Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-22
Aetmant GARNER


plans, OF Barton Landing, giving an enter
tainment here. Hope they will come.
DR.. Warmers free lecture Mt town hall
next Monday evening. An admission fee
will be charged for the rest of the course.
Mr.. f. s. Davis, of Danbury, N. H., a
reformed man, will give a temperance lee.
ture at the Free Baptist hall on Sunday,
Jan. "a, at 2 o'clock p. m.
Ausel Huntley, of the Center, at whose
house Mr.. Pearsons was down with small
pox, now has the same disease, though we
understand not severely at all.
st. Johnsbury is to pay the band a sum
not to exceed $500, for street music. We
get street music free here and shall have it
until somebody kills those cats,-Monitor.
d. b. Hill, of St. Johnsbury Center,
showed us a live butterfly which ho caught
in his house on Tuesday. Was it the warm
weather that brought it out so early in the
season.
The purchasers Of the st. Johnsbury
House seem to be slow about coming for
ward aud taking their deed. There are said
to be other parties ready to take the house
if they don't, however.
The board Of agriculture, manufactures
and mining will hold a meeting in this viii
lage on Thursday and Friday, Feb. ii and
II. Our people will doubtless turn out and
make the meeting a grand success.
The Union calls for "bill Of particulars
in relation 10 the cost Of the Portland Street
bridge. We reckon the people would pre-
fer, If they could have but one, to know the
exact cost Of the Railroad street folly.
But We don't think the public spirited gem
tlemen who have engineered that brilliant
Job will consider it consistent with their in
terests to satisfy such an idle piece of Curl
osity on the part of the taxpayers.
Temperance Star Lodge of Good Tenn
plars had a mock trial for entertainment at
their meeting this week, whereat it was
clearly proved that Delos Bacon had been
in the counterfeit money business and had
murdered "old King" and that quite a num-
Der OF the best people Of the village were
periured. Lawyer Service was too much for
Lawyer Stone, though the jury failed to
agree. Most Of the lodge were astonished
at the damaging testimony against Mr.. 5.
Graves.
Albert Stone came down Eastern Avenue
Monday evening, about seven o'clock, with
n team, and when near the corner of Wards
Block the horse took it into his head to
turn around, which he did, taking the thil!s
with him but leaving the sleigh. Stone was
drawn quite a distance down Railroad street,
some of the time standing on his feet and
part of the time on his head. He finally let
90, and the last we saw Of the horse he was
5aaking down the street with the thills in
the air. Stone wasn't hurt.
Our village INDUCED in a frst-class fire
alarm Monday evening, which demonstrated
the promptDess with which the fire company
on the Plain can be got out. The engine
was out on Summer street, opposite Tres
colts livery stable, before the boys found
their services were not needed. The alarm
arose from the woodwork inside of the brick
wall Of the Fairbanks foundry taking fire
through over-heating of a chimney which
was built against the wall. We understand
a fire caught from another chimney in the
foundry, in the same way, that afternoon,
and we have no doubt the company will
promptly take measures to make the build
ing safe. 1t isn't their way of doing husi-
ness to leave buildings otherwise.
The Union wants to know why, if we
think the Falrbaukses have discharged help
for being Sovereigns, we don't say so. Well,
Mr.. Union, we don't think so, and we have
so said several times. We have the assur-
ance of the company that they have not and
will not discharge any man for being a Sow
ereign. But they also say they are liable
to discharge men for talking too much with
their mouths" But while the merchants
are making their boasts hat the heavy foot
of the company will come down and crush
the order within six months, it is well
enough to keep tally of the number of VIC
Tins to this Juggernaut who are members
Of the order, that we may know how success
full the mercantile prophets of St. JOhnsbury
are.
Although Mr.. Gilmore has not kept such
a public house as some of the public think
they want, it is no more than justice to say
that the house has always been neat and or
derby under his administration Mr.. Gill
more is gentlemanly in his department, and
while he has been landlord there have been
no drunken orgies in his house to disturb
either guests or neighbors, and no drunken
loafers have been hanging about the prem.
ises. lie has not kept such a house as to
secure the custom of commercial travellers,
better known as Boston drummers, we adj
nit, and it is to his credit that he has not.
Most of our readers know what kind of a
house they as a class demand -CdiedOnian
Why cant we have a village market at
the expense Of the town? That is what
every body says who has to buy butter,
cheese, eggs, hay, potatoes, wood, or any oil
the thousand and one articles which are pro-
duced in the immediate vicinity and con-
sumed by our villagers. Why can We not
like Sherbrooke, st. Adams, aud many Other
villages, have this means Of exchange be
tween farmers and the village consumers
instead of compelling the farmer to spend
half a day in looking for a customer, or else
sell to the storekeeper, and as likely as mol
be obliged to take 'store pay" on which fifty
per cent profit is charged, while he gets
twenty-five or thirty per cent less for his
produce than the consumer has to pay IL
cash? Is there anything that the majority
OF the people want any more than they do 9
market2 The town can afford to eXpend
several thousand dollars leyeling the streets
and can it not afford this which will be
direct benefit to every man except those VIII,
get a commission for handling the produc,
which might be exchanged directly and tn,
commission, as well as the extra labor, saved
Do we need a market 2 Is there any cal
for one in a village with four or five thous
aud inhabitants 4? If we can't have th,
market, is it because the town is controlled
by a ring Of capitalists who are making
money out Of this trade with which u mar
ket would interfere2 II so, we wonder hov
long that ring are going to control the voter
and taxpayers of St, JOhusbury. We hard
" believe there is such a ring with such