Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-05-04
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


of our nationality than the eagle.
The Troy Times demands increased
taxation for the support of the governs
meut. Suppose it should demand ln-
creased economy and increased honesty
in this administration, first.
Great Britain produces annually co.,
100000 pounds of alum, a large guam
tity of which Is imported into the United
States, our paper mills being large con-
sumers Of this article.
There has been sixty-fve tons of sap
sugar sent TO market from Blattlebore,
this season, by express, and it is estimat-
ed that nearly double the amount has
been shipped as freight.
Boston claims to have diamond ring
which once belonged to Sir Isaac New
ton. That Is nothing. St. Louis has
the lead pencil with which Noah check
ed off the animals that went into the
ark.
During the present year eighteen
States will elect Governors, thirty-fve
Congressman and twenty-five United
! States Senators, besides the vacancy yet
| to be filled in Louisiana.
correspondent of the Christian
Union says you can no more keep rascals
out of a party by putting the word ''pur-
ity' into the platform, than you can
keep crows out of a rn-feld by writing
No thievlng" on the fence.
Gold has fallen off two per cent. since
the Presidents veto. which theoretically
and practically makes the paper curren-
cy of the country worth Sl6,O0O.000
more than it was before Grant declined
to sign the currency bill.
The leading Republican members of
the national House of Representatives
are of the opinion. it is said, that the
session can be finished by the first Of
June, while the Senators incline to think
1T will last to the first of July dog
Ell speeches are yet to be made on the
Louisiana question, and nearly every
Senator wants his say on transportation.
kilograms from various portions of
the Middle and New England States.
and from Canada. report the storm of
Sunday the severest of the season. and
in many instances the severest for years.
The snow In different places varied from
one foot to two feet in depth. The gale
was very severe, and did considerable
damage at various points. At Rockland
Me, several vessels went ashore, and
much other damage was done to shipping.
A Tribune reporter called upon A. T.
Stewart to learn his views of the Presi-
dents veto. He said: He approved
of the veto and thought the result would
De beneficial. The document was an
able one. and covered the whole ground
upon which the infationlsts stood 1t
would have tendency to improve the
trade of the country, but it was too late
to have any impression On the spring
trade, Business had been checked by |
a multiplicity of causes. and could only |
be revived by extraordinary and person /
al exert'on. The restoration of conf
dence IN the integrity of the government
would aid that exertion, and this he be- /
lleved had been accomplished by the
Presidents veto of the Finance BILL
The most gratifying assurance con-
corning the sentiment of the West on |
the imitation question is published in the
NJ Paul ps,.s<,e.-.-..We want- to- c,,t,-,
protest against the assumption of the
Eastern press that the people of the
West favor imitation. 1t is the misfor-
tune of this section to be as badly mis-
represented in Congress on that as on
nearly every other public question. Not
public meeting of any kind, nor board
OF trade, nor single citizen that we
have heard of, has petitioned for apy
such stupendous folly; and as for that
matter, editors of the most intelligent
papers are opposed to it,
The reasons why railroads make such
small show OF earnings, comparatively,
is because business in nearly every de-
partment is dull and depressed ali over
the country. Speculation is nearly
killed stone dead for the present, and
the legitimate business of the country
mas diminished all the way from % to
10 per cent. depending somewhat upon
locality, the iron mining and manufac-
turing districts feeling the hard times
m ore severely than the agricultural sec
tons The fact that the west-mostlv
agrlcultural-feel so poorly, is because
they got excited, raised their lands to
high' borrowed too much, built too many
railroads, too many fine cities, too many
extensive improvements for a people who
mad to borrow at high rates of interest
'he most OF the means to indulge their
ambition and their too exalted views of
the real situation.
Senator Brownlow has been forced 70
leave Washington, and he is now conf;n
ed to slck-bed at Knoxville. the scene
OF his vigorous and unyielding battles
during SO many years. He will be miss
Gu at the Capitol. 1t was a familiar
sight to see him carried carefully and
.enderly In an easy chair to his accus-
toned place at the left of the Presidents
Iesk, few minutes before the honr If
tne meeting. As the eye of the specta-
TOR IN the gallery looked down upon that
oody OF Senators, no little attention has
always been given to Senator Browrlow
his emaeiated condition. his weak nal.
sied' and trembling form elected the
heartfelt pity of all What wonderful
strength of purpose, what inyincibIe
force OF Will have characterized and sns
tanned him during these years of dis
ease let, his mind has never for
lost It's force and fire. But his
la6ors' great and arduous, are uDdonbt
eoiy nearly finished He has surely.
i0ught the good fight and kept the faith
"A delegation of twenty manufacturers