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der in payment of all dehts. Two kinds of
Treasury notes will then he in irculation,
one OF which viii be a full l' gal tender, and
the other not Even bet een national banks,
as is now the case with their notes, the full
legal tender notes will be of greater value
than the other class, unless they are
both alike redeemable in gold at the
commercial centers. 1t is believed by
the Controller that this proposed sub
stitutiou is impracticable, and that
the repeal of the National Bank Act will
result not in an additional issue of Treas
ury notes, but in a restoration of State sys-
TENS similar to those which were previously
in opera ion.
In regard to resumption, the Controller
says: Congress has fixed day for the
restoration of the specie standard, and the
legislation needed is that which will not
overthrow, but CO operate with the present
well-managed monetary institutions of the
country in accomplishing this result. When
this is done, the present banking system,
if then thought desirable. may be modified
without danger to the creditor or the busi-
ness and commercial interests of this great
nation.
Then follows table, showing that the
amount of reserve held on the 1st of fOctober
last was greater than that required by law.
The Treasury Department owns 4OU00,00
coin, which is equal to more than forty per
cent. OF the entire issue of legal tender
notes. and is available for their redemption
while the banks hold nearly one-third of
the legal tender notes. If therefore, the
banks OF the country cooperate with the
Treasury, it is impossible that resumption
shall fail; hut even if the cooperation
should not be universal, it could not affect
the ultimate result, for if any consider
able portion of legal tender notes be ex-
changed for coin at the Treasury and with
drawn from use, the notes Will become
scarce, and can he forced into circulation to
supply the requirements of business and fill
the gap. The coin will soon thereafter be
returned to the Treasury in payment of Gus
toms duties, and internal revenue taxes,
aud offered in exchange for greenback coin
certificates, which will be more generally
acceptable to the people for the same rea-
son that notes of the Bank of England and
Bank Of France are preferred to coin.
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The Russians and Poles are the most
inveterate of gambler. An English
paper tells story of certain prince,
who recently lost in single night his
estate, horses, jewels, and indeed every
thing he possessed, including the car
riage and horses which were waiting for
him at the door. As he was about to
leave, he remembered that he had not
staked his harnesses, and going back,
the luck turned, and be soon won back
sll that he had lost
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

OTTo BERGER, son of an attendant to
the Grand Duke of Baden, died in
Wards Island Hospital last summer,
and his body was taken to the Morgue,
where, being embalmed, it has lain ever
since, waiting for instructions from his
father. A letter has just been received,
in which the father begs that the body
may be buried in Potter's Field, as the
son was scapegrace and not worthy of a
parents consideration.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-28

The follies of philosophy have been
the squaring the circle, the perpetual
motion, the inextinguishable lamp, at
traction and repulsion, the philosophers
stone. the universal solvent, the elixir
of life, the influence of the stars and the
raising of spirits. These several subjects
have, in the last fifty generations, alb
sorbed the lives of at least ten thousand
men in each, amid the veneration or fear
of the vulgar of all ranks.
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THE Patent Office, in October, granted
to Senior Miguel de la Vega, a native of
Havana, the sole right to manufacture
artificial tallow from a plant that is
said to grow wild on all parts of the
continent of America. 1t is alleged
that the article can be produced at a
nominal cost of two cents pound, and
that the yield is about seventy per cent.
from the prime material. Senior Vega,
it is said, came to New York City four
years ago, political refugee. He had
been a wealthy sugar and tobacco
planter, and had been decorated by
the Spanish government with the cross
of the Holy Sepulcher and of the order
of Isabella Catolica, and had been a
staff Captain of Artillery. In General
Grants first term, American cattle
raisers having been swindled by two
Spanish firms, Senior Vega, it is said,
succeeded in recovering more than
$4,000 from the swindlers. Senior Vega
has been in destitute circumstances
since he came to New York. 1t is said
that his artificial compound is equal, in
most respects, to common tallow.
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A GIRL in st. Joseph, Mo-, went to a
drug store to buy arsenic with which to
kill herself. The clerk happened to
know that she had quarreled with her
lover, and he guessed her purpose. He
gave her corn starch instead of arsenic,
and hurried out to tell her lover. The
lover repented having grieved the girl,
went to her house, found her lying on a
sofa waiting in vain to die of a dose
OF corn starch, and made up with her.
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ABOUT sixty years ago the paper-mills
then in existence in the United States
employed five thousand people, and the
annual product represented money
value of $5,0O0,000. In 1880 the num-
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committed in the corridors of the Court
house, and within a few yards of the
Criminal Court, where the trial of Guetig
forthe murder of Mary McGlew was at the
time proceeding. The murderer was ar
+pl
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Frog accidents are again numerous
on railroads. When man gets his
foot caught in frog he should press
his heel firmly down and draw his foot
back.
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The Next Congress.

The following is list of the members
elect of the Forty-si1th Congress, the names
of Republicans being printed in Roman,
Democrats lin Halic, and Greenbackers in
SMALL CAPITALS:
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The Fish Question Settled,

In pursuance of instructions from the
Secretary of Safe. the American Minister
in London, Mr.. Welsh, rendered the British
Government, in the person of Lord sails
bury, the sum of s5,500000 in gold, accom-
panying the payment with the following
Communication. The receipt of payment
was acknowledged by Lord Salisbury in
due form:
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TIE New Orleans Picayune says that
the city is we'll drained, so as far as its
treasury is concerned.
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ber of persons employed was about ten
thousand, and the value of the annual
product was $7,0OO,00O. Since then
there mas been a steady growth, with
the exception of the past two or three
years. In 1860 the number of persons
employed was twenty-five thousand, and
the value of the paper manufactured
$2l, 100000. In 1870 this amount had
increased to S4S, ,436, sos; and in 1872,
the last year for which there are com
plete records, the value of the amount
manufactured in thousand mills, en-
ploying thirty thousand persons, was
500, 505,825. Between the years 1860
and 1870, there was general revival in
the book BUSINESS, and the paper-makers
pushed things with great energy.
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THE story is going the rounds that at
a recent sale of curios in Paris long
strip-of skin from the arm of Anne of
Austria was disposed of, this singular
relic being proved authentic by the
signature of DIR. Dabos, who took it
from the body in the vaults of Val-de-
Grace, May IL, 1900. Unhappily for
the purchaser of this interesting relic,
only the heart of Anne of Austria was
placed at Val-de-Grace. Her body was
inferred at st. Denis, the coffin which
contained it being placed between those
of Marie de Medicis and Maria Theresa.
Thence, according to Dom Poirrier, who
saw the devastation of the abbey, Oc-
tsber IA, 1898, it was torn, to be thrown
with other royal corpses into a pit filed
with quick-lime, which did the work so
thoroughly that in 1916, when the pit
was opened, only few shreds and frag-
ments, which no skill could identify,
were found. The "American gentle
man." who is credited with purchasing
this interesting relic has made but a
poor bargain.
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We give below full list of Senators, as
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PASSING .SNHES.n

OUR education has more do do with
our religious opinions and belief than
our reason. -.-..
If you would pass for more than your
value, say little. 1T is easier. to look
than to talk wise.
WE should read books, not to quote
them, but to strengthen our minds and
stimulate thought. D.. .---. .-...
AMONG those who labor for future
happiness, he is greatest who lives well
in his own household.
IT takes one less time to get over ones
own misfortune than to be reconciled to
a neighbor's good fortune.
IF all men were to bring their mis-
fortunes together in one place, most of
them would be glad to take their own
home again rather than to make an ex-
phanna
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-02-11
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR
WASHINGTON. Feb. < 1879

ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoNIToR1
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, 1873.
1t was demonstrated to the satisfaction
of many who heard the testimony elic-
tied before the court of claims at various
times during the past or years in
claims based on the Geneva award, that
the rating of particular vessels by the
American Lloyds, depended more upon
the amount of money the owners had to
pay for certificate of character to that
institution than upon the manner of
their construction. The present is
good time for some Congressional Plim-
soil to come to the rescue of seameu and
passengers who are won't to trust them
selves to 60 to sea in the rotton bottoms
owned by avaricious marine spectators.
Old rotten. worm eaten hulks are bought
for song; the seams, worm-holes and
the ravages of dry-rot are filled by oak
um, plugging or patching pitch and
tar impart false appearance of new
ness; a metal skin Is drawn on over
these little "tsicks of trade and a lib.
eral application of putty and paint, with
the new name on the stern, complete the
metropolis" The new ship is rated A |,
is heavily insured and loaded down to a
depth inconsistent with the safety of
even new and staunch ship. She is
then sent to sea half-manned, her own.
ers, it may be. hoping she may never be
heard Of more; and they are oftener
gratifed than otherwise in this. Pc.
rusing Plimsoll's speeches in the British
House of Commons made on a similar
subject few years since, would likely
convince many now skeptics on these
points; and what was true at that time
is probably true to a greater or less ex-
tent among all maratine nations. The
Metropolis" was an old rickety patched
concern used as transport during the
war. and was hired for nominal sum,
probably, to take to South America,
workmen and their equipments for
railroad in Brazil. The absence of de-
tails in the Captains account of the dis
aster is significant; but the early
determination aimed at to beach the
vessel as the only means of saving the
lives on board, seems to argue perfect
familiarity with her unseaworthy condi-
ton. Over 100 souls gone to swell the
testimony that has been accommodating
for thousands of years against the ras-
cally ship owners who deliberately send
old vessels to sea in such crippled con-
dition that the victims of their greed
haven't one chance in thousand to ever
reach the shore 1t is always noticed
that ship and cargo had been covered by
insurance. 1t is already noted that diff
ferent parties supposed to have thorough
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-02-11
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Special Correspondence.
NEW YoRK, Feb. 4. 1878

NEW YORK, Feb. 4, 1878.
The weather has been this winter
even more than usually favorite sub
ject of conversation. A long succession
of mild, bright days, varied occasionally
by warm rains, have given the lie to the
almanac, and seriously undermined pub
llc confidence in its correctness. The
buds on bushes and trees-which never
scsA learn wisdom by experience have
begun to swell and to show traces Of the
color of spring, and everything has in
dictated that Winter was so preoccupied
watching the Eastern War and the pro
gress of the Silver Bill that New York
was going to slip through his fingers
unobserved. But the present state of
things goes to show that the old fellow
was only waiting till we should begin to
congratulate ourselves on our lucky es-
cape, to give us concentrated taste of
his quality.
The snowfall amounts almost to a
blockade, and was accompanied on
Thursday by gale and high tide that
will render the day memorable. The
water rose so in the Hudson that some
of the ferry houses on the Jersey side
we're submerged. At Hoboken, in the
waiting room of the ferry, the water
stood to the depth of several feet, and a
horse falling upon the planked driveway
under the ferry shed, was actually
drowned before he could be got upon his
feet. The severity of the storm extend
ed for an unusual distance along the
coast, as is shown by the simultaneous
wreck of the steamer Metropolis, off
Kitty Hawk. near Cape Hatteras, and
of brig in Long Island Sound. The
former disaster in which a majority of a
crew of $50 persisted, fastens terrible
reputation upon the region where SO late
ly the Huron went to pieces.
A resolution has passed the Board Of
L
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-02-11

The Boston Post grows sarcastic on
the silver question: "Should silver be-
come the currency in ordinary trade.
there will be fresh demand for muscle
and an important impulse would be CIV
en- to the drayage business. This will
appear from the following table of
weights: One dollar makes 1925 grains
Troy; $18.l6, pound avoirdupois !;
500 make l-2 pounds avoirdupois {:
5000 make 81 IL pounds avoirdupois !;
$1,000 make 80 pounds avoirdupois /;
$4,000 make 500 pounds avoirdupois !;
$4,000 make 1000 pounds, or one ton
avOirdupois Sl.OOO,OO0 make $4,000
pounds avoirdupois. Some of our heavy
retail dealers under this system would
be obliged to employ little army of
clerks to simply handle and count the
money. The handcartman would be in
requisition, and fresh importation of
mules would be indispensable. Then
again the banks would be obliged to in.
crease their number of clerks indefinite.
ly. and enlarge their deposit accommo-
dations. In the country, where there
are no banks or places of deposit, thrift.
ty traders would find new branch Of
business on their hands, which would
give employment to large number Of
new hands. and fresh and constant de,
mand would arise for dray horses tc
connect with the railroads, giving also
to the express companies large increase
Of business. How this would help trad,
it is more difficult to see. But, accord
ing to the silver theorists, traders anc
commercial men are not of much accoun
anyway. The conveniences of doing
business are of little consequence wher
compared with the interests of specula
tors in silver mines"
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erected strong Notifications. His last
important act was to summon General
Council, to meet at Rome, in December,
1969-the first General Council since
that of Trent broke up, more than three
hundred years before. The Council met,
and decreed the Pope's infalllbility. In
1870. Immediately after Sedan, the Ital-
ian government took possession Of Rome,
which has since been the capital of the
Kingdom of Italy-while the Pope re-
NAMED at the Vatican. Since 1870 his
history has not been of much moment,
but his death is an event that is likely
to be one of great Importance, from what
will follow it. He was good man, and
he was possessed of no ordinary talents ;
and he wore the tiara many years long
err than any other Pontifex Maximus,
dying in the thirty second year of his
| Pontifcate
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-02-11

The practical work of reducing state
expenses does not appear to have many
working friends, at least, they are not
heard from Most of those who give at
tention to public affairs are more inter-
ested in nominating candidates for office
If the two political parties of the State
simply go through the usual routine of
making nominations, it will doubtless
be followed by the usual result, for as
we have before indicated, unless special
and separate work is done on the sub
ject, the next Legislature are not likely
to accomplish more in reducing state ex-
penses than their predecessors. We are
not housing for any great sensational
discovery of fraud" or corruption,
as we have no reason to suppose that any
such mine exists, but there are probably
hundred items of state expenses IL
which saving may be made Of from
$50 to $500 each. This average alon
would save a total to the State of $50.
900 annually, and the work of finding
these items is just what is wanted TO
presentation to the next legislature
BeIloaOS Falls Times.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-02-11

The promised attempt to revive the
income tax was begun in the House. last
Monday, when motion by Mcmahon
of Ohio, to instruct the ways and means
committee to report bill for such tax
failed of passage by II votes less than
the necessary two-thirds. One hundred
and thirteen democrats and SO republi-
cans voted in favor of the tax, and %
republicans and 81 democrats voted
against it. Nineteen members Of each
party were absent. the Affirmative votes
included nearly "solid South" there
being 81 affirmative votes from the
Southern States and only six in the neg
alive. Vermont's three votes were cast
in the negative.
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NATIONAL DISHONOR.

1t must be admitted that there is
some force in the popular cry that there
ought not to be one kind of money for
bondholders and another for the masses.
What is the reply to that insiduous plea
of demagogues !?
The government promised to pay in
gold the principal and interest of money
lent to it in the war for the protection
of the nation. The whole people, in
Guiding the debtor class and the work.
ing men, authorized that promise thro'
their representatives. The pledge of the
nation was made, not only to the veal
thy citizens. but to foreign capitalists,
and in many cases to those of moderate
means in the American population. The
war was for the benefit of every class,
including the poor widow, who, out of
her hoard, gave little to the purchase
of government bonds, as well as the cap
italist, whose assistance of the govern
ment involved no self-denial. The work
ingman who purchased government
bonds in any degree was one of the per.
sons to whom the public faith was
plighted. The war, in which the Dor.
rowed money was spent, was for the ben
eft of every class between the Lakes
and the Gulf and the two oceans. The
expenditure was pre-eminently for thu
good of those who now call themselve
the debtor class by eminence. If, there
fore, we are to look upon the promise o
the nation as a serious one when mad
in its highest places. there is nothing
short of this conclusion before US, name
ly, that to break the national pledge b
reputation is national infamy. 1t
national gambling, national cheating
national robbery. 1t is deliberate n;
tional injustice, not only to the ricl
but to the poor.
Why should the President veto Il
silver bill q? Because it contains ell
ments of cool, treacherous unfairnes
not merely to the capitalists of Eurol
= from whom we borrowed, not only to Il
:, wealthy citizens here who assisted us
our necessities, but also to great ma
Of men of moderate means who have t
government promises to pay in gol
Bondholders are not all capitalists. N
and in these days, when so many 9th
;. forms of investing money are unsafe,
will not do to let it be understood IL
government bonds mean less in fact tn
- in promise.-Joseph Cook.
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The near approach of the Russians to

The near approach of the Russians to
ConstantinOple and their occupation of
some of the ports along the Dardanelles
has caused tremendous excitement in
England. Money has been voted for war
preparations, large meetings have been
held and popular war feeling has man
Tested itself. 1t was stated in the House
of Commons that part of the British
feet had been ordered to Constantinople.
If England felt able to cope with Russia
alone. there is no doubt that she would
provoke an opportunity to do SO. She
may, however, decide that discretion is
the better part Of valor."
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Jul gold you can get greenhacks. We need per
son IN every town to take subscriptions for the largest cheap
est and best Illustrated family publication in the verdi An
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peace DaSeS. lucy dLe do A"AiV"o
% pfTucrpdnry.
Second. A war indemnity of territory
compensation.
Third. The independence of Rouma-
MIA, Servia and Montenegro, with an in
crease of territory for each.
Fourth. Reforms in Bosnia and Her.
zegovinia.
Fifth. An Interior understanding be-
tween the Sultan and Car regarding the
Dardanelles.
Sixth. The evacuation of the Danubi-
an fortresses and Erzeroum.
According to the above official infor-
nation, there are only five conditions,
the evacuation of fortresses being part
Of the armistice conditions.
The fifth condition also provides for
the negotiation of final treaty, at Ell
ther Odessa or Sebastopol.
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VIM. GARDNER.
w. D. GARDNER.

From the Old Colony Memorial, Plymouth. Mass
Miss Emma Richard whose remarkable cure, by ID
Urann of Boston, was chronicied last week, arrivea
home on Friday and walked from the depot, threl
quarters Of mile to the house from which she wd
carried three weeks BEFORE The of Miss Rckard
who for nine months had been constant sufferer an,
during this time able to walk unattended acro
the room, and becoming so bad that her life id
SPARED OF. had awakened the deepest sympathy AMI
anxiety Of her friends who oveTjoyed at the won
derful cure that has been wrought. She was IL he
accustomed seat the last Sabbath, and on Wednef
day spent the day at the house of Mr.. Avery of TIL
Memorial through whose solicitation she received thI
treatment of DR.. Urann apparently enjoying herself
being in the best of spirits and full Of gratitude 70
her recovery.
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