Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-08


tobacco on quarter Of an acre Of ground,
doing all the work herself. When her beau
calls she will pass around the cigars we
suppose We have no Vermont girls Of
that class over whom to brag
The times are hard. A Boston minister
Informed The young men Of his Aook not long
since, that unless some of them got married
soon he should forget how to perform the
service! Several anxious mothers are hop
ing his earnest words viii End Judgment
in the hearts Of his hearers. .....-
With due solemnity tho Bradford Opinion
says Of the recent gathering Of troops at
Washington: ave trust that there is no
good cause for alarm on this point, but We
saw the Bradford board Of fence viewers out
in force early Wednesday morning, and it
would be well enough to keep watch Of their
movements and find out whether Grant had
anything to do with ordering them out"
Messrs SeeIye and Pierce Of Massachu-
sets showed their good sense Monday in
voting for the appointment of committees to
visit Louisiana and South Carolina at once
to investigate the presidential election in
those states. The best interests of tho re-
publican party demand full, thorough and
impartial investigation, and honest republi.
cans should do their best 10 secure it..
AT it again this time in q rural town Of
the old Bay State, "ResOlvej, that the pull
pit exerts more influence than the press"
The same question was up in Montreal
school few weeks since, where, by the aid
of some of the faculty, the young divines
carried il against the young imps Of the
case and composing stick. According to our
notion it is about (which aud t'other," with
the odds in favor of the latter.
At last he is found, and we have been ex-
pecting to hear of him for several days, and
we looked for him in Boston, too. just
think Of it, he has written to his mother
now eghty-four years old--every Sunday for
twenty-five years, and has spent every
Thanksgiving day with the sold folks at
home" during the same period Of time.
Cities that get along without an Emerson,
or big organ, or "Cradle of Liberty" can't
produce such men as that.
They are sentimental over in Rutland. A
grocer cut up 176 ID. squash the other day
with saw But before the process began word
was sent around the corner, and all the loaf
ers in town, and they are many, gathered to
witness the tragic event. Then to lend fur
Their dignity and solemnity to the scene, a
band of music discoursed its plaintive notes,
while the grocer, as grave as an undertaken,
performed the solemn task Of quartering the
squash aud dividing it among the crowd T!
The Burlington Free Press says with a
sigh: "Our youth are divided in their as
pirations. Half of them wish, when arrived
to mans estate, to be railroad wreckers, and
the other half mombers of Southern return.
ing boards. In the meantime the memory
of the immortal Washington, the festive
Ratchet aud the fragrant and perennial cher.
ry tree, is fast fading from juvenile minds.
We have always known Burlington to be Q
bad place to bring up boys.
The large increase of democratic vote in
the South is owing, the Congregationalist
thinks, to "steady, but secret growth of the
Roman Catholic power" More likely tc
the disreputable republican carpet.baggers
who have increased taxes, promised schools
which were never opened, good times which
do not come; plunderers who grew rich
themselves while the whites and negroes
grew poorer every year. These things have
been notorious and would have raised up an
opposition party anywhere.
Rhode Island had an extra session las
week to fill Geo. II. Corliss' place on th'
electoral board The members arose in thu
morning, did the chores at the barn, fle'
the wood.box, shaved their bronzed faces
htched up the old horse, drove into Provi
dence, and having secured their teams at tn
well.gnawed hitching posts in front Of the
state house, went into the coy little hall
transacted their business, took out thei
doughnuts and cheese which they leisurel.
ate while standing about the stove tina
. Roger Williams took along in his midnigh
fight from gody Massachusetts, compares
notes about pork and "taters," and beef and
J cider, and then drove home, put up the COWS
and, around their quiet kitchen fires, drop
ped into sleep as if nothing had happened
"IIappy little Rhody!"
Democratic candidates for that RUTLAND
post Office increase, and we give publicity t.
their names as such people like to be linen
! toned" First on the list is L. w. Reding
( ton, q recent convert to democracy, a youn
man of good parts who was once law stu
! dent in the office of Hon. Mat. Carpenter
0 which perhaps accounts for his political yer
satility Then there is j. j. X. Randall
. Clever tnhhi Win hosIs VI iiSuusi AOiO"o
by one Samuel Hayward, and last Of all tn
venerable John Cain who sold postage stamp
to Rutlands aristocracy under that old "puh
, lie functionary," james Buchanan, All W
have to say is that it will be a sorry day 70
the patrons Of that Office when Albert II
Tuttle ceases to be postmaster. He is on
Of those who was born for just that kind c
a large organizing and executive capaeit
and energy for his work.
"
Presidents Message.
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