Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-07-30

A company has just been formed, or is
forming, for the manufacture Of a type.setting
and distributing machine which has been in.
vented and patented by George Bradford,
formerly Of st. Johnsbury. The machine
will use type made expressly for Il, and after
the matter is used the distributor works
automatically, returning each type to its
proper place. One can set this distributor
to work in the evening, go home, and depend
upon finding his distributing all properly
done when he returns in the morning. The
model is now on exhibition in this village,
and Mr.. Bradford feels confident Of success.
Hunter Bradford has also a patent electro
tipping process, which Bradford Brothers Il
Co. are using in the Gazette Office. He says
he can fit any office in the Dominion to do
electrotyping, at a cost Of about S75, by his
process. 1t looks to me like a good thing.
As in the United States the irrational
game" is base ball, so here it is cricket, aud
matches are frequent and exciting. The
universal Yankee shows his universality 10
this question of outdoor sports, as in every
thing else. While | know of hardly n cricket
or lacrosse club south Of the line, the more
aggressive base ballists have pushed over and
almost wholly occupy the field of outdoor
sports for twenty or thirty miles on this side.
In nothing is the character of a community
or a section of country more plainly mirrored
than in its newspapers, aud, though there is
a marked improvement going on from year
to year, still the Canadian press must take
rapid steps forward before it can rank equal
with that of the United States.
The weekly with "the largest circulation
in Quebec province, outside of Montreal
the Sherbrooke Gazette, has less than $500
subscribers, and as a newspaper amounts to
very little. There are positively no first
class country newspapers, like the FARMER,
Argus, Waterman, Union, &C., and none
even that match the smaller aud less preten-
tious sheets Of Vermont, such as the bright
aud newsy Monitor or the Woodstock Post
"as was" Daily papers are not thought
of in places the size of those Vermont vii.
lagos which furnish two apiece, and the
newsy Witness and the dIgniied Gazette, Of
Montreal, the former perhaps a good dcaI
like the Burlington Free Press, only three
or four times as enterprising, and the latter
about such a paper 10 general character a:
the Boston Journal, are fair representative
of Canadian newspaper enterprise. There
are no papers lively aud cloud" after thu
style of the New York Sun, or sarcastic and
newsy like the Springfield Republican. Tn
Canadian Illustrated News is the Canadian
Harper's Weekly, and borrows some Of il
illustrations from Mast in Harpers.
The Canadian Meat and Produce Com
pany, located here, is one Of the most impor
tant manufacturers in Canada, furnishing {
market for thousands of cattle, which ar,
canned and sent to Europe. The company
are constantly crowded with orders.
We have what they are trying in Massa
chusetts-"a stringent license law" An,
one can sell liquor in quantities of, | believe
three gallons or more. The council grant
shop and tavern licenses or not, at its dis
erection. In some municipalities 40 license.
are granted. In this town they grant liceu
Sos. The shop license permits the holder t.
sell liquor in quantities Of not less thai
three half pints, but it must not be drank oil
the premises. The tavern license allows th,
holder to sell by the glass, to be drank Oh
the spot, or any other way. A st. Johns
buryite was here a few days since, and ex
pressed surprise at the number of hotels
He probably did not understand that an,
one wishing to run a rum hole and be SAT-
from the law must only provide a bed Of
two, and a stall or two, for horses of travel
ers, to satisfy the law, take out a taverl
license and 60 to making his little pile in
little hell all his own.
One of our best institutions is the market
1t is open tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
but the largest business is done Saturdays
By four O'Clock in the morning a row o
teams Of all kinds numbering from 80 to IS
are ranged around the square, backed up t.
the plank sidewalk which surrounds it, ant
the chatter OF buyers and sellers, in FrencI
and English, fills the air. All kinds of pro
duce are here: Meat of all kinds, fruit
eggs, onions, and vegetables, maple sugar.
fact everything produced in Canada
brought here and passed directly from tn
producer to the consumer. Those VIII
sell from wagons pay ten cents per day int
the town treasury, aud there are few chea.
stalls which pay rent.
The "Sherbrooke Cooperative Company
is a combination of workingmen who a few
months ago started a store. The shares G
stock are fixed at s., and about 5000 is no,
being used. They sell goods at the goiuI
r prices, and divide profits among shareholder
r They give no credit except to shareholder
d who can obtain credit to the amount of thei
r stock. They are meeting with good success
ZoLLKoFFER.
, Sherbrooke, p. @, July p, 1875.
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