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, 1877-10-02

We otscsvo that Boston 10 importing her gas
coal frs,m England for tho tlrst tiIH: in !iyg
years, refusing to submit to the bttusniuous
u1o,opo1y. y lfed-Star steamer has Just mr.
ytycl with 1,f00 tons. When tho monopoly re-
duco their prices to Il proper 1gurr boston viii
again purchase their gas-eonl.
, 1877-10-02

Nothing seems to so readily develop nll the
had there IL in man rs to malt. him President
al Mexico. DiAz is under c!oud now, and liz
Ia charged with a variety of things, anY onc Ut
slivt is enough 10 sink lin. THO pnpnlar l,n-
rrv son ar1ung Ills citizens Is that he has
oulIscss lis sphere OF usefulness alul might us
.ralt dir aa not.
, 1877-10-02

One Of tho most lastarily anl uncal!cd-for
o,ltragcs of the var WIS MrnAT HAtsTEap's
colt1booactl md malignant onslaught: WIEN hc
sent eopy Of thu CIncnnntt Commercial to tho
Car.
, 1877-10-02

The Nashville american eays: "Thcy haye no
errIng brothers nJapan. They commit Suicide
It least that WAS tho why the rebellion Just e1
ed." II tile crrtng brethren I'll this country Ind
done likewise there would !lavc been nol,ody to
eotciltatc.
, 1877-10-02

During his campaign ngainst tho Gubcrnato-
rial chair Of Now Jersey, ucn. MCCLELLAN will
make Ills headquarters OIL a gunboat In the
Shrewsbury River.
, 1877-10-02

Tho clitor Of the Cincinnati Ea7airtr aays llu
Is entitled to Its :" fees for knowing natsng.''
No ono moro 50. mud this is tho u.lty honest
money he cltlier ever earned Or supported,
, 1877-10-02

ur. Ifermann's suro tare fnr cptnrr.--try
" Gu cunts BY express. Depot &. Dearborn street
, 1877-10-02

t:to !" afrn. Wlnalow'x soothing syrup" for
children while teethinc. II cures dJnentcry md
dlatrhua, wind collie, md REGULATES tic bowels.
, 1877-10-02

+JcfferA' French CatArrh Cueo II the I.est
rtalrty known for catarrh asthma. md hay fever.
Trial trce- Odlre ~ slate A. SnlI by 4rusElAta.
, 1877-10-02
BUSINESS NOTICES

Keeps Custom Sh!rtH Made tn Meaanre.--
Very pest Tor =: no Obligation to keep Any pf
Kccr's Fhitts unlc4s perfectly eatiSfaetory. 171
MBtiann III
, 1877-10-02

!W".!sase h!ts-sIlaId1nE', MiHtf. ];
spatdi,,:, and rctert, /: Addy anu Sullivan. J..
Tntal bases on clean h!ts-thlcaSo, II: cfnctn.
nntE. y.
FIsat base on essols-Tasnes. l.: Hines. i:
Hpald.ns, ]; Ncth, :; rlkc. |; Manning. :: : llonth
ii: Foley. !; Miller. !. Ch!cas9, ); CtnetnMati, =
spaldlny. =; Pike, /: Manning, =; jones, l:
M'ler. 3; Mitchell, !. Chtcaxo, Z; Cincin'
natl. i.
1tascs on called balta-Od Rails. 1.
yasscd hatls-McScy, ]; Miller, /.
Wild ttchea-lteis, j: Mitchell. i.
tmplfc-liEcdhufs.
'rle same CLUBS play agn!a th!s afternoon,
anu l&eix will again pttch fur the Chtcayoa.
rllose wiIo fall to wee Mitchell and cs opt,set!
to cael, other will miss some Ut the hest base.
bali Of ttle year. Ualnc will bo called ai 3:l5.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-20
THE TURKISH VICTORY.

The battle Of Plevna, in which the
Russian army lost all the Roadway it
has been making since it crossed the
Danube, closes what has been an active
campaign of three weeks on the part of
the Russian commander. 1t has been
during that time series of murderous
encounters at different points, culmina-
ting in disaster that is far more serious
than anything which has overtaken the
Russians in Asia. The loss was of
course heavy to the Turkish forces as well
as to the Russian, but the former could
not have suffered in their defences as
much as the latter, which were moved
down in whole ranks by the effectively
handled Turkish artillery, and after
wards pursued by the Turkish cavalry
until defeat was changed to rout. The
result again shows that the battle is not
alone to the strong. Russia is to have
no such walk over Turkey as, with her
vastly superior armies, she has evident
ly counted upon. Her entire rank and
file is placed at l,771,3S7 men, and SO
badly has she Jared thus far that she
is forced to summon her reserves to the
field and hurry them down to prevent
still further disaster In addition to
this, she has for final resource the
ordering out of every man who is capa-
BILE of bearing arms. She has resorted
to this desperate expedient but twice
during the present century-once in
1910, and the second time in 1866. At
the rate her armies are wasting now she
will in all probability be compelled to
drain the Empire of all its fighting men
before she gets through.
Although her army is so vast in point
of numbers, it is necessarily scattered
to defend the various points of the En-
plre that are exposed. And so, too, out
of the seven corps which compose the
Turkish army of Turkey, two are prac-
tically unserviceable on account of hav-
ing to stand guard over the provinces !;
and with Greece, Thessaly and Crete
insubordinate and making open threats,
considerable element of her aggressive
power is taken away. But Turkey is
fighting on her own soil and at the GEN.
tire of the circle. She can in large
measure select her own battles grounds.
The Plcvna struggle uncovers in part
the plan of the Turkish defences. Her
fresh levies betray by their character
the weakness from which he suffers, and
so does the Russian order for the imme-
diate rising of two new army corps tell
the story of the frightful wound that
hoe hoan inflicted on her fiohtino nowor
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-20

MAoMAHoN's OPINION OF GRANT.-A
Paris correspondent reports Marshal
MacMahon as expressing great admira-
tion for Gen. Grant, of whom he said in
a recent conversation:
"When 1 think of it, the vast number
of troops brought into action under the
command of General Grant as the chief
of the army is very amazing, and par
ticularly SO when they become such ex-
cellent troops in such little while. I
view General Grant with much esteem.
Look at the vast territory he commanded
and forces he engaged To us those
rivers, PLAINS and those interminable
swamps where he moved his men and
material over and through, are inconceiv-
able. / thought Algiers very trying
place in 1880, but when | read of your
Western country campaigns my exper-
ience became very tame. The superior
control evinced by General Grant in
moving large masses of men, and his
epiniatrete in adhering to his plan of
campaign, mark him as the greatest of
living generals"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-20

The killing and wounding was not all !;
untold suferings from hunger, fatigue,
disease, deficient medical and surgical
care, and the Generalization caused by
panic are hardly to be computed in a
general reckoning Of the losses by this
defeat. If we add to the result the i'm
portant consideration that Russia is as
destitute of the "sinews of war; as Tur-
key is, it will have to be allowed that it
is prematurely to credit Russia with the
ability to crush her opponent simply by
her superior force of numbers. It is
the one that can hold out the longest
that carries of the wreath of victory
Boston Post.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-20

SUMMER EvENINGs.-There is an all
pervading and diffusiye charm about a
summer evening anywhere. In the
country, where the air is fragrant with
the breath of honeysuckle and rose, and
perfumed, besides, with thousand subtle
scents too transient and delicate to be
separately defined, the evening is the
climacteric of the day. Not morning.
with its wondrous sparkle and shine, its
glistening pearls suspended from myraid
branches, its evanescent clouds, and its
chorus of song not noon, with its hush
of spell-bound splendor and its lovely
languor of stately repose; not even late
afternoon, when the long shadows creep
down the velvet slopes, and the haze
hangs tremulous on the distant hills
is so fair as twilight. Through the faint
ethereal glimmer of brightness which
fingers in the west, through the glory of
the golden moonrise, there come vague
questionings and thoughts to our minds,
not clothed upon with speech. though
they wear the color of heaven. From
unseen haunts in the orchard, or from
the dark belt of frs which girdles the
ravine, there falls now and then a sill
very note, the vesper song of the robin,
or the last warble of the thrush, ere be
tucks his head beneath his wing. Tran
gully and tenderly the night approaches,
like gentle mother whose protecting
arms gather the tired children close and
fold them to slumber on her breast.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-20
HOW TO PLACE THE BED.

Baron Reichenbach, who has devoted
many years of deep study to the art of
bedmaking, maintains that you must
not always lie on your bed as 1t is made,
under penelty of abridging your life by
a great number of years. If, says the
baron, mere magnet exercises an in
fuence on sensitive people, the earth s
magnetism must certainly make itself
felt on the nervous life of man. Hence
he awaits on the salutary effects of the
inhabitants. of the northern hemisphere
lying with their heads to the north, and
those of the southern with their heads
to the south. For travellers with short
memories we may put the rule in gen.
eral terms In whatever hemisphere
you may be, always sleep with your feet
to the equator, and let your body lie
"true as needle to the pole" In CIV
ing this rule the baron has simply told
us how to live hundred years for the
polardirection of the body is, it appears,
of the utmost Importance for the proper
circulation of the blood, and we have
Baron Reichonbach's authority for stat
ing that many disturbances in the hu-
man organism have been cured by SIM
ply placing the bolster at a different
point of the compass from that it had
occupied before. Let such as have
hitherto been in the habit of sleeping
with their heads where their feet ought
to be, take to heart the example of the
late DR.. Fischweiter, of Madgeburg, who
died recently at the age of 1O9 years,
and always attributed his long life to
his faithful observance of the pole to
pole position of sleeping. The most
unhealthy position, we are told, is when
the body lies due east and west Some
observers assure US that to sleep in such
position is tantamount to committing
suicide, and that diseases are often ag-
gravated by deviations from the polar
posture.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-20
METHODS OF CHINESE CRUELTY

A correspondent writes from China :
The greatest attribute of Chinese gen.
eral is considered to be his strategy.
He is worth nothing if he fails to lead
his enemy into making false step. The
hero of the hour on this account is a
general who led body of troops against
walled city held by the insurgents.
He besieged them, and in due course of
time they pleaded for terms. Laudable
promises were made by the dozens, the
sine gato non being they should lay
down their arm. This was done, when,
the generals dispatches informs us, they
were Immediately massacred as fast as
it was possible to do so, but the leader
was ''put to death by extreme torture. +"
This consisted in winding a wire very
tightly about the entire head and body
to the feet, intervals of an inch being
left between each turn. This brought
the flesh into wales which were quickly
and neatly sliced off by keen knives.
The scene ended by decapitating the
still living skeleton.
A very great deal of the evidence in
criminal cases is elected by torture, un-
less that given comedies with the ideas
of the magistrate. If, under torture,
witnesses assert things detrimental to
the side he proposes to favor, they re-
main in agony till they take it all back
again. When he has got it arranged to
suit himself, ten to one he will admins
ter another dose to them for not telling
the truth at once. There is something
frightful to the civilized mind in such
abortion of justice, but even when the
verdict is correct and the felon is to
suffer for crime committed, the punish
ments are so truly barbarous you sink
your detestation of the offense in your
pity for. the suffering offender The
sight of human being receiving two
hundred or three hundred blows from a
heavy bamboo, leaving gashes and flesh
beaten to jelly, and finally a helpless
cripple for life, does not tend to excite
your love for your fellow.man. Kneel-
ing on chains for many hours, the lash
descending at the slightest change of
posture, pinching the fingers in viscs
made of split bamboo; entwining metal
tubes about the body and extremities.
in which boiling fluid is poured. soaring
the flesh wherever it touches wearing a
three-feet square, twenty pound wooden
collar day and night for weeks, being
unable to reach the mouth with the
hand, and exposed to the gaze of the
passeys-by in the locality of the ofense !;
placing in a cage with the head secured
in collar which forms the roof, the
toes just touching the ground, and left
to die by starvation and strangulation !;
beheading, and cutting into ten thousand
pieces" are among the usual punishments
of this enlightened race.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-20

UsE OF FLIEs.-Although flies are,
In summer, the pest of our lives, and
we wonder why they were ever made at
all, it should be remembered that they
have an infancy of maggots, and the
then loathesOme life they lead as scav-
engers cleanses and purifes the August
air, and lowers the death rates of our
cities and towns. Thus, while stables
and piggeries, and filth are tolerated by
city and town authorities, the young of
the house-fly and the flesh and blow-fy,
with their thousand allies, are doing
something toward purifying the pesti-
lential air and averting the summer
brood of cholera, dysentery, and typhoid
fever, which descend like harpies upon
the devoted towns and cities. 1t may
be regarded as an axiom that wherever
flies most abound, there filth, death
dealing and baneful, is most abundant,
and filth diseases such as we have
named do cOngregate. A fly which is
born in August generally lives month
or six weeks, and dies at the coming of
frost, either of cold or the attacks of
fungoid plants. A few, probably, win
ter over, and survive until midsummer,
and thus maintain the existence of this
useful species, to which civilized man
owe more than can readily be estimated,
and which he can dispense with only
when the health of cities and towns is
looked after with far greater vigilance
and intelligence than is perhaps likely
to be the case for several centuries to
come.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-20
MY MoTHER,S DOOR.

met In the mist one summer morning
girl whom had known from a child
And whose bright self was her best adjoining
But that dark morning her looks were wild
stop. little NOrahl" She did as 1 bade her.
why are you here alone on the moorg'
81 was sad last night, to-day 1 am sadder.
Because 20 from my mothers door"
"why do you go, then. and what is your sorrowP
Tell an old man who has known you so long"
"soggath Aroon, you win know tomorrow,
And be hrst-but don't-to say was wrong
/ used 10 be glad-nO girl was gladder-
never remembered that We were poor;
was sad last night aud to-day am sadder.
Because 60 from my mothers door,"
what has she done to you p Broken my heart, sir.
"And what have you done to her now, prayY'
"Notbing but love him, and take his part. sir,
For the poor fellow hasn't a word TO say"
Then she got mad and you got madder.
And didn't you stamp yOdr feet on the fioorgr
II was sad last night" -And to-day you are sadder,
Because you 90 from your mothers door"
"You will go back, Norah. Give me your hand now
Il would rather not. sir" II say you will.
You viii fetch him to see me. You understand now !"
"Your reverece knows him. It's only Phil.
She locked me up. and he brought me ladder.
He loves me-" "You told me that before.
But your mother is sad" "she shall not be sadder-
viii not 60 from my mothers door," ..... b.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-20

onouAo0i, Uut 9uey uluu HulSn NE. L
fought 'em, but how long I don't know,
for | was crazy. | remember of them
lodging around me, of striking at them,
and of feeling the rage and strength of
wounded lion. 1t was long after dark
before | cooled down and knew my stu
alton. | was then carrying this boy in
my arms to the river. Where | found
him don't know. After plundering my
post the Indians set fire to it. This
child must have crept out and hid in the
bushes, while the bodies of the dead
were burned. He says he was conscious
when | crept upon him, and that when
hs begged for water | took him in my
arms and started for the river. Well,
wounded as | was | felt better in the
cool night air. | wanted to save the
boy, and that helped me nerve up. The
cool water eased our hurts and refreshed
us, and between 10 o'clock and daylight
next morning | walked twenty-five miles,
carrying the boy half the time. You
wonder that we are not dead, but it was
not to be. The boy has been pretty ten
derly treated, but | haven't fooled with
the doctors much. They dug out some
of the lead, bandaged me up, and. I'll
soon be all right again. I'm going to
take Charlie to Vermont and then I'll
60 back to Idaho and kill Indians as
long as | live. I've made vow-Pve
sworn by all that's good and sacred
that I'll enter into no other business and
have no other plans but to kill Indians
whenever and wherever can find them
I'll shoot down old and young I'll
keep on killing through war and peace !"
He was asked if he had read Generals
Mcdowell and Howard's official dispatch
es, and he excitedly exclaimed:
81 have, curse 'em They are making
great blow and brag, while scores of
settlers are besieged or have already
been murdered. The government was
informed months ago that everything
pointed to war, but it slept on and left
US to meet it when it came. When these
generals telegraph that only few set
tiers have been butchered they lie
Dozens and dozens of pioneer families,
situated as mino was, have been wiped
off the face of the earth, and the red
6ends are still at it. Folks said the boy
and would die if we didn't 90 to bed
for six months, but | wouldn't wait
day. We've travelled lying down, sit
ting up, standing and every other way,
but we both feel better than when we
started. | will 60 back I'll stab and
shoot and destroy till death takes me
I'll be shadow to strike terror into the
heart of every Indian in the territory,
and I'll be tiger which shall quench
its thirst with nothing but blood 20
So said the man over and over, and
he will keep his word.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-20
CHILD'S FAITH.
All beautiful tales, l trust. are true,

All beautiful tales, l trust. are true,
But here is grave in the moss, ra
And there is the sky. And the buds are blue,
And butterfly blows across.
Yes, here is the grave and there is the sky:
To the one or the other we 60.
And between them wavers the butterfly
Like a soul that dees not know.
Somewhere? NowhereP Too golden-head,
And lips that miss and MISS
You wsuid tell me the secret of the dead
Could find you with kiss
Come here, say little child Of mine.
Come with your bloom and your breath.
or he should believe in the life divine,
will not believe IN deathD
'Whero is your brother 9'-I question low,
And wait for his wise reply.
Does he say-"Down there in the gravef All. no
lie says, with laugh. I'm the skyr
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-20

The man who does nothing don't
amount to much. 1t makes but little
difference whether he is a millionaire or
pauper. He is only a stagnant pool,
without energy enough to start ripple.
He diffuses a moral miasma over every
thing around him. Do something don't
stand on the corner gaping, with your
hands in your pockets, like an idiot.
The world was made to work IN, and if
you fill your hearts with good angels,
the bad spirits will keep out, because
there is no room for them.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-20

The present season has proved the ad-
vantage stimulating the growth by ferti-
lizers and cultivation, and also the USE
fullness of picking the beetles
when they first appear. A trial of
many 'pest-poisons, )" has convinced us
of the superiority of Paris green mixed
with -four or Observation-Disclosures.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-20

LIFE.-No man is just what he seems
to be. Everybody is being changed.
God is preparing us for higher state
of existence. We are walking incognito.
We are scholars gaining our education.
Little by little we are receiving our
robe, our equipage. 1t doth not yet ap-
pear; but by and by, if we endure unto
the end, we shall drop the growth Of
this world, and rise out of its conditions
into the towering and fruit-bearing Pc
riod,-into the life that is to come
and then we shall know the meaning of
these earthly distemperatures; and those
who have washed their garments white
in blood, those who have been perfected
by suffering, will stand highest, most
radiant and most joyful.-Beecher.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-20
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HUMPHREYS
E0PATHIG SPECIFICS.

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frc proved the most SAFE, SIMPLE,
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hey are Just what the people want,
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Each single specific the well tried
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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-20

A stalwart man rushed into a doctors
Office in Newark, Ohio, the other day,
with the cry: "FOr Gods sake, pump
me out quick" "What is wrong with
you?" inquired the doctor. 'Get the
pump ready while | am telling you. I'm
burning up inside. Hurry. l took a
drink down on Gingerbread Row. They
have put job up on me. | am poison
ed" The doctor suddenly interposed: :
"Why, | smell something burning my
self;" and opening the patients waist
coat found hole three inches in dame
ter burned in the shirt-front. While
the stalwart citizen was taking his drink
he had dropped cigar stump between
his waistcoat and shirt. didn't you
smell smoke ?" asked the doctor
You're right, l did; but l thought it
was coming out of my mouth
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-20

The Excise law is being enforced in
New York, and the rumsellers are being
arrestad hu the Wholesale