Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-03-17
NOTES ABOUT TOWN.


A. Q. Babbtt has sold his farm at Greens.
boro village to Jacob LOvejoy Of Walden for
$4,000.
Luke Buzzel has invented and patented
an improved frost dog for saw mills, also an
improved sst-work.
The Religion demanded by the Times
will be the subject at the church of the
Messiah next Sunday evening.
You should take Hills rheumatic pills to
cure all ills. Go to Randalls with your
rocks and get them at 25 cents box.
One of our music dealers recently re.
ceivod an order for copy Of "When the
he'Os OF daylight fade away" W-hew
what spelling.
The show which was advertised for last
Friday failed to come on account of sickness.
1t now promises to be here next Monday
and play four evenings.
Mr.. s. A. Hill has solid silver porriuger
which belonged to his deceased wife's great
grandmother aud is known to be $50 years
old. The silver in it is worth Sl1 by weight.
II is expected that the gospel workers,
Messrs. Moore, Little6eld, Winslow and
Remington, will visit this place on the 25th
inst, and conduct the meetings the following
sabbath in one or more Of our churches.
Mrs. II. O. Babcock, who has been at a
hospital in Rome, N. Y, for the past nine
weeks, under Treatment for the removal of a
cancer, is expected to return home this week.
The cancer having been successfully removed.
Do you know how \ church fair works 7
The principle is very ingenious one.
Some ladies borrow money from their hus-
bands, buy materials, and make up fancy
articles which they give to the fair. Then
they change places, borrow moro money,
and buy the articles back again.
On Tuesday two young ladies made quite
display on the streets, persoDating the
drunkard. One was dressed in mems clothes
The spectators enjoyed the sight, and prob
ably the ladies did or they would have been
in better business than tumbling around the
streets such day as Tuesday was.
The grading on the island for the water
works is nearly completed. The wall enclos.
ing the water wheels, which is to be "a feet
high, is up some Is feet The brick for the
building are already on the island and the
lumber is being delivered. 1t looks like
having water of our own, and plenty of it,
at an early date.
One day in the winter n man on Portland
street placed some poison about his barn for
the benefit Of horde of rats that were max
ing themselves troublesome. The next MORN
ing he found three or four dead rats and the
next morning he found a straight beaten path
to a neighbours barn, aud nary rat has
troubled him since.
"Prof." Wagner, tho horse.tamer, arrived
on Friday evening with FIVE men aud five
trained horses. A good many were out to
see and hear, but only ten took lessons
People had read the papers and got
posted. The performances with his trained
horses was excellent, the best we ever saw
but that he can impart to others the power
ofhimself over the horse is very much doubted.
One inveterate kicker was given him which
he conquered in few minutes by drawing a
cotton cord tightly around his neck and
through his mouth, and was able to take up
his feet or crawl between them. But the
poor horse The perspiration oozsd from
every pore. How docie he was the next
day we have not learned The professor"
found no learners at all at APassumpsc aud
the same number at Barnet. Though some
believed fully, people generally shook their
heads and kept their greeubacks. Really
good teachers seldom take such flying trips
through country where they are cntirel y
unknown.