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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-11-29


Length ~ miles AYerut advance, i&3 per cent Or
III roun, numbers. f60o0OOO.
Against ths great advantage Is placed the issue OF
township bonds "a follows:
MonteI,,r ................. s2OOOoo
kearney, WoOdsde. and Pompton,
S!O,OO0 eaCh ........-.....-------....- JoV"
IOtdl .--- $780,,
Leaving the net gain TO the towns Of SIS, 10000
The reflection OF having conferred so large benefit on
the northern region Of New Jersey is some compensation
for the pecunary sustained by those who by their
persistent labor have effected such a result
j. III. PRATT
Former President OF tho Montcair Railway Co.
Nslr- York, Nov. 3D. 1873.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-04

PENNSYLVANIA Coal MlNEs.-From
Lehighton to Tamaqua the country has
mixed people, Germans and English
sharing the fertile and monotonous land
together, getting deal of worth out of
it. At Tamaqua we suddenly enter the
long coal basin which stretches all the
way to Pottsyille and beyond. A mile
or two Of distance here gives us mar
velous contrast. The wealth of soil
disappears; in its place comes the un-
derground richness of the ancient coal
period forests. The endless fields of
grain give place to scantY forests robbed
of every tree which could be used in
snoring up galleries of the mines. The
gnarled and worthless pines spread their
ragged limbs against the sky line of the
hills. The brooks are turbid with the
waters pumped from the innumerable
shafts, and wander OBVIOUSLY through
and around the enormous piles of black
waste which is dumped into their valleys.
Squalid little wooden hamlets are clus-
tered below each of the files of grimJ
sheds which show the entrance Of the
rivers on the sides of the mountains
On every hand run the coal railways
down which pour unending trains o.
coal The change in the people is ever
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-04
GEN. BUTLER DECLIN Els ssGOING
BP,' IN A BALLOON.


General Ben. Butter has spurned a
profered honor. The publishers of the
New York Graphic, finding that the
other leading dailies of that city have OBJ
tanned an immense amount Of gratuitous
advertising by employing. as correspond
ents and reporters men well-knowE in
the higher walks of life. conceived the
idea of employing Gen. Butler as a re-
porter to accompany the proposed balloon
expedition to Europe. The position was
offered in the following terms: "The
Graphic Company, DESTROYS of securing
the best writer and foremost man in the
country, as historiographer of the expe-
dition, take sincere pleasure in offering
this position to you, as a recognition Of
your eminent abilities and your unsur-
passed style of vigor, incisiveness and
pictorial power. Whatever the people Of
Massachusetts, may do in the coming
election, the Graphic Company is willing
to afford you an opportunity to reach .
higher elevation than any to which ever
the suHrages Of a free people can carry
YOU" Even the reference to the Gener
aPs unsurpassed style, pictorial pow
err etc., failed to tempt him to go ''ul
in balloon :" at least, just at present
4 I'm reply, he says: You certainly offe
a great temptation to take part in tn
expedition. You forget another induce
ment which, just now, might be equal.
strong with me. | should 60 beyond tn
reach Of the mail bag, the telegraph ant
the newspapers; at least while l was a
that elevation Of which you speak.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-04

John Paul" ON HORSE Races
Now have suggestion to make. In
stead of all this nonsense about starting,
why not bring all the horses up and
have them toe line, as men do when
they run? When the flag drops let them
go, and if a horse won't go let him stay,
and the race 60 on without him. This
would be fair for every one, and no
grumbling would come in. There's al
ways more ''chinning" about ''unfair
starts than over anything else in a race.
1t may be urged that some horses would
not start. Then keep the stubborn brutes
off the track; If horse won't 60 when
he's wanted to, | see no particular need
Of perpetuating the breed. That par.
ticular strain of blood which prompts a
horse to stand still when you want him
to go, and go when you want him te
stand still. can be dispensed with.
have had several such horses in nv time
and their hides invariably brought So
apiece, quite as much as any other horses
hides. They were said to make excel
lent trunk straps.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-04
SHOCKING MURDER.

A recent murder in a hay field near
London, N. j., reveals the most shocking
details. 1t appears that Michael Kearen
hired out to farmer named Noah Noe
a few weeks ago, since which time the
two men have worked together at ordin-
airy farm labor. Isaac Logan was also
one of Kearen's fellow workmen and in
company with him and Mr.. Noe, Logan
took a wagon and started for the hay
field on Monday morning, July %. When
the field was reached Logan leaped to the
ground and lifted forkful of hay into
the wagon. He was STOPPING to lift a
second forkful when Kearen, who, pitch
fork in hand, had jumped from the wa
gon right after Logan, rushed at him
and drove all three of the tines deer
into his loins, penetrating his intestines
Before Logan. could recover his command
Kearen made a second luDge with the
fork, and drove one of the tines entirely
through his abdomen. the steel protruding
through the back near the spinal bone
Kearen made third attemptto stab Lo
gan, but was prevented by fellow la
borer, who caught the fork and wrested
1t from the Infatuated man. Before ht
could further interfere, however, Kearer
jumped upon Logan, who had sunk tt
the ground and began stamping his ches
and IONS with the heels OF his heavy
farm boots. Mr.. Noe then undertook t
interfere, and the murderer escaped, blu
was arrested before night. Medical all
was summoned to save the wounded mai
but before the physician had arrived Lo
gan was dead
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-04

The New York Herald is RECALLING its
readers with series of articles, which
try to make out that President Grant is
protecting plans for third term in the
Presidential Chair. Itfnds fault with
him because he hasleft Washington for
a month or two and gone to the sea-shore
at Long Branchs for rest and perhaps
amusement. When no more sensible
or important objections than these can
be made about the President, it is pretty
safe to believe that he is administering
the affairs of government well.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-04
THE BALLOON VOYAGE.

In few weeks Prof Wise will start
on his long talked of aerial voyage, pro-
vided the original date is adhered to-
Without any desire to discourage the
enterprise, we feel that we can scarcely
hope for success according to the scheme
he has laid down, and will end by simply
adding one more to the long list Of those
who have already yielded up their lives
in attempting to solve the problem of
aerial navigation. His theory of an
upper current of air that constantly sets
eastward seems to find but few support
ers among men of science, with whom
Professor Wise does not pretend to rank
himself. Balloonists have found it no
easy task to manage the ordinary balloon;
how the professor will contrive to keep
the gigantic affair in which he is to at
tempt his perilous trip under control is
painful subject for conjecture. When
the best that can be said for the adven-
ture has been said, it will still appear
that the whole affair is to depend entire
ly upon chance. IF this eastern current
of air should not be found, what then
1t will be impossible to turn back. 1t
is not pretended that the balloon can be
steered. Nothing can be done but to
return to land or to descend to the sur
face of the ocean, where, taking to such
boats as they may have with them, the
travellers will he compelled to drift about
| - ~ t,s..,sa.-e
vessel. In the uncertainty that envel.
ops the entire theory upon which this at.
tempt is to be made, we think it would
be advisable that the project be delayed
until men of science have been heard
from to far greater extent than they
have been up to the present time, as the
only aspect it at present bears is one Of
fool-hardiness. The very form chosen
by Professor Wise for his balloon is un
favorable to the success of his scheme
1t is both numbering and unmanageable
and must necessarily drift along aimless
Ely,l depending entirely upon fortunate
chance for success, ~ If the, air is ever t.
be, nayigatcda by any vessel, it will no
be By the awkward, bulb-shaped afai
to which we are accustomed, but by som
machine which will copy the forms tina
nature has given to the birds, and whicl
are SO marvellously adapted for swif
flights through the air.-Boston Globe.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-04
more painful thanfthe.change in the face

more painful thanfthe. change in the face
of the land. The men seem mostly Corn
ish or other British miners, -shapeless,
hulking fellows. shutting over the ground
with something Of the uncertain tread
Of sailors on shore, their clothing sordid,
their faces blear-eyed and dull with
the monotonous toll in darkness to which
their race has been subjected for gene
rations. Whiskey has made its mark
on nearly every face,-visible even
through the SCOT which hides almost
every other expression of their sinister
countenances. The women are in far
better condition. Many of them are
pictures of rude health and vigor, we'll
fed, not overworked, for there are no
aesthetic cares here living in the open
air,-for their dens are too small for
tenements, they have better chance
for growth than most lower class women.
The children, too, are sturdy little ur-
chins until the black mine draws them
in, when they seem at once to leave their
youth for the old age of hopeless, sunless
toll Atantic Monthly.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-04
INSANE ASYLUM.

u The Brattleboro PAoensi1 has long
editorial defending the management of
the Insane Asylum from the reproaches
of the investigating committee and evil
minded newspapers. The article con-
itains a rather Incorporate proportion of
italic letters, exclamation points and
general spitefulness but fails to get at
any tangible issue with the committee in
question beyond general drift of re-
mark to the effect that the investigation
was caused by persons interested in hav-
ing a State Asylum built, and that the
report is founded upon the testimony of
insane persons who naturally regarded
the institution with an unfavorable eye
1t is doubtless true that the insanity of
the witnesses might affect their CREDIBLE
ity but it would not change the facts,
and if the committee, upon the testimony
of insane persons, reported things which
were not true, it should be an easy mat
ter for the persons implicated to set the
matter right by the testimony of persons
who are not insane. The Asylum is SO
small that even the common run of Yer
mont newspapers venture to criticise its
management, SO that it is we'll enough if
somebody defends it, but to be very ef-
fectual a defence requires something be-
sides mere i'll temper. The amount Of
smoke in the business is too great to
permit any man to disbelieve in the
presence Of fire except upon the most
strong and straightforward evidence. -
| Woodstock Post.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-04
EFFORTS FOR THE PARDON OF
~ aEri sa WALWORTH. m

Earnest efforts are being made to OBJ
tain a pardon for the heartless parricide,
Frank H. Walworth, who has scarcely
begun his probation for the cowardly as
sassination of his father. The reckless
fippancy which characterized this young
scamp through his trial and after his
sentence should alone plead in the strong
est terms against any consideration being
shown him. He is, a dangerous charac-
ter, and if he were released his liberation
would be equivalent to an endorsement
of his horrible crime. 1t is to be hoped
that Governor Dix will remain firm, in
spite of the fact that the petition for the
free and unconditional pardon of this
stoical villain is signed by some of .the
most influential and distinguished people
in the land" If strict justice had been
melted out to him he would have been
deservedly handed over to the tender mer-
cies of the hangman, for more coward
ly and horrible butchery was never per-
petrated by a person in his proper senses.
If he should be released, there is nc
knowing who would be his next victim.
The first person he fancied to be inimical
to his mother would, doubtless, be shot
to death by this hopeful sprig of chival.
ry, in whose veins runs the soldier blood
of the Hardins. The Governor remain.
ed firm in the case of the car-hook muir
derer, whose crime undoubtedly hac
more palliating circumstances than thai
of the parricide who SO moves the sym
pathIes Of the social exclusives. There
was reconciliation and heartless colo
bloodedness about this latter assassina
ton that place its perpetrator beyond tn,
pale of sympathy. He challenged tn
world and set himself up in antagonist
to the law. He carried out the charac
ter in which he chose to appear to tn
end. Let him reap the fruits of his con
duct, thankful that he has escaped tn
shameful death on the gallows he s
richly merited. Boston Globe.
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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-04

Vice President Wilson has had a stroke
of paralysis and is confined to his room
in Washington. His features are, affect
ed by it, and at present he has but slight
use Of his vocal organs. Hopes are en-
tertained Of his recovery, but he may
not be able to preside over, the senate
shvufu d partial recovery bc effected.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-04

4 No small commotion has been made
in the politics of Massachusetts by the
announcement of Ben. Butler that he will
be a candidate for governor at the next
Republican convention. Ben. has been
anxious for some time past to be COVER
nor of the old Bay State. and has many
ardent admirers, who are busily engaged
in his behalf, but the majority of the
Republicans prefer some one else, and
hence the stir. Butler is a very smart
man, to use this term in its.common sig.
nifcance, and by the force of talent
check and political strategy will make
lively times until he is chosen governor
or defeated in convention. a..
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-04

A railroad case was recently tried IN
Indiana which establishes valuable
precedent in fixing one of the rights of
travellers. One Mrs. Winscott had a
ticket to pass over the Ohio & Missis-
sipi Railroad, from Seymour to Browns
town. The train failed to stop at the
latter place sufficient length of time
for the lady to get off in safety. Before
the train had got quarter of a mile,
she requested the conductor to stop the
train, which he refused to do, and car
ried her eight miles away, also refusing
to stop at Vallonia, which was only four
miles from Brownstown. Mrs. Wins
colt, therefore brought suit before JUS
tice Of the Peace, and recovered judg-
ment for thirty dollars damages. The
case was appealed by the company to the
Court of Common Pleas, in which she
recovered one hundred dollars, the whole
amount of damages claimed. The court
instructed the jury that the train should
have been stopped sufficient length Of
time to allow the passengers reasona-
BILE opportunity to get of, regardless Of
the rules or customs of the company
Chicago Tribune
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-04

The most stupendous sell of recent
date is that perpetrated by the Central
City (Col.) Coach upon the press of the
country. 1t related an account of a
fearful ride by two boys in skiff, who
within few hours, rode distance of
l40 miles with the speed Of lightning.
1t was nothing that several falls sixty
feet in height were passed without an
upset or drenching. nor that the boat
went forty miles an hour down a slug
gish stream. The article has been every
where copied and editorially commented
upon.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-04

Reports from nearly all sections of
the country represent thatthe- crops are
coming in well. Wheat in the north
west is excellent and no serious COM
plant is made in regard to corn The
fruit crop is light in New England, es.
pecially apples. The grass crop in
Maine, was never better, and in all Sec
lions has proved better than the early
summer promised. .fafad9 .ha
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-04

Another million dollar fire in Boston,
on Thursday. A bonded warehouse was
burned and large amount Of merchan.
disc. &C. ai.l. - HA - elIH
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-04
A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN BELGI-
UNI.

We quote from the Belgian papers
the following account of dreadful ira
gedy that occurred three weeks ago in
little village near Brussels:
A farmer and his wife had plotted to
murder their niece during her sleep, to
rob her of 1900 francs that she was
taking to her sick mother. In order to
foil the future searches of the police they,
previous to perpetrating the crime, were
engaged in digging large hole in the
garden, so as to bury the body in it,
when the young girl, not being asleep,
had heard her terrible sentence, rushed
out by the window, and ran to the po-
lice station, distant one mile only.
But as soon as she was out the daugh-
ter of the wicked farmer, who was not
expected home that night, came back,
and, not wishing to awaken anybody in
the house, went noiselessly into the bed
where her cousin had been lying few
moments ago. She soon fell asleep, and
thus her mother, not being aware of the
providential substitution, owing to the
darkness of the night, broke her own
daughters head with an axe.
This being done, the two were going
to the garden, carrying the corpse, en-
veloped in a bed-spread, when two gen
darmes, accompanied by the fugitive
girl, rushed into the house with lanterns
in their hands.
At the sight of their niece, whom
they thought they had murdered, thu
two wretches took off the covering an6
found their unfortunate child killed by
their own hands.
The man, taking large butcher knife
plunged it into his breast. and fell deat
ON the ground. AS to the woman, VIII
was prevented from committing suicide
she became insane, and is now shut vi
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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-04

1t is still very dry in tthe southern
portion Of New England.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-04

Washington boasts of four children
at a birth. The children were colored-
and perhaps the story is. j.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-04

cd soon to die from mental exhaustion
A more horrible account has rarely beer
registered in the annals Of crime.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-04

was drawn on to two boards and there
left to the tender mercies of the flies
that had gathered where slops from the
sink hole inside were thrown out, where
he lay for hours in helpless state of
intoxication. The cruelties of the rum
fend and his colaborers are past finding
out.
A sad mistake occurred in Hartford,
which resulted in the death of Mrs. Dea.
julius Hazen, who resided in that part
of the town known as Jericho" 1t
seems that Mrs. Hazen had an imbecile
daughter, and that some medicine had
been prepared for her, and set upon
the shelf till wanted. By some means
the bottle had been moved from its place.
and bottle of corrosive sublimate left
near where it stood. Mrs. Hazen, by
mistake, took portion of the poison
from the bottle, and offered it to the girl,
who refused to take it, upon which, tc
show her that it was not disagreeable
to the taste, Mrs. Hazen took the dose
herself, and SO powerful was its effects
that she lived only very snort time.
A correspondent of the Witness relates
this sad story from Huntington The
other day man, or one who calls him.
self SO, but is not worthy of that name
while under the influence of liquor, beat
and mangled his innocent wife until life
seemed almost to be suspended. He
once possessed good property, but now
the bread is withheld from his little
ones mouths, to carry out his accustom
ed habits. He carries pale countenanct
broken down constitution. and quar-
relsome disposition. and twill, in al
human probability find an early grave
A sad story is this for the rum seller
and this is but one of the millions O.
sorrows caused by the poisonous viper,
! that Turk in the glass.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-10-18
THE FIELD OF THE INVENTOR.

The reports of the Patent Office show that
ingenuity as triat of the human mind, is be-
ing more rapidly developed of late years than
before. The necessities which by their in.
crease have been the means of experimenting
this talent, have increased with the growth of
civilization and the advance of social culture.
What people could once rest satisfied with,
has become an absolute article, and they now
demand what was once beyond the reach of
the most visionary. In all comestibIe the
tastes of the masses have been educated up
to standard far above that of the past, and
following, there has been relative improve
ment in the means and ways of production
The advance of sci, nee, the increase of edu-
cation, has had the effect Of drawing upon the
ingenuity of people for those modes of i'm
proving whai has now become a necessity.
and the thousand and one applications for
patents for new beverages and new forms for
food, show that there must he some demand
for such class if inventions
In household utensils there is quite an army
who seek to ameliorte domestic affairs bv
rendering rocking chairs more easy and chur.
ming hardly any labor. 1t is next to imposs;.
BILE to say where these inventions will sion
From mos,ors, which will run sewing ma.
chimes for AN indefinite period without cost,
TO noiseless perpetual motions, there seems to
be no boundaries to the human intellect and
its vagares. To the eye of one who has some
appreciation Of the possible, there is some.
thing almost ludicrous in the many attempts
made 10 effect what is plainly beyond the me.
chanical powers, but the visionary theoris,
fails to realize that there is any end to the
scope Of the minds grasp. They have been
seeking TO condense into small powder MI
iriinent sufficient 10 last an able bodied man
for twcnty-four hours, and to effect by chemi-
cal action all of natures operations, without
any reference to her unalterable laws There
should be no cessation from attempting every
advance; but there are so many available
fields that il would seem almost a waste of
time for study to be devoted TO these wasted
barrens. Inventors have before them world
of unmas:ered problems. There remains yet
in the shadowy land Of the undiscovered
enough 10 give laurels to the victor and bene-
fits to The s;mggler.
What is wanted lie, that more attention be
paid to those quest ons which are ofsreat i'm
portance and less 10 endeavors to better minor
things with which we are now already sur
feited. The country has already reached that
point when we can afford to devote labor to
tLose ahsnuse propositions which will effect
more than the most complete success in the
email arena OF the miuor difficulties,