capital abolished and labor receive
its just reward.
Prof. Belcher, of Boston, will give one Of
his popular illustrated lectures of Travels
across the American Continent from Sa1
Francisco to the White Mountains, at the
town hall ON Monday evening next The