Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-03-24

ton of Oleomargarine and other subSti-
tutes. In New York, Philadelphia and
Baltimore there continues to be a search
ty of choice butter and prices are quoted
fully as high as here. The Elgin dispatch
quotes an active market at decline of
cordin9 to Mondays Gazette ''there is
feeling of disappointment. Stocks do not
diminish as fast as they should do, con-
sidering the near approach of the new
season. Letter just received from the
eartern townships advise the shipment
of a few tubs of new butter. Fine goods
are steady and in demand for the local
trade, but medium and fair grades, which
make up the bulk of the supply meet with
very slow sale.'
The bean trade is not satisfactory, and
prices of pea and mediums are weak and
unsettled. 1t is not easy to sell the best
northern pea at over $3.50 per bushel,
though dealers in a small way continue to
get So and over. Choice mediums move
off rather slowly at 500 to $500 per
bushel, in trade lots. The best grades
of yellow eyes are selling moderately at
1926 to So 80 per bushel. There contin-
ues to be great scarcity of red kidney,
and they are quoted in New York as high
as So per bushel.
As usual at this season, there is an &C
tive movement in eggs, and receipts are
kept well sold up every day. For lots of
five or ten cases prices are firm at 90 to
90 cents per dozen, with little higher
range for jobbing lots. The outlook is
favorable for the maintenance OF present
prices for few days, and some parties
think that rates will not be much lower
this month.
The hay trade shows no signs of i'm
provement. Receipts have dropped off
little, but the supply is still in excess of
the demand and receivers find it difficult
to get satisfactory prices. Some extra
goods command SIG per ton, but for most
receipts $l3 to SIS is fair range, in car
loads. OF course, for smaller lots, prices
rule higher. Good straw moAes off fairly
at $3.50 to IA per ton.
The supply of potatoes continues large
and prices rule low. For the best east
ern rose As to 46 cents per bushel is top
rate for car loads, and smaller lots go l
to cents higher. Houlton rose for ship
ment are selling at SLIGO per barrel, de-
livered at vessels. There is no prospect
of any higher prices at present.-Boston
Journals City Article.
Whether the United States are to
regain their former pre-eminent rank as a
commercial and naval power on the seas,
is question that no American can con-
template with Indifference. The subject
is discussed with marked ability in the
North american ReUieU for April, by the
Hon. Nelson Dingley, M. c., who oppos-
es the project of admitting foreign built
ships to American register, and by Capt.
John Goldman, who is well known as a
jealous advocate of that measure. Judge
j. A. jameson, in the same number of the
ReUiea1, discusses the qudstion, 'sShall
Our Civilization be Preserved" pointing
out the means that are at hand for with
standing the various agencies, physical
moral and intellectual, which threaten to
overturn our existing civil and social
institutions. The Rev. DR.. Philip Schaf
gives a sketch of the development oil
Religious Freedom" DIR. Felix L. Oswald
writes of Changes in the Climate Of
North America" with special reference
, to the increasing frequency Of disastrous
floods. Prof. C. A. Eggert offers ga Pie;
for Modern Languages" in the higher ed
| I'll; l.. Il.
es Of ''Literature for Children" Finally
= there is discussion of .'Recent Criticisms
Of the Bible by the Reu. DR.. R. Hebe
Newton and the Rev. A G. Mortimer
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i Owners of dogs can save some.
: thing by having their canine friend
: registered on or before the first da,
v of April. The act in reference +
g this matter reads as follows
! s'The owner or keeper of dog or PUP
py more than eight weeks old shall, al
nually, on or before the first day of Apri
> cause to be registered, numbered, de
[, scribed and licensed for one year frol
n said first day of April, in the Office of th
q
kept, and shall cause it to wear aroun
its neck collar distinctly marked wit
~ its owners name and its registered nun
lie Der, and shall pay for such license Oh
al dollar for each male dog or puppy an
% four dollars for each female dog or pul
In Ply, and if not paid as aforesaid, said owl
- er or keeper may take such licesse on
az before the fifteenth day of May by payin
n as aforesaid the sum of two dollars f,
each male and four dollars for each f
~ male dog or puppy"
- Purdy's 64-page Small Fruit Instruct,
ho will tell you all about growing small frui
z. for home use or market. Send him a
cent postal note or postage stamps al
he will send you copy post paid T
v also sends free to all applicants his bea
!, tiful and instructive catalogue of fru
= trees, plants, vines, seeds, ETC., Ca co,
ld of which may be seen at our office
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