The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-11-03


FAILURE OF A CoSMUNIsTic EXPERT.
MEar.-- Nep York, Oct %, 1S74.-A
special dispatch from Whitehall, N. Y,
says The attempt to form an associa.
lion OF Communists on the island Of Val.
cour, in Lake Champlain, has as might
have been anticipated, signally and ig.
ANONYMOUSLY failed 1t was made without
reference TO any well settled formative
principle, and was, it is claimed shrewd
scheme to make poor farm of 10000
acres productive by holding out induce
monts to immigration in the form Of com.
munity of persons. This whole magnif-
cent estate, the nursery stock of which
alone Mr.. Shipman. the proprietor, pre-
tends to value at 100000 is worth but
about $500.
Three years ago Shipman paid $500
for the property on the island, and the
Homestead is perhaps worth between
$4,000 and $4,000, and on this there IRE
seven or eight families worth perhaps sew
en- or eight dollars apiece, they having
gone ththcr for the purpose Of casting in
their lot with the Communists. The ia.
Their Of the community is Col. John vii.
cox, who has just returned from the West
He has been student of Communism as
at various times it has appeared in Amer
lea and other parts of the world, but is
incapable Of proGting by the failure Of
the Moorhouso scheme, which was tried
in Hamilton county, New York, some
thirty years ago, and Of which this Val.
cour scheme is an almost exact repetition.
All the persons who were entced to join
the Valcour Island Experiment have now
become disguised with it. 1t has no re-
ligious feeling to make or keep it concrete
as the Oneida Community has, and moth.
ing to act as substitute therefor. 1t is
perfectly natural for it to fail. The peo-
pie are now moving away from the island
and it is thought that in a few weeks not
more than eight or ten persons will be
left there.
A HUNDRED FLoRINs FOR a SINGLE
IlAIR.--Ilcr is a very pretty story from
Vienna, told by one OF the papers in that
city
"a few days ago young and poorly.
clad girl entered BARRIERS shop in vien.
na, and told the proprietor that he must
buy her head The frisour examined
her long, glossy, chestnut locks, and be-
gan to bargain. lie could give eight
guldcn, and no more. Hair was very
plentiful this year, the price had fallen,
there was less demand, and other phrases
Of the kind. The little maidcDs eyes
filed with tears, and she hcsitatcd mo.
mept while threading her fingers through
her chestnut locks. She finally threw
herself into char. In Gods pane,
she gasped, take 1t quickly The barber
satisfied with his bargain was about 10
clinch it with his shears when gentleman
who sat half-shaved, looking on, told him
to stop My child he said why &c
you want to sell your beautiful hair ?
My mother has been nearly FIVE months
i'll cant work enough to support us
eserythng has been sold or pawned, and
there is not a penny in the house. (Nnd
klein hreatzer in AauS) No, no, my
child said the stranger, If that is The
case, | will buy your hair, and will give
you huudrcd guljen for it, He gave
the poor girl the note, the sight of which
had dried her tears, and took up the bar
bers shears. Taking the locks in hi
hand he took the longest hair, cut it Of
alone, and put it carefully in his pocket
book, thus paying ono hundred floriu
for a single hair. He took the poor girl
address, in case he should want to bu,
another at the same rate. This cbarita
ble man is only designated as the chief O
great industrial enterprise within tb
city