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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-06-16

A TOUCHING INCIDENTAL short
time since, in this city, brilliant and
much admired lady, who had been
suffering for some time with trouble
of the eyes, was led to fear a aspeedy
change for the worse, and Immediately
consulted her physician. An examin
alton discovered a sudden and fatal
failing in the optic nerve, and the infor-
nation was impaired as gently as pos
sible, that the patient could not retain
her sight more than a few days at
most, and was liable to be totally
deprived of it at any moment. The
afflicted mother returned to her home,
quietly made such arrangements as
would occur to any one about to CON-
mence so dark journey of life, and
then had her two little children, at
tired in their brightest and sweetest
costumes, brought to her; and so,with
their little faces lifted to hers, and tears
gathering for some great misfortune
that they hardly realized, the light
faded out of the mothers eyes, leaving
an ineffaceable picture of those dear
est to her on earth-a memory of
bright faces that will console her in
many dark Covimgtoe (Ky.)
Journal.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-06-16

around as it settled down, so that just
his eyes were visible from the center of
it. Jake's voice was scarcely audible,
and half smothered as he vainfy tried to
remove the immense cheese.
1000, ere Massa, took um orr O.
90, bress me, lift um up, oh !! oh p
Meanwhile I was nearly dead myself
having laid back on a cotton bale, hold
ing myself together to keep from burst
ing, while the boys stood around old Jake
paying him off.
"Massy sakes how dis nigger's breff
smells; you doesn't clean your teef, old
Jake. Well you is nasty niger, dat's
a fac. Well, you is the biggest kind Of
Welsh rabbit, you is. Whar you get
your har greese 2" And thus the boys
run old Jake, half smothered, until ]
took compassion on him and told them
to take it off. Jake didn't stay to claim
his prize but put out growling-"I dur
got sill dat time, Use a case of yarlel
fever, l is, myself"
Old Jake was never known to do an,
more butting in that vicinity after that
and l am still of the opinion that it wa
not quite the cheese.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-06-16
BROWNLOW ON HILL.


Parson Brownlow is evidently not SO
much of used up man as has been re-
ported. I'D. H. Hill, late Lieutenant
General of the rebel army" catches it
in letter from Senator Brownlow, in
return for some disgraceful comments he
had been making in his (Hill's) North
Carolina paper, upon the deaths of Gen.
Candy and other distinguished Union
lists. The following specimen of the
Parsons retort will suffice:
"Now, Gen Hill, while you are false
ly accused Gen. Candy of brutality, l
propose to enlighten the public as to
your military record. While in COM
mand in North Carolina. during the late
war, twenty-six white men were tried on
the charge of being loyal to the United
| States. No other offence was alleged
against them. They were put on trial
late in the afternoon, and by the yer.
dict of drum-head court martial. act
ing u'ader your orders, all were hung un
til dead before breakfast the next morn
ing, without benefit of clergy. Are yol
not a beautiful specimen to assail Can
by on the score of brutality? | cal
think of nothing as supremely ridiculous
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-06-16

unless it would be for you and your
friend, Captain Jack, to write a treatise
on civilization for distribution among
the Ku-Klux of North Carolina. In
deed, if l did not know that you were
in North Carolina, should infer frcm
the brutality of your assault on Candy,
Thomas AID others, that you were in the
Lava Beds when it was written, and that
the article was the joint production OF
yourself and Captain Jack.
You rejoice over my paralysis as
punishment of God, because, as you say,
l least my lot with the Abolitionists. ="
1 recognize the hand of God in my be-
half. Probably not one man in thou
sand would survive the exposure and
hardships to which l was subjected while
driven by rebel cavalry into the noun
tains and incarcerated in rebel prison
in midwinter. While am now in i'm
proving health, with a clear conscience,
nearly all the men who were instrument
tai in my Imprisonment, and who insult
ed me while in prison, are dead. Most
of them died with delirium tremens, or
in some other unnatural way. | would
not parade their names before the world
asTyou would for when God lays his
hand on man | take mine off, and
mention the fact in defending myself
from your attack.
l have noticed that you and others
who have assailed Candy and Thomas
since their death, never insinuated {
charge rejecting upon their persona
characters while they were living. Il
make accusations againsta man after hi
death, which you dare not make while
he is living, would indicate to unpreju
diced minds that you are falsifers o
towards
AS to myself, 1 shall go on in the eve
tenor of my way, and at the expiration
of my term in the Senate two years henc
l expect to revive the Knoxville, Viii
for the especial benefit of men of you
stamp. l am &C.,
w. G.. BRowNLow.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-06-16
THE WRECK.

Down, down, into the deepl
Into the oceans jaws,
Kissing, with foamy lip,
To swallow the freighted ship,
Like lamb in the eagles claws,
Borne off with one fell sweep!
Down, down, into the deepi
Swift as the lightning glare,
In the black midnight air,
Came the great throes of pain,
Torn, with the cruel rock;
Bent, with the fearful shock;
Creaking in every chain;
Cordage-rope snapped in twain;
Down, with agonized leap!
Down the unfathomed deep!
Where are the loved we knewl
The gentle, the brave, the true !
Lips we were wont to kiss
Tones we shall ever miss?
Hearts that were yesterdays ours
Dead-like the frosted flowers
Meath the remorseless wave
Swiftly is cleft their grave.
At midnight we heard a cry
"The bridegroom draweth nigh;
Goye, your King to meet;
Forth in the night and sleet;
Forth, without prayer or stay
Past is the time to pray"
Oh, let sweet mercy draw
The veil il trembling awe;
Give throbbing spirits rest,
And whisper, ''They are blest,"
Else would our sorrowing fears
Melt all our life in tears.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-06-16

Always suspect a man who affects
great softness of manner, an unrufted
evenness of temper, and an enunciation
studied, slow and deliberate. These
things are all unnatural, and bespeak a
degree of mental discipline into which
he that has no purpose of craft or de-
sign to answer cannot submit to drill
himself. The most successful knayes
are usually of this description, as smooth
as razors dipped in oil, and as sharp.
They affect the innocence of the dove.
which they have not, in order to hide
the cunningness of the serpent. which
they have.-Colton.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-06-16

SEVERE WEATHER IN SCOTLAND
From various parts of Iverness and
Perthshire, we have accounts of heavy
snow falls and intense coldness of the
weather. The Grampians and other
ranges are covered with snow to depth
of from six to seven inches, and the low-
lying grounds have also white and
winter covering. The mortality amongst
the grouse in consequence of the storm
will be enormous. From several quar-
ters of Perthshire the reports state that
the "birds are found lying dead in doz-
ems, and few if any nests are to be seer"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-06-16

A YEAR WITHOUT A SUMNER
While every one is speaking of the
present season as being remarkable
in its characteristics, correspondent
in New Hampshire paper gives some
facts concerning the year 1916, known
as the year without summer. 1t
was the coolest ever known through
out Europe or America. The winter
was mild. Frost and ice were COM
monin every month ofthe year. Very
little vegetation matured in the East
ern and Middle States. The average
price of flour during that year was s13
per barrel, and the average price of
wheat in England was ninety-seven
shillings per quarter. Old New Eng
land farmers referred to the year as,
eighteen hundred and starved to
DEATH"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-06-16

A book agent recently invaded a
snugcottage in Pittsfeld, Mass, where
he found bright looking little woman
sewing by the window. So began to
descapt volubly on the merits of the
book which he had for sale. This he
kept up for half an hour, he concluded
that he had found customer. He
handed her the pen which he had ready
for her to make her subscription
whereupon, instead of putting her
autograph on the list, she wrote upon
scrap of paper from her work-box,
line defe and dunn It was too much
for the disappointed man, and he
evacuated the cottage without saying
another word.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-06-16
FAMILIER THINGS.

We all love to be told what we are,
and what we arc doing, just as much as
if we didn't already know them ourselves.
To make or hear remarks on the wealth
er or current events, is so common that
we do not notice it ; but if it were omit
ted if friends and acquaintance pass
ed us in silence and said nothing about
these things, we should quickly feel it.
To use the famllier forms of address, is
the best way to introduce conversation
or discourse. If it is a gloomy, rainy
day, or bright sunshiny one, it meets
common feeling of expectation to say
something about it. We all love to be
met on common ground our thoughts,
like rain when it falls on the earth, run
in the old channels. Current events are
the constant stimulant of social life. A
man isn't social who doesn't come down
to these things. We take up news
paper to find reported the very thing we
have heard all about, and if we don't
find it we say it is worthless paper
Old residents love to hear and talk about
the river, the falls, the buildings, with
which they have been famiiier all their
lives, and amidst which they were born.
Topics of conversation are like roads
the old most travelled ones are the best
If men 60 abroad for change, sight see.
ing and novelty, the heart never beats
SO high, and the sense of pleasure is new
er so great as when they return and the
old familiar sights and scenes of home
greet them once more. We are not only
creatures of habit, but friends and mem
ories and places live the longest in oul
hearts and are the dearest. There is n,
desolation so great as TO be in a strang
place, with the crowd passing and re
passing before you, but not one familia
face among them.
, There is no loneliness in the world S
sensible as this. Even the same is tru
, for books and papers they grow to b
visitors and friends. A man who is ac
customed to read daily paper, if
. fails to come he misses it, and feels al
4 the time as if he had lost something, Q
s something was wrong. So, too, of du
e ties. When men grow old and infirn
! and are obliged to relinquish their az
e customed places in the store, or coun
e ing room, or Office, they do it gradual,
} because they cannot do it all at one
n We do not stop to speak of the sky, tt
IS sun, the stars or the landscape but v
l think of them, and would not give the
le up, nor exchange them for anything els
d To sum ali up, we are greatly blesst
t, in our surroundings, in familiar plac
s. and friends.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-06-16

THE LUMBER MARIETTA careful
review of the amount of lumber to be
placed upon the market the coming
season shows that there is not an
overstock flogs in the United States
or Canada. There is not large stock
either in Michigan or Wisconsin, and
in New York and Pennsylvania the
stock of lumber is not as large as In
former years. Canada will not have
more than fair stock, including old
and new logs, and Maine is considera-
bly short of the usual stock of logs.
There has also been a very light stock
put in what may be called the lumber
producing district of the Baltic Sea,
and in consequence Great Britain has
been and will be. obliged to depend
upon Canada for much larger am cunt
than in any year before. While the
supply oftimber actually put upon the
market in the United States, the COM
ing season, will not be any larger, il
as large, as in former years, the con.
stant increase in the consumption OF
lumber will have a tendency to place
the article on a firm basis as to prices
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-06-16
THE NEW POSTAL LAW.

In the matter of letter postage there
is very little change in the new postal
law which takes effect on the first of
July. 1t was just here where Congress
had the power to have done the public
the most good by giving them cheaper
letter postage. and all that was done was
simply to give them a small piece of
poor card board valued at one cent, pro-
vided they write brief and open mes
sage.
On the other hand they actually rails
ed postage on periodicals by making
charges where none were made before
For some quarter of a century the people
have been allowed to receive free their
own county papers and publishers were
allowed free exchange. We remember
we'll with how much favor it was receiv-
ed at the time and regarded as a step in
the interest of intelligence and educa-
tion. If that was true then. the present
is one in favor of ignorance. On and
after July lst the people are to pay the
petty tax of twenty cents year on their
county paper, and if they like it, very
we'll. If it would pay quarter part Of
the "back pay grab" it would be some
thing, but it does not, and if it did. ii
would not help that Infamous transac.
tion.
The abolition of the entire frankins
privilege in all government departments
is another piece of foolishness which W.
are sure only the last Congress were ca
pable of perpetrating Heretofore ;
postmaster, and the same in other de
partments of government service, woult
frank all official documents, and whicl
of itself was of hardly any expence t
the government. Now the governmcn
Is to be to the expense of the manufac
ture and furnishing of stamps for al
official correspondence and the postmas
ter or other official who is dishones
enough to misuse his frank, will have n
scruples in using the stamps to be S
kindly furnished. A very large amour
of the talk about the franking privilee
has been the merest political clap ira
got up by scheming politicians as
dodge to carry the people who are no
sc to be taxed for their official stamps, ar
to pay congressman their extra grab, al
> we are mistaken if on the assemblage
the next Congress an early and success
+ full effort is not made to repel the o
noxious measures we have briefly &
G luded to above.
Certainly the republican party W
not attempt to carry the congressior
load of last winter unless they intend
commit suicide. No Congress ever clos
its labors with such hateful odor ]
stead of giving us cheaper postage, tn
have practically increased it. Inste
, of the principle of free schools,
which we have so much boasted, I'll
he'd have loaded it with taxation. The p
I. pie in no part of the country have e
= complained of the free transmission
their county papers. They never asl
,op- for the repeal of the law permitting
Gm, ims and its repeal was mere trick of
Ohm oda odious congress, and those members '
rom rom in any way have promoted these inic
and ties, we trust are destined to speedy
nent immediate political death.--BeH
)oro,
and Falls Times.
on
Sighted convictions are death
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-06-16
ALL FOR MONEY.
What will most people do

What will most people do
All for money!
Anything 'twixt me and you,
All for money.
Friend will turn his back on friend
Naughty people have to bend,
Love some to old Harry send,
All for money.
Many people go to law,
All for money.
Dentist nearly break your jaw,
All for money.
Tradesmen give you unjust weight,
Beggars tease you, early and late,
Garroters kindly on you wait,
All for money.
Lawyers plead the felon's cause,
All for money;
Vow he has not broke the laws.
All for money.
Had he been on t'other side,
What difference and how wide
To make him guilty he'd have tried,
All for money.
Chalk and water milkmen sell,
All for money.
Something else perhaps as well,
All for money.
Thus will conclude my strain
With a sentence short and plain
Everything is done for gain
All for money.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-06-16
OLD JAKE VS.. CHEESE.-A GOOD
STORY.
w. G.. BRowNLow.

Some years since L was employed as
warehouse clerk in large shipping house
in New Orleans. One day vessel came
in consigned to the house, having on
board large lot of cheese, from New
York. During the voyage some Of them
became damaged by bilge water, the
ship having been leaky, consequently
the owners refused to receive it. as it
was not as the bill of lading said-de-
livered in good order and we'll condi-
tioned-they were therefore sent to the
consignees of the ship, to be stored until
the case could be adjusted. 1 discover
ed few days afterward that as perfume
they were decidedly too fragrant to re-
main in the warehouse in June and re-
ported the same to the concern, from
whom received orders to have them
overhauled and sepd all that were pass
able to Beard & Calhourn's auction mart,
to be disposed of for the benefit of the
underwriters, and the rest to the swamp.
I got gang of black boys to work on
them and they soon stirred them up.
Presently the boys turned out big fell
low about three feet across the stump,
from which the box had rotted off. and
in the centre space of ten inches was
very much decayed and appeared to be
about the consistency of mush, of a blu
ish tint, which was caused by the bilge
water-the boys had set it upon its edge
on bale of gunny bags-when | no.
ticed over the way, big darkey from
Charlestown, South Carolina, who was
notorious for his quality in the line
had seen him and another fellow the
night previous practice. They woule
stand, one on each side of hydrant
and they would butt like veteran rams
A thought struck me that might cur
him Of his Dragging and butting, ant
!, at the same time have some sport; so
J told the boys to keep dark, and i calle'
old Jake over.
"They tell me that you are grea
: fellow for butting, Jake %
| 81 is some, Massa, dat's fac.
done butt the wool 'tirely of ole Pete
head las mite, and Massa Nichols wa
gwine to give me!goss. l ken jiss buc
de head OBJ any niger in these part
, myself, l KEN
"Well Jake l have got little job
j. that line for you when you haven't an,
t thing else to do
n q is on han for all dem kin oh jol
e myself"
h Well, you see that large cheese bac
there ?"
/ Il does dat, does myself"
e ''Now if you can butt dent IN it "
shall have it,
E. "Golly, Massa, you foolin' dis niger
/ "No, am not, Jake, just try me
to swat you glib me de hull OBJ d
D. cheese if I but dent in um''
te Yes"
IN "Golly, III butt um wide open, | W
ID myself-jiss stan back dar, you Orlea
I'd niggers-clar de trac for ole Souf e;
al lima Is comm myself, | is.
r. Old Jake stepped back some fifty #
It. and went at it with good quick II
n and the next instant | heard du
n heavy sound, a kind of splash, and
ou Jake's head disappeared from sight "
n the top just visible on the other side
an he rose with his new-fashioned neckla
US, the soft, rotten cheese oozing down
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-06-16
GARDENING FOR LADIEs.-It is quite

GARDENING FOR LADIEs.-It is quite
refreshing to read such a dainty little
story as this, told by Julia Coleman: =
Il know one lady whose sensible doc
tor told her, twenty years ago, that she
was half gone with consumption, and
that her only chance of life was to be in
the open air as much as possible. And
a perfect bower of Paradise was her lit
tie yard. Was the soil poor? She en-
riched it. Were her varieties indifer-
ent? She procured better. Nearly all
the flowers were fragrant. Fifteen kinds
of roses bloomed under her hands. and a
succession of flowers filled out the sum-
mer. One side of the yard was filled
with grape trees. Peaches, plums and
raspberries were trained, and choice
squashes ripeued on the roofs of the out
houses. Tomatoes were trained to SIM
gle poles and yielded luxuriantly; and
ruby strawberries peeped out even from
the bleaching grass. She, herself. was
as fresh and vigorous as you could ex
pect one to be whose half decayed lungs
had left her with insufficient vitality
But her life was saved and it had beer
a happiness to herself and blessing tt
Others"
She is right, too, when she says tha
more than half the credit for the orna
mentation of our door-yards and homes
is due to the ladies who push the mel
up to do their duty.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-06-16

LEMONS FOR FEvER.-Says that
walking cyclopedia of health knowl-
edge, DR.. Hall: When persons are fe-
verish and thirsty beyond what is
natural. indicated in some cases by q
metallic taste in the mouth, especially
after drinking water, or by whitish
appearance of the greater part OF the
surface of the tongue, one of the best
coolers, internal or external, is to take
lemon, cut off the top, sprinkle over
it some loaf sugar, working it down
ward into the lemon with a spoon,
and then suck it slowly, squeezing the
lemon and adding more sugar as the
acidity increases from being brought
up from alower point. Invalids with
feverishness may take two or three
lemons day in this manner with the
most marked benefit manifested by 6
sense of coolness, comfort and invig
Grafton. A lemon or two thus taker
at tea time, as an entire substitute
for the ordinary supper of summer
would givemany comfortable nights
sleep, and an awakening after res
and invigoration, with an appetite TO
breakfast to which they are strangers
who will have their cup of tea for sup
per or ssrelish" and 'scake" and thei
berries or peaches and cream.