Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-02-16
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"Revivals-Moody and Sankey." will be
subject Of discourse vt tho church of the
Messiah next Sunday evening.
If your clothes wringer is getting out of
tune, you will find the little notice you have
been looking for among our new ads. to-
day.
Misses Townsley and Buck ARE holding
very successful meeting mt Greenwich, N.
Y. Twelve rose for prayers the first even
ing
Mrs G. II. Humans millinery shop. which
has been closed for some weeks on account
of the sickness of Mrs. Hinman, is now
open, much to the qualification of her old
friends and patrons.
As will be be seen by an advertisement,
| N. nj. johnson has Bradley's superphosphate
and guano, and he is able to sell them Mt
very low figure. Farmers, get your supply
now, and save percentage.
The spring term Of st. Johnsbury Acad-
emy opened last week with over 200 stu
dents, and there have been daily accessions
since. The term will be one of the very
largest in the history of the school,
One of our citizens has dwelt on the eco
| nomical side of life so thoroughly that he
looks at everything in that light; he rejoices
| in mo. IA paper collar as 1t would take
less rope to hang him than one of those "l6"
fellows.
Our mild april weather" aud that long
coveted "thaw" disappeared rs on the wings
of the wind Monday night. As the board of
agriculture had meeting the next day in
North Troy it is supposed It went up to at
tend its instructive deliberations.
"Sold lots of tickets to Boston" said the
urbane fellow who sells pasteboard down at
the depot to our ubiquitous interviewer the
other day. Let us have An "honest count"
M, hn hor
that the birth day of the man who never told
lie comes next weekP
The Lyndon Union tells us to purchase
MIR. Flints door yard and make the side
walk straight by Mr. Estabrooks' store. No
need Of all that trouble; If Mr.. Flint will
just remove that length of fence on the
north side of the yard people will 20 through
there without any city ordinances. 1t is GU
rlous how much "red tape" some people
think we must have before we can make n
move.
We see great moral changes in many of
our people who attended theMoody meetings
in Boston last week. They are about the |
streets full of "suavIter in nlodo," rs bland
as a fresh hollyhock, inquirIng all about |
your family, as though they had been off on
u European tour, and when we look for evil |
dences of growing piety we find them in |
this, an increased unwilllngness to pay their |
bills. ut cost so much to go and hear |
MT. MOODY, you Know!
Twomembers of the board of agriculture |
spent night in this village not long since,
but we don't see that our beef steak is i'm, |
proved, or that hens lay any more or sounder |
eggs, or that the big potatoes get far away |
from the top of the barrel, or that the price |
of flour has fallen. We don't believe they |
did their duty by the butchers and grocers, |
or else these enterprisng fellows just bull |
dozed the members of the board.
ID.
blue stripe--'may his tribe increase" that |
is, il faith in the graceful bachelor Samuel |
j. T. is what makes him keep the snow and |
ice off the walk IN front of his store so thor
oughly. Some others do it, as at Cooks and |
Bartletts store and a few others, but SO
many devote their energies to the Louisiana
case that the ice grows apace on their walks
Oh. for more notwithstanding democrats
SHEFFIELD.-AtM Mr.. Lapiers' auction, Feb.
8. cows sold at from S2l to 1893. 1t was
Alfred Gray's house, instead OF Hayes rs
our types had it last week, that was burned.
Our printers are mindful of the presidential
question, you see. DR.. A. j. Carter has
bought Isaac Pearls village place =. Har-
vey Chase has bought of DR.. T. X. Styles,
the Simpson place.
George A. Clark otherwise known rs
Hank" or more recently "Col. Sellers" has
turned up in Boston rs II dealer in ready
made clothing, boots, shoes, etc., Mt 60 Elm
street. Now we opine the Col" will sell
"lots" of goods, rs he has the knack of max
ing folks think he has just what they need,
land undoubtedly he has, and surely if he
can sell his wares as we'll as he "kept fires
and made himself generally useful at the
Avenue. he will succeed. We hope he will
go and hear Moody.
JAMAICA.-Thus far the year 1877 has been
noted for the unprecedented mortality
among the old of our community. Com
mencing with the 18th of January, we have
the death of Mrs. Eliza Hart, aged So Next,
January II, Mrs. Lucy Skinner, aged 81.
January 81, Square" Kingsbury, aged 81.
These last two lived in the same house.
January %, Atrial Helton. aged "a. January
81, Benjamin Muzzy, aged 70, for many
years one of our largest farmers, and an ex.
tenslve cattle dealer. Feb. |, Aaron Butler,
aged 90. He was the father of the late Hon
John +. Butler. Feb |, Peter White aged
rs. Feb. 2, Asa Whitman aged TO- Az
erage age of the eight persons q little over
80 years; Nearly all died with pneumonia.
Many others are sick, but none are consider
ed in dangerous condition, so far rs we
can learn. u.