Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-02

AimViy AVpiCos
AMAsA ScoTT of Craftsbury made five
hundred and fifty-four pounds of butter, the
past season, from COW five years old.
II anything is certain, it is that repub-
lie cannot be founded on ignorance, with
any reasonable prospect of permanence.
Education or death is the alternative placed
before every republic.
"THE freest government" says Webster,
"cannot long endure where the tendency of
the laws is to create such rapid accumula-
tion of property in few hands, and to rem
der the masses Of the people poor and de-
pendent"
The editor Of the Prairie Farmer says
that he has grated thousands of trees with
scions cut from bearing trees, and other
thousands with gratis cut from young nur-
sery trees, and that when planted in orch
ards there was no difference in bearing, or
in any other way.
We have in this country five thousand per-
sons who own and possess five thousand mil
lions of property, mostly accumulated within
the last fifteen years, and that too through
unequal laws. Twenty years ago million
aire in this country was as rare as prince,
and so was tramp
Why is it that the west is making such
drafts upon our population, upon the bone
and muscle and intelligence of our state 7
A prosperous people do not emigrate; only
those who are in distress. This is true OF
emigration from one state to another as
well as of emigration from the old countries
to this.
PHILETUs SAWYER is said 10 be the rich.
est man in Wisconsin; Fair is the richest
man in Nevada; Brown, elected this winter
the richest man in Georgia; Sewell repre-.
sents the richest corporation in New Jersey
and Miller of California is another rich man
representing corporotion constantly inter
ested in legislation.
ii. SIBLEy, the Rochester, New York mil
lionaire, is said to be the largest farm-owner
in the world. He owns the forty thousand
acre Sullivan farm in Ford county, Illinois,
the four thousand-acre Rowland island farm
near Syracuse, New York, and four hun
dred other farms of different sizes in York
state, Illinois and Michigan.
MINNESOTA produced 1917 acres Of am
bersugar-cane last year, a gain of over 1000
acres for the year, and as the crop of 1879
averaged eighty-nine gallous of syrup to the
acre the present yield is estimated at 549, 1888
gallons. Only twelfth of the crop reaches
the refners, however, showing that the
people generally use the syrup without re-
fning.
MORE than six hundred boys in all parts
of Maine competed for the prizes amounting
to $500 offered by Stillman b. Allen of Bos
ton for the the most Indian corn raised by q
boy under eighteen on one-eighth of an acre
F. E. Stockton received the first prize Of
5000, raising 1886 pounds, and Frank l.
Jordan of Brunswick the second of $50, with
1885 pounds.
SENATOR BECK of Kentucky said in 9
recent interview that five men, Scott of the
Pennsylvania Central, Garrett of the Balti
more and Ohio, Huntington of the Unior
Pacific, Jay Gould and Vanderbilt can 81
down and, in five-minutes' chat, fix tax
of S200,000,000 upon the commerce of thi
country by raising freight two cents {
bushel and do it according to law
AT recent meeting of the Mnnesoti
Horticultural Society, G. w. Fuller O
Litchfield said that the cold was much NOR,
severe in the woods than on the open prai
rie, and although the effect was very sever,
on fruit fiue crop was gathered. Their
are two varieties of apples which can be re
lied on, the Duchess and the Wealthy. l
is no use to try trees in that part of tn
state that will not stand severer weaths
than that known in Minneapolis.
w. II. VANDERBILT individually owns
more registered United States bonds thai
are owned in all the nineteen western state
and territories, These states and territorie
have population Of over 20,000,000 Wit
the present "start which Mr.. Vanderbilt
has in bonds and dividend-paying stocks, i
will be an easy matter for him to be wort
at least s25O,00O,000 should he live twent
years hence. 1t is said that he is wortl
more than half of this sum now.
Honor aud ambition were well enough
for the patriots and statesmen OF an earle
time, but the politician now demands more
Patronage is the thing to be worked fo
Controlling that in the high places, he ca
extend his power down to the lowest polit
cal organizations, and fasten himself like
leech on the body polite. In this systeI
rests the danger to republican government
) More and more the politicians, less and les
the people, become the rulers of the natioI