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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-03
THE SEA SERPENT.

Most Gland -lubbers" while credulous
to fault about other strange things, are
obdurately skeptical with regard to the
sea- serpent. Every time some sea cap
tain comes home and quietly shows an
entry on his log book that he saw sea-
serpent, SO or 60 feet long. of a dark
brown color, on such day, in lat. and
long so and SO the average landsman
raises guffaw of ridicule. Another
fo'c'scle yarn. tell that to the marines"
etc., are the responses which sturdy cap
tain White, of the good ship Sea-Serpent
evokes from the unthinking, when he
brings back and gives to print his obser-
vations on the big water-snake. There
are two reasons why it seems impossible
to convert mankind to faith in the sea-
serpent. One is the preposterous notion
that serpents-the real ophidians-can
not live in water, that they are exclu-
sively land reptiles.
But it should be known that true,
poisonous serpents exist In any quantity
in the Indian and Pacific oceans 1t is
dangerous to bathe in waters that they
frequent. There is not much of a logi-
cal leap in reasoning from little ser
pent. four or five feet long AS there
are monster fishes. why not monster
snakes? The whale. being a warm
blooded mammal, is obliged to rise to
the surface for air. II is seen when it
blows. But for this necessity of the
whales organization, the whale would
probably be seen so rarely that it, too,
would be declared myth by those who
disbeleve in the sea serpent. The lat
ter, by its constitution, may be free from
the need of rising to the surface, and
when seen may be there by accident
its home being in deep water or else at
the bottom of the ocean. Theoretically
there is no good argument againsta sea-
serpent of any length. The second case
of the wide spread skepticism upon this
topic is the we'll known habit at water
ing places of hoaxing the public with
reports of sea-serpents deserted off shore.
ll Ill 4
by local newspaper wags. to have their
bulky snakeships. This is the funny
side of the question; but it does not
dispose of the great mass of concurrent
testimony given by sober ship captains
for a hundred years, as to the actuality
of the sea-serpent; and this testimony
is not sailors yarns, but prosaic log en-
tries of matters of fact, Last year one
of the English magazines had a long pa
| per from an able. scientific writer, in
which the sea serpent was handled as in
a court. All the historical evidence in
his favor was produced, sifted, and ju-
diciously weighed, the opposition theory
duly heard and estimated, and the ver-
dict of the sea-serpent's existence un-
hesitatingly gwen at the close. If hu-
man testimony is to be believed, the sea-
serpent is a verify. In the old hanging
days. men were justly sent to the gallows
on weaker evidence.-Jousaol of Com
merce.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-03

A ScANDALoUs BUsINEss.-The organ
ist of fashionable church in Broadway
New York, who has been there for twelve
or fifteen years, and been regarded as a
high authority in music and very ex
emplary christian has been discovered to
be a bigamist. He is English by birth,
and when he came to New York he pre-
tended to be young bachelor. After
twelve months residence he married the
daughter of respectable merchant, a
member of the church of which he has
been the organist. The couple lived
happily, had several children, all pros
pered spiritually and secularly. All
went we'll until two or three weeks ago,
woman arrived by one of the British
steamers. and claimed to be the deserted
wife of the musician, and the mother of
two of his children. She applied to the
vestrymen for redress, and at first they
would not believe her story. She sup
ported it, however, with such indisputa-
BILE evidence. that further skepticism be-
came impossible. They sent commit
tee to wait on the organist, and request
his immediate resignation. He tried to
palliate, thus admitting his offence but
the representatives. of dignity and deco
rum of the church would listen to no
excuses, and he was forced to withdraw.
Wife number one, says he sent her mon
ey with considerable regularity, though
in very small amounts and gave his pow
ertv as a reason for her remaining in
England. Early last summer she heard
of his having another consort and de-
termined to come over and obtain her
rights How the connubial difficulty
will be adjusted is uncertain. The or.
ganist having lost his situation, can gel
no other, and is irving to compromise
the matter. Wife number two has lef
him and gone to her parents. Wife No
one won't leave him and has no parent.
to 90 to. He says he loves number two
and does not love number one. Numbe
two declares she hates him, and will hav,
nothing more to do with him. Numbe
one vows she adores him still, and won
live without him. And he. to cap th,
climax, swears he will keep number tw
and sooner than restore number one t
his marital favor. he will destroy him
self.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-03

Bismarck told the Prussian Chamber
of Deputies that his retirement from the
Premiership was occasioned solely on &C
count of i'll health.
Both branches of the Pennsylvania
Legislature passed the bill increasing
the Governors salary to the thousand
dollars per annum.
Two country girls walking down the
principal street, each with cigar in
her mouth, was the latest sensation in
Cynthiana Kentucky.
Immense amounts of real estate are
being offered for sale in all parts of
Pennsylvania, particularly farming
lands, the present owners of which in
tend going west.
There are now twenty-six Constitu-
tional Amendments pending before Con-
gress. Much time may be consumed in
killing off these measures, but they will
probably all receive death blow.
The weather has been so intensely
cold in Indiana that it is said large num-
| oCio VI Aoh III lHc StICdInS Vi UfldC state
are dead not merely benumbed and
torpid from cold, but are dead beyond
recovery
The Mayor of New York is determin-
ed to break up the gang of saw dust
swindlers, and protect the police who
complain of them from the insults of
judges before whom they bring the swim
dlers for trial.
Indiana has just sent a colored man to
the penitentiary for three years, and fined
him 81, 900. for marrying white wo.
man In Indiana they do not believe in
allowing love Ito go where it is sent.
provided it passes between persons Of
opposite color.
Those Detroit boys Here is their la
test: Are you going to move this after
noon? ?" inquired a boy of mistress O
a house on Sixth street. No, of cours,
/ amt, replied the woman, considerabl,
surprised. ''l'll bet you two dollars yo1
will-the roof of the house is all a
blaze - cried the boy. So it. was; bu
pedestrians, ladders and water put it out
The man of the house says he woul
, give fifty dollars to be shut up with tina
boy for about ten minutes.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-03
AN EVENTFUL LIFE.

w. H. Alexander of Brattleboro. VT,
in letter to the Springfield Republican,
tells the following interesting story.
Sixty years ago Miss A. g. Farewell
of Chesterfield, N H., married E. Stearns,
the richest man in town She was tai
ented and highly educated. In three
months after she left the United States
so privately that no one knew it, staid
in Montreal one year and returned to her
home She took the pest care of Mr..
Stearns for month, when he died, leav-
ing four children by former wife and
$4,000 S.e absolutely refused to, re-
ceive one dollar of that fortune, and left
for western New York She was woman
manager in an institution at Ganeseo,
N. Y, where were four young ladies,
daughters of a millionaire of New York
city: Those young ladies became so at
tached to her that they induced their fa-
ther to make her their step-mother, and
she took his children to the city and at
home completed their educations. Ten
years passed pleasantly. and again she
was missing. Her husband wrote and
searched in vain for her five years, and
then got bill of divorce for desertion.
The truth was, she spent ten years in
Europe; returned and went to California
and staid two years there; thence to
Montreal, staid two years; to Quebec
and staid one year.
Then she returned to Gen. Farewell,
her brother, in Maine. staid one year and
left (this was the first time she was ev-
er known to leave when her friends knew
where she was going) to visit her friends
in western N. Y. She got out of the
cars in Boston, eighty-two years old, and
was robbed of all she had and was found
by the police, partially insane from va
rious causes, and by the poormaster in
Boston was sent to the State Almshouse
at Tewksbury She staid there one year
and told the foreman she would walk, if
he would let her. He opened the door
and she walked all the way to Albany.
She could give no account of herself; she
was not only destitute, but couered all
oUer aCith ice. The Albany poolmaster
paid her fare to Utica. and gave her a
line to the poormaster of Utica, request
ing him to do the same favor; and as
Buffalo paper says. they did at every
| one of these cities, forward her until she
arrived at her friends in Moscow, in
western New York. The woman was sis
ter of my wife's mother; my wife is now
there to see her for the first time in fifty
years. Now, then, New York ought not
to brag of charity, for of course any city
poor officer will pay 81 rather than keep
the pauper The letters of five poor
masters were all sent to me, and wrote
to Albany and got the facts there then
wrote to Tewksbury for information as
to how she came there, and how she got
away. The agent informed me that she
was sent there from Boston, staid one
year and they let her go away destitute
of everything but lice. l was so vexed
when learned the facts about that aims
house that l did say that if the United
States went to h by States, Massachu-
setts would find seat in that institution
labeled "Reserred specially for Massa-
chusettS"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-03
A CASE OF SCANDAL AT Ma
TICK, MASS.

The town of Natick is somewhat ex-
cited over the announcement of the elope-
ment of Mrs. Belle Daniels, wife of o.
S. Daniels, man of some wealth and
business capacity, with a man of some
notoriety in this vicinity as a dancing
master, named A. W. Cox. For some
time past, while the husband was en-
gagged at his business. there have been
evening meetings between the guilty par
ties which has occasioned some gossip
among those who have liking for scan
dal, but the mass of the community paid
but little attention to the rumors. 1t is
said. however, that for the past few
months Mr.. Daniels has had his suspi-
cions aroused, but still putting much
confidence in his wife, he had tried to
Danish them from his mind. A few days
ago Mr.. Daniels started for Boston with
the avowed intention of returning on the
midnight train, but instead of returning
at midnight he entered his house about
half-past nine o'clock and found his wife
and Cox enjoying quiet tete-a-tete to-
gether. Cox Immediately withdrew, and
Mr.. Daniels chided his wife for her SEEM
ing perfdy. At first she stoutly denied
all wrong. or intent of wrong doing, but
after rehearsal of the rumors and sus-
picious circumstances, she coolly admit
ted that she loved Cox better than all
the world beside, and announced her in
tention Of leaving her home and all its
comforts and sharing the vicissitudes of
life with her paramour. How this an
nouncement was received by the husband
we know not, but on Saturday last her
trunks were packed with her well sup
piled wardrobe, which her husband had
always lavishly furnished, and she other
wise completed arrangements for leaving
town. She asked her brother for FIVE
dollars. and this coming to the knowl-
edge of her husband he told her he would
supply her with funds. He then gave
her S25, and told her if ever she came
to want, to call on him. Finding she
was bert on carrying out her purpose,
and that argument would be of no avail,
her brother transported her and her
trunks to the depot, where he and her
husband took their leave of her, and the
misguided woman took the train for
Boston to meet her paramour. Mrs.
Daniels is fine looking woman, large,
of good form and carriage, about twen-
ty-three years of age. and has.been mar
ried about five years, but has had no
children. She was the pet in large
family, and this is heavy blow to fall
on an aged and widowed mother. her
brothers and sisters. Cox is kind Of
dandy-looking chap, about thirty years
of age, a fine dancer and quite fascin-
atlng fellow among the fair sex.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-03

We hear by English papers, that the
Thornley, estate in England, after which
one hundred American heirs have, for
thirty years. been struggling in the En-
glish chancery courts, has been decided
finally to belong to the English claim
ants. This knocks out of the American
heirs s25o.oOo.0 900 they could have had
lust as we'll as not if the decision had
been the other way.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-03
A CRUEL HOAX.

From the Sunday Free Press, of Scran-
ton, Mass. we learn Mr.. Henry Stull of
Hyde Park. successful contractor, had
been absent from his family for some
time. prosecuting his business somewhere
in Bradford county. His wife was ex-
pecting him home daily, but instead of
the husband and father coming to greet
the dear ones, there came sent with the
speed Of thought, this terrible message,
freighted with unexpected woe: Henry
Stull is no more; his body will be at
the depot this evening" The message
was received on Saturday evening, a
week ago. and Mrs. Stull Informed of its
contents.
Had thunderbolt from a cloudless
sky fallen upon her, her terror and con-
sternation could not have been greater.
All day she had waited for the slow
hours to drag their weary way to even
ing, expecting to see her husband, and
when it was but few hours to the time
of his coming. to receive such terrible
message, laden with woe, sorrow and
DEATH it was more than she could endure,
and with cry of agony, in which was
centered all of human misery that wo-
man can feel. she fell PROSTATE to the
floor The friends of Mr. Stull made
preparations for receiving his remains,
and at the hour of arrival of the train,
were there, but no cofined body could
be found, and sorrowfully they went to
their homes.
Quite late in the evening the drug store
of Mr.. b. G. Morgan opened and in
walked Mr.. Stull alive and we'll. His
appearance caused great excitement
some thinking it was an apparition, and
all were perfectly astonished The news
was conveyed to Mrs. Stull, who was still
greatly Frustrated. and the joy blended
with the wave cf sorrow that had so
recently swept over her life, was more
than she could endure. and she again re-
lapsed into an unconscious condit on,
and at last accounts her case was consld-
cred critical The author of this cruel
hoax is supposed to be man in the en-
ploy of Mr.. Stull. Saturday morning
he demanded his pay, and not receiving
it, he left ON the train for Pittston from
which point the message was sent. He
should be made to feel at the bar of JUS
tice the fnll force of his cowardly act
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-03
CARRYING OUT A JOKE.

While We were lying in camp at Ross
vile, Georgia, writes correspondent
the Sixteenth Illinois returned from their
veteran furlough with number of re-
cruits. One of these having exhausted
his supply of clean shirts. and not hav-
ing learned to be his own laundress,
asked veteran where he could get scme
washing done.
DO you see those tents there by the
church Well. 90 there and ask for Mr..
Morgan; he does washing He's crus-
ty old fellow, but if you talk pretty nice
to him, he'll do it for you"
The recruit went as directed, and
found Gen. Morgan walking in front of
his tent. dressed, as was his custom, in
the uniform of high private.
"Wherc will / find Mr.. Morgan ?"
asked the recruit.
My name is Morgan; what will you
have %
Il came to see if | could get some
clothes Washed
"H m-m Who sent you here to get
your clothes washed"
's,Tohn Smith, over there in the sixth
regiment. y
Corporal of the guard !" The cor
poral approached and saluted. Young
man, go with the corporal and show him
John Smith, so that he can bring him
over here. And you come back with
him, and bring all the dirty clothes you
have"
They departed and soon returned with
the guilty veteran and huge armful Of
dirty shirts, socks. ETC.
The General to Smith: ..Did you send
this young man here to have his clothes
washed?
''Yes, sir, for a joke
For joke. we'll have the joke car
ried out. We do have clothes washed
here sometimes. Corporal. take this man
Smith, and that bundle of clothes down
to the creek, and have him wash them.
fold them up neatly, and return them to
the owner! See that he does the Job ur
handsomely
The veteran went away to his work
sorrowfully and the general resumed hi;
walk.
Recently a small family left Burling
ton, VI, for a brief sojourn with thei
relatives in "Canadaw. At Esse,
Junction. the train for the south beins
late. the children were allowed to 90 t,
sleep on the sofa, In the sitting room a
the depot At last the train arrived
when father. mother and children mad
for the cars going North. In due tim
the train started and the parents afte
taking an invoice of their earthly effect
found themselves one child short thei
loss was Immediately made known to tn
: conductor who obligingly ordered ''dow
brakes, aud the father footed it bac
}. several miles to find the lost child sal
asleep where he had left it. That fan
e lily now takes a count BEFORE starting.
;e Passions should be conquered by pr
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-03

DAINTER. Painting, Glazing, Graining. White
Il washing and Paper Hanging. All work done in
e best style and satisfaction guaranteed Saws filed
b order.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-03

Jeff Davis has survived six of bis
bondsmen.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-03
DALE 81 ROBINSON,
j. WOODMAN.

UAIE AZ hUBINNVN,
"A TrOINEYS and Counselors at Law, Barton, VT.
an aEo DALE. J. h. ROBINSON
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-03

T.. &c. STEVENS,
.NURGEON DENTIST Barton Landing VT
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-03
A. G. ROBINSON,

hEALER IN BOOTS, SHOES, and findings ofthe
y best kind and quality. offered cheap for cash
lore over A. & J. L. Twombly's
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-03
FRED. II. MORSE.

j. n. WEBSTER,
Dealer in stereoscopes, Views,
Il oval square, aud rustic Frames of all kinds.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-03
w. w. EATON,

kXTHOLESALE dealer in Flour, Grain, w. /. Goods,
NV Groceries, Lime Plaster Oil, Fish. Salt Iron,
heel Nails, Glass, &C., Depot Store, Barton, Vt.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-03

Passions should be conquered by pru-
deuce
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-03

2 Congress meets. President Grants
Message is we'll received
10 The Fifth Avenue Hotel horror at
New York, and roasting to cinders of %
females.
II Death of Edwin Forrest, aged 66.
Defalcation of 100000 in the Montreal
Bank.
10 Boston Fire Relief Fund reaches
S3O5,500
2l George Francis Train in New York
prison for publishing an obscene sheet
"a Destruction of Barnum's Museum
by fire at New York loss $1,000, 600.
26 Snow blockade in New England
and other portions of the North Three
East lndiamen wrecked off Cape Cod
20 Several steamers sunk by the ice
jam at Memphis.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-03

A TToRNEY AT LAW and Solicitor in Chancery.
LA Will attend courts in Orleans and Caledonia
|ounties. Prompt attention given to collections
Greensboro, Vt.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-03

MARTIN ABBOTT.
ZNXTHEELWRIGHT, Carriage Maker and General
wv Job Worker. Open and Top Duggies. and va
ious styles Of carriages always on hand. Glover VT
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-10-04
ALYING noCuMEST.

Il lhe conservative State Central com
mittee is engaged in circulating about the
most mendacious document that ever
found its way into print. 1t knocks the
stories of the Baron Won Munchausen and
the Mumbo Jumbo bugbear, into the middle
of next week, and achieves sucha triumph
over Mandeville's travels and Peter Wilkins
adventures as would make their respective
authors the most veracious of story-tcllers.
1t puts down the state debt of Alabama
as increased under Radical rule at $685.
H2, 312. 50,when the whole debt ofthc state,
funded and otherwise, in 1870, tthe date
subsequent to which all the official plum
dering occurred,) was only $S,47S, 0ls, OF
an incresse Of only s2,53S, 1854 upon tho
old debt of the state as existing in 1865.
1t gives the state debt of Georgia at
$50, 1877 500, when in 1870 (about the time
the Bullock government went out of office,
and the state fell into honest Democratic
hands, the whole debt of the state was
only Sc, 544 500, the bulk of which was
created before 1866. hla.-gs a,I 80 -
1t gives the state debt Of South Carolina
at 1874, los, 914,47, when in 1870 (the date
at which nearly all Governor SCOTS al
legged peculations had been committed
the entire debt was s7,6G5, 200, or only
some two millions and half more than it
was in 1865. g" l-is9 ART afl
1t puts down the state debt Of Louisiana
contracted under the Warmoth-C onserva.
tive ADMINISTRATION at $50, $40, 206.91,
when it was only s25, 02l ,734, inclusive Of
something over ten millions contracted
prior to 1865. 4 ifh s, alll 1al 70
1t gives the state debt Of Tennessee at
$45, 6SS, 233.40, when it was only some
thirty-six millions, inclusive of upwards of
twenty millions contracted prior to 1866. 60
1t puts down the state debt of Florida at
sl5, 76S, 447.54, when in 1870, (after oil Of
Harrison Reeds alleged stealings), it was
only $l,2ss,697. 1t tells the Same gar
gantuan story in regard to the indebted.
ness Of North Carolina and Texas, and
warns the people Of Virginia against the
terrible frauds and populations Of the Rad
icals, which will be sure TO be repeated in
Virginia if the immaculate fnanciers of the
Conservative party arc oustcd from the
public CRIB. sFji Falg1dl adE %
This ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS cry Of "stop
public thief, (" comes with most excel.
lent grace from a party that has fastened
upon the neck of Virginia the largest
public debt that any state in the Union
is staggering under to-day. 7i ,.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-10-04

SPEAKING of the failure of the prohib.
itory liquor law in Massachusetts,, the
Springfield Republican, an exceedingly
well informed aad thoughtful journal " it'll
regard to all socologic matters, says:
SIN the matter of liquor legislation, as
in number Of other matters, we have not
yet got beyond the experimental, tentative
siege, and we are not likely to for some
time to come. Social science is still too
rudimentary and too completely caviare to
the vulgar to be of much practical help to
us; we can only try this thing and that
thing, note aud compare the results, and
so grope our way as we best can toward
our object" csAE u8 agai 3a
These temperate and practical observa.
tons merit careful reflection from eyely-
body who is interested IN the prog .css of
reform. The world does not advance by
leaps or jerks. Itmoyes steadily forward,
and makes as little noise about it as possi-
BILE. Those who attempt to make it re-
volve in anything but a fixed and prede-
termlned orbit, will bling up sooner or
later IN conviction of their owl folly.