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Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1878-04-13
CHAs. SxrTm. Tuoe SxlTu. J. B. Smxorf
SMITH BROS ( co.
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
AND
IMPORTERS,
Nos. os. ~ and % Poydras Street..
l9islesl7a. NEW ORLRAN0.
4 GREAT SENSATION
IS WHAT
JOSEPH STEIN

II creating In HAHNvILLE with HE sHOE
FACTORY. Shoea for I.adiea, shors for
Gentlemen. shoea for Children. shoea for rich
and Cccr. shoes for all. msde to order, by me
R..nseir o. T"Irr' .".s: ~ he
good people of -. John the baptist, irres.
pec;ivr of color. aex or previous condition.
Give JOE trial!
Address, JOSEPH STEIN. HahnviIle.
lj'y77ly. 81. Charles Parish.
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QUERY: 'sWhy win men smoke
eeOoos eeSeeee, whes they can buy
Nas60rg bFoa. Seal ef Nortk Csye.
49, as the sa0e pricer 9lsbly.
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1T cau make money faster at work for m
than at ANYTHING else. Capital not requir.
u ed; We will stsrt yon. sl2 pr day at
home made by the inilustrious. Men,
women. hoya and Eirla wanted everywhere
to work for us. Now 10 the time. Costly out
At and ter1ns free. Addrrss TRUE 4 Co.,
Augusta, Maine.
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ROB. BRAUD.
DONALDSONvILLE, Ii

n n Aa werk IN your own town. -
4 kOutit free. No riak. Reader. II
WWVD yea want . business ut whirh
rrrsoss of either sex onu make
great ray I'll tlsa time they work. write e.
Maine.
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tions constituting the legal basea
Of 6fapportionments Of school mo.
neys to the pariahes ; but thia bill
wss defeated by misrepresenta.
tions arising from the ignorance
which hampered. and by the fri.
volity which nnhappily confused.
the proceetlings of the House of
Representatives, In the last hours
Of ita session.
It In obvious, Therefore, that
the auccesa and improvement of
your school system Tor the pre.
aent year must depend a it haa
heretofore done on the energy and
patriotism of your boards In their
corporate capacity, and mon the
zeal and wise discrimination Of
your individual members, your
oficera, and the local trustees by
yon appointed.
To aid yon in improving the ays.
tenn of etlncati0n, and administra.
tion allow me, gentlemen, to sug.
geat:
lat. let your boards be reor.
ganized where necessary, that yOur
president and secretary shall both
reside In or near the parish aeat
wberr the treaanrer ofscl0ol funds
In rreaumed tn be domicilesl. The
reaaona fnr this movement are ex.
plai"ed IN pages Xxx, XXI Of the
Animal Report.
9. That in parishes where the
subdivision into school districts
during the past year, caused in.
convenience or preindice to the
efficiency Of the school system.
Won retlnce the number of districts
to two, (as yon have the nndouht.
ed legal right to do) and that you
apcorti0n the schools Of more
than ten pul'ils therein In propor.
tion to the number Of children re.
gisteresl in each school, IN aO'ne
equitable ha sis Of compensation to
the respective teachera, "a xng.
gesfed On csges XVI! AVI!l'
A!A: AA OF the Annual Report.
5. That :" yo"r Incorporated
towns, exempt from police jury
taxation, you per"nade when ne
ceas"ry, your town conc''s to RAJ.
~ ana elpropr'ate q somc'emt
sum, with the STATE am. to
ms'nta'" yo"r tow" schoo's for at
'ca"t ees months IN the year; or
else that entertainments OF fairs
ne etven IN yonr towns, {" ra'se
tIn:'a Tor rro'o"g,ng the seasons
of the scnoo.a, ae mas snccsaetnI!y
neen done IN the rar'an OF 81:
:Iamee-rage XIV OF the amman
herort-ana more recent!y IN tne
tow" of In,oot'anx, par,sh Of "a
'"mrctc. ana that -" ca'' o" the
police lur'es 10 levy the two-ml''
special fax authorized ~ law, Z"
the end th"t your rrra! scn"c!s
may oe kept open 10: at least AK
m""tns ""r'"g tne seasons wren
scnoo's "!e most nee"e"' "r vne"
toey can oe at1enGed ~ the 'arg'
~ "4moeI "t p"l"a =.
=. inst wnen yoo nave q soI'
nc'ency OF scno"' Tunds, or when
a'rectora cenoos personally at.
Iena 20 me scooo.s yoo arpos"t
your secretary m ne - = coIle.
e'ate erae!natc.) OF select tne most
comIssect s''sl acs've rt"'eseoe ~
yo3r ne!'so, OF 'ne moes ene.cetlc
maze teacner IN yo0r acnoode ~
nea0 !escoee On" \ acectoe ot ."
me arlnoola IN the Parish, ewd rom'
l'enaatS MN st the rate o. ~oO per
.no"tn, curing those :easo"s when
the rora! eclt.o's are y. ol'erat'o" ;
Ocero6ouM0R en0e 00Nu t00gN,CoO or
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d. +. L. LIGHT.

respectftslly inSarsss The pWblie thst ~ hs,
established himself st the resiilencs ef Mr.
N. p. llaM. BeWuct.C Card. and oAtrs hia
medical seyviees 70 oil vrsa0ns whe Win hsaas
him with theii cou6tlence. lSd77.
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ES i. :.''s's: s:;:i IsS ssr::;.; "a ;:s:s: 81:
DHO By sny wcrf.r ef either
sex. right h their ewa r..
calitiea. Psrtiealam ssa ssmples wssth Is
free. Improve yewr sg'are tins st tkis tsai.
ssss. z Addrs's ss'ss0x L Co.. rsct!s.d.
Maine. 16@ch7A
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-03
THE RUSSIANS AROUND CON-
STANTINOPLE.

The following, from the last letter of
the Constantinople correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press. gives some interest
ing facts:
1.-The Russian position becomes stron-
ger every day in the neighborhood of
Constantinople Since General Todle-
ben's arrival the lines have been advanc-
ed to the south and the Turks crowded
yet further back. The latter are now,
as it were, on the edge of the Bosphorus.
1t will be lucky for them if they are not
soon driven into it. The prodigious
quantity of supplies that are being con-
stantly forwarded from Odessa to San
Stefano and Varna clearly indicate that
the Russians have no intention of return
ing home. Reports from Odessa state
the harbor of that place to be crowded
with transports loading with munitions
of war and army provisions. It is under
stood that the Russian army in European
Turkey is amply supplied with all nec-
essaries for year to come. General
Todleben is making his advanced posi-
tion on the Tchataldja lines impregna-
BILE. Adrianople is raised to frst-class
fortress and is being girdled around
with intrenchments mounted with hund-
reds of Krupp guns. 1t may become
necessary as rallying point. The Mus
sulman insurrection to the west and
north is both troublesome and formida-
BILE. It is, however, little else than a
predatory campaign of desperate men in
quest Of plunder and food. At the pal
ace, ministry succeeds to ministry. The
same imbecility and incapacity prevail
as ever. The Sultan fears everybody and
/ trusts no one, and all believe that cri-
sis affecting both the throne and the
form of the government may happen at
any moment"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-03
A WORKING TEMPERANCE
CHURCH.

That Christian church will be the
most Christlike which does the most to
"seek and to save the lost" Among all
the great moral reforms, none has a
stronger claim on Christian ministers
than the enterprise for saving society
from the crime and curse of drunken
ness. And intemperance never will be
overthrown. until members of Christ's
church feel that they are also members
of Christ's great temperance society. If
the church does not save the world. then
the world will sink the church. The
bottle is the deadliest foe to Christ in
our churches and our communities. A
friend of Christ must be an enemy of
the bottle. More souls are ruined bv
the intoxicating cup than by an any
single vice or error on the globe. Every
professed Christian who gives his exam
pie to the drinking usages is a partner
in the tremendous havoc which these
evil customs produce. lit is good not
to drink wine whereby thy brother stum-
bleth, or is offended, or is made weak
On this immutable rock of self denial
stands the temperance reform. There
the divine founders of Christianity plac-
ed it. With Christianity it is linked
with Christianity it will stand or perish.
IT L. Cuyler.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-03
DOING WITHOUT HIS BEER.

Thousands of workmen toll to keep
some brewer rich or to clothe the wives
of the rumseller in silk, while their own
wives dress in cheap calico To such
we commend this anecdote In England
there was a man named VIM. Bailey,
who had once been farm laborer, and
who now owns an establishment whose
business amounts to thousands and
thousands of dollars. Some years ago
this man happened to cross a wheat
field, and saw some laborers at work
moving. He was dressed in fine suit
of black, but walked over among the
laborers, and asked one of them if he
might be allowed to NOW.
The man said "Yes," and Baily took
scythe and began to work. He had
not been long engaged when one of the
laborers said, in some surprise, noticing
his attire and deeming him wealthy
gentleman, "Why, you have moved be-
fore !"
"Yes, l have" Bailey responded,
''and l used at one time to drink beer
regularly when I did. But while was
moving one day, and drinking beer, the
idea suddenly came to me that l could
NOW just as well. without beer"
"Oh l couldn't work without beer, %
interrupted one of the laborers. 81
never could get on"
"Well," continued Bailey, latter
began to NOW without the beer, | soon
discovered that l could get ON without
moving altogether" :"
1--WE should like that very well" said
the laborers.
"Oh, no." returned Bailey; "you can,
not do without your beer, and you will
go on moving and moving all your lives
without rising to anything better"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-03
A WOMAN,S CONCLUSION.
ny PHEBE CARY.

i said II / might 60 back again
To the very hour and place of birth;
Might have my hfe whatever chose.
And live it in any part of the earth;
Put perfect sunshine into my sky,
Danish the shadow Of sorrow and doubt;
Have all my happiness multiplied.
And all my suffering stricken out;
II l could have known il in years now gone
The best that a woman comes to know;
Could have had whatever will make her blest,
Or whatever she thinks will make her SO;
Have found the highest and purest bliss
That the bride-wreath and ring enclose:
And gain the one out of all the world
That my heart as well as my reason chose;
And IL this had been, and stood tonight
BY mychildren, lying asleep in their beds,
And could count in my prayers, for a rosary,
The shining row of their golden heads;
Yes l said. If miracle such as this
Could be wrought for me, at my bidding. still
would chose to have my past as it is.
And let my future come as it will
Il WOhAu hOe hndhC tHc pdtu nave tLOu
More pleasant or even, more straight or wide
Nor change my course the breadth of hair,
This way or that way, to either side.
Ny past IS mine and take it all;
Its weakness-its folly, il you pease
Nay. even my sins, if you come to that,
May have been my helps, not hindrancel
If save my body from the flames
Because that once l burned my hand;
Or kept myself, from greater sin
By doing less-you will understand;
1t was better suffered little pam,
Better snned for little time,
II the smarting warned me back from death
And the sting of sin withheld from crime.
Who knows its strength. by trial will know
What struggle must be set against sin;
And how temptation is overcome
He learns who has felt its power withini
And who knows how life at the last may show.
Why, look at the moon from where we standi
Opaque, uneven, you say; yet it shines,
luminous sphere complete and grandI
So let my past stand just as it stands,
And let me now as 1 may grow old:
am what am, and my life for me
Is the best-or it had not been hold.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-03

A SOLID ACRE OF SILvER.-One of
the most remarkable mines in California
gulch is in leads three feet in thickness,
the ore from which yield from 240 to
27O ounces of silver to the ton, and like
a coal bank in strati6cation of lime
stone, dipping about 10 degrees. Two
openings have been made at points 600
feet apart, and sufficient ore is In sight
to make millions of the dollars of our
daddies. The diggers have gone far
enough to find out that there is full
acre of the ore in one solid body, and
some conception may be formed of the
amazing richness of this discovery by a
brief calculation of its dimensions. A
cubic foot weighs 10 pounds, and as
the ore lies, IL cubic feet are ton.
There are 43.56O square feet in an acre
of ore, being three feet through. makes
13O,68O cubic feet, which, with 2 cubic
feet to the ton, gives 10000 tons, worth
$3.50 per ton. or the enormous value in
the aggregate of s2,7oo,oOo. The Cres-
cent is another mine worked like coal
bed, the lying horizontally in the large
room that has been opened, the roof be-
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-03

A TERRIBLE RIDE.-A tramp who
was stealing ride in an empty car the
other night. on the Erie road. attempt
ed to jump off at Oxford. A hook on
the side of the car, used for fastening
the door. caught the unlucky fellows
clothing at the waist and suspended him
in mid-air. The train dashed on and
he was carried to Greycourt, three miles
distant, when some one saw him, stopped
the train Immediately, and the man was
taken from his very dangerous position.
There was not scratch on his person,
but the mental suffering he had endured,
expecting momentarily to be dashed to
pieces, completely oyercame him.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-03

A WoMAN's BUSINESS CAPACITY
Governor Randall of Wisconsin, who
died several years ago, left his wife with
from $4,000 to $4,000, and this
mainly in an unproductive homestead in
Western New York. By the advice of
a supposed friend she sold her property
and put the proceeds in a herd of cattle
in southwest Nebraska and subsequently
learning that things were going wrong
she went out to Nebraska, assumed $l3,-
900 of liabilities, brought out and took
the management of the whole concern
into her own hands, succeeded SO we'll
that her herd is now clearing her $4,000
year, and constantly increasing in size.
She is her own superintendent. and per-
sonally looks after everything, both on
the farm and at the cattle ranch. In the
three years she has managed her herd
she has never been molested, insulted or
interfered with in any manner by any,
body. Here is a notable case, not only
of female capacity, but of persistent
pluck, in one who had hitherto held the
highest social position.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-03

SLEEPING ToGETHER.-More quarrels
occur between brothers, between sisters,
between hired girls, between clerks in
stores, between apprentices in mechan-
les shops. between hired men, between
husbands and wives, owing to electrical
changes through which their nervous sys-
TENS go, by lodging together night after
night, under the same bed clothes, than by
almost any other disturbing cause. There
is nothing that will so derange the ner-
vous system of a person who is elimina-
tive in nervous force as to lie all night
in bed with another person who is absor-
bent in nervous force. The absorber
will go to sleep and rest all night, while
the eliminator will be tumbliHg and
tossing. restless and nervous, and wake
up in the morning fretful, peevish, fault
finding and discouraged. No two per-
sons, no matter who they are. should
habitually sleep together. One will
thrive and the other will lose. This is
the law, and, in married life, it is defied
almost universally.-Chscdgo Ledger.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-03

ANNOYING PRopLE.-There are two
classes of them. Some people are very
annoying without seeming to be at all
conscious of the fact others appear to
take delight in tormenting theirneigh-
bors. The former may be cured by a
little good counsel, while the latter are
incorrigible. They may not be capable
of committing great crime. but they
are the source of perpetual irritation.
and like the autumn flies they always
light on the most sensitive parts. There
are ways of keeping off disagreeable
insects would that some specific might
be found to keep off disagreeable people,
or to reform them.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-03
"Hush ! agree. Tell me your terms %

y
gasped Hiram, nervously.
"They are very easy" said the tall
man in black. "Sit down, if you please.
Here is the pen, ink and paper, and the
document"
Hiram seized the paper and conned it
rapidly, growing white and cold as he
read on. At last he flung it from him
and screamed.
"My soul !! Promise to give you my
soul ! In the name Of the iend, who
are you ?''
"Your humble servant! !" said the
black-clad creature, bowling; and Hiram
Gormley saw cloven foot peeping from
the queer boot and distinguished the
perfume of birthstone.
"Let nae go he said. "Let me go I"
"Softly !" said the creature at his ell
bow. SOFTLY why do you care SO much
for what you have already mortgaged :?
You are half mine already, do you know
that %
alt is false r said old Hiram. 81
cheat no man; belong to the church !;
and | subscribed $50 to the missionaries
year ago."
The dark being grinned contemptu-
ously. "Bring me Mr.. Gormley's box, +"
he said.
And he who had conveyed old Hiram
to the spot where he now stood set upon
the table box like that in which law
yers keep the papers of their clients, la
beled, "Hiram Gormley, Esq" From
the depths of this box he drew pile of
parchment, and read from thence: ga
mortgage on the soul of Hiram Gormley,
given on the day when he turned his
daug ghter from the door. Another, when
he seized old Widow Potter's furniture
for rent. Another, when he took ad-
vantage of flaw in the papers to evade
the payment of just debt of his own.
Myriads when he first began business,
told fifty lies day, and gave false
weight and measure, and one tremendous
mortgage for passing through the world
without one loving, tender, sympathiz-
ing feeling for mankind.
"Your sonl-bah What is it worth
now %
"l'll take it all back. I'll have my
daughter and her husband home. Tll
pay"
"Too late p said the dark creature.
"Voo late, Hiram Gormley, too late !'
But Unr vld surorvnIuS 49, L.
hands, screamed aloud in terror, and
fell backwards in unconsciousness.
When Mrs.. Gormley returned from
the dinner party she found her husband
stretched upon the hearth-rug, with a
blue lump upon his forehead as large as
hens egg.
When he related his adventure she
considered it dream, and laid the
blame upon the old port in the decantel
on the sideboard F.; but, dream or reality
it had strange influence upon old Hi
ram, for in week he was reconciled tt
his daughter, had ignored the flaw anc
made the settlement, performed various
unwonted acts of charity, and was, il
fact, an utterly changed and altered
man, while, singular to say, no earthly
power has ever yet been able to induce
Hiram Gormley to speculate in bread
stuffs.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-03

ing held up by heavy timbers with very
stout caps and tugging poles. The ore
breasts from foot to three and four
feet, and occasionally very fine specimens
of horn and silver are found. Rocky
Mountain Tourist.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-03
COUNTRY MINISTER'S.

Many people make the great blunder
of supposlng that our city pulpits mon
opolize the ministerial talent of the
country. 1t is very natural blunder
for people to make and yet it is a mis-
take, nevertheless. Every great city has
its great men in all the professions. But
where it has one great man, it has scores
of small ones. To one who has served
ministerially in country and city church
es, alike, the error of the popular esti-
mate is apparent. We know of dozens
of ministerial brothers, serving in coun-
try churches, many of them in small,
out-of-the- way parishes, who, judged Ell
ther by the standard of scholarship, of
zeal, or of pulpit efficiency, are able to
stand side by side with those who rep
resent the highest average of talent in
our city pulpits. Indeed, we do not hes
ltate to say that, in our opinion, taking
man for man, the preachers in the coun-
try churches. so far as New England
goes, will outrank on the average the
preachers of the cities.
A man must be very strong in his
originality, he must be intensely person
al in his characteristics in order to re-
sist those influences in city life which
are calculated to level him downward in
the scale of personal power. In the
country, a man can grow naturally. He
furnishes the standard of judgment to
his parish, in himself His development
is normal and not artificial. His study
of character can be more thorough and
his knowledge of life, while less varied.
less complex, less full, perhaps, can be
more individualistic than it can be in
the city.
There is also moral educa tion possi-
BILE to the preacher in the country par
ish, that is not possible to one who con-
ducts great, swiftly working metropol-
itan organization. He who can look cut
through his study windows upon wide
landscape, or a stretch of ocean view, Or
who lives within sight of the solemn
hills-who can retire at will from the
noise of human activity into the sweet
and suggestive quietudc of nature-has
possibilities of spiritual culture which
are denied those who live amid the noise,
and rumble. and narrow prospect of our
city streets. Meadows and forests, and
the solemn ocean shore, the quiet of
night, and the peacefulness of undis-
books, nor statues of bronze, nor the
sight of human faces can ever do
Golden Rule.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-03

An old gent from the city went out to
watch practical game of base ball. and
sat down on white clover and bare
legged bumblebee. And they do say
that everybody lost all interest in the
game until the old gentleman got clear
out of sight.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-03

HONEST AND DISHONEST PROFANITY.
Some one in the crowd took occasion
to mildly rebuke old Ben Wade for his
profanity. He turned on his self-con-
stituted moral instructor and asked:
Don't you swear sometimes o.
"No, SIR
Don't you say darn it, or condemn
it, sometimes, in your heat of passion %
"Yes, l may say that sometimes. But
that amt swearing"
"Yes, it is," said Ben. "It is the
meanest kind of swearing. It's mean
Uecause IL 10 0uwaruIy auu uIeuUuUoU. :
have studied this subject a good deal,
and my observation goes to show that a
man who will say darn it when he
means damn it. is not fit to be trusted.
Give me the man whose oaths come we'll
ing up from the bottom of his soul. full,
round and distinct-who sayf what he
thinks and don't try to beat the devil
round the stump-that man is an honest
man every time. But the base towards
who try to deceive their Maker by their
darn it's and their 'durn its'-hell is
full of such fellows %
1t must be borne in mind that he il
lustrated his point as he went along
with full, round and distinct" oaths,
which 'came yelling up from the bot
tom of his soul" ."-Detroit NeaCs.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-03

To MAKE HOUSE PLANTS Chow
Where good earth is used for potting,
plants seldom need any special manure.
The best soil for plants is found in old
meadows, the corners of fences, etc.,
where sod has grown a long time. A
pile of sod laid up to rot makes excel
lent potting earth, and if taken from
what is called chestnut soil, that is
with good deal of sand, nothing can
be better. Many persons think if they
can get little black muck from
swamp they have the perfection of pot
ting soil, while it is the poorest soil
that can be procured. About q table
spoonful of guano in pail of water
makes good fertilizing material. but
must be used cautiously, and is not
often needed. Manure water, just as
good, can be made by putting little
stable manure in pail of water, and
using the liquid. Keep the earth mod
erately moist, about as it is observed in
the garden in what we call growing
time. Water not too frequently, but
thoroughly.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-03
NOTICE.

TnE SUBSCRIBER TAXES THIS METHOD TO
EFoRM ALL THOSE WHO OWE HIM. THAT IN
bNsIDERATIoN or THIS NOTICE he SHALL
sEL AT LIBERTY ON AND AFTER MAY ist.
las. TO PRESS SETTLEMENTS AND coLLRc-
IoNs. AND SHALL DO 80. IYoR NECESSITY
pMPELs.
Z. o. RANDALL.
West Glover. VT. March 25. 1878. l2tf