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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-09
9(arItets.
BOsfOH Market.
H. ID. HIBBARD,
Produce Commission Merchant. FL John street. BOstO

Produce Commission Msrchant,2I John Street. Boston,
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 7.
Butter and Cheese Butter: Tho market
has been excited the past three days, owing
to light receipts of desirable grades, and
prices are To Sc per Id higher than week
ago. Fall lots Of New York aud Vermont
sold readily ut 81 to 800 per ID, and strictly
line lots are wanted ut 40c. Straight sum
mer diaries have been selling mt "a to 36o
and some choice lots with September ends
brought 37c per lib. Choice Western will
readily command ~ to 3lc per ID. If the
right Kind, hut most that is here sci Is at %
to zoe. The indications are that high prices
will rule for some weeks to come, us the
stock here is light and buyers in the country
me paying extreme rates. But we think
that those having butter to sell should send
1t 10 market rs soon rs possible, rs the pres
ent high prices will be likely to check the
demand and II reaction before the close OF
the year is quite probable.
Cheese: The high prices ruling in the
country and In New York have started the
market hOre, and severol large large lots of
choice factory have changed hands at an
advance of dc per ID. The sales have been
ut Ia TO lac per ID, and Mt the close August
make cannot DO bought under l5c per h..
The trade hesitate to pay this price, but
rom present appearances n still higher price
ID not improbable within week or two.
Flour and GrdiH.-Flour. All leading
brancs OF white wheat and fancy Minnesota
are sold up close, and in many instances
contracted for ahead. There is also q good
demand for low grades for the Provinces
and the Eastern trade and desirable lots of
common extras are difficult to find, but sup
plies of this description will soon be arriv-
ing more freely. Prices rule full - per
Dbl under the current rates of last year. and
leading brands In some instances are S'2o
per Dbl less. The sales OF fancy Minnesota
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-09

The Boston sewers are being tapped pretty
extensively for pipes 10 run TO the caves Of
the houses to carry Oft the rain. water, and
Boston physician emphatically protests
against the plan, as being one by which the
cffluvia from the sewers will be disseminated
over the city.
CONNECTICUT.
Hartford is getting to be an uncomfortable
place for keepers ard frequcnters Of houses
Of ill.famo. Less than week has passed
since fifty or sixty were arrested when. on
Thursday night Of last week. the police cap.
tured 80 more.
As the cars were moving away from the
Groton depot on the Stonington railroad, the
other day, pretty young woman came rush
ing into the snoking.car, and frant icaly ap.
pealed to everybody to stop the train. Catch
ing sight OF the conductor, she exclaimed, pit
eously "Mr Conductor, do please stop the
train I've left my baby !" The train was
stopped and the baby recovered, amidst the
hearty cheers Of the people on the platform
and the passengers and while the mother
laughed and cried and Rugged her little one,
WV hiSN w NABidiu uOW bnt DdUJ was kuCu
a new one she hadn't got used to IT,
NEW YORK.
The Grand Hotel, in Saratoga, was entire.
ly destroyed by fire, last week Thursday.
Less on house 100000; insurance gu house
S200,00 aud on furniture $4,000. The
fire is supposed to have been the work of an
incendiary.
One Of Barnums Feejee cannibals was ar
rested in Troy, last Friday, Tor assault, and
fined S25. After the case had been dspos.
ed Of one Of the attaches of the circus stat.
ed that he was not Feejee, but full
bloOded negro, and had given them trouble
several times.
The Troy and Albany Stove Manuiactur.
ers' Association at recent meeting decided
TO make no change in the prices Of stoves
from the rates fixed by the Association last
spring viz for first.class stoves, 8 cents per
pound second.class do I cents; and lower
grades, 81 cents per pound.-Neto York
Mercantile Journal.
Sunday evening at eight o'clock six Texas
bulls escaped from cattle barge to the
dock, at New York, aud for an hour they
ragged through City hall Park aud the Bow
cry. a panic seized the people, and many
were gored by the Infatuated animals Az
ter some delay the police were got out and
barbados built. The police kept together
and fred vOlleys upon the bulls whenever it
was possible without endangering tho peo-
pies lives. Three were shot, two secured
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-09
THE FARMER" AND THE
MERCHANTS

We have no hostility 10 merchants, eithor
in or out Of ST. JOhnsbury. What we have
said about prices has been said mot that we
loved Caesar less, but that we loved Rome
more" Through a false system Of doing
business, an undesirable state OF affairs has
been brought on. The credit system has
subjected traders to heavy losses, and in
many places there have been too many trad.
ers for the amount of business done. OF
course these traders want a living and Of
course If they lose money on one bill,
through failure Of the debtor to pay, they
must make it up somewhere else. Here
we're two heavy burdens to be borne either
by the storekeepers or the consumers, and
from the nature Of the case, while falling
nominally on the former, the latter has real
ly had the burden to bear. The dealers are
few, as compared with tho consumers, and a
combination Tor self protectio was easily
accomplished, and prices were put up 10 Sc.
cure them, thus throwing the entire burden
upon the purchaser. In doing this the trad
crs have done only what might be expected.
They are not getting rich rapidly as class.
The force OF circumstances has driven them
into this course.
But at the same time the burden has been
unjustly borne by the purchasing class. What
we wish to do now, and what the farmers
movement aims to do, and what the Patrons
and the Sovereigus are working for, is, not to
shift this burden from one set Of shoulders to
another, but to remove it from all shoulders.
! by doing business on a strictly cash basis,
the load of millions Of dollars annually lost
in "bad debts" will be removed from the
commercial world Aud by uniting, and
keeping posted on the market cost Of goods,
ever ready to send to market for goods when
they ind the merchant charging more than
fair profit, these new societies of the work
ingmen will gradually but surely weed out
the surplus of dealers, abd those who fall
uEsJ viii DC InOse leadt nJteu lot their Dusl-
ness, so that we shall have the business left
in the hands of the best qualified men.
To this end the farmers are uniting in the
grange. To this end the mechanics are unit
ing in the council. To this end the VERMONT
FARMER is working, mourning praise from
the people aud eensure from the merchants
blessings from the poor man and curses from
the rich. But we feel confident that in the
end all will see that the reform we advocate
is for the general good.
With cash sales aud no credit the mer.
chant will be relieved Of many losses which
he has heretofore been compelled to bear
and his customer will not eat bread which
he has not earned. And with an orgauiza.
ton like those of the Patrons and the Sover.
eigns the workingmen can know the cost Of
goods, and protect themselves from unjustly
high prices. God speed the day.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-09
T'esO Fork Market.

D.
Flour: Market dull and in buyers favor,
with moderate business. Rye flour steady.
Wheat: Red winter leg; amber do .231
TO les; No. Chicago 10; Northwestern
spring l.l3 To LA, and old Milwaukee do
held Mt l.l6 10 LII IN store. Corn: 96c in
store; mixed 81 to 97Ic alloat, closing dull
ut 81 to 9sc for yellow; white western 81 in
store, LOB afOat. Oats; No. Chicago
mixed white 90 to Csc; Jersey 81 to 62c on
track; and Ohio 62c. Sugar steady: sales
s76 hhds Cuba; scant good SIC; 100 hhds
mOlasses mt Sic; refined active; standard A
lOs to 10 l5-l5c; hard grades llsc. Coffee
quiet and firm; choice to fancy 3OI to 2Ic;
Java "a 10 coo. Petroleum quiet and firm
crude 81 to &c; refined l2s to l3c; cases Ia
Lard irmer; nomlnally lac. Taiiow GuiSt
and firm ut 64c.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-09

are glad TO chronicle the nomination Of Mr..
Talbot because we see in IL vindication Of
the prohibitory law, and for the same rea.
son We shall hope to chronicle his election
at the polls. The rum party have threaten.
cd bolts and all manner Of evil if Talbot got
the nomination, but that will end in smoke.
They can't elect man, aud the only contest
will be between the democratic nominee,
MI. Castor, who is spoken of as anablo aud
upright man. ard Mr.. Talbot.
The lightness Of Buffers vote is accounted
for by the fact that he had taken himself
out of the contest, by letter But the fact
that he withheld his letter until the eleventh
hour gave some of the republican organs and
leaders a wholesome soaring
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-09
CONGRESSIONAL TALK.

The Bradford Opinion amt a Poland
organ. It's base falsehood. He has been
misrepresented until he can't stand it any
longer, so he comes out and denies it. To
add force to this denial he says: "Some
of the Denison men are talking that the Po-
land men intend to rally at the polls at the
coming election and endeavor to secure the
latter plurality of votes. We assure all
such that they can Danish such fears" Now
any one who has watched the course of af-
fairs will acknowledge that the above quo
tation is not official, consequently the Opin.
ion isn't an organ.
Further than this, the Opinion feels bad
because the FARMER has been guilty of
quoting from the Argus, and any man who
will quote from democratic paper 10 Yer
mont sis liar, villain and thief"
But the worst thing the Opinion has said
Of us was to call us a republican paper.
We don't belong to the republican nor any
other party. When we see republican
up for office who is in our judgment the best
qualified man in the field, we will support
him. Such is the case now. Mr.. Denison
seems to US the best candidate in the field,
and now the only one with a nomination,
and we have right to talk or vote in his
favor.
The thing the Opinion seems to feel the
worst about is having the congressional con.
test mentioned in our columns. Probably
the situation would now have been more TO
his liking if we hadn't mentioned the matter
before the election. But now he has had
enough, sure, and he is afraid the party 1.-THE
Poland ring and committce) will not be
helped by having the matter mentioned too
often before tho people. We rather mis-
trust he is right. That ring is responsible
for any disunion in the republican ranks in
this district and the sooner they step down
and out, and leave the running of the ma
SuiHO W thoso "uO Cah Iuu ~ III SUN u way
as to draw at least show of support from
the people, the better it will be for tho par
ty. This state Of affairs constitutes rather
bitter pill for them, but it is the consequence
Of their own acts.
"My home paper" last week had a coup
lie Of columns on the situation. which looks
as though the corpse didn't really like to
stay dead. But we think it will be more
than the Caledonian can do to resurrect him
this year, especially with the Opinion as
sorting that the Poland meO won't "rally at
the POLLS" and the Record calling loudly for
another convention, in which the judge--the
St. Johnsbury judge we mean-cOuldnt
scare up dozen votes.
The Springfield Republican, which is
generally as near right as the CaledOnian
or the Opinion, says;
a story comes to us that, when Judge
Poland published his letter taking himself
out of the canvass, he was heard to remark
that he noticed "those men who were not IN
the field met with the best success rs candi-
dates, this year." We further hear that the
judge is acting upon this view OF the case.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-09

Another mistake Of Judge Poland's seems
to have been in trying to make so much
stock out of the revision of the laws. We
could hardly expect so great work to be
accomplished without imperfections, and
now they begin to appear. Clauses were
introduced in the revision which change tar
ifs on important staples, and the New York
merchants are pettioning President Grant
to suspend the law altogether, so far as it
changed laws iu force. 1t is claimed that
he could do this on the ground that these
interpretations were manifest errors. We see
no particular reason for finding fault with
Judge Poland in the matter, but these de-
velopments ought to teach lesson to those
papers which have been proving the judges
iniallibility by pointing to the revision and
calling it work of perfection. Probably
they will discover, now. that Mr.. Poland
did not do the work entirely alone, but that
portion of the responsibility rests upon
some one else-aud possibly very little of
the or edit.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-09

Since we spoke Of the Early York potato,
few weeks ago, We have taken some pains
to trace It's origin. We had suspicion that
the potato had been known before, uuder
different name, which seems to be the fact.
Quite number Of years ago il aourshed
hereabouts, being known as the Stevens po-
tato, but from continued cultivation without
change Of seed il has degeuerated until IL is
hardly grown at all. When the potato was
in its glory here Mr.. A. Barnes, now Of
Lyndon, who was then working in the shops
at st. Johnsbury, procured some Of the seed
and sent IL to his fSther, David Barnes, in
Compton, p. Q. The potato proved so sue.
cessful, and so excellent for early table use,
that Jonathan Leavitt, thinking to make an
honest penny, procured quantity, took
them into Sherbrooke market, and sold them
out as a new variety, calling them the Early
York, for one dollar per peck. In this way
they were scattered over Stanstead and
Compton Counties. For carly potatoes they
proved the best in that region, aud since the
Early Rose came around many still consider
the York, or more properly Stevens potato,
the best. The Rose may be large enough to
cook, but the other is fully ripe first, every
time, when they are planted side by side,
and is to our mind the best of the two until
digging time, when it becomes strong. Prob
ably change of seed, bringing potatoes
from Canada here, would work very bene-
fetal change in this potato, and give us the
Stevens potato in its former excellence.
The Rose is to-day the most popular po-
tato in America, il not in the world, but
there are thousands of farmers who, while
raising it for market raise some less popular
variety for their own table because they like
it better than the Rose, and even now the
old "played out" Jackson brings almost as
much in market as the Rose.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-09

What has become Of Earle's zeal in behalf
of the poor abused merchants Of st. Johns
buryl Here they are suffering from the
Patrons, aud threatened with those terrible
Sovereigns, with no Earle to pity, no Citizen
to save; and this too, after they have got
him twenty-one subscribers at S1.25 per
year. They don't think Earle earned the
Sl.25 by his three weeks gassy support.
Give 'em their moneys worth, Earle. Do
the square thing by EN-, and perhaps they
will get you another name with Sl.25.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-09

1t would be impossible to give advice that
would always prove to be wise as to when to
sell products, but the state of the butter
market is such that if we had butter to sell
we should be inclined to let it slide within
week or two, at the furthest. Buyers are
paying from 80 to 40 cents, here in Yer
mont, and that is about as high as the pres
sure of supply and demand can put it. Prob
ably there will be slight decline from those
prices before there is rise.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-09
WOOL MARKET.
W'aIerIOpM CGGEIe .Nnrkes.
TUESDAY, Oct. 6.

I. ID.
At market this week Cattle 1924, Sheen
and Lambs 957s, Swine 30 Number from
Vermont. Cattle 800, Sheep and Llmbs
2S05, Calves 30; Swine 49,
Prices Market Beef-A few choice 10 so to
10 20; extra 9 80 TO 10 90; first quality SO 90
to 800; second quality 6 90 to 7 SO; third
quality 81 so to 5 so.
Prices of Store Cattle. Working Oxen pr
pair from 800, $50, I75 TO 30
Mich Cows and Calves from S35 to SO;
extra 60 to 95. Farrow COWS 81 to So
fcarlings $40 To 10; two years old 20 to
%; three years old 30 to IS.
Prices of Sheep and Lambs-n lots . so.
300, 80 to 90 each; extra so to 6 IS
per head, or from Al to &c pr H.
Spring lamhs 81 to lie per ID.
Veal calves $500 to 1900.
Prices OF Hides, TallOw and Skins-Bright-
ton Hides u to Sc pr Id; Country Hides lac
to 7ic pr. ID. Brighton Talow Sc pr III;
Country Iallow A 10 &C pr lb.
Pelts Toe each. Calf skins l5c per lib.
CLASSIFICATION OF CATTLE AND SHEEP.
N. B. Beef-Choce grade includes moth
ing but stall fed 100 to 400 lbs Bulocks.
Extra and first quality includes the best,
large fat Oxen. Second and third quality
includes Oxen and two and three year old
Steers.
Shcep-Extra includes cosscts, and when
those OF inferior quality are thrown out.
REMARKS.
Cattle: There Is not II rushing trade for
cattle this week. The market is Quiet ON
common country steers hcilGrs and COWS.
The best are selected from the different
yards, leaving less desirable grades. that
| sold low, and very quiet. w llliam Colwcll
was ut market again this week with so odd
HEAD OF cattle; not hardly the kind he has
been IN the habit of handling heretofore. G.
w Morrison, of Rockingham, VT, brought
IN some good four-ycars-old steers of his
own raising, that sold ut TIC live weight and
81 premium, to dress 200 lbs; some three
y,cars-oldS from to 0, per ID, ID w. MT
Shacket sold to & Wentworth, TO dress
rom 700 to $50 lbs each, ut Sc; IL extra
steers To Starks Il Valpy mt Ole, to dress 500
To $50 lbs each; 10 steers mt DC; quite
choice oxen to + ID kimball ut lie per Id,
ID W-the pair dressed 1900 lbs-fntted Inv
Abel Rice, of Bridport, Vt, CT IIoughtoH
sold 10 three-ycarS-Old steers, to dress 700
lbs. nj SIC per ID, ID w.
Sheep aud Lambs We do not discover
any change in prices on good flouks from
last week. We lind more poor lots offered.
Tho bulk of sales from 81 to G4c Der Id.
There were n few locks ut to lie per 10.
being all lambs, and very choice. William
Crowhurst sold l05 sheep and lambs ut $50
per head. IT Houghton sold good bunch
OF sheep and lambs, average II lbs, mt Ole
per ID. Long sold so lambs, average Go
lbs, at 7c.
Poultry: A few loads of live poultry
were carried away from the market Prices
remain stationary. Chickens and turkeys
lOc, and hens and ROSTERS BE per ID.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-09

The prohibition party won 4 marked VIC
tory in Massachusetts,, Wednesday, in the
nomination of Thomas Talbot by the repub-
lican party for governor. Talbot made him.
self particularly repungant to the rum party
last winter by twice preventing the abolition
of the state constabularY by interpOsing his
veto, and this manifestation Of backbone and
conscicntiousness has caused him to be re-
garded by the prohibitOnists as their cham
piou, and the result is n denomination by u
vote OF 1855 in the convention against 1913
for DIR. LoriDg, 20 for John II. Sanford, 81
for Charles Devens, Jr,, and l6 for b. f.
Butler.
On the first ballot for lieutenant governor
HOratio +. Knight, of East Hampton, had
44S votes Alfred Macy, Nantucket, 2s6 /;
Chas. p. Stickney, Fall River, 27l. Knight
was then nominated by reclamation. We
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-09

A story is told of couple of farmers who
lived not u great distance ap art, one OF
whom was noted for being very penurious.
One day his neighbor called upon him while
he was eating dinner, but instead of asking
him to sit down to the table with him, he
kept on eating and talking just as though
the visitor hadt a mouth 10 his head
"Well, what is the news, neighbor Brown ?"
Nothing much" "No news up your way ?"
he asked still helping himself to his good
dinner, while his nelghbor looked on with
anxiety and appetite. "WelI, yes, now l
think ont, there is just a grain of news. Mr..
Joncs's COW has got five calves" replied
the visitor. Five calves never heard
of such thing. Why, what thu dickens
does the fifth one do when the other four
are sucking?" "Why, he stands and looks
on like dumb fool, as am doing now.
"0h, ali Hannah, put down another plate. "
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-09

AT ENMITY WITH TIE GRANGERs-Iu its
leading editorial in which it mourns and
scolds over the defeat of Uncle Luke" the
Waterman and State Journal declares it..
self at enmity with the grangers. The pa TT
it supposed those people had in beating l..
p. Poland is more than it can bear, and it
felt it its duty to bear our testimony
against the grangers," whom it says we
dislike and condemn" aud who it declares
are after the same manner of men who have
driven France to political perdtion, and
moral and social perdition too" How bad
the grangers must feel to think that p Glands
opinion of them is so bad 1t is not prob.
able, however, that their grief will cause
them to dsband their organization
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-09

MIR. John Q. Hopper of the Revenue re.
form association in long letter on the re.
vision OF the laws charges that the "Durant
revision, which Judge Poland made the
basis OF his work in Congress and which was
hnaIly as amended passed to be enacted, was
ent'rely unauthorized BY Congress in its or.
igin, that the judiciary committee threw
away the Gushing revision, without any
right to do so, and substituted the Durapt.
and that Judge Poland carried il through
mostly on his personal assurance that il was
all right. He further claims that much Of
the real work Of the revision was done in
Judge Poland's committee.room by a person
unknown in the circles of Jurisprudence, but
who votes under tho name Of Lorin Blodgett
and now holds the Office as chief Of the Gus.
toms division Of the treasury, there to ex.
pound the law which he has framed for a
great and happy people .-Spriaqfeld Re-
publican.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-09
Rich,.a OI.d .IInrkei.
From our Special Reporter.

nv" "ef oFeeiat HtFOFcfs
MONDAY, Oct. 5.
The market here to-day was active ard
prices higher than last week for both butter
and cheese. At market 400 tubs of butter,
$50 boxes cheese, cars of potatoes, 800
doz eggs. and | car of unfinished leather.
Butter; Selections 40c, good fall made 80
to 80. other grades 30 10 35c. Cheese; flraI
dairy sage 10 to liAci farm dairy plain
lO1 to l31c; factory Is to lic. Potatoes iOc
for 90 lbs well sorted Early Rose. Eggs zoe
per dOz. Leather sent on com.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-09

Judge Poland having written long letter
to the Boston Journal OF Commerce IN de-
Tense of his Congressional record, that jour
nal says I'VE print his defens with every
respect for him. But although we may ac-
cept his statement, that he never thought of
the newspapers in connection with the gag
law or OF there being any change in the
tariff on argols or on mixed goods in the
revised statutes, we nevertheless hold him
responsible for them. In both eases he was
in charge of the bills. lIc cannot plead II
want of knowledge of the law. lIo is n
judge. His thoughtlessness, his lnadvcr-
tcnce, his whatever you may
term his action-iS objectionable, and 50 his
constituents have decided. We thoroughly
endorse their action"