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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-07-29


HAY CAPs.-In the older states, where
economy in farm management is so much
more closely studied than in the newer
parts Of our country, no farm is consid-
cred completely furnished without a good
supply of hay caps. They are found
equally useful in securing hay and grain.
The harvesting coming after the haying,
one set of caps answers for both. About
ten years ago, when hay caps were com :
paratiyely little known, one of the best
grass counties of Massachusetts made a
comparative estimate of their practical
value. 1t being very unfavorable year
for making hay, they took for basis
the market value of hay and grain made
with use of caps, and that made as best
| they could without them, and found the
loss to be about $4,000 to the county
in that one year. The cheapest ones that
can be used are made of four yards Of
yard wide cotton sheeting sewed togeth.
err with sewing machine, and stone
of half or a pound weight sewed into
a little bag and attached to each corner
These will last number of years, with
good care in seasonable drying and gooc
storage.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-07-29
THE USE OF SCALES ON THE
FARM.

We have been in the habit for long
series of years. of weighing all the hay,
fodder, straw. grain. &C., fed or sold on
the farm, and We are satisfied that we
have saved the price of pair of good
platform scales every year by so doing.
The profits of farming depend very
largely upon attention to things small
in themselves, but in the aggregate
amounting to large share of ones in
come With this instrument at hand he
may know just how much corn is fed to
the hogs and poultry how many oats to
the horse; how much seed is sown upon
the land, and many other points equally
valuable to know. For instance, in sell
ling live stock, the weight is usually es-
timated by the drover or butcher buying
at the farmers door, i
The careless farmer feeds his cattle
until they are fat enough to turn off,
sells them to the butcher at their esti-
mated dressed weight, and pockets the
proceeds. How much of the amount is
profit he cannot tell !; he did not measure
the feed nor weigh the animal. @
Long practice enables the buyer te
weigh them very correctly with the eye
and thus he has the inexperienced seller
at an advantage, which he is not slow tt
use. A good Fairbanks Standard Plat
form Scales would save its cost in few
such transactions.
The careful farmer feeds out grain by
measure or weight, and charges it to thu
bullock at intervals of week, or so
he rigs his platform scales so that thu
animal can stand upon it, notes hoy
much beef it shows for the grain eaten
and when the feeding does not pay, sell
to the butcher or drover. In doing thi
he is not afraid of the buyers practice'
eye, which can almost fix the notch a
which bullock will turn the scale
american Stock Journal
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-07-29

FRUITS AND BERRIES. Fruits and
berries at this season of the year are not
only precious luxuries, but great promot-
ers of health. They act upon the liver,
promoting that secretion naturally which
many are In the habit of obtaining only
by the means of artificial Medicines
They thus avert many diseases resulting
from torpid condition of the liver. An
other way in which they act benefcially
is in the mechanical effect their little
seeds produce in passing through the
bowels, very much the same as the wa
tering of an irritated eyeball when any
hard substance touches that delicate or
gan, and this water by dissolving the
hardened contents of constipated bowels,
keep them in healthier state than any
pill or purgative invented by the apoth-
ecary. There can be no doubt that in
the summer and fall seasons that people
who live mainly on fruits and berries
and coarse bread can almost ensure ex-
emption from sickness, while those who
eat heartily of solid meats and vegeta-
bles two or three times day are liable
to all diseases flesh is heir to.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-07-29

No Person can take these Bitters accord
ing directions and remain long unwe provided their
bones destroyed by mineral poison other means,
and the vital organs wasted beyond the point of repair
in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tshtness of the Chest Dzz
ness Sour Eructaons of the Stomach Bad Taste In the
Mouth, Bilious Attacks Palpitation of the Heart, In
fammatiou of the Lungs Pain in the regions OF the Kid
neys, and hundred other painful symptoms, the off
springs of Dyspepsia. In these complaints it has
equal and one bottle will prove Letter guarantee of Its
merits than lengthy advertisement.
For Female Complaints, in young old.
ried single, at the dawn of womanhood the turn
of life these Tonic Bitters display decided an influence
that marked improvement is perceptibe.
For Inf1ammatOry and Chronic Rheu-
matism and Gout, Bilious, Remittent and Intermit.
Fevers, Diseases of the Blood Liver, Kidneys and
Bladder, these Btters have equal. Such Diseases
caused by Initiated Blood which generally produced
by arrangement of the Digestive Organs
They are n Gentle Purgative as well as
Tonic, possessing also the peculiar merit of acting
powerful agent in relieving Congestion or Inflammation
of the Liver and Visceral Organs and in Bilious Diseases
Rheuu Blotches, Spots Pimples Pustules Bois, Car
buncles Ring worms, Scad Head Sore Eyes, Eryspeas,
Itch Scurfs Dscoloratons of the Skn Humors and Dis
of the Skin, of whatever nature, lit
orally dug up and carried of the system short
time by the of these Btters
The properties of DR.. WALKERS VINEGAR
BIrTERs are Aperient, Diaphoretc and Carminstive,
Nutritious, Laxative Diuretic Sedative, Counter Irri-
tant, Sudorihc, Alternative and Ambitious
Grateful Thousands proclaim VINEGAR BIT
TIERS the most wonderful Invgorant that sustained
the sinking system.
| ]. WALKER, Propr. r. H. MCDONALD s. CO.,
Druggists and Gen. ACTS, San Francisco, Cal,
and of Washington and Charlton SITS, New York
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-07-29

AN EXTENSIVE WHEAT FIELD.-The
Stockton California; Independent of
June 24th says: On the west side of the
San joaquin river, in this valley, there
is grain field which extends for thirty
five miles. and is of an average width of
eight miles, thus covering an area of
179, 200 acres. Persons who have lately
travelled through this immense grain
field estimate the total average yield at
sixteen bushels to the acre, which will
give total yield of 1857 200 bushels,
or solo tons. This amount of grain
would load 86O1 cars, which, if made
up in one train, would reach for over
eighty miles, or from Bantas to the Oak
land wharf. There is, however much
larger area cultivated in grain on the
east side of the San Joaquin than on
the west side. From Lathrop to MERGED,
distance of over fifty miles, the rail
road runs through an almost unbroken
| grain field, extending as far as the eye
can see on either side. The product Of
this whole valley will be much greater
than ever before, and the railroad com
pany will find it very difficult to move
the immense amount to the market be
fore the rainy season. aE5
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-07-29

LARGE CRops.-We must raise larger
crops, and to do this we must raise them
less frequently. This is the keynote of
the coming improved system of American
agriculture in all sections where good
land is worth less than 500 per acre.
In the neighborhood of large cities and
wherever land commands high price,
we must keep our farms in high state
of fertility by the purchase of manures
or cattle food. Those of us in the int
rior, where we cannot buy manure, must
raise fewer grain crops and more clover.
We must aim to raise forty bushels of
wheat fifty bushels of barley, eighty
bushels of oats and one hundred bushels
of shelled corn and five bushels of clover
seed per acre. That this can be done
on good, well-drained land, from the I'M
aided resources of the farm, | have no
doubt 1t may give us no more grain
to sell than at present, but it will enable
us to produce much more mutton, wool,
beef, cheese, butter and pork than at
present But, then, will there be de-
mand for the meat, wool, &c?" The
present indications are favorable. But
we must aim to raise good meet. The
low priced beef and mutton sold in our
markets is as profitable to the consumer
as it is to the producer. We must feed
higher, and to do this to advantage we
must have improved stock. There is nc
profit in farming without good tillage
larger crops, improved stock, and higher
feelings. JOSEPH HARRIS.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-07-29
Crottsbury, July "a, 1879.

A CORONER HOLDS AN INQUEST ON A
MUMMY 5000 YEARS OLD-An ex-
change tells the following excellent sto-
ry of a Coroner in country town, who,
it seems, has determined to make the
office pay him literally for services rem
dered. Tie story, which we give be-
low, is too good to keep: A gentleman
brought to the city mummy which he
had procured in Egypt, and asisoon as
the Coroner heard of it he summoned a
jury and held an inquest upon the num-
my and decided that its 'death was pro-
duced by causes unknown" and then
collected his fee with interest from the
time of the mummy's death, about three
thousand years ago. Well, that same
Coroner has been at it again. Last
week some laborers, while digging a
cellar, discovered dozen old bones
They appeared to be the bones of a
horse, but the Coroner seized them.
threw away the large ones, laid them on
the floor in something like the shape Of
a man, and held an inquest. He had
the same old jury that sat on the mum
my, and in about ten minutes, they
handed in verdict that deceased came
to his death apparently from torpidity
of liver" Then they went for the fees
and divided them. The Coroner say,
that his most remarkable characteristic
is his zeal, and we believe it. If any
body should bring to Wilmington ;
handful of dirt from the banks of tn,
Euphrates, we believe that Corone
would rush out his jury and declare tina
the sand dust was the mortal remain
of Abel, and find a verdict that it wa
killed by Cain with club. And tn
way in which he would collect fees OF
that dust would be frightful.
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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-07-29

=
I John Smith, who entered Emanuel
College, Cambridge, England, in 1886,
and afterwards became tutor in one of
his eloquent, polished, and highly spir-
itual discourses, as quoted in The Con-
temporary Review of May last by Prin-
cipal Tullock, says
"Such as men themselves arc, such
will God Himself seem to be. That idea
which men generally have of God is
nothing else but the picture of their own
complexion that archetypal notion of
Him which hath the supremacy in their
minds, is none else but such one as
hath been shaped out according to some
pattern of themselves though they may
SO clothe and disguise this idol of their
own, when they carry it about in a pomp-
GUS procession to expose it to the view of
the world, that it may seem very beauti-
full, and, indeed, anything else than what
it is. We have many brave and rever.
end idolators that worship truth only in
the image Of their own wits that could
never adore it so much as they seem to
do, were it anything else but such form
of belief as their own wandering specu.
lations had at last met together in, were
it not that they find their own image and
superscription upon it. There is q
knowing of the truth as it is in Jesus,
as 1t is in Christlike nature, as it is il
that sweet, humble, and loving spirii
of Jesus, which spreads itself like +;
morning sun upon the souls of good men
full of light and life.'
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-07-29
GRelieN,,e department..
Rev. J. w. MALCOLM, Editor.
HEAVIER THE CROSS.

.SAG H I'll ks,
Heavier the cross, the nearer Heaven;
No cross without no God within
Death Judgment from the heart are driven
Amid the worlds false glare and din.
o! happy he with all his loss,
Whom God hath set beneath the cross.
Heavier the cross, the better christian;
This is the touchstone God applies
How many garden would be wasting
Unwet by showers from weeping eyes!
The gold by fire is purified;
The christian is by trouble tried.
Heavier the cross, the stronger faith;
The loaded palm strikes deeper root;
The vine-juice sweetly issueth
When men have pressed the clustered fruit;
And courage groYs where dangers come,
Like pearls beneath the salt sea foam.
Heavier the cross, the heartieF prayer; Ell
The bruised reedB most fragrant are;
Ifsky and wind were always fair, 81 !
The sailor would not watchthe star;
And David's psalms had ne'er been sung,
II grief his heart had never wrung.
Heavier the cross. the more aspiring;
From wales we climb to mountain crest;
The pilgrim OF the desert firing
Longs for the Canaan Of his rest.
The dove has here no rest in sight,
And to the ark she wings her fight
Heavier the cross, the easier dying;
Death is friendlier face to see;
To life's decay one bids defying.
From life's distress one then is free.
The cross sublimely lifts our faith
To Him who triumphed over death.
Thou cruciied, the cross carry,
The longer, may il dearer be;
And lest faint while here tarry,
Implant thou such heart in me
That faith hope, love, may flourish there,
Till for the cross my crown wear. 3t
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-07-29

WAGES OF SIN.-The wages that sin
bargains with the sinner are life, pleas
ure, and profit but the wages it pays
him with are death, torment and destruc-
ton. He that would understand the
falsehood and deceit of sin must compare
Its promises and its payment together.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-07-29

One hundred and fifty thousand acres
of land were sold at. auction, at Bangor,
Me-, recently. at prices varying from 20
cents to S2.37 per acre. The total sales
amounted to S122,O 600.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-07-29

Just one hundred years ago, Newport
had a greater foreign and domestic trade
than New York. Now Newport only
affords an arena for the display of New
York's wealth and fashion.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-07-29
FOR SALE.

4 good, sound, young Herse. Lyndon Bug
gy Wagon, 2. good single Harnesses, good
oid-fsshioned Sleigh, 1 good Cooking Stsse'
l heavy Oil Carpet, Lounge, coed tiock,
Chairs and Tables and yarioHs ether ariicsfs
of Household Furniture, barrel good soar;
part Of a barrel of Pork and part of "A bhfiei
of Beaf. All will be sold cheap.
Any one wishing to buy anything will please call
soon for must sell Immediately. .-,,,,,,D
Barton. July Is 1872 Sou
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-07-29
TumOr of 12 Years Growth
Cured by Railways EsesOiVcE,t.

BEVERLY. Mass, July IS. 1865.
IL have had Ovarian Tumor the
bowels All the said there help it,
every thing that recommended but nothing helped me-
Rasovent and Thought would it but had faith
in it, because had suffered for tslve ook six bottles
of the Resoveut and box Of Railways PlI and bet
of Ready Relief and there of
felt and feel BETTER smarter and happier than hzrs
twelve The the left sid al TIE
bowels the groin write this for ihe benefit Of
others. You can publish it if you choose.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-07-29
IIBER ALTON.

Notice is hereby given that have this day given
my son. Michael Geary, his time during the remainder
of his mi ority and that shall claim of his
inss pay any debts Of his contracting after this date
JOANNA GEARY.
Burton, VI. July 10, 1872 29-3is
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-07-29
Aidney & Bladder Complaints,

Urinary and Womb diseases Gravel Diabetes, Drops,
StoPpage Of Water Icnntinencc Of Urine Grights Dis
Abumnuria and in all where there brick
dust deposits the is thick cloudy. mixed with
substances like the white of threads ike white
silk thers morbid, dark. billions appearance, and
white bone-dust deposits, and when there is pcki.
burning sensation when passing water. and pain in the
Small OF the Back and along the Loiis. Ircc, sI.oo
WORMS only known and sure Rcneiy
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-06-12
VOTE OF THANKS.
AFRICAN DIAMOND FIELDS EXHAUST

AFRICAN DIAMOND FIELDS EXHAUST
ED.-The latest intelligence from the
diamond fields OF South Africa is not
encouraging 10 those who entertain
tho idea OF seeking fortune in that
region. According to oil accounts
there is but one place at which dig.
gers now cover their expenses, and
that is the Colesberg KroPje, or New
Rush. There claims have reached so
high q value that none but men Of
some capital can afford to purchase
them , ct, notwithstapding their high
price, they do not yield near SO freely
as they did. The day for adventurers
without means to make money in the
diamond diggings is past The pro-
portion of those who have made largo
sums by digging diamonds, even when
the fields were at their best, is small !,
and numberless persons have toiled
under an African sun, undergoing all
kinds Of privations, from nearly the
time of the first discoveries, without
making more than bare subsistence.
The area within which the gems are
found is limited, and is being rapidly
exhausted. The entire area may be
completely worked out within a few
months; the production may continue
year or two. Unless new fields are
found, of which there now appears to
be little prospect, or the reported god
discoveries in South Africa amount to
more than present indications war
rant, there is likely to be general
exodus of the diggers before many
months.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-06-12

Coop FOR GEORGE FRANCIS Al
though the nomadic and erratio Pres
idential candidate, George Francis
Train, is accused of being crazy, he
has, at least at times, method in his
madness, and gets off some very tell
ing and truthful hits. In a recent
characteristic speech, urging his own
Presidential pretentions, he asked
'tHow can any one for moment
calculate on Gen. Grants reelection ?
See the changes Of an hour; Isabella
pitched out of Spain; the Pope out of
Italy Napoleon out Of France Ty-
coon makes way for the Mikado in
Japan Tweed drops like lump Of
mud out Of Tammany; Fisk shot like
n dog; and now Gould, yesterday the
king of thousand miles of rail, sit.
ting on an empty beer barrel, in tho
back yard Of the opera house, con-
templating the ruins of ancient Rome,
How can corruption, fraud, lying, hy-
pocrisy, nepotism, poker and whiskcy,
hope to force, with fve-twenty in
one hand and bayonet in the otha",
tho entire Dent mmily down the
starving throats of the American peo-
plc.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-06-12

GRANT WOULD LIKE TO Do IT.-
The National Republican asserts that
"thc late Edwin NJ. Stanton was so
provoked at the course Of Greeley and
of the Tribune at one time during the
war, that be resolved to issue an order
suspending its publication and taking
possession of the office. Mr.. Stanton
actually made out the order and took
it to Mr.. Lincoln TO sign, but Mr..
Lincoln was in one of his amiable and
forgiving moods, and handed it back
to Mr. Stanton, saying that he would
give Greeley another chance"
This precedent is, perhaps, adduced
for the benefit Of General Grant and
his Secretary of War, who, we doubt
not, would be very glad to "shut up"
Mr.. Greeley and his paper.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-06-12

TURN UP THEIR NosEs.-Never be-
fore in our national history was the
corruptions of Federal officials SO glar-
ing and universal. Twenty-Five years
ago defalcation of a thousand dollars
on the part Of an official, endorsed by
the political party to which he be-
longed, would have doomed that party
to defeat. To-day, when Grants of
fee. holders have stolen more than q
hundred millions from the tax. payers,
the managers of the Radical party
turn up their noses and ask Of the
people: "what are you going to do
about ity"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-06-12
The convention then proceeded to
ballotng with the following result:
BUcKALEw NOMINATED.

Before the announcement of the re-
suit of the 7th ballot, ex.Gov Bigler
and number of Others who had voted
for other candidates, changed their
votes for &. r. Buckalew. The result
of the 7th ballot was then announced
by tho chairman, as follows:
Cass 80, Noyes IL, Wright 2, Nc
Clelland 5, McCalmont l, Buckalew "a.
GMr. Buckalew was here introduced
to tho convention and delivered an
able and rather lengthy address,
which will be published next week
AN INVOCATION.
Mr.. Clymer said at the close of the
address:
May kind Providence guard and
keep him; may tho good people sus-
tain and support him, and may honest
men, everywhere and of every polti-
cal creed, rejoice that they have
struck hands, when, in him, by him
and through him imbccility and cor
ruption is to be banshcd from the
executive and legislative departments
OF this Common wealth.
AUDITOR GENERAL.
Judge Cofiroth moved to 90 into
nominations for Auditor General.
Agreed to.
Generals W. w. II. Davis, Of Bucks,
and William McCandlcss, of Philadcl.
phia, were nominated William II.
Schell, Esq, of Bedford J. +. Tenn
pie, OF Greene Hon. William Hop.
kins, of Washington William Baird,
Esq, of Philadelphia; +. Il. Temple,
of Philadelphia; Hon. Frederick Nj.
Crane, of Wayne; William Hartley,
ESQ, of Bedford John Lawshe, OF
Clearfeld Colonel Levi Maisch, OF
York, and others, were nominated.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-06-12

ANOTHER CONFERENCE.-The Iem-
perdnce Vmdicdtor publishes call for
convention of temperance folks, at
Altoona, on Friday, June 14th, at ii
a. m, for the purpose of nominating
State and national candidates TO bo
voted for at the ensuing elections, of
forming an electoral ticket, and of
providing for thorough canvass OF
the State.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-06-12

When Grant was running for Presi-
dent four years ago the poor negroes
of the South were promised that if
they voted for him every one of them
should have a mule and forty acres Of
land. Now Wendell Phillips threatens
tho negroes that in case of Greelcy's
election they will lose the mules they
didn't get.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-06-12

The Harrisburg Telegraph says I:
Connecticut shad are arriving here
and are offered for sale in our markets
They are the Seth Green's planting
and are exceedingly fine, being much
larger than other shad, and of as de-
licious flavor as the Susquehanna
ahad
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-06-12

A newly converted Kansas reporter
thus notices a minstrel troupe: "For
those who do not consider il sin TO
witness minstrel shows, this entertain
mcnt will furnish a pleasnt relaxation
from the revival meetings"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-06-12

ID. A. Freeman, pardoned out Of the
Tennessee State Prison by Brownlow
when Governor, is now seeking tho
nomination for Governor on the Radi.
cal ticket. Just tho man for Brown
low and his party.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-06-12

A GREELEY ORaAN.-E. ii. Rauch,
apt cnwefelbrcnner," formerly edi-
tor Of Father Abraham proposes to
start, in Lancaster, campaign paper
TO be called The Greeley Banner.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-06-12

Before voting Mr.. Clymcr stated
that Mr.. Hopkins desired his namc 10
bo withdrawn.
The names OF Messrs. Baird, Maisch,
Lawshe, and Temple Of Philadelphia
wore withdrawn after tho first ballot.
At the close of tho second ballot the
president declared William Hartley,
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-06-12

A defendant in a New York court
produced letter from his washer.wo-
man testifying to his good character.
This witty stroke Of fiat irony procured
his release.