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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-10-11

A remarkable instance of deathbed re-
pentance has just occurred in Butler
county. Ky. A man who was very Ill,
confident that his hour was fast ap-
preaching, sent for magistrate, and
made confession that ID the year 1870
he had murdered man named Charles
Mitchell, on the Green river. His sto-
ry was that during the war he and Nit
chell had robbed man named Daven-
port in Warren county, and that in the
division of the spoils Mitchell had taken
more than his share. In revenge, the
self-confessed murderer watched his vic
tim for ten years with the purpose of
killing him, and at last. when a favora-
bic opportunity presented itself, he shot
him through the heart. Mitchell when
shot, was standing on barge, and his
body fell into the river. 1t was never
found, and though suspicious of foul
play were entertained, there was NO
proof even of his death. The man who
fired the fatal shot. having eased his
conscience by confession, Immediately
began to get better, and now promises
to regain his health entirely. In the
mean time the officers of the law are
preparing to arrest and prosecute him
whenever be has recovered sufficiently
to be safely removed from his bed.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-10-11
BOXING THE COMPASS.

Here is a Young America at tho
wheel. A well-known clergyman was
crossing Lake Erie, many years ago, up
on one of the lake steamers. and seeing
small lad at the wheel, steering the
boat, accosted him as follows
"My son, you appear to be small
boy to steer so large boat"
"Yes, sir; but you see that ] can do
it, though"
''DO you think you understand your
business, my sOn?"
"Yes sir, ] think ! do"
"Can you box the compass %
"Yes, SIR"
"Let me hear you box il"
Boy boxes the compass.
"Well. really, you can do it Let
me hear you box it backward.
Boy boxes it backward.
81 declare, my son, you do seem to
understand your business.
The boy now took his turn question
asking.
"Pray, sir, what may be your bust
ness ?"
"Pm minister Of the gospel"
"Do you understand your business ?"
II think | do, my SON."
"Can you say the Lords Prayer"
"Yes."
"Say it,
Clergyman repeats the Lords Prayer.
well. really, you do know it Now
say it backward"
Clergyman says he cannot do it.
"You can't do it. eh i? Now. you see
/ understand my business great deal
better than you do yours
Clergyman acknowledged himself
beaten, and retired.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-10-11
A TERRIBLE SURGICAL OPERA.
TION.

The wonderful surgical operation per-
formed on the person of Clara Morris,
the well-known New York actress, in
Paris, is described in a letter from a
friend Of that lady. Miss Morris dis
ease was curvature of the spine. Three
years ago it could, probably, have been
arrested but it was crisis in her pro-
fession, and upon success in suTmounting
many obstacles her whole future seemed
to depend and she could not spare time
for medical treatment A sea voyage
failed entirely to produce any change
for the better and the fat of the highest
medical authorities abroad confirmed her
worst fears and condemned her to ter
rible operation, the same to which Chas.
Sumner submitted to for the cure of the
same disease. Its main feature Is the
burning of the flesh of the back from the
neck down to the waist with red hot
irons. The operation was performed in
Paris in the presence of Mrs. Worthing-
ton, Miss Gabrielle Greeley and Sir
VIM. Belmore, the attending physician.
Miss Gabrielle Greeley also writes a let
ter to New Yorker in which she says :
"Poor Clara was obliged to sit on low
chair with her back barred, and she went
through the operation with her face pale
and rigid as marble. DIR. Bevlin lit his
furnace. and the roaring of the flames
that were to heat the iron to a white
heat in few seconds was dreadful to
hear. and while this was going on, Prof.
Ball marked with pencil the line the
iron was to follow on either side of the
spine. Every touch of the pencil sent
a thrill through the frame of the poor
victim, but the Professor had scarcely
ended marking the pencil marks, when,
with fash the iron was applied. 1t
was dreadful. The white point seemed
to sink an inch into the quivering form,
and it was all over. The doctor said II
was a wonderful exhibit of nerve
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-10-11
AMrRroAN HrRorsM.-The centennial

AMERICAN HERoIsM.-The centennial
celebrations all over the country will
teach us this also, that in the final con.
secrating grace of any scene upon the
globe, namely; the display of the high
est human heroism, our own soil is as
rich as any upon which the sun shines.
Hawthorne, who lived in Concord. be-
walled the want of romantic suggestion
in this country, yet afterwards, in his
Septimus FELTON,, he showed that his
own quiet village and its famous day
were as full of romantic and moving in
cident. as any spot or time in history.
Where. in any annals, is there more
striking and poetic story than of the
midnight march to Concord, and the
country rising behind the invader p
What element of romance is wanting to
the scene of Ethan Allen, entering the
fortress, whose name of Ticonderoga is
full of resounding music, and which is
set amidst every picturesque charm Of
landscape, and summoning the surren-
der in the name of the Great Jehovah,
and the Continental Congress. Even
the tender grace of Phil Sidney's pure
devotion in handing the cup of water to
the dying soldier is emulated by the re-
ply of the young man mortally stricken
upon a battle field in the late war, who
refused to allow his comrade to leave
his gun to give him drop of water
If America is not classic ground, there
is none. If our own story does not in
spire our imagination, imagination has
expired.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-10-11

A Swiss WAsHERwoMAN.--T a
smoke-stained Londoner, the exquisite
purity of the hOmespun Swiss linen is
constant wonder and reproach. And
yet scarcely wonder, if he chance to
sit by the lakeside, say at Brienz, on
sunny morning. and watch the proceed
ings of the little Swiss maiden in
straw hat and black velvet bodice with
the silver chains. who is plying her Oe-
cupation of laundress. She has pad
died her boat far out into the lake, and
is letting it drift with the current. In
the boat beside her is pile of freshly
washed linen. glistening like snow in
the sunlight. But its whiteness does
not content her. AS the boat moves la
zily along, each separate piece Of linen
is thrown into the lake and trailed slow
ly through the blue water, blue as ever
it was painted Still she is not salts
fed. She takes perhaps three or four
handkerchiefs in her hand at a time,
and literally throws them overheard, in
such manner that the spectator on the
bank cannot but breathe a fervent hope
that they may not be his own property.
But before he has time to frame his wish
into words. she has caught them again
with dextrous sort of legerdemain. and
the process is repeated again and again.
And all the while the black velvet bod
iced maiden. with the glistening silver
chains and pins. snowy sleeves, and
round white arms, if she be true Bri-
enz maiden, is singing like nightin-
gale.-.Saturday Journal
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-10-11

A Boston family has a remarkably in
telligent parrot. which repeats nearly
everything it hears and which some bad
boys have taught TO swear awfully. 1t
finally did little talking. except Of a
profane character. aud to cure its pro-
pensity. was repeatedly soused in cold
water aud placed near the stove 70 dry.
During a receEt storm, some chickens,
which had become very wet and chilled,
were brought into the house and put BY
the stove to revive them. il 80 happened
that the parrot had just been ducked
himself. and. after surveying the chick
ers for some time. be cried out in arcu.
lar tones: Little d-d fools. been
swearing
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-10-11
A smart thing mustard plaster.

A smart thlng-a mustard plaster.
Comfortable quarters-twenty five
cent pieces.
A Montreal woman is in jail for hus-
band beating.
SIx-inch alligators are worth 90 cents
apiece in New Orleans.
The Kentucky Legislature will be
urged to prohibit lotteries.
England and Wales have two hundred
young mems Christian associations.
Four wild pigeons and seyenty-6ye
men with guns passed North Saturday
afternoon.-Danbury NelcS.
A man is 1850 times as large as a
common honey bee, and yet it Is useless
to try and argue the matter with bee.
Detroit Free Press.
Miss Hulett, the Chicago lawyer, will
not move in a divorce case, believing
that ANY woman who will marry a man
ought to be forced 70 live with him"
The latest discovery at Pompeii is
that of the figure of woman lighting a
fire in the cook-stove, while her husband
is asleep in bed. Nothing Of the lost
arts about that.
A Milwaukee man who made three
unsuccessful attempts to blow his brains
out, was thus aecosted by his wife /:
Don't try it again, John, you havn't
got any" He goes about now saying
that he owes his life to that woman.
A young woman 20 years Of age-a
hard-working girl. daughter of farmer
broke her ribs in lacing her corsets,
and is not expected to live. Is this cred
table? possible? Even so, it is true.
E. S. G,1star in Herald Of Health.
Since the New York editor was rob
bed the Providence Press wants to know
when newspaper men will learn to em-
ploy three savings banks, instead Of car
rying around fortunes in their vest pock-
cts /?
The st. Joseph, No.. Herald regrets
that it cannot by 'the widest process
Of versi6catiOn" possibly make ''rhinoc-
eros rhyme with Queen Elizabeth
or '.gazelle" with sewing machine" and
so has respectfully to decline a poem by
one Of the most talented Of st. Joseph
fair daughters.
Il say. jim. how does you like my
new sweet OBJ elothes?" "Sweet OF
clothes Go long? You mean suit OF
clothes" Go long wild yer ownself
yer black ignoramus Don't folks ai
knows French say sweet Ob rooms
Well. de same am applicable to clothes
Go whitewash yerselfl"
Said distinguished politician TO hi
son 'Look at me began as an alder
man, and here | am at the top Of th'
tree: and what is my reward? Why
when l die my son will be the creates
rascal in the city. To this the yOuul
hopeful replied ''Yes, dad, when yOv
debut not before"
An aged eolored woman, when urge
to leave her residence on Fifth street {
escape the coming food. replied. IL ges
don't done nothing OBJ de kind; de goo
book says dat de world don't get 'stroye'
by water again. an Use gwine to sta
here. suAh" IN less than two hours th
house went to pieces. and aunty cam
padding to shore on part Of the rafi
The old woman's falth was eyidentl
somewhat shaken, but all she said, a
she made her way to the higher ground
was: Il CESS clare to goodness if dl
ere isn't markable.- GaLresto1a Nelcs.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-10-11
SHOCKING DOUBLE TRAGEDY.

A singular and terrible double TRACE
dy. the elimination of an equally sim
gular double family quarrel, occurred
in the quiet village of Rosedale, Pa,
Sep. 24 About FIVE years ago. Will
liam Russell, farmer, living a few
miles from the village, was left wild
over with one daughter, Harriet, aged
l6, by the accidental death of his wife
and a second child, so Harriet, and a
girl about her own age named Mary
Stokes. whom Russell employed was CIV
en- the care of the house. Soon Harriet
discovered that altogether too close an
intimacy existed between her father and
the Stokes girl, and, shocked and in
dignant, she dismissed the latter. Rus
sci brought her back, and his daughter
left home and went to work sewing in
the neighborhood. After time the
Stokes girl returned to her home, and
Miss Russell came back and resumed her
place in her fathers house. Meanwhile,
Harriet had become engaged to young
fellow named Harton Hurst. whose fa-
ther's farm adjoined RusselPs, but be-
cause years before Hurst had defeated
Russell in lawsuit about some divis-
ion line of their farms, on discovering
the intimacy between his daughter and
young Hurst, he threatened to disown
her if she did not renounce her lover.
She obeyed her father, and all went
peaceful till about three months ago,
when Russell, one day, astounded his
daughter by telling her that he intend
ed to soon marry the girl Mary Stokes,
and bring her back to the farm house.
Harriet was firm in her opposition to
the old mans folly, as she termed it,
and assured him that when he brought
his wife home he would find his daugh-
| ter gone never to return. Last week,
Russell told his daughter that he was to
be married, Friday. She made no re-
ply, but at once perfected arrangements
pending between herself and Hurst for
some weeks, in view of the marriage Of
her father. Friday morning. Russell
drove toward the house of Mary Stokes,
and his daughter. after placing the
house in readiness for his return, start
ed for Roseville, leaving behind her .
note explaining that his proposed action
was more than she could bear. and thai
she herself would be married in few
hours. During the afternoon she and
young Hurst were married aud. with Z
few friends. had nearly finished dinner
at the village tavern when Russell cam,
in. pale with rage. and with singular
glitter in his eye. His daughter raj
toward him with outstretehed arms, bu
he threw her aside and sprang upon be
husband, and began stabbiDg him witt
knife be had seized from the table
Hurst received the blows on bis arm
and shoulder. and tried 70 escape, bu
was forced at last to draw his pistol 3
save his own life. AS be leveled it an,
fred at Russell bis own wife sprsng be
tween, and, receiving the charge in be
brain, fell dead Hurst kn@lt for
moment beslde his wife's body. and al
ter appealing IN vain 70 Der TO look u
and speak to him. rose to his feet, an
before hand could be extended 70 pre-
vent him. shot himself through the head
and be fell dead by the side Of his wife
Russell seemed stricken dumb by th
rearful scene. and was led from th
room like child.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-10-11
A Story By the Sea.


At mid OF night beside the sea,
The moon far in the west,
sghd for one long gone from me
Who day by day stin seems to be
dweller in my breast
And suddenly a stranger came
As If from ont the tide
man Of how'd vet stalwart frame
Whose face knew not, nor his name
And safe him by my side.
He laid his brawny arm on mine,
That old man hy the sea:
His locks were hoar with age and brine,
His ewes with ftful CLEANS did shine
weird old man was he.
"Comrader r' 50 spake the weird old nan.
A good God loves us all
This world is or,ier'd by plan.
Too broad for thee scan.
That covers great and small
Why hug sorrow in thy heart
And nurse il into life
Why rub the wound until it smart
Why turn against thyself the dart
And perish in the strife
In other years--how long ago,
Comrade, cannot tell
In sun and shine in rain and snow.
When all was calm, when storms did blow,
served skipper well.
saved his life and risked my own:
daughter fair had he:
Before another year had run
The skipper owned me as a son
MY husbandF whispered she.
built a cabin on the shore:
Next door 70 heaven il seem'd:
For love came in the open door,
And from tn rafters to the floor
Its blessed presence beam'd
The God in whom We trusted sent
A babe Of beauty there,
And as the seasons came and went.
They added, TO our glad content
Two Others just as fair
went a voyage DER the sea,
Ny heart stin staying home;
Ger many q and far country
For wife-sake and our children three
was content 10 roam
My wandering journey DER, I sought
Ny cot beside the sea.
For love and treasure had brought
Beyond my boyhood's widest thought,
For wife and children three.
NV hurrying feet soon reached the spot -
ruin mOok'd my sight;
Mid smoking embers, black and hot,
All. all had perishd with the cot
My heart died, too, that night
COmrade the years count no more,
Ileave them in Gods hand;
1 gave away my hard-earn'd store
To those who needed treasure more,
And now watch the strand;
And when the wreeking winds do blow
Lost vessels 10 the shore,
In my good hfe-boat forth J 90,
To aid the strugglsrs in their woe,
AS Christ hath done before.
Now. comrade ere with thee part
This only viii / say:
Go heal the Eo-T0us Of thy heart
CSo matter whosoe'er thou artl
By dong good diiCcy."
A far-of look 10 his eyes,
As If he away
Beyond the the blessed skies
Where weeps and no sighs,
Where Gods beloved stay.
The weird old man arose and sped
His way along the
ponaerd on the words he said,
And pray'd, before I sought my bed,
To be as wise as he.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-10-11

The " Y. Tribune contains very
interesting article. to a reader of musi-
cal taste especially, but also interesting
to a general reader It is concerning
the choirs of the principal churches Of
the metropolis. From it, IL seems that
there are about $50 churches 10 New
York, which expend in round numbers
for music, annually, over half mill
lion dollars. Among the highest fg-
ures are Trinity Church, $4,000; st.
Bartholomew $1,000; ST. TbOmas's,
$1,000; Grace Church. s.. 200, and sew
eral others. ranging from $4,000 down
ward. Plymouth Church pays 1880
for the musical services it engages
Catholic and Jewish churches pay the
least Of all Denominations soprani and
tenori appropriate ths largest amounts
Ia salaries Of vocalists, though general
" the organist has the grand figures at
tached to his name Possibly three So
prani receive 81, 800 or over several
tenori 81. 200 and one or two bassi also,
81, 200; one contralto receives $1,000.
aud one $1,000. The highest salaries
paid to any Of the remainder being $500.
and generally the figures for contralti
is considerably lower.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-10-11

A lady leaving one Of the summer re-
sorts hotels. recently. was charged for
an entire China toilet set. only one piece
Of which she had broken. She paid the
bill. and. pleading the excuse Of having
forgotten something. returned 70 the
room and broke each and every article
Of the set for which she had paid.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-10-11

to draw out the harsher and sterner part
of his nature, 1 thanked God for the an
gel He had sent to him in the form of a
little child.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-10-11

The first sDow appeared on the noun
tains Saturday morning. The old snow
had been gone just fifteen minutes
Citizen.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-04-10

Railroad Company OF This city 10 decide the ques.
ton OF strike, which resulted IN l,5I2 for and $40
against work. The result has given the most I'M
bounded satisfaction, and the merchants that up
10 now have deferred purchasing their spring
stock OF goods Will purchase freely IN consequence
or this action or the men. Hyde PARK, where the
vote was taken, rules the LacKawanna region,
and for the present there Will be no
strike in this vicinity During conversation
with reporter OF the scranton RepuolScdn
this evening, a coal operator from the upper end
or the valley expressed his highest esteem Tor tue
sensible acton OF the men, and added that there
was now noble opportunity for the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Company 10 do good
act, by giving the men not only Ene advance out
also the back pay which 1t would entltle them TO
from the first OF the year. III would, he SAID, be
the means OF preventing strikes IN the Lacka-
wanna coal region for twenty years to come:
perhaps they Will now advance their wages"
suggested the reporter. ''n recognition OF their
reply, "that they would II they dare;
but the combination OF operators renders
such action Impossible. You may be sure that
they Will not lose sight of tho manner IN which
the men behaved Themselves ne added. An
other operator and ~ experienced man IN mining
matters SAID II he were Mr. w. Il. StorrS, the COM
pany'S agent, he would now make strong appeal
on behalf OF the men OF the Delaware. LacKawanna
and western Company. In every branch OF bust
ness the opinion expressed Is the same, and the
miners oil Hyde Park by their upright and manly
conduct have wrung from friend and Zoe alike the
expression that they have done wisely and well.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-04-10

ArEoNso'g DIFFICULTIES IN THE uNxvKRsrrIEs
AND THE cABNET-oENERAL JovELLAR
LIKELY TO TRIUMPH OVER coNcHA.
MADRID, April 0, 1878.
Tho con1ict between the government and the
University IL becoming serious, ana may cause the
fall OF the Ministry.
Several more OF tho professors were exllsd TO-
day.
The Kings principal physician was o1ered the
head position in the University but refused 10
accept IT.
THE JovELLAR. coNcHA-cUDA IMBRoGLIo.
conference OF the Ministers took place to-day
for the purpose OF discussing the accusations
made by General Concha against General Jovellar,
Minister or War. No course OF action was deter
mined upon.
1t Is rumored that General Concha has been
officially invited to leave Spain.
CARLIsT OFFICERS STILL Seeding TO THE Al
FoNso RoYALIsM.
PARIS, April Q. 1875.
Fourteen oficere, who have abandoned the
cause OF Don Carlos, have arrived at Barrtz
The Carlists tried TO stop them from crossing the
frontier.
HENERAL ELIo SAID TO HAVE DESERTED THE
pEErENDEn.
II Is sai1 that General Elio has givon In his ad-
Aesion to King Alfonso
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-04-10
ANOTHER MASSACHUSETTS MURDER.

BosToy, April Q, 1875
Between eight and nine O'Clock on Thursday
night DR.. Shute. OF Maiden, was called TO Edge
worth TO attend a man who was reported 10 be In
a dying condition. lie Immediately proceeded 20
the house or Patrick McDonougn, who ne found
had died from injuries indicted upon him by John
Gynn. An examination OF the body OF McDonough
disclosed numerous bruises and Commissions, and q
shocking wound on the head two and hall inches
long and half an inca wide. The scalp was laid
open and the skull fractured. This wound, when
was probably indicted with q chsel, was alone
sufficient to cause death. Or. Shute informed on
Ger Blanchard OF the facts In the case, and that
ofIlcer proceeded at once 20 the scene o the MUIR
der ana arrested Glynn, who was taken 30 the
lookup. The oflcer, accompanied by Deputy Sheriff
Rhoades, then returned To the house OF the MUIR
dered man and arrested Frank Conway and MS
brother, who are Implicated IN the anair, and
placed them behind the bars.
IL appears that the parties werc all under the
influence OF liquor; that the brothers CONWAY had
an alteration on Thursday morning with MELON
ough, VINO was their uuce by marriage, and that
house OF the deceased, when Glynn intercred ami
Knocked McDonoucn uown with chlsei and
kicked him with his heavy broTans, which upon
examination we're found 10 be bloody. Deceased
was about tnrty-five years or age and leaves q
WIDOW. The murderer mas Wiie and four or five
children.
Coroner SWEET was notified and summoned a
inquest TO hali-past seven O'CLOCK this evening
Glynn was brought before Justice Petteng OF the
Eastern Middlcsex District Court, ana committed
70 await the result OF the Inquest.