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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-23
ExTRAVAGANCE AT WASHING
TON.

The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch, thus
holds forth with regard to society busl-
ness at the Capital while the repre-
sentative wisdom of the nation is wrest-
ling with all sorts of schemes to give re-
lief to the suffering business interests of
the country, while thousands of laborers.
and mechanics are standing on the verge
of restitution crying aloud for succor.
the official prodigality of this capital,
and the profigacy that attends it, seem
like cruel mockery. Since the opening
of Congress, Washington has enjoyed a
carnival Of gaiety and pleasure. The one
grand object of winter life here is vulgar
Parade and Show. Party succeeds par
ty with the regularity of sunset. And
these are not the little pleasant social
gatherings known to your Philadelphia
habits, but grand, formal, conventional
musterings, involving thousands of dol
lars expense to the hosts, and no incon-
siderable expense to the individual
guests. Under this rapidly growing sys-
tenn Of initiative snobbery we are fast
drifting from plain Republican habits
and customs, into the designations and
RIGHTEOUSNESS of the aristocratic capitals
of Europe. Ladies here dress with an
extravaganza that would have appalled,
our grandmothers, and husbands and ia
theirs, drawing their resources from the
national treasury, give eager encourage
ment to the shameful profigacy. Every
day is devoted to receptions, every
night to .auusicaieS" and '.dansanteS. u
One day is devoted to the ladies of the
Justice of the Supreme Court another
to the ladies of Foreign Ministers an
other to the wives of Senators another
to general calls" when everybody re
turns every other body's call-nobody
being at home. and every body leaving ;
, card as an evidence of the formal visit
1t is this extravaganza in social life tina
causes the increased expenditures of tn
Government, and which, more than an,
other cause, is responsible for the nu
merous deficiency bills that mark tn
closing days Of Congress. This is VIII
your Congressman of to-day cannot liv
on five thousand dollars per annum
why your national clerks and bureau Of
fcers must be better paid than clerk
elsewhere for the performance Of simila
work and the numerous defalcatior
and embezzlements might be Legitimate
', ly traced to the same reckless folly. TIL
II is what the local newspapers call Soc
- ety." and to which each of them dali
y gives columns of nauseating stuff
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-23
THE PRESS ON SUMNER.

His private life was as pitiable as his
public career With the same blind in
fatuation that drove him to the one po-
litical extreme, he sought and married
qualities he could neither sympathize
with nor control. If the true story Of
the ill-mated match is ever told, he will
be found in all its relations as pure,
high toned and honorable, as he was in
his public life. AS he stood alone polit-
ically, he lived alone socially, and pass
ed in his last hours from the Senate,
where he had little or no influence, to
the house, where ''a lack of woman
nursing and a lack of woman's tears"
was lily supplied by friends who felt lis
pulse and counted his dying breath
Dom Piatt IN Washington Capital
There used to be house in Washing
ton city where he was fond of spending
many, if not the greater number of his
leisure hours-thc dwelling place Of a
New England democrat (the late Charles
Eames, we SUPPOSE, and a rendezvous
for all shades and degrees of culture
where he was made at home and where
he would talk half the night away with
such men as Robert j. Walker and Ca
leb Cushing-men of the most opposit
opinions from his own. He was an ad
! mirable talker, full Of curious reminis
cence and theory, full Of anecdote an,
criticism, and though somewhat charge
able with prolixity, always the gentle
, man and the senator.-LouisciUe Com
: ier.J0mnal
e The justice of calling Mr.. Sumner
: victim of slavery. in the fullest sense {
the term, will not be questioned. whe
5 it is known that Mr.. Sumner assured a
e acquaintance residing in this city, tn;
e previous to Brooks assault he had m
e known what real sickness was. The e
feet of the assassin's mad blows wi
therefore be appreciated, when we col
'' slider the delicate health of the senat
e since that time in the light of that de
m laration.-BoSto,e Irareller.
E. Senator Sumner never kept carriay
IN during his long residence in Washin
+ ton, but generally walked on fine da
p and patronized the horse cars in uni
t. yorable weather. He sometimes expire:
n ed a wish to be the pOssessor of hors
j, and carriage, but would add II ca
it. not afford it. | either must give up bu
yh ing books and keep carriage, or fore
'e- the carriage and keep myself posted
ge literature"
re The first speech Mr. Simmer e,
en- made in the Senate was on a bill to ;
the Illinois Central railroad by era
IA of the public lands. He quoted in
for with sonorous effect, SCOTS translat
ice of Burgher's ballad, 'Lenore"
at Tramp. tramp, along the land they rode,
he spllsh, splash across the sea"
I'LL in picturing the progress of the i
for horse.
The last day that Henry Clay e
sat in the Senate was Charles Sunni,
OF first day in that body.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-23
A LEGEND OF CALIFoRNIA.-SAN

A LEGEND OF CALIFoRNIA.-SAN
Francisco. March sherwood valley.
near Utah. In this State is full of deep
gorges, and has many waterfalls. The
surrounding country Is farm land, but
this valley has not been won from its
primitive. wildness. The farmers and
Indians hunt and fish there, but it is at
most times a solitude Two days ago a
wandering Indian came to where stream
shot over rocky shelf, leaving behind
the falling water a clear space between
it and the rock The sides of the gorges
are nearly perpendicular, and approach
to the fall is very nearly impossible.
A legend ran that behind this veil of
water were treasures Of some sort. but
that an effort to reach them would GER
tainly result in death The Indian,
however, mustered courage enough to
Chamber down the rock and peep behind
the fall. He saw no treasures but the
corpse of woman was there Scared
half out of his senses, he ran away and
told what he had seen.
A party of white men went and got
the frozen body, which was that of a
Mrs. Strong, who had been missed for
months. She had been shot from a
horse, while on her way to her husband S
rancho, and robbed of $50 which she
had just collected on a note. Two men
have been arrested as the murderers the
finding of the body adding to suspicious
which had been rife against them. A
reward of $500 had been offered for a
solution of the woman's disappearance,
and the Indian. will get it. So the le-
gend of a treasure behind the fall has
proved true, so far as he is concerned
Cor. NeaO York SIN.
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New York has been soaking in fog,
again. Nature is doing her best to pu-
rify the metropolis, but she has a tough
customer. 1t is used to soaking.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-23

The Pittsburg Leader looks with dis
trust upon the prospects of the proposed
monument by the colored men to Charles
Sumner It says the project is certain
to have the fate of all American monu-
ments-an enthusiastic beginning, a
dragging existence, and, In the end. a
half-reared shaft, with unfinished, rag
ged top to carry down to posterity the
proof that public gratitude is but a
quick-fre, bright enough at first. but
rapidly falling to ashes 1t is not two
years since Greeley died, and monu-
ment was urged for him. The Leader
sent 100 pounds of type metal as a con-
trlbution toward its construction. If the
colored men can tell us where that type
metal Is, or what disposition has been
made of it, they are welcome to it to1
their monument to Sumner. We had as
lief it were used to help on one abortive
project as another The fate of the pro
posed Douglas monument in Illinois, anC
of the Washington monument, nigh
have served as additional examples t,
our cotemporary but in all these case
there was lack of the personal graft
tude and feeling which, on the part Q
our colOred brethren, can hardly fail t
result in the fruition of their plans. al
though the best monument to Sumne
will be the completion of the work t
) which his life was devoted, it is We
that material memorials should remin
future generations of the hold he had o
the esteem of his countrymen.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-23

Keene, N. H.. is built on clay, and
the whole town trembles when train
passes.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-23
formulated & Coffee
Sugars.
A full line Of
SPICES, TEAS, ETC.

""i sioek Is ia saod order for the season.
o"r BOOKS are all posted, ard all viii. whom
We nave accounts are invited TO make NJ
friendly call and settle. Experience eauf,,u.
Tue OLD adhge thar sSFreqaent se,tle,.e,,,.
MAKE long friendsilips.v tve thank on,
.'''7 ''ns friends for their past liberal patroa-
asS' aud hope they viii, cenfiame the .,...
We neither Owe, ner Rob, nor Sin
But sell cur Goods and gel lLs Tin.
And !, i 10 This yon can't agree.
D D'lh Que and ID all just come and see;
1 lsu here as, Will lind this truth DISPLAYED
That HALLS IS lusI The place IL trade.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-23

THE NORTH CAROLINA VoLCANo.-SAL-
IsBURY, n. c., Mar. l7.-One report from
a scientific tour, states that the internal
noises at Bald Mountain resemble -+hose-
heard in Monnt Etna preparatory to a
volcanic eruption. The people have
precipitately fled. For a distance of
sixteen miles from the mountain. these
sounds are heard, and the trembling of
the earth is perceptible. In numerous
instances for several miles from the
mountains, the glasses have ratified IN
windows, and the dishes have been shak-
en- from shelves to such an extent as to
create most widespread CONSERVATION
among the rural inhabitants
The latest accounts from the noun
tain state that, so far, there has been
no volcanic eruption of lava or fire,
though the terrific noise and internal
.rumbling, yesterday morning, were Sc
great as to indicate the belief that &
veritable and genuine volcanic outbreak
had taken place. The excitement
throughout the entire Western section
of the State is intense, and many PEG
pie are repairing to the scene in hop,
of witnessing an eruption.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-23

Nearly all Congress went off Wednes-
day, to see launch instead of attend
ing to business. We trust that no cir
euses Or travelling minstrel troupes will
encamp near the capital. during the ses-
sion, as there is some work that ought
to be done.-Bostoa Globe.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-23

SUMNER AND FILLMoRE.-It was q
coincidence that Charles Sumner and
Willard Fillmore should have died so
nearl y at the same time. Deaths so
close together, but lives so widely d.
verging asunder
Mr.. Fillmore, in the vain hope of
being elected to the office of President
which he then held as the successor
of Gen. Taylor-signed the Fugitive
Slave act, and surrendered up all his
manhood at the behest of the slave pow.
er. How the Union saving committees
applauded the act, and what a pure and
exalted patriot he was represented tt
be Well do we remember it all. Ant
then the shareholders, who had wheeled
him into their service, hardly rallied /;
corporals guard to support him for tn,
White House, and Frank Pierce, still
more consistent funky of the South, wa
elected to succeed him.
Sumner then was denounced on near
ly every hand. He was ostracised a
Washington and decried almost univer
sally in the public prints.
Within few days the eyes of bot
have closed forever upon the scene c
their labors. The one has given hi
name to glorious Immortality, an
linked it inseparably to the story of til
progress of American Liberty; the othe
gave his to the Fugitive Slave bill.
This is short but instructive lesso
to our ambitious young men.-N. ]
Sam
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-23
MILLIONAIRE SPLENDOR.

Mrs. Astor, the wife of the hundred
millionaire of New York, appeared at a
party which she gave at her Fifth ave-
nue. residence, the other evening, in a
style which would Justify any reporter
in saying that she Literally blazed all
over with diamonds" On each of her
shoulders she had four stars, the size of
silver half dollars, made of diamonds.
Her hair was set very thickly with dia-
monds, and her head seemed afame
with them. There was diamond ban
deau upon her brow. She had diamond
earrings and diamond necklace of
magnificent proportions. Upon the two
sides of her chest, were two circles of
diamonds, about the size Of the palm of
the hand. From them depended lines
and curves of diamonds reaching to her
waist, round which she wore diamond
girdle, On the skirt of her dress in
front, were two large peacocks wrought
of lines of diamonds. There were ros-
cites of diamonds on her slippers
There were diamonds large or small, but
in every variety of form. all over her
dress and person, wherever they could
artistically be placed. She presented
an extraordinary and dazzling spectacle
as she moved languidly through The
dance, among her friends. One of tn,
ladies present, a connoisseur in precious
: stones, who kept cool enough to tax,
| practical observation, says the diamond
: she wore could not have cost less thai
: million dollars, and must have repre-
: scented her husbands income for at leas
quarter of year. This same lady
a who is familiar with court life in Europe
# says that the largest collection of dif
n monds in possession of any Europea
n empress or queen belongs to the preser
It German empress, but she adds that eve
IT Augusta herself could not make a di;
f mond show which would begin to con
IL pare with that of Mrs. Astor's.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-23

We are in danger of being overwhelm-
ed with ifredeemable paper, mere paper,
representing not gold nor silver; no,
SIR, representing nothing but broken
promises, bad faith, bankrupt corpora
tions, cheated creditors, and a ruined
people.-LDaniel Webster, 1888.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-23
Tramp. tramp, along the land they rode,
Splish, splash across the sea,

Spllsh, splash across the SCI"
in picturing the progress of the iron
horse.
The last day that Henry Clay ever
sat in the Senate was Charles Summers
first day in that body.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-23
TAKE 4 DOSE DAILY

(Which may cure may not. On these accounts
urge all make delay. but make haste and go to
WEBSTER'S PHOTOGRAPH ROOMS and have some
pictures made at once You viii find large assert
ment Of Stereoscopes Views, Albums, Picture Frames
Brackets Glass Of all Sizes and everything You want
in my line of business at the lowest cash price.
e. y. ~ EEESS.'E7 HE.
Barton VT
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-23

that attempt it, you will find yourselves sick abed and
the doctor will have to be called and
he Will make you
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-23

| NANNAi NoA4N hl1Os AHdoc. Jfle(l
to desert their two children, about five
and seven years old, at Rutland a few
days ago, by leaving them asleep, and
starting for railroad train early in the
morning, but were caught before they
got out of town.
After the horse trot at Bristol last
Saturday, A. P. Daniels was driving his
horse on the track. and at the same time
Dwight Bush of Lincoln, and Oscar Ros-
coe of South Starksboro, who were RIM.
nlng horses, started at the other end of
the track. They met. and in the attempt
to pass, the thill of Daniels cutter en-
tered the breast Of Bush's horse. CAUSING
almost instant death. The cutters Of
both parties were more or less injured.
A correspondent Of the Woodstock
Post has unearthed document showing
that slaves were captured from the Brit.
lsh during the Revolutionary war, and
afterwards held as such in the State. Ar
old epltaph to slave has been found
TOO, IN burying ground at BrattIeboro
there Is also law, passed in 1856. t.
prevent the sale of slaves out of thu
; State, and sundry old people remembel
; slaves that were aged when they wer,
4 young.
On Saturday, March 18th, Rober
Whiting was killed in his saw mill i,
the town of Littleton. near Waterford
de went to adjust belt on swift-run
: ming wheel, when his mitten caught i
: the belt, drawing him into the wheel
:. and killing him. He was very activ
i and useful man, in middle life, and let
wife and an aged father and mothe,
DE will be much missed, not only by hi
It family but in his business Connection.
-Caledoniou.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-23
EVERYBODY IN THE
WORLD

og, to sec to the importance OF having their plc ureS
ta,en while in health, to be distributed among
their friends, for unless they do they
The Portland daily press., 1874-11-28
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE.

remain dead letter. 1t was a'diyine institu-
ton, filled full of deep Christian sense and
meaning To us it means an offering up of
the heart and life; the joyous experience Of
obedlent service and divine bounty.
Inc Thank offering was free will offering.
AND SO Is our Thanksgiving Day. No divine
precept prsscribes it; no Apostolic tradition,
no doctrine OF the church, imposes it as mat
ter OF conscience, no civil enactment enforces
its observance. AS an institution it sprang
originally out OF the spontaneous emotions OF
our foretathers, meant to express their thank
fulness for deliverance from the perils of tine
sea and for the fruitfulness of their new found
land. Not appointed on a Sabbath, a day
already consecrated, but one of their own
days ESQ to speak,, was given up to it. So
one who keeps it now must do it as free will
offering, out of the emotions of his own heart.
That, as a national institution it was be-
queathed to us by the war, illustrates the
law of Divine Providence by which some
times our richest blessings arc borne to us as
fruits springing right out of sorest trials and
severest disciplines.
Though tendency may be observed to
neglect 1t as religious solemnity, turning il
into an occasion OF pleasure seeking and fes-
tivity, yet this tendency, it was argued, must
be temporary and that in the long run the
tiuy WOuiu ieluul HOlu Oh tue popular Inluu,
both as an occasion of thankful service to God
and the neighbor, and as a time of innocent
social and family enjoyment
As we love to see our children happy and
joyous. SO our Heavenly Father looks down
with delight upon the happiness of his child
ren. And the purest and richest delights of
every occasion will be found in seeking the
divine benediction upon them first, and
then preserving them in keeping with
the precepts of holy truth. Let
us part then, with this thought in
our minds: our Heavenly Father delights to
see us blessed and happy, united in the works
of love and mutual good will In addition to
His wonderful gifts already bestowed, He has
multitude of others, richer, higher better
than anything we have yet had, which He is
longing to let down to us out of heaven by
the golden chains of His love, if, only, we
were prepared to receive them; if our capac-
tiles were large enough to hold them if we
were spiritually strong enough to bear them,
using without abusing them In our present
imperfection and moral weakness, too many
good things would fasten our affections only
on the gifts, forgetting the giver, forgetting
our own highest welfare. So in mercy they
are withheld.
We have cause for a twofold thankfulness
that our. Heavenly Father has provided us with
every good thing that we cah use to our high
est advantages; and, that he has given us
faculties. which, rightly employed in His SER
vice, are capable of bringing us at length into
possession of the untold felicities of His ex-
ternal kingdom.
The Portland daily press., 1874-11-28
Books Received.

Chiidhood Songs. By Lucy Larcom. Gilt, cloth
tinted paper, gilt edged, illustrated. 2O2 pp., price
~ 25 Boston: j. R. Osgood s. Co. Portland
Loring, Short s. Harmon.
Jacks Sister; or True to Her Trust. A Novel
NO. 42i OF the Library of Select Novels. Paper
17s pp., price 70 cents. New York: Harper &
Brothers. Portland: Lorng, Short s. Harmon.
Personal "Reminiscences Of Barham, Har.
ness and Holder. Being No. Iv of the Bric-a.
Brac Series. Edited by R. H. Stoddard. Cloth
tinted paper, 1856 pp., price 81 so. New York
Scribner, Armstrong & Co. Portland: Loring
Short 6, Harmon.
Rhymes and JingIes. By Mary Mapes Dodge
author Of "Hans Brinker," &c. Gilt paper tinted
leaves, giit-edged, illustrated, 271 pp., price ss
New York: Scribner, Armstrong& Co. Portland
Loring, Short & Harmon.
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News and Other Items.

A statue of Robert Burns, worth $500 ,and
one of William H. Seward, worth S55, ,OOO are
soon to be put up in the Central Park, New
York.
Gov CASTOR viii be the first occupant of the
viously been Mayor of the Center of the Uni
verse. Mr.. CASTOR is reported to have made
total of $175,SOO from an investment of $1,000
in Denver real estate in 81.
Mr.. Corcoran's generous gift of $500, 900 to
Columbia College, Washington, D. c., is in
danger of being lost from failure Of compli-
ance with its condition. This was that the
friends of the college should secure 100000
more. Only $4,000 have as yet been secured.
Great efforts are making to raise to $4,000 re-
quired by Jan 1, 1876.
Hon. Gerritt Smith has just given $4,000 to
Hamilton College, at Clinton, N. Y, to be used
at the discretion of the trustees of the institu-
ton. Mr. Smith gave the college $4,000 last
February for general purposes, and lately or
dered portrait of President Backus to be
placed in the Memorial Hall.
Captain Barnaby of the British Royal Horse
Guards has invented an instrument for ascer-
tanning the course of the winds, when by rea-
Son of intervening clouds the earth is no longer
visible. He recently ascended in balloon to
test the instrument, and the result Of the trial
was deemed satisfactory.
The announcement In the Baltimore Ameri-
can, that Albani was married before leaving
Londen, to Mr.. Gye, son of the manager of
Covent Garden Theatre, is denied by Albani's
father, who says that Albani is not married
nor engaged to be married. Neither is she
travelling in this country, (as stated by the
same authority with the mother of Mr. Gye,
as Mrs Gye is dead.
Captain Boynton,one of our Amer can tloat-
ing population, has been doing better with his
later experiments in life preservers. He cross.
ed Dublin Bay recently. q distance of nino
miles, in about three hours, padding his way
with canoe paddle, and lying on his bacx, feet
first. He smoked a cheerful cigar as he went
and occasionally fred a rocket into the air.
A negro living near Talborton, Ga, is said
to be bewitched. When sitting up every nerve
In his body twitches, while he waves backward
and forward. He has been in this condition
for twelve months. He eats regularly can
walk, seems to be sensible of his surroundings,
but has not spoken word since the attack be-
gan. Some doctors think that it is species
of st. Vitus's dance, while others say the cause
is partial paralysis of the brain.
The Portland daily press., 1874-11-28
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