Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-02-27
state N'e,Cs.


seventy-ive cents gallon.
The Vermont Journal thinks ait is a pity"
that Judge Poland's letter, on returning his
back.pay, "could not have appeared six
months ago ~ We don't know about that
We believe the effect is better as it is.
We regret to see the statement that Sem
ator Edmunds has been forbidden by his
physicians to resume work in the Senate for
the present, and has been directed to visit
the South with the view of restoring his
health.
VIM. M. Parker, Esq, formerly Superin-
tendent Of the Boston, Hartford and Erie
Railroad, now of the Passumpsic River
Railroad, has accepted the position of SD
perintondent of the Boston, Lowell and
Nashua Railroad, and will enter upon the
duty about the first Of April.
Internal Revenue Collector Mason has
appointed Theron o. Bailey. of Montpelier,
Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue for
the counties Of Washington aud Lamoille.
He has also appointed Thomas G. Robbins,
of Rutland, Deputy Collector for the coun.
ties of Rutland and Addison
Gen. Stephen Thomas, Department Com
mander of the Grand Army of the Repub.
lie for Vermont, has made the following APP
pointments on his staff, for the present year !:
Assistant Adjutant General. o. Liv-
ingston, Montpelier; Assistant Quarter
Master General-C. b. Wilson, Montpelier;
Inspector-George Nichols, Mortified.
There is just complaint that our Grim
inal laws bear most unequally upon female
offenders. A case in point is the recent
committal of girl l6 years old to the state
prison for year for stealing a shawl, to
stand committed till she pays the costs Of
prosecution. If it had been boy, Re
would have been sent to the reform school,
but there is no reform school for girls.
The Central Vermont is Withdrawing all
its rolling stock from the Ogdensburg and
Lake Champlaiu road, and will not send up
its cars, even to take freight. The side
tracks at St. Adams are filled with empty
cars. President Pratt of the Ogdensburg
and Lake Champlain is believed to be the
instigator of the suit against his own road
to take it out of the control Of the Central
Vermont.
A freight train on the Montpelier and
Wells River railroad, last week, came sud-
denly upon place in the road where the
road-bed and the sleepers had been washed
away for fifty feet, leaving only the rails,
held up by nothing but the fsh-joint "chairs. ="
The fireman jumped, aud so did the cngin-
eer, with his eight-year-old boy in his arms,
and didn't get hurt. The wonderful thing
about the affair is, that the engine and two
cars passed over the gap without breaking
through the rails.
The seal Of the State of Vermont was
first engraved upon a horn drinking cup,
with jack-kniie, by an English officer who
frequently and secretly visited Gov. Chittcn-
den. During one of these visits he took a
view from the west windows of the Gov
errors house Of wheat field in the dis
tance beyond which was a knoll with SOL
itary pine upon its top, which view he en-
graved upon the cup. The engraved cup
attracted the attention Of Ira Allen, who
adopted its device as the State seal.
Pursuant to an order from Superintendent
Hobart, the train dispatcher's office for the
Vermont Valley and Sullivan railroads has
been removed to St. Albaus, from which
place orders will be given. Mr.. J. II. Com.
the commercial telegraph Office will return to
st. Adams from his year and half sojourn
in Bellows Falls. Mr. T. f. Howe, night
dispatcher, also leaves. Mr.. +. B. Davis,
OF Keene, n. H., will assume the manage
ment of the Bellows Falls office and Mr..
John futile will ofiiciate as night operator.
The Vermont Central legislative investi-
eating committee have petitioned for writ
Of mandamus against Henry Oviatt, the
official stenOgrapher. The committee were
to have presented the complete testimony,
brought out at the hearing, to the governor
on the Goth Of june, but, though repeatedly
requested to furnish "copy," Oviatt has as
yet Transcribed only portion of the notes
Of that hearing, and this incomplete, Gov.
Smiths testimony being entirely withheld
The committee therefore unanimously ask
the supreme court to interfere by command
ing Oviatt to produce the testimony.
The Grange Meeting at Montpelier.
There was slight misunderstanding OF
Mr., Tobey's note in our notice of this
meeting last week. The meeting March !
will not be for the purpose Of completing
the organization of the county council
which business was attended to last Wednes
day, as will be seen by reference to ouI
Washington County items. The entire SEES
sion next week will be devoted to the inter
ests of the whole state, and the state Tx
ecutiye Committee will be prepared to pre-.
sent important information, which renders
it highly desirable that every grange should
be represented. The meeting will be open,
ed at the Village Hall, at 10 o'clock A. M
of Thursday, March 3. Let there be full
attendance. Lady members of the order
are specially invited to honor the meeting by
their presence and active cooperation in il
proceedings.
ADDISON COUNTY.
The Addison House at Middebury, hal
been leased by Clark N. Sco6eld, of Bran
don, who will keep temperance house.
The Middlebury Register says that tn,
last of the creditors of the Middlebury Pa
per Company have agreed to take the per
centage fixed upon, and that Mr.. Oliver Sew
erance will carry on the business.
The butter tub mandatory of Asa Jack
man, located in Lincoln, was destroyed b.
fire Tuesday evening, consuming nearly ev
erything in the building. The origin of tn
fire was accidental, and there was ! no insur
ance.
The Addison County Agricultural So
ciety met in Middebury on the 18th inst
and elected the following board ofofhcers fo
the current year: President, John M. Dyer
of Salisbury; Vice-President Il. S. Wright
of Weybridge Secretary, I. Bailey, Of Bird
port Assistant Secretary, j. A. Child, o
Weybridge; Treasurer, N. p. barbour, o
Middlebury; Directors, S. b. NJ. Cowles, o
New Haven, M. b. Williamson, Of Corn
wall, Frank Barton, Of Waltham, j. X
Nash, New Haven, and j. 7. Rich, 0
Shoreham