Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-05-17
The vIden Time.

4 subscriber, partakingof the spirit Of The
times, sends us a copy of the second volum'
Of the WArcmL,N, printed in 1908. Tn,
page is ten by sixteen inches, and the paper
and printing hardly up to the present stand
ard. The paper was published by Samue
Goss, at one dollar and fifty cents per year
or d" to subscribers who form themselves into
companies consisting Of THIRTEEN or more
and receive their papers at the Office, and
pay weekly, One Dollar and Twenty. five
Cents" \ reasonable deduction was made
to " Post Riders General Walton was, we
believe, an apprentice in the office at the time
Among the advertisements we notice one
Of " kmball & Elkins. jewellers" next door
south Of Forbes 4 Langdon's store which
we suppose to be the old langdon store. Be
side their general iewelry business we note
one popularity which seems not to have de-
scended to their successors Of the present
day-to wit Watch-chains, seals, KEYS,
and silver sleeve buttons kept to accommo-
date customers, and soiiai frd cost" Samuel
Goss advertises blank petitions for land
taxes and turnpikes for sale at the WATCH
MAS Office Wait & Rice, Of Waitsfeld, give
notice of the dissolution 81 their mercantile
firm; Bigelow, kingshury \ Wheatley, give
a like notice for Brookfed William Marsh
offers for sale the Marsh farm" now owned
by j. Warren Bailey; Nathaniel Carpenter.
Of Middlesex, advertises a stray horse; Enoch
Bunham Of Williamstown, gives like no
tice-as DO Samuel White, Of Cabot, and
Joseph Starlin, Of Barre. Forbes & Lang
don call for rye on mercantile debts, and also
advertise 81 few copies of an Grafton, deliv
cred at Poultney, July ith, 1905 by Chauncey
Laugdon, Esquire, recommended 10y the com
mittee Of arrangements for the pcru,al OF
every citizen"
Col. Humphreys, Of Connecticut, and a
Mr. Gallup, Of Vermont, give glowing ac
counts of the new Merino sheep, just intro
duced from Spain. They speak Of the wool as
being worth two dollars pound at the fac
tory, and the product reaching the marvel
Gus extent OF one pound OF wool to ten Of
carcass. A buck had been sold for one
hundred and fifty dollars, and a lamb fol
one hundred and thirty dollars.
Nearly four columns are devoted to tn,
proceedings OF the legislature, which wal
then in session. Large space is given to tn,
usual answer which the legislature mad,
to the Governors speech" The embargo
act was then the absorbing topic, and wa
unqualifedy approved by the legislature a.
an act of vital necessity, though necessaril,
Of great hardship TO our people, aud thos
who publicly or privately violated the Law
are denounced as "destitute of patriotism
and chargeable with traitorous conduct.
But protest to this answer is put OF
record, signed by Nathaniel Chapman an,
eighty others.
\ thanksgiving proclamation is also given
signed by Isaac Tichenor Governor, an,
William Page, Jr., Secretary, in which
among many other things enjoined, the PEG
| pie are recommended to acknowledge anC
lament the degeneracy of our nation and tn,
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