Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-19
state N-e,gs.

| lno neaitn OF u. =. Dlstflct Judge small
ley is steadily improving aud he attends to
business every day. Thus the squabble for
his berth has been in vain.
10 1874 the failures in this state NUM-
bered 80, with liabilities Of $3.50 900, while
the corresponding figures for 1873 we're II
and s350,000.
The House has passed the Senate bill per-
hitting the United States District Judge Of
Vermont to be retired, on account Of physi-
cal disability, at his present salary. The
bill only needs tho Presidents signature to
become a law.
The Central Vermont, Connecticut and
Passumpsic River, Portland aud 0gdeDs-
burg, and Montpelier and Wells River rail.
roads have agreed that, hereafter, half fare
will be granted only to persons attending
camp.meetings, Fourth Of July excursions,
state and county fairs and teachers insti-
tutes. Persons attending other conventions
or meetings where reduced rates are given
will be charged local fare in going, and one
half fare in returning, except Sabbsth-schoo
excursions, for which special rates will be
made by each road.
John Gregory Smith, Of St. Adams, VI,
has his life insured for 100000, and John
b. Page, of Rutland, for $4,000" The
Windsor Journal prints the above under the
head "Inpertinence," aud proceeds to lecture
those papers which first printed the item for
meddling with other peoples business. We
suppose it is nobody's business but his own
and his creditors how much man pays out
for life insurance, but we don't know as there
is any law in this country that will prevent
publishers printing the fact il be sees fit.
The public like to know all they can about
the doings Of celebrated characters, and in
surance agents like to have it known that
shrewd business men insure their lives heavily
Gen. Grout writes letter to the Watch.
man defending the action Of the legislature
in locating the reform school for girls at the
| same place as that for boys. We cannot
sec, however, but the Waterman is right in
regarding it as desirable that the two insti-
tutions should be separated. On this point
the Free Press says; Experience, we be-
lieve, has shown in Rhode Island, and in
other states, that boys and girls of the kind
that fud their way to Reform Schools can be
kept in the same institution only under re-
straints, much severef than those to which
either sex need be subjected in separate in
situations. Either the girls department or
the boys, must be made an absolute prison,
il the two are to be united or adjacent. And
this is to largely increase the expense and
impair the usefulness of the school, tor one
sex or the other, if not for both. We trust
that very few girls will be sent to Vergennes,
till the next Legislature has a chance to cor
rect the mistake made by the last. We
trust there will be a Reform School for
girls-and that it will be at least as far
from the boys Reform School at Vergenues,
as Waterbury,"
ADDISON COUNTY.
W. j. Fuller has sold his interest in the
Middebury Register to r. NJ. Bailey, a
practical printer, and graduate Of Middle
bury college in 1872.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
Grin Bates, of Powual, had % sheep
drowned during the recent thaw by an ac-
cumulation of water under his barn. One
or two horses were found frozen iuto the ice,
but we're released from their uncomfortable
position uniDjured.
The saw and grist mill Of ii. Ii. Myers x
Co., of Pownal, was consumed by fire Sum-
day morning, Feb. 7th. The engine and
boiler, though materially injured, are not
rendered useless. Loss on mill and contents
about 81 900. Insurance $4,000.
On the Goth Of January the barn of o. v.
Bennett in ReadsberO aud an unoccupied
house standing near were burned. A man
named Reuben Phillips, who had repeatedly
threatened the life of Bennett, was arrested,
and as he had been seen near the buildings
Just before the fire, aud had been expelled
from lodge of Good TempIars to which
Bennett belonged he was, in default Of $500
bail, committed for trial.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
The Baptists at Groton have just pur-
chased an organ of II. P. ShOrey 4 Co.
The seminary at Lyndon Center closes its
winter term Friday, Feb 26, with a public
examination. The spring term begins Tues
day, March 8. A full school is anticipated.
The inhabitants near Peabody's Station,
Groton, it is said, will ask the town, at
March meeting, to organize them into a
school district they have 10 scholars at
tending private school this winter.
At the last two meetings of Independent
Grange, Sheffield, the weather and travelling
has been SO bad that the attendance was
small at the next meeting, March 9th, at
o'clock, p, m, all members are earnestly
requested to be present.
There is a family in Wheelock composed
Of man, wife and two small children, all en-
joying good health, who, report says, have
had nothing in their house to eat for the last
six weeks but potatoes, although the father
keeps himself we'll supplied with tobacco.
We are glad to learn that the meeting Of
the board OF agriculture at st. Johnsbury
has 80 stirred up the farmers that they are
talking strongly Of calling meeting Of the
farmers of the county to organize a county
farmers club for discussion and for compar-
ing their different methods Of conducting the
various farm operations, use of fertilizers,
&C., and the appointment OF committee tC
conduct experiments aud report at the meet
ings Of the club. Such an association rightly
conducted would add largely to the prOduc
tiveness Of the county. We hope soon tc
have the pleasure of publishing such call
Joseph Cummings, of Barnet, is the old
est active nd successful carpenter in the
county, if not in the state. He is ~ years
years old. hale and active, and expects tC
successfully carry on the business for seve
raj years to come. He commenced the bust
ness about 80 years ago, aud soon established
so good reputation for thoroughness in all
the details Of his work that the demand fol
his services was ever 10 excess Of his capac
ity to supply. He usually employs from
two to four hands. He has built SO barns
houses, factories, 25 sheds to barns anC
houses, 3 stores, and about hundred SINAI
buildings, like corn barns, sugar houses, hoI
houses, &c. He is remarkable for correct
ness, mistake or want Of finish never be
ing found at the raising, and, what is verl