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THE FARMERS POSITION.

The worlds markets are glutted with
the products of the loom, the mine and
the forge. Manufactures are running
on half time. Merchants warehouses
groan with the weight of accommodating
merchandise. Able and stalwart men
walk the streets of our cities seeking in
vain for work, finding no vacant situa-
tions for anxious and willing workers.
Strikes and labor difficulties abound in
in every direction. What is the remedy
for this unhappy state of affairs We
answer, increase attention to the Guilt
walton of the soil. Thousands of worthy
men, graduates from the farm, now
eking out miserable existance, in the
vain struggle for wealth and improved
condition in over-crowded cities, should
return to labor in the soil. Grange
clubs and Farmers clubs can do a
mighty and philanthropic work in en-
couraging these prodigal sons to return
once more to the happy home of their
fathers.
Agriculture offers no gilden prizes
obtained without labor. She gives am
pie reward to honest toll !; She furnishes
happy homes to industrious inmates ;
she throws the charm of quiet content
ment around her devoted subjects she
keeps aloof from the communicating In
fuences of temptation, crime, gaudy
display, extravagant habits that prevail
in city life; she feeds with bounty, she
educates with her wonders; she satisfies
with her beauties those who are willing
to rest content with moderate aspirations,
with natural appetites, with industrious
habits, and with slow but constant
gains.
Farm products, it is true, are low,
but every market in the world demands
the surplus crops of the agriculturist,
There is no glut of breadstuffs or proyi-
sion in Europe. The Old World stands
ready with open arms and bags of gold
to welcome the products of the New
World. However abundant our crops
of grain, or herds of cattle, they are al
wanted at remunerat;ve price. True
VIC cannot secure the fictitious values Of
the speculative era. now passed, but
with economy and frugality, with in
dustry and enterprise, the American
farmer is the peer of all the workers il
other occupations. His position carries
an independence, comfort, a satisfac
ton unknown to the dweller in the din
gy town. The present depression il
mercantile and manufacturing business
is having its natural effect in arrestinI
the flow of population to the the cities
in opening the eyes of many worth.
people to the fact that the city is no
the place for them nor their families
and finally in convincing hundreds Q
lable-bodied young men that agricultur
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Six thousand bushels of potatoes al
ready worked up at McNeals starch fac
CALEDONIA COUNTY.


The house of Ira Humphrey of Sutton
was broken into by some unknown per-
son few days ago, and pair of boots
and nine dollars in money were stolen.
Walter Fl. Chase of Sheffield appreci-
ates the beauty and the good qualities
of the Devon cattle, and has lately
bought two thoroughbred helfers from
the Batchelder stock of Danville.
Hiram Russell of ST. Johnsbury plant
ed one. fourth of an acre of ground to
common corn for fodder, putting the
hills 2 2 IL feet apart. When it was
time to cut it there were so many ears
on it that he concluded to let it stand
and harvest it for corn. When he came
to husk it he had 70 bushels of sound
corn, or at the rate of $50 bushels of
ears of corn to the acre. Let the next
man stand up and recite.
The Teachers Institute held at Sutton
last week was attended by about sixty
teachers and large number of citizens.
Superintendent Conant was ably assisted
by Capt. Leavenworth of Randolph, Mrs.
Kyle, formerly of johnson, and J. P.
OTIS of Sutton. Rev. H. T. Fuller of
the st. Johnsbury Academy gave an in
teresting lecture on "Moral Improve
ment, on Tuesday evening. The insti-
tute ought to be of great advantage to
the teachers present. The hospitality Of
the people was sufficient to provide homes
and refreshment for all the teachers
present.
Last week Tuesday, horse was
missed from pasture near Island Pond
supposed to be stolen, and such has
proved to be the fact. Sheriff Mansul
of Essex county was put on the track
and last week Wednesday evening came
to this village. Early the next morning
he started with Deputy Sheriff ingalls,
and went to Mr.. Shanty's residence, il
the north part of our town, and there
found both thief and horse The THE
proved to be one Patten, who has beer
caught before in disreputable practices
and who has family in Island Pond
The same day, Patten was arrested, ant
taken back to Island Pond, and from
thence to Guildhall, where we suppos
he is now in Jail to await trial. He i
the same man who some time ago wa
under arrest in this village for stealinI
buffalo robe from A. H. Smith; an,
he seems to be bad fellow to be '.run
ming around loose. NORTH Star.
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"Boy," said gentleman to the host
Ter of an hotel on alighting from his
ph@ton, ''extricate that quadruped from
the vehicle, stabulate him, donate him
an adequate supply of nutritious all
ment, and when the aurora or morning
shall again illuminate the oriental hori-
zon, | will award thee pecuniary CON-
pensation for thine amiabie hospitality y
The boy ran into the house and told his
master that Dutchman wanted to see
him.
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PRESENT STATE OF THE GARDEN
OF EDEN.

Prince de Ligne, countryman and con-
temporary of Maria Theresa, wrote an
essay "On the Location of the Earthly
Paradise" and after some reflections on
the hygienic influence of different eli
mates, calls attention to the fact that
PARADISE traditions, in locating the
Garden of Eden, differ only in regard to
longitude, but not to latitude The lat
itude keeps always near the snow bound
airy, lire just south of the regions
where snow may fall. but will not stay
on the ground. 1t passes through Thi-
bet, Cashmere, Northern Persia, and
Asia Minor, and reaches the meridian
of Europe near the centre of the Medit-
erranean." The nations that "celebrat-
ed life as festival have lived along
this line, and we may doubt if in the
most favored regions of the New World
human industry. with all the aids of
modern science, will ever reunite the OPP
portunities of happiness which Nature
once lavished on lands that now entail
only misery on their cultivators. All
over Spain and Portugal. Southern TIA
ly, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor, Persia
and Western Afghanistan, and through
out Northern Africa, from Morocco to
the valley of the Nile, the aridity of the
soil makes the struggle for existence SO
hard that to the vast majority of the in
habitants life from blessing has been
converted into a curse
Southern Spain. from Gibraltar to the
head waters of the Tagus, maintains now
only about one-tenth of its former popu-
lation, Greece about one-twentleth. AS
late as A. D. $40, a good while after
the rise of the Mohammedan power, the
country now known as Tripoli, and dis
tinct from the Sahara only through the
elevation of its mountains, was the seat
of eighty-fve Christian bishops, and had
population of 100000, of which
number three-fourths of one per cent.
are now left The climate, which &C
cording to authentic description must
once have resembled that of our South
ern Alleghanies, is now so nearly intol-
cradle that even the inhumanity of an
African despot forbears to exact open-air
labor from a. m. to p. m. Steam
boats that pass near the Tripolitan coast
in summer, on their way from Genoa tc
Cairo, have tokeep up continual show.
er of artificial rain to save their deck.
hands from being overcome by the fur
nace-air that breathes from the barren
hills of the opposite coast. The rivers
of some Of these countries have shrunB
to the size of their former tributaries
and from Gibraltar to Samarcand the
annual rainfall has decreased till failure
Of crops has become a chronic complaint
And all this change is due to the in
sane destruction of forests. The grea
Caucasian sylvania that once adorned
the birth land of the white race from
the Western Pyrenees to the foothills 0
the Himalayas, has disappeared of tn
: forest area of Italy and Spain, in tn
days of the elder Pliny, about two acre
in hundred are left in Greece, hardl
ono Rnt even the nakedness of tn
most sterile tracts of Southern Europ
is exceeded by the utter desolation Q
: the Ottoman provinces.
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Some writer says: Marriage is de-
cidedly the most important part of the
ordinary woman's destiny. She can do
very we'll without marrying, if she only
thinks SO but if she marries, her whole
future depends on her choice of a hus-
band for .to marry means to most to
follow the fortunes of the man chosen,
abide by the laws he lays down for his
household, dwell where he decides, and
take from his hands as much or as little
as he is able or willing to bestow."
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DEATH OF GREAT CRIMINAL.-Ed-
ward S. Piper. the prince of forgers and
one of the greatest criminals in the his
tory of the world, died at Joliet, Iowa,
Sept I'd. He is said to have made over
million dollars during his lifetime by
altering and raising checks, and yet he
died pauper. Allen Pinkerton at one
time offered him $4,000 for detailed
history of his life and forging transac-
tions. In 1865 he filched the Vermont
National Bank of Rutland out of S24,-
700 and retired to beautiful country
seat near Davenport, Iowa. He visited
every civilized country on the globe and
made twenty round trips to Europe. He
was we'll known in London and was in
carcerated for seven months in the Tow
er. He boasted of having event it
rough" on every bank in the State Of
Vermont. In 1867 he was arrested and
taken to Rutland, and after his trial
confined in the State prison at Windsor
for nine years. gaining one year for good
behaviour. He soon married lady in
Chicago and went to Joliet, Iowa, regis
tering himself as Edward S. Porter, q
wealthy speculator. His wife became
aware of the true character of her hus
band some time last winter, while ht
was in Jail at La Porte, Iowa, but she
remained with him to the last.
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LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Special Correspondence.

NEW YORK, Oct. s, 1877.
Last week l made a passing allusion,
honestly intended to be humorous, al
though L blame no one If it wasn't taken
that way,) to the present extraordinary
condition of our banks, trust companies
and similar institutions to which some
events of the past few days have called
still further attention. Everyone who
has paid attention to tho -etatistics of
wrOng-doing of any kind must have
noticed the curious way in which crimes
of any certain class, like evil birdsiof
feather, incline to flock together. Sea-
sons of burglary recur in irregular cy-
cles, train robberies usually tread on
each others heels to the number of half
a dozen or so, murders shock the COM
munity in rapid succession. The same
odd laws appear also to govern, at least
to some extent, what are commonly
called accidents. Thus railroad men
have told me that when, after season
of freedom from such disasters news
reaches them of serious accident OF
travel, they feel morally certain that
two more of similar character will
follow it at sufficiently short intervals
to connect the three in one group. The
same principle seems to prevail in con-
nection with large fires, and so on.
Our epidemic now seems to be forgery
and misrepresentation of funds. Take
the last two weeks. Without taking
into account ten cases which involved
sums ranging below $4,000 each. there
has been the fraudulent issue of almost
a million dollars of railway bonds
traced to President Morton of the Per.
manent Exhibition of Philadelphia, the
detection and flight of William G. Gil
man one of the most high toned, gilt
edged broker of Wall street, after hav
ing series of practical forgerie'
amounting to nearly $300.000; anc
later the discovery that two important
and long established insurance concerns
arc defaulters in the amounts of $4,000
and Sl25,000 respectively. The ques
ton in everybody's mouth now is "wh'
among US can be relied on % and no on
appears inclined to venture a reply
Were called upon to answer the con
undrum l should say that until law
were passed, and enforced too, unde
which great and awe-inspiring criminal
could be railroaded from their luxuriou
Offices into the penitentiary with tn
fewest possible route, the communit
has no reason to expect anything differ
ent and is served just right for its fail
ure to protect itself.
, But to show that the ancient and hor
: orable profession of forging has not ye
3 passed entirely into the hands of th
pious church members like those aboy
indicated, the detectives have jus
brought to light another series of oper;
tons of this performed by an expel
professional gang during the last eight
cen months and amounting to aboI
$4,000. These have mostly bee
accomplished by buying small draft
New York or some neighboring countI
bank and celebrating part of the VIII
ing with chemicals and filling up IL
draft again with sums to suit Thus
s draft for $50 was made to collect 81, 0(
and so on through the list. The detec
e ives have been after this gang for lor
It time, but only succeeded in runniI
them to earth this week. The hes
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Ton. w., October Is, 1877.
r. r. Time TABLE.

Passenger Trains Leave
-Soufh-7:00 m; l:39 m; Sis m;
p m North-sl9 p m.
lY-South-7:i2 m; $50 p m; 9I5 p m.
fh-l2:57; 7:O2 m.
.l4ANDING-S0uth-7:23 a m; SAL p m;
pm. North-3:i3 a m; 1916 p m; Gao
-iSouth-7:37 a m; eos p m; 1851 p m /;
d pm. North-2:59 m; 1889 p m; 400
6.33 p m.
bARTON-.Soutt-7:40a m; Dos p m 1881
North-2:l5 a m; 1920 p m; $50 p m.
a m; $50 D M; Hoo p
North-2:2i a m; 1855 a m; 5:57 p m.
a m; Gas m; $50 p
2 p m; 5:35 m.
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offers more inducements to the average
individual in moderate circumstances, in
point of health occupation, means of
support and opportunities for improve
ment, than any of the overcrowded
trades and employments of the large
villages and cities.-American Cult
9,0for
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Neao Advertisements.
CHARLES P. ALIENS ESTATE.
mmiSSiOnerS. Notice.

The subscribers, having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District of Orleans
commissioners to receive examine and adjust all claims
and demands of all persons against the estate Of Chas
represented insolvent and the term of nine months
from the 9th day of July A. d. 1871 being allowed by
said Court the creditors of said deceased to exhibit
and prove their respective claims before US: Give
notice. that we will attend to the duties of appoint
ment at the Probate Office in Irasburgh, in said Dis
tret the 18th day of November and the 4th day of
April next at nine o'clock in the forenoon each Of
said days.
I. N. CUSHMAN, acknowledgements
G. w. WHEELER, o
Irashurgh. Vt. Oct 9Th A d. 1877. O42
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ESTATE OF ABRAM P. BROWN.

The undersigned having been appointed by the
honorable Probate Court for the District of Orleans
Commissioners to receive examine and adjust all
claims and demands Of all persons against the estate
OF Abram p Brown, late of Barton, in said District,
deceased, and all claims exhibited in Offset thereto
hereby give notice that will meet for the purposes
aforesaid at the late residence of the deceased in Bar
ton aforesaid, the first Monday of December and at
the house Of A. ]. Morrill, in Charleston on the goth
day of March next, from 10 o'clock until o'clock
p m each of said days. and that six months from the
I'd day Of Oct. A. D. 1877 is the time limited by said
Court for said creditors to present their claims to
for examination and allowance.
Dated at Charleston, this 18th day of 0ct A. D. 1877
OH A. T. MORRILL,. (SOinnAiSsioAoIo.
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failed Sold in Barton by E. +. Dutton, and at whole
sale by Wells, Richardson q Co., Burlington, Vt o45

Nervous Debility.-Vital weakness or de-
presson a weak exhausted feeling no energy or
courage the result of mental over-work, indscretons
excuses, or drain upon the system is always
cured by Humphreys Homeopathic Specific No. 2S-
1t tones up and invigorates the system, dspes the
gloom and dependency imparts strength and energy
stops the drain and rejuvenates the entire man. Been
used twenty years with perfect success by thousands
Sold by dealers. Price, $lo0 per single vial, or $500
per package of Ave walls and $500 vial Of powder
Sent by mail on receipt of price. Address, Humphreys
Homeopathic Medicine Company, 100 Fulton St, N. Y.
Sold in Barton by E. Il. Dutton and L. D. Wilson.
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@eadin4 Autites.
DIR. shiIoh,s system yitalizer.

We are authorized to guarantee this
remedy for the cure of dyspepsia, mac
tive liver, sour stomach, constipation,
loss of appetite, coming up of food. yell
low skin, and general languor and debil-
ity. You must acknowledge that this
would be ruinous unless we had positive
evidence that it will cure. You who are
sufferers from these complaints. these
words are addressed-and will you con-
tinue to suffer when you can be cured
on such terms 1t is for you to determine.
Sample bottle, 10 cents; regular size
rs cents. Sold in Barton by E. f. Dut-
ton and J.. D. Wilson.
$4,000 die annually by neglecting
cough, cold or Group, often leading to
consumption and the grave. Why will
you neglect so important matter when
you can get at our store Shiloh's Con-
sumption Cure, with the assurance of
speedy recovery. For soreness across
the chest and lungs or lame back or side,
SEiloh's Porous Plaster gives prompt re-
lief. Sold in Barton by E. F. Dutton
and l.. ID. Wilson.
HAoKMErAoK, popular and fragrant
perfume. Sold in Barton by E. +.
Dutton and L. d. Wilson; elsewhere by
dealers generally.
Every Invalid Should Know 1.-THE reports
rom all parts of the country confirm the statement
that Dr. Cages great vegetable remedy called MEDI
CAL WONDER" is having immense sale by all drug
gists The proprietors do not expend enormous sums
for flaming advertisements but prefer to let the med
cine advertise itself by sending to Druggists through
out the country, sample bottles for trial. at cost Of
many thousand dollars per year, that nvads may test
its merits before purchasing large size. No person
suffering with dyspepsia dizziness. liver or kidney
complaints sour stomach, sick headache habtual cos
tyness scrofuous humors, spinal diseases, weakness
of male or female, general nervous prosraon OF
either sex can take this remarkable medicine without
soon seeing its good effects Go to your Druggist and
get sample bottle for Is cts. and try it, or large
Size for ST. It has cured where all other remedies had
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and front of the forgers was found to be
quiet gentlemanly looking man who
for some time past has occupied an Office
in Park Row near the Post Office, the
door of which bore the sign "Wm. H.
Lyman. Stenographer." In this Office
Mr.. Lyman was captured, together with
various colored inks, chemicals brushes
and other appliances of his crooked art.
which we think sufficient to establish
his guilt beyond doubt. 1t turns out
that Lyman is well known. He has
served two terms in Auburn for forgery.
While there he was made a bookkeeper,
and distinguished himself by altering
prisoners sentences on the books. SO
that many were discharged before they
had served half the terms for which
they were put in. Fifteen-year men he
would reduce to seven, ten-year men to
five, and otherwise temper the winds of
justice to the "shorn" lambs of his &C.
quaintance.
The scene of the "Big Injun" farce
has been transferred temporarily from
Washington to New York. After being
received with high honors at the nation
al capital, pow-wowing at great length
with the government, and receiving
presents of money and clothes made al
the expense of taxpayers whom they
make it their business and pleasure t.
slaughter whenever they get half +;
chance, the noble red men" comprising
the delegation from the Sioux agency
have now come over to this city to b.
dined and lionized and stared at like S,
many foreign potentates. While l hav,
been writing this letter three omnibu
loads of the copper-colored rascals hav,
passed my window on their way to SOM
sightseeing, the vehicles constantly
surrounded by gaping crowds mostl.
composed of men and boys whose high
ideal of literature in the dime novel
and to whom. of course, Spotted Tail
"Iron Grow" "He-Dog" and Little Bi
Man" are heroes of the first water.
RADIX.
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We are compelled, for reasons that '0iH suggest
Is 10 our patrons, 10 adopt ne course Of many
pers and set apart a column for announcements.
z minor personal matters that are Of no par
BENEFIT 70 our general readers. Our friends
rons, not from any particular fault Of theirs,
use our local columns for all sorts Of puff"
ircriisen'enis and minor announcements, aud
me ttsy sgiH esteem e. a privile0s 10 pay for
b hey use and me expense hey put us 70 in
ing their notices. TYPE setting and printers
Dsi money. Hereafter zoe shall charge ten cents
Tine Of sir cords 0s cash 10 accompany the
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Land sale: Craftsbury.

MARY CARPENTER of Craftsbury. in the county
of Orleans, hereby notified that the taxes assessed by
sad town within the year next preceding 1875, and
1885, and part of the taxes next preceding this date
remain either in whole part unpaid on the following
described lands in said town. to witt The same land
and premises conveyed by Adna R. Pike and wife to c.
NJ and M. L. Carpenter by deed dated the 8th day of
June A. D. 1885, said deed being recorded in the 18th
VOL page ITO of land records in said Craftsbury and
so much of said lands will be sold at public auction
the dwelling house said premises in said Craftsbuy
the 14th day of November next, at one o'clock in
the afternoon, shall be requisite to discharge said
taxes with COSTS unless previously paid.
l. T. PATTERSON, FIRST CONSTABLE.
Dated at Craftsbury Vt, this 26h day of September
A. D. 1877. o42
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RLEANs PROBATE COURT.

further notice. Probate Courts will be held as
|: ALL. II. Thompson's office, Irasburgh. octo-
bd 3. November Is and IA. December and s.
CIRCUITS Office. Newport, November 20 and "a,
Der 20 aud 20.
L. II. THOMPSON, Judge.
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REMARKs.-The market for butter is rather quiet
unless is for choice tubs which scarce and want
ed at highest quotations. Common lots are slow
to SELL Eggs firmer. Beans are quiet. Cheese is
steady. Flour is irmer and holders are confident
Pork lard and hams steady and in fair demand
Corn and oats are in steady demand Potatoes are
selling mod erately and are firm.