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WANTED,

100000 feet of nice Spruce Lumber, cut 10
feet long, IL inches thick without regard to width
and 100000 feet of Hard Wood Lumber, same lensth
and one inch thick. Also quantit! OF Basswood'hy
C. H. OWN L Z.
Dealer in all kinds of Hard and Soft WOOD LUMBER
Office in skinner Il Drew sbuding, Barton. VI
Barton, Jaruary4 4, 1879 IN
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-06-17
FLOUR, FISH, SALT,

and Nails Grass and northern Clover Seed. Butter
and Sugar sent to the best commission houses in Bos
ton free of any charge, except freight and regular Bos
ton commission. A liberal advancement made con-
signments. The above business is intended to be car
ried on STRICTLY the principal of live and letlve
E. o. RANDALL.
West Glover VT, April 20. 1872.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-06-17

10 which western paper adds, "Heav-
en- be thanked for those three last words.
The West has committed no sin so great
as to call for the residence of H. G. with
in its bounds.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-06-17
EXECUTIVE MANSION.

pie:
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON, D. c., June 10 1872.
To Hon. Thomas Settle, President Of
National Republican Convention, and
the Wee Presidents
GENTLEMEN: Your letter Of this
date, advising me of the action of the
Convention held at Philadelphia on the
fifth and sixth of this month. and of
my unanimous nomination for the Presi-
dency by it, is received. I accept the
nomination, and, through you, return
my heartfelt thanks to your constituents
for this mark of their confidence and
support. If elected in November, and
protected by kind Providence, in health
and strength to perform the duties of
the high trust conferred, [ promise the
same zeal and devotion to the good of
the whole people for the future of my
official life as shown in the past. Elk
perience may guide me in avoiding mis-
takes inevitable with novices in all pro-
LESSONS and all occupations. When re-
lieved from the responsibilities of my
present trust by the election of a sue
cessor, whether it be at the end of this
term or the next, I hope to leave to him
as executive country at peace within
its own borders, at peace with outside
nations, with credit at home and abroad
and without embarrassing questions to
threaten future prosperity. With the
expression of desire to see speedy
healing of all bitterness of feeling be-
tween sections, parties or races. of citi
zens, and time when the title of citi
zen carries with it all the protection and
privilege to the humblest that it does t.
the most exalted, subscribe myself,
Very respectfully.
Your obedient servant,
u. S. GRANT. O
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-06-17
STATE CONVENTION.


The Democrats of Vermont met in
delegate convention, at Montpelier, at
IL o'clock Wednesday. The meeting
was called to order by H. B. Smith,
chairman of the State committee, who,
after speech of the compromising order,
nominated c. J. Gleason, Esq, of Mont
pelier, temporary chairman. Morillo
Noyes, of Burlington, and R. S. Childs,
of Wilmington, were elected secretaries,
which was subsequently made the per-
manent organization. The following
delegates and alternates were elected -
Delegates-H. B. Smith, Milton; G. H. Weeks Lyn-
don; VIM T. Horrobin. Bennington; Ii. W Heaton
Montpelier B. B. Smalley. Burlington; j. Fl. Williams,
Briiuws Falls; g. w. Aiken, Troy; G. j. Soper, Mid
dlebury; Thomas Keefe, Windsor; and Lucius Robin
son.
Aiternatcs.-G. W. Beardsley, Albany; n p Bow
man. St. Johnsbury; A. P. Childs, Bennington C.. J.
Aljer Burlington; N II. Arlington st. Adams: E. NJ
Sutton, Burlington j. NJ Johnson, Northfeld; Edward
Clark, st. Adams; VIM. Mulchahey Middebury; Geo.
Slate Bellows Falls.
G. M. Chase, from the committee re-
ported the following =
Rcsolped-That the democracy of Vermont, assem-
bed in Convention to select delegates to the national
Convention at Baltimore, recognizing the recent chan
ges in the nature and constitution Of the government
ready to cooperate with all those who favor limit
ed and localized governments and who seek to restrain
the exercise by Congress of absolute powers. pre-
vent private legislation to restrain the growth OF
corporations and to work permanent civil service
FORM ft
Resolpcd-That the platform Of principles adopted
by the Cincinnati Convention indicates progress
of public opinion towards sound views of government
that all patriotic citizens may and shord unite upon
that platform. well calculated to restore honest
administration and enforce the obligations Of the
sttution, and delegates instructed to secure
if possible the triumph OF those principles. and to
support any candidates representing Them who shall
meet the approval of the democracy in national con-
vention assembled.
At the conclusion of the business, S.
J. Meaney, Editor of the Irish Citizen,
and long life democrat, made an en-
thusiastic speech in faver of Greeley
and the Cincinnati platform.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-06-17
REPUBLICAN UNION STATE
CONVENTION.

Republican Union State Convention will be held
at Montpelier, on Wednesday, June 26th, 1872, at 10
o'clock A. NJ. to nominate candidates for Governor,
Lieutenant Governor and Treasurer, to be supported
at the State election in September next; also to NOM
mate two Presidential Electors at Large to be support
ed at the coming Presidential Election.
The Republican Union voters or this State will be
represented in the Convention by their delegates to
be chosen the basis OF delegate from each town
and an additional delegate for each hundred votes
cast for the Republican candidate at the last State cleo
ton Delegates will provide themselves with proper
credentials signed the Secretaries Of their respective
primary meetings.
@. G.. BENEDICT, Chairman.
KITTREDGE HASKINS Secretary.
GEO. A. MERRILL, \
H. G.. ROOT, pb,:.
B. =. FIFIELD, A''R
STEPHEN THOMAS, c.+
PROSPER MERRILL, ''
ALBERT CLARKE, \ T,.:tt..
o. N. ELKINS ~
Z. FAIRBANKS, !
Brattleboro Vt, June Sd, 1872
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-06-17
BALTIMORE CONVENTION.

From present appearances it seems
likely that the Baltimore convention will
ratify the Chicago nominations. Demo-
cratic state conventions have been held
in Kansas, Indiapa, Iowa, South Carroll
ma and in our own state; and IN every
one of them delegates were chosen in fa-
vor of Greeley & Brown. Should Balti-
more endorse Greeley it seems almost
certain that there will be split in the
Democratic party. We think that a
majority of the Democrats in the ex-
IRENE north favor Greeley, but in the
South, Notwithstanding Greeley helped
their chief, the majority seems to be the
other way-against him. A Washing
ton dispatch says that several prominent
Democrats, representing Virginia, Texas,
Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Arkansas
and New York, held secret meeting at
Washington last Wednesday evening
and resolved that in the event of the Bal
timore convention endorsing the nomi-
nee Of Cincinnati, immediate steps would
be taken for calling another convention
to be held at indianapolis, for the pur-
pose of nominating straig ht-out Dem
Ocratic candidate for the Presidency
The Kansas City Times, an ultra pro-
rebel sheet of the old school says, "should
the Northern Democracy force nomina.
ton at Baltimore, the Southern Democ.
racy will refuse to obey the command
or they will make the best terms posi-.
BILE with Grant and vote for him solid.
These, with many other like indications
60 to show that the Democratic party
cannot be united with Greeley as can
didate. Let them nominate a gooc
Democrat at Baltimore and we believ,
their chances of success in Novembe
would be much more favorable than t,
undertake to ride into power on the bacl
of poor old Mr.. Greeley and run the risl
of making wide breach in the party.
s
We have received from Geo. 2. Rowel
& Co., Publishers and Newspaper AID
vertising Agents, Al Park Row, Ney
York, copy of the American Newspa
per Directory for 1872, containing accu
rate lists of all the newspapers and pc
radicals published in the United State
and territories. and the Dominion {
Canada and British Colonies of Mort
America, together with description {
the towns and cities in which they al
published. 1t not only gives the name
of all the newspapers, but gives the dat
when established, by whom published
the size, politics, circulation, &c. 1t
indeed valuable book, which no pull
Usher should be without.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-06-17
PRESIDENT GRANTS ACCEPT.
ANCE.

The following is President Grants
letter in reply to letter from the off,
GERS of the Philadelphia Convention no.
tifying him of his denomination to the
office of President of the United States.
1t is model letter-short, modest.
and sensible, and such as will commend
its author anew to the American peo-
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-06-17

,ShelbyviUe, Msnn., June 3, 1872.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-06-20
INVENTION BY ACCIDENT.

Some professedly scientific Journals oc,
caslonally handle scientific subjects in a
very unscleDtifc manner. A marked in
stance OF this occurs in a recent number
OF journal which claims to be devoted
TO the discussion of all measures calculated
TO reform, improve, elevate" etc. etc.
In an article entitled Accidental Discov.
cries" it seys: "Not few discoveries in
the arts and sciences have been made or
suggested by accident. The use of the
pendulum, suggested by the vibrating of
a chandelier in a cathedral the power
OF steam, intimated by the oscillating of
the LID OF tea kettle the utility of coal
gas Tor light, experimental upon by an
ordinary tobacco pipe of white CLAW the
magnltying property Of the lens, stumbled
upon by an opticians apprentice while
holdlng pectacle-glasses between his
thumb and finger; the attraction of orav,
station, as limited to the philosopher New.
ton by the fall of an apple,ar well. known
instances in proof of the fact. Galvan-
ism was discovered by accident. pro
lessor Galvani, of Bologna, in Italv. oava
ais name to the operation, but his wife
Ia considered as actually entitled to the
credit OF the discovery. She BEING in
bad health, some frogs were ordered for
ner. As they lay upon the table, skinned
she noticed that their limbs becan1e strono'
ly convulsed when near an electric con,
ductor. She called her husbands atten-
ton TO the fact he instituted a series Of
experlm ents, and n 1889 the galvanic bat.
@ery was invented. Eleven years later
with that discovery for his basis. prof
-Alsssandro Volta, also an Italian. an
nounced his discovery of the 'voltaic
pile" io
A tissue of errors more complete than
that contained N the passage we have
quoted, It would be difficult to fad. Thai
some discoveries have been made bv ac-
cident, we will not undertake tn depy.
but it is very certain that not single one
OF those enumerated in the above passage
are of the number The pendulum was
discovered by Calico who watched the
chandelier, simply, because his mind was
already occupied with pendplams and
the laws Of falling todies. The power of
steam had been discovered before tea or
tea kettles were known to Europeans
and when Watt sat watching the steam
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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-06-20
STRAY THOUGHTS FROM VICTOR
HUGO.
From the Chicago Tribune.

FROM Inc CnlcagO tribune.
The laugh comes of quite as good a
family as knowledge.
One may believe in God in TWO ways
either az thirst believes in the orange,
or as the ass believes in the whip.
The dog carries his smile in his tail.
In ecclssia tical affairs, Imagination
means heresy.
Comrade of all the world, and com.
panion of nobody.
There is one rule for great men Do
nothing; another for little ones: Say
nothing. o
The people adopt instinctively what
the Index menances.
am convinced that God orders the
lest to be quiet, otherwise it would be
God who would suffer from hearing an
eternal wall.
The bliss of Olympus is only purchas.
ed at the cost of the silence of Cocyctus.
To have sapling in ones spiRe-what
source of fortune
The sleeping serpent crouched in a
coil signifies, at once, infnity and
nothingness.
Did you ever remark in certain pieces of
machinery how small the moving wheel
was a?
A restoration is smile, but smack
of the gallows does not lily become it.
IF Chaos is the architect, the structure
will be Babel.
d. not extirpate the vices, if you would
have charming women.
A crime against child is an offense
against God.
An old man is thinking ruin.
They went to see Gwynplains as they
went to gin; they went to buy penny's
worth of forgetfulness
God, the author of many most excellent
poems, is the first Litter0teur.
The Commons have the right of con
senting to say Yes is their privilege.
Man respires, aspirss, and expires.
The devil has been illuminated. He
did net seduce Eve she tempted him.
Woman commenced it. Lucifer was pass
ing peaceably by Paradise. He SAW Eve
and became Satan.
Pride is the heel in which all heroes
are vulnerable.
She (Josiane) cared little for her rep,
utation, but much for her fame. IF she
had stabbed herself, it would have oaly
been like Lucrece-afterwards
Despair has strong hands.
Ghosts should iahablt ruins. Totter-
ed institutions should bo housed in
crumbling palaces.
You think yourself god be sick to.
morrow and see your divinity shiveriDg
with fever
If you would preserve any old thing,
human or divine, code or dogma, order
%o -
not even its envelope. At most, tack on
piece. Thus Jesuitism is piece added
to Catholicism.
An aristocracy limited in numbers is
the most intense of aristocracies. The more
members there are in an assembly, the
fewer are its heads.
To accomplish toll Of Sisyphus for
an ants result.
Say evil, but do none. Or, if you
must do it, do it wholesale. Stab, but
do not scratch, ualess the pin is poison
ed. This is an extenuating circumstance
Is laughter synonym of joy?
All existence resembles letter. which
IS modified by the postscript.
HOW many men have thought thew
were praying to Jupiter, and were pray.
ing to Jehovah How many believers In
amulets have been listened to by the
Eternal! How many Atheists do not
perceive that, by the sole fact that they
are good and sad, they prey to God
Good actions have wings ard go where
Shey should go. Your prayer knows
mere than you
To be For is only force on condition
that, at the same time, one is Against.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-06-20
EZILl!Iy I,d!'!!I|.lI. HlEl;IIl1
lEIIE!I|IRB8I f;iA|
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able to produce One-fourth as many gespine liy-
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as Dr. Filters Vegetable Rheumatic Remedy-the
scientific prescription of an eminent educated
physician, and the only reliable specific ever dis
covered.
Sc, 900 Reward offered to any Person
proving Jos. P. Filter, M. D., to be other than
a graduate of the celebrated University of Penn.
svlvana in 1888, and Professor of Chemistry and
Tex1colOgy.
81, 600 Reward to any Chemist, Physician,
0, others able to discover Iodide of Petassa
Cochicum. Mercury, or anything injurious to the
system in DR.. Filters Rheumatic Syrup.
$3.50 Reward for the name of any prepare.
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gold under similar legal guarantee, setting forth
the exact number OF bottles to cure or return the
amount paid for same to the patient in case of
failure to cure. Full description of cases reuuir-
ing guarantees must be forwarded by letter to
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issuing from the spout of the tea-kettle,
1t Was because bis mind was already alb
sorbed in Investigations in regard to steam
and the steam engine. That the first
chemists used tobacco pipes to obtain GAS
from coal is true, but their doing so was
no more accident than if they had used
elaborate and costly retorts. The story
Of the discovery of the magnifying prop
critics of the lens contradicts itself for
how are we to suppose that q spectacle
maker apprentice should discover the
very pr perty which had been LONG be.
fore utilized in specCacles themselves in
other words, magnifying power being the
property for which spectacles are used, it
is obvious that it must have been known
| long before any spectacle maker had an
apprentice. The story Of Newton and
the apple never had any foundation in
fact, and this has been so generally ac-
knowledged that no respectable writer
would attempt to revive it. Accident
had nothing to do with Nowton's great
discovery which was worked out bv solid
mental effort, but we could hardly expect
this tact TO be known to writer who evil
IDENTIFY does not know what that discovery
was since he calls it the discovery of "tbe
attraction" q thing that was well known
| to Adam. Even the laws Of gravitation
we're discovered before Newton's day.
The story Of Madam Galvanl and her frog
leg soup as usually given in the textbooks
IS fabrication OF ALBERT, an Italian wri.
ter OF no repute. Galvani had then been
for eleven years engaged upon series of
experiments in which he used frogs legs
as elcCtrO>c0pes
Such mistakes, considered as mere mis-.
takes, are not worth noticing for they
abound in our pseudo-scientifc Journals.
We notice them here, however, because in
thi particular case their influence is pc
culiarly evil, as they tend to convey to
young minds the idea that success depends
| upon good luck" or accident" or some
! thing Of the kind and not upon fair, hon
| est, hard work Now in every one Of the
cases mentioned III the article from which
we have quoted, it will be found that
"accident" played the most unimportant
share in effectlng The result. 1t was not
the chandelier but his mental training
and study that gave to Gallileo the dis
c0verles that have immortalized bis name.
Therefore, let our young readers, to whom
this article is chiefly addressed, remember
that as 1t has been in the past, so it will
be in the future, and the measure OF sue
cess attained, will, in general, be in exact
| proportion to the amount of judiciously
directed effort that is expanded. Acct
dent may be very fairly left out of the
the count; to depend upon it is to lean
upon broken reed In the mental and
moral worlds, as we'll as in the physical,
the great doctrines of the conservation
and correlation of the forces will be found
to hold good, and if there be no work,
there will be no result -TSchmoIoqist.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-06-20

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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-06-20

| 0. others able to discover Iodide of Petassa
Colchicum. Mercury, or anything injurious to the
system in DR.. Filters Rheumatic Syrup.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-06-20

| So, 900 Reward offered to any Person
proving Jos. P. Filter, M. D., to be other than
a graduate Of the celebrated University of Penn
sylvania in 1888, and Professor of Chemistry and
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-09-21
THE BOYD MYSTERY.
A aLfMERINa LfGHT-sUPosED ESCAPE OF
BOYD TO GEORGIA.

We have, says the Knoxville Press and
Herald Of Sunday, but little to add of an
important or satisfactory character rela-
tive to the Boyd affair, though there is
still much speculation in regard to many
of the details. Curiosity is still eager to
know the precise truth Of the whole trans
action.
There being no longer question in the
minds of any one who has read or heard
the facts already, in regard to Boyd's
ruse and escaped tho iqnuiry now is,
whether tho two witnesses, Reagan and
and Hensley, vera privy TO the plot--in-
GLIDING the ROBBERY Of the grave aud burn
ing Of the negro's body, the alleged seiz-
ure by disguised men, etc.,-or whether
they we're innocently imposed on by Boyd
and his confedcrates in the mountain, for
purpose of establishing the fact of his be-
ing killed, and Of being corroborated BY
the burnt remains.
The acquaintances of the two men,
many Of them, believe this story and
think II was the plan OF Boyd to have
them seized and tied as reported, so that
they might concientiously give evidence
OF his apparent death. This, for the pre-
sent, at least, is the charitable construc-
ton. Others, of course, have their own
and contrary belief.
There are various reports Of Boyd hav-
ing been seen at different points, going in
the direction Of Georgia. Some have
conjectured that; from the horse being
discovered in the neighborhood Of Mouse
Creek, Boyd was reckless enough to re-
turn to the neighborhood of the railroad.
Others regard the appearance of the horse
in that neighborhood, as confederation of
Reagan's and Hensleys story, thinking
one of Boyd's confederates probably rode
him to that point.
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-09-21

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