The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-06-24
County News.
YERGENNES.

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Saturdays and Mondays are marke
days in Vergennes.
Fred Thompson has started q fin,
milk cart OH his route.
Mr.. G. Il. S. Pierce is home after {
long absence in the West.
Rev. j. ii. Hincks, of the Congre
gational church, Montpelier, preached
here last Sunday, having exchanged
with Rev. Mr.. Hall.
Mr.. Harry Willard of st. Louis has
just arrived home, on a short visit
He is looking healthy and robust. His
father, Hosea Willard, Esq, is quite
feeble.
Excellent Strawberries are retailing
'at 15c' per basket. HowImany in q bas-
ket? Just enough for limited short
cake. The native strawberry comes in
to market slowly, bnt is very richly fla
vored.
The advent of two artists, Messrs.
A. Bean & j. M. Ten Eyck, with some
rare. samples of work in India ink, wa
ter colors, crayon, and oil, is exciting
considerable interest. They stop at the
Stevens House.
LET 'em suc," said one of our lead
ing men the other day, when the threat
of prosecution by the Holly Pump Co.
was tho topic of conversation. Most of
our people think SO, that is, that the
Holly patent men have poor case
here.
AN agent of the Holly Pump and
Engine Company has made q de-
mand on the city of Vcrgennes for the
sum of Sc, 900 for the use of the Elan.
ders pump in the. city water works, and
which the courts have decided to be an
infringement on the Holly patent. 1t
seems that the city purchased Holly
pump few years since with all rights
pertaining thereto, but afterward dis
carded it and put in a Flanders pump.
The city is given two weeks to settle
this claim, which it will probably con-
test.-[Ex.
1t turns out that the case of the Hol-
ly pump company against the city of
Vergennes, claiming $4,000 damages
for the use of the Flanders pump, said
to be an infringement on tho Holly pat
emf, was only carried to the United
States circuit court. The Flanders
company having failed, no one could
contest the suit, and Judge Wheeler de-
cided for the plaintiff. The right ofap-
peal to the Supreme Court does notaex-
pire for three years and Vergennes will
probably carry the case to the end, the
estimated expense of which will not ex-
coed 81 900, 1t Is said several corpora
lions interested are negotiating with a
view of pooling their issues and joining
in the defense. The Holly company is
rich and big fight is expected. The
city had before bought the right to use
the Holly pump, which they discarded
for the Flanders pump.-[Springfield
Republican.
The fall in the price of hay is moi
clearly accounted for in the minds Of
some. The following, which is per.
fectly reliable, will explain tho real
condition of things. Last year at this
time hay was selling at price which
compensated the grower, and left {
margin for the dealer. A. report, how
ever, was circulated of "short CROP
and q bull movement began in New
York market. The price was gradually
forced upward, until the quotation wa
double. This attracted the attention o
hay dealers in Canada, and also in tn
Western states, who were led to max,
shipments. In the mean time the ex
port of live stock was abated to an un
expected degree and killed the demand
tor fodder for the ocean voyage. Th
result is an overburdened market ant
a heavy loss. The result is, the ha
dealers are in tribulation; the market
glutted, prices are down, and the al
rivals exceed the capacity of storage
Buyers now dictate terms and a genei
al Generalization pervades the business
Quotations are about same rs they wer
a year ago, and hay men arc losin
money.