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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-08
Pitiful panendenon.
Government employees, at Washington or
anywhere else, are for the most part in a
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Government employees, at Washington or
anywhere else, are for the most part in a
state of pitiful dependency. A slig ht change
- tical atmosphere often renders
4ofd upon place and employment OK.
teedingy precarious. An election, the
freak Of an individual, the change Of con.
tract, may suddenly turn them adrift. IL is a
sorry condition for any man or woman to ial
insensibly into an abject dependency herein
for bread and raiment. Yet thousands pre-
fer this miserable contingency to honest aud
honorable independence IN private calings
and pursuits The crowd Of applicants for
clerkships aud other positions in the Govern
ment is great and most clamorous, even in
face Of all possible exgencies Of the worst
sort. The four hundred male and female
employees that have just been discharged
from the printing bureau, at Washington
we'll knew beforehand the possibilities Of the
distress that is upon them, nevertheless, they
sought their places with great painstaking,
and so are smariing roundly for their delu.
sion. The newspapers tell sorry tales of dis.
tress among some Of the female employees,
and some very wise humanitarians go so far
as to insist that the Government shall find
employment for these young and fair ones
whose bread is taken from their mouths, by
discharge, lest worse thing come to them,
but what will soon become of a Govern
ment that undertakes to provide genteel
employment for all that have "nothing TODD ?"
Who would court the lot Of the discharged
clerks" just now P'-Vermont Journal.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-08
Sewing Machines.

A correspondent writes an account of a
sewing machine agent who offered to sell
sos machine for $40, saying he would make
IS on the machine at that, bat the purchas.
er must let him have some produce or some
thing and call it SIS more than il was WORTH
so that he could report to headquarters that
he got S55 for the machine, as If he sold it
for less he would lose his agency. Our cor
respondent asks, Z" Now don't you think that
looks like monopoly"
The sewing machine monopoly is the most
oppressive one in the country, first, because the
burden it creates falls upon class of PEG.
pie who can i'll afford to bear il, and second,
because the business is in few hands and con.
sequently more easily controlled. We hav.
en'ta doubt the agent referred to above, in
stead Of making So, as he claimed, would
have been making $3.50, as most of the
manufacturers pay 80 per cent commission
to their agents. AS we said last week, ma.
chimes which are sold here for $50 are ship
ped to England, freight paid, aud sold
there for $50. The fact is, the system
Of sending agests around the country
to sell goods is ruiuous TO all honest interests.
The army of drummers, agents, peddlers,
&C., which the American people support,
constitute burden which is to a certain OK
tent selfimposed, but is none the less griev-
Gus. If every purchaser would steadily re.
fuse to have anything to do with these most
needless middlemen, but send direct to man.
ulacturers or wholesale importers for their
goods, there would be tumble in prices
such as We have no hope of witnessing for
many years to come. But the oranges and
councils are working nobly in the direction
Of this reform TO certain extent it has
come I; and to far greater extent it will
come, before they lay down their arms and
cease this noble warfare.
What does the travelling agent contribute
to the general prosperity Nothing. What
does he take therefrom? All that he receives
in salary. All that he consumes either ia
needlul expenses or in the riotuos living to
which, as a class, be is addicted. He is a
parasite upon our commercial system These
travelling agents add-nOthing to the wealth oil
the world they do not produce anything
nor add to the valuc of anything already
produced but they do add to its cost. The
only remedy for the evil lies 10 starving then
out by giving them nothing to do. Let al
true Patrons and Sovereigns give them Sc
we're lettisg alone. Purchases can be made
through the state agent at the agents cash
price, and that is the way to get sewing
machine.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-08

The several councils OF the Sovereigns of
Industry will meet at Rutland, Friday, Jan
uary 9Th, to organize State council Of the
order.-FreG Press.
The tenth council 10 the state was organ
lied on the 23d Of December. st. Johnsbury
Council met the next evening, before word
had come that there were ten councils in the
state, and did not meet again until last eve
ming, SO they could not have signed call
for state council. The constitution requires
a call from at least ten councils in the state
to the Master of the National Council to
precede the meeting for forming state conn
Gil. The National Council is then to give
notice to every council in the state, at least
ten days previous, of the time and place of
such meeting. The council here are curious
to see the result.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-08
BOSEOn Market.
Reported for the VERMONT FARMER by
n. ID. HIBBARD,
Produce Commission MerchAnt,2l John Street. Boston
L.. A

Produce Commission MerchAnt,2l John Street. Boston
WEDNERDAY, Jan. o.
Flour and GrdiH.-Ihe market for -four
continues quite dull and the sales of the
week have been ofqute limited character,
The sales of fancy Minnesota brands have
been mt 81. so to o, and the latter is now IN
outside price for the best on the market
white wheat st. Louis, common and choice
brands, Mt 5.T5 to9; Illinois ut $50 TO 7; and
Ohio, Indiana and Michigan ut 5,25 to 8,
with few favorlte brands at 6.25 to @ so per
Dbl. Southern flour Is quiet at 81. SO to for
common extras and choice family. Bakers
extras are selling at 1915 to $50 Tor Mime
sofa and 525 TO SIS for Wisconsin. Low
grades are dull and have been selling Mt
$50 Ia for Western common extras, and
to 4 so for Supers.
There has been q better feeling for corn
for some days past and prices are lirmer. The
sales have been Mt 81 TO 93c for mixed and
yellow, and about lc per bu additional Is
obtained for lots Mt East Boston. In South
ern yellow there have been sales Mt 92c.
Tho market Is quite firm for oats and
prices are ! to GO per bu higher The salos
have been at go TO 72c for No mixed and
No white; and rejected ut 65 to 67c. Can
ada oats range from 90 to 800, and u choice
lot Is held ut 72c.
Rye. The sales have been in small lots at
81 To los.
Shorts ARE scarce and higher, with sales at
S27 to %; fine feed ~ to aQi and nliddliqgs
81 to 80 per ton.
Groceries. -Coflee There is better feel.
ing IN the coffee market and prices ARE high
or all round. Java continues in few hands
and is held with considerable irmess, and
for other kinds there has been fair demand.
Sales of Java at 25A to SIC, gold; Mocha Is
firm and has advanced to 30c, goldi Rio at
IVA to 2lc, gold; Maracaibo ut 10 to Gle, and
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-08
W'aierso,Vm Cassie Market.
TUESDAY, Dec. 90.

TUESDAY, Dec, ".
At market this week Cattle 663, Sheep
and Lambs 1891, Swine -. Number from
Vermont. Cattle 43l, Sheep and Lambs
1857.
Prices Market Beef-A few choice 10 so
to 10 rs extra 10 90 to 10 SO; first quality 90
to $50; second quality 9 so to 3 SO; third
quality IS 90 TO 6 90.
Prices of Store Cattle, Working Oxen pr
pair from 800, $50, IT'S TO $40.
Yearlings $40 to ls; two years old 20 to
%; three years old 80 IS.
Prices of Sheep and Lambs-in lots . rs,
800, 3 rs each; extra So to 625
per head, or from to &c pr Id. Fancy
sheep "A to Sc.
Prices of Hides, Talow and Skins-Brisht-
ton Hides 81 to &C pr Id; Country Hides
81 to &C pr 10. Brighton Tallow &c pr ID;
Country Tnllow 5Ic pr lib.
Pelts 100 to $50 each. Calf skins l5c
per ID.
CLASSIFICATION OF CATTLE AND SHEEP.
N. B. Beof-Choice grade includes moth
ing but stabilized 100 to 400 lbs bullocks.
Extra and first quality includes the best,
large, fat oxen. Second and third quality
includes oxen and two and three year old
steers.
Sheep-Exta includes cossets, and when
those Of inferior quality are thrown out.
REMARKS.
Calle-We IOunu n good supply OF N ORTIZ
ern cattle ut market, and the general run of
better quality than notcedsincelastfall. Many
large oxen were shipped from the North in
anticipation of full last weeks price. On best
grades full prices were generally easy to OBJ
tain; ordinary to slim stock less active and
less hrm. NJ. L. Shackett sold TO L. ID. KIM
bail % cattl'-l0 ut l0Ac, extra oxen to dress
from 1850 to 1850 lbs. each; sat lQc, to dress
$50 to 1900 lbs each; oxen at &c, to dress
$50 lbs each 4 COWS and heiIers to A.Carter
ut &c per ID ID w. b. Dow sold 5 oxen to
dress 1000 lbs each, ut loo. l. b. Sargent
sold oxen, weigh live 5000 lbs tho pair, ut
IS 80 per cwt live; II heiiers ut S35 each.
&. +. HoughtOn sold 10 oxen to Mr.. Cornell
to dress from 800 to 1900 lbs each, at &c per
Id ID W. c. Brown sold oxen at 10 live
weight,
SUSCEPTIBILITY of the goods was not much
different from arrivals Of last week. Trade
was fair but not quick. Prices not firm, and
barely sustained. &. I. Houghton had at
market % cossets; fneranimals seldom seen
ut market; weighed average 100 lbs. g. ii.
Kilder sold l0i sheep, average 70 lbs at 5Ic.
4. T. Sargent sold 1903 sheep, weighed 1850
| lbs at 4Io per Id. NJ. T. Shaekett sold lCO
sheep, average SO lbs, Mt pic.
POultry-Scarcely anything in the poultry
| line were shipped this week. A few pounds
in crates AT l2o to l5c per Id.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-08
Removing Headquarters.

The Georgia Granger contains II very
sound article urging the removal of the Ma
tional Grange from Washington to some
more suitable place. 1t claims with justice
that the national capital is too far removed
from the center of the agricultural popula-
ton and that the result of this fact is much
announcement delay in the transaction Of bust
ness. 1t also raises the objection that Wash
ington being the political capital and center
of the country, the National Grange is plac-
ed in dangerous proximity with the politi-
clans. The second of these objections the
World does not consider vital, for even If II
treacherons officer or administration should
sell out the grange, he would be likely to
experience some difficulty in making deliv-
cry of the goods to his political customers.
The World has, however, always been warm
ly in accord with the movement looking to u
transfer of grange headquarters to some
point nearer the center of grange popula-
ton, which is most dense in the west and
south. and now reiteratus IFS conviction that
ut the approaching session of the National
Grange steps should be taken to remove its
offices either to st. Louis, indianapolis, Lou
isvlle, Memphis. or some point equally con-
venient for the purposes of the order.-N. y.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-08

Jan. 4.
Flour-Shippng grades in fair demand,
perlue quiet. Southern slow. Wheat-SI. IL
to l.l2t in store Tor Noe Chicago spring.
LIS in store and l,l6 to l II afioat for No 2
Milwaukee spring, l.2S for red winter, 100
for amber winter, l,2S to 1875 for good to
spring, opened aud closed firm, but only
moderativey active. Corn-97 to 68c for
new Western mixed, chiefly at ssc, ssI to
soc for high mixed to dry yellow do aaoat,
97c in store and Csc ailoat Tor old Western
mixed, old dull, new in fair demand, chiefly
Tor export. Oats---f0c in store, 69c on track
for mixed, II 10 7ltc for mixed afoat, and
ia to rae for white, 81 to &c for state mix
cd. Pork quiet and firm, nominally S2O.5O
Rio coffee firm and unchanged, Java coffee
firm. Raw sugar firm, no sales; refined
sugar quiet and steady. standard A o 1916
to Toe. Cattle, market fair, but slow, lO4 to
l3c for common to best.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-08
Federal Troops In the State-House.

April 90, 1863, Oliver Cromwell drove the
representatives of the English people out of
their chamber at the point of the bayonet.
January 4, 1875, Ulysses S. Grant repeats
the experimentation smaller scale, to be
sure-by sending n file of soldiers into the
state house of an American commonwealth
Ona like Illegal, revolutionary. reasonable
errand. We shall see what comes of it.
1t is possible that the old love Of chartered
liberty, the old jealousy of arbitrary power.
which blazed up so fervidly hundred years
ago, beacon-light throwing its glare across
two worlds, has quite smoldered out. 1t
may be that the Americans of this genera
ton have quite lost the secret of that gener-
ous yet wholly reasonable and intelligent
emotion which fired the shot ut Concord and
kinded the bivouac fires ut Valley Forge.
II SO, the complete supervision of our pres
ent institutions is merely n question of years.
If not, there will he such a sonorous response
to the manly protest and appeal OF tho out
ragged state ms will convince Capitol and
White House that the patience of the people
Is at last exhausted and that any further eX-
poriments in this line will be attended with
serious risks-alike for ipstitutors, agents
and nbettofs.
Lot us bring the matter home to ourselves.
Louisiana is n long way off, and, besides, tho
fact of its participation in tho secession
movement is still fresh in tho northern menu
DRY. A good many people in this part of the
country read about the events occurring
there very much AS they would read about
similar events occurring in Mexico or Mic
aragua, But il is state of the American
Union, for all that,--l state standing upon
the same footing in every respect, 80 far as
the constitution and the laws are concerned,
us Massachusetts, and New York and ILL
nois. So tar rs the constitution and the
laws are concerned, neither President Grant
nor Lieutenant General Sheridan has any
right or exercises any legitimate authority
at New Orleans which he does not equally
have or may not equally exercise Mt Boston.
Whatever either Of these persons can lawful
ly do there, they can lawfully do here. Sup
| pose Mr.. Is. y. Butler, for instance, should
be the republican nominee for governor,
next year, and should be soundly beaten at
the pols---as he Undoubtedly would be.
Suppose President Grant should then avail
himself Of "A strained construction of doubt
ful ennctments TO install this defeated candi-
date with force and arms IN the office to
which tho people of Massachusetts had elect
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-08

Lead pencils ten cents That is what we
have repeatedly paid for Faber No. 2, yet all
the time we knew we were paying four cents
for pencil and six cents for profit, only $50
per cent. We have now bought gross, of
a make that we like even better than Ba-
ber's, and they cost, delivered, only 80 cents
each. They came directly from the manu-.
facturer, so that no middeman ever got his
fingers on them. Anybody else in the Uni
ted States, for they go by mail for Is cents
a gross, can do the same thing, and we will
inform any grange or council or individual
who will not speculate on them nor try to,
just where and how to get them, on receipt
Of postal card for that purpose.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-08

We have several times stated our belief
that if the Wisconsin railroad laws were un.
just the proper course for the roads was to
ask for changes In the law which would give
them justice, instead of rising up and pro.
claiming themselves above the law aud be.
You'd the reach Of the state government.
They chose the latter course, and we're de-.
feated in the courts, which decided that the
state government had not created corpora.
tons by their own act which now were SUI.
perior to them in power. Fairly whipped,
the railroads now ask ust what the grangers
and everybody else was willing they should
have,--an investigation and law which
shall give them justice.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-08
Stock Gambling.

We are forced to award au eminent place
to the results Of stock gambling. Now, d.
vested Of the machinery which is employed
to give legitimate business aspect to this
pursuit, it stands out before the public eye
as uuquestionably one Of the least useful,
the least moral, the least honest, the most
shilty, fraudtul, INSCRIPTIONS forms of down
right gambling known to this generation.
1t has been a curse both to this state and
Nevada. 1t has been the ruin Of hundreds
and thousands upon this csast. 1t has swal.
lowed up the earnings Of the mechanic, the
wages Of the domestic, the pittance Of the
widow, the scaut inheritance Of the orphan.
Its record is branded with the blood OF a
hundred suicides, with the despair Of thou
sand blasted lives, with the shame and deg
rydation of innumerable persons who have
been seduced to crime and jnfamy by its
accused lures. The stock.market, through
which Senator Jones has been lifted to his
present financial elevation, is to-day the
scene OF ranker swindles, more shameless
jobbery, worse dishonesty, and more persist
ent and systematic chicanery and deceit,
than any other institution in the country.
1t is mainly through its operations, at the
East, that the railroads Of the Western
States have become unpopular. Their stocks
have been used in the thieves den Of Wall
street for what are alphabetically called
speculative purposes, but which being reu-
dered into plain English mean naked cheat
ing and plumber. But through all the ncfa-
rious business runs the central fact that it is
the public-the "Peoplo" with large p
who are made to furnish the sinews of war,
and whose constant losses 60 to swell the
already plcthoric bank-accounts of our great
mining capitalists. 1t is not often that the
"knowing ones" Of the "street" are heavily
bitten but it is rare indeed for au "outsid-
er" to succeed in speculation OF this kind.
-Sdcr amento Record.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-08

There have been 276 convictions of rum.
sellers in the Maine supreme court IA com
mitments to Jail from it, during the past year,
larger number than in any similar period
previous--and $50, 900 has been collected
in fines, which is 80 per cent more than in
any previous year except one. This good
record is attributed to the sheriff enforcement
act. And the prohibition law is as we'll en-
forced as any similar law. There is cor
responding decrease in crime, the number of
commitments to the state prison and the jails,
the past year or two, being nearly 30 per
cent smaller than in 1866.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-08
Railroads and the People.

In discussing the subject of railroad legs-
lation u few days since, the Herald expresses
the opinion that the granger movement "to
obtain the control of the railroads of the
country is an experiment of very doubtful
wisdom" If the writer fully understood the
principles of the organization called grang-
crs, he would never have made this rash
statement. The class referred to have new
or in any manner attempted to get control of
the railways. They have only demanded, rs
the representatives of the agricultural and
business classes, that just and equitable tar
ills should be given for the transportation of
the products of the country, from the west
to the sea-board, and between the different
distributing points, so that the price of the
commodity should not be all absorbed by
the carrier in the rate Transportation. This
is all the control they have attempted, and
this they have right to ask when 1t becomes
apparent, as it had, that it could be done ut
lower rates. Tho railroads knowing their
power refused all compromise, and kept on
with their oppression of the producer-al-
most crushing out the business and in II
sense paralyzing agriculture. No alterna-
tive was left for the people but an appeal for
justice.
There has never been in the history of the
country resistance to fair and equitable
regulations. Its only when the people feel
themselves wronged and oppressed that they
take an appeal. From the people then, came
this organization. 1t could never have aris-
en- unless there was something radically
wrong in the condition of things, surrounding
those from whence it sprang. 1t has been
no experiment, but II success. A petition
was preferred to the law-making power, and
some of the evils were remedied by legisla-
ton. The courts have sustained tho law and
the voice OF the people has been triumphant
over monopoly, If the producers of the
west have succeeded, it is time they settled
tho matter ut the east. There are rs grave
reasons for settling this difficult problem in
Vermont as in Wisconsin, although there
may not be quite rs much reason, perhaps,
for complaint hero rs there. There can be
no further question of the discreet use of II
law regulating railway traffic, rs the ex-
pertinent in Wisconsin has proved. If 1t
prove unjust to railroads they have the same
power of appeal MS the people,-R"tland
Globe.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-08

The benefit to the pocket is the first con-
sideration of those seeking to enter the
grange, but that is by no means the only
benefit. The grange seeks to do good to its
members without wsging warfare with any
other class. If the farmer sells his produce
to the mddleman at little more than the
bare cost of production, aud the middlemsn
sells it to the consumer at profit, we can
not blame the middleman it only shows that
he is shrew'ier than We, The only remedy
is for the farmers to cooperate and lessen
the number Of profits between them and the
consumer.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-08

Those who have sent in clubs have our
hearty thanks for the same. We should be
glad to pay them better but the club price
is so low that that thing is impossible. They
must therefore accept the will for the deed
this time, except those who are fortunate
enough to receive one of the premiums we
offer for large clubs. We will just add that
our friends have taken hold in earnest, and
clubs are coming in much faster than We had
anticipated
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-08

Some subscribers whose renewals came in
last week may not have received last weeks
paper. Any such will be supplied if they
will notify us by postal card.
Subscriptions coming in now are supplied
with back numbers to the FIRST of January.
Those who send in clubs will DO entitled
to make additions to them at the same rates
until the first of April.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-08

Readers of newspapers often meet with
the term "carload," but few Of the ~ know
just what or how much it is. The st Louis
Times has taken the trouble to learn, aud
says as general rule 10000 pounds, or 20
barrels of salt, 70 of lime, 80 Of -four, 90
of whiskey, 200 sacks Of -four, 6 cords of
soft wood Is to 30 head Of cattle, 80 to so
head ofhogs, 80 to 100 head Of sheep, 5000
feet of solid boards, II 900 feet Of siding, 49,
900 feet flooring, 10000 shingles, ono.half
less of hard lumber, one.tenth of joists,
scantling and all other large timber, $40
bushels OF wheat, 800 of corn, $50 Of oats,
400 81 barley, $3.50 of fax seed, 800 OF an,
Piles, 4S0 Of Irish potatoes, $3.50 Of sweet DO.
tatoes