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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-31
Crops and Prices.

The crop report for November makes
the aggregate corn crop of the cOun-
try 1900, 100000 bushels, the largest
amount ever grown. The average for
the whole country is twenty-siX bushels
to the acre. Though the number of BUSH
els is greater than in any former sea-
son, the supply will not equal in super
abundance that of the five years end
ing in 1879. Nebraska takes the lead
with 3S.5 bushels per acre; Kansas
next with 3S, and Iowa next with 30.
New England reaches an average of
"a bushels to the acre, New Hampshire
leading with 34.3, and Maine and Mas
states first named excelling us. In
agreeable yield of potatoes Vermont
leads the whole country, except Wash
ington territory, with 115 bushels, and
Maine next with 105. The average
price of corn is thirty-six and one-half
cents, one cent lower than the average
for 1879, when the supply, in proper
ton to population, was quite as large.
1t has been lower but twice in ten
years-in 1877 and 1S7S-after two
previous years of abundance. 1t is
the highest in Florida, eighty cents
bushel, and lowest in Nebraska,
eighteen cents. The average farm
price of wheat is sixty-five cents a
bushel, against ninety-one cents last
December. The December price in
thirteen years has been below 81 a
bushel but five times-in 1874, 1878,
1880, 1882 and 1888. The lowest aver
age is in Nebraska, forty-two cents;
the highest in New England, where it
exceeds 81. The average value of oats
is twenty cents, against thirty-three
cents last December, and thirty-seyen
one-half in 1882. The present value is
the lowest ever reported by the depart
ment. The lowest state average is
nineteen cents in Nebraska; the highest
sixty in Florida. The plantation price
of cotton averages from nine to nine
and one-third cents pound. 1t is nine
in Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas,
nine cents one mill in Louisiana, nine
cents two mills in Georgia and nine
cents three mills in the Carolinas and
Virginia. The average farm price of
the entire crop of potatoes is forty cents
a bushel, two cents lower than last
year, though the crop is not so large.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-31

a man who habitually leaves his farm
implements and his vehicles exposed to
the weather is doing all he can to
benefit the community. He is working
himself out of an honorable business,
which he disgraces, and meanwhile he
is benefting worthy mechanics, who
will gain great advantage from what, it
is true, is loss to the community--but
an unavoidable loss, so long as we have
so many refuse men in the world.
These negative benefits are all that
such men ever do confer on their fell
lows.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-31
it will entirely destroy the dairy indus
tries of this country.

it will entirely destroy the dairy indus
tries of this country
The above is only a moderately ridic-
ulous specimen of class of items that
go the rounds of the press. 1t was but
a little while ago that every paper in
the land was telling of artificial honey
comb, filed with glucose, being sold in
the market. There never was bigger
lie set ahoat, though the authorship of
it is ascribed to Wiley, the western
chemist whom DIR. Loring took as a
successor to Professor Collier. We be-
lieve that Wiley has confessed it, but
says it was joke.
Some fool, misled by the term " lard
cheese" has plainly taken up the no.
ton that cheese can be and is made of
4" lard and coloring matter.' The sim
pie fact is that in making Skim cheese
at the creameries where butter is made,
and the sweet skim and butter-milk
worked into cheese, a little pure lard is
beaten up with milk, by a machine de-
vised for the purpose, and then mixed
with the milk in the vat before the rem
net is added. The object is plainly to
add little fat to replace the butter, in
order to make the skim cheese softer
and richer. This lard cheese is
perfectly wholesome, and better than
plain skins. In fact when well made,
under favorable circumstances, it is
better than much ill-made whole milk
chnnsn
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-31

surging in the world outside. Their
amusements are as meagre and scanty
as their means of instruction. Among
my own sex, have never seen such
sad lives as became known to me
there-lives deprived of healthy, invig-
Grating happiness, and intolerably mo-
notonous-a negative suffering, having
its source, it is true, in the absence of
enjoyment, rather than in the presence
of positive evils, but all the more to be
deplored because so stagnant and in
active.-A JOurneN In Brazil.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-31
advertisements.
Downright Cruelty.

To permit yourself and family to
Sufferr'
With sickness when it can be prevented
and cured so easily
With Hop Bitters ! I!
Having experienced a great deal of
TROUBLED" from indigestion, so much so
that 1 came near losing my
Lifei
My trouble always came after eating any
food
However light
And digestibe,
For two or three hours at a time 1 had to
go through the most
Excruciating pains,
"And the only way I ever got"
"Relief!"
Was by throwing up all my stomach con-
tanned. No one can conceive the pains that
had to go through, until
" At last?"
was taken! $50 that for three weeks 1
lay in bed and
Could eat nothing!
My sufferings were so that called two
doctors to give me something that would
stop the pain; their
Efforts were no good to me.
AT last L heard good deal
"About your Hop Bitters
And determined to try them"
Got bottle-in four hours I took the
contents of
One!
Next day 1 was out of bed, and have not
seen
| "Sicki"
Hour, from the same cause since.
/ have recommended it to hundreds Of
Others You have no such
Advocate as / am. Geo. Kendall, ALL
ston, Boston, Mass
Columbus Advocdte, Texas, April 81, 'S3.
| Dear Editor:-I have tried your Hop Bit
ters, and find they are good for any com
! plant. The best medicine / ever used in
my family. II. TALENER.
! ssY" None genuine without bunch of green Hops
on the white label. Shun all the vile poisonous
! stuff with Hop or Hops" in their name.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-31

Is our Moretown friend, E. w. B.,
going to allow himself to be floored by
the Boston Cultivdtor on the Black
Hawk-Ethan Allen question? Is he 60
ing to stand being classed with those
"who know no more of the blood lines
of the horse than of the chemical prop
critics of the soil upon which they
stood,' yet can demonstrate by the
aid of their canes that the Black Hawks
were not Morgans, and that Ethan AL
len was not Black Hawk?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-31

The farmers of Vermont receive
more cash for butter than for any other
single product which they sell. 1t is a
favorable showing for the agriculture
of the state that this product has more
than doubled since 1880. The increase
in the thirty years from 1850 to 1880
was -, 100000 pounds. The increase
alone was 965, 900 pounds more than all
that was made thirty years ago. Nor is
this all: there has been a great i'm
provement in the quality of the butter
as well as an increase in the quantity.
If the census figures approach accuracy,
the increase in the value of the product
is greater than the figures show. There
has been an increase in the number of
all kinds of live stock except working
oxen and sheep. The number of work
ing oxen has decreased in all the states
in consequence of the substitution of
horses. Vermont has less than half as
many sheep as were found in the state
in 1850, but the improvement in the
quality of the flocks has been such that
the value of the wool and mutton prod
uct is probably as great now as it was
then. The value of live stock in Yer
mont was reported greater by the CEN
sus of 1880 than by any previous CEN
sus except that of 1870, when gold was
at an average premium of twenty-five
per cent, and live stock was sold at ex-
travagant prices. In 1880 the state had
200, 900 more young cattle than it had
in 1850, about 10000 more swine, and
200 more horses. There has been a
decrease in the production of potatoes,
and in some of the minor products,
which are more than offset by gains in
others. -Phunir.
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City Agriculture.

A sample of New York cheese re-
Gently sold in London was found, on
analysis, to contain not single ingredi-
ent of milk. 1t was composed chiefly
of lard and coloring matter, and was, of
course, vile stuff. Thelaw in New York
against the manufacture and sale of
bogus dairy products is evidently not
enforced as it should be. The manu-
facture of lard cheese ought to be made
a state prison offence. If persisted in,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-31
Vermont Agricultural Products.

The average annual product of corn
in Vermont is now about 500, 900 bush
els greater than it was ten or twenty
years ago. In 1879 the yield was 415,-
600 bushels more than in 1869. There
has been an increase in the number of
bushels of oats raised in the state, as
shown by each successive census since
1850. At the latter date the product
was 2,307 900 bushels; by the census of
1880 it was 3,742 900, or ABS, 900 BUSH
els more than in 1850. Though it is
generally believed that the hay crop in
this state has been diminishing, year
by year, for long time, the census
shows that, taking an average of years,
there has been a gradual increase of
this product for the last thirty years or
more. The hay crop of Vermont is
shown by the four last census reports
as follows:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-31

A GREAT many ways have been pro-
pounded for making the young men
" stick to the farm" The latest is, to
send them Gust before the frost is all
out) across a ten-acre field of strong
clay land that was plowed in the fall.
1t was never known to fail.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-31
Agricultural.

~ This department is wholly under the control
of the agricultural editor, T. II. HosKINs, MID,
Newport VT. and he alone is to be held responsible
for the opinions herein expressed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-31
Partnership Dissolved.

The partnership heretofore existing between Zenas
Watts and William Cooley, under the firm name of
Watts a Co. will terminate January |, 1883. Az
counts due the company must be settled before that
date. iS- Persons owing us will save legal
penses by needing this notice WATTS co.
The business in flour, feed, and coal, hereto
fore carried ON by Watts Co. will he continued
by me after January |, 1855, In Burleigh building
Waterbury. ZENAS WATTS.
Having purchased the grinding mill Of Watts A
CO., Waterbury, l shall after January |, 1885, CON
tinue the grinding business formerly done by them
WILLIAM COOLEY.
Waterbury, Vt, December IL 1884 1881
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-31
Desirable Property for Sale

On account of i'll health win sell my place, sit
uated In Chelsea, VT e-half mile north of the
hotel, consisting OF one and onehslf acres of land
well furnished two-story house, good barn, Saw
mill, carpenter aud blacksmith shop. The property
will be sold cheap Il. =. DENSMoRE.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-31

The increase of the hay product of
1860 over that of 1850 was $4,000 tons;
1870 over 1860, $4,000 tons; 1880 over
1870, 81 900 tons; 1880 more than 1850,
$4,000 tons.
The number of mich cows in Yer
mont, as shown by the census of 1850
and each subsequent census, was as
follows:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-31

HAWTHORNE says GA mans soul
may be buried and perish under a
dung-heap, just as well as under pile
of money" This is worth thinking of.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-31

The increase in the number of mich
cows in the thirty years from 1850 to
1880 was II 900. There has been more
than corresponding increase in the
production of butter, as is shown by
the following table. There was made
in the state in
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-31

To permit yourself and family to
Suffer-"
With sickness when it can be prevented
and cured so easily
With Hop Bitters !
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-31

Having experienced great deal of
TROUBLED" from Indigestion, so much so
that l came near losing my
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-29
The Scott Liquor Law.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.


COLUMBUS, o., Oct. 2S.-The Scott LIQUOR
law was passed and went into effect April II,
1888. The Democrats had control of the
Legislature at the time. The German saloon
keepers were hostile to it from the start, as
itimposed tax on their business, which
before had been run without any
except the government license The liquor
business in Ohio was an illegal one, as
provision of the constitution prohibits it, and
the Scott law was passed with the intention
Of getting around this and making it legal.
Shortly after the passage test case, entitled
the State ex. rel. VS.. Frame, was taken
to the supreme court, and in this case it de-
clared the law constitutional The action of
today reverses This Tie law imposed an
assessment OF $3.50 on the business of SELL
Ing Intoxicating liquors and on malt aud
rinous liquors of 500 The penalty for
not paying this was u iine of from, So5 to
slGU or imprisonment in the county jail for
ten days or l.o:iI.
prominent German Democrat said to-
day: 81 am rejoiced at the decision, for l
think it will give us the state in November.
The reason we lost it in October was from
the fact that the Germans were mad at the
Democrats for passing the law. Now that
Democratic supreme court has declared it un-
constitutional, the Germans will come
back''
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-29
Blsine.s Morements.

BINGUAMPToN, y. Y, Oct. 2s.-Tbe special
train bearing Blaine and party left EImira
promptly at a. nj. The first stop was at
Waverly, where there was large gathering
for SO early an hour. Blaine spoke briefly
upon the illustration offered BY the state of
New York Of the benefits of protective tar
If. ii was raining when the train reached
0swego, but there was a very large meeting
at the depot. Blaine stepped out on fat
car, decorated for the occasion, and was re-
ceived in the same enthusiastic manner.
Ex-senator E Z. Plat introduced him.
Blaine said:
Nothing has caused me more regret than
thst pass through southern New York in a
rain storm. / wanted TO meet the people
withou causing discomfort, vet nothing has
impressed me more than the fact that from
the time entered the state 81 jamestown
To this hour the rain has not sufficed to
Quench or abste the enthusiasm Of the Re-
publican masses As l said yesterday at
jamestown, it shows that we are not a dry
weather psrty.
Blaine spoke OF the great growth in the
wealth of the state Of New York from eighteen
hundred million dollars in 1850 to six thou-
sand, three hundred million in 1880 an in
crease much greater relatively than the in
crease of population, and said that no intel
ligent man, Democrat or Republican. would
deny that if was due in large degree To the
influence of protective tariff.
At Binghampton the crowd was large and
enthusiastic which greeted the arrival of the
train Blaine, in s. speech, paid tribute to
the memory of Daniel S. Dickenson. as a
patriot, which evoked great applause Blaine
spoke as follows;
am sure that no man who loves the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-29

Silas W. Burt, Of the state civil service com
mission, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
OF Cambridge, Mass. A very handsome
floral tribute was receiyed by the governor.
The governor leaves at p. m. for Albany.
THE REVIEW.
At 2 p. m. it was uncertain whether the re-
view would take place, Gov. Cleveland being
unwilling to subject the officers and men to
the discomforts attendant upon public pa
rade in rain storm. Adjt. Gen. Farms
worth, Gen. Shaler and other officers of the
national guard were in consultation with the
governor at the Hoffman house throughout the
forenoon and mounted orderlies were in at
tendance to convey the final orders TO the
various regiments. Those of the first divi-
sion, the twenty-second eleventh, ninth,
twelfth, seventh, eighth, sixty ninth and
seventy-frst. with two batteries of artillery
were waiting orders in their armories.
The second division, comprising the Brooklyn
regiments, the Thirteenth, of which Henry
Ward Beecher is chaplain, fourteenth,
Twenty-third, Thirty-second and Forty
seventh with battery of artillery, had ar
rived and were held waiting orders while
getting thorough wetting. Tie vicinity of
the reviewing stand, near the Worth nonu-
mcnt, was crowded with spectators with
un brellas hoistcti. The weather having
frightened definite orders were issued for
the review 10 take place. Notwithstanding
the rain, both sides OF the streets through
which tne procession passed were thicSlly
lined with men and women, who stood until
ali tie regiments had iiassed. For an hour
before tie time appointed for the march,
the vicinity Of the grand stand was
packed with people. 1t was ten
minutes past when the governor, i'm ;n
open Darolcae, drawn by four whit: horses,
reached the stand. He was acc,,il panied by
Adi. Gen. Farnswurth in iuii uniform.
The governor was surrounded ~ his staff
during the review. lie Stood from 4:l5 un-
Ill 5:l0 p. N. without Il q uIii brellt IN the
rain, lifting his soaked hat IN response to So
iutcs, aud again as the coiors Of the resDec-
tive regiments passed. After the column
| had passed deafening volieY Of cheers was
given for GOV. Cleveland, and he returned
TO the Hoffman house.
Along the line of Fifth avenue, UP and
down from the reviewing stand as far as the
eye could reach, great surging crowds, occu-
pied the sidewalk, and Gordon Of police
kept the roadway clear: Ten thousand up
i-lifted umbrellas could be seen al one sweep
OF the eye, and they were needed almost
without interruption from to p. IN. Gov
ernor Cleveland was dripping wet when he
arrived al The reviewing stand. He was sat-
urated and soaked when he retired. He did
not wear 3n overcoat. Great cheering her
aided his approach and departure In ca IA
instance these cheers were taken up by the
mass OF people and passed along the line
from the hotel TO the reviewing stand and
back again TO the hotel. As the several reg
iments reached the reviewing stand and sa-
luted the governor. they were cheered to the
echo, and as the battle flags OF each corps
were borne past, Gov. Cleveland lifted his
hat again, which act evoked further cheers
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-29
Cleveland in New York.

NRw YORK. Oct. 2S.-GOv. Cleveland rose
at S o'clock this morning despite the fatigs.
incident 10 his reception in Newark last
night. He breakfasted in his room, parlor
No. 6, on the first floor of the HofTmsn
house, with his private Secretary and Adlt.
Gen. Farnsworth. From in the morning
until late in the afternoon, he was engaged
in receiving visitors. Besides W. II. Bar
nun, McSuher, of the state committee, his
callers included Rev. J. Ducey, of St Lees
church; Senator Mcpherson, OF New jersey:
d. d. wenston. of Utica; Hon. Sam' J.
Randall, of Pennsylvania; Mydert
NJ. Mercer, y. Robinson, of
Cleveland; Aaron ]. Vanderpoel, ex-eorpor-
stion counsel, W. C. Whitney, James c.
Spence and c. z. Whideu, of New Haven;
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-29
Mr.. Reecher to Mr 10y.

Especial Telegram to the Globe.
NEw YORK, Oct 2S.-Mr. Beecher to-day
gave the following to the press in reply to the
letter Of Mr.. JOY, published in the Tribune
this morning:
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Oct. 2S.-Mr. JOY,
Sir: You said at your own table before me
that Mr.. Blaine offered to form committee
as you desired it, provided you would
take certain bonds of him at par. You did
lean back in your chair, put your
thumbs into your vest shoulders aud added,
with contempt: ''That's the man that Blaine
is / did not violate the laws of hospitality
in using the incident / never spoke of it
publicly until your injudicious friend, Gen.
Alger, made garbled statement, which, un-
der your denial, made me false witness
Then / was justified in self-defense
A member of Plymouth church, who is
ashamed of his own name, explains, in close
connection with your letter OF this morning,
that Mr.. Beecher is known to be very forget
full Yes, ten thousand things ! forgot and
ten thousand things l remember. do both
thoroughly, and your statement was burned
into my memory as with fire and your
falsehood l fear will be burned into
your memory as with fire.
Such effrontery s marvellous even in this
political campaign. Do you dare look ex-
Gov. Baldwin, of Michigan, in the face, who
sat next to me at your table, and deny that
you made such statement! What win he
think Of you! Do YOU dare say that you
never made like statements of Blaine's
conduct in the transactions alluded
TO, TO Mr.. Z. Smith, president
of the Oregon & Transcontinental company
Mr.. Charles James and Mr.. Kneeland, of the
New York Elevated railroad, both say that
Mr.. Smith stated to them that Joy had made
him like statements. VIII Mr.. Smith pub
licly deny ita VIII you deny it TO Mr.. John
Harman, of Detroit, who was your attorney
and was conversant with the whole
matter at the time Of its hap
pening, the correctness of the sub
stance Of my statement! Allow me to
ask, by way OF refreshing your memory,
whether the amount which Mr. Blaine re-
quired was not nearer s40,0 than $25, 900
Whether the intermediary between Blaine
and yourself was not Subsidy Pomeroy! And
whether proper aud honest indign alton on
that occasion was not so extreme that YOU
would have sworn outright had it not been
luckily that YOU were church member:
MFR. Joy, you have told this story too many
times and to too many people to have made
it prudent 10 deny it, The advantage which
is expected from your denial can last now
but day OF two. But the lie
will endure forever. 1t will abide
with you, follow you home, dwell
in your memory, be present in your old age,
stand by your coffin and meet you on Gods
judgment day. May the God who found a
way to forgive lying Peter forgive you and
have mercy on your soul in that awful day.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-29
indianapolis Ministers Duped.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.


INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 2S.-Itwas announced
with quite flourish, during Baine's recent
visit, that he had been waited upon by a
committee of ministers of the city and as
sured that the sympathy of the Christian
people of Indianapolis was with him i.
To-day one of the ministers confesses that
the methods adopted to get this feature of
the Blaine reception would yut to blush the
practices of waId politicians. Minis
Blaine socially at Senator Harrison's s
as rapidly as they arrived they were taken to
separate room and there the scheme was
sprung upon them. There were fourteen all
told Gnstead of thirty as published) and
only three out of the entire lot would sign
the resolution.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-29
great deal from the Independent.

a great deal from the Independents
and the dissatisfied stalwarts.
The Republicans are expecting
as much from the disafscted Irish and the
wage earners. The leaders of both sides
confess that they are calculating upon
unknown quantities. In Republican cir
cles it is claimed that Blaine will cross Har-
lem river with from 1000 to $4,000
majority and that Cleveland will not
be able to get over 1000 in New York city
and the county toward overcoming it. The
Democrats give no figures, but say that
Cleveland will have big majority and will
likely have the lead when Harlem river is
reached.