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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-10-13
Library and Cabinet,

lour attention will Doubtless he called t.
the necessity Of providing additional room
for the library and cabinet am informed
that books are being stored in iuaca bic
places, and that the specimens in the cabinet
are being boxed and laid away Tor want of
room. The matter is one for your examina.
ton and decision. OF the two puus submit.
ted by the commissioners on tins subject
much prefer the one which Z ntempaies the
erection OF q separate library building, Tor
the reason that fear any extension OF our
State House would mar the symmetry OF thls
beautiful structure, Il would certainly seem
that until better accommodation is provided
the purchase for these objects should cease.
In making any arrangement for giving
more room to the library, il would be well
TO consider carefully its design and The IA
ture and cqtent OF its usefulness. Tie last
rep RI OF oi the trustees gives the number
OF volumes rs lS,Gli, but Il Is not chss fy
them or make any statement rs to Their use
y superficial examination Of the subject / ads
me to believe that the State should purchase
only such books as reiae to law. l,g slati q
political economy and statistics. Ii the vel
umes If poetry, fiction, biography, and othr.
works Of general literature, now on Land
were presented to the town OF Montpelier
with suitable restrictions and no more pug-
chased it might relieve tue immediate pres
sure Tor room 10 Accommodate the books
which are most useful 10 dc Legislature aud
State officers. The number Of 10 Ks drawn
ilom the library by members and officer I
the Legislature At the last session WAS les
than 600 and OF this uumbr over 200 were
works of miscellaneous chrracrcr and fiction.
One hundred and forty members drew nc
books bu, probably used the library tor cou.
sultgti1n and reference
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-10-13
Other CoIle2csin the state,

Middlebury College has long ranked ul.h
as IN institution of learning. 1t has sent ut
many distinguished graduates, nota t1Y Of
whom have served this commonwealth In 20.
sitionS of responsibility, aud il deserves to
receive the confidence and fostering cate If
the people OF the State
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-10-13

On the It'll day Of January last, Hon John
Pierpoiut Chief Justice OF the Supreme
Court of the State died at his residence in
Vergennes On the 10th of tho same month
appointed Hon Homer L Royce, who was then
First Assistant Judge Of the Supreme Court
Chief Justice TO fill the vacancy occnsioned
by the death of Judge Picrpont. | then re-
appointed all of the other Assistant Judges,
advancing each one of them one step, and to
fill the vacancy thus occasioned. appointed
Hon. John W. Rowcll, of Randolph, sixth
Assistant Judge Of the Supreme Count. and
as such he has acted since that time.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-10-13

II is unfortunate for the State and tor the
cause Of education that we have three normal
schools. What little the State feels able to
do ought to be devoted to one school, so that
II might do more extensive work than is Dos.
slble with three schools. But we can hardly
expect any change now reducing the number,
and we can get some consolation from the
fact that three schools can accommodate
more pupils than one central one could. Our
common school teachers are all young people
Of small MEANS and 1t is quite u convenience
to them to have school in their vicinity
where they can get such advantages as a nor
mai school affords. ! have visited all the
normal schools during the present year.
found three energetic, conscientious principals
with their faithful assistants, doing good
work in spite OF many drawbacks. ! only
ask the legislators to compare what the State
does for the Reform school and the prisons
with what it does for the normal schools
and say candidly whether it does enough for
the latter.
Text Hooks.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-10-13
New CoIiiiiiittcc.

respectfully suspesi the Irorrie'y and
benefit OF forming joint Stan ing committee
on phraseoogy, by whom the language Of all
bills presented - the l. 'gs.ature should be
examined, and, if need be. corrected
The suggestion here made has been sdop
ted by other States, and suits queutly In this
State by the Legisatureof 1881. As con.
sequence OF this action, one OF the Judges of
the supreme Court says: The puolic acts
OF the session Of 1880, in couciseness, good
grammar and perspicuity surpass the laws
# any session in hundred years The saw
ing in printing alone more than twice paid
the expense of the clerk who revised the acts
Hs they were introduced. There Is no meas
TIRE OF the expense incident to hadly.cop
struVtcl law"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-10-13

Many Of the most sagacious and careful
men IN the State are, and have long been, Of
the opinion Tint the office of Attorney Gen
cral should be created iu order to secure &
more systematic, uniform and universal exc.
cution of the criminal law, and also as a
measure of real economy.
II has been found necessary 10 establish
this Office in almost cv5ry State in the Union
In our own State, each county and city. ma
nearly every Incorporated village, has It's law
officer, but the State has none, and each wear
it pays large sums to special counsel EMPLOY.
cd To assist the States ATTORNEYS, snd add.
tlnna sums for other legal services some
of these expenses would be saved, and in
most eases the rvices required would b.
better performed by State officer.
As one remedy for tie expense caused BY
the frequent change Of the States Aterneys,
and The inexperience OF mary of ihem, judge
Neazey' In Msreport, recommends the ap
pointment of an Attorney. General, "w6o
should have charge OF aud be responsible foy
the administration Of the criminal law" On
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-10-13
Governor aud Council.

In 1872. the Legislature provided for thu
publication of the Journals OF the Governors
and Councils hitherto unpublished, and
Hon. +. p. Walton was appointed to edit
and supervise the publication of the same.
The work is now completed, and the eigh,
volumes of the "Governor and Council sup.
ply an important and interesting link in the
history of the State 1hiI makes the print.
ed legislative history of the State as full ms
it can possibly be, except the Journals of the
House for the February Session of 1897,
which were never printed, and few other
House Journals of early years which are out
of print. These were not provided for by
the act of 1872, and it seems advisable to
have the records of our Legislative history
completed by their publication.
state Library.
The Library is increasing at the rate gilmore
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-10-13
The Reform school.

This institution il OF o reformstory rather
than of n penal character. Its ends are ac-
complished when its pupils can go Out into
life with strength ofpurpose to overcome the
ordinary temptations that surround them
This is the idea that has nctusted both the
trustees aud the superintendent Of that insti-
tuition during the past two years, although
they have not always agreed AZ TO the time
when the proper point in the pupils moral
advancement had been reached for the appli-
cation of it, The trustees, or u majority of
them. were inclined to let out the inmates
OF the school on probation at an earlier time
than the superintendent was satisfied they
ought to be released from it's restraints and
Influences. Both were conscientious, and
acted for the best interests Of the pupils and
OF the school am inclined to think that
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-10-13

The five years for which text books to be
used in our schools were adopted will expire
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-10-13

The ACT ubolishing The court auditors aud
requiring their duties to bc performed by the
State Auditor is having u most beneficial
effect. The efficient State Auditor has re-
duced to something of II system what before
was without the prctense of system, that u.s.
tho allowances of fees and costs in the diff.
ferent counties. But he has done more than
this. He has brought about the collection of
fines and costs imposed by magistrates, so
that for the biennial term ending Jnly 81
1882, the amount of fines ard costs collected
was SG6, 576,47, while for the term ending
July 81, 1878, it was but S2S, $50, II, and for
the biennial term ending July 81, 1890, il
was but S45, 007. IS. At the same time, the
net court expenses have been reduced from
S223, 1868 for the biennial term ending
July 81, 1873, 10 S93, 72978, for the last
biennial term, This last saving is due in
great measure 10 the legislation in regard to
court expenses.
The Highway Law.
Among the important legislation of the
last session Of the General Assembly. was
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-10-13
The Highway Law

Among the important legislation of the
last session Of the General Assembly, was
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-10-13

There are in the various institutions AT
which the benefciaries of this State are being
educated the following numbers viz: Al
the American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb
at Hartford, Conn, seventeen; at the Clark,
Institution for Deaf Mutes ut Northampton
Mass, iour; Mt the Perkins Institute for the
Blind Mt Boston, Mass. eight ut the Massa.
chusetts School for Idiotic and Fecble-mnd-
ed Youth at South Boston. Mass, three
To aid in supporting these pupils the State
has expended during the past two years the
following sums, viz. For the deaf and
dumb at the American Asylum, 81, $50 G6
for the deaf and dumb at the Clarke Institute,
81, 430. IL; for the Blind at the Perkins In
stitute, 81 $50 90; for the feeble minded at
South Boston, s2,3l6.9G, rho entire appro-
priation per annum is five thousand dollars
for the deaf and dumb, four thousand for the
blind and two thousand for the ieeble-minded
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-10-13

The report of the Trustees of the Insane
Asylum at Brattleboro shows tina, the num-
Der of the inmates of the Asylum, Aug. |,
1882. was four hundred and forty one, of
whom three hundred and iifty-six were resi-
dents of Vermont, an increase of twenty
seven within two years. They say that the
institution has indeed become almost exclu-
sively devoted to the State, only three hay
ing been admitted from outside its limits in
the past two years. suggest whether it
ought not to he altogether State institution.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-10-13
Board Ot Agriculture.

This board was established two years ago
in place Of Superintendent of Agriculture
1t has done good work through the State
for the past two years. Its members have
been practical farmers Of advanced views
upon the subjects they discussed; and the
inquiries they have provoked, and the en-
peiimcnts that have been instituted at their
suggestion, have had most beneficial inilu-
ence in the localities where they have held
meetings. They have worked in harmony
with the authorities Of the State Agricultural
College and had much valuable aid from its
president and professors. think that the
State must be satisfied that board OF com.
petcnt men is Of much more efficiency than
the most able man working alone.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-10-13
University Of Vermont and state Ayri.
cultural College.

The act of Congress OF July ,, 1862, which
gave to Vermont the fund Of which the in.
come goes to this institution, provides that
this income shall he used fol the support OF
a. least one college where the leading OBJ
ject shall be, without excluding other sclen.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-10-13
Executions.

During the past two years there have been
two executions with the usual distressing ac-
compartments, but with a great deal less of
ha!barity than frequently attends them in
other States.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-10-13

Bu on financial condition is very salts
factory In other respects, The treasurcr's
report, made Aug. !, 1882, shows that he
has on hand in cash and available assets
Sl54, 5O5.23, while the entire liabilities of
The State arr S2OD, 5s3 10 But these liza.
hil'ics include the Agricultural College fund,
Sl35, 900, which is not due till 1890 sol.
dier's accounts. Ss,959,02, which are made
mp OF very small balances, and most of them
will never he called for so that if we set
aside these items not 10 hc called for n, pres
ent, the treasurer had on hand Aug. /, iss2,
available for present IA. and running cx.
pehses, $50. $50. 40
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-11-15
Russian Small Fruits.

Professor Budd, of the Iowa Agricultural
College, who is in Russia, studying the fruits
of the country, in a letter TO the Iowa Home
stead says: "The blackberries, huckleber.
ries and cranberries we see here are wholly
unlike those Of the United States. / should
also state that the plums and cherry trees
are not grown in tree form any more than
are the gooseberries and currants. They are
really large bushes with several stems from
the roots. The pruning is done by cutting
out the older stems, as the most and the best
fruit is found on the younger off-shoots.
Really these northern cherries and plums
are large shrubs rather than trees, but very
desirable in fruit. In fruit
growing the Russian is a creature of habit
and close follower of the habits of his
forefathers. This tendency is bad enough
in South Europe, but it is intensified here
to degree often painful to the versatile
American. For instance in the immense
province of Vladimio, east of Moscow, the
whole province is given TO growing the
cherry. Hundreds OF proprietors have or
chards OF ten thousand trees Tor rather
bushes), and the products are shipped TO
every part OF the empire. In the cherry sea.
son Vladimio cherries are plenty and cheap
in every Russian city reached by railroads
or water. We are told that whole trains
are loaded with them for Siberia and the
far northeastern cities of the plains. South
of Vladimio, but still nearer to the fiftieth
parallel where the thermometer reaches at
times fifty degrees below zero Fahrenheit, is
grown the plum in quantities absolutely i'm.
mense. These plums vary in season and
color, but they are all of one race, which
seems indigenous to northern Asia. Many
of the varieties we met at Nishney are equal
TO the best German prunes, which they re-
semble in shape and texture of flesh. The
color is usually red, and the suture at one
side is peculiar to the race. As we go south
Tor rather east Of the Volga), we reach the
apple-growing districts, not because the soil
or climate is better than in Vladimio, but
because the people happened to drift in the
early ages IN this direction. One of the
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-11-15

large orchardsts who brings fruit here by
the barge load grows only four varieties
specially suited for the Nishney market
during August and the first week in Sep
TENDER. These varieties are ~ BorovitskH
large oblong variety with crimson stripes.
In quality and appearance IL is superior to
our Duchess. (2) Miron Krdsnti, an early
variety now past its prime. 1t is snowy,
mild in flavor, and much eaten from hand
by the Russians, who do not like acid apples
except for cooking. (3) Titofkd.--This is
not our Teto6ty, but is a very large, oblong,
ridged, highly colored, and really good vari-
ETY., Many Of the specimens look so much
like large specimens Of Benoni as to deceive
the expert, The flesh is pinkish white,
somewhat coarse, but breaking, tender, juicy
and pleasantly sub-acid. This variety seems
popular in all parts of Europe. az summer
Aport.-In Russia are grown four Aports,
three of which are late autumn or winter.
The one now in market on The Volga in i'm.
mense quantity is known in Moscow as
Apor Osenidi. 1t is large and highly col.
ored with splashes of pink and crimson.
1t may always be known by its one-sided
stem aud lip, something like Roman Stem"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-11-15
The New England Fair Again.

Our readers must pardon us for once more
referring to this fair, because we have been
charged with libelling the managers of it
in what we have been compelled to say about
it. We therefore print little of the great
deal that is being said to the same purport
by other journals. Daniel Needham, the
secretary of the New England society, is
said to be part owner of the Ploughman, and
the NeW England Homestead charges that
the report of the fair for the Pioughmdn is
paid for out of the funds of the society, and
intimates that the largest item of expense in
the society's account goes to that paper, and
that the amount paid by the society last
year for hotel bills at the Bay State house
was exactly Sill, some of the party bringing
their wives along with them, the society
footing the bills for them also. The Home
stead says;
This clique management is the thing which we
deprecate and deplore in the New England agIi-
cultural society 1t is the thing tina. is response
bic for lowering the society in public esteem to
the point it has fallen. The PlougLman ring
elects the officers, makes the arrangements, runs
the fairs and awards the premiums, no matter
how partial the judging and gross the favoritism
In rendering those awards. The farmers of New
England, outside of the limited number inside
this ring, have no more to do with the manage
ment of the fair than they had with the search in
the Arctic regions for the Jeanette; and If they
attempted to do so would have had as cold well
come in one place as the other.
The New Hampshire Mirror and Farmer
says the attendance was good, and that the
society will have from two to three thousand
dollars profit, but also says that the exhibit
of "money extractors on the grounds
"was immense" aud that they " came under
the any-way-to-fll-the-treasury class, and
consisted Of side shows of all sorts-Fakirs,
tinctured water vendors, lifters, strikers
and grippers, shooting galleries, Punch and
Judy, educated and uneducated hogs, muse
ums, palace of wonders, straightforward per-
formers, ventriloquists, etc. A most won
derful display of agricultural educators "
The Brattleboro Phonir says that if the
charges made by the press are true we
fail to see how the New England agricul-
tural society differs materially, except per-
haps in the matter OF newspaper favoritism,
from many other similar societies, both
large and small"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-11-15
Our "Purveyor Of Sweets"

The Springfield Republican is the most
omniscient sheet in the world, but is aston
ishing, nevertheless, in its ignorance on ag-
ricultural subjects, Aud yet its editors are
"college-larnt.' IN its Sunday issue of No
vember 9Th it has the following
As a purveyor of sweets, when off the repub-
lcan stump, Commissioner Loring meets with
constant trial. lie first tried sugar-raising ex-
perments directly on government account, and
there he had financial troublei the cane was
grown and the strip boiled all regularly, but the
resultant sugar cost Uncle Sam $50 pound, and
the business was abandoned. Then he offered
lot Of prizes for sugar-raising, about one hundred
competitors appeared, probably all did so well as
to deserve some sort OF bUunties and certainly
several were entitled to them, but now it appears
that nobody is authorized to pay any money in
the business, there is nothing appropriated, and
the commissioner can do nothing but explain and
feed his sacharne agriculturists on hopes.
One would think the bumptious and all
knowing Springfield Republican might have
known that Commissioner Loring had moth
ing to do with the sugar-raising expert
ments alluded to. The appropriations
were made and the experiments all
under way before he received his ap-
pointment And the Springfield RepuJ-
licdn might easily have known that the
failure of the experiment last year, as re-
CARDS sugar-making, was due entirely to the
unfavorable season. This is demonstra-
lively shown this year by the triumphant
success of the Rio Grande Sorghum Sugar
Co., New Jersey, in producing half million
pounds of firstclass sugar, besides a large
quantity of molasses, from one thousand
acres of sorghum grown upon the sandy
plains in the vicinity of Cape May. The
processes followed by this company was
identically the process of the department of
agriculture, as devised and perfected by its
chemist, Professor Peter Collier, formerly
secretary of the Vermont Board of Agricul-
ture.
And the Springfield Republican ought
further to know, but evidently does not,
that Commissioner Loiing, denouncing
these sugar experiments as "boys play"
and darned foolishness," refused to use
the last congressional appropriation for their
continuance and, usurping the functions of
lhe leBlSlatlFe power, uuuerVooh, uuiaWlully,
as he should have known, to divert them to
system of prize-offering of his own devils
ing. As DR.. Loring is a "valued con-
tributor" to the agricultural department OF
the Republican, and also distinguished cit
izen of Massachusetts from the time when
he was bitter copperhead during the war;
and until the surrender of Richmond, up to
and since the time he blossomed into per-
sistent republican office-seeker, that paper
ought to know little more about him.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-11-15

DEATH soon causes sad changes in the be.
longings OF famous men William Cullen
Bryant's fayorite house at Roslyp, N, Y,
has been abandoned by his family; MIR,
Irving's much'loved "Sunnyside is held
by strangers; MIR. Cooper's mansion at Coop.
erstown was destroyed by fire; the pictur-
twice in the market MIR. Greeley's Chap
Bayard Taylor's "Cedar Croft has passed
out of the hands OF the Taylor family.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-11-15
Nothing Short of Unmistal<able
Benefits

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Uniformly successful and certain, IL
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For forty years it has been in extensive
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