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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-05

The Grand Encampment of Vermont, l.
o. q. f. met at Oddfellows' Hall, North
field, Feb 2, and elected the following Off
GERS for the year: NJ. w. G. Patriarch, N
g. Hyde, Poultney; NJ. W., &. ii. Priest,
j. N. Gale, St. JOhnsbury; Il. W. &. S.
W., N. F. Rider, Middlebury; r. W. G.
s., f. II. Bascom, Montpelier; II. w. q.
t., j. w. Simonds, Brattleboro II. w. q.
j. W., i. b. Adams, Rutland Representa-
tive to the Right Worthy Grand Encamp.
ment of the United States, l.. G. Stiles, Of
st. Johnsbury; District Deputy Grand Pa.
trarch, d. 2. Celcy, st. Johnsbury.
ADDISON COUNTY.
Dan Champagne, lad about eight years
old, was pushed off a sleigh, Monday, at
Middlebury, and broke leg.
Peter Stone, while chOpping in the woods
near East Middlebury, last week Wedues-
day, fell from a lodged tree upon which he
had climbed to cut it down, and received ia
tai injuries.
N. w. Persons house in Granville was
destroyed by FIRE about o'clock on the
morning of Jan. %. Most Of the furniture,
clothing, &C., on the first floor was saved.
The contents of the chambers and cellar
were entirely consumed. Loss $1,000 or
$500. Insured. The cause of the fire is
supposed to be the burning out Of chimney,
during the night, as a bright light was seen
there about 2 O'Clock from distant part Of
the town. Mr.. 2. had Just arisen aud was
building fire when he discovered the house
10 be 10 flames.
Enoch Varney while at work in the woods
in Bristol on the 9th, trimmed a tree he
had cut down and hltched team at the top
end of it, to haul it around little. The tree
caught on a rock 10 its way and Mr.. Var
ney, thinking it would pass over, let the team
keep pulling, when it bent partly, straining
the chain so hard that it broke, letting the
pole spring back. striking Mr.. Varney on
the leg and making compound fracture OF
both bones.
CALEDONIA COUNTY,,
Independent Grange, Sheffield, meet at
their hall tomorrow evening.
Last week Mary ii. Burnham, Of Wheel
Ock, lost valuable yearling colt.
Asa Randall, Of North Danvlle, has sold
one-half Of his machine shop to Mr. Leon
ard, of Barre.
The Free Baptist quarterly meeting at
Wheelock commenced the 29th aud closed
the 3lst. Very well attended good meet
ing.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Joseph Stanhope, the Oldest man in Rich
ford, died last week Tuesday evening. lie
was 81 and for go years had lived on the
place where he died.
The St. Adams Advertiser is to be issued
as an evening paper hereafter, and is to be
reduced in size; the price, when sent by
mail, is alse TO be cut down from SO Ia 81 a
year. So St. Adams will have two evening
dalieS and no morning paper.
LAMOILLE COUNTY.
Earle says an idiot has a right to talk.
So now we know why the Citizen Is printed.
II gives him an opportunity to exercise that
right.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-05

Somebody claiming to be '"One Of many
Soveroigus," in this weeks Cdledonian gives
the FARMER what he calls "a word to the
WISE" taking for foundation, first, the false
idea that the FARMER is or aims to be an
organ Of the Sovcreigns, and, second, the
false ground that the FARMER has tried to
create feeling of hostility between the
Fairbanks company and their employees.
The FARMER is not the organ of any society,
nor Of any one but its editor and publisher,
and this anonymous writer entirely mistakes
if he imagines be can scare any one by the
threatened loss Of few subscribers,--espe-
cially when instead Of loss there is gain
every week.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-05

STATE OF VERMONT, Caledonia District, ss In
Probate Court, holden at the Probate Office in St.
JOhnsbury, the 18th day of January, A. D., 1875.
GEORGE W. stiles, Administrator of the estate of
JOHN STILES late of WATERFORD, in said district,
deceased, makes application to said Court for license
sell tho whole Of real estate of said deceased
except the widows right of Homestead and Dover
therein representing that said sale is necessary for the
Administration.
Whereupon, is ordered by said Court that said ap-
the 9th day of February. A. d. 1876 at the Probate
Office in st. Johnsbury and, IT is further ordered that
all persons interested be notified hereof by pubca.
tion Of notice of this application and order thereon
three weeks successfully in the VERMONT FARMER,
printed at St. Johnsbury before said time of hearing
that they may appear at said time and place, and II
they cause, object thereto.
BY the COurt.-Attest,
HENRY FRENCH, Register.
A true copy of RecOrd.-Attest
HENRY FRENCH, Register.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-05

Whoever found three ten-dollar and one two.dolar
bank bills lost by the subscriber somewhere about the
village last Monday will be suitably rewarded by
turning them. VIM. ii. PRESTON.
ST IohnshurY Feb. 4 1879.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-05
VIM. S. Triton.
Safe For Exchange.

Togus, Maine, Breeder Of Hostein and Jersey Cattle
from imported and prize animals Alss Trotting Hor
ses Of fashionable blood Prices moderate.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-05

We have requests from various friends Of the FARM-
ER for permission to forward subscriptions at club
rates in less numbers than whole club TO commence
with. In response to this make the general offer
that any one may take subscriptions 1--we would sug-
gest that they take S.75 each, to postage &c
and forward them to the Office with the money at sl65
each. When ten such subscriptions have been sent
such person may call for extra copy to he sent to
any address he desires.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-05

CENTRAL VERMONT RAILROAD,
WINTER ARRANGEMENT.
GOING SOUTH AND EAST.
Trains ieaue Montpelier:
Mail at 8 IS A. NJ, for Boston, New York. &c.
Day Express at ? 30 p. NJ, for Boston.
Night Express at so P. No for Boston, New York &c.
Trains leave White River Junction;
Mail trains at 20 A. NJ and l2. 20 r. NJ for Boston,
via, Fitchburg), New York, &C.
Mixed Train at 8 30 p. NJ, for BratteborO.
Night Express at BOA NJ, for Boston, New York, &c.
GOING NORTH AND WEST.
Trains isdue Waite River junction:
Mixed Train at 7 30 A. NJ, for Mortified.
Express Mail at 80 p. NJ, (IOntpelier at :ij y.
NJ for Burlington, st. Abans Montreal Ogdensburg,
and the West.
Mail at 40 P. NJ. montpelier at c 10 p. NJ for
Burlington and st. Adams
Night Express at 90 NJ, Montpelier at 2s A.
M for Burlington, st. Adams Montreal, 0gdensburg,
and the West.
Accommodation Train leaves Mortified at as A.
NJ, (MOntpeler at s: 10 AND for Burlington st. AL
bans, st. Johns, and Ogdensburg
SLEEPING CARS are attached TO the Night FIX
press Train running between Montreal and Boston, and
Montreal and Springfield.
DRAWING ROOM CARS on Day Express Trains
between Montreal and Boston.
THROUGH TICKETS for Chicago and the West for
sale at the principal stations.
j. W. HOBART, Genl supt.
st. Adams, VT, Dec n.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-05

Subscribers in arrears need not write to the office for
bill. By examining the date on their address label
and the terms in the paper they can always tell how
much is due.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-05
ImbIisher,s .N.eIices.

Each subscriber Is requested to examine the date on
his address label aud fany mistake IL observed notify
the publisher AT ONCE.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-05

For the present, the Vermont Register will DO sent
TO those who pay at the office $500 In cash for year
in advance, and pay up all arrearages, IL In arrears
The New Hampshire Register will be sent 10 those
who nrelar.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-05

aud Stone, Hon. John Bacon ID, Capt. Il. l..
Hovcy, and Revs Tillotson and Leverton,
intorspcrsed with songs from the grange
choir and others.
Friend Tillotson referred feelingly to the
war history Of Bro. Farnham, our host that
he was a native Of this town; how he emf
grated to the West, enlisted 10 the 7th Wis
consin regiment, was wounded at the second
Bull Run battle, lay on the field five days
without food, was reported dead by his cap.
tain. was taken prisoner and paroled, travel
cd 40 miles ON foot TO Washington, lay in
the hospital there two months, was honora-
bly, discharged, and returned to his native
town. lie was one of the first members of
the first grange organized in New England,
was pioneer member Of a Good Templars,
organization in Wisconsin, and Mr.. T. ex-
hortod every soldier and granger and temper
ance man who travelled to make this hotel
their stopping place, and he counseled the
good people of the town TO sustain him in
keeping strictly temperance hotel.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-05

Subscriptions received during any month, will he
commenced either from the first Of that month"; from
the time they received unless they requested
to be commenced at other specified time. For
the present back numbers to January / can he fur
nished IL they are desired.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-05

Some one having good. small safe exchange 1t
for larger one, of Of the best Makes and finished
TO order by paying the difference in cash. Informa-
ton will be given by applying TO
ROYAL CUMMINGS,
st. JohnsbuIy, VT.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-05

Any person wanting to give away a copy Of the
FARMER for year. will be supplied at $780, for that
purpose.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-05

SEWING MACHINES
of all kinds repaired, bought, sold or exchanged
General Agent for the light running Domestic Ma
chine Sold on nstallments and sent out for trial to
responsible parties. Also Needles, Attachments, OIL
&c, constantly or hand and for sale by
l.. J. MUDGETT,
So. Tunbrdge, VermontI
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-05
LASIOILLE COUNTY.

Earle says an idiot has a right to talk.
So now we know why the Citizen Is printed.
II gives him an opportunity to exercise that
right
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-05

Green Mountain and Wide Awake GraDg-
'es with invited gueSts met for an oyster sup
per at the Union hotel, st. Johnsbury Cen
ter, Jan. 20. Although one of the worst
evenings Of the month, about 70 jolly grang-
ers and their friends met to enjoy social
reunion AID partake Of the excellent supper
prepared by Bro. Farnham aud his lady.
Remarks were made by Masters Powers
The New York herald., 1875-09-14
rammnny at syracuse.

The Democratic State Convention will
move on smoothly enough in the transaction
of its business as soon as it gets organized,
but there will be preliminary skirmish in
settling the claims of contesting delegates
from this city. There is set appointed
under the auspices of Tammany and an anti
Tammany set, whose champion is John Nor
rissey The admission or exclusion of either
would make no difference in the action of the
Convention, but would have great effect on
the subsequent canvass for city officers. If
the Morrissey men should gain admission at
Syracuse it would be an Endorsement of them
as the regular democracy of the city, and
with that prestige they could make local
alliances which would give them hopes of
electing their city candidates 1t is not
probable that they will be recognized by the
Convention, because there can be no doubt
that Tammany represents large majority of
the city democrats.
We do not see that Governor Tilden needs
to concern himself with this squabble of fac
tions. His great strength lies in the rural
democracy. The New York delegates have
lost their former power to dictate to the State
conventions. The influence of Tammany
was broken by the election last year, when
Governor Tilden had clear majority outside
of the city. Neither Tammany nor any
other city organization can any longer say,
you must satisfy us with the ticket because
you cannot elect it without our help. The
rural delegates will act on their own judg-
ment of what is most for the interest of the
party. They will admit the Tammany men
into the Convention, but will not allow them
to control its proceedings To make sure of
getting in they have passed resolutions ex-
pressing great deal of honeyed commenda-
ton of the Governor, and have attempted to
disguise the fact that they are all creatures of
John Kelly. The necessity for disguise
grows out of resolution passed by the State
Convention a few years since, requir-
ing all delegates to be chosen in
the separate Assembly districts, and
making it a permanent rule to recognize
ization other than the democratic voters of
each Assembly district acting apart. Tam
many has complied with this rule in form,
but violated it in spirit; and this will be the
strong point of the Morrissey contestants.
They will offer to show that although sep
arate conventions were held in the Assembly
districts, Tammany stood behind the scenes
and pulled the wires by which its puppets
were moved. But the Convention is not
likely to go behind the external form of regu-
larity, and q wrangle will be avoided by re-
ferring the question to a committee and
accepting its report in favor of the Tammany
claimants without debate. There will
great deal of bustling activity on both sides
in the streets and hotels before the Conven-
ton assemblies but probably no disturbance
in the Convention itself
The New York herald., 1875-09-14
The Truth About Mississippi.

II. r. Pease was until the 4th of March
last United States Senator from Mississippi.
He is now postmaster at Vicksburg. He is
Northern mana strong and even bitter re-
publican. His last speech in the Senate de-
picted Mississippi as dark and bloody
ground. and he has himself, since Congress
adjourned, been the subject of brutal in
suit by rufian in Vicksburg because he
chose to do his plain and unfearing duty in
the Post Office in selecting his own clerks,
and among them a young colored man, per-
fectly capable for the place.
We state these facts about Mr.. Pease to
show that his testimony to the peaceful con-
dition of Mississippi is not likely to be
warped by democratic leanings He tele-
graphs to the Attorney General that the ex-
citement arising from the recent riots at
Yazoo City and Clinton has ''in great
measure subsidized" and, what is of even
greater importance, that "a civil posse COM
posed of good citizens of all political parties
and of sufficient force to protect life and
property, can be had in any county in the
State" He adds, what proves conclusively
bONeInOI <Anco IlhS DoeH pldyluP Uue
demagogue and grossly misrepresenting to
the President the condition of Mississippi,
that "no effort has as yet been made by the
State authorities in this direction namely,
to put down disorders by the help of citizens
and that federal Intervention is unwise and
impolitic and will only tend to aggravate
existing difficulties.
Such testimony from such man is con-
elusive as to the condition of Mississippi
Ames is working for an election to the United
States Senate 1t would be just retribution
for his scandalous and dangerous course if
the next Legislature, instead of making him
Senator, should impeach and remove him.
He certainly deserves such fate, for he has
tried by false information to mislead the
President into what would, as now appears,
have been a dangerous and needless act of
interference There is no doubt of his
motive in this He aimed to coerce to his
will not only the democrats but also the
republicans of the State. BY showing the
negroes that he could command federal in
tervention at his will he meant to impose
himself upon them as "General Grants
man" And now he has failed and in his
failure the 'bloody shirt" seems to have re-
ceived a final rent ; it is now only hutter-
ing rag.
The New York herald., 1875-09-14
The Guibord Controversy.

The letter addressed by the Bishop of
Montreal to the Catholic population of that
city IN reference to what is known as the
Gubord controversy is an important docu-
ment The Bishop informs the faithful that
while it may be possible, in obedience to The
mandate of the highest tribunal in England,
for the body of Guibord to be buried in con-
secrated ground and in the lot of which
during life he was an owner, that 'by virtue
of divine power held in the name of the
Lord of Lords the place where the body of
this rebellious child of the Church shall be
buried will be not only cut off from the con-
secrated cemetery but shall be for the future
accursed." BY virtue of this 'divine power"
the Bishop does put upon the grave of the
deceased the interdict of the Church. We
are informed that this letter has produced a
profound sensation, ''falling like a thunder
bolt" and that so far from the difficulty
coming to an end public agitation is rising
In the administration of the duties of his
sacred Office the Bishop of Montreal has q
right to direct the discipline of the Church.
One question arises as to this anathema. In
lies the body of his wife, This woman lived
in the Catholic faith and died in the full
communion of the Church. Are we to un-
derstand, therefore, that His Grace, in inter
dieting this spot, putting upon it the curse
Of the Church, means also to curse the rest
ing place of one who was faithful? We are
afraid that in this whole matter the Bishop
has been hasty. He certainly should never
have allowed the question to grow into an
issue with the English government. That
government, although Protestant is liberal
in its dealings with all denominations.
1t is especially SO to the Catholic
Church. The Crown protects the rights
of every Catholic, permits its discipline, its
awards of honors and punishments, with as
much impartiality as it protects its own
clergymen. Therefore, for q Catholic prel-
ate enjoying the protection of the Crown,
and we might almost say the hospitality Of
the nation, whose sceptre is in Protestant
hands, to invite an issue with the highest
Judicial tribunal, is to commit grave indis-
cretion. There could have been some way
out of this difficulty without the agitation
which now disturbs Montreal. Much of the
sympathy with which fair-minded Protes-
tants regard the position of the Catholics in
Germany will be withdrawn if it is found
that in country like Canada, where there is
tolerance and religious equality and every
desire to allow the Catholic faith liberty, upon
minor question of discipline the Bishop
openly defes the Crown and answers royal
command with an anathema.
The New York herald., 1875-09-14
An Unfortunate Precedent.

We observe by despatch from the West
that person named Shehan, charged with
completely in the whiskey frauds, has been
found guilty of the offence, and that the PEN
atty may be two years imprisonment and
five thousand dollars fine. We ''view with
alarm, as Judge Dennis Quinn would say,
this tendency on the part of juries and
judges to send statesmen to prison. There
is no knowing how far the example may be
followed. Shehan has not shown the proper
courage He should have come to New York
and engaged some lawyer of the ability Of
Dudley Field and paid him twenty per cent
of his emoluments; and even if he had
stolen six millions his punishment would
have been simply nominal. So long
as our criminal classes confne them.
selves to hams and overcoats and win
ter shawls the law is terror" and
its ''stern" administration will always be
commended by powerful and independent
press; but when, ascending into the higher
regions, they begin the work of robbing rail-
roads and making restitution" of robbing
the Treasury and proposing to start "a bank
ing DuSlneSS WIFI INC proceeds, ana OF
cheating the government out of the revenue
whiskey tax and of taking millions from the
County Court House, there is no reason why
there should be any Imprisonment or trouble
whatever. Jay Gould is not imprisoned, yet
he confessed by his act of restitution" that
he had Several millions of dollars that did
not belong to him. Mr.. Tweed is only
nominally under duress, yet everybody
knows that he took six millions of the
peoples money enough to build rapid
transit railroad The worst we have been
able to do with the leaders of the canal frauds
is to put them under bail. What our whis-
key people should have done in st. Louis
was like Gould, to have made restitution"
or, like Tweed, to have engaged an accom-
plished lawyer.
The New York herald., 1875-09-14
Impending Ruin In Rhode Island.

There are rumors of an impending strike
and a general crash in Rhode Island. In no
State in the Union are the relations of capi-
tai and labor so intimately interviewer or so
dependent on each other Politically speak
ing, the mill owners have power equal to
that of the barons of the Middle Ages, and
their operatives are their vassals, compelled
to do their bidding on all occasions. Each
town is satrapy, owned by Goddard, a
Sprague, a Lippitt or Howard. They con-
troll not only their mills, but the machinery
of the State government and the banks and
other moneyed institutions. Under such
chiefs the workingInen fare badly. Fully
one-half of the operatives in the factories
are DISTINGUISHED. They are overworked,
underpaid and undorfed. Discomfort is the
natural outgrowth of system where every
thing is made to subserye the purposes of a
few political magnates But a general strike
is an event more to be deplored even
than the injustice and wrong to which
the operatives are subjected. Such course
would be found as full of evils as Pando-
ras box. The mill owners would be ruined,
and with their destruction the Industries of
the State would be destroyed. Forty
thousand operatives would render them
selves homeless. Many of the banks,
especially the banks for savings, would go
down in the crash The disaster would be
one of the most severe ever felt in this coun-
try, and the distress would be universal.
Evidently the remedy for the evils from which
the workngmen of Rhode Island are suffer-
ing is not in the proposition for a general
strike. 1t must be found, if it is found at all,
in wiser and safer policy. Universal suf-
frage must be guaranteed to every citizen
free from the restrictions imposed upon it by
narrow and selfish statecraft. Baronial
rule must be supplanted bv a government