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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-05-28


al Poison used in the cure.
The attention of physicians and the public generally
10 respectfully called to consideration OF the follow
ing facts;
That loathesome disease known as Piles, or Hemor-
rhoids. has its origin in deceased function of the
liver induced by several causes, the most prominent
of which are:
F1Rsr An unnatural acid condition of the stomach
exhibiting itself impaired digestive function, and
a greater or less degree Of costiveness.
SEcoND-An absence in the blood in proper proper
ton Of those peculiar chemical elements that enter
into the constitution OF the natural secretion Of the
hver-the bile
TH1RD.-An impaired function OF assimilation. arts
ing from deficiency in the process OF digestion, and
consequent condition to a greater or less degree of
| general debility.
THE UNIVERSAL PILE PILLS
strike at the root of these Of functional disease
| OF the liver:
FIRsr-By relieving the acidity Of the stomach and
rendering the digestive functions perfect.
SEcoRD-By supplying the blood with proper food
/ material to perfect the secretions of the bile.
THIRD by gently stimulating the restored organs
| to vigorous efficiency.
In this harmless yet certain remedy is found the
only physiological and Philosophical solution Of this
/ great
Problem in Medical Science.
| The absence of all poisons in the remedy makes it
equally safe in the hands of the non-professiona it
| is in the hands OF the scientific practitioner.
| SooCure guaranteed or money refunded
Price soc and $loo. For sale by all druggists and
dealers in medicine. Sent post paid receipt of
price by r. 2. SMITH CO.. Sole Proprietors Mid
dlebury, Vt. Sold by E. F. BUTTON. Barton.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-05-28

holds an annual meeting at Newport
June 6. at o'clock. officers will be
chosen, and interesting papers read by
Drs. G. S. Human, Wright and Parker,
with discussions on the same. Drs.
Blanchard. French. r. B. Skinner and
Rutherford will furnish reports. A full
attendance desired.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-05-28

LIZ HELL.
If you wish to see some excellent
work with the chisel, visit the stone
and marble works of L. o. Cox and see
what Howard Arms is doing.
10. Martin has made good improve
ment about the hotel. by Sticking up
since he went into it. About 80 couples
attended his ball on the 18th inst.
Henry Richardson who went West
some time since has concluded to make
a permanent home in Iowa He is back
to settle up his business. but will soon
bid adieu to Vt.
d. E. Curtis. has gone to market for
a new stock of goods. Mr.. Curtis has
done much good work of late in the
gospel work in this town and vicinity,
and has shown that he has the talent
and the spirit for an excellent preacher.
NEWPORT.
! The Orleans County Medical Society
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-02
TAXING CORN

Iflt ever was true that cotton is king
it is not so now. The. total value OF last
years cotton crop Of 4, 25O,O0O bales was
about $3.50, 600, 900, but the corn crop of
,295 900 600 bushels, at theayerage price
OF about forty-fve cents a bushels, is
worth to this country no less than $685.
600 600. 1t makes the largest single
item Of our agricultural products, and
our agricultural product furnishes, ia
round numbers, about "a ,000, 600 900 out
Of the IS ,00O, O,00O, 600 produced each year
by American labor Cotton was king.
Corn is now greater king. But, Though
corn is king of kings, it has to pay tribute
on every hand. Middlemcn eat deeper
into the farmers sub nee than the
grasshoppe-, and the iticians, with
their subsidies, bounSies protective du-
ties, and the like, eat q eper than the
grasshopper and the mid lemen together.
There is but one thing of which the
farmer gets the lions share-taxation.
Although the producers Of corn are the
most numerous class in the country, their
interests are less consulted in legislation
than those of any other For instance,
leaving out Of view the wider questions
suggested above, consider the injury done
to the farmer by the present law taxing
distilled spirits. Alcohol is an indispen-
sible agent in the manufacture of var
nishes. ether. chloroform, perfumes, and
many other chemical compounds. In
Great Britain the alcohol destined Tor
use in the arts and manufactures Is free
from the internal revenue tax imposed
on that which 60 into beverages
The simple device OF compelling the
Of alcohol which is 70 be
used in the arts to mix it with distil-
lation from wood, called methyl, chang
ing it into "wood alcohol" thereby de-
stroying its fitness to drink without in
turing il foI industrial purposes, protects
the government from fraud, and gives to
industry an important raw material free
from tax In this country every gallon
of alcohol used in manufactures and arts
must pay ninety cents Of excise, or five
hundred per cent on the prime cost.
The manufactures dependent upon it are
greatly embarrassed, and their develop
ment hindered. The demand for alcohol
from the sources is kept down to a mini
mum point, and, as alcohol is made of
corn. the farmers lose just so much OF
what might be an extensive and remu-
nerative market. Cotton goes into the
arts Of this country free Of all federal
taxation, and consequently the cotton
planter has the widest possible MARKET,
a1a relatively high price for this pro-
duct. Why should this discrimination
be made between the corn planter and
the cotton planter?--C Chicago Tribune.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-02
4HE nRAKE,LaN.s erORY.

" Yes. sir" said the brakeman, Is he
stood by the stove warming his numbed
hands after coming in from braking
people think, as they sit in their warm
seats, and only hear Us call out the diff
| ferent stations, that we have nice, soft.
easy time. But we know better I'm
agine yourself on fiat car all night,
with the snow dashing in your face, your
hands on a cold iron brake, and think if
that's easy; or upon top of a freight car,
running along, the wind cutting like a
knife, as dark as pitch, and watching for
fear you may rush suddenly under a
bridge and be swept off, and perhaps be
left to die in the snow. Is that easy
Does that look like a soft job To be
sure when we are transferred to passenger
cars the work is nice enough, but the
dangers we have to go through (for we
generally have to go on freight cars first)
entitle us to something better on pas
sengeI car, and we amt sorry when we
get orders to take the front end of reg
ular train.
"There are very few brakemen who
can't tell never to be forgotten incidents
connected with their life on the rail. To
explain, let me tell you story from my
own experience. / remember one night,
it was fearfully cold, right in the middle
of winter and showing hard, was brak-
M in the middle of a freight train. 1t
was running along on slow time rSat
night, and we were about two or three
miles from the station I was standing by
the brake ofa flat car, trying to get warm by
stamping, wishing we were at thedepot, 50
that could go back to the caboose out
Of the bitter cold, when suddenly heard
the train humping and jumping as if I
wheel had broken, and knew something
was wrong. The whistle blew for brakes.
and in a mighty short time we had the
train stopped
With the rest of the men l went back
to see what was the matter, thinking
that l might get a chance at the stove,
for / was nearly frozen. Going back
three hundred feet, we found that one of
the rails had got loose and was out of
place, but as we were going slowly we
had run over the SPOT safely Our con
ductor looked up and, seeing me said:
jim, get back and signal the passen-
ger train. She will be along in a short
time now; and take this he said hand
ing me red light lantern; "we'll go on.
You can come along with the other
train"
With that all hands got OH board, and
soon there was nothing but me aud the
lantern left.
A cold gust brought me to myselfwith
a quick turn, and then ] remembered
what had to do. Holding the lantern
up, I saw that the light was fickering,
and shaking it, found it almost empty.
Then / began to feel the responsibility
of my position lamp with no oil in it;
the train due ia ten minutes with the
chances of its baing thrown of the track,
nd no telling how many poor people
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-02
TRADE IND COMMERCE..

The Californian mind has invented the
idea of the longest railroad in the world
to run from San Francisco nearly to the
extreme edge of foivilizationon the south
ern continent. II is a splendid scheme,
hut would be as useful 10 the country as
. smoke-pipe to stage coach. There
would he nothing for it to do.
A surprising amount and variety OF
American manufactures are beginning 70
90 70 Chill and other west coast regions
bv wav of Panama. There is a profitable
export Of cottons particularly. Inc
Panama Star comments on the growth OF
American commerce with the Pacific
countries, and says: Every day 1t is
becoming more and more apparent that
no other country can any longer excel
the great republic"
II is believed that the four years upon
which the country win enter after
president is inaugurated, will prove
neriod of the most healthful prosperity.
The symptoms Of this visible ON every
side. So convinced are many that the
GOOD times are at hand that they are
taking advantage of the present low prlco
Of labor and surplus of capital in the
country to manufacture in anticap stion
of the coming improvement in business.
Those things into the cost OF which
bills for labor largely enter Can be pro-
duced now more economic y than they
can be again for years 2 2 s question
| for the people TO thinl. " whether the
times do not hold out to them In this 70
suect an opportunity Of the very creates
| ;v,rorkaucn
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-02
AMERICAEs As MINERS $.

Mining by Americans, as yet, can
hardly be accepted as a business for
lifetime pursuit, but more one to turn
their hands to for the time being, and for
trying their luck"
This trial of luck" during the past
twenty-five years, but more especially the
past fifteen, has made large body OF
Americans good miners, and good experts
as well; and it can be said, further, that
the frst-class American miner is more
complete in his money-making perations
than the average foreigner who has been
reared from childhood in the work.
While the latter mines from old rules,
the American miner makes rule suited
10 the surrounding circumstances. be
can turn more short corners and 10 more
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NOTHING NEFUsDER THE Sun.


Some terrible b9Okworm has been tell
ing the Saturday Review what he knows
about modern invntions, and it is really
dreadful to noticethe way in which he
pulls to pieces mst of those very dis
coveries in which ge most pride ourselves.
It is not pleasant, br instance, to be told
that centuries befoe the world ever heard
Of Simpson, or thentroductien of chloro-
form, that DiosDrides, Theophratus,
Pliny, and we dat know how many
other fusty old Sons, had dwelt upon
the ansethetic proprties of mandragora,
during the swing 7 burning of limb :;
or that the Marquis of Wooster, in his
century of inveuaons," is thought to
have given the frshint of the steam en-
CINE. The ancient were thoroughly ac-
quinted with wasr power they had
their water organ during the Roman
empire, before sevaty-nine \. d. Stem
Cling can be traced back to the emperor
Justinian; Shorthand or stenography
was known to Cicero; and the atmOs-
pheric railway and the leviathan steam
ship was predicteda and anticipated long
before they were ssted by experiment
In the matter of games, draughts and
checkers claim Greek and Latin an
tiquity, and the ancients were adapts
with gloves. Thenow fashionable game,
polo, can be tracedback to Byzantium.
Capt. Boynton' low famous swimming
dress, or one very imilar to it, was used
by Dardanus in Dacalion's flood; so at
least, we learn from Lycopron, the
Alexandrian iambc poet, who fourished
about two hundred and sixty B. c. We
shall not be in the very least degree
surprised some day to hear that pork and
beans were the Gayorite dish of Solomon,
or that cocktails and eggnog were per-
fectly familiar beverages to Ham and
his father, Noah.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-02
nov THE TYROLESE REPULsED THE
FRENCH.

As we progressed our railroad COM
Inenced. climbing until, at one point in
the route, we were above the clouds,
Which we could see rolling heavily and
damply in the valley below us, while the
great blue precipices circumscribed our
landscape to the narrowest limits and
seemed to wall us in forever, for out of
these tremendous gulfs and canyons
there appeared to be no possible escape.
II was in one of these defiles that the
French marshal, Lefebre, with an army
of French, Bavarians and Saxons, was
cautiously toiling in 1909 on his way to
subdue the Tyrol to the Bavarian yoke,
to which Napoleon had transferred it
when around him on every side arose the
Tvrolese landsturm, the levy that called
out every man that could load or handle
a rife, aud from the tops of these very
cragss great rocks and trunks of trees
and beams came rolling down into the
road in the defile below, crushing the as
tonished troops beneath them, and sud
denly they were confronted by the in
trepid Capuchin monk, Haspinger, who,
with the stinging fire of his rifles, forced
the head of the column TO recoil, while
the avalanche of missiles from the mac
eesssible heights came down harder than
ever. When suddenly on both fanks
and in the rear appeared Speckbacher
and Hofer, with every man and boy who
could walk or hobble, whom the levies
of the cross had summoned from all the
mountain valleys. And the carnage
among the invaders was fearful and their
discontinue complete, and Lefebre him
self fastened back to Innsbruck with the
tidings OF his defeat, out with the Tyro-
lese hard at his heels and the struggle
for the possession Of the solitary bridge
over the Inn was terrific, for the French
were Bonaparte's veterans, and the Baya-
rians had cannon, of which the peasants
mad none save couple of trunks of trees
clamped with iron bands, which speedily
burst land are now in the Nuremburg
museum), but they had their unerring
rifles, with which they poured 50 deadly
a fire that the gunners time and again
were slaughtered around their pieces, un-
til none could be found to man them !;
and the officers were picked off wherever
they dare te show themselves by the aim
of the ehamois hunters; and at last they
evacuated the old capital, into which
the triumphant peasants entered with
great rejoicing, and after solemnly re-
turning thanks to God and the Virgin
in their great cathedral, set up Hoier as
vicegerent of the emperor, and then wa1t
quietly back to their hills and herds and
chalets. Twice again did the invaders
reoccupy the capital, twice again were
they driven from it over the same bridge
by these invincible hunters and herds
men and their heroic leaders while
many gorge in these mountains las Z
nesses was the scene OF exploits that RI
vailed those of Thermopylse.-- Cor. Def'ou
Free PTese.
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VOL. XIII. NO 4.

with lsss money. His work is never 90
l.substantial; it does not "hold forever, f"
Esand he never worries if it does not. He
does not work for his grandchildren, but
for the present, calculating his children
will have the same privileges. Two
men pounding at one drill does not suit
bis notions of economy, therefore the
idea is suggested of doing the work sin
4 gle-handed, and with his giant explosive
doubles the execution at half theexpense.
The American miner, in fact, is get
ting tired of even single-handed drilling,
Tand is about concluding for the future to
stand by, "boss" the machine and save
/ bis muscle. He is an average mechanic,
1 studies mechanism, and wonders how to
get rid of hard work, and by his genius
IN the coming future, close by, we are
going TO mine whoey by machinery: hi
I aGact, we can do it now, both tU.a q. la5s!e
90 small scale, by the UNIVERSAL
siss as1zs2 mel g-Sleigh, IngersolI &
warn 1aslslnsrIlr.,s
sSzssSe--,-same spirit which seeks expedi-
tion and cheapness in mining, applies
equally as strongly in milling the ore.
When it is upon the surface he wants
the bullion from it in his safe before
night, and to that end has it dumped
into the mill, at will unlocks his safe,
and "presto change" there is the metal.
This life and expedition of our mining
operations has not been equalled on the
face of the globe. 1t is purely American,
and a condition of mining activity which
every country Is readily falling into and
which every foreigner of snap loves.
There is no pursuit Americans are 30
well adapted to as mining, and why do
not more turn their attention to it.
What will make greater prosperity for
the whole union is for the American
people TO accept mining as a vastly i'm
portant and legitimate business, as
having as much reward for labor, eau
ton and capital as trade, agriculture,
commerce or manufacture.
We have in California, Nevada, Ari-
zoua, Oregon, Colorado, Montana and
Idaho, millions of leads with millions
piled on millions of wealth, much of
which can be had simply by locating,
only wanting the hand of labor and the
favor of capital. We have also in the
United States, east, west and south,
large, idle, yet industrious population
crying for work and prosperity, and who
could soon turn a ready hand to gath
ering these treasures, relieving their
wants, and enriching all.
Mining in the past, and also in the
present, has its parasites, which destroy
It's vigor, and this is stock-gambling. A
distinction must be better drawn between
mining rs business, and mining" as
paper gamble. Let operations be con-
Quoted with the business vigor of man
ufacturing and success will be even more
certain. Let capital be more trusty to
the deserving, and seek TO build up
Legitimate mining operations, which may
be accepted as the precious bloOds of
business life Scientific Press.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-02
THE PAL4CE Of THE KING or D4-
HONEY.

[
The kings palace is situated in the
suburb of Abomey, called Jegbeh, about
la couple of miles southwest of Abomey
proper. It stands about half no. to
the left of the road leading from the
ceast to the capital, the residence of
Hahansu, the heir to the throne, being
at the fork of the roads, one of which
leads to Abomey, and the other to
JegLeh. Externally nothing more Is
visible than q high wall of red mud,
thicklv stuck with cockle-shells, and
having at frequent intervals a gate, with
high pitched roofof thatch, and earthen
benches, also under cover, Oneither side.
The area of the palace within the walls
is about equal to that ef Regents park,
while before each pweshed, as the covered
gate-houses are called, is a large open
| space, cleared of trees and distractions,
wherein troops dance and 60 through
their military evolutions, such as they
are. Inside the palace is divided into a
series of large courtyards, with intricate
mazes of passages between them, and it
is the delight of a Dahomian host to
bewilder his guest by conducting him
through court after court ere he
reaches the audience chamber. In
the innermost court the private apart
ments of the king are situated, consist
ing of mere barn-like structures, kept
scrupulously clean by frequent sweeping
and lime-washing. Around the Anna
zonian Koo-si, or leopard wives, the
actual wives of the king, each have their
separate suit of apartments. or huts;
while beyond the Amazon body-guard
have their quarters, to the number of
perhaps 1000 In one of the courts a
shed is erected about twenty feet square,
with a high gable roof surmOunted by a
silver image of a tree with an antelope
eating the branches, and bird building
it's nest thereon. The tree denotes the
king, and the bird and antelope, rep
resenting the Dahomian people, show
that the king provides shelter and Bour-
ishment for his subjects. Within the
shed i 4 mysterious something carefully
wrapped up in a cloth wherein the spirit
of the present king is said to reside. This
is carefully guarded by priestess, who,
after the death of the king, is the re-
ceipient OF his soul and is consulted by
the fetichists. When the king has an
important matter in hand he consults
this custos syirihls, and during the present
custom dozens Of unfortunate men have
been carried bound and gagged into this
spirit house and there decapitated, their
blood being sprinkled on the cloth en-
veloping the spirit.-L0aa0a Spectator.
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GBE4T DISCO FBRY or COINS IN
ROME.

A numismatic discovery almost un-
paralleled in extent has been make near
Verosa. Two large amphorm have been
found containing no less than two
ouintals, or about six hund red English
pounds weight of coinso the emperor
Gallienus and his successors within the
hundred years following his regin. The
number of coins is estimated at between
$4,000 and 10000 Of those of the
emperor Probus there are more than 4 :
coo.
The majority are of bronze, but there
are some of silver and others of bronze
silvered (sabararatd). They are all in
the finest state of preservation and, with
the exception of those Of Gallienus which
are a little worn, they are so fresh from,
the mint as to make itev;dent they were
never put into circuAtion. The dis
covery has been consldehd of sufficient
importance forthe mAister of public
instruction to despatchSignor Pigorini
specially to Verona 10 rport upon it.
All the finest example are to be placed
In the museum of Nsbna, and the re-
maindsr either excaangd in sets with
other museums OF sold, may he decided
London Times.