Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-04
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENTS.

seaside or the mountains for rest and
comfort, we are compelled to spend few
days in the cities, on matters Of bust
mes ness = We can realize how pleasing it
must be to the denizens of these heated
towns, to flee away to. the mountains,
where they can enjoy the shades and
cool retreats" for a season. The last
week was extremely dry, hot and uncom-
Portable, and the welcome rain which fell
during Saturday night and Sunday, came
none too soon. Nowhere from Barton
to New Haven, do crops look as well as
in our own county of Orleans, and we
think our farmers would not wish to ex-
change their billy farms for these level
could. see them now. No wonder that
blight, drought and famine are upon
them, when wicked men will devote such
fair acres to the culture Of that noxious
weed, tobacco. They have done it, and
every available spot of ground from the
coveted garden to the fertile meadow, is
despoiled with tobacco. The crop does
not look we'll at present, but rains may
revive it. This valley has received mil
lions of dollars from this product in the
last few years, and of course, as long as
a cropis profitable, it will be raised,
whatever it may be. We endure the
disagreeableness Of the use Of this nasty
weed with little better grace, since the
government has taxed it SO heavily, and
is making it pay off the National. debt
at a rapid rate. If men and boys in this
country desire to chew and smoke out a
debt of two billions Of dollars, we who
hate to be spit upon and smoked out,
ought, perhaps, to suffer these little an
noyances. $500 gaim $50 aeit
! Springfield is as quiet as before the
noted boat-race in which so many of the
colleges crews commended few days since.
Those who built stands on the river
banks to let during the regetta, made no
money in the undertaking, and the city
itself did not get rich from the extortions
of one week. The Yale crew has been
decided winner, notwithstanding the
great controversy made by the papers
and other crews in regard to the race.
Hartford is one Of the pleasantest and
richest cities Of its size in New England.
1t grew rich from its insurance business
and then doubled its money by investing
sides may be seen manufacturing estab.
lishments, and almost everything is made
here, from the veritable wooden nut
meg Eve saw real wooden nutmeg in
one of the shops and no longer doubt
the existence Of the article) to some Of
the most useful and costly machinery.
e. - .
The Weed sewing machines are made
here, and visit to. the shops speaks
we'll for this machine The whole works
are being used to their utmost power tc
supply the orders. We saw boxes be
ing packed, that were to be carried t.
the capital Of Chill, South America
others for London and other foreign
ports. Colts arnory is. situated here
saad though not asVbusy gas during tn
s%arsjs turnihgsout large numbers of tn
celebrated pistols. The building of
new State capitol is agitating the mind
of the people OF this State. New Haven
the semi-eapltal, is jealous of Hartford
and opposes the erection of the new bull
ding here. 1t has been begun and whel
completed will be one of the fines
state buildings in the country. The sit
is on the elevated ground overlooking
the city park and the city, and is excel
lently adapted to the purpose of tn
capitol. The insurance companies hav
built up many very costly blocks, whic,
add much to the appearance and beaut
of the city. The private residences ar
fine. and everything shows the marks o
enterprise and prosperity. We attende
church on the sabbath and can ofe
some consolation to our ministers VIII
preach to comparatively empty house
and sleepy congregations, by telling thel
that in this land of ..steady habits "
saw in two of the most imposing churcht
of this city, congregations that number
ed less thap the number of pews in eac
church. The preaching, the organ an
the singing, all were good, but the COZ
gregations were small and sleepy. "
always love Vermont better when we
from home and compare the tempera
habits of our own people with those {
any other state. Even in this city, a
the hotels, one third of all the store
and all the groceries and saloons Sc
some kind of liquor, and the effect ms
be seen in the squalidity Of some of Il
streets, and read on the countenances
men. We hope that Vermont will new
have a temperance law less strol
against the use and sale of liquor.
No small commotion has been ma,