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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16

Across THE ATLANTIC fN A DoRY.-A'
fred johnson, Danish fisherman of good
character and 30 years old, proposes to cross
the Atlantic in a dory, starting on Tuesday.
The Newburyport Herald gives the following
particulars of his craft His dory, Centen-
NAL, measures but l6 feet on the bottom,
90 feet on top, 81 feet in width aud p feet
feet in depth. She is decked over with the
exception of standing room and hatchway !;
has three water-tight compartments, and is
provided with mast contrived to hoist or
lower ut will She will carry mainsail,
two jibs aud squaresail. The accommOda-
tons for sleeping are in the hatchway, where
a mattress has been fitted up. There is also
hatchway att where the voyager will have
an opportunity for rowing if he so desires,
His provisions consist Of canned meats, con-
denSed milk, fruit, hard-brcad, tea, coffee,
etc., and he has stock sufficient to last him
90 days; also 60 gallons of water. lie ex-
poets to keep his supply of water up by
means Of rain water caught on an awning.
He has kerosene stove, powerful lantern
for use at night, and full supply Of medi-
cines. He also has drag with which to
heave the dory to 10 case Of a storm, and he
proposes to sleep mainly by day and do his
watching by night. lie is confident of sue
cess, but the general feeling is that he will
fail to accomplish his undertaking. His
course will be by the ordinary steamer route,
and he has chart, compass, quadrant and
other nautical instruments.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16

The National Prison congress which met
at New York last week is strong express
sion of the desire for reform in the present
mode of treating criminals. The men who
participated in those discussions were doubt
less actuated by better philanthropy than
most of our officers possess who attend to
the execution of the law. Judged from the
standpoint of humanity, many of our prisons
and penitentaries are mere dungeons whose
dark, dngy coils are unfit for the habita-
ton of brutes.
The whole manner of the convict's lille is,
in many cases, utterly loathsome. Whether
it is legitimate to enhance the terrors Of
penal confinement by cruel treatment and
neglect as to cleanliness, food and raiment
admits Of only oEe answer. But If to rem.
der the interior Of prison more attractive
and the labors less onerous liz to mitigate the
dread OF consequence to any person intending
crime, then let not reform extend too far
The real question is, what shall be anchor.
ated and what shall be left as it isl That
society needs strong protective force, with
tension unrelaxsd, must always be conceded
Our own opinion is and shall be till better
evidence can be produced, that the fear o.
death far exceeds any dread of lifelong con
fnement, while We strongly doubt whetho
any penalty can be devised which can b,
substituted, with equally satisfactory results
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16
The Nominee

Dramatic incident 10 Blaine's recent ca
reer reached its climax when last Sunday
morning, upon entering church, be fell to
the ground unconscious. 1t was like the
sudden fall Of gladiator when about to test
his skill in the presence of forty.four millions
Of people. Not since the tragic death of
Lincoln has any news been received with
such surprise aud by his friends who are
many and devoted, with such disappoint-
mont He was to appear at Cincinnati in
his own person both to vindicate himself aud,
if failing of the nomination, to tender his
vote to the next best man. 1t is now agreed
that his severe illness, rather than weakening
his presidential prospects, has served to
strengthen them. His quick rally from utter
prostration treasured his friends aud Wednos.
day morning his chances were the best in
the field. When we think Of what
Blaine's life has been for the last six months
tho wonder is that he did not succumL earlier
in the contest. The presidency of the United
States is, indeed, station worth aspiring
after and working for, but there is limit to
human endurance. And it is to be hoped
that the sad result which attended Horace
Greeleys defeat may not be visited upon the
ex.speaker.
As late as Wednesday morning no pre-
diction could be made as to the issue Of thu
convention still Thursday noon) in session
Men from whom by their long experience,
and political sagacity we might expect 4
prophesy have been wholly nonplused at tn,
chaotic condition Of affairs. Local influences
and the imperial dollar, no matter whence il
comes, have tended in large degree to shap,
the presidential destiny A special delega.
ton was present to urge the choice Of thu
reformcrs (who met at New York the l5tI
ult.,) for Secretary BristOw. But whethe
the appearance Of these scholarly men hav
had much influence in diverting the curren
of popular enthusiasm from other candidates
is very questionable. Thousands Of banner
have HOated for Hayes and Morton, while Conk
ling is said to have any amount of money q
his command
With the thousand and one estimates snt
calculations made by friends and foes, w
will not distract our readers. Wednesda,
noon the convention came to order, Theo
dore NJ. Pomeroy in the chair, and Ex..Gov
Morgan of New York was chosen presiden
of the organization. Wednesday night tn
convention adjourned without ballot, to seve
O'Clock Thursday morning. The result is o
course awaited with intense anxiety through
out the country With the nomination @
either Bristow or Blaine, the majority Q
straightforward republicans would Lot b
dissatisfied, but neither Conkling, Hayes no
Morton has evnced the true instincts Of tina
reform which the people demand.
To-day will doubtless be taken up in di,
posing Of contested delegations, SO that tn
grand re ult will not be known before lat
tonight Or possibly before tomorrow moor
W e make no prOphesy, thus avoiding posi-
scripts,
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16
Some Mathematical Curiosities.

When king Stanislaus OF Poland, then a
young man, came back from a journey, the
whole Lescinskian house gathered together
at Lissa to receive him. The master Of the
school, Jablowsky, prepared school festi-
val in commemoration Of the joyful event,
and had it end with ballet performance by
thirteen students. dressed as young cavaliers
Each had a shield, upon which one of the
letters of the word "Domus Lescina :"
("The Lescnskian house') was written in
gold. After the first dance they stood 10
such a manner that their shields read,
"Domus Lescna :" after the second dance
they changed order making it read, "Adcs
incolumus" (''unharmed art thou here')
after the third, "Mane sidus loci" ("cou.
tinue to be a star for the country"l; after
the fOarth, ISIS columns Del" ia pillar of
GodD; and finally, 81 scande solium"
ego and ascend thy throne'O Indeed these
two words allow Of 756,755, 200 transposi-
tons, yet that four Of them convey indepen.
dent meanings is certainly very curious.
If we pass from the sphere of letters to
their objects, We are struck by the strange
discovery that IL persons can Interchange
their respective positions 469, 00l 900 times,
which number Of changes it would take
them not less than lS4S years to accomplish,
if they move once minute for IL consecu.
| tive hours daily.
Card-players, who are always bewailing
their ill.luek Of always receiving the same
poor cards, will perhaps be assured by know
ing that the so cards, with ID to each of
| the four players, can be distributed in 3d..
644, 787, 756, ASS, 792, 1888, 1851 100000 diff.
ierent ways, so that there would still be a
good stock Of combinations TO draw from,
even If man from Adams time had devoted
himself to no other occupation than that of
playing cards.
The story Of the inventor of the game of
chess is well.known. The king of India
babe him name his own reward upon which
he asked to receive the number of grains Of
wheat that would be produced il one grain
Of wheat were paid him for the first square
on the chess board, two for the second, four
for the third eight for the fourth, aud so on,
doubled up for each square Of the sixty. four.
When these amounts were added the SUN
was found to be lS.346,744, 073, 709, 551 ,6l5
grains, or, in other words, such a quantity
that Herewith all the continents of the
earth could DO covered with a layer one
third of an inch in thickness, and that il the
same ground were sown ia wheat in the
proper manner it would take more than sew
enty years to produce the above amount of
wheat, which is equal TO $4,000, 100000
bushels.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16

PARIS, June 1.-THE race for the Grand
Prix de Paris occurred to-day. The attendance
was immense. The race was won by Kisber,
the winner of the English Derby, who came
in easily four lengths ahead, Enguerrande
was second, and Mondaine third. Twelve
ran. Maidment rode the winner. The bet
ting at the start was 5 TO 2 on Kisber, and
10 to | against any other.
This item suggests what the Sabbath is in
some places on the European continent
Whether it is for the good of the American
people to engraft such scion upon the trunk
of American institutions, is not a difficult
question to decide. 1t may answer for the
shallow soil of the French character in which
neither reverence nor morality are very
thrifty growths, but the general impression
prevails that this country is hardly yet pre-
pared for such an innovation.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16

Speaking of thepropriety Of some sort Of
observance of the coming Fourth the New
York Tribune pertnently says;
No matter how few aud simple may be
the commemorative features of the day, they
cannot fail to give glad expression to the
popular feeling; and they will be most sue
cessiul and most gratefully remembered, in
proportion as they make the people partici.
pants. When the II 900 voters of Appen-
zell, in Switzerland, meet to deliberate on the
affairs Of the canton, they repeat aloud, be.
fore their adjournment, sentence by sentence,
an oath Of fidelity TO the constitution and
this is described by those who have seen it
rs one Of the most solemn and impressive
spectacles in the world The moral power
Of a multitude expressing collectively any
lofty faith or purpose is something incalcu-
liable. We should be sorry to sec some lea.
ture Of this kind absent from the local cele.
brations Of our centennial day. Our people
are slow TO accept unfamiliar forms of ex.
preston; but there is certainly no commu-
nifty in the land where at least some verse:
Of the hymn america" could not be sung by
all. 1t would give IA sublime conservation to
the anniversary if at MONDAY the people o!
every city, town and village, from Maine to
Texas, from Virginia to Oregon, should be
assembled together in the same spirit OIL
solemn rejoicing
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16

A few days more Of the temperature Of
last Sunday will send thousands Of our "me-
tropolitan cousins"-the kinship being recog.
nized chiefly in summertime the country to
seek rest and rural quiet upon the farms Of those
to whom in the winter, at their own homes, they
are not in the habit of con6ding their choicest
secrets either of fashion or society, But so
long as they flock into the rural districts to
spend money, warm and earnest welcome
will be accorded to them. That it is treat
"a rare and wholesome pleasure-to item to
substitute for the heated air and the artif-
cial customs Of their city life the cool, pure
atmosphere and the simple manners of rural
existence, is attested by their own choice.
OF course, those with the long pocket, who
prefer the festivities of music and balls and
ephcmeral excitement, will secure their
rooms at the large wateriug-places. But a
considerable portion Of those who spend their
vacations in the country, will find the most
congenial surroundings in the smaller villages
or upon the farm near some lake or river.
Here, removed from the rattle of street cars,
with a quota of light reading, they enjoy a
quiet the full value of which they appreciate
only when it has ceased.
Nor is this sojournment of polite boarders
in the country altogether without benefit.
True, their presence too often propagates
false ideas of life, and begets among the
less thoughtful an absurd and inconsistent
imitation of dress and manner. Such is to
be lamented But by this comminging oil
urban and rural elements many provincial
isms are corrected both on the part of guest
and host 4 certain narrowness or exclu-
siveness Of spirit which sometimes turks in
communities removed from the great thor.
oughfares of communication is frequently
destroyed by the recurring residence Of city
people in the country for a few weeks.
The auspices for general Influx of such
patrons into this state for the next month OF
two are quite favorable, the invasion Of
foreigners being an especial incentive to city
residents to get away from home. Just now
we presume, all who rely somewhat upon the
revenue derived from taking boarders Ia
make their cash balance, are preparing their
extra rooms, and figuring how to be absent
at the centennial when the "dead.heads" and
the fourth.remove cousins arrive.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16
MARIxmTS.
81. JOhmsb,srD Market.

THURSDAY, June lG.
Prices Paid by Dealers
Butter, new, tubs or balls. choice 10 40 zoe Pab.
Eggs ffesh, v dozen, l5c,
beans, common white sl.75i hand picked $3.50.
Oats, 50c v bu.
Maple Sugar, stirred, extra, DC v ID, tub, SO.
Potatoes, 30c " bu.
Beef dressed weight, "a scPb
Veal live weight sc v ID,
Prices Asked by Dealers.
Dried Apples Sliced lie ID strung, lies quartered
70 40 lie.
Molasses, gallon, zoe.
Sirup, silver drip, $l.OO.
Sugar refined q, lie; extra Q, lie graduated, He
Maple Sugar 40 loo.
Kerosene, zoe v gallon.
Corn, 80 v bu, new.
India Wheat, Csc v bu.
Meal, 75c W bushel, new,
Feed, 81 40 v 100 lbs
Bran, Sl,25 W 100 lbs.
Flour, common, $3.50; good family, f.75; host s.,
Rye Neal, unsifted, 30 W Ii.
Shorts SIS " ton.
Turks Island Salt 50 cents.
TleTce Lard, lsO.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16

Railroad competition between the great trunk
lines continues brisk and bitter. Meantime
the public enjoy the fruits thereof, getting
their freights from the West at almost a
nominal rate, and making the trip from Bos.
ton to Chicago for Sl2. Grave doubts are
expressed as to whether Vanderbilt, the
king of railroadskings, will ever recover suf.
ficiently to manipulate again the engiuery oil
his splendid enterprises
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16

hostility TO science Is wrong for in every
case of improvement the practical originates
in the theoretical. Cause and effect are not
more closely united than conception and exc
cution in their result. When mind ceases 10
construct fresh theories, when men becomcsat-
is6ed with their own knowledge in any given
sphere Of action, progress drops dead.
No industry calls more imperatively for
valid, rational theory than agriculture.
The practical farmer who applies the meth.
OILS in vogue before chemistry and geology
we're known, and who refuses to adopt what
he call worthless Innovations" because his
own time-tried ideas are good enough--is to
be pited. Should we compare agricultural
development in this country with that of
other nations like France, Germany and
England, the conclusion would DO irresisti.
bic that the capacity of American soil for
production has hardly been etched as yet.
The time will como, after series of genera /.
tons and the exhaustion Of western fertility,
when the farmers Of this country will be con.
fronted with far moro serious problems as to
production than ever before. Land will not
be cheated. Whatever is taken from II
must be returned to IT, Aud the remedy
is to come from science-from the abora.
tory and the studio. The practical man
with his broad acres stretching out on every
side, makes little or no provision for the
great increase Of population, sure to accumu.
late. What would this same man do were
he limited to ten acres instead Of two hun
bred OF what avail were his traditional
methods in that case2 To tell the truth
there is no science second to that Of agri
culture; none which requires more discus
sion, more theories, experiment aud patience
in its development.
Its conclusivey settled questions are few
its problems legion. And it is the duty o
those who rely upon this vocation for theil
livelihood, as indeed all do directly or indi
rectly, not to draw invidious distinction
between the theorist and practicer, bu
rather to make the ideas of the former, tn
benefits of the latter for neither can exis
without the other. The practical man
, successful so far as he knows, but unless h
r is willing to re.adjust his methods to modor
and progressive ideas, and accept the thco
a ries tested and not found wanting he be
t comes in the community what China ha
!, become among the nations, stationary an
r bgoted.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16

Something new in the way Of ecclesiastical
architecture has been devised by Rev. DR..
Tying, Jr., of New York, who has caused a
mammoth canvas tabernacle to be erected
for the comfort of his hearers during the
summer months. This and the recent incor.
poration of the gospel of humanity" give
Gotham the banner for religious novelty.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16
From Our SPECIAL Reporter.
I'eIp H0UeH Market.


The butter market seems TO DO In a gentle decline
with about the usual amount In market.
7OO lbs butter $50 doz eggs, % yoal calves, carr
hay cars lumber shipped.
We quote butter 20 ~ &c.
Eggs l3c " dozen
Veal calves 60 v L. w,
Hay 5000 D HOO " ton.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16

Senators are hardly yet satisfied that news.
papers are paying sufficient postage, and Mr.
Sherman proposes to have the rates doubled
irrespectively Of distance. Perhaps there is
wisdom inhls measure, but there is certainly
no equity. The rates should be graduated
on the basis of distance, that those sending
papers beyond the Mississippi or the Rocky
Mountains may sustain the extra cost. The
plan of making county or state papers beal
an expense that belongs to metropolitan
journals is not equitable.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16

Why is it that with ono exception all the
colored delegates were allowed to register
their names at the same hotels and eat their
meals at the same tables with their Caucasian
brethren ? IT'S week in the Pork city when
the invidious distinctions Of race and color
all melt into one grand harmony before the
convincing power of votes. No "gg" will be
whispered, but the most obsequious courtesy
accorded to the dark-skinned race.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16
FIR our Special Reporter.
Richmond. Market.

MONDAl, June Y.
Butter IL 10 20c, most Of the butter sold at 20c.
Cheese 8 40 Sc for farm diaries. Factory 10 a lOc
most Of the factory sent on commission.
Neals sc |. W.
Eggs ~ v doc.
Potatoes 2jc n Go Tbs.
Dairy Skins 80 "a soc.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16

According to the "pools" at Cincinnati,
Blaine is the coming man. And there is
sagaeity about the sporting men which
amounts sometimes almost TO revela.
ton,
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16

The editorial somersault, the complete gy-
ration of the floating globe, of the Caledonian
last week, in its article on Blaine shows how
'.the native hue of resolution is sickled DER
with the pale cast of thought" Why not
have shuiFled up the type and elaborated a
new article having some unity and harmony ?
Too little time ? We ask these questions in
the kiudliest spirit, adding that had the
sentence GAS we have said before, we do not
find fault with Mr.. Estey's Disqualification
for the Office of governor" been omitted, the
position of our contemporary on the governor
question so far as it bears upon the Wind.
ham county candidate would be just about
right.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16

Reading the editorial page Of the Record
and Farmer Is like conjugating the Latin
verb 10 be, in the imperative mood. The
obituary, however, will read non Est-he.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16

The Belknap impeachment case bids fair
to cost Uncle Sam something. 1t is rumored
that 25l witnesses including the entire war
department will be summoned for the de-
tense.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16
Ratmtt
FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1879.

1t is said to be probable that Winslow will
be either released or surrendered to-day
Thursday
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16
PRICE $4,000.

toan will adding
andch wheels behind
useful cleaning lands
o
with comparatively
slight
The Lever adjustable that its short may be shortened by simply draw ng
or
mplny, the will the operator
10 limited chain
profitable
in
buildings, ucherig
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Anpnto
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16
Portland TV-hOIesaIe Market.

From the Portland Daily Pross
TUESDAY, June l3--Sugars are strong and active,
and graduated quoted at l0ic and Extra o. at &c.
There 10 good prospect of An advance In prices
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16
From our Special Reporter,
V'erseHHeS Market.

SATURDAY, juno TO-
Market we'll attended. A good supply Of butter in.
We quote butter ~ "a 2lc V ID.
Eggs lic Y dOZ.
Veal Calves sc v ID.
Hay IL " ton.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16

Tho attendance the market to-day was worry good,
and the receipts Of butter quite large, considering the
low prices paid, We quote choice ~ a. pic. Extra
choice 22c, hnes selections &c. The amount shipped
ab out 1900 pkgs.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16

When Linco In was nominated at Chicago,
in 1860, the first ballot stood Seward, lib ;
Lincoln, 1902 Cameron, so; Chase, 40 !
aud Bates, IS.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16

The independent" editors of the New
York Tribune and Springfield Republican,
once so loving, are now on speaking terms
only enough to call each other names, and
we expect every day to see even that slight
acquaintance rudely interrupted by one OF
the other bawling out that last, worst threat
of the angry urckin, "Your sister shan't
swing on our gate any more. "-St. Adams
ADVERTISER.
They certainly ought to know in that
town what these juvenile threats and small
barks mean. In the light of their own war
like verbosity (that of the rival editors) the
criticism above is very graceful and weighty
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-16

Now that the people have handled silver
for few weeks and the prospect for sufii-
cheney of that small change is good, they are
10th, many Of them, to abandon fractional
currency of paper. 1t serves many purposes
to which metal is wholly unadapted. This
demand for something light and portable
will increase as the new currency supplants
the old until the government, responding to
the want, will no doubt devise paper me-
dium Of exchange, convertible perhaps into
silver. Already the inconvenience of bullion
has begun to be felt.