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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-08-25
CALIFORNIA! CALIFORNIA!

THE CHICAGO a. NORTHWESTERN
4 Railway embraces under one management the
Great Trunk Railway Lines Of the WEST and NORTH
WEST, and with Its numerous branches and cOnnec-
lions forms the shortest and quickest route between
Chicago and all points in Illinois Wisconsin, Northern
Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, California and
the Western territories Its
Omaha and California Line
Is the shortest and best route for all points in North
orado, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, China,
Japan and Australia Its
Chicago, MADISON n st Paul Line
Is the shortest line for Northern Wisconsin AMI inno
sofa, and for Madison st Paul. Minneapolis, Duluth
and all points in the Great Northwest Its
TTinOnG and So Peter Line
Is the only route for Winona Rochester, Owatonna,
MankatO, st Peter, Now Ulm and all points in South
ern and Central Minnesota. Its
Green Hay and .UdFaHetEe Line
Is the only line for JanesVille WATERFOWL Fond Du
Lac, Oshkosh, Appleton, Green bay, Escanaba, Nc
gauneo, Marquette Ioughton. Hancock and tho Lake
Superior country. Its
FreepOrt and Dubuque Lane
Is the only route for Elgln, Rockford Froopor and
all points via FreepOrt Its
Chicago and .HiIIUGuEee Lime
Is the old Lake Shore route and Is tho only ono pass
ing through Evanston, Lake Forest, Highland Park,
Waukegan Racine, Kenosha to Milwaukee.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-08-25
PULLMAN PALACE CARS

Is the old Lake Shore route and Is tho only pass
ing through Evanston, Lake Forest, Highland Park
Waukegan, Racine, Kenosha to Milwaukee.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19
The Self-Seeking.

1t was one Of the most conspicuous weak
nesses of Horace Greeley that he mover lost
a chance to speak in disparagemsnt of COL
lege professors. From these his sensitive
soul seemed to recoil simply because they
were professors. And one Of the great ed
itor's hobbies was the oollec ton Of statistics
presenting the number Of unemployed alumni
in the city Of New York. But his deduC.
tions were warped from the line Of TRUTH
and mingled with expressions Of the bitterest
invective. Hence his case was generally
appreciated. The fact that he had not him
self been literally educated, in the sense in
which all scholars use that word. was thorn
that irritated his memory during his whole
life.
And now we see many little ape with
nothing OF Horace Greeley's capacity, moth.
ing of his power, nothing of his humanity,
trying to wage this small-souled guerrilla
warfare. Phese Bedouins are aiming to pull
down many existing institutions and build
better ones of their own. Wholly uuac-
quainted with either the spirit or the scope
Of a collegiate course Of instruction, they
combine into clique Of agitatOrs sowing
dissatisfaction according to their individual
inauence-which, happily in some cases, has
undergone almost total ecipse-and plying
their nefarious schemes through organiza-
tions designed for wholly different and alto
gether worthier purposes. They also make
cats paw of politics, bearing pretty much
the same relation TO the educational interests
of the state that the conspiracy of Cataline
did to ancient Rome. You will find that in
nearly every case these men are disaifoctOd
and unappreciated aspirants for position
class Of literary gypsies who would fain alb
duct some of our best institutions aud re-
model them according to their own home
spun and pigmy ideas. But while these
self.seeking Adventures are laborlng in
their way to awaken prejudice among the
farmers against the present state of affairs,
the farmers themselves are altogether too
we'll informed to be duped or deceived by
them.
Let US not be misunderstood. 1t is not
for the farmers nor for the farmers children
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19

that these reformers are laboring what they
seek is the qualification Of some personal
Jealousy aud selfaggrandzement.
But there is no man in this state, who is
a man, that does not desire to see his son or
sons literally educated. The idea Of far.
mers' school away from railroads, of in some
corner, CoRducted after the manner suggested
now and then by these agitators, is, to say il
mildly, simply non -senscal. If there be the
timber in farmers son whereof 10 construct
q man, our present institutions Of learning are
better adapted than ever to educate that
son. But let no one suppose that out Of
stolidity brilliancy can be evolved. And we
venture the assertion that whoever lacks
sufficient acuteness to analyze the processes
of language, has little natural aptitude for
studying successfully the principles that I'M
derlie scientific agriculture. By the same
set Of faculties that detect the phenomena
and learn the applications of chemistry, the
lessons Of history, the truths Of science and
the art Of expression are acquired. Once
teach youugman how to think and show him
the boundlessness Of knowledge, aud more has
been done for him than a thousand exclu.
sively agricultural schools could supply.
Education is not the mere accumulation of
facts nor the mastery Of a speciality. 1t has
larger meaning, embracing the culture Of
the wholeman, and not being confined to the
acquisitions Of few recipes by which to win
the necessities of life. Any influence that
tends to dwarf or render unpopular the idea
that education signifies anything less than
the full development of every talent, is per-
nicious in the extreme.
1t is well.known fact that no young man
Of the state, proposing scientific agriculture
as vocation, has yet availed himself Of the
facilities already at hand in this state. Let
one candidate, at least, make the trial before
condemiug at the instance of mere dema.
gogues whose Office is TO throw 6rebrands
and sow dissatisfaction. II further evidence
Is asked by the farmers to show with what
spirit these agitators are working, and what
their real designs are, it can be produced.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19
W.atertowm C0itle MARKET.

CattleCattle trains from st. Johnsbury and further
up held back in consequence O heavy rise Of tho
Connecticut River washing out large portions Of track.
The train expected would probably be light and con
sstng mostly Of Veal Calves Scarcely any Beef Cattle
from the North. We find from tho West l4l3 head,
which sold dull At the opening, with little spirit Of
trade along in the forenoon but not until
willing 10 deduct fraction from last weeks rates.
The quality from the west continues good
head Of very choice Vermont Oxen Sd and mark eted
by Is. Stevens OF Ptseld, likely cattle stood
the ground home weight 1860 lbs TO par, at host
market prices. hathaway Swn old Is steers 10
Cornell Bros at s. 81 cwt live weighing 1895 lbs
lots of II steers each Co Mr.. Heath sizes 81
J. Sawyer at s. COS ~ steers ~ Mr. White AZ 5Io. O..
LeaVitt Son sold IL steers 10 Mr. Kelly, weighing
2OOB vs., at jtci at 81, j. SotsOn sold Is steers 10
Mr. Barker weighing $3.50 ID, at s. ~ o. cwt; steers
vt 5c l. Is. Sargent sold pairs Of working oxen for
s. 80, tho pair girthng Gn In.
Sheep-YOaTlings are started this fromNorther
Now York. Light supply in market. We quote prices
steady. H. s. BrttOn sold II yoarngs average 90 lbs
4o. Is. Dow sold 10 yoaTlings, average 90 bi
q. H. Potter - tine yeaIngs as could BIO put together
weighing l3n tbs each with IS sheep average $50 lbs
sold u III. Il. GOodnOugh the lOck Canada,
aud the butcher said could speak too highly vi
them.
Poultry-l5c is paid for Turkeys, but not wanted in
any large amount ut that rate. We did hear of any
prices ON Poultry AT lGc this week.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19

A desperate fight occurred Monday at
Summit, Miss, between whites and blacks.
The provocation seems to have been given
by the negroes who riddled a white man
with bullets at the door Of his own store.
A bloody battle ensued in which the darkies
are said to have been worsted. This plainly
shows that the caste feeling is still sovereign
at many points in the south. Whether ne.
groes or whites are to blame in any instance
is not the question, but rather whether two
such antipodal elements can ever be amalga.
mated by any process of law, education or
religion. This is the problem for years to
come. Is there not, inherent in every eau.
casian, ard more or less developed, a sort Of
contempt for the Ethiopian 2 and are not
tho most elaborate arguments to show his
natural equality as regards capacity and
capability mixed with apologies and conces-
sions that imply universal conviction that
Africa is the negros best sphere for devel-
opment2 1t is true, no doubt, as thou
sands have testified, that the most degraded
people of the South are the low whites,
many of these having relapsed to a point
below where civilizing influences can reach
them. For this let the Caucasian blush.
But are there not certain peCuliarities about
the African race which preclude the practi.
cability Of its being blended tremendously in
the same social system with those whose
complexion is blondc2 Time alone can sat.
isfactOrily answer these questions. Mean,
time the Pacific coast is embroiled over the
distressing problem of oriental immigration
Would the heather repair to some secluded
spot and live by themselves, the objections
against them might be silenced. But theil
cheapening of labor is an affrout to occi
dental intelligence that only blood and dir
est vengeance can expiate. EvideHtly som,
modification Of the laws governing immigra
tion is necessary or the motto "Free to all
is not to be read literally.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19

Washington or any Of his distinguished sue
eessor has seen. When the presidential
contest is over, and the echoes Of SANDER
die away, the country, SOLDERING after It's long
season Of patriotic intoxication, will apply
the useful lessons taught by the Exposition
and 20 forward TO new achievement 10 in.
dustry and morality, 10 honest government
and social improvement.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19

Bismarck, Gortschakoff and Andrassy,
representing Germany, Russia and Austria,
at recent conference in Berlin, have adopted
a peaceful policy with reference to Turkey.
Thus the day for the dissolution of the OF.
toman Empire and the solution Of that per-
picking eastern question, is, for a season,
postponed. 1t is not to be supposed that a
combination of these three powers in any
policy could be protested against with any
show of success by the rest of Europe. 1t
must be greater than Disraeli or Mcmahon
who can out-wit or out-general diplOmatsts
like bismarck or Gortschakoff.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19

1t is generally conceded that the best
contemporary authority upon the beautiful,
but somewhat disreputable, art of horseman.
ship is the Golden Rule. A former clergy
man of this state once remarked that no per-
son was qualified to preach who could not
appreciate the fine points of horse. But
precisely the relation of the christian minis.
try to equestrianism, most people arc too
obtuse to discern. True, the horse is no.
Bile animal aud 30 is man in his best estate.
Still how knowledge of the perfect equine
proportions, or a sympathy with all the
moods and fancies of the horse soul can
enable preacher the better to expound the
New Testament, or acquire a devotional
frame of mind, is by no means an axiom
This was a burr that Park st. church couldn't
quite open. An ecclesiastical jockey is q
sort of paradox too far short Of orthodoxy,
even for heterodox Boston to stomach.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19


have joined hands to see what may be done.
just how far.reachipg the effect OF these 70.
formatory efforts will be, cannot now be said.
But IL the drunkprd can DO induced to abb
stain from the pleasures Of sin for season,
the movement will not have been wholly in
vain. In this work the reformer must re-
member that others will gather where he
has sown. II is a long, joint labor between
which and its full fruition, an interval Of
centuries will intervene. The danger is that
the enthusiasm which now runs high, will
perish in the usage. The value of perma.
nent, active organizations to perpetuate the
work already begun, cannot be overestimated
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19

1t will be seen that the course pursued by
Miss Ward, whose case is given in another
column, was the very wisest Since there
are always beings fendish and desperate
enough to practice this internal art of black
mailing, it is unfortunate that all women are
not possessed of the same good sense. Such
villain as Clark should grow gray in a
prison cell.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19

in words like these They have re-enaoted
the ten commandments and ask for an angel
of light as nominee for the presidency. y
Alas The delegates from Vermont
were e. j. Phelps, q. w. Willard, Fred
Billings, Willard Harrington, and @. NJ.
Bliss.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19

The proportions of the Mexican insurrec-
ton are contracting day by day. Diaz with
his few thousand undisciplined troops, in
Guiding cattle thieves aud those who fight
for spoils assumes the defensive, while Gen.
Escobedo, the Mexican commander, is march,
ing against him with 5000 men. The re-
sstauce which Daz can make within the
city of Matamoras, cannot be long or formid.
able. The result will, doubtless, be the de.
capitatioH Of the revoter. If thousand
marauders could be squeched at the same
time with the Insurgents, there would be no
weeping in Texas. The successful quelling
Of the revolt will, Of course, tend strongly to
centralize power IN Mexico and give cohe-
renee TO the government.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19

A sharp interchange Of words on the Chi
nese question occurred in the senate the
other day between senators Conkling and
Edmunds The Vermont boy with his rug.
gcd logic is thought to have wOrsted him Of
the faultless toilet.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19
MARExETS.
50. .JOhIssbIry Market.

81. JOHnSbHry Market.
THURSDAY, May Is.
Prices Paid by Dealers,
Butter, new, tubs or balls choice 2j % zoe " h.
Eggs fresh, dozen, lSc,
Beans, common white $500 hand picked $3.50.
Oats CSC " bu.
Maple Sugar, stirred, extra, loo v ibi tub, So.
Potatoes, 4Oc v bu.
Beef, dressed weight "a So "
Veal, live weight, 30 NJ.
Prices Asked by Dealers.
Dried Apples Sliced l5e v ID strung, la, CHARTERED
~ 10 lac.
Molasses, gallon, T5o.
blrup, silver drip, tl.OO.
Sugar reanod Q, lle extra O, Hes graduated, Zee.
Maple Bugar az loo.
Maple Honey al Sc.
OHiOns, o. rs v bushel.
Kerosene, zoe gallon.
Corn, 30 VI bu, now.
India Wheat, GO v bu,
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19

The following beautiful tribute finds no
parallel in the literature Of to-day. We
must read afresh Lord Byron's address to
the ocean or Coleridge's apostrophe to Mt.
Blanc ere we secure the atmosphere of soul
in which such "loftiness Of thought" can be
distilled. Note the rhythmic flow, the
stately tread, Of sentences 1t is a very
symphony. This is it;
The Estey movement sweeps on with un-
rufied earnestness, quietly and calmly, but
with confident assurance, gathering strength
and dignity every day, and it is as certain to
overbear all opposition and triumph in the
end as the channel current of the grand old
Connecticut is to glide down irresistiby to
the ea."-Cor. Rutland Herald.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19

The New York Tribune after a survey Of
the delegations from twenty states and three
territories, submits what it deems the presi-
Dental strength Of the hour. These tables,
doubtless, are as much to be relied upon as
the researches of the Keene On. H. Senti-
mel These are the TriOune's figures
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19

Barring one article, on the antiquity of
Man." "WinnOwings from the MILL" for
May, did not develop much power. Some
one ought to be delegated by the students
to audit the photography, while the proof
should be ground little finer Let it not
be supposed that the modesty of the
title will extenuate defects of grammar or
rhetoric. Read, brothers, read, read with
core
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19
From our Special Reporter
81, .4TbHIlS MARKET,

TUESDAY, May l6.
There pretty good attendance at Market To-
day. considering the state of travelling in this vicinity
We obliged TO quote decline in rices for butter
Ordinary 10 40 lsc, medium TO gooI Is 20 2lc, Extra
% "a pc, choice selections u 20 2jc.
The amount shipped about 1000 packages.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19

The Springfield Republican, unsatis6cd
with killing Charles Francis Adams prcsi.
dcntiOly, is now mutilating his corpse, with
uncalled.for eulogies.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19
From Our Special Reporter.
N'elD HapeII .HarkeE.

TUESDAY, May I6.
Shipped from this Station this week $500 pounds
Butter, 800 dOz Eggs, Excelsior, | oars Slaves,
30 Veal Calves.
Butter 20 "a nc v %,
Eggs l4c y dOz.
Veal Calves az &c y b,lw.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19
Astmnnt Gatmtt
ST. JoHNsBURY, MAY 10, 1879.

People wonder where several papers of
this state procured those foe illustrations Of
the centennial buildings.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19

According to this almanac Blaine and
Tilden are the "favOrite sons" We believe
however, that an apt mathematician aud
keen reader of mems hearts, could shuttle
those names and turn up Bristow at the top.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19

The other day Black Hills stage driver
undertook to horsewhip his passengers into
getting out and pushing up hill, but the gold
seekers emptied their revOlvers into him a
few times, held a corOnsr's inquest, and found
that he died Of pneumonia
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19

| Meal, 7jc v bushel, new.
| Feed, 81 40 v 100 lbs
| Bran, 81 .2j v 100 lbs.
Flour, common, $500 good family, $40 host, as.
| Rye Meal, unsiltcd, &c " ID.
! Shorts S2j v ton.
Turks Island Salt 80 cents
| Tlerce Lard.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19

As no one expected eloquence from the
president at the opening of the Exhibition,
no one was disappointed. lie simply read
and that poorly-a few statistics without at
tempting flight beyond the hard, rugged
prose with which we have come to associate
this man of silence. "If this Inauguration
day had fallen forty years ago. what speeches
should we have had from Webster, Clay,
Calhoun, not to mention many others How
great would have been the Massachusetts,
giant, how graceful the man Of Ashland, how
strong the Palmetto logician If it had
been the lot of one of these officially to de-
clare the Exhibition opened, we should have
had a speech to be preserved with the great
est oratory Of all time" Upon the Fourth,
however; we shall have from the lips Of
Evarts sentiments, tropes, and periods worth
reading, listening to and remembering.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19
RiCh,,l O,.sL Market.

MONDAY, May 10.
Butter 20 0D &c. most of the butter sold % D pc.
Cheese what little there at market, sent 10
Boston commission. Very poor, old cheese farm
dairy lie.
Veals 70 live weight.
Eggs l5c v doZ.
Potatoes ~ 0D $50 v bushel
Dairy Skins SOC and upwards.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19

The temperance reforms, sPringing up
here and there in this state, have the general
appearance ofpermanence and solidity. The
most effective appeals are made by the men
who have themselves, tarried long at the
wine cup. In other words the reformed are
the rsformers. Law and persuasion seem to
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-19
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V'ergeEIReS Market.

NIHy
Butter market rather uneven, best grades % 20 %
other grades lower.
Eggs l3c y dOZ.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-29

much reference to law, and permitting q
plea Of Democracy to be fled as a bar t.
prosecution for any crime.
4. We observe with pleasure that cal
the parties are in custody" 1t is such q
gratifying thing to know that Mississippi
fr0wns upon the crimes committed by 9
mob that we will not stop to inquire
whether these parties would have beer
put into custody if they had been white.
There must be beginning somewhere,
and we can no. claim that in its initial
step in the right direction Mississippi,
has surprised number of colored men.
We use the word surprised in qualified
sense, not forgetting the old maxim that
all men are bound to know the law. These
ignorant and misguided colored men
merely followed their white neighbors
into q bad trap. They had often seen a
whole township or parish mount their
horses and pursue poor negro, accused
Of stealing a hen or a pig, till they left
him dead on the wsyside, and they
perhaps thought this custom had pre-
vailed long enough to make law that
would justify them in becoming public
executioners without waiting for proper
orders.
Unfortunately, the criminal justice Of
this State has been too often administered
on the Mississippi plan. The party to a
quarrel who could first get his story to
the ears of the mob has generally secured
the verdict in his favor. If he happened
to be the injured party the hue and cry
was raised against his antagonist, who
was hunted as q wild beast, generally
captured and dispatched. II, on the other
hand, a popular man were to kill his
enemy, he would instantly rush to the
proper quarter and declare it was done in
self-defense, as the deceased had been
heard to threaten him year or two be-
fore, or he had good reason to believe he
had stolen something. Then coroner's
jury verdict of justi6able homicide would
be obtained, the body of the unlucky man
buried, and society settle down into its
customary unrufled course.
There is no need for troops in the case
quoted from the Natchez Democrat. The
offenders have been made prisoners and
will, We hope, receive further proper at
tentions. 1t is only in such places as
East Feliciana, Baton Rouge, Coushatta.
Ouachita and other note ID localities, where
it has never yet been reported that ''sll
the parties are in custody" that troops
are needed. They are not wanted where
the regular officers of the law are permit
Ted to look up the rogues.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-29
A CARD.

beg TO announce to nv friends and the public
in geneI al that the first of OctoberI shall trans.
fer my retail Levee stOre. between Madison and
Dumaile streets, to
NOS. 81 AND Sd CANAL STREET.
Where shall keep. as usnsl the largest stock of
MEMS, YOUThS and BOYS CLOTHING, HATS
and FURNISHING GOODS in the city.
Thanking the public for the liberal patronage
ext nded to my store on the levee for thirty
years, / respectfully ask continuance of the
same. All my employees viii be fourd at my Canal
street store, ready to serve their friends to the
best of their ability.
LEON GODCRAUX,
Nos. 81 and 80 Canal street, bttween Charities and
DorsieIe streets. se28 toes