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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-04-23
THE EUROPEAN WAR.

The news from eastern Europe is more
and more warlike. Turkey scOrns the
mediation of other powers, and will not
abide by the protocol, which was intend
ed for paci6cation measure. Her ar
mics, numbering more than quarter of
a million, are in the field; her fleets are
in state of preparation, and her rulers
are bent on humiliating the pride Of
Russia. In the meantime Russia is not
unprepared, and though exercising more
discretion and sagacity, is equally anx-
ious for the precipitation Of the contest.
She has leng been in state of prepare
ton, and has bided her time, hoping for
the time to come when she could drive
the ''sick man" out Of Europe, and open
thoroughfare through the Bosphoru'
to the great Mediterranean, and thence
to the outer world. She has been fortu
nate in her diplomacy and will not, a.
during th~ crimea war, fight the strong
powers of Europe. So far, neutrality 7
probable, though not certain.
The war once begun will be of mighty
magnitude and intensely sanguine. Thu
Turks fight like demons, ard the RuSsi
ans, brave and terrible as they are i
battle, will find foemen worthy thei
steel. Every modern engine and nipple
ment of war will be used, and the skill
of military men from outside the tw
countries engaged will be used on eithe
side. Russia has the best treasury, tn
best disciplined army and the best navy
but she will take the offensive and fgt
farther from her base of operations, giy
ing the Turks advantages of no sma
consequence. How or when the war wi
end, is hard to predict a."..-
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-04-23


A few men use tobacco, as they say,
for bloat, for dyspepsia, for asthma, and
because "the doctor ordered it. but
most are willing to acknowledge that it
does them no good, and they are the un-
fortunate victims of depraved and ire
sistable appetite. They are to be pitled !
What sad sight to see 1.-THE noblest
work of Cod bow down in alteration to
to dirty plug of tobacco What a Ia
mentable condition when poor victim
is irresistably led about the town by a
bunch of burning tobacco and cabbage
leaves What a sublime spectacle,
when strong, valiant man is seen
rushing at break-neck gate toward the
corner grocery, in quest of a paper of
fine cut Let US weep.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-04-23

SPECIE PAYMENTs.-Secretary Sher-
man is reported to have said that if Con-
gress does not interfere with him by any
new legislation he will be able to re-.
sumo specie payments and fund the bal
ance of the Government six per cent.
bonds in four pei. cents. by January |,
1879. He will, therefore, nuv saesest
any change in existing laws on these
subjects. The Secretary is said to be
considering the feasibility of immediate
ly suspending the further issue of -
per cent. bonds, and substituting 4 pei
cents in their place. Negotiations re.
speeding this change are now being made
with the representatives of the Syndi,
cate. The sales of 4 IL per cent. Douo
amVuuV " aUUur oI.VUu,UuU day. VI
the other hand, there seems to be re
newed activity among the advocates o
expansion. The Philadelphia Press i
opposing any further contraction of tn
currency, on the ground that such a pol
icy paralyzes the industries of the coun
try. General Butler, it is stated, is al
so prepared to deliver a speech on thi
subject. if occasion offers, at the extr
session of Congress. He believes tn
whole currency question is to be re-or
ened.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-04-23
BIRDS AND CATS.

The birds, those happy harbingers of
spring have returned to cheer us again.
Their sweet songs are heard in the morn
ing. and their canny eyes are searching
every nook and corner for place to
build home for the birdlings. While
they refuse to come into our homes and
dwell in the family, they are willing to
build their nests on the coping or the
gable, that they may rear their young
in the company and security of ourselves
and our children.
They have already begun their vigi-
liant search for the insects and grubs,
that the warm sunshine will soon wake
to life and to mischief; and, by and by,
when their nests are full of wide-yawn-
ing and never-satis6ed mouths, they will
search from morning until night for
bugs, and millers, and larva. doing more
work for the gardener and husbandman,
than he can do for himself.
But there is savage and stealthy en-
envy that preys on the little songsters,
and busy bandits that manage to catch
many of them every year. The cat lies
long in ambush, ready to pOunce upon
and destroy the birds that make their
homes about our premises. During the
daytime and the nighttime this feline
enemy searches for the mother-bird or
the birdlings. and destroys so many an
nually that instead of many, only a few
songsters return in the spring. If the
lovers of bird songs and the farmer knew
how great an enemy cats are to. birds,
laws more stringent than the famous
"dog law" would be enacted, and the
destruction of the birds enemy would
90 on. until not single puss except
perchance, the fortunate pet of a child
less family, would remain.
Beside the large number of regular
family cats, there are many vagabonG
animals of that specie that have nothing
to do except to hunt birds, steal chick
ems, and wake nightly serenades unde
bedroom windows. These creatures
murder hundreds Of birds, and brighter
away as many more, If there was ;
good, round premium On chair heads. VI
suppose there would be more birds, les
insects. and a fall in the price of cat
skins, all of which would be agreeable
Now, if all the garden owners and far
mers would keep thoroughly loade
gun in some handy and secure position
ready to be used on any occasion, the
might do much to reduce the cat nu
sance in one year, and their work woul
be profitable and human.
Around our rural homes the song {
the sparrow, the robin, the peewee an
the thrush would be heard; the wicke
, millers that bespatter the soft cabbag
q, leaves with poison eggs would disal
pear in the maws of the voracious youn
redbreast, and the silence Of start
nights would not be broken by the te
rife caterWaul.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-04-23

The PHArR CAsE.-The developments
promised by the Boston Globe and its
man Downing, have not yet come to the
surface. Gov. Fairbanks has put the
investigation of the matter into the
hands of Col. Veazey and Mr.. Ormsby
of Rutland-the former being Phair's
counsel at his trial. and the latter the
States Attorney of Rutland county at
that time. In their hands Mr.. Phair's
case will be fully investigated, and if
there is anything to Downing's state
ment, or that of any other man. the
convicted man will have the benefit Of
it. Messrs. Veazey and Ormsby went
to Boston week ago. but of the result
of their visit, the public has heard moth
ing. A despatch from Windsor the 18th
says: Public opinion in the innocence
of John P. Phair is rapidly changing
as facts recently developed justify, and
the belief is fast gaining ground thai
the courts mandate will be enforced OF
May 4. Phair's mother visited him to
day, and they had a long consultation
together.-C dledonaan. -
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-04-23

This bright April sunshine glances on
the accoutrements of half million SOL
diers slowly approaching each other
along the banks of the Danube and the
plains of Roumania. There is an inspi-
ration in the spectacle, an electric thrill
in the expectation of the coming conflict,
that stirs even our pulses. four thousand
miles away. and fixes the eyes of civil
lied humanity upon the region SO soon.
in all probability. to be the theatre of a
terrific strife. But like a sickening con
trast to all this brave display and thrill
ing fascination, comes the thought of the
incalculable sum of human anguish
which the war will produce. nay, is al
ready producing Half million hearts
of women, half a million fathers and
mothers aud wives and daughters, on the
bleak plains of Russia or in the valleys
of Turkey, are already quaking in dread
anticipation. What sea of tears is tt
be shed What multitude of hearts
are to be broken We in America know
how to sympathize with this terrible 9th
er side to the glittering pageant of war
Springfield Union.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-04-23
EFFECT OF THE WAR ON BUsI-
NESS.

The most important effect of the war
in America. however, IS likely to be the
increased demand for breadstuffs and
provisions. Russia and Turkey are both
exporters of grain, and if the Black sea
should be closed, an important granary
would be locked up. The gravity of the
situation is greatly enhanced by the ex-
haustion of prairie wheat in this coun-
try and by the probable failure of the
California crop for 1877. The Califor
MIA crop has been great addition to
the wheat supplies of the world; the
crop for 1875 has all been shipped and
most of it has been received and taken
into consumption in Europe by this time.
The past winter has been so dry on the
Pacific coast that not more than fourth
of crop is anticipated the coming sea-
son. In the Mississippi valley, the last
crop was short and is nearly exhausted,
but large and early crop of winter
wheat is anticipated, which will no doubt
bring high prices The great corn crop
of last year, which has gone abroad so
richly, both as corn and as pork, will
doubtless be repeated this season if the
weather is of average favor. Flour ad-
vanced from 10 to % cents a barrel at
New York the other day, and corn and
wheat from one to two cents per bushel.
California, by the way, is very blue
over threatened loss at once of her wheat
crop and her wool. The failure of Isaac
Friedlander, the wheat king, as he has
been called, is not in itself probably a
misfortune. He was man of great af-
fairs, and was the autocrat of the wheat
market on that coast. When the crop
was assured he ordered thither the fleets
of the world to carry it to market 1t
was magnificent business, magnificent
ly done, but it got too big for one man,
and he has gone down under it. AS for
the wool, it brings prices so low that the
farmers are killing their sheep, and the
agents of the New England manufactur-
ers are going to the colonial wool sales
in London or to the Mississippi valley
If the Californians insist on calling dirt
and burs wool, they must take the con.
seauences. In short the question iscom
ing home to the California farmer, as Il
every other, whether he is willing to pu
hard work and brains into his business
Springfield Republican.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-04-23
THE TOBACCO HABIT.

We have lately obtained some facts
and statistics, in regard to the use of
tobacco. that may be of interest to our
~ L-:-z ~ - -
home, where every person can inyesti-
gate for himself, we will take town in
Orleans County with an estimated popu-
lation of 1000. In that town about
fifteen tons of tobacco are annually sold.
Estimating the expense Of the above at
sale price of 60 cents pound, and the
annual cost of tobacco in that town is
$4,000.
If the same sum was expended for
-four, each person in town would be
furnished with barrel of the best-in
other words the town expends more for
tobacco than for -four. The same money
would furnish every person in town un-
der the age of twenty, with all the
needed clothing for the year; if it was
expended for periodicals and books, it
would supply each family with daily
paper, three weekly papers, two maya
zines, all the necessary school books, and
provide library for the town more val
liable than every public library in the
county.
The money annually expended for
tobacco in that town would build and
keep in repair all the highways, feed
and clOthe all its paupers, pay all the
town officers expenses, support all the
public schools, pay for all the preaching
in town, and leave large sum unex.
pended.
In the above estimate of the expense
of the tobacco habit. nothing is reckoned
for the loss of time used in its mastica
ton and burning-no small sum, as the
employers of tobacco users will testify
nor is any reckoning made of the con
slant loss from fire occasioned by tn,
carelessness of those who smoke.
But what is received in return for thi
heavy expenditure Not one dollar t,
all the consumers in town. They strug
gle all day long with tired jaws ant
broken teeth to reduce to nastiness thel
E daily rations of hard pressed leaf the,
become inverted bellowses, and tug 70
hours at the Insignificant hole of pipe
or the end of cigar that they may i'm
y bibe' grain or two of nicotine an,
r when all is said and done, they only &c
9 themselves up to state of feeling an,
comfort which is constantly enjoyed b.
E those who do not use tobacco
At some unfortunate period in thei
v lives they struggled hard againt the re
q monstrances of clean mouth. a clea
n stomach, and pure appetite, aud wer
Y able to subdue them all, and to acquir
habit at once filthy and injuriou,
!. Now they have Frustrated their bodie
~ to unclean uses. They worship a 90
- that burns out his existence in the bow
of pOisous pipe. Thay sacrifice clear
illness. agreeableness and health, thu
= they may become the spongy absorbent
: of the vilest weed that ever grew on ii
10 footstool Their nervous systems, one
D. perfect. have been so long stimulate
Sc and narcotized, that they become tobacC
lie hungry and tobacco crazy when deprive
of their accustomed poison.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-04-23
FAILURES.

hC EAChb hhNhSA@A NA1Sh VI ~
which carried down thousands of the
leading business men and firms of the
country, did not put an end to failures;
but from that day to this, some who
withstood the first shock have yielded
aHu Uvppleu over. rev,
comparatively, in this section of the
country, gave up at first; but when they
found in the depression and destruction
of business that their profits were gone,
their enterprises ruined, they struggled
bravely as long as they could stand, and
then went down. Here and there dis
honest man has imposed on the conf
dence of the public, and squandered the
capital of a large number of those who
have trusted him, in his reckless enter
prises. When, at length, he has gone
down, his fall has involved the ruin of
others who would have paid their debts
and stood strong. had it not been for his
knavery. A few such men in this sec.
ton of Vermont have been the cause Of
much of our present misfortune.
Some men fail from kind of mis-.
management, in which they use the
world too we'll. They are enterprising
benevolent, hopeful and honest. They
would cheat no man out of a dollar i
they could prevent it. They take hole
of the wheels of business and they rol
onward they find employment for ;
large class of men who would be pauper
were it not for such men they build u
the waste places, and are really the lif
and spirit of their neighborhood. The,
may spread too much canvas to the win,
and 60 to wreck in the storm, but the
are worth hundred misers in any com
munity and when, unfortunately. the
fail, it is not just or kind to traduce Q
abuse them. They have spent sleeples
nights in anxiety, and days of painfr
labor IN trying to avert the calamity.
No man out of active business realize
how hard it has been, during the la;
three years, to stem the tide of advers
ties. Many kinds of business, profits
bic few years since, are proftless now
goods bought at high rates must be sol
at low prices securities then salabl
and valuable are now stale on the ma
ket; creditors then A. |, are now then
selves embarrassed men having funC
who could enter into business are sh
and sequester their money markets f,
lumber, grain, hay and almost all kline
Of produce, have been going down, dow
so that there have been multitude
obstacles and dangers in the way of pu
suing business Of late. That so mar
have stood, under the pressure, is Il
wonder. Poor men who have found
hard, with low wages, to meet fami
expenses during these years, have dout
less slept sounder and taken more cor
fort than the many who have found the
employment, and carried on busine
amid anxieties, losses and dangers.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-04-23

As if it we're not enough for Connect
icut to bear the wooden nutmeg" stig-
ma. large company has now gone into
the manufacture Of india-rubber fish,
worms. Over FIVE thousand of these
counterfeit angle-wOrms are daily made
in that wicked State.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-04-23

Hail. spring of III Farmer.
What in the world does Bro. Cum
mings want of hail, after this time of
year?
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-04-23
50 long as we patiently submitted to

So long as we patiently submitted to
the harmless insults of the animal that
runs the Morrisville CitiSen so long
as he could freely pilfer from the local
columns of the MONITOR without the
slightest recognition or courtesy and SO
long as he could use us as a subject for
his attempted abuse of another man, he
was happy; but when we refused to ex-
change with him he was mad. So he
laid his prodigiOus ears down on his
rump and brayed a blast, recognized
wherever it resounded as, earle. This
was what we expected when such crea-
lures turn their dirty heels towards
n fellow his position is not enviable.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-04-23
Incorporated October 80, 1888.
DIRECTORS:

So, 99I 90
Whole expenditures:
Losses, expenses of adjust
ing the same, commits
sions aud attachments, $l657l5 so
Other expenses, 42076 OIL 227,792 Al
Net surplus above all liabilities,
March 81, 1876, $l99 23
The assessments for thrty-siX years have been one
hundred and onehalt per cent, averaging only rs
per cent. a year.
IN Of fire assessments stop at the time Of loss,
and insurance in this Company is cheaper than it
be in any Stock Company, because there are no div-
dends to be paid to stockholders.
No person is authorized to collect assessments for
this Company without presenting its printed receipt
PHILO HATCH, President.
| r. S. SOUTHGATE, Secretary ole
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-04-23
Auction Sale.

will sell at public auction on FRIDAY MAY 18th,
A. d. 1877, at o'clock p m, at Newport VT, the
entire property Of the estate Of J. t. BEEDE CO.,
Bankrnpts: Comprising large, sateroof three story
Mill Building; Steam Engine and Boiler; Planning Ma
chiue all machinery necessary for the manufacture of
SASH doors and blinds large and choice lot of pine,
birch spruce ash, cedar and hemlock lumber; Also a
lot of cons and caskets, and all personal prop
erty belong NJ to said estate.
W. D. CRANE, Assignee.
Newport, Vt, April H. 1877 ole
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-04-23
ESTATE OF CHANDLER CANNON.
STATE OF VERMONT, o, :

STATE OF VERMONT, I
- ('0rleans District, IS
In Probate Court held at Irasburgh within and for
said District, the Sd dav of April, A. D. 1877.
An instrument purporting to be thelas will and tes-
lament of CHANDLER CANNON, late Of Browning
ton, in said District deceased, beng presented to
Court by John Gibson, the person having the GUS
tody of the same, for Probate
1t is ordered by said Court, that all persons con-
cerned therein, be notified to appear at a session
of said Court TO be held the Probate Office in Iras
burgh on the first day of May, A. D. 1877 and show
cause if any they may have against the Probate of
said Will for which purpose it is further ordered that
copy of the record of this order be published three
weeks successfully in the Orleans County Monitor
printed Barton previous to said time appointed for
hearing.
By the CouIt-Attest,
L. H. THOMPSON, Judge.
A true copy of Record-Attest,
1917 L. H. THOMPSON, Judge.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-04-10
S'ile Gale.

PORTSMOUTH, April GA terrific northeast
gale has been raging here all day, aud nearly
all the warehouses in Norfolk aud Portmouth
ara submerged, doing considerable damage to
sr!&h articles Is could not be removed, aud occa-
sioaing quite loss to lumber and wood yards
In Norfolk several lime warehouses; were fired,
and The fire department was kept very busy
all The Watcr.street section 81 the city is mum
dated, aud communication IS had with business
houses aud dwellings only in small boats. No
steamers can lrava the harbor Tor Baltimore or
New York In Portsmouth the streets arc in
undated anal warehouses; and dwellings are
submerged to the irst-story 10 several other
SECTIONS also. Gosport, Newton and the navy
yard arc separated from Portsmouth by 4 hall
lujlr sheet Of water. no ferry steamers can
ply between the two cities. The telegraph Iluc5
ia every direction are Interrupted by Frustrated
poles. On The coast aud in Chesapeake hay
the gale is much more severe. Such another
flood in Norfolk and Portsmouth il mt III the
rccolectnns OF our people.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-04-10

The Supreme Court of the United States
yesterday rendered decision in the case Of the
distribution of the money remaining 10 the
hands OF the Board Of Finance of the Ccntcn-
NAL Exposition, reversing the decree Of the
United States Court of Pennsylvania. and or
dering the payment of tho 81, 500, 900 into the
Treasury of the United States before any divi
sion Of the remaining assets among the stock.
holders The Pbiladclphans having borrowed
this money from the United States upon a
promise to return it., eudeavored, by trick
that was vain, TO repudiate that promise. For
tuuately for the tax payers of the whole coun-
try, other Northern communities we're opposed
to the swindle, aud so the Supreme Court,
which, Judging from tho late action of some OF
its members, would otherwise have legalized it,
have properly made an adverse decision.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-04-10

Ex.GOvorno. 1ilden WAS riding in his carriage
Yesterday afternoon whom the horses ran away.
Mr.. Tildon jumped ont and escaped without
any injuries. The horses wera stopped aftnr
proceeding short distance.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-04-10

Tho greatest piece Of snobbery Of which the
shoddy aristocracy of Washington hasyet been
guilty was the attempt to separate, by means
of blue ribbon, the members Of the foreign dip.
lomatic corps from the rest Of the guests, at a
late entertainment given by MIR. Henry Sand
ford Ex.Postmaster General Jewell, OF one OF
bis entertainments gave good wine 10 his dis.
tinguished guests, but cheap stuff to those Of
less degree. That was bad enough,-though it
was following an old Highland oustom-and
added nothing to Mr. JEWELS reputation for
either sense or breeding, but Mr.. Sandford's
late exploit entities him to the championship
of snobs aud teadies.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-04-10

Mr.. James Gordon Bennett ia so mortified
at bis late conduct 10 this country that he has
indefinitely postponed his return from Europe,
and has sent for the best horses in bis stable.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-04-10

Frederick Leihiier, German shoemaker, re-
sidlngin Washington, committed suicide yester-
day evening III his shop by shooting himself
through tho head with navy revolver. He
died instantly. Just before lie shot himself ho
went to the door Of his shop and called in
several persons, saying, come in snd see me
shoot myself" which be did in their presence.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-04-10

Gen. Samuel Il. Carey, Of Ohin. late raadl-
date for Vice President On the Cooper reform
ticket, having agreed with others 10 buy Il
Colorado mine for so 900 tool; the money as
their agent, bought the mine for 500 ,oo1, and
divided the remainder be,ween himself aud his
nephew. The courts at Cincinnati decide that
be must account to all the subscribers Tor the
amount. 1t almost invariably turns out that
political rcformers stand 10 mere need ct mora!
reformation than any Of those for whose reior
NATION they are apparently so anxious.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-04-10

Mr.. J. Ran. Tucker is in favor oithc re.clpc
ton Of Speaker Randall.