Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-04-02
All Sorts of Items.

The Opinion says Atkins steals most Of his,
news.
The United States supreme court has de-
cided that compensation for lobbying SER
vices cannot be collected by law.
The Messenger stole the story of the Indian
and his cider in Danvile, from the argus,
and we copied it from the former paper and
gave credit accordingly.
The Cdledonidn, finding Early Rose pota-
toes have gono out of popular favor so tho
they sell lower in market than the Jackson
Whites, has shifted from the Early Rose
business and gone to putting the hulless oat
humbug.
The CdledOnidH wants people to under
stand that it wasn't because there was no
liquor that Hepworth Dixon couldn't get
any, but because the quality of the st. Johns
bury liquor was too poor for the blarsted
Britisher"
The Bradford Opinion says Atkins is the
Vermont editor who :" can tell the most
plausible lie, the easiest" but the specimens
he gives don't begin to equal in tho quality
of falseness the one the Opinion told about
the FARMER few weeks ago.
The London Garden of Dec 26th says
american cranberries Of great size and
highly colored now find their way into our
markets, and may be seen exposed for sale
in the shops of provincial fruiterers. Their
cultivation is particularly attended to in
America"
The Montpelier journal is not half as ten
der in its handling Of the republican party
rs it was previous to the third of last No
vember. Then bolt from the decision of n
republican caucus seemed to it to be some
thing terrible. Now it even commends men
who voted against the bill adopted by n eau
Gus of republican senators. Circumstances
alter cases.
Justice to many of our fremen requires
us to say that n highly sensational story,
originating in the CdledOniaH, OF the distri-
button of whiskey at the late fire, by which
incapactated for severe physical and clear
mental labor that the fire had full sway" is
greatly OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Journal.
Considerable sport is being made of the
| Vermont Chronicle by the state press because
that paper Z" has gone into the politico-Po-
land business" We don't see how they
could have expected anything else than that
it should be devoted to the exaltation of the
great Poland family when tho paper came
partially under the control of the august
Joseph.
The West and South are less in debt than
ever before, with large reserve of cotton
sugar and cereals, to exchange for merchan-
dise.--BOStOn AiUertiSer. Du tell! They
talk differently in Kansas, Nebrska, and
some other places West, and in South Caro-
lima, Georgia, and other places South. Why
not look the matter in the face like men
and prepare for whatever may come.
Two years ago, says the Little Rock ARK
Gazette, not a merchant, planter, or business
man in all Arkansas could have obtained in
diligence to the amount of one cent in st
Louis, Cincinnati Louisville, Memphis, OF
any other city of the North and West. To
day, they can get all they want in any o
those cities on such time as will enable then
to pay. The adoption of the Poland repor
has given an impetus to everything.
There are go cubic feet in ton oil hay
put into the NOV fresh from the field, ant
2l6 in II ton well settled down. The differ
ence in NOW that has been standing two
years, over one that had been standing ont
year, would not DO great--as the hay woulC
settle very little the second year. A correct
practical rule by which to ascertain the mum
Der of tons of hay in NOW rs to multipl!
the length in yards by the height In yards
and that by the width in yards, and then d.
vide the product by Is, when tho quotien
will be tho number of tons.-Matne Fdrmer
There are indications in all directions tina
the hardest of the hard times are over. W.
have been getting down to rock bottom, sui
fering shrinkage on goods, real estate anC
products, and learning TO practice n NOR
rigid economy. -Erchange. Got down t
rock bottom, have we, with gold at $l,l
and tending upwardP Are we not liable u
see further corresponding " shrinkage OF
goods, real estate and products" when golC
goes down to 100, where it belongsP Give u
specie payments and business will in reality
get "down to rock bottom" and begin L
thrive again.