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The business Mems Association.

For some months past 1t has been generally
felt that the tide in commercial affairs had turned
and that the flow Of good times was coming in;
and now since the new year began and specie re-
sumption Is Il fixed fact, it is confidently predict
cd BY merchants and manufacturers that 1879
will be Il golden year and the first Of series of
prosperous years. For America especially the
outlook Is most favorable. Her manufacturers
are feeling more hopeful; and even with the evils
Of protective tariff and vianous navigation
laws, her foreign trade Is constantly increasing;
she sells calicos and iron in the markets of Eng
land; is contending with England for the Chi
nese trade, carrying goods by steamer eia the
Suez canal; Is about to claim rs her own las she
ought To have done years ago. the trade Of the
West Indies and Brazil; aud is even disposed to
face and if possible conquer the almost insur-
mountablc difficulties and build up 4 commerce
with and civilizc Mexico.
In the general rush to gather in the promised
harvest, what is Ottawa doing to reap her share :?
With all her advantages, 1t cannot be SAID she is
doing much of anything at present. But it is
evident that only in an enlargement of her manu-
factories is she TO look for an increase vi popula
ton and of wealth.
improved: she offers cheap building sites for fac
tories OF any or all kinds; she offers the best
sand in America for glass making; The best clay
in the west for brick and tile making; vast quar-
ries OF rev and beautiful marble have been open
ed Just outside Of her city limits; has cheap fuel
the best OF shipping routes east or west; low
taxes, having not cent of debt; good common
and high schools healthy location, all the com
forts and most of the luXuries Of lite.
There never was man, perhaps, VIII visited
could see no reason why Ottawa should not be a
big town; that with her already extensive manu-
factories as a nucleus, she ought TO spread out
and become one Of the leading manufacturing
centres of the west And 80 she ought.
With these ideas in mind, q number of the mer-
chants and business men OF the city have decided
to rcsurrect the old Business Mems Association,
organized during 1873. The time then was un.
propitious. The panic came just as it had begun
work and the consequent depression of all kinds
of business SO discouraged all that meetings were
discontinued. Now, however, it is generally
felt, the time has come to recommence work. and
for that purpose o meeting OF all the old members
and all others who have the interests and future
prosperity of the city at cart, is called for
MONDAY EVENING, JAN. 2nrH,
at the Court House, when it is hoped re-or-
yanization will be effected and the machinery of
the Association set running again. Let all AT
tend.
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Notice.

The Board Of Supervisors Of La Sale County,
III will convene at the Court E1ousc in Ottawa
on the second Monday (bcing the 18Th day. of
January, 1879 J. W. SIocKsLEdER,
COyutU Clerk
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D. HEENAN & co.,
is & II La Sale ST.

rs We are also in r Dry Goods trade. ana just no"
are oerin, great bargains in all lines of winter goods 10
reduce stock before invoicing We have Just received
splendid lot of Bleaehct and Unbcachcd Muslns SHIRT
ings Ginghams Pruts, a., which will be sold OF bottom
figures To arrive in fey days3.OO yards OF handsome
shifting Prints at S. and 800 yds Coored Standard Prints
AT Sc per yard. d. HEENaN " w.
January tth, 1879. -jmUs
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We understand that tue original Swedish Lad ],
Quartette, the same ones that were here ahuU
ten months ago, will be here again ON frd,
evening of next w,ck, and give one of their &C.,
brated concerts in ~, q era House.
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I'll AFRICA

AT the residence of W " Reynolds Esq in Lnstant. by
Rev II. H. williams, Mr. GEORGE DIXON 10 Miss MARCY
q, NiITE all of Hope township.
On the 25th OF December 1873 at the residence of the
brides parents. south ottawa Miss HANNAH SIMON
and THOMAS PEATTlA Joined in the golden bonds
Of matrimony by }. ii. Dickcn P May peace and pros
perity 20 with them
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..ad a musical convention last week,
.'.' a concert. which is said Ia have heen
r. allowing were elected officers oil
.fi..n: y. u. Gurnra, pres; George
III r. LsugLliu, treas.
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We want every man. woman and child in la Sale county
so Gu. this out paste in her hats and when IN want OF
good groceries, cheap, call IN
Yours respectfully.
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Preserve your hahy'e health by promptly ad-
ministering Dr. Bulls Baby Syrup for the dis
eases OF early childhood. Price IS cents bottle.
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WE
Are aIlead. Keep your eye
OH these prices aud COM
pare with all others:

! wish to say to my old friends
and customers that | am prepared
to sell all goods in my line cheap
err than all others. TO ascertain
the truth compare prices. Re-
member the place when You want
to buy groceries cheap for cash.
R, o. BLACK,
Fir. door EAST Of N.n!e Smee;ons Hardware Store
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taew ADVERTISEMENTS.
Read!
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We wish TO inform our
friends and lhe public gen.
orally that we are in the
Grocery trade, and will not
be undersOM by any live
man or set If men through
out the length and breadth
of this broad land, and will
continue to sell Groceries
until further notice as fol-
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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-04
THE YELLOW FEVER.

The reports from Memphis are more
favorable than hitherto. Although a
number of deaths and of new cases of
fever have been daily reported, the cpl
demic Is said to be of mild character,
and the authorities find no cause for
additional alarm. On Monday the
Towards had five visitors in the field
taking the sick census. Three of them
had reports aggregating SO cases of yell
low fever, existing mostly In the north
ern infected district of the city. Ono of
these operating in the Fort Pickering
district, where the plague ragged with
fearful results last year, found only six
persons sick In all that district. The
city still contains l6. Ito persons: whites,
4.283; colored, IL. 1927; adults, TO-.
Col; children, $3.50; had yellow fever,
8,743 not had fever, 1857. The the.
ory sometimes propounded that those
once attacked cannot be attacked again
has been disproved. Out of family Of
seven who were sufferers last year, three
escaped, but two of these three were
stricken again this year, and one is re-
ported dead and the other dying.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-04

landowners. The colored people are
chafed and chagrined under this condi-
ton of things. They feel that their man.
hood is being crushed out, their liberties
anpihilated and their rights trampled
upon, and look upon the boasted name Of
freedom as mere name and sham. They
have endured this condition ofthings for
fourteen long years, and have now reach
ed the conclusion that it is about time
for them to make change. They are
prompted to prompt action in this re-
gard by the domlneering political atti-
tude assumed by the Southern democrats
in the several States. They see no hope
for their material, intellectual and po-
litical advancement in the South"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-04
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS or THE MoNIToR.l

ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR.
WASHINGTON, July 20, 1879.
/ The series of speeches made by Secre-
tary Sherman in Maine have struck a
chord which public man seldom sue
ceeds in making He has combined in
them the dry and unattractive array
of figures which are usually so repulsive
as to keep audiences very small, with
the eloquent and attractive periods of a
finished orator. He has varied the hard
facts Of successful financial policy. by
enthusiastic illusions to the more i'm
,ortant issue, that Of maintaining the
national government in all its integrity
against the Confederate usurpers. 1t
is unfortunate, as Secretary Sherman
showed, that In matter not necessarily
partisan in any respect, the truth Of
history requires the arraignment of the
Democrats as the insidious opponents Of
the remedial measures made necessary
by the distress and embarrassment of the
country. Not satisfied with withhold.
ling support from the measure leading to
resumption. they resisted it at every
stage, and almost at the last moment at
tempted abrogation. In spite of theil
1proffered desire for resumption, the Sec
rotary shows that every one of them il
Congress in 1875 voted against the Re
sumption act. From that time their eff
forts were directed to the prevention o
resumption. They derided it as unat
tainable. They denounced it as til,
cause of misfortunes with which it hat
no conceivable connection. At st. Louis
while pretending to be for resumption
they demanded the repeal of the &C
under which it was afterwards accom-
plished. All their predictions then ant
afterward, pointed to the failure of th
policy which under Mr.. Sherman's ad
ministration became brilliant success
From January 1875, when the act wa
passed. to January, 1879, when its Oh
ject was accomplished, the issue was on
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-04
SOLDIERS REUNION.

The next reunion of the veteran SOL
diers of Vermont will be held on the
Prospect Park Grounds, at Montpelier,
on the Goth, 2lst and 22d days of Au-
gust. 1879, and the camp will be desig-
mated as Camp Red6eld Proctor. The
officers, as chosen in Bennington in 1877,
are as follows: Gen. William Wells,
commander; Col. ?. P. Pitkin, vice com.
mander; Col. Roswell Farnham, vice
commander. Executive committee-Col.
2. ?. Pitkin, Montpelier; Capt. John W.
Clark, Montpelier; Adj. J. Monroe
Poland, Montpelier. '' 'a''
Gen. W. W. Grout of Barton, is dis.
trict commander for Orleans county
and Maj. Bowman of St. Johnsbury
for Caledonia county, and they ar,
expected to appoint recruiting officers il
the several towns of their district. 1t i
requested that all veterans having badge,
to distinguish their war organization
should wear them. On arriving a
Montpelier, the veterans will be assigned
to their respective original regiments il
the field. and in this way every veteran
will meet all of his old comrades VIII
are present
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-04

The new postal law in regard to the
prepayment of postage on letters, is now
In operation. Heretofore all letters in
sufficiently stamped have been forward
ed to their destination and the amount
due collected Of the persons to whom
they were addressed. The amended law
requires pOstmasters to place upon lot
tiers not fully prepaid the additional
stamps, and to send the Office at which
VIC IvVV1r 10 70 De delivered bill for
the amount of stamps advanced. The
postmaster receiving said bill collects
the amount due from the receiver of the
2 letter and returns it to the postofice
from which the letter was addressed.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-04
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Special Correspondence.
New YORK, july 2Sth. 1879

New YORK, July 2Sth, 1879.
The administration of justice herea-
bouts, especially criminal justice, is
characterized by inscrutable popularity.
1t may be remembered, that l spoke in
my last about the amount of work done
by judges and the absurdly dlspropor-
tionate pay some of them take for doing
it. A still more interesting paragraph
might be written about the character as
we'll as the quantity of the justice meted
out to US, although considerably more
than paragraph would be required to
do the subject justice. A question would
be apt to arise as to how much verdicts
and decisions depend for their quality
upon the digestion or moods of those
rendering them; and how it is that in a
city where hundreds of cases of fragrant
crime are passed by almost unnoticed,
humble and trivial wrongdoing is some
times visited with heavy doses of the ma
jesty of the law. Defalcating officials,
aristocratic brawlers and murderous
politicians have the best possible chan.
ces of getting off cheaply, if not scot
free, from their "little scrapes - but
one day this week little boy took a bit
of broken ice from a passing ice cart
as thousands of youngsters have done
before him-whereupon he was promptly
hauled into court and sternly sent to
Jail. Members of the "fnest police in
the world" levy good deal heavier
contributions than this every, day of
their lives, but nobody says word.
More than this, hardly week passes in
which one or more cases of brutal club.
bling by the police is not reported, to
say nothing of the more numerous in.
stances which never get before the pub.
| lie. But what does local '.justice" dc
about it ? Practically nothing. Once il
a while policeman IS reprimanded, OF
perhaps fined two or three days pay
but more often the matter is treated as
| joke and the officer complained of goes
on with his clubbing with renewed ener
gy. If the present police methods ar,
persisted in, it won't be long befor.
every citizen will have to carry his owl
revolver and club so as to have at leas
an equal chance with his blue-coated
adversary.
Mr.. Austin Corbin, President of tn,
Manhattan Beach Company, Coney Isl
and, is in serious trouble. He ha
brought storm of indignation abou
his ears, and all because he wishes t.
keep our Israelitish citizens away iron
his premises. The Jews of New Yorl
have been so excited since Judge Hill
toms famous pronunciamento exclud
ing them from his hotel at Saratoga
Then they swore that Hilton and hi
|, crew should never see the color o
their money again. They vowed tina
they would never buy at the Stewart
Hilton dry goods store. and insiste'
that the name of Hilton should be bel
up to everlasting scorn.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-04

Joseph H. Rainey, ex-congressman
from South Carolina, who is recognized
as leader among the colored people of
his State, and as one of the most intelli-
gent representatives of his race, is in
New York, and has given his views at
length to Tribune reporter upon the
condition Of the colOred people in the
South, and the treatment which is CON-
polling large numbers to emigrate to
States where they hope to achieve sue.
cess which Mr.. Rainey believes they can
not expect in the South. Mr.. Rainey
defends his bretheren from the charge of
Incidence and slothfulness, and thus
speaks of the condition of practical slav-
cry to which he says they are being fast
subjected by their old masters: "They
have no money with which to buy land /;
consequently they are dependent on the
landowners for homes, and thus under
obligations to them in every particular.
In other words, tee method now being
pursued in the southern States is the re.
enactment on this continent of the ole
English feudal.. System. Those who Oc
cupy the land must be subjected to the
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-04

General Benjamin F. Butler is always
turning up. The sad outcome of his
former two attempts at capturing the
govenorship of Massachusetts seems to
have had no effect upon his pachyderm-
atous hide, and he has been prevailed
upon to make sacrifice of himself once
more, and submit himself to the pains
of another castigation at the hands Of
the people Of that commonwealth. The
call is out for all favoring the nomina.
ton of that gentleman as governor of that
state to assemble at their polling places
on the second day of September and
choose delegates for convention to be
held in Worcester on the 18th day of
September next. The widow writes
that if "the people have not changed
their minds have not changed mine.
Well, the people have not changed theil
minds. They did not want Butler before
and they do not now.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-04

The indianapolis Qndiana) Journal
says: "The wonderful wheat crop in
this state continues to be subject of
general comment. and the wisest agricul-
tural experts are unable to account for
the great superiority of the yield over
ordinary years. Not only is the yield
far greater in quantity than usual, but
the grain is much heavier. Experienced
tbrashers say they have never before
been so completely at fault in estimating
yields, the outcome in every case exceed
ing their estimates by fourth or third.
In the case of one very large field we
have heard of the thrashers agreed to
take all over twenty-five bushels for his
pay, and the owner refused to give it.
This immense wheat crop represents
hard cash, and will bring vast sum of
money into the state" ....