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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-08
One Experience from Many.

II had been sick and miserable so long and had
causud my husband so much trouble and expense. no
seemed to know what allied me, that was COM
pletely dsheartened and discouraged In this frame
of mind got bottle of Hop Btters and used them
unknown TO my family. i soon began improve and
gained SO fast that my husband and family thought it
strange and unnatural. but when l told them what
had helped me, they said "Hurrah for Hop Bitters
long may they prosper. for they have made mother
well and US happy."-The Mother.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-08
Asa MagoOn was hanged on the 28th


Asa MagoOn was hanged on the 2sth
nit. at Windsor, for the murder of Will
liam streeter, his son-in-law. Magoon
declared his innocence to the last, and
declared that, in his opinion, Streeter
was murdered by Mrs. Perrin. The
evidence in the case was principally cir
cumstantial, but was so clear that the
jury brought in verdict of guilty, at
ter being out only three hours. MagOOn
was a bad man, and was In a. drunken
condition when the murder was commit
ted. He died without struggle. and
his remains we're carried to his home.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-08
CYRUS EAToN'S ESTATE.
STATE OF VERMONT, or,..,. n;...,.+ :.

In Probate Court held as Irasburgh in said District
on the 26th day of November. A. D. 1879.
G. w. Eaton, Executor of the last will and
testament OF Cyrus Eaton. late of Barton, in
said District deceased presents his administration
count for examination and allowance, and makes APP
plication for decree of distribution and partition of
the estate of said deceased
Whereupon, 1T is ordered by said Court, that said
account and said application be referred to session
thereof to be held at L. H. Thompson's office in said
iras6urgh on the goth day of December A. D. 1879 for
hearing and decision thereon.
And 1t is further ordered that notice hereof be given
to all interested by publication of copy Of said
order three weeks successfully in the Orleans Co. Mon
tor newspaper published Barton in said District
previous to said time appointed for hearing that they
may appear at said time and place and show cause If
any they may have, Why said account should not be
allowed, and such decree made.
By the Court,-Attest,
L. H. THOMPSON Judge.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-08
Libel for Divorce.
STATE OF vERMoNT'} or,..n. co,,+r :.
orilla Carr VS.. Alexander W. Carr.


WHEREAS. Orilla Carr of Bloomington in the County
of Orleans and State aforesaid has filed the Clerk
Office her Libel for Divorce setting forth in substance
that she was lawfully married to Alexander w. Carr,
then of Underhill in the County of Chittenden and
State of Vermont the 18th day of October, A. d.
1867 and that she has in all things kept her marriage
VOWS and that the said Alexander w. Carr disregard
ing his SAID marriage the 25th day of July.
A D. 1876, wully deserted the said libeant, and has
ever since refused to live and cohabt with the petition
er; and therein praying that the bonds of matrimony
might be dissolved and divorce granted her; and it
being made to appear that the said Alexander w Carr
resides without this State that citation cannot be
served upon him:
1t is ordered that the substance of said libel and this
order be published three weeks successfully in the
Orleans County Monitor weekly newspaper printed
at Barton IN said County of Orleans three weeks
cessyey the last publication TO be at least weeks
prior to the February Term of Orleans County Court
next to be held at Irasburgh. aforesaid the LIST
Tuesday of February A. D. 1880, when the said Alex
ander W. Carr is notified to appear and make answer
to said petition.
Given under my hand this 2Sth day of November
A. d. 1879.
H. B. CUSHMAN, Deputy Clerk.
0. II. AUSTIN, Solicitor. o5l
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-08

1t is evident that the work of the
present session of Congress will be pur-
sued with constant reference to the effect
which it is likely to have on party pros
poets in the Presidential campaign.
Western Republicans in Washington al
ready find matter for regret in the atti-
tude assumed by the President with
regard to the retirement of the green
backs and the suspension of the coinage
of silver dollars, and there are indica-
tons that the let-alone policy finds favor
with the majority of the party Repre-
sentatives in Congress. So far as affirm
alive legislation is concerned, the session
is, therefore, likely to be barren one.
Anything achieved in the direction Of
revenue, financial, or civil-service reform
is likely to be due to the combined action
of men of both parties who recognize
some higher ideal of legislative action
than that of waiting to take advantage
of the other side.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-08

Since the first of January, the i'm
ports of gold above the exports have
reached $68,0O0.0O0.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-08
ROCK OF THE CONSTITUTION,

and IS as sound and imperisha6le as the
foundation on Uhich 1T rests. But IN
all ats discussions 1t recognizes perfect
freedom Of opinion, and treats ats oppo
ments aCith a catholic spirit scorthy a
candid and imquiring age, and IN a
manner to hdrnaonise courtesy sotM hon.
eets.-> and and tfdnLitu In ats distinctiire
characteristics 1T neuer stood higher acith
ats political friends throughout the
Union, or a0ih the public at large.
Daily $40 per annum in advance.
Will be sent on trial 3 months for 81. so,
fro of
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-08
PROTECTION OF CIVIL RIGHTS.

The elections of the past year, though
occupied only with state Offices have
not failed to elicit in the political dis
cussions which attended them all over
the country, new and decisive evidence
of the deep interest which the great body
of citizens take in the progress of the
country toward more general and COM
plete establishment, at whatever cost, of
universal security and freedom in the
exercise of the elective franchise. While
many topics of political concern demand
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-08

My recommendations in former mes
sages are renewed in favor of charging
the facilities of the department of agrl-
culture. Agriculture is the leading in
terest and the permanent industry of
our people. 1t is to the abundance of
agricultural production. as compared
with our home consumption. and the
largely increased and highly profitable
market abroad which we have enjoyed
in recent years, that we are mainly in
debted for our present prosperity as a
people. We must look for its continu
ued maintenance to the same substan-
tial resource. There is no branch of in
dustry in which labor, directed by sci
entifc knowledge, yields such increased
production in comparison with unskilled
labor. and no branch of the public SER
vice to which the encouragement of lib
eral appropriations can be more appro-
prlately extended. The omission to rem
der such aid is not wise economy but
on the contrary, undoubtedly results in
losses of immense sums annually that
might be saved through well-directed eff
forts by the government 20 promote this
vital interest. The results already ac-
~
heretofore placed at the command of the
department of agriculture is an earnest of
what may be expected with increased
appropriations for the several purposes in
dictated in the report of the commissioner,
with view to placing the department
upon a footing which will enable it to
| prosecute more effectively the obJects for
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-08
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

RUTHERFORD b. HAY
lHtoss1otu's, DrUcHt0eT /,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27

blessings of Christianity, which
might be counted by thousands of
tons per annum allowed to run to
waste, when by a judicious admix-
ture of lime and clay, the benighted
Jews who sat in darkness might cas-
lily be converted into line and cement
for building purposes, and If thus
deoderized, after being first dried
and burned in kiln, this ancient
race would once more take its proud
position among the nations of the
world. Subscriptions were earnestly
solicited for the purpose, though he
(the speaker) disclaimcd any idea Of
making n profit out Of the process
and, in conclusion, he urged increased
efforts in the work, showing that,
thus deodorized by very novel pro-
cess of evangeization in large tanks
constructed for the purpose, the CRATE
full Hebrews might flow over, the
land without injury to vegetation,
while the expense Of conversion,
which was progressing as rapidly as
the best friends of Christianity could
wish, would be more than repaid by
the sale of the phosphate Of lime and
valuable cement for building pur-
poses.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
Benefits Of Advertising.

Bread is the staff of life, 80 is adj
vertising the staff of business.
Blessed are they who do not adver-
tise for they shall rarely be troubled
with a customer.
You can't eat enough in week to
last you year, and you can't adver-
tisc on that plan either.
Business can go without advertis-
ing, so can wagon GO without
greasing, but in both cases it is hard
work.
No bells ring so loud as good
advertisement. People are more apt
to heed what they read than what
they hear.
Those who take the lead in push
ing their business through the news
papers generally take the lead in
everything else.
If you don't mean to attend to your
business, and prefer a slender income
while your neighbors grow rich, it
went pay to advertise.
Judicious advertising is sure to
bring large returns, to increase your
business reputation, to add to your
acquaintance.
If you haven't business advertise.
If you have business, advertise. 1t
is poor rule that won't work both
ways A place well advertised is
known to many, while place not
advertised is known only to few
passers by.
Quitting advertising in dull times
is like pulling down the dam when
the water is low. When trade
reyives, it will rush by him who does
not stay it with ready customers.
The way to have such always on hand
is to ADVERTISE
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
Wanted, More Sheep.

The United States need more sheep.
In all parts Of the country, to secure
health and comfort, its people must
have food and clothing. The sheep
furnishes the best and most whole
some animal food, and the most com
Portable clothing yet tested by the
masses Of our people. In malarial
districts-especially where extremes
of heat and cold are frequent
wooden clothing and freer and a
more common diet of good young
mutton would insure better health
and better vigor than generally char
acterizes pork eaters and wearers OF
cotton and fine linen. From the best
data within our reach we ascertain
that there are on the entire globe
about 300,0D0,000 sheep. OF these
the United States has but 35, 900, 000
Our manufactures consume annually
more than 226,000,000 pounds of
wool. If each Of our sheep furnish
five pounds of wool, there would be
yearly deficit of 10000, 900 pounds.
Here Is q good field for enterprising
stockmen. We need double our
present number ofsheep. Let no one
indulge single fear of overproduc-
ton either Of mutton or wool. Could
our flocks be trippled or quadrnpled
they would add not only to the COM
fort and healthfnlness of the people,
but to their intelligence and sobriety
as well as to their productiyeness
Of every field used rs sheep pas
ture.
There is no State in the Union that
furnishes greater natural facilities
for sheep culture than West Virgin
ia the abundance Of pure water and
excellent grazing qualities of her
land cannot be surpassed. And
while her lands are billy to some ex-
tent, they are fertile and accessible
to good farming, yielding per acre
equal to the best bottom lands, and
are especially adapted to grazing
purposes. We simply ask those per
sons who desire to engage in stock
raising to examine West Virginia's
adyantages.-Ihe Vest Virginia
Real Estate Journal.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
A Piece of Pie.

A delicious piece Of pic was
nearly served up to the readers of a
Liverpool paper the other day. The
previous evening it's reporter had to
attend meeting at the Wesleyan
Chapel for the conversion of Jews to
Christianity, after which he reported
an address by Gen. II. Y. d. Scott to
the Polytechnic Society on the con-
version of sewerage into lime and &C.
ment. In the printers hands the
sheets got mixed, and the report
appeared as follows:
"The chairman, after the meeting
had been opened with prayer, explain
ed that the conversion of the Jews
was one Of the greatest works that
could engage the attention ofour san
itary authorities. Filtration was the
most perfect method that could be
adopted for publication, but a filter
had it's limits. There was q popular
notion that the sewerage contained a
vast amount of wealth, but the sludge
must be taken out Of it for purposes
of irrigation, as it otherwise choked
the pores of the land, and they were
a wandering race spread over the
whole face of the habitsble globe
They were denied the inimitable
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
MoRGANTowN, w. VA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER q, 1873.

neva, One more dam will slack the
water to within two miles of the
mouth of Cheat. This dam that
company is prepared to build as soon
as Congress appropriates as much as
will build the dam at the last men
toned point. That done, the Monon-
gahela will be navigable to Morgan.
town; for dam and lock fourteen
miles below that city gives naviga-
ton up there already. The dam be-
low Cheat will back the water several
miles up that stream, and thus open
up both rivers TO the inexhaustable
stores of mineral wealth there depos-
tied and at present practically mae
cessible. There would be six locks
in the ninety miles between Pitts
burgh and the Cheat. The toll for
that distance would be as follows:
On pig iron, fifty four cents per ton !;
on iron ore, twenty cents per ton !;
on limestone, eighteen cents per ton.
A tug will bring down to this city
two thousand tons at cost of $15
per day running expenses. Were
that comparatively small work ac-
complished, iron ore of excellent
quality can be laid upon our wharves
at cost greatly below what is now
paid, not to speak of the many other
things which can be procured up
there.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
An Incident in the Life of Presi-
dent Buchanan.

Few persons who saw the bachelor
President, james Buchanan, in the
White House, and found it hard to
repress q smile at his prim manner,
jerking motions, and head set little
awry, knew that terrible tragedy
had darkened his youth, and forced
him into life of hopeless solitude
and unavailing regrets.
The story has it's moral, and MS all
the actors in the miserable drama are
now dead, it recital may serve use
full purpose.
James Buchanan in his early man
hood was deeply attached TO a young
lady Of Lancaster, Pa, sensitive,
imaginative girl, who loved him sim
cerely in return.
She was, however, of an exceeding
jealous disposition, and the young
people of the village, discovering this,
took mischevous delight in tor
menting her. Some Of the young
girls, too, probably envious of the
good looking young lawyers attcn-
lions, showed every inclination to
draw him away from her into a fir
tation with themselves.
If, on his visit to Lancaster, he was
induced to show them any attention,
they were eagerly misrepresented to
her with such coloring as to make her
seriously doubt his attention to her
self
At last the mischievous girls, dis
covering that he was to arrive in
town on certain evening, laid their
plans TO carry their torment OF the
Jealous woman to it's farthest limit.
He passed the house Of one Of their
number on his way from the hotel to
her dwelling. 1t was summer
evening; the windows were open, and
they beckoned him to come in.
He stopped for a moment. The
parlor soon filed with his friends.
There were music, good humor and
gayety. His betrothed, they told
him, would arrive presently. The
moments grew into hours. She did
not come. He was annoyed and per-
picked, but believed a word Of expla-
nation in the morning would set all
right.
In the meantime, the young woman
sat waiting alone for him until mid
night, when she was told that he had
spent the evening with her rival
you should never see him again"
said her angry informant.
81 never will" she said, quietly
taking off the ornaments she had put
on with 80 much care. The mad
dened girl went to her room, swal-
lowed narcotic, and when her low
err came to the house next day he
found only her corpse
1t is probable that these thought
less girls intended only a little fun
and Irritation, but by their fun they
accomplished the ruin of two lives.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27

The dreadful outrage perpetrated
upon w. f. Taylor, of Greenbrier
county, as reported by the New York
Tribune and some of the smaller fry
feeders of the outrage mill, turns out
to be all yapor, so far as the outrage
is concerned. The Governor en-
ployed shrewd eastern detective to
at once take the matter in hand. He
arrived in Greenbrier and begun
work at once under the guise of an
insurance adjuster." The case was
investigated to the bottom and the
facts as reported to the Governor,
with the necessary proof attached, are
briefly these: That VIM. F. Taylor's
wife, in the absence of her husband,
either set fire to the barn or was the
instigator of it. That before the fire
she had several loads of personal
property removed from the premises,
and that she was seen near by a few
minutes before the fire, land her tracks
to and from the barn were identified.
Her motive of doing, or having had
done. the act, is attributed to her
dissatisfaction of her mode of life.
Being city lady (she was a Phila-
delphian) before her marriage, it
was generally believed country life
was unpleasant to her and this plan
was determined upon to induce her
husband to remove to more con-
genial cline. The citizens round
about speak in high praise of Mr..
Taylor as good worthy citizen, and
honestly regret his misfortune All
the testimony goes to show no one
held any animosity towards him, but
on the contrary, thought well of him.
You see here is plenty of food for
rejection, and thereby hangs tale
which Gov. Matthews can unfold to
all people wanting true and further
light upon this great SANDER upon
the Commonwealth.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27

THE Republican party is industri-
ously engaged in earning for itself an
unenviable reputation for rascality.
The Presidential swindle is fresh in
the minds of the people, while lesser
villainies are from time to time com
ing to the surface. The latest scheme
is to steal the electoral vote of New
York. The constitution provides
that each State shall choose its cleo
tors in such manner as the Legis,a-
lures thereof may direct, and in
former times it was customary for the
Legislature to appoint the electors.
1t seems that it is in the power of
the New York Legislature to change
the present method of choosing Pres
idential electors, and as it is over
whelmingly Republican, they would
give the thirty votes of the Empire
State to the Republican candidate,
regardless of the voice of the people
at the polls.-Er.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
VOL. VIII.
CHRISTMAS BELLS.
HENRY W. roNeFELLow.

heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
OF peace on earth, good will to menl
And thong hit how, as the day had come,
The belfries Of all Christendom
Had rolled along
The unbroken song
OF peace on earth good will to men!
Till, ringing, singing on its way,
The world revoled from night to day,
A voice, a chime,
A chant sublime
OF peace on earth, good will TO men
Then from eachsblack, accursed mouth,
The cannon Numbered in the South,
And with the, sound
The carols drowned
OF peace on earth, good will to menl
1t was as if an earthquake rent
The hearth-Stones of a continent,
And made forlorn
The households born
OF peace on earth, good will to men
And in dispair bowed my head;
"There is no peace on earth, | said
"For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
OF peace on earth, good will TO men =
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep !;
"God is not dead nor doth He sleep
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth good will TO men =
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27

ALL the bankers, brokers and.stock
SPECTATORS Of New York have signe d
petition to Congress earnestly pray
ing the speedy passage of g resolu-
ton repeating the legal tender power
of the Greenback. This is the
strongest argument in faver of Con-
gress making haste slowly in this
matter. That which benefits stock
gamblers does not always benefit the
people.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27

We learn that the name of p. w.
Morris, of the Richie Gazette, has
been presented to Mr.. Hayes for SUI
perFisor of the census for the frs t
district of West Virginia. OF course
the place will be filled by Repub-
liean. We know of no man in the
district who has better qualifications
or would render better satisfaction
than Mr.. Morris. There is no doubt
in the world that Morris voted
straight for Hayes and the old Fraud
ought in all justice to reciprocate-
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27

CONGRESSMAN WEAVER, of Iowa,
wants the government to find out the
time and amount of each payment
made to each soldier during the war,
and he wants them paid the differ
ence between gold and the depreci-
ated currency in which they were
paid, with interest added, to the pres
ent time. For this purpose he wants
$500,000,000 appropriated. Veri-
", there are fools and fools.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27

The present railroad fever is a
good token for West Virginia. They
are talking about building half a
dozen railroads in the State. One
from Hinton southwark, one from
Charleston northward, one from
Wheeling to Parkersburg, thence to
Charleston, and one from Uniontown,
Pa. to Mor9antown, thence to Graf
ton or Fairmont. Our excellent
Governor is to unfold our resources
before the Pittsburgh Chamber of
Commerce in the interests of the Pitts
burgh Southern. We must have
more material educators in this State.
We need above all railroad run
ming nerth and south. to connect the
people of the Kanawha and Green
brier valleys with those Of the upper
districts. We can have such a road
if we try. Besides, the people should
be encouraged to build number of
such roads as the one from Clarks-
burg to Weston. What would the peo-
pie of Weston take for their road now
1t would require almost fabulous
sum to induce them to do without it.
The value of good railroad system
in West Virginia would be simply
incalculable. Many railroads have
been built. None have been aban-
doned or destroyed.-Jousnak
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
s.Dad. i'll were to see a duck on

dad, if I we're to see a duck on
the wing and were to shoot it would
you lick me2" "Oh, no, my son, it.
would show that you were q good
marksman, and / would be proud Of
YOU" swell, then, dad, peppered
our old Muscovy duck as he was fiy
in over the fence to-day. and it would
have done your heart good to see him
DROP"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27

A minister once told Wendell Phil
lips that if his business in life was
to save the negroes, he ought to go
South, where they were, and do it.
That is worth thinking Of replied
Philips: and what is your business
in life? To save men from going to
HE'LL replied the minister. Then go
there and attend TO your businesse
said Mr.. Phillips.