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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-05-06


ENAMELING THE FACE AND THE RESULT.
A lady in Louisville paid s75, we are
told, for having her face enameled for
the ball given at the Gait House to the
Grand Duke Alexis. The enamel was
warranted to last three days, and SO it
did. The lady was taken i'll upon her
return home from tho ball, her face be-
came greatly swollen, the most acute
pain succeeded, and it was only by the
employment of the best medical skill
that her life was saved. This statement
we have from an undoubted source.
But the case of this lady is not so bad
as that of another Louisville lady who
became enamored of the odious fashion
of enameling the face. She visited an
other city, far to the eastward, some
months ago, for the sole purpose of hav-
ing her face enameled according to the
latest Partisan mode She had heard
that noted Partisan was engaged in the
enameling business at the city in ques-
ton, and to him she went upon her arri-
val. For the sum of $500 he agreed to
enamel her face so scientifically that the
enamel would remain undamaged for
three years, and year or two longer if
extra care was taken in washing the face
according to its prescribed method
The devotee of fashion concluded the
bargain. and $500 of the sum named,
the balance to be paid in yearly install
ments divided into three years.
The lady received the enamel and re-
turned to her home in this city. Since
her return she has disappeared from So
ciety. There was so much poison in the
enamel that its effect was almost imme-
diately developed in the almost total
paralysis of the facial nerves, and what
was once truly beautiful face is to-day
distorted. disfgured and ulcerous one.
The lady's beauty has disappeared
forever, and if her physicians succeed in
saving her life they will have accom-
plished more than they had a right to
hope for. Her eyes are terribly inham-
ed and disfgured, and the sight of them
fast failing.-LomsUiNe Ledger.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-05-06

One who assumes to know, says that
womanly despair for the loss of lover
endures three months in the winter. and
two in the summer the second month
a lady becomes interested in the new
style of hair dressing; the third, she
burns her love letters; twelve months
afterward she hears of her former lovers
marriage, and wonders show she could
have loved man with red mustache. !"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-05-06

A correspondent of the Country Gen
tleman gives the following remedy for
painful wounds Take pan or shovel,
with burning Goals, and sprinkle upon
them common brown sugar, and hold the
wounded part in the smoke. In few
minutes the pain will be allayed, and re-
covery proceed rapidly.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-05-06

A Paris banker lately became luna
tic. He imagined himself magnet
A few days ago, while in his Office, talk
ing very nationally to his wife and daugh-
ter, he suddenly jumped up, exclaiming'
81 am attracted p and dashed himself
head foremost against large iron safe.
Unfortunately, he hit the sharp corner
split his head, and died instantly.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-05-06
A PARODY.

The shades of night were falling fast.
AS through our village street .hcre passed
youth. who bore mid snow and ice,
A bottle with that strange device,
Whisky!
His brow was sad his nose below,
shone like rosebud in the snow,
And like the click of glasses rung
The accents of his maudlin tongue,
Whisky.
In some saloon he saw the light,
Reflect on liquors warm and bright;
Above the spectral housetops shone,
And from his lips escaped a groan.
Whisky
''You must not go;" his father said,
''But just 60 home and go to bed.''
As up the road the youth he spied
But still his thick ming tongue replied,
Whisky
"stop not the maiden said; "but go =
As on he staggered through the snow;
The tears stood in his bloodshot eye:
And still he yelled .How's that fer high?"
Whisky
Beware your Gov'nor's gathering wrath
Beware lest you should lose your path rs
This was the villagers last good night;
voice replied. "Hic, that's all right
VIII Iyl
At break of day, there by the road.
country jake astonished stood,
Upon his face wondering stare
A voice cried through the air.
Whisky
A traveller, by starving hound,
Half buried in the snow was found,
Still grasping in his hand of ice,
That bottle with this strange device
Whisky
There in the roadside ditch he lay.
A lifeless form of dirty clay,
land from the sky serene and far.
A voice fell like falling STAR
Whisky
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-05-06

VXTHOLESALE ana retail dealers in Flour, Corn,
w Pork and Lard, Pants and Oils, Hardware,
West India Goods Groceries Butter and Cheese. Also
VIM. L. Bradleys l. X. L. Phosphate and Sea Fowl Gu
ano.
AARON TwoMBLY J. L. TwoMBLY.
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A TToRNEY AT LAW and Solicitor in Chancery
IA Win attend courts in Orleans and Caledonia
counties. Prompt attention given to collections-
Greensboro, VT
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A. G. ROBINSON,
VIM. w. CIRCUIT.

XXTHOLESALE dealer in Flour, Grain, W. l. Goods,
w Groceries, Lime, Plaster, Oil, Fish, Salt, Iron,
Steel, Nails, Glass, &C.. Depot Store, Barton Vt.
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XNTHEELWRIGHT, Carriage Maker and General
w Job Worker. Open and Top Buggies, and va
rous styles of carriages always hand. Glover Vt
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GHosT-A boy was in the habit of
staying late when he went after the COWS.
His uncle said to him
Jim, amt you afraid to stay out so
long in the dark %
sFraid p said Jim, Il don't know
what fraid means y
well, sir" said his uncle, ''if you
don't bring up those cows sooner, you'll
see Fraid some of these nights
A few days passed and the boy was
as late as ever in coming So his uncle
took sheet one night, wrapped it around
his body, and started out to meet the Ia
zy Jim.
A pet monkey in the house, watching
the movements of his master, took q
table cloth, wrapped it around himself
and followed on at distance. Finally
the uncle came to a tall tree that hao
been cut down and trimmed up, and was
lying parallel with the road. He walked
to the extreme end, on which he took his
stand, awaiting the appearance of jim
The monkey, unperceived by his master
took his position on the other end of the
tree.
Presently along came Jim and thu
COWS. Jim was whistling Jim Grow.
The cows SHE'D out little, but passee
on. But Jim walked up, stopped anc
| looked
s'By gosh! I believe that is Fraid
and there is little Fraid, too
His uncle understanding the meaning
of that expression, looked around to see
when, to his astonishment. he saw littl
Fraid, and away he went as fast as hi
heels would carry him, little Frsid afte
him, when Jim exclaimed at the top 0
his voice
Run, run, big Fraid, or little Frai
will catch you =
That boy would have made as brav
a General as Grant.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-05-06

Quantity Seed Barley for sale by j.
w. HALL.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-05-06
w, w. EATON.

A TTORNEY and Counselorat Law and Claim A gent
IA viii attend the courts in Orleans and Caedonia ia
counties. Barton, Vt.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-05-06

FARM FOR SALE.
situated about one half mile west of Glover village
containing about l6 acres of land known as the widow
Bean place. A. p BEAN
Glover April 20, 1872. l6 If
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-05-06
J. e. DWINELL.

MANUFACTURER and dealer in Furniture of all
WI kinds and descriptions, Carpets, Room Paper,
curtains and fixtures also Cofns and Caskets, Picture
frames, Spring Beds &c. Glover Vt.
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FOR SALE.

TEN STEERS FROM TO YEARS OLD: =:
ONE FAT COW AND ONE FAT HOG
A. p BEAN.
Glover April 90, 1872. 1918
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H. WOODNEAN,

DEALER IN BOOTS, SHOES, and findings ofthe
~ best kind and quality. offered cheap for cash.
Store over A. & J. L. Twombly's
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I. NJ, CURRAN
MARTIN ARROTT

j. NJ. CURRAN,
ID ARBER AND HAIR DRESSER,
D 2 Barton, Vermont
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III. HOLTON. & co.

NTanufactures and Dealers, in all kinds Of Harness
IVA es. Also Whips, Curycombs, Cards, Brushes
&c. Vacuum oil Backing for sale. Barton Vt. 7-3S
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A, & J,L, TWOlIBLY

NFI1Vs
DANT AND VEST MAKER,
Barton Vermont.
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DALE 81 ROBINSON,
A TTORNEYS and CounselOrs at Law, Barton, Vt.
"a GEO. DALE J.. B. ROBINSON
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In some saloon he saw the light.
Reflect on liquors warm and bright;
Above the spectral housetops shone,
And from his lips escaped groan.
Whiskyi
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-05-06

''You must not go;" his father said,
''But just 60 home and go to bed
AS up the road the youth he spied;
But still his thick ming tongue replied,
Ubfslrx-
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-05-06

DAINTER. Painting, Glazing, Graining. White
4 washing and Paper-Hanging. All work done in
the best style and satisfaction guaranteed. Saws filed
90 order.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-05-06

The shades of night were falling fast.
AS through our village street shere passed
youth, who bore mid snow and ice,
bottle with that strange device,
Whiskyi
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-05-06

stop moi" the maiden said; abut go :"
AS on he staggered through The snow;
The tears stood in his bloodshot eye:
And still he yelled ..How's that for high ~
New-York tribune., 1872-07-23

tofore bought goods of Messrs. Thomas j.
Pope g. Co., but who does MT see exactly the
propriety of thus mixing up politics and busi-
ness. II is our mOurnful duty to inform
Messrs. p. g. Co. that, upon reading their
amazing forebodings, the said correspondent
first exploded with a laughter like unto the
laughter Of the gods, after which he sent the
dreadful document to us, expecting us, no
doubt, to use our influence with Messrs. Cree
ley and Brown in persuading them to retire
from the field. We can't do it. Pig Iron a.
Co. and Pope g. Co. must stand the racket.
The Liberal men must go in, whatever
the effect of their ingOing upon Pope a. Co.'S
ingots. But we cannot conceal from these
gentlemen our opinion that, feeling as they do
it is their duty to write and put out pam
phlet in which their views may be given to
the public in more extended way. Ii they
will but prepare it, and send it to the Grant
Committee in Washington, or to MIR. Douglass,
the Presidents Private Secretary, we think
that they may be sure of tho publication of
large edition Of it for gratuitous circulation in
the Metal Trades. Meanwhile, we venture to
express the hope that Messrs. Pope g. Co. are
as well as can be expected. They say, rather
mournfully, in their circular that the metal
trade continues very quiet" and possibly
if they should initiate the metal trade in this
respect, it would be none the worse for them.
New-York tribune., 1872-07-23

ing this, not like whispering conspirators in
corners, but loudly and openly. what kind of
an Administration must it have been which has
80 moved themf What kind of Government
when it becomes so general an opinion that
any change must be for the betterP Bear in
mind the immense popularity of Mr.. Grant
when he went into office, and then tell us
how he has lost it Yet we would not have it
understood that the Liberal party is proceed
ing in any spirit of reckless hostility to Grant
personally. The platform tells the story. The
charges against the Administration are full,
numerous, and explicit. Nor is there any dis
trust Of the Liberal candidates in the Liberal
ranks. There never was party which more
thoroughly understood precisely what it
was about; nor with its ample cause for quar-
rels with the Administration is there any occa-
sion for it to adopt any such absurd slogan.
New-York tribune., 1872-07-23
ANYBODY TO BEAT GRANT,

The denomination newspapers, in spasm
of virtuous indignation, are constantly charg-
ing the Liberal party with having no other
battle-cry than Anything to beat Grant !"
One of the most servile asserts that fair
paraphrase of these words is: "Things are so
"bad now that they cannot be worse, and any
"change, therefore, must be for the better"-
that is to say, very large and respectable
body of citizens have organized themselves
into political party for the purpose of per-
petuating the very evils which excited them
TO form such an organization. That is to say,
q minority or majority, rs the case may be,
of the citizens of the United States are idiots
not fit to be trusted with the management OF
affairs-are spending their time and putting
themselves to considerable expense upon the
silly assumption that "any change will be for
Z" the better,n while they admit that there will
be no change worth mentioning There may
be those in the Grant party who are fools
enough to make such charges without seeing
that they amount to considerably less than
nothing, but we trust that there are not many
in the Liberal party who are fools enough to
be Justly amenable to such accusations.
Our denomination cOtemporarles, II they
were not stone blind with wrath, would see
that there is an awful significance in the
phrase Anything to beat Grant" and would
hardly quote it so confidently and so gllbly ;
for it clearly enough implies disapprobation
and disgust which must be very great when
,he people begin to reckon in this way; Beat
Grant and we shall be rid of Plenipotentary
Cramer, and Collector Casey, and Fish, and
George Butler, and all the fathers and the
children, the brothers-in-law and brothers by
blood, the nephews, the first cousins, the sec
ond cousins and the third! Deliver us from
this festoon of leeches dangling from the body
politic, no matter what may follow Again +:
Beat Grant. and we shall no longer have the
spectacle of a President growing rich upon
the strength of an Office in which the early
servants of the Republic grew poor! Beat
Grant and we shall no longer behold the
Executive struggling for personal supremacy
in all the subordinate departments of the
Government. Beat Grant, and we shall no
longer have President who cannot forget
that he was once a Lieutenant General! These
are sufficient suggestions for the present, and
the well-informed reader will find no difficulty
in adding to them for himself.
Anything TO beat Grant," Well, If 1t be
really true that thousands Of voters are say
New-York tribune., 1872-07-23
MET1LLTC POLITICS.
and justic,

The nomination for the Presidency made
by the Liberal and Democratic parties has
not only created a great excitement through
out the United States; it is also responsible
for lively apprehensions in the warehouse
and counting-room of Messrs. Thomas j..
Pope g. Co., Dealers in Pig Iron, in this city.
We do not know whether this house does a
good business or bad business in those
metals to which it gives its attention; but,
considering the hardness of its commodities,
we must say that it is an extremely soft es-
tablishment. Pig Iron is solid sort of
merchandise. When we wish to speak of q
man as particularly healthy we say that he
has an iron constitution; everybody knows
what a plucky and invincible frigate Old
Ironsides was; and it would seem natural
that men who are always handling iron
should be of undaunted natures But the
nomination of Mr.. Greeley and his probable
election to the Presidency has made the souls
of Messrs. Pope g. Co. as soft and their
hearts as heavy as the lead in which they
also deal. In proof of this, we beg leave to
state that this firm on the 18th inst, sent to
its correspondents printed Prices Current,
over its own signature, containing the follow
Ing aldTInlHS, dslouhulhbJ anu
paralyzing sentences:
"The nomination OF Mr.. Greeley has had depressing
effect on business, and has filed the minds Of financial
men with alarm and apprehension for the affairs of next
season, should he be unfortunately elected. His we'll
known on TO Richmond measures OF specie payments
letting 20 all the specie and currency in the
Treasury and declaring by act of Congress by proca
nation q to specie payments the next day; his
hatred vtuperatyey expressed of the trading
his association with Tweed and the deposed Ring leaders
here all point In his To disaster and TO the
plete dlsOrganization Of socetydisOrganza being
his pet doctrine and what he knows 1t his fayorie
practice"
Here is melanchOlious exhibit indeed of the
ruinous effect of Liberal triumph upon the
trade in Iron, Copper, Spelter, Tin, Antimony,
Nickel, and Bsmuth-for in all these kinds of
merchandise Pope g. Co., according to their
circular, have lively interest. Whether the
disastrous effect will extend to other and rarer
metals in which Messrs. Pope g. Co. do not
deal-to Potassium, Sodium. Arsenic, Cad
MUM, or Ttanium-we cannot pretend to say.
The dreadful prediction above quoted was
sent by our Grm " a merchant who has here
New-York tribune., 1872-07-23

No evil happens without it's remedy. The
greater the advance in wages the more
laborers and their children become in.
telligent and luxurious, and INTELLIGENT
and luxurious people do not multinly
as fast as the lower classes. The instance ad-
duced by Mill, of the English lord being lnx
uriOus and being the parent of many children,
is no reply; because the English lord, lar from
always being more intellectual than his pre-
decessor, is frequently perfect animal-some-
times perfect brute The doctrinaires depend
greatly on disease to prevent over-pOpulatiOn;
but the fact is, that the longer live tho
more we conquer diseases, and the life Of men
whose families are domesticated and accli-
mated is becoming longer. The greater num-
Der Of diseases and the greater number Of
births happen among newcomers; and luxury
and more intellectual life are decreasing the
children of Americans by preventing them.
SO an increase Of the means of more com
Portable and more intellectual life among US
increases the desire for fewer hours Of labor.
Hence the struggle for an Eight-hour law.
But say some of the doctors, if you legalize
restriction yOu increase the hours for crime.
No much crime is done in the night, and tho
restriction is rather upon leisure than upon
crime. No sooner do we talk about eight
hours for labor than we talk of compulsory
education for leisure. IL we give men leisure.
we give them also something better than
idling and crime to do. Our system of labor
has also produced tendencies to cooperation.
Nowhere so much rs in America has the labor
ing man been so affected by inventions and
customs. Franlllin's epigram,
IIaf hat avA amin thrfye
Himself must either hold or drive"
has been Outwitted for the labOrer holds
drives, and with two hands is complete mas
ter of the feld and not only of his own field,
but of twenty of his neighbOrs' fields. In like
manner one man can make all the whistles for
an engine-shop. Division of labor has taught
moro than Adam Smith ever dreamed of,
namely, a unity Of many divisions. Thus sage
exhortations to economy of labor and econ
omy of money, to thrift, to industry, are su-
perseded by the discovery that the process by
which economy and advancement can be ac-
cOmplished is something more intelligent and
progressive than maxims and irresponsible
fancy 1t will hardly be denied, then, that the
intelligence of the people is to be sought for In
what they do, and in what they incline to do;
that the reasons of things do not lie far under
the surface; and that the science Of guess
work, whose principal idea is that sO-and-so
might be so if it only were so, is relic OF
the age of mysteries and dreams. All useful
intelligence is engaged in reading the physical
tendencies of things philosophy, religion,
science. philanthropy, political economy, and
domestic law, meet on this one plane OF en-
deavor, without aid from or regard for tho
dOctrinaires.
New-York tribune., 1872-07-23
THE LAST SLANDER SnTTLED

The Evening Post, having attempted to give
countenance to The Binghamton Republicans
Roorback aimed at Mr.. Greeley, at length
rather impatiently urged that organ to produce
its proofs. "If you have such handful of
trumps, why not lead themP" was its natural
inquiry. We presume The Republican has
done its best in obedience to The Posts requi-
sition. What does The Post think of the
trumpsl
The whole gist and force of The Republicans
calumny was charge that bargain or COM
pact. or some sort of arrangement, had been
had between HOratiO Seymour and some one
else. whereby said Seymour was to be made
Secretary of State IN case Horace Greeley
shall he chosen President. We have awaited
with some curiosity the developments on this
noint. being assured by Mr. Greeley that no
one ever suggested the name OF Horatlo Sey-
.,our to him as a candidate for any office on
oortb while be never wrote a line to Seymour,
received one from him, or had any sort OF
message from him respecting any ONCE Oh
earth.
Where are the "trumps" on this point !
Could MT The Republican induce, coax, hrc' OF
bully some nobody to say that he had he ara
some one guess that Greeley and Seymour
had some sort of understanding on this point
Why is such charge left entirely without
! pretense OF justification
! For full year prior to the Cincinnati Con"