Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-03-19
STATE Ne,rs.

wednesday morning.
We understand the purchase of the armory
property at Vergeunes for the reform school
has been completed and the papers signed.
ADDISON COUNTY.
Wallace w. Slason, business man Of
Keone, N. H., was almost instantly killed
Friday afternoon by being run over bya
passenger train on the Central Vermont
railroad at Middlebury. The train stopped
just below the depot for wood AID water
when Mr.. Slason stepped of TO walk to the
depot, but on arriving at a point between
the woodshed aud locomotive slipped on the
ice aud fell under tho train, which had just
started. He was crushed and nangled fear
fully.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
A Pownal correspondent says A good
lecture on oranges, their objects, &C., is much
needed in this town at an early day. Shall
we have one or more2
The moderator one selectman, two listers,
town agent school superintendent, two school
committee, ono county grand juror, superin-
tendent Of poor, aud one fence viewer Of
Pownal are grangers.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Loren Hale, Of Waterford, has bought II.
X. lde's residence in Passumpsio village.
The spring term of the Lyndon Institute
opens with 20 students The number will
be considerably increased.
Erwin Nye, James Walton, John Mont
gomery, and Harvey Bailey have each lost
horse within few days with the horse dis
temper, in Hardwick.
Charles Sauborn, Of Lyndon, marketed
last week yoke Of oxen whose live weight
was $3.50 pounds. They dressed in market
1925 pounds, and brought IL cents per
pound.
l. w. Sanborn, of Lyndonvile, lost val
liable horse few days since. 1t was taken
with a stiffness and weakness in the limbs
and died in about u week The horse was
five years old past, and was valued at $500.
The friends Of Rev. f. H. Healey will
meet at the vestry Of the Unversalist church
at West Burke on the evening of Tuesday,
March %, to give donation visit. A good
oyster supper will be furnished for those who
wish on the occasion. Let there be good
attendance.
j. o. Gould, Of Passumpsic, has four
year-old heifer fromSwhose milk between the
middle of April, 1874, aud the FIRST of
March, 1875, he made 355 pounds of butter,
IL pounds Of cheese, aud he has sold All
quarts of milk, besides about $50 quarts used
in the family.
Chase got the start Of us all on the Bar
net scandal. 1t seems to be a repetition Of
the Applebeo case, only worse. John IL.
Moore, the auctioneer, is the brute, an litter
ate auctioneer, 70 years old, and his offence
consists of yillainous attempts on the chastity
of young girls. Hang him, aud the quicker
the better.
VIM. McLaren and wife, of Barnet, were
the victims of genuine surprise last Mon.
day, some $50 persons taking possession of
their house to celebrate their china wedding,
while they were absent. When they re-
turned they found the party having good
time. The presents amounted to between
$50 and $40.
We clip the following from the ST.. Adams
Messenger: Joo's Pond, at West Danvile,
was named after an old Indian called Joe
1t is related of Joe that he once went into a
tavern at Peacham, already pretty drunk,
and drank from pitcher large draft Of
cider. He soon threw it up and into the
pitcher. He repeated the experiment again
and again, but finally gave up in despair and
put the pitcher under his chair aud began to
doze. Three or four young men entered the
hotel and supposing Joe drunk they thought
they would have some fun with him. One
Of them reached under the chair and care.
fully pulled out the cider and drank it up.
But Joe saw them. After they had drank
it, he turned around and said "you keep
him down; me tried him four times and he
no stay" BY that time they began to have
the same experience.
Waterman, What Ofthc Night
1t is the hit bird that futters, fact most
notably illustrated in the article Of "Vo.
ter" in the last issue of the FARMER and
Union. The people of Lyndon well know
the issues of the late March meeting in that
town. The ticket Of the opposition" is we'll
understood to have been conceived 10 the in
terests of rum, billiards aud gambling, born
in an underground grocery aud beer saloon.
and died by the overwhelming voice Of the
people at the polls-the plaintive cry Of
"Voter" to the contrary notwithstanding.
And | have yet to see the first strictly tem-
porance man or law abiding citizen in town
who will own relationship with this "opposi-
ton" movement. Talk Of "honor" and in
sinuate secret and underhanded endeavor
to carry "pet schemes" on the part of Incog
and others The designing efforts, as l
have said, were entirely in an opposite direc-
ton and the plea Of honesty and reform
coming from such source is assuredy cool,
and reminds one of the escaped jail-bird who,
being pursued by the officers of the law,
joined the advance posse, and to the top Of
his voice reechoed the alarm, "stop thief !"
1t is altogether too thin, gentlemen.
INcod.
A Caledonia County man recently re-
ceived letter from friend in Massachu-
sets, from which We make the following ex-
tract: "HOnored and respected sir-honored
for your patriotism and respected for y our
beauty. | congratulate you upon your en-
try into the broad and fertile field OF agri-
culture as an everlasting source Of labor,
misery, and enjoyment for all time to come.
| With my minds eye | can gee you a staid
and Industrious tiler of the sterile soil, sur
rounded by your Aocks and herds, earning
your daily bread by the sweat Of your hon
est brow among tho evergreen hills of Ver-
mont. There you can sleep under your own
sugar maple with none to modest or make
you afraid, where the sweet chirp of the
chickadee is heard as the inevitable prelude
to the annual January thaw, where the plain
tive wall of the rng-tailed raccoOn mingles
with the sound Of the waterfall, where the
bald-headed whangdOOdle builds her downy
nest Of rat-tailed files on the inaccessible
heights of the Green Mountain ranges, I'M
scared, and where the wild cats track is
seen IN the ten-acre lot. All these and much