Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-01-26

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The second Of DR.. Cressey's course Of lee
lures upon Veterinary Science, was given
Tuesday evening at Randolph, before fail
audience Of intelligent aud appreciative far
mers. The snow being 50 deep and the
weather SO cold, il was very difficult to GET
to the meeting; yet many farmers whose
heads indicated long service in their call.
ing were present, having come, some Of
them, over four miles TO attend the meeting.
DIR. Cressey talked to them Of the various
diseases Of the horse, holding them two
hours for the lecture proper, and spending
another hour in answering questions touch
ing the treatment needfu In 30 many cases
Of emergency. The farmers were greatly
interested and seemed eager to know from a
scientific standpoint how TO treat their ami
mails when sick. We rejoice in the spirit Of
inquiry and research that shows itself among
the farmers, whenever such important sub
jccts are presented, and we take this oppor-
tunity, as an individual, TO thank the fac.
uty of the college for this attempt to reach
out to the farmers Of our state some practi-
cal information upon so intricate, and yet so
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ginning of better days, and promise of
more fraternal relations between the college
aud the farmers, willingness on the part Of
the former to recognize the claims as we'll as
the needs Of the latter and proper appre-
citation on the part Of the farmers of any
measures put forth by the college.-Free
Press.
The Vermont centennial celebration at
Bennington will continue six days and per-
haps longer. The Vermont editors aud
publishers association occupy one day with
their annual reunion, to which other editors
associations will be invited. Hon. t. p.
Walton Of Montpelier delivers an address to
the soldiers reunion society, Col j. II.
Walbridge of North Bennington, command
er, comprising all Vermout's soldiers of the
rebellion now living. They will hold
biennial three days encampment, one day of
the celebration being assigned to them ex-
clusively. The military Of the state have
an annual muster of eight days. The first
regiment, N. G. ", Col. Theodore S. Peck
Of Burlington, will perform escort duty dur
ing the entire celebration, taking ono day
for grand review, parade, addresses and
speeches. The Vermont historical societys
day will probably be August 10. The spe-
cial exercises will relate to the recognition
of the year 1877 as the one huudredth Of
Vermont's existence as an independent state.
The GRAFTON and poem, the ceremony of
breaking the ground for the battle monu-
ment on the site of the old continental store
house, the objective point of Burgoyne's de-
tachment under Col. Baum, the banquet and
illumination, will occupy the entire day and
evening Of the 10th Of August One day
will be taken for a sham fight on the battle
ground Of century ago. six miles distant
in which the four cannon captured from the
British will be used. The g. A. r. will
doubtless decide to hold their annual meeting
that week. The fullest possible collection of
relics Of the Bennington battle, and those
connected with early state events, will be ex.
hibited during the entire celebration.
Charles G. Spauldiug, editor of the New
port News while it existed, died in Boston
last Thursday. He was the son of DR..
Azel Spaulding of Montpelier. He gradu.
ated from the university of Vermont in the
class of lS47, and chose the profession of
civil engineer, but did not follow it long. Ia
lS40, when the California gold fever broke
out, he was one of the pioneers who sought
that auriferous land, making the passage in
a sailing vessel around Cape Horn. His
success at mining was Indifferent. Return.
ing home via the Pacific coast and tho Gulf
Of Mexico, he spent about year in Mont
pelier, when he went to New York and en-
tered the service Of Harnden K Or. as ex.
press messenger between New York and
Boston. Soon going West, he engaged in
surveyisg and railroad engineering in Ohio,
Illinois aud Kentucky. AT the time of the
establishment OF Kansas territory, he was
living in one Of the border counties of Mis-
souri,, where he married a Missouri lady.
He took part in the establishment of its
territorial government, making preliminary
surveys and encouraging immigration by
writing special letters to the New York
Tribune, which attracted no little attention
in the East. He published paper in Law
renee, Kansas, and was elected an alderman,
and was for a short time mayor of the city
lie took the democratic side on the out :
break Of the Kansas war, and soon after left
the state. He afterwards taught school, and
at the breaking out of the war returned to
the East, enlisting in the sixth Vermont
regiment, rerved two years, came home and
started the Newport News, at News, at New
port. This he sold, and went to Boston in
1866 and took position on the Boston
Post. In 1869, he became connected with
the Boston Herald, and remained with that
paper up to the time of his decease. He
had been suffering from a complication Of
diseases involving the heart aud other vita
organs, and bis death was not unexpected.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
A short time ago an Albany man, who
supposed he had won five election bets, weut
home so elated that when his wife met hin
in the hall he Rugged her so raturously thai
she had to tell him it wasn't the hired girl
before he would let 60 Of her. Monitor.
Capt. Rufus Averill Of Bloomington, i
putting in machinery Tor turning bobbins
and will work up four hundred cords Of tim
Der into them, as soon as the water rises
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Michael Dingley, Of Bethel, fireman on tn
morning freight train on the Vermont Cen
trail roilroad, was killed Tuesday morning a
Montpelier Junction. The engine and tende
broke their coupling aud Dingley fell through
aud several cars passed over him, mauglinl
him in fearful manner.
A galley full of county items having g
"pied" our supply is short this week.
The shipping of fresh beef from Americ
. to England is no longer an experiment, bu
K a fixed fact, and it seems has grown highl
J, remunerative to the projectors of the enter