Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-03-12

been given did you not reply "Oh II has been talked
up roundp Was not at your instance that the hall
was warmed and lighted that evening for tho purpose
Of receiving your nuifed guests Did you not appear
at the appointed place. and there ind quito good
collection who were unlnvitod, sufficient number 10
overthrow your pet schemes and among them ~ good
temperance mon ~ there 10 town suppose thete
are the men whom you are pleased 10 call the dark
apparitlons Of the demijohn." Amer counting the
audience and being called upon as chairman OF tho
town committee 10 call the ,meetlng 10 order you
piled II was not illegally" called. Legally called
who before has been endued with sufficient wisdom TO
discover that legal body and subject 10
legal rules, We wish for the preservation Of the hon
or Of somc men that more plausible excuse could
have been conlured up for the occasion. Why were
you there, fit not for the purpose Of attending
caucus We make these statements for the purpose Of
showing that the election carried In tho inter
est Of temperance aud that the opposition had not
Wow either billiards or whisky.
We hope the time may come whom mon can vote In
dependently In this townana vote against life ten
ure Of office without being stigmatiEed ne "billiard
and whisky force" A VorER.
Lyndon, ".
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
Frank Morrill, has sold his home farm of
20 acres to Barney Corners, of West Sha-
zee, N. Y, for $4,000. The sale includes 4
COWS.
A. J. Burrtt, from Shelburne, who has
been travelling for firm in Chicago, was re.
Gently severely injured by a railway acci-
dent near Dubuque, Iowa. He has not
qeen able to be brought home yet, but his
friends are daily expecting to be able to re-
move him.
Al. Crane, the Burlington defaulter, has
been sentenced to one year IN the county jail
at Windsor and to pay a 6ue Of $1,000 for
embezzlement, and to six months 10 the
same Jail and to pay fine OF $1,000 for
making false entries.
ESSEX COUNTY.
A man named Fitzgerald jumped from a
freight train at Island Pond, on the 2nd,
and lost both legs.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The st. Adams rolling-mill has started mp
again, with 20 per cent reduction in wages,
after several months idleness.
The report of farmers club, from an
Enosburgl correspondent reached US too
late for this issue. 1t will appear next
week.
The Richford Sentinel has changed hands,
Nj. j. b. Bowditch having sold the estab.
lishment to Messrs. Q. G. Brown and Will
liam f. Scott, the latter for some time fore.
man Of the Messenger Office in st. Adams,
and practical printer.
The Messenger S Berkshire correspondent
says Just think of a town tax OF only five
cents on the dolar.-Another thing: the
collector gathered in every dollar last year
and asked for no Attachments Where is
there another collector who could do as well,
or another town in which it could be done
Washington" is level headed man and
does not part his hair in the middle either
LAMOILLE COUNTY.
Samuel Bedding has bought Nathaniel
Fosters place in johnson.
Work has stopped IN Pearls wooden fac.
tory at johnson for the present.
Joseph Huse and wife have charge Of
Stoves poor farm for the coming year.
The Hull farm, Bevidere, has been cold
to Ephriam and George Brown for $4,000
Rodney Holmes committed suicide by
hanging at his residence in Waterville or
the lst BY this rash act four children are
made orphans, their mother having died
about a year since.
Earle has discovered an inlallible test for
true religion. The man that piles the Woo
he sells so that dog can't jump through it
he says has religion that "will stand the
scrutiny of the Almighty, and nothing short
of it will do" We think that depends up.
on the size of the dog Ii he is as small a
puppy as Earle, perhaps the test is gooC
one.
Rumor has it that there has been deal
of trouble in the Christy district SchUol
Johusou, lately. A Of Ira Ober ha
been making good deal of trouble anC
things come to a crisis between him anC
school master Hall last week, aud they haC
a pitched battle" The report is that Hal
had his nose and jaw broken and both eye
pretty we'll BACKED. If 80, it is to be hope,
that the ODER fellow will be made to smar
for it.
MorrIsvIlIe's CtntenarIan.
Mr.. Editor Having heard that we ha
in Morrisville an old gentleman that wa
over one hundred years old, was anxiou
through curiosity to see him and convers
with him. Before finding my way into hi
presence had expected to find a poor oil
helpless man, one that had nearly lived GU
his memory and other faculties, but wa
very much disappointed in conversing wit
him. His name is Simon Deli. He wa
born in Nancy, France, Oct. %, 1873
therefore he is nearly l02 years old at tn
present time. He told me that he had wha
they told him was shock, but he though
) if nothing took him suddenly he was goo
for ten or twelve years yet, and most certain
ly should think he was, judging from hi
) looks. He is very intelligent and remeu
: bers places and dates with remarkabl
: complete master OF eleven different languages
' was conscripted by Napoleon, entered til
5 army at seventeen years old and served Ut
!, der him in most all Of his campaigns an
s battles, the greatest of which he thinks WI
t Austerlitz. He was sergeant and wi
4 taken prisoner in BoEaparte's campaign
J. Spain by the English, aud rather than lie
. prison enlisted under the Duke of Wellin
$ ton in the British army for seven years
: was wounded in the leg while under We
Q lington, and promoted to lieutenant, al
tnlnks III ne nau Dau lTlenuS nc Wl8nt uh'
c been promoted to a position by which
!. might have received two hundred pounds
year. He was transferred from England
Canada in the unpleasantness Of 1872, al
70 fought with the British at Plattsburg. /
i, worked at making brick forty years. /
ID worked at manufacturing hats and GLOW
10 seventeen years lie is the father of fife
lo children, Of whom eight are alive; the oil
est is fifty-two aud the youngest thirty yea
,. of age. He is surrounded by three of B
>. daughters who no doubt do all they can {
IN his comfort. His eyesight is good, not ha
p ing to wear glasses Could read the SUM
IN print of the different languages with ca
o. and correctness and was full of that buO
$, ancy Of spirits that is so seldom met with
/, people that are only half his age. At I
as | uoantiOn 81 iha mama oI Rononurta or w