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Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-09-06

LET us have peace, for a time at least.
Another county election next year vii
como soon enough. Give us short rest.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-09-06

MASTER WILlIESLoAY,o of KicKanak
Is spending fow days in town.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-09-06

JAMES S. LANDS returned from his
visit to the Bny City on Wednesdays
stage.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-09-06

ELECTION is over and candidates and
their wives are glad il.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-09-06

CHEW Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.
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Weaverville, : September 6, 1879.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-09-06
ROLL OF HONOR.

sttsscRfPr1oS RECEIPTS DURING THE PAST WEEK
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LIST OF LETTERS

WEAVERVILLE POST OFFICE,
August goth. 1879.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-11
POSTMASTER-GENERAL KEY
$3.50 IN VERMONT.

Postmaster-General Key and party
reached Burlington week ago last Fri.
day evening. After supper the party
were driven about Burlington, and later
were serenaded. Gen. Key was intro
duced by editor G. G. Benedict of the
Free Press, and in response addressed
the assembled crowd as follows:
My friends On behalf of those with
me, and in my own behalf, | sincerely
thank you. l do not take this compli-
ment to mean so much compliment to
myself personally, as to me as repre-
sentative of one of the great executive
departments of the government L also
take it to mean, to one coming to the
North from the far-off South. that you
wish to extend fraternal friendship to
the people of the South as long as they
respect the mandates of the constitution
and the laws enacted under it. Loud
applause. come as far North as this
but rarely, but this is the second time
that | have had an opportunity to see
something of Vermont. Two years ago
when attending the centennial celebration
of the Battle of Bennington, | visited
some parts of your State; but this is the
first time that have been as far north
and the first time | have ever visited
your beautiful city, which is credit t.
your State. 1t is not nv purpose Il
make a speech. l am making my tou
as a private citizen rather than as /;
public officer. l have been willing t,
crafty what | conceive to be pardona
BILE curiosity on your part to see tn
Postmaster-General of the United States
and now, having done so, and wishin,
you all health, prosperity and happiness
| bid you good night. Applause.
Saturday morning the party left 70
Saratoga, via steamboat through LAX
George.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-11
THE NEW YORK DEMOCRACY.

The New York Democracy arc indulg-
ing in family fight, which, in any
other State, would be the ruination of.
any party. Governor Robinson is the
creature of 'Tilden. Tilden and Tam
many Hall are at war, and consequently
Tammany says Robinson shall not be
re-nominated, and that if he is re-nomi-
mated Tammany will not vote for him,
and he cannot be reelected. This is
the position taken openly by John KEEL
ly, the Tammany boss, and daily and
loudly proclaimed by the Stnr and Ea-
press, the Tammany organs. Tilden has
~~:l ..nthin4. -,..Ll;-I-- ~a-uat anl o.
ernor Robinson says he is in the hands
of his friends, which means that he is
waiting for orders from Sam. But the
Tilden journals are serving notice on
Mr.. Kelly that the party won't be bull
dozed by him, and reminding him that
before and at the st. Louis convention
he kicked in the traces just as savagely
as he is doing now, and was then whip
ped in and made to work for his old
enemy all through the campaign, like a
subdued mule. 1t is very pretty fight
as it stands now and is growing fercel
every day, but what the outcome will b.
cannot safely be predicted until the
State convention meets.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-11

other convention. with angry contempt
for the Greenbackers, and with full
knowledge that unless there was union
-there-eoald be no repetition of lastyear's
success. voted down the proposition to
compromise by a large majority, wasted
no time upon suggestion to indorse the
Greenback nominations, and nominated
a straight ticket. The incident shows
how much jealousy and how little har-
mony exist in the two camps, and there
can be no question but the state of feel
ing will tell in the election. The Maine
Republicans are united and Jealous.
They have opened vigorous campaign.
They will bring out the Is, 600 Republic
can voters who staid away from the polls
at the last election. And good political
judges of the situation assure us that
Maine will be redeemed. -s
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-11
w. I'll. HI. MURRAY'S FAILURE.

The failure of Rev. W. H. H. Murray.
better known as "Adirondack" Murray,
is announced. His financial troubles
are probably due to his venture ID buck
board wagons. Early in the spring he
went to New Haven, Connecticut, and
organized company for making buck
board wagons. He was its heaviest
stakeholder, being down for 100000
of stock, but he paid the treasury only
an iota of that sum. At length, finding
himself pressed for money. he began to
sell the pets of the stock farm that he
tried to make famous, but his finances
were not materially bettered. The sher-
if has attached all the property he can
find, including five valuable horses and
the new yacht recently put upon Lake
Champlain. 1t is said that he lost much
money in connection with the Golden
Rule, his Boston publication. which was
first weekly and then magazine, and
that for some years his stock farm has
been heavy drain upon his purse.
81 .
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-11
RADIx
THE GREENBACK LUNACY.

The New York Tribune published the
other day a summary of the bills intro
duced in the House of Representatives
by the Greenbackers during the last
session of Congress. The list is too long
for our columns. They were for in
creasing the fractional currency, for pay
ment of the public debt in greenbacks
for redeeming the trade dollars in green
backs; for paying municipal indebted
ness, and other schemes of imitation.
Had all of them become laws, the amount
of new greenbacks demanded would have
been So, 465, 100000. Add the exist
ing volume. S734,SOl, 1894, and we
should have a currency of $4.l99.S0l,
994. The largest amount of paper cur
rency ever outstanding in this country
was $985,319,685 in 1865 at the close
of the civil war. Now, in time of
profound peace. and when money is 50
abundant that employment cannot be
found for it, the Greenbackers wanted
to augment the volume to more than
four times that sum. In order to get
this enormous mass of paper notes into
circulation one of Mr.. De La Martyrs
bills provides that it shall be loaned out
to various Improvement companies OF
corporations on bonds running for fifty
years, at first without interest, but after
five years at two per cent These peo-
pie never stop to consider what an If.
redeemable paper dollar would be worth
by the time they had got one.half Of
the contemplated four billions into the
hands of the people. But everybody
who has given any attention to fnan-
cial history and science knows that in
flation of the sort desired by Mr.. De Ii
Matyr and his fellow lunatics means de
probation. Before one billion of thu
new greenback currency could be put il
circulation it would require $40 of it IL
perform the functions which 81 performs
now. There never was so little need o
a Greenback party as now. Currency
is plenty. ample for all needs of bust
ness. A paper dollar is as good as
gold one, and better than silver one
The workingman's dollar will buy NOR
that he needs than before the war
Greenbacks, being as good as gold, ar
received for duties. All that is needles
is to let the currency alone; and tn
financial question will soon settle itself.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-11
MAIN E.

The Boston advertiser, which was
fearful of the result in Maine at the
opening Of the canvass, has been looking
the ground over little more carefully,
and now says: at is evident that there
has been revival Of Republican interest
to an extent that fairly surprises the
managers of the canvass. The meetings,
of which many are held in various parts
Ofthe State. are attended by large crowds,
and the speakers are we'll received.
These are not the only significant facts
in regard to the Republican meetings.
Last year the assemblies were frequent.
ly interrupted by Greenbackers. who had
learned from the club organizers q few
catch phrases, and fancied themselves
masters of the whole system of finance.
This aggressiveness has wholly disap-
peared. not from lack of disposition to
interrupt, but because there is nothing
to say. The Republicans have made
large and valuable gains in the shape Of
re-cOnverted Republicans. They come
openly by scores in some towns, and il
others, while they make no secret o.
their intentions, they do not quite car,
to advertise their return to all the world
Reports of gains like these are, we know
to be received generally with caution
but they are numerous and too wei
specified as to place and number of re
converts to be rejected as imaginary
A most significant indication of tn
discordant relations of the semi. allie,
forces Of Geenbanckism and Democrat,
is shown in the action of the two conven
tons at Bangor on Thursday. Last yea
the Democrats Of Penobscot county de
serted both their State and county ticket
almost in body. so that of the 500,
Democratic votes usually cast in. tn
county GarcelOn received less than Coo
This year the two conventions were calle
to meet at Bangor on the same day, wit
the idea Of united action. The Greer
hackers renominated their old ticket an
gave nothing to the Democrats. Tn
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-11

lily placed in an ice-box. where all pos
sibilities of revival were of course at
once extinguished. Since the recent ev-
idence of Professor Van Der Wayde in
Court. in the Cox Hull murder case, the
uncharitable are beginning to say that
the undertakers are killing more peo-
pie than even the doctors-surely an
unworthy jibe at two deserving classes
of citizens.
The northern portions of Manhattan
Island are being built up with remarka-
BILE rapidity, and business people gener-
ally seem encouraged with the convic-
ton that we have at last seen the worst
of the results of the panic of 1873, and
that we have entered on an era Of re-
newed prosperity. What is held to be
significant feature, one of the straws
which show the way the wind blows, is
the wonderful impetus lately given to
immigration. eliminating in 1872, it
fell off tremendously, but has started up
very briskly now. Mennonites from
Russia, mostly well supplied with mon
ey, and Icelanders, scarcely less thrifty,
have just touched our shores, and been
whirled West by the earliest trains.
while the bone and sinew and brain of
England has for the first time rivalled
the influx of Irish and Germans.
Charges have been preferred against
a Police Commissioner, the last of the
batch recently removed for the embez-
Element of considerable balance re-
| o.;.-.I r-~---s--i - -. sz-zss&-ss-s
uniforms. His friends hold the thing
is all rubbish, mere connection for po-
litical effect. 1t has, however. aroused
| considerable interest, for we are virtuous
nowadays in New York. and i! is sew
eral months at least since we had to
haul over the Goals for dishonesty any
of our public officials.
We are all anxiously looking out for
the great Canada balloon, which with
its novel machinery it is claimed can be
navigated with the precision ofan ocean
steamship. Our own aeronauts at Man.
haitian Beach are attracting good dea'
of attention with their great captive bal
looms, and several scientists of renowr
have been making experiments in con
junction with tbs director of the enter
prise, Professor King.
John Brady, the oldest printer il
America, and a veteran of 1912, VIII
remembers Horace Greeley when. raw
boy, he applied for work at the BUenia.
Post. has just been carried to his lon
home. The old heroes are Diminishing
fast in numbers, and their annual feast
at the Sturtevant House are very pa
thetic festivities.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-11

Congress at its late session appropri-
ated $9,500,O00 for the purpose of "im-
proving" the rivers and harbors of SO
States and 3 Territories of the Republic,
including the District of Columbia. An
examination of the items of this great
sum to be expended shows how it was
possible for so vast job as this to slip
through both houses of Congress without
exciting much debate. The job, for such
it is. enlisted the sympathies and sup
port of nearly every member, without re-
ference to politics or locality. Like the
mileage and back pay grabs" it COM
mended itself to the selfish schemes Of
individual Congressman. Mr.. Hendrick
B. Wright modestly proposed that the
Government lend few millions to the
poor. in small sums. He was laughed
at, as he deserved to be, for his unin.
telligent craftsmanship and demagogism
The men who supported the bill which
authorizes the expenditure of $4,000,
900, chiefly in localities where it il
practically wasted, agreed to divide this
large amount of money among theil
constituents for the sake of making
sure of their own political position a
home. Ia4 -. g Ee
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-11

A snenial dasnateh from San Fro nnio
co, dated 9th inst, says: Rev. w. H.
H. Murray is registered at the Pacific
Hotel in this city. The first intimatiOn
of his alleged financial failure reached
him by telegraph, Tuesday. He utterly
repudiates the insinuation that he has
disappeared" or is in any way seek
ing to evade his liabilities. He came
here on business for the Blackboard
Company, and will return East as soor
as he has concluded it, which he will
probably do by the last of this week.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-11

THE SOLDIERS REUNIoN.-The re-
union of the veterans, at Montpelier,
next week, promises to be large and
pleasant gathering. Adjntant General
Fred E. Smith, announces that the Gen.
trail Vermont, Passumpsic and Wells
River roads will pass those attending to
and from for fare one way. The vete-
rams especially in the northern part of
the State show lively interest in the
affair. The Grand Army posts at Nor
risville, Cambridge and johnson have,
as we hear, voted to attend in a body
the preparations on the grounds al
Montpelier, for feeding and tenting the
men, are in good state Of forwardness
and every one will be made comfortable
Let the soldiers all arrange to attent
this reunion. No one will regret it.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-11

We are now (says the Boston HERALD
at the end of the seventh month since
resumption. During all that time the
greenback has been as good as gold. Yet
the ruin which the soft-money men pre-
dicted as the sure result, and indeed the
inevitable and immediate associate of
gold payments. shows no sign upon the
commercial horizon. What is worse for
the discredited prophets of woe, every
hour sees the wheels of business moving
more rapidly. Trade, which had grown
tender-footed among shifting values, has
taken heart, now that solid currency
gives the assurance of firm ground, and
is making rapid yet secure progress.
Money, far from growing scarcer, was
never in better supply, or more readily
procurable for all promising enterprises
AS proof of the swift recovery which has
followed on the heels of resumption, q
comparison of the quotations in the New
York stock market for twelve of the
great carrier companies Qike the Chicago
& Northwest, Lake Shore, New York
Central, etc., on Dec. 81, 1873, anG
July 81. 1879, shows an advance in the
price of all these stocks, varying all the
way from 20 to rs per cent. '-..sf@.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-11

Mrs. Murray has anticipated her hus-
bands embarrassment. however. and
prepared for the turn in affairs by tax.
ing degree from a Boston medical
college. where she studied three years.
1t is said that she intends to enter upon
the regular practice of medicine this
fall. He has disappeared. and his
friends in Boston have no knowledge Of
his whereabouts.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-11

The Times publishes review Of the
agricultural prospects, in which it is
estimated that the condition of the hay
and other fodder crops throughout Eng
land and Wales is many millions pounds
short of the average value. In the prin-
cipal barley growing district the worth
of the barley is nearer G5 to 96 than
9l0 an acre, which has been the average
value in other years.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-11

Speaking of the new Greenback paper
that was recently started in Burlington.
which is liable to die ere long of cholera
infautum, the 81. Adams MeSsenge,
says: 1--WE are by no means clear that
the greenback party is necessity, but
believe the agitation it causes will
prove healthful in the long run" II
seemed to be a necessity, when it wai
necessary to ring in all the elements tc
holm Rradlau Rarlnuv-
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WASHINGTON LETTER.


lo1HSAAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONiTOh.J
ii WASHINGTON Aug. 5,gl879. y
The democratic papers are now endeav-
oring to conceal some of their iniquity
by ascribing the consequences to other
than their real causes. This is notably
the case in the matter of the exodus of
negroes from Mississippi and other South
ern States. With their usual duplicity
and disregard for the truth of history
they strive to make it appear that it is
caused by the efforts of Northern poll
ticians for political purposes. The alb
surdity Of such a proposition is its own
refutation. Everybody knows that the
negroes. denied the political rights
granted them by the amendments to the
Constitution, are flying from persecution
from the whip, the knife and the shot
gun-from their burning dwellings
from robbery, mayhem and murder.
From crimes of which Lamar, Hampton.
Hill, Butler. Sinoletnn and tho ntba,
Southern leaders are just as much gulity
t as UncIr own nands had held the torch,
the knife and the gun with which they
were perpetrated.
Everybody knows that if the men
above named and men of their class had
set their faces determInedly against the
innumerable cowardly crimes that have
been perpetrated against the ignorant
the weak and the defenceless in the
South, the civilized world would never
have been shocked by the preparation
of such crimes. Everybody knows alst
that in Mississippi and South Carolina
two overwhelmingly Republican States
these crimes were perpetrated for tn,
purpose of putting into the U. S. Senat
Lamar, Hampton and Butler, one o
whom participated personally in tn
massacre at Hamburg. And now repre-
senting minoritics, they hold places tina
should be held by Republicans, repre-
senting majorities.
Senator Blaine writes here that, Will
he does not this year expect an old
fashioned Republican majority in Maine
he is very confident of such substantis
victory as will regain the Legislator,
thus making certain the election of
Republican Governor. Secretary She
man, writing after he left the State, an
IN the full knowledge of what all tt
leading men there believe, says the sam
The Importance of the election can hardl
be over-estimated, as it occurs early
. September and will have influence Q
those coming later. The Republican
never made a better fight than they a
now making.
Capt. Eads. all whose schemes are
bold in conception as they are successf
in results. proposes to build maril
canal across the Isthmus, to transport {
. it vessels and their cargoes from oce;
. to ocean. He says the railway can
constructed in one-fourth the time al
for one fourth the cost of the De Lesser
canal. He will ask for survey
Government engineers. LOGAN.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-11

There has not been such a rush for
the seaside and the mountains since the
panic of 1873. Many family goes this
year for the first time since that memoir
able financial crash. The hotels are
jammed to suffocation, and the outside
boarding houses are getting more than
their accustomed number of visitors. 1t
is not such fashionable resorts as New
port and Saratoga. however, that are
most feeling the increase. Those who
are swelling the tide of pleasure seekers
this year 60 to cheaper places. The
Delaware Water Gap. Fire Island, At
lantic City. Nantucket. Richfeld Springs
and the Thousand Islands are the
crowded spots. Houses that give plain
fare for two dollars per day are more
sought than those setting elaborate tables
and charging four and five dollars there
for. The country is not yet far enough
out of the financial woods to warrant
the extravagance and fast living of war
and ante-war times. Yet more money
has been spent for summer pleasure this
season than in eight years past.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-11

Great excitement has been caused in
Montreal by the failure of the CONSOLE
dated Bank of that city. The officers of
the institution are charged with being
directly responsible for the trouble. The
effects of the failure are disastrous and
widespread. Among the unfortunate
shareholders are 376 women, who are
either widows or unmarried fl clergy.
men hold shares to the extent of $685..
700, and several charitable organiza
tions, churches and executors of estates
hold large amounts.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-11
THE REBELLION.

In recent conversation Gen. Long
street is reported to have said that the
Southern armies were never so we'll Or
ganized and disciplined as those of the
North that there was probably as much
courage In one army as in the other /;
that individual bravery amounts to
little 10 battle, as men must be fought
in solid blocks, as parts of machine =
that "at no time during the war did he
think the rebellion would succeed :" that
the sentiment in favor of the Union and
its flag was "quite as strong and perhaps
stronger than the feeling aroused in de.
Tending states and homes ;" that Grant
was the greatest federal general and
Johnston the greatest confederate leader
that Lee lost his head at Gettysburg OIL
he never would have fought the battle
and that Lee asked him, after the war
"Longstreet. why didn't you stop tina
thing that day ?"-that the surrender a
Appomattox came none too soon, an(
| that the last time he saw Lee al sai(
that before | drew my sword again
would be sure that it was necessary.
did not believe, and | do not now be
lieve, that the war was justified on eithe
side. 1t is terrible thing and shout,
BIO resnrted to only in absolute self de
fense-just as killing in private life
Besides, had fought all the time know
ing that our plans we're wrong an
] believing that we could not succeed.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-11

Gen. Grants reception at Toxic was
unprecedented in japanese history. In
addition to the government demonstra-
ton, the citizens gave him entertain
ments on ssmptuous scale every day
and night. Ia aia G. 9so4 sd filaas
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-11
STATEMENT OF
Mr.. E. E. FOSTEF
OF BARTON, VT.

To THE PUBLIC
During DR.. smyths visit to Newport year ago
called upon him at the Bellevue House with my fal
lily physician to consult him about my deafness al
noises in my head. The attack OF deafness accoI
panied by terrible noises in my head came upon
suddenly and nothing that my family physician eor
do would give me any relief. Though DR.. Smyth ed
me but little encouragement when I first consult
him, employed him to treat my case, and from I
first operation began to improve. The noises in I
head gradually disappeared and my hearing is almi
as good as ever it was. Hoping DR.. Smyth may m{
with the same success in others. cheerfully reco
mend the afflicted to his professional care.
E.E. FOSTER.
Barton. Vt. July %. 1879.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-11

The latest reports from Memphis are
very unfavorable. The fever is spread
ing over larger area, and the number
of cases is on the increase.