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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-02-12
Noteworthy Facts.

ALCOHOL, when pure, will produce death
as quick as prussic acid.
GRACE GREENWOOD says; "l am con.
yinced that England's hart is being eaten
out by the fire of intemperance."
GEORGE ID. PRENTICE /" lie who reels
and staggers most in the journey of life,
takes the straightest cut to the devil"
II you are not aiding temperance you are
aiding intemperance. Come out boldly.
" lie that is not with me is against me"
JoHS b. GoUGH says "They tell us that
alcohol gives strength and nourishment. 1t
does not. 1t gives stimulus. You sit down
on hornets nest; it is very quickening,
but not particularly nourishing."
THE fruits of temperance are industry,
contentment, peace, happiness, plenty. The
fruits of intemperance are Incidence, vice,
poverty, crime choose you this day between
them, and be wise in thy choice.
AMONG all the teemng millions who have
inhabited the world, history does not tell of
one who regretted having led life of total
abstinence This is refuting reply TO those
who call the principle fanaticism.
SAID a landlord of public house, at the
verge of death If had my time to live
over again | would sweep crossings, or beg
or even starye to death, before would agaiu
see the misery which | and my trade have
produced"
The United States, according to the inter
nal revenue report for 1872, spends annually
more than S700,000,00 for liquor as much
as is spent for all the food of the people, and
twice as much as is spent for the clothing
of ALL men, women and children.
II the half million of men engaged il
making and selling Of liquor were in som,
honorable business; if the forty million,
bushels of grain destroyed were used il
making bread, the United States would MOI
spend, as she now does, about 81 100000 fo
only two-thirds of her paupers.
Mr.. Jones was in the habit of getting oc
casionally somewhat balmy, and one nigh
he was discovered by a neighbor leaning
against the side of church for support
"Hallo, Jones you look serious think o.
Joining the church 7" "Well, replied Jones
III incline considerably that way now"
DIR. N. S. DAVIS, of Chicago, one of thu
ablest physicians of the Northwest, SAYS
Alcoholic liquors cannot be used withou
injurious effects proportioned to the quantit,
used and frequency TO its repetition. 1t
use as remedy in the treatment of diseas
can be wholly dispensed with without an.
injury TO the sick"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-02-12
The MerinO Sheen Register.

The publishing committee of our Merino
Sheep Breeders Association have put out
volume, as the first of series OF flock reg
listers, which for laborious and careful re-
search has rarely if ever been equalled
among such publications. 1t gives very
full and complete history of the introduce
ton of Merino sheep into the United States,
and also into the State of Vermont, giving
a vast number of facts and details never be-
fore made public and especially showing
the important connection of Consul Jarvis
with the transportation Of sheep of this
breed from Spain to America. Following
this it presents an important history of the
labors of our sheep in improving
this breed so as to produce the "Vermont
Merino," sheep yielding double the wool
of its Spanish ancestors and of better
quality. Then succeeds what may be called
the business part of the work, not less pains
taking and laborious than the other, in
which we have record of all the flocks in
this state and elsewhere that have been able
thus far to satisfy the committe on pedigrees
of their pure Spanish Merino ancestry and
give the record of their descents and crosses
down to the present time
The association having thus organized,
for the first time, the business of fine wool
sheep breeding, have laid firm and broad
basis for securing the purity and maintain
ing the high standing Of the nations fiocks
of this, the most valuable of all breeds of
sheep for wool production. Not only by rec
ord in these registers, but by system Of
markings, every effort is made to secure ex-
emption from the results of carelessness and
dishonesty. There can be no doubt that
this work, so carefully DONE will have pow
erful effect upon the sheep and wool indus
| try for good, and secure to Vermont and to
America the Just reward of past, present
and future skill and care in this direction.
We propose hereafter to give some interest
ing extracts from the historical portions of
this work, so gratifying and honorable to
the farmers of Vermont. High credit should
be awarded to Mr.. Albert Chapman, the
secretary of the association, for the arduous
and severe labor of the last two years by
means of which he has given such complete.
ness and thoroughness to this first and most
important volume, laying firm foundation
and setting an example of faithful work wor.
thy of imitation by all engaged in similar
| labors
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-02-12
"Bad as the Yellow Fever.0

In recent article with the above title the
New York Observer remarks: off we have
not yellow fever, the cholera, or the plague
in this city, we have an evil among us that
makes more misery, destroys more lives,
and imposes a heavier tax on property than
ayear of pestilence." 1t then notes the fact
that eve have in our city a standing army
Of more than ten thousand men, nearly half
without license, dealing out the destructive
element for the ruin of our people. These
are the men who are doing more injury than
the yellow fever would do if it were now to
burst upon u.s. Since the first of May the
number of hotels in this city has increased
by one thousand six hundred and more.
They are mostly mere grog-shops, but the
excise board, under their oath, declared
these hotels necessary, and gave them the
legal sanction of the state. How much
longer will an oppressed and overtaxed com
munity submit to such official outrages ?"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-02-12
Currant Growing.

The currant is, next to the strawberry,
the most popular of our small fruits. The
sale far exceeds that of the raspberry, the
blackberry, or even the grape, and there is
rarely, if ever, full supply in the market.
Since the advent and general spread of the
currant worm very few currants are grown
in private gardens. Though there is no
real difficulty in preventing their ravages,
the matter is almost always neglected until
the worms have spread themselves over the
bushes and done so much damage to the
foliage as to destroy the crop and so injure
the plant as to prevent good crop the next
season. Then one more onset OF the worms,
not promptly met, finishes the bush, and the
cultivator votes it cheaper to buy than to
grow currants
We have grown currants for the last
twelve years on large scale for country
neighborhood, our crop ranging from twenty
to forty bushels, and we have never been
able TO meet the calls of all our customers.
Orders come to us for this fruit from forty,
fifty, and even one hundred miles away. 1t
is the only small fruit the price of which
has not had to be reduced since the hard
times, and last year it brought us as much
money per bushel as strawberries, at half
the cost. We believe that there is not a
village of any size in Vermont that will not
furnish market for the product of five
hundred currant bushes say fifteen 70
twenty bushels, at twelve and one-half cents
quart. Yet we get so few orders for cur
rant bushes that we have ceased to grow
them in our nursery, except to supply oul
own wants, which call for about one hun
dred plants year.
The currant comes into full bearing abou
three years after the setting of yearlnl
plants grown from cuttings, and if wei
taken care of they will continue to give i'm
proving crops for five or six years longer
With careful pruning they will last mucl
longer, but we prefer to replant after eigh
years. The average product will be iron
two to four quarts per bush, though bushe
Of some varieties, such as the Red Condemn
will frequently yield peck each. But ther
is Gan out in everything" and this yer
productive kind has the habit of rotting a
most before they are ripe.
The only kind we would ever plant fc
profit is the Red Dutch. There is very Ii
tie demand for the white varieties, thong
they make as nice and almost as high colore
jelly as the red; but it is difficult to max
purchasers believe it. The White Grape
even more productive than the Red Dutc
but the branches are not sufficiently erect
keep the fruit clean. The Versailles an
Cherry Currants are very large, and it migl
pay TO grow them near large cities, but '
cannot get cent more quart for thel
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-02-12
Why He Signed the Pledge.

"Am my brothers keeper ?" fell from
the lips of Cain. God has so identified our
interest with others that we are in some re
1pects our brothers keepers; "No man
liveth to himself, no man dieth to himself
A Governor of Pennsylvania signed the
pledge, not because he thought himself in
danger, but to save friend. The head OF
one of the best families was becoming in
temperate, to the great distress of his house
:" saw" said the Governor, "their grief.
resolved to speak to him on the subject did
so, and urged him to sign the pledge. lie
suddenly turned upon me, saying 'Gov
ernor, will if you will 1T is a bargain,
said |, and we went immediately to the of
fee Of the secretary and both signed and
know not that ever touched drop Of liq
uor afterwards, Nothing else would have
induced me to sign; but think OF it as one
of the best acts of my life"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-02-12
The Fruits Of Intemperance.

The punishment of vice and intemperance
does not end with the vicious and intern
perate, but the great human family is so
constituted that one member cannot sin
without pulling down others. Thus, in an
appalling degree, are parents answerablef for
the weakness and vices of their children. A
man drinks moderately and steadily all his
life, with no apparent harm to himself,
but his daughters become nervous wrecks,
his sons epileptics, libertines, or ncurable
drunkards the hereditary tendency to crime
having its pathology and UNMARRIED laws,
like scrofula, consumption, or any other
purely physical disease. These are stale
truths with medical men but the majority
of parents, even those of average intelligence
and culture. are apparently either ignorant
or wickedly regardless of them. When our
people are brought to remove gin-shops and
gin-sellers for the same reason that they
would stagnant ponds or unclean sewers,
there will be chance of Kidding our jails
and almshouses of half their tenants. We
have urged this point until it has become
backneyed and tedious but how can we be
silent so long as fresh murder or suicide
every day exempifies the CHASTITY peril and
its cause ?-New York Tribune
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-02-12
Col. Sprague and the Board OF Agriculture.

The following is from a report Of Colonel
ing; "Colonel Sprague said the action of
the legislature in abolishing the Board of
Agriculture had been criticised very Sc
verely, and as a member of that body he
thought they should be heard in their own
defense. Of that body one hundred and
forty-two members were farmers, and he
thought their honesty should not be brought
in question. 1t was made to app ar to them
that the money spent had not given value
received, and he believed the change had
been wise one. He had supposed as many
others had, that $4,000 covered the entire
expense of the board, but it had been shown
that $500 had been expended in addition
in one year for printing. He would not hes
itate to vote twenty thousand dollars if the
farmers could get the worth of their money,
which he did not think they did receive I'M
der the board"
In this explanation of Colonel Sprague
there is evidently the same desire to mislead
aud deceive the public that was shown in
the legislature. The fact is, the reports
we're not printed every year, so the cost OF
printing forty-two hundred books should not
be called an annual expense. Allow me to
quote from the reports of the auditor;
The first Roard of Agriculture was organ.
;zed November 1870
The axoe0so. 10 mi, ala, ,s7, .n.y
The expenses to July ast s72.............. Isse4s
................. s2iOlas
So in two years there was not spent one
| years appropriation.
Cost of printing report sss.siO
Added to the EXPENSES. s51is "A
| Making onlv $40 AZ ahove what was an
| 'i"N'AS S"'J ~'''''' "'0'S "i"' ""' ~
! proprlated LOT TWO years 10 the ooard, as
s2,ooo each year is so'ooo Tor two years.
The expense of 81 Sass,
The expense of 1874 l2ooll
rr'n'ine '''''''''' oIooOO.
Total for two sei7s7s9,
| Making above the sum appropriated only
Al 7s7 90 for nrirtino
me expense OF meetings ,s.s'''''''''''''' slss'S
prn,,ns 'N'' oss5
-
lOAi''''',''''','.''''''''''''''''''''.'s'E EEo''
Making S2,222,59 the cost OF printing the
report above the appropriation TO the board
work In reoard 10 the renort tbe law re
W ' -,
CURED the secretary 10 make detailed re-
port OF the proceedings OF the board" but
the contract for printing was in the hand.
of other parties.
NJ ,sa coma 10 tho frs, ,oar IN ,h;ot
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-02-12
rAgrirnlfmal department.
T. II. HosKINs. Editor.


Oh my roses lying underneath the snowl
Do you still remember summers warmth and glow
Do you thrill, remembering how your blushes burneo
when the day-god on you ardent elances turnedY
Great tree, wildly stretching bare arms up to heaven
DO YOU think how softly, some warm June even,
All your young leaves whispered all your birds sang Low
A with rhythmic motion bouehs swayed TO and fro
River, lying Whitley in frozen sleep,
Know you how your pulses used 10 ihrob and leap
How you danced and sparked on your happy way,
In the summer mornings when the world was gay2
Dear earth, dumby waiting Gods appointed time,
Are you faint with longing fo the voice sublime7
Wrapped In stony silence does your great heart beat
Listening in the darkness for the coming Of his feetY
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-02-12
Temperance.



How long. o Lord, how long
Shall this inhuman wrong
Rest on our land7
How long shall sin and woe
over this fair earth go
with bloody hand2
when will the morning light
Scatter the weary night
OF death and paln7
When will the anthem clear
Break on our raptured ear,
"Our foe Is slain7"
Oh haste, bright day OF peace.
And weary souls release
From demon hand.
Break break the calling chain,
Wipe out the bloody stain
Upon our land. Selected
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-02-12
Trains Going North and West.

Leave Montpelier at 3. 20 A. M, $40 A. NJ, 1910
p NJ, and 400 p. NJ
Day Erpre-sIeayes boston via Fitohburg al 30 A. NJ,
va Lowell Al $40 A. NJ, New London at $40 A. NJ,
springfield al 800 A. NJ, Montpelier at 422 y. w. for
Burlington, ST. Adams Montreal and Ogdensburs.
Accommodation Train-Leaves Northhed at 30 A.
NJ Montpelier ut $40 A. w., for Burlington, Rutland,
IT. Adams 81. Johns and Richford
MixedLeaves W. Il. Junction ut LOO A. NJ Northneid at
1910 NJ. arrives nj Montpelier at 1892 p. NJ.
Accommodation Train-Leav Montpelier at 1910
=. NJ, for Burlington, Rutland and 81. Albans.
Night Express Boston via Lowell at $50 r. NJ,
via fnohhurg at 800 p. NJ, New York at 800 p. NJ,
Springfield Al 500 Montpelier at 325 4 for Bur-
lngton, ST. Abans Montreal and Ogd'bg and the West.
Trains leave Montpelier for Barre at 100 A. NJ 1000 A.
~ and az pm. Returning, leave Barre 500 NJ,
1880 a. N. and b.2O.PN
Sleeping ears attached 10 Night Express trains running
between Montreal and BOSTON, and Montreal and SPRING
hela, and New YORK via Troy, and pafOr Day En
press between Boston and Montreal.
Through tickets for Chicago and the West for the
principal stations. J. ". HOBART General supt
q. W. HENLEY Gen1 Manager
81 Albana Vt. December
The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-02-21
GraspiuE g. straw..

The San Francisco papers have been fol the last year begging away at John China man, Dennis Kearney, the school and barboI swindIes, looking after Pinney, Duncan and others, until their material was almost exausted, when kind providence as it were came to their rescue and furnished material from which they will be able to cram their poisonous columns for several months, and more than likely hatch up greater scandal than that in which Henry Ward Beecher and Ms. Triton were the principal actors This time they have, but enc side of the story, dragged Doctor Smith to the front In all probability the whole matter will be sIfted eIt and and the clean wheat sifted from the chaff. Smith wlll be the BescheI Valentine the Moulton, Lloyd the conf dential adviser. Nelson, Col. Jackson and one or two other blackmailers will have to answer for libel
The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-02-21
Gov. Fremont. ramou. Ride.

At day break on the 22d of March, 1s47, Lieutenant Colonel Fremont, then an officer in the dragons, accompanied by his friend, Don JesEs Pico, and one servant, set out from Los Angeles to proceed in the shortest time 10 Monterey, on the Pacific Coast, dis tsnt full 400 miles. The way was over a noun ,ainous country, much of it uninhab- ited, with no other road than trail, and many defies to pass. Each of the party had three horses, nine in all, to take their turns under the saddle. The six loose horses ran ahead without bridle or halter, and when wanted for a change were caught by the lasso. The first day they rode 125 miles. The next day they made another l25 miles. passing the formidable mountain of Santa Barbara, and counting upon it the skeletons of some fifty horses, part of near double that number which perished in the crossing of that mountain on Christmas Day, ls46. That night they rested at the home of Don Pico. Here the nine horses from Los Angeles were left and eight others taken in their place. They started at eleven o'clock, rode seventy miles, halted for the night, and the fourth day out entered Monterey at two o'oclock in the afternoon. On March 26ih, Fremont set tut on his re- turn. The afternoon was already well .ad- vanced when they started, and only thirty miles was done tsat evening. The second day out, Col. Fremonts horse carried him ninety miles without change and without apparent fatigue. Ihirfy more miles were ridden that day on another horse, and ;hen the night was passed at Don Picos home. The next Gay the party set our for Los Angeles on the same nine horses which they had first started out with. and reached that place at four o'clock on the afternoon ofthe 29th of March. The whole distance of 800 miles had been gone over in 150 hours, or at the rate of five miles an hour. day and night. The actual time spent ID the saddle was not more than 100 hours. On this ride the grass in the road was the food for the horses, none of which were shod.-N. Y. Times
The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-02-21

T in turn shot down by Holman. Mno'U and Lowry have since died. Holman "@' been arrested. < .hs
 New York. Feb. 19- Capt. Blain oi '.e Fifteenth Infantry, to-day brought ni. trial on q charge of bigsmyv to an aoruP' termination by pleading guilty. in iAS ,Io. h., does not admit that at the time oi his marriage in Kentucky, he eelieved he had been legally married in Scotland ana claims that he is tn .rfore guiltless oi In ,entionally doing great wrong as cr'i-eU'
 Berlin. Feb. 19 Prince Hohenlohe was today elected second Viee-President or Re,ohstag. having obtained 1O6 votes asaits' IS for Herr Losirs.
 Cairo, Egypt, Feb. l9-A great cro"u gathered before the Ministry of finAnce ro-day. composed of some 400 dlsoanueu officers. who clamored angrily for theif arrears of pay.
 San Francisco, Feb. 19-About three o'clock this afternoon, the ferry steamers Fl Capitan and Alameda. plying between this city and Oakland Point, collided Tn mid-passage, a dense fog prevailed and the boats touched each other before they could bc seen. The bow of the Fl Capi- tan struck the Alameda on her port quarter, shatreriug her guard and raii, bat doing he- no serious damage. The port bow Of the Fl Capitan WIS crushed so that she filled and sank rapidly. Great terror and confusion prevailed. There is great excite ment in this city and erowds are gathering on the streets discussing the news. Latest reports are that no lilies were lost.
 san Francisco, Feb. l9.-Tiptop, l 70
The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-02-21
The cohen Perjury ca.e-ou,ek Work.

Ms. C. Cohen, accused of perjury fol making an affidavit in the case of Wormsei vs. Patterson, had hearing before Justice Moves this morning. The defendant offered no evideace whatever, his counsel Messrs Fitch 6 Churchill, claiming that the prosecution had made no case. At o-t o'clock Justice Moves held the defendant tC answer for perjury, and fixed his bail al 5000. In about haif an hour a writ oi habeas corpus was out. and the case reheard before Judge silent who at once discharged NIT. Cohen. on the ground that the commit ment of Justice Moves was without probable cause.
 After Cohen's discharge was granted and before it was signed, Moves and the Con stable were looking fer Cohen with brace of big clubs, to lock him up an hour or so ad interHa as it were. Cohen sought sane tuaIy in the District Attorneys office, and when Moves and Murray entered, High Priest Masterson informed them that il "didn't go'' and they departed without Cohen
The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-02-21
Ouick Retort.

During the discussion of the item in the appropriation bill, in the House of Repre- s.ntatiyes in committee of the whole, on Friday last, the gentleman from Yuma, NIT. Pardy, who never lost an opportunity during the SC. sion to air bis politics, charaeter- ized the appropriation as another Federal official grab, a Republican steal. etc. Fitch reminded him that the clerk of the supreme Court. who was to receive this money, if appropriated. was not only an old Hassay- amper, but an ardent and consistent Demo crat. Purdy threw up hIs haDds and ex- claimed iu louder tone of voice, that he did not care if he was a sso0Rd aUcfod Jesus CArist. the money had to pass the Pederai officials hsods to reach him, and yet it was 2 Republican steal. Then lowering his voice, he remarked in matter of course sort of way, that if the cicfk was good Democrat, it was tr,c that he was very neal Jesus Christ. Fnch-"The one on the let hand side.r Notwithstanding the sudden ness of the rctort, the m mbers and the lebby took it in an instant and set up such a howl and hurrah. that the chairman nearly wore out hIs gavel before Orier could be restored.