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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-03-05

The Subscribers, having been appointed by tho
Honorable Probate Court for the District OF Caledonia
Commissioners to receive, examine, and adjust all
claims and demands of ali persons against the estate of
Samuel e.. Norris, late of St. Johnsbury, in said Dis
riot deceased represented .nsoyent and the term OF
allowed by said Court the creditors Of SAID deceased
exhibit and prove their respective claims before us
Give notice. that we will attend 10 tho duties of our
appointment ut the dwelling house Of the late Samuel
G. Norris, in st. Johnshury, In said District, on the
10th day Of February and the 2oth Of July next h one
O'Clock In the afternoon, each VI said days,
ABEL WILEY, (romr,Iss,on.rs
j, II. APPLEBEE,
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-03-05
EGGS! EGGS!

Premium Stock. Nearly every breed Of Fowls Send
Stamp for large Illustrated Circular and
PRICE LIST.
Q. W. GUY,
Norwood, Mass.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-03-05
MANUFACTURING CO.,
BrattlebOrO, Vermont
SAMUEL G. NORRIS ESTATE.

Il. d. HARRIS, President. }
q. +. THOMPSON, Treasurer. :
]. l.. SlMONDS, Mfg. Supt. y
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-03-05

Club agents, in taking additions to clubs from those
who In for the FARMER will please reckon
asaragos up 10 tho time they send the 10 tho Of
ice, and add the years club subscription from that
time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-14
Female Labor in Berlin.

THE following figures furnish a picture
of some interest as to the amount of labor
performed by females in Berlin. Of the
437 200 sef-reliant persons in that city,
there are about 100000 women, so that
they are about 80 per cent. Of the whole.
come from abroad. The terrain of female
labor in Berlin is very comprehensive.
To judge from the statistics, women pre-
fer that of common service or hiring out,
tailoring, laundry, attendance, millinery,
making Of artificial flowers and articles of
leather, tapestry, manufacturing of car
toons, fancy articles and umbrellas These
branches Of industry are sought more by
women than men. In the sphere of edr-
cation and instruction the proportion be-
tween the two sexes is nearly equal; there
are almost as many male as female educa-
tors. The same holds good in the manu-
featuring Of laces, fringes, ETC., also in at
tending bathing institutions. The women
are largely represented in stores and trad
ing generally, in factories of articles of
leather, in restaurants, hotels, furnishing
rooms, attendance on the sick, halr-dress-
ing and cabinet-making, in which they
generally as widows continue the business
of their deceased husbands In relation
to their domestic status, the female labor
ing population (of course we mean self
reliant laborers) comprise 10000 of the
100000 unmarried women, while of the
129, 200 married, 7,776 are engaged in fe-
male labor, and of $4,000 widows about
80, 300 are self-reliant. Again, the women
relying on their own labor are per cent,
OF married, 333 per cent. of unmarried
and go per cent of the widows.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-14
Letting the Animals Loose.

LUCY HOOPER writes to the Philadelphia
Telegraph from Paris:
The Menagerie Bidel closed its doors
with grand farewell performance which
was likewise a gratuitous one. The
menagerie added to the usual display of
wild beasts and to feats of lion-tamers a
new and popular attraction. M. Bidel
was IN the habit at the close of the per-
formances of letting loose number of
tame and harmless animals to receive the
caresses and admiration of the audience,
particularly of those spectators who had
reserved seats on the front row next the
ring. First came three men bearing on
their shoulders an enormous beacon
strictor, with head erect and ouivering
darting tongue. Nobody cared particular
ly to touch him, so his bearers marched
around the ring with him and then disap-
peared. Next came huge alligator, car
riedt in the same way, the first man carefully
keeping down his threatening upper jaw.
lie was not popular pet either, though
many curious individuals ventured to
touch his scaly back and dangling paws.
Then came a group of softeyed clumsy
llamas who Numbered about and walked
over the spectators and tumbled on the
children and behaved themselves absurdly
in general. Then the giraffcs and the
elephant were turned loose and were i'm
mensely caressed. A race was organized
between the elephant and one of the
giraffes, wherein the former got beaten,
and testified his sense Of his discontinue
by series of horrible howls. But the
great success of the evening were the lion
cubs, five jolly little fellows, looking like
kittens on an exaggerated scale and all
perfectly wild to be let out for a frolic.
AS soon as the door of their cage was
opened out they all tumbled, down the
inclined plank that led to the ring, and all
nightly inclined to play. They were
picked up and patted and Rugged by
everybody who could get hold of one of
them, their tails were pulled and their
ears were pinched, and they were general
ly treated with a familiarity to which
members of the royal lion family are
totally unaccustomed. They took it all
in good part, however, growing little
sometimes when royal tail was pulled
too hard or a royal ear unduly pinched,
but never attempting to scratch or bite.
After general frolic all round some of
them got under the seats, curled them
selves up and went to sleep in a comfort
able, domestic-cat sort of fashion. 1t is
an interesting question to me as to what
influence the training VIII have on these
specimens of a usually intractable and
savage race. Will they grow up to be
ferocious brutes, growing at humanity
from behind the bars Of a cage, or will
their baby gentleness and domesticity
continued
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-14
An Ancient MacadamiZed Road In West
Virginia.

A CORRESPONDENT writes to the Pitts
burgh Commercial: "Several years ago
considerable excitement was created in
Paramount, w. Va, by the discovery of
traces of an old macadamized road extend
ing along the right bank of the Mononga-
hela, opposite that place. Recently the
Government engineering party engaged in
the survey of the upper Monongahela
River with view of slackwatering that
stream from MorgantOwn to Paramount
examined this old road, and from the
members of the party we learn that there
can be no doubt but that this road fur
nishes another trace of the lost race that
once dominated the continent long before
the Indians came into possession.
"There are traces of the road for nearly
eleven miles along the narrow strip of bot
tom land between the hills and the river,
though at many points the river, having
shifted it's channel and cut into the hills.
has entirely obliterated every evidence of
it. Generally the road is covered by from
two to five feet Of alluvium, either de-
posted through the course of ages by the
river floods, or else by the slow washing
off the hills skirting it. Its width is said
to be fifteen feet
"The most curious feature about the road
is that the stone from which it is formed
appears invariably to have been burnt.
Wherever the road shows itself in the
cutting backs it is marked by the black
substratum Of ashes. In depth the broken
stone varies from six inches to eighteen
inches, Of irregular fragments. The ma
terial employed appears to have been
largely composed Of powders of red sand
stone, and the conjecture is that they we're
broken after being made hot with water
thrown upon them. There being few (if
any powders in the river or adjacent
country, the query arises, where could the
material have been obtained to make this
road?
AT the crossings ofthe streams there are
nc traces of bridge abutments or piers,
which leads to the conclusion that the
streams were crossed on wooden bridges.
At many points the road is covered with
trees over $50 years old, which makes it
certain that it was constructed long before
the advent Of the white man; and there are
other circumstances surrounding the case
which lead inevitably to the conclusion il
was made in those early ages when semi
civilized people inhabited North America
No one acquainted with the habits of the
American Indians would give them credit
for constructing such work of art as
this''
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-14
Inffa ton i'm China.

China is hard-money country, and the
usual currency is copper cash. each of
which represents about mil, or 900 to
the dollar. Between 1880 and 1860 the
copper cash became scarce and high, and
the Government of He-en Foong, then
Emperor, hit upon happy expedient to
make money plenty, by making cash of
iron, which was a cheaper material than
copper and more plenty. Of course they
expected an iron cast with the Emperor's
name on it to be as good as copper cash :;
but confidence, popular faith, is more
necessary ingredient in a circulating me-
dunn than the material of which it is
made, and, from the beginning, copper
coin was worth two of the iron, and as the
iron multiplied and became plenty its
price went down till, in April, 1857, it
took 8, 700 iron cash, about 100 pounds of
iron, to make dollar.
Banks sprang up to supply the de-
ficiency of copper cash and deluged the
country with bills. In a brief space paper
money became plenty, but its price de-
creased in the ratio of its multiplication
till it took 5000 cash in bills to represent
1000 in copper, the value Of a dollar; and
in the spring of 1858 dollar commanded
10000 and II, 900 cash in bills. Rice be-
came dear, business Stagnated, and a
famine was imminent. Mobs arose, gut
ted the banks, assailed the palace of the
Ficeroy, broke open the gates and de-
manded of his venerable eminence to,
know why, while money was SO plenty,
rice was so dear.
Will no lessons, heather or Christian,
ancient or modern, teach men the folly of
the oft-repeated effort to multiply money
by debasing the currency!-E- Wentworth,
in Cincinnati Gazette.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-14
THE MARKETS,
NEW YORK.

NEW 1Ohh.
LIVE SToCK.-Beef Cattle-S9 009f2 50. HOG.
Live, SS.5U@S.62h. Sheep-S4OO96.0
Observation-Disclosures to choice, sc. 1Oa
$50; white wheat extra, S6.60@755. Wheat-No
, Chicago, S1.24@1.26; No. 2 Northwestern
S1.2501.26; No. Milwaukee spring, S1.2S0
$50. Rye-Western and State, S9@92c. Bar
ley-S115@1. 20. Corn-Mixed Western, era
zoe. Oats-Mixed Western, 43044c.
Provisions. = Pork Mess, S22 25022 40
Lard-Prime Steam, 13%@14c. Cheese-6h@
1910.
WooL.-Domestic fleece, 44a65c.
CHICAGO.
LIVE SToCK-Beeves-Cboi S55O@6.CO:
good, S4.75@5, IS; medium, s415@4 65; butch
ers' stock, S2.5OG3.75; stock cattle, 81 5O03 IS.
Hogs-Live, $s.15Gs50. Sheep-Good to choice,
S4.50Gl5.00.
PRoyIsIoNs.-Butter-C Choice, @s@31c. Eggs
Fresh, 22023c. Pork-Mess, So. 5O022. rs
Lard-S 13. 45913.5O
BREADsTUFFs.-Flour-W Winter Extra
s5.75@7.5O; spring extra, S5.12H @6.OO. Wheat
Spring, No. 2, S1.10h Oil. Corn-No. ?, Sc
@5o1sc. Oats-No. 2, 1a@325sc. Rye-No. 2
72@72Ac. Barley-No. 2, 81 .00@1.O1.
LUNBER-First Clear, $44 OO@45.O0; Second
Clear, s43.O0@45O0; Common Boards. $40. 600
HOO; Fencing, $1O.OO@n.Oo; "a" Shingles,
S2.50@2. 80; Lath, S1.75@200.
EAST LIBERTY.
LIVE SToCK.-Beeves-Best, So. 30@6.70; me-
dunn, S5.OO05.50. Hogs-Yorkers, S8.OO@S 80
Philadelphia. S9.OO@9.25. Sheep-Best, 5000
5.25; medium, S4.5GGD4.75.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-14
Some Curious Facts About Tools.

EVERY mechanic knows that old tools,
which have been laid aside or lost for a
long time seem to have acquired addition
al excellence of quality. Razors, which
have lost their keenness and their temper,
recover, like mankind, when given time 10
recuperate. A spring regains its tension
when allowed to rest. Farmers leave their
scythes exposed to the weather, sometimes
from one season to another, and find their
quality improved by it. Boilermakers
frequently search old boilers carefully,
when reopened for repairs after a long
period of service, to find any tools that
NAV have been left in them when last re-
paired, and if they are found they are al
most invariably of unusually fine quality.
The writer when boy in the shop fire.
quently, if denied the use of their tools by
the workmen, looked about the scrap
heap, and under the windows, for tools
purposely or carelessly dropped by the
men; and whenever one was found badly
rusted by long exposure it proved to be
of the best of steel.-EngZish Mechanic
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-14

IHE new fan-chain is now universally
adopted. 1t consists of long chain with
fat, square links, which is worn around
the waist, not tightly clasped, after the
fashion OF a belt, but loosely Topped and
hanging down at one side after the
fashion OF the jeweled girdles of the
chatelaines OF the Middle Ages. Slipping
over the tight, smooth, closely-ftting
cuirass corsages the effect is extremely
picturesque. The fan is attached to an
end OF chain which falls from the sloping
side.-Paris Correspondence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-14

The more paper We issue the less
Europe will trust us. Further initiation
only means less saving and more waste.
Amy new issue of paper, not based on gold,
can only drag down our currency, sink
lower and fiuctuate more. Still more it
will rob those who labor. Prices would
not rise equally-they never do. Farm
products and wages would inevitably lag
behind. Still more shall the producer
take the risk while the speculator pockets
the profits. Still more shall wages tiutter
like moth, while interest scorches like
steady flame. Still more shall gambling
faint every loan and every contract, every
engagement to labor and every deposit OF
the seed in the kindly earth. Cheap money
means gamblers paradlse.-Repubtlc
MddGzine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-14

Bishop Cummins, it is understood,
will ordain a Missionary Bishop without
delay, to take charge of the colored
parishes in South Carolina that lately
united with the Reformed Episcopal
Church. They became dissatisfied with
the Protestant Episcopal Church because
it delayed the ordination of a Bishop over
them, i'll accordance with their earnest re-
nueSt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-14

When you sit down to nice clean
sheet of paper to write some poetry, do
not do it. There are 370,000,000 out of
the 1900, 900, 900 people in the world who
have no writing materials, and you had
better send the sheet to one Of them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-14

1t is hard to say who the happiest man
is, but the happiest woman, according %
the Danbury Neps, is she who is called
upon to decide the question as to which is
the cunningest of two Of the cunningest
babies that ever lived.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-14
Tn 1899 Mr.. Webster, speaking on

-. In 1892 Mr. Webster, speaking on
the proposition to renew the United States
Bank charter, said: "a disordered cur
rency is one of the greatest political evils.
1t undermines the virtues necessary for the
support of the social system and encour-
ages propensities destructive to its happi-
ness. Of all the contrivances
for cheating the laboring classes of man
kind, none has been more effectual."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-14

Alas! for Nantucket. Let's bewhae
her sad fate. She's decreased 800 in pop
ulation since 1S70.-Erc1ange. Nantucket
very hard, didn't she?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-14
THE NEWS.

THE following statement Of the public
lebt was published Oct. /:
Smyrna times., 1875-08-11
AGENTS WANTED TO SELL
Rights or 1a'Citizen,

" Tie tHHCi ScsIIor IN Cr,rrisl qn.i L1r 10 ,rC|rc
Hcm By TheophlaS PtrxoHs III. y. F.''''
Containing commentary on the Federal and State
C4nsututionS giving their history and origin and a
gli eNliahauon OF their principles purposes and pro
Nai.a 'c powers ana duties Of Public Officers the
right, Of the people AMI the obligations mrnrrI in
every relation Of life; also parliamentary rules fir
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H!r an business transactions, rs making wills Deeds
Moflg4Ses Leases Notes, Drafts, Contracts etc.
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mayl JONES EEOTIfI,HS. 4. "a f,,,;I, u.
Smyrna times., 1875-08-11

SMYRNA BRANCH TRAINS.---AdIitional to
those above leave Smyrna for Clayton 1880 $50 and
soc Leave Clayton for Smyrna 720 NJ 20 aud 700
TO make connection with trains North and SOUTH
from Clayton.
Passengers using the $40 81 train from Harrington Will
arrive in Philadelphia at $40 A. returning Will leave
Philadelphia at Sis thus giving nearly EIGHT HOURS
for business purposes in that City.
H.F. KENNEY Superintendent
Smyrna times., 1875-08-11

KEEPING MEALS WAIrIxG.-Little things
often interfere with our comfort very much
and one small annoyance is for men to
delay coming to dinnerwhen called. Some
times they have an hour or more of work
which they will do before quitting. and
then they go to the house 10 find the
dinner cold, and the cook discouraged.
Nothing is more disheartcn;nq to o tnol
woman than table full Of d....
ornamenting the table an hour and a hall
later in the day than usual. Punctuality
IS a virtue that men should learn, if they
are in the habit of being uncertain about
coming to meals. Any woman worthy the
name of housekeeper will be regular with
her meals if it lies within her to have them
Smyrna times., 1875-08-11

There are many fruits which never turn
sweet until the frost has lain upon them.
There are many nuts that never fall from
the boughs of forest trees till the frost has
opened and ripened them. And there are
many elements of life that never grow
sweet and beautiful until sorrow comes.
Smyrna times., 1875-08-11

A tourist who was asked in what part of
Switzerland he felt the heat the most,
replied, " When ] was going to Berne."
Eestern papers are calling Charlotte
Cushman's " FAREWELL business " Charlotte
ruse.n
North Carolina boasts of woman whose
stockings hold bushel of shelled corn.
Smyrna times., 1875-08-11

Mistress" Let you go to the evening
school, Mary? Why, thought you could
readf" -" Well, ma'am, does know my
letters fus rate 50 longs they keep all in a
row, but just as soon as they gifts mixed up
into words, I'm beat.n
Smyrna times., 1875-08-11
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SUMNER ARRANGEMENT.
,n and after THURSDAY June 10th. 1875, train. will run
GofXs SOUTH.
GOING NORTH.
Passenger Freight
Ne. No. 2.

Freight train will have Passenger Car attached and will
be subject TO delays incident to freight business.
All Freights must be the various stations at least
Thirty 800 Minutes before starting Of Trains, otherwise
tHty w!U lay over twenty -four t2il hours.
Passengers using the 40 A.. train from Eastnn will
arrive IN Philadelphia at 920 A. aud returning will leave
Phiade phia at 55 thus giving nearly eight hours
business purposes ia that city.
i'll CALDWELL. Superin tendent.
BAsTox. June 5th 1875.
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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-09-10
The Fair.

From the premium list and regula-
tons of the Seventh Exhibition of the
Wisconsin Valley Agricultural Society,
we make the following quotations, as
comprising those parts Of more partic-
ular interest. The Fair is to be held
on September 18th, l4th and 18th, at
the Driving Park,in this village. Mon
day will be occupied with preparations
and making entries. At A p. m. there
will be grand exhibition of carriage
horses on the race track. At 10 a. M,
on Tuesday, there will be farmers
race for unframed horses for a purse
of $25; trial of draft horses on the
same day., a blowing match, and trot-
ting race Tor horses that have never
beaten three minutes, for purse of
$50. On Wednesday an exhibition of
equestrianism by young ladies AID
gentlemen; running race free to all,
for purse Of 1926; the annual address
by President 'Murrish; grand trial of
walking horses, and a trotting race,
free to all, for purse of $65. Compe-
tition for premiums is open to all the
people of Dane county and eastern
half Of Iowa county. Life membership
tickets can be purchased of the Secre-
tary for SIS; annual ticket, 81.
A competent auctioneer will be en-
gagged by the Society to sell stock that
farmers wish to dispose of.-Mazons a.
ME Sickle.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-09-10
Mineral Point Fair.

We we're unable to attend the Miner
al Point Fair, last week until near noon
OF the last day, and consequently can.
not give a full report of the exhibition.
From what we saw, however,we should
Judge that the display in and about
the halls, comprising the fine arts,
floral, mechanical, household, and
vegetable departments, was fully equal.
If not superior, to that of any previous
fair of the society, and the same, we
believe, may also be said of the live
stock department..
The drill of the military companies
OF Mineral Point and Highland, on the
last day of the Fair, was very attrac-
tive feature, and drew the attention of
a large crowd. Both companies made
tue appearances, the iashy red jackets
OF the Highland,s contrasting stl onyly
with the staid blue dress-coats of She
Mineral Pointers, and leaving the
crowd about evenly divided as to which
uniform was most to be admired. In
drilling, the companies both displayed
considerable proficiency, for amateurs,
though to our notion, the Pointers
rather excelled in this regard. Consid-
erlng, however, that the Highlanders
considerably outnumbered the others.
the award of the judges in deciding
that the companies were equally we'll
drilled and dividing the premium $500
between them, was probably about the
fair thing, and gave the Pointers the
opportunity of doing the generous thing
which they did in donating their half
OF the money to their Highland rivals.
The horse racing, which has geaer-
ally been the feature of this fair, was
not near mp to the usual standard, the
best time on the trotting races being
2:43 and on the running races a little
over 2 minutes. We hear of much
complaint about the amount of clock |
eying" which was permitted, and in |
fact the general opinion among disin-
terested people who are posted on those |
matters seems to be that the trotting
races, especially" were regular farce
The crowd in attendance or The FIRST |
two days was very slim, but Oh Thurs
day it was the largest ever known in |
the history of the association, and on |
Friday it was pretty fair, SO that fnan-
clally the exhibition was success.