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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-07-01

Has it ever occurred to the numerous ad-
vocaths of State rights doctrines in Louisiana
that the entire State of Louisiana was bought
and paid for by the General Government p
Philadelphia Press
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-07-01
a DAISY OF A BIT CIGAR.

Always hand smokers materials, including
schaums brerwoOd aud other varieties of pipes smoking
tobacco pipe stems cigarettes cigarette paper; and in
short everything to be founc in fstcass establishment
of the kind,
Telegraph Cigar Store Ormsby Building, Carson street,
Carson je2O
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-07-01
Telegraph Cigar Store,


EJTRILE LISTENING 10 TIVE TELF-
w GRAPHIC tick, and Specializing TO how much
you out by not having Bodies ComstOcks during
the last DEAL you may find relief by sinking the Stock
Shop, getting the of the behind the Telegraph
Cigar store counter and trying OF his imported cigars
fine favored chewing tobacco etc Or if not n the last
and not ready for the imported luxury at the
Teeeraph Clgar stone You get
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-07-01

IT is said that Lester Walack is proud of
his Jewish birth. His grandfather, Solomon
Isaac, of Wallachia, was famous prestidigi-
tateur, and the handsomest man in Europe
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-07-01
FOR RENT.
" HE AM TR

YFNHE AMERICAN LAUNDRY AND AD-
Il jacent dweln0hOuse will be rented reasonable
terms The property is situated in the southwest portion
Of Carson and is well supplied with water from springs
the premises Apply at the premises for further nfOrna
ton. je27-H
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-07-01

TRYING to do business without advertising
is like trying to catch fish on hook without
bait
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-03
NEW PENSION BILL.

The pension bill that lately became
law, gives pensioners pay from the
time of their discharge, up to the time
their present pensions began. If we
understand it, pensions heretofore OBJ
tanned, commenced at the time the ap-
plication for the pension was made, and
this law pays the pensioner at the rate
per month for which his pension was
originally granted, for the time inter-
vening between his discharge from the
service, and the time he made his ap-
plication for his pension. If there is no
hitch in the law, this will put a large
sum into the hands of many pensioners,
and is an act of justice to all who ever
deserved pension. But who ever saw
government so liberal to her defend
ers? 1t will require no new application
on the part of the pensiOner to obtain
this new donation from government ;
the papers and proofs, necessary to OBJ
tain it are all in the hands of the de.
partment and in due time, the clerks
will figure out each mans arrearages
and it will be forwarded.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-03
OUR PRETTY LITTLE BUSINESS.

Bro. Blake of the Monitor says in his
last issue: "We make it none of our
concern how other men run their bust
ness, and insist on our own way of doing
the little we have to do in the world"
Exactly, that is just our fix. We are
willing be should do his little business
just as he has mind to. We shan't
say anything if he fails to do as he
agrees, or if he publishes one thing and
does just the opposite. When he pub
fishes week after week that he will send
the Monitor one year for $1.50 when
paid strictly in advance and only on that
condition. and then sends out his agents
who offer it for $3.50 paid any time and
throw in register beside. we do not in
tend to mention it. 1t is his oaOn little
business and if he can prove to his GUS
toners that such plan is fair and just
as between those who do pay in advance
and those who do not, and that it is fair,
open handed dealing, we have nothing to
say and shan't say word. And when
by his agents he is housing about post
offices to find the names of subscribers
whom We have dropped from our list we
have nothing to say. 1t is his oaOae pref
ty little business We can and would
most cheerfully assist him and could
save him good deal of trouble and no
doubt save him some poor debts. If he
or any other publisher, who is so very
anxious to pick up the dead and wound
ed of our list, will come like men to our
Office and ask for them, we will furnish
them a printed list of all the names we
have struck from our list and will tell
them honestly, so far as we are able,
which are worthy of credit. We can give
them much more definite information
than they can secure from any other
source no matter how reliable We should
be pleased also to show any of our CO.
temporaries who have not the courage to
adopt our plan, how it works, how many
names We started with aud the good
round numbers that have been added
each day since. We could surprise them.
! Drop in and see US and we will give you
some valuable information for nothing
and be pleased to do ,it.-Eapress &
| Standard.
We call attention to the above article
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-03
THE PLAGUE.

The people of Eastern Europe are not
a little alarmed by the reports of the
plague having appeared at different
points on the river Volga and its vicini-
lty. The medical authorities are ear
nestly discussing the question as to
the nature of the disease that has made
its appearance but this is the very dis
cussion which has been carried on when
ever the plague has appeared in times
past, its real nature never, having beer
fully established. Many eminent au-
thorities have maintained that the
plague is an aggravated or peculiar
form of typhus fever. But all accounts
agree in stating that an alarming dis
ease has broken out in the Southern
part of European Russia, and that meas
ures should be taken to prevent its in
PRODUCTION into the heart of Europe.
The days of Indifference to precautiona-
ry and quarantine regulations have
passed away. Experience and common
sense, if not high scientific theory. sus-
tain the maxim that an ounce of pre-
vention better than a pound of cure,
especially since one grain of want of
precaution has often been the means of
introducing disease. where all the ply
sicians and medicine that could be OBJ
tanned have failed to stay its progress.
The Plague had its origin in the
fourteenth century, in Central Asia, the
birthplace of nearly every destructive
pestilence that has swept over the earth.
Under the name of the Black Death, it
passed into Europe, desolating nearly
every great city on the continent. 1t
prevailed in England in the seventeenth
century, depopulating the city of London
just before the great fire of 1866, nearly
$4,000 having died within a few
months in 1865. In 1920 about half the
population of Marseilles were destroy
ed by it. After prevailing extensively
in Russia, toward the close of the las
century, it seemed to have expended it:
force, although it has several times
broken out on the Eastern shores of thu
Mediterranean. The great advance
which has been made in medical science
combined with the precautionary meas
ures which will be adopted whereve
there is any danger of the spread of tn
disease, forbids the apprehension of
return of such pestilential visitations a
in past centuries; but there is alread.
much excitement in Europe, as will b
seen by the foreign news in anothe
column.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-03
THE FLETCHER HOSPITAL.

The Mary Fletcher Hospital in Bur-
lington was opened with appropriate
ceremonies on Wednesday of last week.
Prayer was offered by Rev. Il. o. Bras
tow, brief addresses were made by DR..
Carpenter and President Buckham,
while the principal address was delivered
by DIR. d. B. St. John Rosa, of New
York. The institution was built and
endowed by Miss Mary Fletcher, who
had already given the city fine public
library, and the wUrk was prosecuted
under the direction Of board of trus-
tees, of which DR.. Walter Carpenter is
president. The cost of the land was
$4,000, and of the building $4,000 /;
and the permanent endowment fund is
$4,000. The hospital is designed
primarily for Vermonters, and in one
sense is a free hospital-for while those
patients able to do so will pay certain
rates, according to the accommodations
they receive, those from this state Who'll
ly unable to pay anything will be re.
ceived, to the extent of the accommoda.
tons, under certain regulations. In
concluding his remarks, DR.. Carpenter
paid the following tribute to. Miss Fetch
er. who was unable to be present III
consequence of i'll health: ITO her OIL
him who can minister to the relief o.
human suffering, and can avert or delay
the pangs of dissolution, we award the
title of an angel of mercy. To her t.
whose generosity and care for her fellow
creatures we owe this charity, the hos
pital stands-her best tribute" Th,
reception rendered by DR.. Carpenter, a
the American Hotel, in the evening
was largely attended, and numerou
speeches we're made.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-03

selves in deep washout, keeping under
cover. AS soon as the skirmishers were
within 100 yards of the stronghold, the
savages opened deadly fire, killing
Sergeant Taggart and Privates Brown
and Nelson. of Company A, and dan
gerously. if not fatally. wounding Pri-
vate Deboisse, of Company H. Despite
the volley poured into the troops, they
steadily advanced, and when within
twenty-five yards of the savages' posi-
ton, fire was opened on all sides with
terrific effect. At this moment Captain
VESSELS, leading his company and
loudly cheering them forward, received
a slight scalp wound from pistol in
the hands of one of the Cheyennes, rem
dering him completely insenslble. Lieu
tenant Chase, of Company A, seeing the
commanding officer fall. rushed forward
instantly, seized Captain VESSELS and
carried him beyond the range of the
enemy's fire. then dashing forward at
the head of his own company, his gal
lantry led them to the very edge of the
washout, where they fought the enemy
with undated fury.
Meanwhile Captain VESSELS having
regained consciousness, again came to
the front, and seeing the ground streWn
with the dead bodies of the savages, in
plored his men cease to firing, with .
view to getting the remaining CheyenneS
to surrender, but the latter stubbornly
refused and rushed at the troops with
formidable hunting knives, having ez-
pended all their ammunition. They
seemed determined to surrender to death
only, but before they had advanced
many PAGES volley was fired ty the
troops and all was over. After she fir
ing the dead bodies of twenty three In
dians were found in rifle pits occupied
by them. This number included seven
teen men four squaws and two proposes
Nine remained, of whom one man and
five squaws were more or less wounded,
and three squaws were unhurt.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-03

BosToN, Jan. 29.-In the supreme
court this morning Judge Lowell gave
decision adverse to the Woodbury. Pa
tent Planning Machine Co. This is one
of the several cases involving the validi-
ty of the Woodbury. patent which have
been in litigation thirty years. If sus-
tanned, the plaintiff, would have covered
a valuation of between $3O,000,O0O and
$40, 100000, and the decision is there
fore of great public interest. Judge
Lowell declares that the history of the
grant, which was made % years after
applied for, and 27 years after the
invention was completed, is remarkable.
This decision effects almost every
owner of a cylinder planer in the coun-
ty, and will relieve them of the dread
of law suit, or the expense of paying
for the privilege of having used one on
which the pressure bar attachment has
been put Parties have already been in
this vicinity threatening owners of pla-
ners with suits if they did not fork over
handsomely. This will put quietus
on them, we Judge.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-03

A tragedy very similar to the Wilder
tragedy in Lyndon occurred at Ran
let's Corner, Maine, January 25th. A
man by the name of George Rowell, in
fit of insanity, murdered John Nc
Farland and his wife Salina, by beating
thoir brains out with gun. He had
driven the old couple out of the house,
together with his own family, wife
and two children, on very cold night,
and attempted to shoot a neighbOr whom
he happened to meet. After clubbing
the old people to death, he chased the
neighbOr to his own house, and attempt
ed to kill him, but was himself shot and
killed
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-03
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoNIToR.1
WASHINGTON. Jan. 81. 1879.

ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE THE MoNIToR.]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 81, 1879.
From the tone of discussion during
the past, it seems evident that MAORI
ty of the House are about prepared to
vote for a square reversal of our foreign
commercial policy, but the Bourbons of
the Senate seems disposed to throw
themselves back on a party dogma to
justify the opposition they are making
to any change from the old ruts in which
we have been revolving since the be-
ginning of the war. 1t shows the pitia-
BILE straits to which they have been re-
duced by the trade statistics of that Pc
Rod and by the steady decadence of our
shipping interests which has reduced us
from one of the first to one of the most
Insignificant among the maritime nations
of the world in less than two decades.
One of the most telling speeches since
the discussion began was that of Mr..
Blaine advocating an immediate aban-
donment of policy that has annihilated
our merchant marine. His criticisms
on our practice of spending millions an
nually on a naval establishment for
which we have no use, was especially
afraotiva Tho cautiouo oonpar IF he
opponents, striving to give the appear
ance of answering him while only intent
on evading his points. is pretty good
evidence that they regard them as un-
answerable. Certainly any one can see
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-03

Both sides in the debate in the House
on Thursday pointed with pride" to
the past achievements of their party.
This may be we'll enough for the stump,
but the party in Congress that will do
the most for the country in future is
the one that the people will be most
likely to sustain. The war of Revolution
and the war of the Rebellion were great
epochs, but sheer Dragging about them
will not solve the problems of to-day
and tomorrow.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-03
THAT s.SILVER DOLLAR.o

Mr.. Editor: My letter to you was
badly misprinted in some places. Thus,
l said silver has of late fuctuated in
value more than it used to. Your print
er makes 1T "more than it need to-"
said while gold stands steady it gives
permanence, not prominence, to the
value of both metals as coin. There
are other errors, but these are the most
important.
You say the government cheats the
people out of the difference between the
bullion price and the coin value of silver.
l thought the government a0as the PEG.
pie, in this country, and what the gov
eminent makes the people make. But
you are not right even here, because the
government receiOeS, as we'll as pays
oact, the silver dollars at par. The gov
eminent has not forced a single silver
dollar into circulation. 1t gives every
creditor the choice of silver, gold or
greenbacks. 1t takes them all again at
the same rate for debts due to it. You
cannot to-day buy silver dollar at any
discount for gold. This whole charge
of fraud is on the false assumption that
the United States is making silver dol
lars at profit and is forcing them on
the people with no intention of redeem
ing them. All that the government
seems to make on the silver currency it
will lose again what it redeems them,
and perhaps more. AS long as silver
fuctuates as it has been doing for the
last five years there can be no weight
for silver dollar that will keep it at
par with gold. Suppose, when this last
issue of dollars was made, the dollar
had been heavy enough to be equal in
value to gold dollars as bullion. In six
months afterwards the depreciation of
silver would have still made it at as
great discount as before. But if sill
yer had gone up. instead of doa0n, it
would have been still worse, for then
the dollars would have been taken out
of circulation, melted up and sold for
bullion. Who would have been cheated
then?
As to the eapediency of coming silver
dollars at this time, when silver is SC
unsteady in value. | have serious doubts
of it. Our Democratic House, our Re.
publican Senate and our Republican
President seem to have thought best tc
try it. may differ with them in opin.
ion, but l do not think they have had
any dishonest purpose, nor do l think
any body has yet lost or ever will lose
anything by taking the silver dollars
May again ask you for definite reply
to the questions of my first letter, viz:
Would you have every days coinage
vary with the varying price of silver?
What disadvantage is there in thu
present method, supposing we are t.
! have a silver coinage at all?
Can you suggest better way?
And finally, | suppose as politician
: you are bound to say that every demo
2 crat or greenbacker is rogue, but ar
} the Republican statesmen who favored
: silver dollar and the bill also rogues
Or are you mistaken on the question o
e honesty in regard to this matter?
= r. H. HoSKINs
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-03
THE CHEYENNE SLAUGHTER.

The trouble with the Cheyenne cap
tives at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, has
ended. The fugitives have been nearly
exterminated. On the 22nd Captain
VESSELS command came upon them
about 2:3O p. m, at point ten miles
east of the telegraph line from Robinson
to Hat Creek, and FIVE miles north of
the stage road, and hemmed them in on
all sides. The Indians had placed them.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-03

Our friend, DR.. Hoskins, will accept
our apology for the typographical errors
which appeared in his article on the
"Silver Dollar" in our issue of last
week. 1t will be seen by the above ar
ticle that We are invited to solve several
connundrums. and to stand up and re-
cite long lesson in political economy,
and on the bi metallic currency.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-03

1t has been discovered, on re-exam.
inatiOn that the pension bill will take
only S34. 100000 from the treasury. Is
that all "Only S94.0OO,Oo0." No
wonder the President didn't think it
worth while to veto such trihe.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-03

Baltimore is already drugged with
silver dollars, and the authorities have
had to issue an order refusing them in
sums larger than So. This is but the
beginning of trouble, long ago predicted.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-03


is increasing every week.
Our rivals may be dissatisfied with
our "little business" but We have no
cause of complaint. Our patrons embrace
many of the very best men in the county,
and they stick by US like friends. We
have used no extraordinary efforts to in
crease our circulation. During the latter
part of the year we have agents out to
make collections and obtain subscribers.
We have made as good paper as we
could make, and shall try to make it
better and better every year.
Our friends of the Erpress should not
complain; they are two stout, robust
men. and they would take it as an insult
if any body should intimate that they
lack the brains, skill or enterprise to
successfully compete with any newspaper
publisher in this vicinity; they former
ly had the whole field in the county !;
they have constantly kept one or more
agents going up and down the county
placing the Cypress in the hands of
everybody who could be induced to take
one; they have claimed to make the best
paper in northern Vermont, and, had
the claim been true. they ought to have
written up the obituary of the MONITOR
long ago.
We will say of the Express, what it
never said of the MONITOR, that it is a
good county paper. We like the MoNI-
TOR little the best, however, and ask
all who care to compare the two to judge
for themselves. Ii this paper will not
stand the comparison, let it be discarded.
1t is the privilege of all men to buy that
which suits them best. If anybody
wants this paper at $3.50 per year in
advance, or $500 paid at the end of the
year, We shall be pleased to send it to
him. When he thinks he can do better,
within or without the county, for the
same money, We shall not complain.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-02
The Railroad to Texas


Not many days will now eiapye We hope,
before the whistle Of the locomotive will wake
the echoes OF our woods. Squadas men are
at work, clearing and grading, ally long the
line, from Orange to the Mermenta,lS and the
work e. being pushed with all the Hgor and
dispatch possible. Already the Grading is
completed on tho switch from the mhin track
TO the Mount Hope. mill, where mqft OF the
crosstle.ss and other lumber are beiIly sawed.
Tbs Switch will strike the river idBt below
The Mount Hope mill, where the railroad
company propose erecting wharf for the re-
eeptiOn of their material.
Hand cars and trucks for construction cars
are already on hand, and the rails are daily
expected, together with locomotive No
doubt as soon as these arrive, the company
will commence laying the track at once, and
run construction trains. Five pfle-drivers
are being built for the use Of the company In
erecting trestlework and bridging small
streams. In fact, from our observation, It
would seem that an experienced hand had ar
ranged everything. 40 that with strong
pull and a pull all together" the locomotive
will In a few months Jump from Lake Charles
to VermiliOnville.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-02
Ex-Omcials.-

Washington Correspondence Baltimore SUM-
Ex-senator Conover, OF Florida, after hang
Ing Of for $4,000 foreign mission until hope
deferred,made his heart sick. concluded to
come down In his aspiration and take 81 per
day customs inspectorship MT. Conoyer
showed practical appreciation of the stu-
alton in taking the best thing he could get
and as one Of his friends says 81 per day
lays q long way over nothing" Mr.. Conover
ing to take a very small crumb One OF his
former associates in the Senate, for lack of
something better, took $1,000 clerkship in
the Treasury Department and held on to it
until he was turned out. Another ex-senator
mas been lounging around Washington ever
since his term expired, begging ever SO humble
a recognition from the administration.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-02
President Or the Convention.
[Calcasieu Gazett,

Lieut. Gov. Wilt was then elected Presi-
dent OF the Convention by large majority.
This was surprise to very few, II any; and
when we consider the strong hold which he
has gained upon the affections of the people;
the admiration which he has attracted
from his associates; his ability as a parlia-
mentarian and the impartiality with which
he presided over the deliberations OF the SEN
ate, no one could point out more fitting man
for the position.
Upon taking the chair, the President adj
dressed the Convention In q speech which 80
clearly and concisely defines the duties Of the
Convention, the manner In which they should
ate the delegates, and the principles by which
they should be governed, that we regret our
inabilityAo publish 1t In full, for want Of
SDace