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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-08
PROFESSOR MORSE.

The alarming illness of Prof. Morse
has had the effect of recalling public at
tention to tie life and services of that
eminent man. Born at Charlestown.
Mass, in 1871, and graduated at Yale
in 1910, his earlier years of manhood
we're devoted to the study and practice
of painting, particularly portrait paint
ing, for which art Mr.. Morse had great
love and talent. He was, however, only
moderately successful. and was destined
to perform far greater work in an en-
tirely different sphere of action. While
in college his attention had been care
fully directed to chemistry and other
branches of natural philosophy and in
he worked out the problem of the tele-
graph, and completed his first machine
The difficulties which he met in endeav-
oring to obtain adequate recognition from
the different Governments need not be
recapitulated. At last, when all hope
was abandoned Congress allotted him
$4,000 on March 4th, 1913, ''at the
midnight hour of the expiring session"
In 1912 he had constructed the line be-
tween Washington and Baltimore, and
sent over its wires the first message,
"What had God wrought" The effect,
as shown in the revulsion of popular feel
ing on the subject, was magical, and
Mr.. Morse became at once the lion of
the day, Since that time he has receiv-
ed 'honors and emoluments innumerable,
both at home and abroad and has been
permitted to live in the enjoyment Of
fame and prosperity far beyond the al
lotted limit of life The latest accounts
concerning his illness are reassuring
and it is hoped that he will live to en-
joy many more years in the world he
has benefited so intellectually.
Since the above was in type, the news
comes that Prof. Morse is dead. The
last Thursdays Boston Herald says:
The funeral services of Prof Morse
will take place at Rev. DR.. Adams
(Presbyterian) church, Madison square,
New York, this morning, at eleven
o'clock The remains will rest in Green
wood Cemetery
Gov. Hoffman yesterday sent mes
sage to the New York Legislature rec
ommending the adoption of resolutions
expressive of regret at the death of Pro-
fessor Morse, and the appointment of a
joint committee to attend the funeral.
The Senate appointed a committee to at
tend the funeral, and it was suggested
that his statue be placed in the capitol
at Washington in place of OF in addition
to the statue of Robt. Fulton.
The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
have adopted resolutions of regret at Mr.
Morse's death.
The Directors of the New York, New
foundland and London Telegraph Com
pany and the directors of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, passed APP.
propriate resolutions on the death of Pro.
fessor Morse, and voted to attend the
funeral
Prof. Morse's property is estimated
at half million dollars, which he lef
to his wife, after the payment of his
debts. After her death the estate is tt
be apportioned among the children.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-08

Everybody that is anybody must be sin
terviewed," nowadays, and according
ly correspondent of the World has per-
formed that duty to the family of Arthur
O'Conner, the crack Drained boy who
menaced Queen Victoria with pistol to
extort pardon for imprisoned Fenians
He found these people in an impoverish-
ed quarter of London called Houndsditch,
and had a long talk with the father and
mother They both stoutly denied that
the lad was connected with the Fenians,
and yet the mother several times dropped
hints that he was prompted to the fool
hardy undertaking from some source.
The father was unforgiving and spoke
ba 5agh If tRs bSH n Mh4Ss Sn aea had
dangered the employment on which he
and the rest depended They said the
lad was very studious, and of some
what morbid disposition. He was am
bilious and chafed at the impediments
of poverty. The lavish expenditures he
saw on every hand for the Princes
thanksgiving, while so many poor peo-
pie were starving embittered his spirit,
and he sat up night after night engaged
in writing, One morning his mother
found him fast asleep on his table, with
a parchment beside him, which he caught
up and concealed the moment he was
aroused. 1t was probably one of thu
curious documents found in his possess
ion at the time of his arrest.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-08

The Democrats are waiting for the
Liberals" to move, and the Liberals
are at sea until they know what the
Democrats intend to do. The Chase
men are also shy of the Davis men, and
while candidates in all the clements are
more plentiful than blackberries in June.
we have nothing on hand of what voters
call principles. Perhaps the opposition
have concluded to dispense with that
sort of thing, or think it best to first
gather the soreheads into a party, and
then manufacture the principles to
suit, something after the style the Irish
man supposed they got up brass cannon,
by list making hole and thin pouring
melted brass around it. National Re
publican.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-08

WITH HIS FIDDLE UNDER HIS ARM-
1t is not only in writing of "What [
know about farming" that the n. \.
Tribune can be funny, as witness the
following:
Everything that can possibly happen
to a fiddler happens to Mr. Ole Bull
Being in the Clinton House. Iowa City.
Iowa, a few nights since, when that tav-
ern burned. Mr. Bull is reported to have
escaped from the flames in his night
clothes, with his fiddle affectionately
carried under his arm-a scene for a his
torical painter the best of the kind since
that of Eneas carrying his venerable
papa away from the flames of consuming
Troy. OF course the classical reader
will be inevitably reminded by this acct
dent of Mr.. Bulls eminent predecessor,
Nero Imperator, scraping out his great
Confagration Concerto. Probably this
was the most natural CON .tuoco move
ment ever executed by Mr.. Bull; and
we suppose that he will utilize it in
crotchets and semi breves. and will give
us piece which, in its way, will be
quite as moving thing as the artists
great War Polacca; for the ringing of
bells. the shouts of the walters, the
screams of the chambermaids, and the
swearing of the iremen, all initiated up
on one string of the very fiddle which
came so near being burned, will furnish
sonata which Mr.. Gilmore will be
glad to have for his Jubilee. One of
| the sweetest and tenderest ideas sug-
gested by Mr.. Bulls rescue of his fiddle
is that. in the absence of Mrs. Bull, he
sleeps with his dear Cremona; and so
the new composition may open with a
lullaby, deepen into a hurricane. and
end as God pleases.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-08

INTENSE HEAT IN AUsTRALIA.-Du-
ring the month of January the heat was
intense at Adelaide, in South Australia,
for the space of twelve days. With the
exception OF two or three hours in the sew
enth night, the mercury never fell below
50 degrees, and ranged in the day up to
los degrees in the shade Business
nearly ceased. The houses got so
thoroughly heated in the day that they
had no chance of cooling in the night.
and sleeping, with many people, became
an impossibility. Even cool bath was
a luxury scarcely attainable, for the
temperature of the water-works water
rose to seventy-nine degrees. Toward
the end of the twelve days, those who
could afford it fed to the seaside, where
they refreshed themselves in cooler
temperature.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-08

Recently there was buried in Louis
vile, Kentucky, young man whose ca
reer in life had MANY strange episodes
When the war broke out he was pupil |
in the Louisville high school and nine
teen years of age. He left school and
entered the Confederate States service.
In a skirmish near Yorktown in 1862 he
was wounded. On his way home shortly
afterwards he was captured. After he
was exchanged he again entered the ar
my and was second time taken prisoner,
at Dallas, and taken to Chicago. Ar
irving in that city he escaped from the
train and soon crossed over to Canada.
He participated in the St. Adams raid.
At the end of the war. before the proc
lamation of amnesty, he went to Paris,
where he was for time employed in an
American banking house. In order to
acquire a serviceable knowledge of the
French language he went to provincial
city to live in the family of an educated
priest. One day the American consul at
Lyons, General Osterhaus remarked in
the presence of the bankers who had en-
ployed the young man that he had diff
Guilty in finding suitable person for
temporary consular agent in St. Etienne
and they recommended their former clerk,
Charles NJ Swager He was sent for.
appointed and discharged the duties of
the position several months, no inquiries
being made concerning his antecedents.
For some reason the regularly appointed
agent did not accept the position, and
one morning in November, 1866, young
Swager received by mail commission
as consular agent at st. Etienne, signed
by William H. Seward, while he was
yet an unpardoned rebel He held the
office until the amnesty proclamation of
September Z, 1867, was issued. when he
resigned and returned home. Owing to
ill-health, he returned to France two
years afterwards, and during the siege of
Paris by the Prussians she'll entered
his chamber and exploded. wounding
him severely and necessitating amputa-
ton of one foot. He never recovered,
and died in Paris in February, 1872
1t is remarkable that he should have
held for two years an honorable official
position abroad while unpardoned, in
view of the fact that the narticinants in
the st. Albans raid were pretty well adj
vertised, and that he himself was ar
raigned before a Canadian court for his
part in the affair Before the end of his
consular service, General Osterh8us heard
a rumor to the effect that his protege
had been in the rebel army, and asked
him concerning it. He acknowledged
the fact, but added 'but | have taker
the oath of allegiance and performed my
duty faithfully, and | don't see that an
other could have done more" whcreupor
the subject dropped.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-08

A SAD CAsE.-Years ago, a score or
more, Thomas Williams. mechanic.
met and loved belle of Newport, was
loved by her in return, and in spite of
the objections of her parents, who,
thought she could do better, the two
were married. For years their married
life was happy, save in SO fer as it was
marred by the lasting chilllness of con-
duct on the part of the brides parents.
Not many months ago the husbands
health failed, and he went to bed at
their boarding house in the city, where
they had long resided, with an incur
able tumor. Being unable to support
the family, the wife became dressmaker,
and was successful so long as her hus-
band did not require constant atten-
ton. But three weeks ago he be-
came helpless and she was forced to at
tend him constantly. To calm her
nerves, which became excited through
assiduous labors and the consciousness
that she was soon to be bereaved. she re-
sorted to the use of opiates. On Friday
she took an overdose of laudanum, and,
when found by another inmate of the
house, was lying upon the floor of her
room, writhing in agony, while upon
the bed, near by, lay her husband, con-
scious of her suffering, but powerless
himself to aid her or even to call for
succor. Ere death relieved her there
came a letter which, had it not arrived
too late, must have relieved her heart
and her body of many burdens, but the
repentance therein expressed was of no
avail. The lady died in the evening,
and the husband was released from all
earthly tribulation few hours later
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-08

The Toledo Blade tells story at the
expense of Mark Twain and the Fat
Contributor. They met at the Sherman
House, Chicago, where Cough was also
staying at the time, and concluded to p
muse themselves by sending cocktail
to Coughs room. On its arrival there,
it was of course refused, but the waiter
drank it on the way down stairs, and
reported ''all right" to the delighted
humorists. A second and third cock
tail were sent up and disposed of in like
manner, when Cough appeared on the
scene and spoiled the joke by exposing
the craft of the waiter whom he had fol-
lowed and detected in the act of absorb
ing the last beverage.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-08

The three or fur discontinued Sena-
tors, open opposers of Gen. Grants re-
nomination, with the aid of Mr.. Greeley
and his Tribune, are busy in getting up
Convention of choice spirits-neither a
mass, nor delegated meeting What
influence such proceeding will be like
ly to exert is not at this moment to be
estimated. We predict total failure of
this so-called Republican Convention, and
and that the discounted and disappointed
will in the end make themselves as hap
Ply as the case will admit, under Gen.
Grants denomination, and reelection.
-Keene ~. H. Sentinel.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-08

And now Greeley is getting mad at
the prospect Of a free-trade plank at Gin
cinnati, and says, ''count me OUT He
has already been counted out, and walk
ed his plank. Then steps in Sumner,
and applying his Senatorial thumb to his
own august nose, remarks: mo Cincin-
natl for me, thank ye.' Really, Schurz
will have hard time at his May carnival.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-08

EXPLOSION AT SEA.-,Seyen persons
Killed The barque Nimrod was burned
at Bermuda on the 10Th inst, and of
seventeen persons on board only ten
were saved The vessel was loaded with
naphtha and kerosene, and an explosion
from some unknown cause took place in
the portion of the hold behind the main
hatch and running aft beneath the cabin
as far as the stern. 1t is believed that
the captains wife and daughter. a young
girl were in the cabin at the time of the
explosion When the fire was seen from
the harbor of Bermuda it was too late
to render assistance.
The LONDON GLOBE EXCITED OVER AN
ARBITRATION RUMoR.-London, April 8.
The Globe calls attention to rumor
of the extraordinary character which has
obtained currency in London that the
case of the American government before
the Geneva tribunal of arbitration esti-
mates the losses Of citizens of the United
States by the capture and destruction of
American ships and cargoes by confed-
crate cruisers, built or fitted out in the
English waters, at $l4, 100000, and the
expenses of the United States government
in pursuing said privateers at 5000, 000,-
000 The Globe comments with some
severity upon this statement and express
ses the hope that Mr. Gladstone be
speedily called upon in Parliament for
an explanation as to its truth or false
hood
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-08
FARM FOR SALE.

A good farm of about 60 acres of land under good
cultivation good sugar place 600 buckets and good
sugar tools. good dwelling house-24 by 81 and ea
Is by 3-woOdshed two barnsand carriage house, and
never failing water Also for sale about ten acres gooo
land with new buildings and running water thereon
fenced and in good conditions all situated WITHIN oe
of WIN. TMOMbL1' *
Bloomington, VT, Feb. "a. 1872. gu
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-08


The World, with unusually neighborly
kindness. comes to the defense of Mr..
Greeley from the charge of inconsistency
in indorsing the free trade convention at
Cincinnati. The best it can say, how
ever, is that the New York call ''strad-
dies the free trade question, and COM
mits nobody to either side of it Hor-
ace Greeley ''straddling' great public
question, and defended by the leading
Democrat journal, makes curious COM
bination.
The Irish Republic sensibly advises
Irishmen to support President Grant.
asserting that he is the ''fairest and
kindest man to all the races that ever
sat in the Presidential chair
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-08
THE EXCLUSIVE SALE OF THEM.

better than to give us call. Old drinkers pro-
nounce our Japs the best they ever used. They are
pure fresh and exceeding healthy. Weinvite spe-
cia attention will take all kinds OF produce in
exchange for goods market prices.
Barton, VT. Feb. Is, 1879.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-08

ALL Fools DAY.-This holiday Of
FOOLS occurred on Monday. The custom
of making the first day of April an al
most universal all fools day, probably
originated with the Hindoos. The an
clients held this day in great veneration,
and it has been duly observed by the
Romans, and other European nations,
from the earliest times
ssThe first of April, some do say,
Is set apart for All Fools Day;
But why the people call it SO,
Nor l, nor they themselves do know.
But on this day are people sent
On purpose for pure merTiment;
And though the day is known before,
Yet frequently there is great in store
Ofthese forgetfnls to be found"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-08
FOR SALE.

W c. Parker now wishes to sell his store the no
tel 1t is the best building in the village of its size.
II is first class store with upper tenement and
out houses great bargain will he given. 1t is one
Of the best locations in northern Vermont for first
class millinery business. if desired part of the pur-
chase money can remain on the property.
A RARE HANCE
Barton Landing VT, March %
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-08
BUY YOUR GOODS LOW ,
and the place for you to buy them low
n II I'll a Ill -

1t is fact that YOU can get more goods Halls for
the same amount money than amy other place in
Orleans county We cordially invite all to call ard cX
anime our stock and pass Judgment. We have few
, 1872-10-09

worth listening to, and the truth is ad-
vanced by discussion, and Mr.. Whitield's
pamphlet seems a well-intentioned contri-
button to the literature of the colonial
question. In this sense it is welcome, but
when our author admits that Guiana has
but a single staple-sugar-and afterwards
deplores an ~antagonism, which is said to
exist between the so-called "sugar inter
est" and other parties which have but a
rhetorical existence in his pages, he sho vs.
but a superficial knowledge Of the colony.
On the other hand he speaks we'll of i'm
migration, and justly SO but when he rails
against some of the essential conditions of
the system, his remarks are neither practi-
cal nor wise. Although it might not be,
perhaps, profitable to discuss at length Mr..
WhitfeId's suggestions, it may be said that
his pamphlet is interesting in parts
and will repay perusal. There is OCCASION
ally a passage of smart writing, but it can
hardly be said that a consistent argument
is developed, whilst the inordinate length
of foot-notes, covering in several instances
nearly the whole of a page, renders the me-
chanical effort of reading rather tiresome.
The proposed Land Bill of Sir B. Pine
has attracted the attention Of parties in
terested in the Islands, and an opportunity
will be taken to make a few remarks upon
it's provisions in these columns.
The meeting of the Social Science Asso-
citation annually held for the general pro-
motion Of vanity and business, is not so
well attended this year, which is, perhaps,
q proof of the greater spread Of common
sense. Tits not improbable that the subject
of West Indian immigration will be discuss
ed in the absence of more exciting topics
European Mail nth Sept.
, 1872-10-09

An advocate Of dueIIing once said,
"Bat if one gives you the lie, would you
not call HIM outs 2" by no MEANS" re-
piled the sage. "WeIl, what would you
then do" "Simply request him to prove
it," "And if he does, what then 2" ask
ed the advocate, to which he was an
swered-''Thcn [ am the liar" but if
not p asked the former. "Of course"
says the latter, Gin that case, hctjs the
liar-that's all"
An easy going fellow once asked a
loan of his friend, who, regretting his
inability to comply, answered, Gas | live,
| have it not" Then replied Mr.. Hards-
up, ''please, friend don't live so extra
vagantIy in future, and you will always
have a spare dollar to lend a fellow"
How consideratc.
, 1872-10-09

L~ondon.-Sugar Muscovado GAS. Cd. Cry
stalls SIS. Cd. Demerara Rum Is. %. Trim
dad Cocoa 63s. Consols 92a. Bank rate al
q. ct. Sugar at Bordeaux 1851.
The contest between the Democrats and Re-
p~ublicans for the Presidency of the United
States is still uncertain, but the results of the
Geneva Arbitration has created a general feel
ing favourable to the election of General Grant.
1t is rumoured that a congress of European
Powers is to be convened to sanction settle-
ments arising out of the late war.
10000 French and 900, 900 German soldiers
persisted in the war.
During the recent Military experiments CO.
lionel Raffye's Mitrailleuse was loaded and
fred five times q minnie.
Won Moltke is visiting Alsace and Lorraine.
The feeling Of the French is evinced by their
apparently ignoring his presence.
Both Sept.
New York.-Meal s34 to 4. Pork S14.
Crystal Sugar 10c. Gold 114B. Sterling u.
London-Sugar Muscovado 24s. Cd. Cry
stalls Sis. Cd. Demerara Rum Is. 95d. Trim
idad Cocoa 63s. Rentes 534. ConsOl3 924.
Bank rate a p. ct. Sugar in st. Nazaire 1921.
The French writer Edmund About who was
arrested by the Germans has been liberated.
There are still $4,000 French Communists in
prison not yet tried.
The Cotton fabric houses in England have
reduced the hours of work in consequence of
the high price of coal.
The crops in Cuba are expected to exceed
by 80 p. ct. those of last year.
Mr.. Garrett Davis, Senator for the State of
Kentucky, is dead.
The crops in France are good and the pros
poets of agriculturaIists in every respect excel
~ nh ---.L
10,O00,0 900 hectolitres.
A commission has been appointed to enquire
into the real condition Of French Military Ar
senals.
The correspondence sent cut from Paris dur
ing the siege by the Balloon Jacquart has just
been delivered, having been found in the ScilIy
Islands.
There was a heavy fall of snow in Sheffield on
Wednesday 25th.
, 1872-10-09

\QdJ6
New YoRK.-Meal $50 to A. Pork S14. Urys-
tails Sugar loo. Gold 114B. Sterling u.
3Oth Sept.
NEW ORLEANs.-Flour double to treble o1-
ira $93 to 81.
LoNDoN.-Sugar Muscovado 24s. Cd. Crys-
tails 31s. ed. Demerara Rum Is. ODD. Trini-
dad Cocoa 63s. Rentes $50. Consols 924. Bank
rate Al p. c. Sugar at Marseilles 1879. Ta6a at
Havre 40 to so.
The Spanish Government intends to appeal
to European powers against the conduct OF the
United States in regard to flibustering expedI-
ton to Cuba. Fall of snow in England Sept.
90.
photographic Cable is to be laid between Por-
tugal and Brazil.
A dispatch from Earl Kimberley notifies that
the Colonies will not be called to pay for space
occupied at the Vienna exhibition of '73.
Norwegian brig Saxon, !" from Liverpool
bound to Brazil with general cargo, went ashore
on Morand Keys on LIST. Total Wreck-nO lives
lost.
Ten thousand pounds was expended on Edu-
cation in Jamaica last year.
ST. THoMHs, 4th October
NEW YORK Meal $33 to 4. Pork $14.
Crystals Sugar loo. Gold 1145. Sterling u
p. ct.
LoNDoN.-Muscovado Sugar GAS. Cd. Crys-
tails 31s. cd. Demerara Rum Is. 93d. Trini-
dad Cocoa G3s. Rentes $50. Consols 924. Bank
rate a pc.
Sugar at Havre 1857. Tafa at St. Nazaire
AZ t. 55f.
The German Iron Cross was offered to a
Frenchman for saving a Uhlan from drowning
The cross was refused, but the liberation OF the
last French soldier imprisoned was solicited in
the terms-I saved one of your men, you owe
me- one. Prince Bismark's health is still precarl-
Gus.
Senior Gorilla pronounced the position of f.
nance as very critical.
4ainThs raid of the Indians in Honduras is saidto
be 90 apprehensive, that unless $50 soldiers are
: constantly kept there the settlers lives and pro-
perty are unsafe.
The Intention of introducing gaming tables
into France is again denied.
The Cuba Submarine Telegraph Go. have de-
c1area q dividend of 5 per cent. and increased
their reserve fund 5000 pounds.