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Almost any pleasant evening, there may
be seen upon the public drives of New
Orleans, phaeton, containing gentlemen
with a still handsome though badly SCARED
face, and by his side sits little lady whose
youthful face is strongly at variance with
her hair, which is plentifully sprinlsled
with grey.
Dear reader, the lady and gentleman are
Mr. and Mrs. Juanez.
The shock of that terrible night had we'll
nigh proved fatal to both
Recovering, however, after time, they
returned to New Orleans, where, among
familiar scenes and faces, they sought to
efface from memory the remembrance of
their dreadful experience in their Northern
Ffreside Friend.
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especially when talking of sciences, or up
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science and the enlightenment of mankind,
will demonstrate upon you with this razor,
that simple incison in the iugular vein
will cause death in a neat and expeditions
manner, which, as you are woman OF
discernment, you will readily acknowledge
has an immense advantage over the pre-
vailing style of slash and CASH"
Had the moment come?
The mailman made a motion as if to
step forward; something in the adjoining
room caught his attention. He bent for
ward, peering earnestly and curiously into
the dim light beyond.
"Ah !" he gasped; "the Eyer
Then loud voice cried: "The Eye of
God is looking into my SOUL" and stepped
slowly and stealthily toward the heavy
door, over the threshold, into the other
room.
With the smothered cry, "God help me''
Mrs. Juanez, pale as death, every muscle
in her small body rigid with determination,
sprang forward against the ponderous door;
it shut with a clang.
With all her strength she turns the mas
sive key; only partially turned it, before
the maniac, finding himself entrapped,
bounded with dreadful fury against it
He drew back for another bound-the pres
sure of the strong key performs its office.
The heavy bolts, above and below, slide
into their sockets.
Upon the floor woman lies senseless.
Terrific blows upon the oaken door. and
shrieks and bowls of creature bereft of
reason, rend the still night air.
A feeble voice walls through the hideous
tumut kate, darling; Kate ! Kate !!
speak to me"
The fire dies out in the CRATE. The
dreadful cries and imprecations continue,
but no life comes to the Frustrated figure.
A prolonged scream, as from some wild
beast in torture, and all is quiet save the
scarce audible wall, Kate oh, Kate -
X y 4 X
Outside the chamber door, Knowlton's
voice says: "Good God what can be the
matter? '
In tones of intense excitement, DR..
Gore answers: "We must burst in the
door,
Quick as thought, the heavy form of
Needham plunges forward-a crash-the
lock gives way, the door is open.
Tenderly, and with white faces, the
strong men raise the senseless form and
carry it away to another room.
Well, whatever is behind those bolts
and bars solves the mystery of the open
doors below, the disordered time-piece, the
seemingly lifeless woman."
Cautiously they turn the lock and slide
back the bolts.
A wretched thing, gaping wound in its
throat, its hands mere, shapeless, bleeding
stumps, lies dead before them.
What, though the opal, still resting on
the bureau, glows but family in the morn
ing light-it has saved its wearer's life.
In a daily paper was seen the following
notice:
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-01-05
HOW BRIGGS BABY WAS
TREATED,

Thomas Briggs of Twelfth street, has
boy baby ten months old. who is ad-
mitted at the beginning of this article
to look just like his father, and to be
the smartest boy baby of his age in De-
troit. Yesterday morning the child was
sitting on the floor, playing with five or
six big coat-buttons on string, and ia
king an occasional nibble at an apple to
bring out his first crop of teeth. Mrs.
Briggs and a neIghbor were talking
away as only women can gossip, when
the baby hid the buttons under mat
and started to finish the apple. A bit
OF skin got IN his throat and he gave a
cough ard whoop and paved the air
and rolled over on his head. "Oh. them
buttons I. he swallowed them buttons 20
cried the mother as she yanked him up
and shook him. Pound him on the
back !" yelled the woman trying to bold
the baby still. run for the neighbors !"
cried Mrs. Briggs. "Oh, he'll die -
screamed the other, as she ran out. And
the neighbors came in and made him lie
on his stomach and cough, and then
turned him on his back and rubbed his
stomach, and joggled him about IN all
sorts of ways, until he got mad and
went to bowling. Then boy ran for
Briggs, and Briggs ran for doctor, and
the doctor came and choked the baby,
and ordered sweet oil and mustard plas.
ter, and told them to hold him on his
back. Everybody knew that those six
big buttons were lodged in the baby's
throat. because be was red in the face,
and because he strangled as he Bept.
They poured down sweet oil, and put
mustard across him, and wept over him,
and the mother said she could never for
give herself. Boys drove By. calling out:
''Slab wood for sale - and the scissorg
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-01-05
FALLING DOWN STAIRS.

This is how The DanJury Neacs man
tells about it
When a woman puts three mackerel
to soak over night in a dish pan whose
sides are eight inches, and leaves the pan
on stairway, she has accomplished her
mission, and should go hence. This was
what Division street woman did Fri
day night. Filled the pan at the pump,
and then left it standing on the steps to
the stoop, while she went into the next
house to see how many buttons would be
required to go down the front of her
redingote. And mighty important af-
fair that was, to be sure. And there
was her husband tearing through the
house in search of a handkerchief, and
not finding it, of course.
And then he rushed out into the yard,
wondering where On earth that woman
could be, and started down the steps
without seeing the pan, or even dream
ing that any one could be so idiotic as
to leave it there. OF course he stepped
On 1t ; or, at least, that is the supposi-
ton, as the neIghbors who were brought
out by the crash that followed saw hor-
rifed man, and high dish pan, and
three very demolished mackerel shooting
across the garden, and smashing down
the shrubbery. And he was nice sight,
was that unhappy man. when they got
him on his feet. There wasn't a dry
thread on him, and bis hair was full Of
bits Of mackerel, and one Of his should
ers was out of joint. and his coat was
split the whole length Of the back, and
he appeared to be ont of his head. He
was carried in the house by some of the
men, and laid on a bed, while others
went after doctor, and sixteen women
assembled in the parlor, and talked
about the inscrutable ways of Proyi-
dence, and what warning this was to
people who never look where they were
going.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-01-05

The notable trial of Francois Bazaine,
Marshal of France, ended on Wednes-
day. and as the Court, after due del1b-
Grafton, found him guilty of having sur
rendered fortress and an army without
having done all that honor and duty
demanded, they could only pass sentence
of degration and death. That this ter
rible sentence should be commuted by
President MacMahon was, under the
circumstances, matter Of course, espec-
tally as the members of the Court united
in recommendation to mercy. Even in
its commuted form the sentence amounts
to banishment for life. The Marshal is
condemned to twenty years ''seclusion,
but he is spared the disgrace of formal
military degradation Undoubtedly he
owes his escape chiefly to the very per-
picking circumstance in which he was
placed by the overthrow of the Emperor,
the flight of the Empress and the chaos
which In his estimation threatened the
whole of France. The members Of the
Court. all officers of high rank, believed
that the Marshal forgot France in his
devotion to the Emperor, and their SEN
tence was doubtless strictly in accordance
with evidence Nevertheless Bazaine is
reported as saying a word or two with
great apparent sincerity after the Due
d'Aumale had announced the finding Of
the Court. to the effect that during his
forty two years Of service Honor and
Country had always been sacred to him.
The last of the prominent participants
in the French occupation Of Mexico thus
ends his public career, and it is not Of
ten that a historical drama is so swiftly
played out. Its only eight years since
poor MaximilIian was induced by Ma
poleon to assume the Mexican crown.
with Bazaine and a French army to sup
port him. 1t has been said the Mar
shall intrigued for Maximillian's over
throw with view 10 his own personal
preferment. but the withdrawal of Ma
poleon's support compelled his return to
France. Maximillian execution, Char
Iotta's tragical fate. the >Emperor's de-
feat and death and Bazaine's disgrace
have followed one another within six
years. The Emperor's fall would doubt
less have occurred even if be had never
attempted to invade Mexico. but that
episode of his reign will always be re-
garded by Americans as fitting pre-
lude to the tragicai events which so
speedily followed.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-01-05
1T Necer Pays.

1t never pays to fret and growl
When fortune seems our foe:
The better bred will push ahead
And strike the braver blew
For luck is work.
And those who shirk
Should not lament their doom,
But yield the pay
And clear the way,
That better men have room.
1t never pays to foster pride
And squander pride in show;
For friends thus won are sure to run
In times of want or woe.
The noblest worth
Of all the earth
Are gems of heart and brain.
A conscience clear,
A household dear,
And hands without a stain.
1t never pays te hate foe;
Or cater to friend
To fawn and whine, much less repine
To borrow or to lend.
The faults of men
Are fewer when
Each rows his own canoe:
For feuds and debts
And pampered pets.
Unbounded mischief brew.
1t never pays to wrecktthe health
In drudging after gain,
And he is sold who thinks that gold
Is cheaply bought with pain.
A humble lot,
A cozy cot,
Have tempted even kings,
For stations high
That wealth will buy
Not oft eontentment brings.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-01-05

fered every possible apology for declin-
ing. But at length, weary of ridicule,
stung by contemptuous sneers and sar-
castle remarks about cold.water fanatics,
| weakly resolved to crafty them, with
the mental reservation that it should be
only once. and that never again would
frequent their company. How despise
myself for that eowardly yielding, God
alone may know. | drank not one glass
only, but many. for the first seemed to
awaken and Unsuitable appetite, of which
haG before never dreamt | remember
that | wondered how | could so long
have abstained from it. Poor Lewis was
also somewhat intoxicated, and soon,
mad@ened by stimulants, high words
passed. between US, then followed fiery
reproaches, threats of violence were used,
| am told, till finally We came to blows,
and in the affray | stabbed him fatally.
Need l relate what followed ?'
found him fully resolved to declare
his guilt, and urge no extenuating plea,
a resolution which [ did not seek to alter.
At length the trial came, into the de-
tails of which | will not enter. Suffice
to say, that in consideration of attendant
circumstances, the sentence by the court
was Imprisonment for life.
In our last interview he said to me at
parting, with an expression and earnest
ness which words may not portray;
Life, with all its magnificent possi-
bilities, is before you [ need not say,
do not let one false step lure you into
an abyss of misery, for l know that you
will not but [ entreat of you that you
will urge all those whom you can infu-
ence in your daily life, particularly your
young acquaintances and friends, that
they beware of that most fatal of all SEN
tences-most pernicious of all pleas,
Only Once Relate to them the story
of my bright and happy prospects tell
them the fearful results of moments
weakness of my poor companion, hurled
unprepared and unrepentant into the
presence of his Judge of the suferings
Of his friends. the agony and shame of
mine. Describe the mental tortures.
the blighted life, the living death before
me. and beg of them that they allow no
shrinking from taunts or censure to
swerve them one iota from the path of
conscious right or duty Although in
dulging in the intoxicating cup but once
may but seldom lead to such swift and
sudden ruin as mine, yet it almost inva-
rlably opens the food-gates through
which seas of sin and misery roll."-
PtrenOlogicat Journal.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-01-05

man went by shouting SHARP !" but
the distressed crowd held the baby down
and shed their tears over his whole
length. The doctor was looking serious,
aud Briggs was thinking that he hadn't
done anything to deserve such a blow,
when one Of the women pushed the mat,
and discovered the buttons. Then every
body laughed and danced, and they
kicked the sweet oil bottle under the
bed, threw the mustard plaster at the
doctor, and Mrs. Briggs hugged the
bowling angel to her bosom and called
him her "wopsy topsy hopsy drOpsy pop
sy little cherubim. ~ Detroit Free Press.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-01-05

WANTED "TATER. At one of the
hotels yesterday was a family travelling
West from n. III. The wife was contin-
ually badgering her husband for his
method of doing this and that, evidently
supposing that everybody else was MOTTO
ing his unaristocratic ways. At the ia
bic she passed him the potatoes, and he
took off small mountain, and in three
minutes held his plate for more. She
winked at him, but be was determined.
and he shouted Elizabeth Jones. you
may wink and blink all day, but I'm
going to have some more 'tater or bust
the bank" He got some-Detroi Free
Press.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-01-05
HUSBANDS AND SONS, ALSO.

Since the advent of the hard times
almost every journal has its column on
domestic economy, filled with appeals
specially addressed to wives and house
keepers to practice the utmost economy
until times brighten, in order that the
household expenses may be brought with
in contracted income. This is all we'll
enough. so far as it is just. But accord
ing to our observation, wives and daugh-
ters, as class, have less need of these
lectures being continually dinned in
their ears than the other side of the
house they are more given to thought
ful and calculating prudence, even in
ordinary times, and more instinctively
and cheerfully enter upon a course of
contraction demanded in times like the
present. But the husbands and sons.
being ordinarily more familiar with the
fact and the extent of the falling off in
the usual income, find it both natural
and easy to lose sight of their own far
greater agency in the matter, and bind
heavy burdens upon those who, by far
greater sacrifices, can save much less for
the common fund. How many women
and children can we point out who fur
nlsh IN their own persons striking illus
trations of the economy and self-denial
demanded by the times-looklng pinch
ed, and cold. and perhaps hungry-and
yet how exceptional are the husbands
and sons who have cut off even one of
their luxurious indulgences ? What
gentleman has surrendered his tobacco.
or his more expensive cigar ? Point us
to one that has abandoned the costly.
and at all times fearfully dangerous.
habit of taking or giving the social
glass ? Who has denied himself eu-
chre or champagne or club supper. that
he might either carry the saving home
to add to his own household store. or
that of suffering neighbor ? No man.
especially this winter, can be justified
in wasting dollar upon his luxurious
desires. while the poor arc among us in
such numbers and in such destitution.
Strict attention to business is also re-
quisite. The rule that no woman ever
lost worthy husbands love by atten-
ton to domestic affairs, holds good when
applied to men, since the more success a
husband honorably attains in business.
the more will he command the respect
and love of his wife. Thoughtfulness
and attention from husband and faith.
er create the happiness of home, and by
a little extra self-denial on his part, the
threatening chasm will be speedily and
happily bridged over, and the days of
prosperity will return to find that the
necessity which drove the household in
to closer bond of union has proved a
blessing instead of CURSE Wotchnaon.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-01-05
STOLEN WARES.

The trade in smuggled and stolen
goods is a very brisk one in our great
cities. The receivers of such wares set
up no sign to tell of their business, but
they carry it on in great silence and Sc
crecy, very likely under the eyes of the
police. Sometimes they send home a
costly watch in the heart of plate of
butter, which is carried along the street
with cabbage leaf over it, as innocent
looking as any pound of butter could
be. Sometimes they stitch up their sto-
len goods in fine fish or pair of rabbits,
and they are carried to their destination
right by, it may be, the very officers
who are making search for them. Now
if there were no receivers of stolen goods
there would soon be no thieves.
But there is class of people who do
worse than steal gold. They steal peo-
pies good names away. They are the
tattlers. They scent bad story more
keenly than greyhound does his game.
They will travel miles, on foot, if neces-
sary, to get all the particulars Oh what
spirit to cherish. They will visit
family they propose to serve up to the
community, and with false smiles and
smooth words. draw out from them all
they can, only to run and tell it. One
so dead to all honor as to betray family
secrets in house where he has been a
guest is not fit for respectable society.
If you know such person shun her as
you would a viper about to spring upon
you. If you give any ear to her. rest
assured that your time will come. She
will spare neither friend nor foe. To be
friendly with such character one must
stoop to very low things.
Now. if there were no listeners. there
would soon be no tattlers. These are
the receivers of stolen and smuggled
goods who keep up the trade. Don't al
low yourself to be numbered among them
if you would have the approval of your
own heart, and the favor of Him who
has commanded ''Thou shalt not 90 up
and down as a tale bearer among tby
people" !" And remember 1.-THE partaker
is as bad as the thief"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-01-05
The Holidays.

Thanksgiving, ,Christmas,New
Years : The first means graft
tude to God for His numberless
blessings. The second means
the birth of Christ. who came
to teach the world how to die ::
to reconcile man to man. and to
his Maker. Those who follow
His teachings can not go wrong.
The third holiday, the New Year
is the point of time from which
we date all our affairs, import
ant and unimportant, New res
olutions to drop bad habits and
to lead better lives are made !:
new enterprises are entered up
on, old accounts are settled.
presents are distributed, and a
happy New Year should be
generally entered upon. Thanks
thanks, thanks are, or should
be, in every heart and on every
tongue. A time of rejoicing
prevails throughout the world.
Civilization is advanced, Chris
tlan fellowship is enlarged,
brighter prospects are opened
to individuals, the period of pc
nal restraint is shortened, and
the race is happily "A years S
march nearer home" Let us
make the most of all our holi-
days. Why not make holidays
of all our days.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-01-05
CONSTITUTIONAL
CaGarrh Remedy.

To MEssRs- LITTLEFIELD It Co., Proprietors Of Con-
stitHti0ndl CatGrrh Remedy, Manchester, Nh:
side at Manchester n. H., and previously resided
al Henniker, and am native of Weare this State I
have had Catarrh twenty-five years ever since was
l9 years old had it bad all the time 1t run all that
period, and nights il would I'LL up and droD down in
my throat, causing a feeling Of choking so that 1
would spring up in bed save myself from srangula-
ton 1t affected my head that l felt confused and
was troubled with severe headache intervals for
week at time. l also had bad pains in shoulders
back, and kiduevs, from which suffered immensely
so bad were they, that year ago last summer was
obliged lie in bed Of the time for three months
have tried all kinds of snuff and Catarrh remedies
with particular benefit and consulted physicians
had hacking cough. began to take the Constitu-
tiOsdl CdtdTrh Remedy last August began to grow
better before finishing the first bottle. 1 on
the third bottle Ny CatarTh is cured; my health is
restored. have pains, aches or cough. Ny whole
system is made over new. l know it is this medicine
that has rescued from intense suffering and almost
the grave. l able TO do the hardest work and
bear the greatest exposure, and feel that cannot
sdy. - -A @ MRS. E. J. FLANDERS.
Manchester, n. H., Feb l. ISL
am So years old. have had Catarrh ever since was
eighteen wears old and headache all the time: have
suffered beyond description with running the nose
droppiHgs in the throat ehekings and strangling
Have tried any quantity Of CataTTh Remedies. but
have found relIe till tried your Constitutional
Catarrh Remedy, six months ago. found immediate
relief
CataTh and all its attendant evils have left Head
ache. Pain in Loins and Back. Dizziness Loss of Ap-
etite and General Weakness Less than three bottles
Of Constitutional Catarrh Remfdy have cured me. l
have not been so well since can remember now.
feel if could not say much for the medicine.
thank God too heartily that through its instrument
ality have been restored to health
MARY NJ ABBOTT.
No. Il Manchester Cooperation.
Manchester, y H. Jan. p. 1872.
The above lady Is my mother. l am painter by
trade and am member Of the City Council Of Man
chester. Every word that my mother states Is
JACOB j. ABBOTT.
Hundreds Of cases Of similar nature cured within
the last year. Snufs and Lotions only temporary
relief. The C0NSTITU TIOSAL CATARRH RENE
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it new and drives away Catarrh and all diseases Of the
mOcOus membranes and their attendant pains and
aches. pertaining head back, shoulders, kidneys,
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Price 81 per Bottle. Sold by al Druggists. Pam
phlet Of 90 pages. giving Treaties Cztarrh. and
containing iuuumerable Of cures sent FREE- by
addressing the Proprietors,
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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-01-05

Alta Baptist revival in the little town
of Hannibal, Mo-, many years ago, there
was an aged negro named Uncle Pete, 7"
who offered himself for regeneration by
means of immersion. The season was
early spring, and the ice still come down
the river. Uncle Pete" however,
braved the element, and after being
soundly dOused by the enthusiastic cler-
gyman longer than he thought necessary
for the salvation of his soul, scrambled
ashore dripping and choking, exclaiming
as he climbed up the bank, "Some gen
tleman's niggers guinc git drowned wild
dis yer darn foolishness, sure"