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OUR SUGAR INDUSTRY.
ARTICLE II.
The LabOur Question.
Continued
(C0nt'Nued.

In our previous ramarks on the
Labour Question we have e~ndeavour-
ed to show that our Labouring Po-
pulation, the bone and sinew of the
Island, is terribly demoralised; and
that from payment by results, or
job-work, as generally practiced in
these days throughout the world,
much benefit would probably accrue
to both planters and labourers. We
nowpropoSe to discussthepreSept CON
diti0n of our laboUrers and to remark
on some of the more salient features.
At the commencement of the pre-
sent century the total population of
St. Croix was 10000, and naturally
in the succeeding 70 years a Large
Increase would be looked for, seeing
that we have had neither sickness, nor
famine, nor war, nor emigration to
any appreciablc extent, On the
contrary, everything has been favor
able to the increase of population,
while the fertility Of the soil together
with the salubrity of the climate Of
the Garlen Of the West Indies, as
St. Croix has rightly been called,
are special advantages which are
bestowed on but few other places in
the world. Instead, however, of an
increase Of population as the outcome
Of 70 years Of peace and plenty, we
fnd,,that in 1870 the population had
decreased TO $4,000, and in the past
decade it has, apparently, fallen still
lower. Thus at the present date,
instead of lacking to emigration to
relieve the Island of a surplus popula-
ton, as we ought to be doing, we ar3
all looking to immigration to enable
the cultivation OF the yet existing
estates to be properly carried on.
Such an untoward state of affairs
should make every thinking man,
who is interested in the welfare of
the Island, pause an consider the
causes, which, since the usual causes
such as famine and disease are want
ing, must be more than common.
The Doctors tell It's, and no doubt
they are right in their assertions,
that the main cause of the decrease
of population is the mortality Of
infant life. A high mortality of infant
life in a good climate and with a
fertile soil can only be ascribed to ne
glect on the part of the parents, while
parental neglect can only be traced
to immortality and degradation. Going
back to 1873, the year of the eman-
cipation, we shall fad that by degrees
the stays and supports originally
afforded by estates to their slaves
have been done away with, and the
people left more and more TO stand
alone. At the same time, however,
little or nothing has been taught
them as to how they are to stand
alone, and thus the close of 1878 has
finally cast the people face to face
with the vices of civilization, with
out possessing the virtues of civili-
zation to guide or to restrain them.
true it is that the fine school build
ings in the Island point to no little
care aud forethought for the educa-
ton Of the rising generation, but it
is much to be regretted that the con-
dition of our villages should be per-
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schools. For the prOtection OF inIaiiI
life we must look to the village and
from the village to the individual
homes composing it; for the proper
care of children should be forthcom-
me from their own homes, and if not
forthcoming, then we may be sure
that there is something radically
wrong. 1t is a rare phenomenon
indeed to see animals, even of the
lowe. type, neglecting the care OF
their young, but with the negroes we
seem to take it as a matter of course
We neither stop to inquire the reason,
nor appear to be awake to the results,
results which we have for some time
suffered and shall continue to suffer
with increasing intensity.
The various African tribes, from
whom our labourers were originally
drawnh had, savages though they were,~
each their W social system, the
people composing the tribe had their
individual homes, and in these homes
the men and women of the next gen
Grafton were nurtured with some
amount of care, and brought up with
some amount of love and ambition.
The tribes lived, and did not merely
exist, and the men and women of
these tribes had their aims and their
objects, the fathers took pride in the
growing strength and dexterity of
their sons, the mothers in the increas-
ing comeliness and domestic skill of
their daughters, and for each and all
life had its zest and its enjoyment.
BY the purchase, from time to time,
of the prisoners Of war Of the different
tribes of Africa, our island has been
peopled, but peopled by men and
women from whom everything has
been taken, and nothing given in
exchange.
The admixture of tho captives of so
many different tribes has naturally
compelled the general adoption Of
the language of their masters, and
with the Individual language of the
tribes has gone every vestige of
those customs and o~bservances which
tended to maintain tribal well-being
and prosperity or, in other words,
tended to foster and nurture the
rising generation. Torn from kith
and kin and deprived OF their very
language, all fondness for homelife
has been bIotted out and all parental
instinct abolished, and thus, since from
the force Of circumstances the estates
have Of late years ceased to interest
themselves in the care of the children,
we have the almost unique and GER
tainly humiliating spectacle that in
our fertile and salubrious Island,
under christian laws and ordinances,
the population has during the past
two or three generations not only
failed to increase in number, but has
actually diminished. Going back to
history we shall see that home life is
the very essence of all national or
tribal prosperity. With Danes, Eng
lish, Americans, or Africans, civilized
or uncivilized, all existing prosperity
has its origin in the peoples homes,
and our working people, having prac-
tieally no homes, and knowing
nothing of home life, are therefore
what they are. This absence of
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the result OF the voting was as IOloWs'
The excess of expenditure sub CT Book
keepers office for 50 SO adopted unani-
inously with l3 votes.
sub c.. l Treasurers Office S1.60 adopted
unanimously with Is votes.
sub G. 4 Custom House $315.97 adopted
unanimously with IL votes.
sub G. S Pilot Department $1SO.9G
adopted unanimously with 13 votes.
sub G. 6 a Military Equipment sl4544o
ad opted unanimously with Is votes.
b. Wages S2o5.35 adopted unanimous
~ with Is votes.
c. Depot Sergeant $32.83 adopted
unanimously with IS votes.
d. Victualing Expenses S99'63 adopted
unanimously with Ii votes.
e. Hospital Expenses SS53.26 adopted
unanimously with Is votes.
f. Fodder 1927 % adopted unanimous
ly with - votes.
q. Purchase of Horses $237.70 adopted
unanimously with 13 votes.
h. Expenses for Lighting $103.73 adopt
ed unanimously with Ii votes.
The total excess $4634 50 adopted unani-
mously with IL votes.
G. ii Sanitary Department.
a, Expenses for Communal Hospitals
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-03-23
D E AT H S .

In Montpelier, March IL, of consumption, JOSE
PINE MILLER, wife OF Raphael Lanier, aged ,:
years and days.
In Montpelier, March Is, of 4 cancer CATHERINE
GRAflIN, wife OF Joseph Bndell, AGED ~ years aud u
months
In this village Con Berlin sidD March %, LII Y MAY
danghrruf y Caswell, AGED 9 months and 20 days.
ria, EsSIf, AGED years aud EDDIE aged . ! ears
children OF Edward ID. and Alma Baker.
In Montpelier, March q. of pneumonia, EMMA +
wife OF Albert j. Darling, aged 30 ears and . ma tbs
In Berir, NJ rch 20, of pneumonia, ALDEN DUTf \
aged 80 years
LOCK, aged years, 7 months and days March n
BEEIIE 4 aged years and days, grandchildren Li
the late Alden Doen.
IN Calais March 81, +. n. GALE, aged % years
In East Montnelier, March Is of typhoid fever JOEL
C .NlCHOI.S, aged 10 years.
In Plainheld March D. LEVI BARTLETT, aged 81
years.
In Marshheld March Is, Mrs. MARY H.. widow Of
days.
In Fairlee, Mrs. SOPHIA, widow of the late Caleb
ClouFh OF Norwich, aged IS years.
In Wocott, March 1s Mrs SUSAN LANPUIEk AGED
81 years.
In Hardwiek, March II, Mr.. GEORGE GIFFIN, aged
81 years
In Bradford, March 3, ROBERT WILSON, aged s,
years
In Milton, March 10, Mrs ESTHER L. wife of Mr.
Sidney Mars, aged 20 years.
In westuort. n. Y. March ls, JOSEPH HUTCHINS
aSed about 70 Years Mr. Hqtchins was native and
were brought here and Inferred in the old Elm tree
cemetery on Sunday.
In Minneapolis Mimi, February 2s of con sumption
MARlIA l.. TUCKER, second daughter of L. r Tue
fer deceased S formerly Of Barre Vt OF the SAM
ing only the mother and youngest daughter in theil
grief and desulatinn
These excellent Young ladies' were graduates one nj
Randolph normal school, the other OF Barre academy
both teaching successfully in Minneapolis when srick
en- with hemorrahage from the lungs, from which they
never recovered
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-03-23

Town INSURANCE. The town of Adj
son seriously talks of going into the town
insurance business under an act of the last
legislature authorizing towns to organize
the system.
STATE DENTAL SOCIErY.-The follow
ing officers were elected for the year en-.
suing: President, L. T. Lawton. Rutland:
first vice president S D. Hodge. Burling-
ton; second, f. f McGovern. Vergennes;
third, W. II. Kingsley, Middlebury; secre-
tary. Charles F. Lewis, Burlington; treas
urer. James Lewis, Burlington; executive
committee. S. L. Wellington, Mortified;
R. NJ. Chase. Bethel; Charles S. Clark.
Brattleboro.
John T. Rich, who is booked for the seat
in the lower branch of congress vacated
by Mr.. Conger's election to the Senate, is
Vermont boy and one of the thorough
farmers of Michigan. He is an enthusiast
on under-drains. with which his whole
Elbs farm of $50 acres is supplied, and
owns the handsomest Merno sheep in the
state.
VERMoNTER HoNoRED IMPORTANT
ACCOMPLISHMENTS. c. G. Pringle of
Charlotte, to whom is accorded a place
among the three or four best field botan-
lists of America, has been selected by Prof |
Strgent of Harvard university to make a
tour for botanical exploration and collect
ion during the next one or two wears
through New Mexico, Arizona, California.
Oregon, etc. In addition to work in the
forestry department of the census in
which he has been engaged the past year,
and the study and observation in their
living state of certain critical genera of
plants, Mr. Pringle is to superintend the
collection for the new American museum
of natural history. New York, of speci
mems Gncluding trunk sections. flowers
leaves, fruits, etc, as well us the principal
and economic products Of
each,) of the more important species of
trees found in the regions which he is to
visit. Mr.. Jrmes Kelly is to accompany
him as principal assistant, and they ex-
pect to start in a few days for an extreme
southern point of their field of exploration,
one near the Mexican line, where spring
is already well advanced.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-03-23

Thursday the Slst. Co B. or the young
soldiers. are to hold fair at Capital Hall.
and advertise for fair chance and lots of
patronage.
The listers of Washington county met at
the Court House Saturday, Phi. Hinkley
of Montpelier, being chosen chiirman of
the meeting. After consultation the follow
ing resolutions were passed.
Resolved, That where a person has had
note or notes due, not considering them
worth one hundred cents on the dollar
shall make an inventory of all such ac-
counts or notes at what he thinks them
worth, and submit the same TO the listers
for appraisal and approval
| ReSotUed, That we, as listers Of the sew
eral towns of the county of Washington, do
hereby pledge ourselves to each other that
we will to the best of our abilities aid each
other in ascertainng all of the property
liza lie TO taxation in our respective towns
and that we will, rs soon rs the inventories
are filed and passed to us. ascertain what
debts are due from solvent debtors of our
LooPoOtlNe IoWHS W CTetHlOTS OF persons
liable to taxation in other towns in this
county, and that we will inform immedi
ateiy by mail the listers of the town in
which such creditors resides, the amount
of the debts; and if secured, how and to
what extent, and that the listers of all
other towns in the state are most earnestly
solicited to co operate with us in carry ing
out the spirit and intent of the resolution,
throughout the state.
RcS0irsd, That it is the sense of this
convention that it is the duty of tax-pay-
ers to answer all of the nterrogatories of
The inventory in accordance with the
spirit of the law.
RESOLVED. That where person incurs
the penalty to have his property doubled,
that both real estate and personal property
shall be doubled.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-03-23

DIED, in Plainteld, March Is, Mrs. LUCINDA p
wife OF Nathaniel G. Page aged IS and months
A most devoted wife and mother has
gone. Her life was an unselfish one. It
was her delight to labor and sacrifice for
those she loved. She had not been in good
health for some time, and toward the last
her suferings were extreme, but she bore
them with remarkable patience and resio
nation. When the end came she was
ready and willing to go and join the loved
ones who had gone before Her trust was
in God and 10 His care she committed all
earthly interests The bereaved family
have the sympathy of the entire communi-
ty, for the departed was kind neighbor
and faithful friend. May Heaven
richest blessings rest upon all the mourn
ing hearts.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-03-23
Chr ftremau.
IOSTPELTER.VT.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH go. 1881.

We desire ~ make the FREEMAN particular y vals
hle forits rcwsfrom all parts of Vermont, and on
r-nIstn tidereut parts of the State. especially i
wlshiuttbn D-Inye md Lamoill Counties will con
. -ragttavprupon u I and our readers by sendin
t-,t 9. .',tt'uce. 4Ivensfactsand we will arrang
chm iOrthe paper
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-03-23

The town of Panton at its last freeman
meeting instructed its town clerk to refuse
dog licenses To cer'ain named persons ia
town, un the ground that their dogs were
vicious Several Of the parties have
rendered their fees and demand licenses,
hut the town clerk has refused to issue
them. The prOsprc are that the town
Will be put TO heavy expense thereby, e
similar refusal hy vote to Law out road
last year having cost the town $500. aud
the road was then laid out and completed
Your Mind will Grow strong
and great not by what YOU reject but by what you
cordially accept and believe. You health " i'll i'm
prove, just IN proportion as you obey Natures laws
II yOuI mind Is diseased, refresh it with suitable
relaxation. Ifthe two great organs of your body,
the kidney and liver are out of order, restore them
by using Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver Cure.
The mind can he kept clear by care, and the kid
news and liver by the great RENE iy above men
toned II
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-03-23

PLANNING. -Now is good time to
begin to plat ont the garden ground, and
then during winter let (good) seeds for
each plat be provided A garden of
moderate size, well planned for variety
and succession, will supply the table with
agreeable food, daily, from the first cut
ting of asparagus and the early pie plant,
until the last gathering of beets and
turnps in late autumn. Decide upon at
least one or two new vegetables to be
added next season TO the routine of lettuce,
cucumbers, beets, onions, potatoes, cab
bages, peas, string beans and green corn.
| There is okra for excellent soup; nastur-
| tiums for the best pickles and beautiful
| flowers as well; spinach for greens all
summer and nearly all winter; caulf1ower
the best OF the brassica tribe; it is good
early and late, and pickles finely for win
ter use.
A Coop INvEsrMENT.-Onc Of our promi.
nent business men said to vs. the other dav;
"In the spring my wife got all run down
and could not eat any thing; passing your
| store / saw a pile of Hoods Sarsaparilla in
the window, and ! got bottle. After she
had taken it "a week she had rousing ap-
petite, and did her everything. She took
| three bottles, and it was the best three dol
ars ever invested. CT Hood ~ Co. lowell, Mass
A novel and sad case was that of
Abraham W. Whiting of Rutland, S2
years fold, whose death occurred Sunday.
Some three weeks ago he made use of
nitric acid for the removal of corns from
his right foot and continued the applca-
ton till a week since, when serious in
Illumination set in, resulting in phlegmon-
GUS erysipelas and gangrene. This spread
over the whole leg and dffusing through
his system finally caused death.
MARCH WINDS! The sudden changes
and high winds which prevail in March
makes bottle OF Downs EiExtr always
necessary to have at hand 1t is a sure
cure for sudden colds and all lung
diseases.
Bakers Mandrake Ritters will
cure all bilious diseases. Sold everywhere
at % cts. per bottle. Try it,.
Tho best remedy for strains and gals on
horses is Henry Il JOhnsOn's Avntca
and OIL Liniment. Good for man and
beast.
Berl lin is agitated by horrid scandal in
the shape of the elopement of Count
Herbert Bismarck, son of the Iron Prince y"
with the Princess Elizabeth of Carolatb
Beuthen. Both arrieved at Messina, Sicily.
several weeks ago. The princess is the
wife Of Prince Charles of Carolath Beuthen.
count of Schonsrch, and chief of one of
the first Prussan aristocratic families and
an hereditary member of the upper house.
She married Count Carolath in 1866, and
has one daughter, the Princess Syblla.
now IA years of age. Count Bismarck,
whose age is 32, was formerly secretary
of the German legation at Berne, and re-
Gently secretary to bis father who had
destined him az his chief assistant and
eventual Successor.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-03-23
NJ AR X LAG + 5

In Muutpelier. March u, by Rev n Fellows SAN
uEL BLACK of Worcester and CLARA A. GOULD NJ
Middesex
In Brookheld, March A. by Rev. J. p De merritt MI
LEROY A. EASTMAN aud Miss CELIA ALLEN. boil
of BrO1kheld
IL Pomfret March 6 by Rev. C. A Smith, CLARENCE
fret
In Montgomery, Mar IL, by Rev. s. G. Vail JAMES
F. PRAT /, Esq, of Montgomery to Miss ELIZ BETH
II. SOULE OF Fairfield.
In Brookheld. March IA, LUTHER EASTMAN and
Miss CELIA ALLEN, both OF East Ruxbury
In Curnth, March . at the resdence of the brother
of the bride, by Rev II f. DlCkey, of Washington MIR
HENRY II. MORSE aud Miss MARY J. EASTMAN, OF
COrinth.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-03-23

is the principal end of inventions and discoveries
in medicine. To this object probably no one has
contributed more signally than DR.. David Kennedy
OF Rondout, n. Y, in the production OF a medicine
which has become famous under the title of the
faVorite Bemedy." 1t removes all impurities
of the blood, regulates the dlsordered Liver and
Kidneys, cures Constipation, Dyspepsia and all
diseases and weaknesses peculiar to females.
Sold by your druggist, sl.OO per bottle. n2
Postmaster General James is already
busy studying possible Improvements in
the postal service. He wants, in the lirst
place, to make the postoflice self-sueport-
ing, and next to improve the free delivery
service in the great cities and make it AS
good as London if not better. He men
tons it as curious fact that if the postal
returns of London were cut out of the
gross revenue of the English postoffice that
department would not be self-supporting.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-03-23
Vermont News.



In Granville on the 7th INST. John Kerr. whils
telling trees in bis sugar lot, was instantly Killed
by limb Of tree falling on his head.
The original charter of the town of Ripton bears
date April Is, ISL bring granted by the goveTnor
council and general assembly of the state OF Yer.
mont upon The payment of six bundled aud sixty
pounds sterling, In the nth year of the insiepen.
dence ofthis state and signed by "Thomas Chitten.
den' governor" The town was surveyed in lIs2
and made six miles and thirty-nine rods square and
contained $4,000 acres of land.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
Dea. WIN. T. Black, who is nearly so years of age
has been cashier ofthe bank In Manchester for over
81 years, aud still enjoys very good health for a
man of his age.
ORANGE COUNTY.
t. Knight Of Charleston thinks that he has come
INTO an $4,000 fortune through mineral lands
which his father owned, supposed to be worthless
but now turn out to be very valuable.
Mr. PreSton's house at Coventry was burned
Sunday night Insured.
Scarlet fever is taking the place OF me as les among
the children in Derby.
|. Il. McClary of Albany, has an order from par.
ties from the west, for million pounds of maple
sugar.
Craftsbury has one man and woman over "a years
nf age; and not far IRON 100 people over 70 years
of age, or one to every IA inhabitants.
John and Rufus Blanchard, who were tried AZ
Sweetsburg last week for stealing harnesses in n
Troy and taking them the line got i've years
each in the penitentiary.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-03-23
A Medical Mistake Corrected

The old idea that dangerous pulmonary
diseases could not be cured by medicine
has been forever silenced by the operation
of DIR. N. G. Whites Pulmonary Elixir,
in the most discouraging cases of chronic
Cough. The Elixir triumphs when all
other medicines fail. arresting in few
days the most violent cold or Cough. re-
lieving difficulty of breathing. and fully
restoring the feeble and emaciated sufferer.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-03-23
IMPORTANT NOTICE !

The right 10 deliver certificates of stock of the Phil
adelpha, Wilmington II Baltimore Railroad at the
Union safe Deposit Vaults, 10 tate Street Boston,
for sale TO the Pennsylvania Railroad at seventy :
eight dollars share, payable July l. together with
dividend OF two dollars, expires the last day of
March ' -
HENRY p. KIDDER,
CHARLES u COTrING,
HENRY L. HIGGISSoN
CHARLES p BowDITCH
WIN. MISoT, JR.,
Committee
I. !:
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-03-23
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-03-23

Letters UnoalIed for at Montpelier VT Post
Once. March 49, 1881
~ To obtain these letters. persons must give the
above date.
LADIEs--Mrs. Penneo Balch, Miss Inez Fowler Mrs
Z. q. Freeman, Miss Alma Mackmaster, Mrs E. C. Par
ker, Miss Emma F. Sanders, Mrs NJ NJ stiles and
Miss Hattie Wheeler.
GEsTLEMES-Clark browns, Henry Farman, Rich.
ard B, Merrill. Paul Sweeney, orvis Wiley