The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-08

farmer told us last week that he believed in
q cross of Jersey and Holstein blood for
cows and was carrying his belief into prac-
tice. go We have been interested in get
ting the opinions of some who heard the
Norfolk (Va.) Jubilee Singers here last
week. OF course they are various, and
some of them perhaps widely different.
While as a whole much satisfaction may
have been gotten out of the concert, we
suspect none enjoyed 1t more than those
who were familiar, through reading, with
some phases of negro life in the South that
were reproduced on this occasion and could
hardly fail to possess much interest to them
60 a few years ago we itemiZed the sue
cess of young Vermonter connected with
one of our worthy families) who, on account
of ill-health, went to California An igno-
rance of cards and billiards and refusal to
drink on a certain occasion in San Francisco
seemed to have opened the door to n business
situation there. He has been prospered since
and is now on la large tract of land in that
state. Last year he is said to have sold $4,000
worth of clover-seed of his own raising and
81, 300 worth of pork. - Mrs. Sarah L..
Underhill, who is now staying with her sis
ter-in-law, Mrs Silas Bohonon, we are glad
to hear is improving somewhat in health.
She has been great invalid in the last
year. 80 An itemizer Is pretty sure to find
occasional misprnts of what he writes that
are annoying, but hardly worth correcting.
In the interest of well-kept Sundays we
wish to say the types last week stated that
one of our denominations was to take last
SUnddy for its annual business meeting in
stead of SATURDAY, as 1t was written. 60
Frank Mcdonnell took six cords of dry
stove-wood to Barre one day last week, for
which he got SIS. - We have just been
interested in an account of the Sc 3tion
southwestern louisiana in which Towns
man Asa G.. Wilbur is wntering. The
county Tor parish) is Calcasieu, situated
-
the state, the lower limit of the county be-
ing some twenty to twenty-five miles from
the Gulf. A railroad from New Orleans into
Texas via Galveston passes through the
county. AT or near the town of Jennings
| (Ir. Wilbur's post-otiice) is a colony from
Iowa. Northern people are more than well
come there. The temperature is rarely
above 800 or below 800 above zero. A great
variety of crops can be grown there, and
three or four crops from the same plot Of
land can be grown in year. Fruits flourish
| finely and of them there is great variety
from Strawberries to oranges. The peach
| season lasts five months and the strawberry
| three months. There is an abundance OF
game, fish and oysters. 1t is great lumber
| yellow pine, etc. district, and something
near a million of dollars annually is paid to
mill hands in or about the county seat LAKE
! Charles). 1t is good grass country. Lands
are cheap, aud rapidly advancing. Per
and printers ink would prove it paradise
| - A son was born last Sunday week tC
| DIR. and Mrs. Cornelius V. Lynde, now o.
Faribault, MINI. - Mr.. Rice Davenport
whose family has been living in st. Johns
bury for some years past, has come back
! here. His new house, well under way, will
be occupied in due time. - The troubl,
with General Bass is a " senile ulcer " on hi
foot. - Charles Hayward's family (som,
onelsays they are all sick) is under Dr. Wat
sons care, as is a daughter of Sumner f
Wheatley. - Rev. Loren Bixby of Da
kota, who is wintering hereabouts, is JUS
now visiting friends near Ticonderoga
! \. Y. - An aunt of Charles Webster
aged eightythree years, died at his hous
last week. She had pneumonia. She wa
a Mrs. Webster and previously a Mrs
Perno. - II. H. Martin has been mad
pensioner.