Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-22
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FRIDAY, .DECEmBER ~, Is,e.
Hang up your stoclIng sunday night.

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Hang up your stocking sunday night.
Tho annual rnilrOad bali comes OF at the Avenue
House, Jan. &c.
There viii he Christmas gathering and . tree at
The baptist Church on RplrOad Street, Monday eve.
Christmas concert at the Free Baptist Church nex,
Sunday at O'Clock, and Christmas tree Monday eve
ming.
Mis- smIisy WIN preach Sunday morning at the usu.
al hour. aud in the afternoon at thres O'Clock In the
South Church.
There win DO Christmas services In Tho Church Of the
Messiah next Sunday afternoon and Christmas Con.
cert in The evening. alf
Two fellows len this morning. for Job at Windsor
Henry Rivers ormerly Of Newpor for ave years, aud
John caswell ior two years, both for stealing
L. W. BusselI has started new livery stable In the
Ido building on Main street. With good teams and
close attention to business he hopes to please all.
s. P. Keut who lives two miles south Of Passumpsic
the east side Of the river has sold his farm to Tim
Othy Keith for $4,000, possession given Jan. 10.
Side walks fellow citzens sidewalks, don't you see
that state capital can never come here ell tho walks
cleared Of snow In many places street two
cannot walk abreast without going Into the
the ankles. Is that what you call enterprEs
and civiliEationl ''. "
Look out for budc1ing. Randall. the druggist, had
a mysterious looking package from 'Tilden 4 Co., p
day this week. Was II votes 10 change tho count
In Vermont or quantity Of those wonderful Christmas
novelties, OF which he has a choice assortment, Only
an Investigation" will decide.
Opposition s the life Of business at least % far As
prompines Is concerned. Yesterday, Geo. d. Randall
sent dispatch 70 Boston. II len bis store 1T 1865
m, and reply was received at his store at l2l5 p.
hour and twenty minutes only for the message
to 20 to the Office the plain, thence TO the Boston
Office, and to his Boston correspondent and the reply
coming back the way Pretty good for the Inter
national and sil for twvnty-ave cents
Mr. EDITOR ,-Bonetvs pigs that no killed last week
sad blow to him. He has told everyone that he
just of tho biggest pig in the neighbOrhOOd
he was Of the election Of 8. J. Tidsn and he was
ready 10 back 1t with money. The result Is the
with the pig with Tiden. Out Of the nine pigs killed
that day Bonett had No. In regard to quantity and
quality nyOu want 70 aght ask BOnett about the
Tilden Pig. Yours truly. No BLusrER.
The first application of the Flanders pump to ERE
purposes Saturday. Burning the piercing cold
and high wind, the chimney in the house Of Mr. A. c.
Harvey Pearl street burned cut aud heated the
shlngles that smoke raised copiously. Mr.. HAr.
vey at attached his private hose and In less tmO
than It takes TO write this had the smoke under
troll and his roof secured from danger Of are. Had moi
Mr. H. provided his house with hydrant the chance,
would have been good for smart are in that locality
considering the weather, even with our present ei-
cient fire protection. .
| The South Church have entered upon new era II
two respects. First they have cleared OF that old
floating debt Of nearly two thousand dollars and they
did 1t In such manly way, every stepping right
TO his share and the thing done in minutes.
Second, they have adopted the apostolic, congrega
tonal democratic plan Of raising funds for current
expenses and benevolent work by voluntary Offerings
/ each Sunday morning. 1t seems to remember
some old precept buried We know as rubbish undsi
the gorgeous array Of ''modeFn improvements" which
like this "Upon the first day Of the week let ever
one Of you lay by him in store God has prospere,
him." Won't some one familiar with old authors toll
US where to and tho quotatiOnt
suttOn.-A couple Of barns on the Calvin Wilson
place were burned, Saturday from carelessnOss wit
/ q lantern.
LyndOn.-Lightning has struck the ancient tow
Of Lyndon, and as always, II hit the most conspcuou
object, the TALL stalwArt, commanding, attractive, an
vulnerable form Of the Hercules Of the Union. That
to say, Chase Is "pent up' with the yArioloid. W
hope, when, after the weary weeks, no comes back
the world and once moves about our streets III
fumigations and abutons to which he so reluctant
submits will not change him beyond all possible r0oos
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