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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-23

CoLORs IN HoRsEs.-It is curious
fact, that while the various shades of grey,
from steel grey to pure white, and the
grey that turns white after seven years
old, are the most common colors among
Arab and other Oriental horses of the Arab
class. there is not single grey horse of
any shade of any reputation on the Eng
lish turf, and has not been for more than
thirty years. Bay and chestnuts are the
colOrs of English thOroughbreds. In the
Arab studs bred in Wurtemburg. in Rus
STA. and in Hungary. which were exhibited
at the Vienna and Paris horse shows, grey
and particularly flea. bitten grey-was
the prevailing color. Brown is also COM
mon color amongst the Syrian Arabs.
Chestnut is the favorite Arab color. On
the English turf. bay, chestnut and brown
are the cOlors of the more popular sres of
modern times, and is something like that
order in proportion Of numbers.
In breeding superior carriage horses or
any riding horse, good bay, with black
legs in the best selling color. Greys are
out of fashion, and difficult to sell. Brown,
with tan muzzlc, is the most fashionable
harness color. Dark chestnut is good
color in every respect, but many purchas-
ers object to light chestnut; yellow bays
with mealy legs are still worse to SELL
1t is curious fact that thoroughbred
sires, unlike pedigree bulls, can really be
depended on to produce their colors in
their stock. A chestnut sire will get bays
and browns us well rs his own colors.
Roans are more esteemed in trotting
sires, but can least of all be depended on
for reproducing their own colors, which
are in fact mixture of several colors.
The only roans on the turf of any repute
were ali of the Physalis blood, and in the
varied from red or strawberry roam (he
best of all that class of colors) to deep
blue roam, the last II bad color TO sell in
half breds. and requiring to pass muster,
extraordinary action.
The disfavor in which this color is now
held was shown on the dispersion of Lord
Glasgows stud, when u purchaser could
not be found for one of five rom stations,
even at 80 gs. A hunter of any color
with character will find purchasers,
but hacks of any staring color hang on
hand. On the continent, on the contrary
where riding horses are chiefly required rs
chargers. Or for parade purposes, grey i
the iavorte color. You may see more
grey horses of all kinds in Paris than il
all England. The cart-horses are nearly
all u grey white. The percherons were
originally bay, but rs the Postmasters pre-
terred grey they became grey. IT, by any
iluke, grey horse were to win the Derby
or the st. Leger, we should see n number
of grey race horses, and consequently o.
half bred horses. London Correspond
encG Liue Stock Journal.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-23

As foaling approaches, brood mares
should be turned into a loose box. The
extra exercise is beneficial and they rest
more at ease. Their work should be
lightened. The most gentle treatment
should be exercised; the temper OF the
colt often depends upon this.-AmerteaH
AqriculLNriSt.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-23

USE OF FERTILIzERs.-The Scientific
Farmer says: We have known farmers
to act as il they thought purchased fertil-
izer had some secret magic about it which
would enable it TO " boost the crop out
Of Il slough, or bring water to the crop
from the heavens. We have seen crop;
put on land which could by no possibility
develop full harvest, in the full ex 3ecta-
tion that the fertilizer could serve rs II
Jack. of-all. trades, and would obedienlly
furnish the plant with drainage, with
warmth, with food. and with II machine
TO keep down the weeds. Because the
harvest doesn't pay for the fertilizer in
these cases, there is blame attached some
where, but never where it belongs,-on
the farmer himself, whose stupidity led
him 10 put his plant in field VIII, re he
knew from experience manure could nos
make up for location, fertility, and season
all at once"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-23
2oftru.
THE KING OF MAY.


lie was Mt very pretty,
lie was Mt very wise,
And he Stood when asked question,
In paralyzed surprise.
A frecked lad, speckled lad
Who would turn in his toes,
And-thOugh not absolutely bad
Had such funny nOsel
He had MT any manners,
He did MT know his books,
And must own, his principles
Did not belle his looks.
He was clumsy at work, and awkward at play;
And every hair grew a different way
Then why did they make him King Of the May!
Yes blithely, in a circle,
They whired around their king;
And there he stood, half crying
Half pleased TO hear them sing,
Till in his heart, mighty part
Was given him 10 do;
Emotion thrilled his little breast
And gave him fervOr new
"Pll do II! that VIII he thought
at is MT much. | know Ought"
Oh dol Oh dol Oh do sang they,
"And we will crown you King of MayP
81 III do III Yes, ! II do il!
His heart sang back, again,
Until a ray of lOVeliness
Came to his face so plain.
His eyelids quIvered he almost shivercd;
Ills young form stood erect
When manly thoughts stir bOyish soulG
What else can you expect?-
And still they sang their rnun delay,
The circling girls so sweet aud gay,
About their king, the King of May
Harkl The king is speaking:
The eager girls pass near.
lie says aloud: :" II do itln
In ringing voice, and clear.
And from his pocket, as from socket
Slowly he drew it forth
lie looked to East, he looked to West,
lie looked to South and North
The skies their best assurance gave,
II was noble to he kind and b ave.
lie drew 1t forth; he gave it over,
AS though he was each maIden's lover,
As though it were his life.
The thing they'd begged for hours and hours
TO cut the May pole vines and 1overs,-
That little ras ais knife
All, see them sec them well.a-dayl
How gleeiully they skip away,
Leaving alone their King of May,
His brei reign ended. Wel-adayl
M. NJ. d; 81. Nicholas FOR MaV
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-23

Oh, for the filth of artless childhood,
when if our mother said no" to our ur
gent entreaty to indulge in natatorial OK.
ercise in the lmpid stream, we no more
dared 10 go than would we now dare to
tell lie. In those guiieess days it was
our settled belief that cramps, drowning
and being brought home on board were
the logical and only sequence of going in
swimming in the face of the maternal
veto.-IranScript.
A short time ago little boy went with
his father to see Il colt. He patted the
colts head and made quite fus over it,
until finally the st,bleman told him to be
careful that the colt did not turn round
and kick him. When the little chap went
home his mother asked him what he
thought about the colt. ~ like him pretty
we'll" was the reply. He's real tame
in 'front.' but he's awful wild behind"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-23


A STORY FOR BoYS.-Some thirty years
ago the New York and New Haven rail
road had Just begun running on n sill ole
track. One afternoon country buy of
about fifteen was standing near tbs cross
road halfway between Stamford and
Darien. He heard Il train coming from
the latter station just rs y New York train
came in sight from the opposite direction.
He ran to the track, and, waving his hat
caught the attention of the engineer, and
by his earnest manner and his pointing in
the opposite direction, convinced him that
Il train was coming round the bend. He
instantly applied the brakes and stopped
his train just in time to escape disastrous
collision. The railroad company expressed
its gratitude at the time by the present of
II valuable silver cup and life pass over
the road. But this was not all. A year
or two later the boy was taken into the
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-23
agricultural Department.
o. rINkHAm, Editor.

All communications for this department should be
eut to the editor. Mr.. q. VI. TINKHAM. y. Pom
fret. VT.
Please write side of the paper only, sign such
name or initials You wished published. but give
your FULL NAME AND ADDRESS, post Office, County and
State.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-23

BEEvEs AND BEEEsTEAKs Tie London
agricultural Gazele shows illustrations OF
two beeisteaks, one cut from an English
heifer weighing 1900 pounds, another
from an American steer shipped from
New York. in which the proportion of
lean meat to bone and fat are clearly
shown to be in favor of the American OK
The writer says the COW from which the
English steak was cut had degenerated as
regards bone and flesh from Il long course
OF n-and-in breeding, and adds:
Eaily maturity of fat, it is true has been
accomplished by the fashion which has
prevailed for some years; but what we
want is an early maturity of lean meat.
Any animal will yield an early produce of
fat if it be kept on milk and rich food from
birth; but it is only animals from herds
not bred in and in by close crossing with
near relations that will produce IN early
maturity, through good feeding, of thick
flesh.
In relation to the American beef the
writer has the following:
The OK off which this Joint came weigh
ed about 80 stone. The illustration is
from cut off n carcass that was shipped
at New York. 1t is no part of our selcc.
ton, as we simply ordered the joint of a
conSignee in the meat market. The later
al bone is not shown. but by the width of
the lean it will be guessed that the lateral
bone was long, and the !oin of the OK was,
consequently, as shown, of that width
which practical meE like to touch when
they buy store animal, and paterfamilia,
likes to find under his knife when he i;
carving for large family, with good
appetite for lean meat and natural obiec.
ton to as much fat rs lean. The length
and depth in the top.cut, the well devel.
oped ring" of the under-cut, and the
ample lean in the flap, or flank end, when
compared with the small amount of lean
to fat, clearly demonstrates which is the
more suitable family joint, and therefore.
which is the correct character of animal
for British breeders to aim at producing
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-23

The decadence of British agriculture is
attracting the attention of thoughtful men
on both sides of the Atlantic. That the
depression is great and that the outlook is
dark no one attempts to deny. A CORE
spondent of the New York Herald writes ::
One third of all the workers in agrcul
ture, we are told, transferred themselves to
other employments in ten years. The
number of agricultural laborers in England
Wales Gncluding shepherds and indoor
farm servants) fell progressively from
l,1ll,3l1, in 1851 to 922,354 in 1871 and
this movement has been going on in n but
slightly varying ratio ever since. Thus AN
overstocking of the labor market in other
branches of industry has been the result.
Indeed, much of the present depression
may be traced to agricultural causes.
Nearly half of the land of Scotland, we
are told, is owned by siXty-eight persons,
and more than three fourlhs of its land by
$50 persons. Again, there are 100000 OF
IT'S people who do not own square foot of
its soil among them. lnciden ally be it add
ed, one third of the people Of Scotland are
living in houses of one room only! These,
it must be remembered, are statements of
the Scotch farmers themselves. Could Il
better tale be told Of England? Not one
whit.
To find remedy for this evil is one Of
the problems for English statesmen to
solve. The matter has already received
earnest attention there. The same Cor
respondent propoundS and answers the
question as follows:
What will be the ultimate effect OF
American trade on the English land ques
tion?" Probably there will not be two
opinions on this point in the minds of those
who have giver close attention to the sub
ject. 1t must lead to the adoption of free
trade principles as applied to land or ruin
the agricultural interest, and pretty wei
the country altogether for the matter oil
that, for no country can long prosper
where profitable agriculture is impossible
The contest. however, will be a hard one
for free trade in land means not merely
the removal of less disabilities, but the
total abolition of entail. which is the very
corner stone and stay of the aristocracy
and they will be ready for almost any
compromise before submitting TO such /;
revolution. But come it must, and, MS il
the case of the great French revolution
the political doings on the opposite side o
the Atlantic had powerful influence. 81
in the coming changes in England the in
lluence, of American Institutions will b,
equally great. There is no blinking tn,
question. American corn and farm pro
duce generally will be sold yet cheaper il
Enaland, SO that native grown produce
will have scarcely chance.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-23

We have received from Hon. Justin S.
Morrill, copy Of speech delivered by
him in the Senate, on the bill providing
for new library or increased accommo-
dations for it in the Capitol. He defends
American art, rebukes the sneers which
are sometimes heard about the Capitol.
Mr.. Morrill, advocates II new BUILDING
which shall accommodate truly national
library.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-23
Central Vermont R. R. Line.
Commencing Monday, Dee. so, 1873.
TRAINS ao1Na sorrn AND EAST.

Commencing Monday, Dee. 80, 1913.
TRAINS GOING SOUTH AND EAST.
Leave Montpelier at II % a. NJ. 40 and sO0P. n;
MAIL Trails from Montreal, Malone. ST Adams
burlington, sc leaves Montpeiler ll4V a. n ioi
WYFn AZ leaves st Albaus3 40P NJ, Burlington
! 10 p NJ VI putpelier 40 p. NJ for NOrthheld. CO.. .
nans aud burlington. leave Montpelier atSUsP; iDr
BIston via, Lowell or Fltchbureh, springfield, New
York and intermediate points
TRAINS GOING NORTH AND WEST.
Ioaye Nontpelier at 25 4OA.M Il 10 and - ?. NJ
DAY ExPREss leaves b lston via Fltchburgh at 81
" via lowell 500 4 New London 5 10 A N OF,
Snrinx field 1904 N, VI intpelier % 2 N, for Bur
lingtnu st Adams, Montreal. aud OEdensOurH.
iCCnNuoDATIOS FRAN leaves NOrthneld at 30 A NJ ,
Unntpeer 4 ~ A. NJ, for Burlington. Rutland. ST
Ibans st Johns and liichford.
TIyED leaves White River Junction ,OOA NJ, y ORTIZ
ieid IL Oh NJ arrives at Montpelier IL 81 p NJ.
INTERPRETATIONS leaves Mputpellef l2lO p. M lOr
Burlington. Rutland and St Adams.
N via Fitrhburxh 500 =. NJ, New YORK 3 w p NJ ,
SPRINGFIELD LOO ", MontI elier p A for BurinH-
81 St Adams Montreal and OsdensburE, and the
Trains leave Nontpelierfor Barre att go A. NJ ls OO
Retnrning leave Barre ats OOA Land lO5oA and
Sleeping cars ar attached to Night Express trains
runninv bet ween Montreal and Boston, and NOntrea
tnd springfield aud New YORK aud wa. Troy, aud
Parlor Cars and Day Express between Boston and
ThToaxh tickets for Chicago and the West for sale a.
the pFiH'ipAi ''''''''' J.w.HoBART,
Genl. Supt.
@ w.BENTLEY
Genl. hanager.
St Adams, Vt Dec. Is. 1875.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-23

o. EG SwaeE In your own town. SIS outft free
%hh NO rlsk. Remember If Won want bust
W Wv ness at which persons OF either sex can
maze great pay all the time thew work
Maine. TN5IyI ANU
Sharp County record., 1879-05-22
Ghosts.

Not Col. Ingersoll's "aristocracy o' the
air." but real human ghosts. Ghosts that were
once healthy men and women, but are now
simply the "ghosts Of what they once were y
As We meet them and inquire the cause oi
all this chance, they repeat the old, OLD
story, IA coldn "neglected couch Ca
tarrh,n "oyerwork," or dyspcusi,,n "liver
complaint" and constipation with unsuc-
cess nj physicians and remedies. In Offering
his Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant
Purgdtve Pellets for the cure OF the above
affections, DR.. Pierce does not recommend
them as "sure cure" bt all stages. For if the
lungs be half wasted away, or there be a can
cerous complication, no physician or medl-
cine can cure. the Discovery is, however, an
uneoualed pectoral and blood-puriiler. 1t
speedily cures the most aggravated cough, or
cold, al d in its early or middle stages, con.
sumption. BY correcting all irregularities Of
the stomach and liver, it readily cures
blotches, pimples, scrofnlous ulcers,
"bunches,n or tumors. Hundreds testify
that it has restored cir hea tn, after eminent
physicians had failed. For constipation, use
the Pellets. As local remedy for catarfh,
use DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
Sharp County record., 1879-05-22
THE BURlESE HORROR.

Unparalleled Arcities of the Massacre
of the Princes and their Relatives.
The followindre mail advices giving
the particulars the massacre of the
Burmese Princdind their relatives:
RANGoON, Nsch 16.-The Kings
fears continuedlp gain upon him, as
one after anothh of the Princes pined
away and died Ii the frightful under
ground prison. d the Palace-loath-
some with filth ad never moved since
these dens wert constructed years ago.
The fears of Bitbh intervention alone
prevented him from putting them all to
death months $50 Suddenly news OF
the disaster in Iulland reached Manda-
lay. That apparently decided him, and
a work of cold.bkoded butchery began
which will hartlyIind a parallel in his
tory.
At first the Massacre was carried on
according to he old Burmese wont,
The victims were led out of their cells
in twos and threes brought to Thekha
to the King, and disposed of in the or
dinary Buddhist fashion. The head of
the victim was lied down to his ankles,
and blow on tia back Of the neck
from heavy club put him out of pain.
But this soon proved too mild specta'
Gle for the fendish mind of Theebau.
The Fhoughai Prince, whose insolent
bearing English visitors to Mandalay
will remember, on being brought
to do reverence to his young
brother (the King is past twenty-one
years. professed an utter scorn for what
could be done to him, and was fogged
to death. The late Kings son, the
truculent Mekhaya Prince, who used to
look upon all foreigners as so much dirt
under his feet, turned craven, and was
taunted and driven to madness before
receiving the blow, which only hall
stunned him, when his writhing body
was thrown into the gigantic trench dug
to receive the victim.
The massacre was carried on in q
leisurely fashion, extending over several
days, fiendish ingenuity being taxed to
the utmost to devise fresh horrors
Moungoke, the Governor of Rangoon
when it was captured by the British in
1856, had his nose and mouth filled with
gunpowder, light was applied, and ne
was then flung into the trench to be
stifed by the bodies of succeeding vic
tins. The daughter of The Nyoung
Yam Yourg, a girl of 16, was handed
over to eight soldiers of the Royal
Guard, to be pitched insensible into the
same heaving grave when they had graf
flied their brutal lusts. The wife of one
Prince, far advanced in pregnancy, was
ripped up, and the agonized husband
was brought to see his wife and chll(
once more before he died.
After some days of this sort of thing
the executioners got weary and hurrie
through their task. Little children wei
put in blankets and swung against tn
palace walls, and women were battere
over the head as taking less trouble thai
tying them up so as to get a blow OF
the neck. Altogether about 80 persons
are believed to have been put to death
in this way.
Sharp County record., 1879-05-22

"A Massachusetts tescher writes to
the National Journal Of Eduction de-
scribing an experiment in tn school
room which seems to be sccessful.
Instead of facing his pupils b has his
desk behind them, and thus 7erlooks
them to good advantage. Thnaughty
little ones, not knowing whenis eye is
on them, dare MOI whier and
play. "They have" he says, so fre-
quently come to grief in attenting to
calculate chances, that they be con-
cluded to make virtue of cessity,
and give up play in the schoooom as
improbable, costing more thai comes
to-" Another decided advanta! of this
system is that it completely solates
classes reciting from the resDf the
school; the recitation benches ing in
front of the teachers desk, ,tween
him and the school, and the eks of
the pupils toward each other, ccmuni-
cation by look or sign is ouof the
question. The only special rul made
is that pupils shall not look aro,d.
Sharp County record., 1879-05-22
A Chicken Case.

A. complicated chicken case has taxed
the legal acumen of one Judge on the
Georgia Bench and two ex-Judges on
the floor. The party of the first part
owned, or assumed to own the hen, and
the party of the second part was charg-
ed with having stolen the same. The
hen was introduced in evidence and duly
identified, put while the two ex-Judges
were arguing the case on its merits, she
laid an egg in court. AS soon as her
cackle had advertised this new compli-
cation, the party Of the first part claim
ed it as the product of his property; the
party of the second part put in coun-
ter bid; the Judge on the bench was
disposed to regard it as a judicial per-
quisite; and the jauitor mumbled some
thing about the nine points.
Sharp County record., 1879-05-22

Whatever name or designation Is given
TO cause of Fever and Ague, or other inter
mittent disease, itisalways mdtdrtd Eliml'
nate that from the system, and sure cure
is the immediate result. The safest, surest,
most etlectual and, at the same time, per-
fectly harmless preparation for producing
this happy effect, is CLIFFORD's FEBRIFuGE.
1t represents in their utmost purity and free
from all irritating properties, the remedial
principles of the East India Cinchona bark,
as grown on the Neilgherry hills. 1t is the
most powerful antidote to malaria known,
and yet as harmless as water.
J. C. RICHARDSON, Prop'r.
For sale by all Druggists. st. LOUIS
Sharp County record., 1879-05-22
Abstinence from Food.

The case of Mr.. SeWell H. Crane ol
Winterport, Me, who died a few days
ago, shows most remarkable power
of person under certain conditions to
endure abstinence from food. Six
weeks ago he was stricken down with
paralysis of the right side aid bowels,
the left side being entirely unaffected.
The night before his sickness he ate a
very hearty supper, apdaftergard, dur
ing the entire six weeks of lis illness,
he did not take nourishnent altogether
to the amount of half teacw full. He
fingered along in this way, suffering
very little pain until the last ew hours
of his life, and remand pertctly con-
scious until his death.
Sharp County record., 1879-05-22

SAFETY, efficiency and reliability are the
three cardinal virtues of remedy, whether
in the hands of physician or in those OF the
people at large. For the cure of all malarial
or miasmatic diseases, such as Chuls and
Fever. or Intermittent Fever, Dumb ChillS and
Chronic Enlargement of the Spleen, we have
such remedy in DR.. +. Wilhofts Antl-fe'
riodic or Fever and Ague Tonic, the compo
sition of which has been published by its pro-
prietors, Wheelock, Finlay & Co, of New Or,
leans, and is approved by the medical pro-
fcsson, and for sale by all DruggiJta
Sharp County record., 1879-05-22

The compositor who was told h.
might, when setting up speech, inser
cloud applause" or cheers" in or
der to fill out the like, was summarily
discharged when he made the applica,
ton general and set up an obituary no
tice, as follows: 1.-THE announcement
was made yesterday that our highly
respected citizen, Mr.. -, fell dead IL
the et"-Qoud applause, etc.