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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-10-20
COUNTRY PAPERS.

1t is doubtless known to the public,
that the publishing of country newspa.
pers Is not one of the most agreeable and
profitable kinds of business. ALI the
labor has to be done cheaply, and rigid
economy exercised to make them pay
even moderately. Hence it is necessa-
ry for the publisher to obtain good
list, in order that what would be lost
from small list, not large enough to
actually pay expenses. can be made up
on the last four hundred copies publish
ed. The expense of rent, fuel, type
setting, &C., is the same whether the list
be great or small, and profit can be
made only with a respectable list. 1t
is impossible to make country paper
as good as a city paper in all respects,
but it is useful and necessary in the vi
cinity where it is published, as it is the
medium by which we receive irforma-
ton in regard to home news and home
interests. If respectable paper Is pub
lished in county, it has a claim on
the people of the county for the pat.
ronage and support, which generous
public will be pleased to give. 1t is
the duty of community or a people, te
patronize home institutions as much a:
possible, in preference to anything dis
tant or foreign, and to nothing does this
better apply than to newspapers. Lib
eral patronage, not only pays the pub
Usher for his efforts and his labors, bu
it allows him to make better paper il
all respects. He can renew his typ
and material oftener furnish a bette
grade Of paper, and give more and bet
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-10-20

The railroad companies of Illinois are
beginning to comprehend that their re-
Gently adopted freight rates are working
rather to their own injury than to that
of the farmers These rates were so in
geniously framed that while they avoid
ed the charge of discrimination, they at
the same time increased the price of
transportation. The law was thus lit
orally complied with, but in such way
as to deepen the already growing hostil-
ity of farmers, and the consequence has
been material falling off in the reve-
nues of the railroad. Conscience is in
its pocket; and although revenge is
sweet, and the qualification of spite is
delicious, money is of more consequence
than spite; hence we are not surprised
to hear that several of the leading rail-
roads are revising their tariffs and ma
teriaily reducing their rates If this
had been gracefully and magnanimously
done at first, the railroads would have
got full credit for the concession but
now, having taught the people low to
use force legitimately and effectually,
they have nothing to console themselves
with but the reflection that they sub
mitted only when they could not hell
it Pittsburgh Comn,eYro5.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-10-20
MEMPHIS.

The telegraph brings only meager de-
tails of the terrible sufferings endured
by the citizens of the stricken city Of
Memphis, now under the scourge of the
yellow fever epidemic. Stories of suff-
ering and inhumanity that would touch
the stoutest heart are almost beyond
number All the undertakers IN the
city are busily and constantly engaged.
and funerals have none of the order and
decorum usually considered as due to
the occasion. People die faster than
they can be buried, while hundreds have
died unattended. 1t is known that
bodies have laid until partially decom-
posed, and at one burial place the stencil
arising from the collins awaiting inter
ment is described as horrible. People
not on the spot can form no idea of the
deplorable state of affairs from written
descriptions of the frightful condition
of the city. 1t must be seen to be fully
realized. There is yet a pitiful lack of
nurses, and the Howard Association of
New Orleans has been telegraphed for
further supply. Some of the physi-
clans appear to have given up in despair
and fright at the fearful carnage, and
have fled the city. Still the majority
remain, and are laboring day and night
in the cause of humanity. The clergy Of
all denominations remain faithful to
their work, and are doing all in their
power to alleviate the suffering. One
little girl recently obtained coffin,
made shroud for her dead mother, and
nursed other sick ones in the house.
DIR. Burns, who was one of the physicians
despatched from New Orleans to the
relief of Shreveport, reports that the
epidemic which has SO fearfully visited
that city, more than decimating it, has
now been checked, though the malignant
poison cannot be thoroughly killed unit
frozen out by winter.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-10-20
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
BY THE PRESIDENT.

The approaching close of another year
brings with it the occasion of renewed
thanksgiving and acknowledgement to
the Almighty Ruler of the Universe for
the unuumbered mercies which He has
bestowed upon US. Abundant harvests
have been among the rewards of indus
try. With local exceptions, health has
been among the many blessings enjoyed
Tranquility at home and peace with 9TH
err nations have prevailed. Frugal in
dustry is regaining its merited reeogni-
ton and its merited reward. Gradual
ly but, under the Providence of God.
surely, as we trust, the nation is recov-
ering from the lingering result of a
dreadful civil strife. For these, and all
other mercies voucasafed, it becomes us,
as people, to return heartfelt and
grateful acknowledgement, and with our
thanksgiving for blessings, we may unite
prayers for the cessation of local and
Temporary suffering | therefore rec
ommend that on Thursday. the 9th day
of November next. the people meet in
their respective places of worship to
make their acknowledgements to AL
mighty God for his bounties and his
protection, and to offer to Him prayers
for their continuance. In witness
whereof, | have hereunto put my hand
and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed
Done at the city of Washington, this
fourteenth day of October. in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy three, and of the Independ
ence of the United States the ninety
seventh. U. S. GRANT.
HAMILTON FISH, Sec'y of State.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-10-20
EX-SENATOR POMEROY
SHOT.
AN ATTEMPT UPON HIS LIFE BY MARTIN F.

AN ATTEMPT UPON HIS LIFE BY MARTIN F.
CONWAY.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-THE attempt
upon Jne lie OF Ex-oenator Pomeroy,
this afternoon, seems to have been, from
all the facts yet known. most outrageous
and unprovoked attack, though there is
a pretty general feeling among those
who know the assailant Conway that he
is insane. The report of eye witnesses
is to the effect that Conway stepped off
the sidewalk into the street, and COM
menced firing without any warning, and
without there having been any inter-
change of words whatever His remark
afterward, when asked the reason for
his act, was ..He has ruined myself and
my family" tits positively stated that
the remark was not what the local re-
ports have it-He has ruined my wife
and my family, but precisely what is
above noted. Conway was the first
member of Congress from Kansas He
and Pomeroy were workers together in
the early political struggles of Kansas.
Conway was afterward appointed Consul
to Marsailles. Last year he joined the
Liberal Committee in this city. Recent
ly he has gradually fallen into destitute
circumstances and a respondent state Of
mind, and it Is said has been absolutely
in want of food. He deserted his wife
SO the story goes, and has tried to col
lect her salary In the Treasury Depart.
ment. where she holds a position. HI
has borrowed money of everybody who
would loan him, and probably had be-
come indebted to Mr.. Pomeroy, who re
fused his applications for more Loan
only a few days ago. These are tn
apparent facts. What a legal examina
ton may develop, of course, cannot b
foreseen. The occurrence is UNIVERSAL,
regretted here, and it is a matter of con
graduation that Mr.. Pomeroy escape,
without more serious injury, for, thougl
he is man with abundance of politica
foes, he has very few personal enemies.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-10-20

A STRANGE DUEL-BoTH Run THROUGH.
Col. Lay (rising with profound
bow to California reporter; Yes, Col
onel, have been engaged in forty-two
affairs of honor as principal and second,
and concur with you fully in your sug-
gestions. 1t is the duty of second to
prevent resort to arms if possible. |
recollect in one of the first duels ever
fought | came very near losing my life
by having fool for second. He al
lowed me to fight the best swordsman in
Europe with rapler. [, at that time,
was not so proficient as | am now in the
use of that weapon, and considered my
life as good as lost, but met my antago-
mist, and after parrying few of his
thrusts, was compelled to allow him to
pass his sword entirely through my
stomach, the point coming out at my
backbon As [ stood thus transfxed,
it occurred to my mind to do an act
which l have never heard Of being
equaled before or since. l, with my
left hand, with remarkable presence Of
| mind. GOODNESS and frmness. seized my
adversary's blade, holding it SO firmly
| that he could neither turn it or pull i
out, and in that position plunged my
sword entirely through my adversary
left breast up to the hilt, just one incl
and half above the heart; and, wha
is remarkable is, that we both recovered
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-10-20
LIST OF PATENTS.

Issued from the United States Patent
Office to Vermont inventors, for the
week ending Sept 8. 1873. Reported
for the ORLEANS COUNTY MONITOR, by
Charles A. Shaw, Solicitor of Patents
and Counsellor in Patent Suits, 10
fremont Street, Boston.
John t. Hawkins. Salisbury, Vt. ];
tool for making button moulds.
Charles G. Gould, Windham, Vt. !;
gun cleaner.
PATENTS EXTENDED.
John Fritz and George Fritz; rolling
mills. Pat Sept. q, 1859.
Tyler Howe; bed Stats. Pat. Sept.
81, 1859.
Edward G. Knight mode of arrang-
ing touches in cars. Pat. Sept. 81,
1859.
James A. Lowe; water traps. Pat
Sept 81. 1859.
Abbott @. Ross burglar alarm. Pat
Sept. 81, 1859.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-10-20

THE UPRISING AGAINST EARLY RISING.
rising has been very rudelv
and successfully shaken. Charles Lamb
has shown that there is as much excess
in rising with the lark and lying down
with the lamb as in the practice referred
to in Moor song. which recommends
frightening of our days by taking "a
few hours from night my dear!" That
philosophy was shaken in the early days
of the world by two sleepy children who
came under the rebuke Of vigilant faith
ers. "My son p remarked one sire, 81
once found piece of gold by rising ear
ly!" "AyeF' rejoined young hopeful,
''but the man who lost it was up before
you" my son." said the other wor-
thy parent, "observe that it's the early
bird that catches the worm - II do,
observe my father. replied the excellent
boy 'also, that the worm was caught
by getting up earlier than the Bird
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-10-02
What Will Become of the Northern
Pacific 2

What is to become of the Northern
Pacific railroad? The question inevi-
tably rises upon the suspension of Jay
Cooke & Co. The construction of the
Northern Pacific may be said to have
been exclusively in the hands of this
firm. The only partners Jay Cooke &
Co. had in the enterprise were
the bondholders. Jay Cooke &
Go. having failed, there is but one way
inwhich the road can be completed, and
that is for the bondholders to take what
there is of it and assume its construc
tion to Puget Sound. There is nobody
else to do it. The stock of the road is
merely nominal. But 5000, 600 has been
paid in on stock subscriptions, and Jay
Cooke controlled that. The Govern
ment never advanced any money and
has no interest in the road. There have
been no municipal subsidies, for there
are no municipalities on the line of the
road to subscribe them. There was a
Credit Mobilier" ring in it, of course,
making profits out of the construction,
but that will go to pot along with Jay
Cooke & Co. Another such ring cannot
be formed, for it would be impossible
for them to dispose of the bonds. The
present bondholders, whoever they are,
| own what there is of the Northern Pa
cific, which consists of about 600 miles
of poorly constructed road running
through a wilderness, and land-grant
| equal to the proportion of railroad al
ready completed, and not exceeding
Is, 600, 900 of unstable acres located in
| q bleak and desolate stretch of country.
l-CHScaQO Tribune.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-10-02
The Brooklyn Frauds.

Rodman, the Treasurer of the Brook
lyn Trust Company, and Assistant City
Treasurer of Brooklyn, has at last made
the revelation he threatened some time
ago concerning the deficit in the Brook
lyn Treasury. He states that there was
an agreement between himself, City
Treasurer Sprague, and the late Presl-
dent Mills, by which they were to loan
out the city funds that were on deposit
with the Trust Company, and divide
among themselves all the profius that
accrued beyond the 3 per cent. which
had to be credited to the city: As
might be expected, their anxiety for
high interest overwhelmed their -pru-
dence, and a large number of the loans
were made to worthless borrowers. In
this way the Trust Company was bank
rupted and the City Treasury depleted.
Treasurer Sprague, Rodman says, re-
peatedly offered him $50, 600 to run
away, but he declined. sprague is
lying dangerously i'll at his house, but
| is guarded by policemen as q precaution
against too preeipitate convalescence.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-10-02
Singular Fatality.

It is remarkable fact that Gen. E. S.
McCook, who was recently killed at
Yankton by Wintermute, the banker, is
the fifth member of the family who has
met with a violent death. Charles NJ.
McCook, the youngest, was killed at the
first battle of Bull Run; Brig. Gen.
Robert L. McCook was assassinated by
guerrillas, in Tennessee, while sick in
his ambulance; Maj. Daniel McCook,
the father of the family, was killed while
in pursuit of Morgan, during his Ohio
raid; Brig.-Gen. Daniel McCook was
killed at the battle of Kenesaw Noun
tain and lastly, Edwin S.. McCook,
after meeting bravely all the hazards OF
the war, was assassinated at Yankton, as
the telegraph has already reported.
Three sons remain: Col. George w.
McCook, the eldest Maj. Gen. A. Med.
McCook, now in Texas; and Capt. John
] McCook, who is praeticing law.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-10-02
The CrODS.

The Chicago Tribune, of the 22d of
September, publishes reports of the
crops throughout Illinois and contigu-
GUS States. The substance of the state
ment is, that much of the corn had been
harvested before the frost came the
rest was badly damaged. In Southern
Illinois, the corn was considerably in
jured in the lowlands, where it had not
Illinois, the frost did much harm, and
not more than half crop is expected.
In Iowa, reports are conflicting, but the
weight of the evidence is that the corn
has been generally injured. In addi-
tion to the ravages of the frost, the IN
fiuence of n wet and late spring, and
the summer drought have combined to
lessen the yield.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-10-02
RENIORSE.

met him the street one morn-a youth upon
whose head
Pomade and twenty summers their balmy sweets
had shed;
slender youth, in life's May-time, when skies ap
pear serene,
And foliage and neckties and things looked glad
and green.
But care sat on his pallid brow marked his nag
gard cheeks,
And pfowed his paper bosom in unseemly rumpled
streaks;
And melancholy dimmed his eye, obscured its lus-
trous fash,
And was denoted by the state of his unkempt mus
tache.
what ails thee, hapless youth ?" saidI. He heaved
OF mingled woe and cardamon, and thus he made
at am that epidemic known as the Druggists Clerk,
Haunted by the ghostly specters of the victims of
work!
" Through all the day they follow me, ghosty reti-
And through the night surround my bed, bent on an
They give neither rest peace, for each aveng
Reyives the horrid memory of blunders that Two
made.
The spectral infants glare at me, and though their
Too well know the victims of perverted laudanumI
And those old ghosts that glare at me with bleared
We're folks cut of by arsenic, their extreme
prise.
:" prescriptions cannot always be interpreted at
sight,
And ArTotvrOot, on paper, sometimes READS ike
Acorite;
But when a man gets the wrong stuff, and goes away
and dies,
And then his ghost goes back on me-tis conduct
despise?
"I might endure the strangers ghosts; but both my
parents died
Before my blunder their could be quite rec
And now their spirits visit me, and drive almost
wild,
By their reproachful glances at their orphan Chi
yi-ild +"
FiIial emotion choked him here and while he wiped
his nose,
wrote brief prescription his excitement to COM
pose.
.sTake this composing draught," >" said I, "and mix
it IN your store,
And the ghosts of poisoned customers will trouble
you more"
builded wiser than 1 knew. That absurd clerk
misread
The recipe as usual and then he went and fed
Himself with Acid PrttSSicttnl, whereas 1 wrote
quite plain:
"one ounce of Aqua Pr1a and Lup,'lia one grain. p
-Bufdlo Courier.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-10-02
PRAYERS L DON'T LIKE.

don't like to hear HIM pray,
Who loans at twenty-five per cent;
For then 1 think the borrower may
Be pressed to pay for food and remit
And in that Book we all should heed,
Which says the lender shall be blest,
As sure as have eyes to read,
1t does not say, "Take interest"
do not like to hear him pray,
On bended knees, about an hour,
For grace to spend Alright the day,
Who knows his neighbor has no flour.
I'd rather see him go to mill,
And buy the luckless brother bread,
And see his children eat their fl,
And laugh beneath their humble she'd
do not like to hear him pray,
"Let blessings on the widow be,
Who never seeks her home to say,
If want o'ertakes you, come to me-"
1 hate the prayer SO long and loud,
That's offered for the orphans veal,
Ay, him who gees him crushed by wrong,
And only with his lips doth feel.
1 do not like to hear her pray
With jeweled limbs and silken dress,
Whose washerwomau tolls all day,
And then is asked to t work for less"
Such pious shavers despiso!
With folded hands and face demure
They lift to heaven their angel eyes,"
Then steal the earnings of the poor.
do not like such soulless prayers;
If wrong, hope to be forgiven;
No angels wing them upward bears,
They're lost a million miles from Heaven
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-10-02
The Result of President Grants Visit
to New York.

A New York dispatch of the 22d says
President Grant, Secretary Richardson, aud
Gen. Babcock were in consultation in New
York yesterday with the leading banks and
business men of the city to devise some means
of relieving the financial condition. The prop
ositions of the New Workers. which were sub
mitted in writing to the President, all urged
very strongly the issuing of the so-called
green-back reserve to the amount of forty
millions of dollars. Reverdy johnson rein
forced their appeals by a written opinion, in
which he said that although the action pro-
posed was unconstitutional, it was demanded
by public policy, and if he were President he
would not hesitate to take the step. Secretary
Richardson's opposition to this movement was
very strong, and the President stoutly sup
ported him. The Secretary said, in very vigor-
Gus slang, that he would never consent to it,
as it was none of his funeral. The result of
the conference was an order from the Pr esl-
dent that the Assistant Treasurer at New York
buy bonds on Monday to any amount offered.
How much relief this will afford does not ap-
pear Government bonds were drug in the
market on Saturday the National Trust Com
pany, which had nearly million of them in
it's possession, being unable to raise dollar
Herewith to save itself from suspension"
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-10-02
subsidence of the Panic in New York

NEW YORK, Sept. 22.-Wall street to-day
would be difficult, in the necessarily brief lin
its of a newspaper report, to give correct
idea of the excitement which prevailed. But
the excitement to-day was, apparently, of an
entirely different kind to the intense anxiety
observable on Friday and on Saturday, which
had its origin in a condition of universal panic.
The Streets that is to say, Wall street and
Broad street, were crowded.
1t difficult for pedestrian to thread his
way through the different groups which occu-
pied the streets and sidewalks alike.
Confidence increased the day advanced,
and about o'clock, there was sudden shrink
age of the lines at paying tellers' windows at the
banks and banking houses. The heavy busl-
ness done all day had been dispatched with all
possible speed, and soon as it was known
among the merchants that tho purchase of
bonds was uninterrupted, and that the rule
adopted by the savings banks, of requiring
thirty days notice for the withdrawal of all
large sums, was accepted without any disturb
ance at the savings banks, the certifcation of
money checks was not pressed, and it was evil
dent at the banks that the depositors were be-
ginning to believe that the storm had passed.
| No embarrassments are expected In any OF
the private banking firms who have sustained
themselves through the late crisis. The sus-
pension of the Union Trust Company is gener-
ally attributed to the defaulting Secretary 8
neglect to call in the 80, 600, 600 loans order
ed on Thursday. According to general report,
he completely lost his mental balance, and
showed no disposition to submit the affairs of
| the company to inspection. His whereabouts
are still unknown. 1t is currently reported
| that the company will be ready to resume busi-
| ness in a few days. 1t is a little remarkable
| that only one of the trustees of the company
had any money on deposit in the institution,
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-10-02

A GOLD brick came down from the
Cherokee mines on Friday morning
which weighed 142 pounds avoirdupois,
and amounts to S42, ,Oe9-iSan Fran
cisco Bulletin;
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-10-02
The Panic in New York.

As natural consequence of the failure of
the great clearinghouse of Jay Cooke & Co.,
stock panic broke out in New York, and
Westliche blaÌˆtter. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1865-1919, 1873-01-19
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