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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-15

1t is reported from Washington that
Mr.. Justice Hunt, the condition of whose
health is such that he can never
resume his place upon the Supreme
Court bench, has resigned, and that
Senator Edmunds has been rendered the
vacant place. 1t is doubtful perhaps
whether Mr.. Edmunds would be willing
to exchange the active life of the Senate
for the grave routine of the Supreme
Court, and there can be no question that
the country would have reason to be
grateful for the appointment. Mr.. Ed
munds is one of the very ablest men
now in public life, and would make a
great addition to the brain power of the
Supreme Court Bench. But Vermont
cannot we'll afford to sequester, so far as
political life and usefulness is concerned,
one of her sons who is and will continue
to be, if left in the Senate, a credit to
this little State and an honor to the
country. We feel just pride in Mr.
Edmunds, and there is no place where
he can do so much good as in the Senate
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-15
Views, Views,
VIEWS.

0UC., l3C. dlQ Sl.UO pGf QOzG1.
| have about fifty dozen
StereOscOpic Views which
/ will sell from now until
Jan. [, 1880, at the above
priceS--all new and every
one perfect. They consist
OF some of the best scenery
in the world, including
some very nice views Of
Bible Lands. This is q
rare chance to get views,
as the above prices are less
than One-half the cost of
them by the gross.
Room i'm the Skinner &
Drew block, first door at
head of stairs.
j. N. WEBSTER.
Barton, Dec. Is. 1879.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-15

Official advices from the west coast of
South America, indicate that the success
"niN" AAssS "ssVsi-NA SIN NniIIdu al IuISS 10
likely to make some important changes
in the geography of that section. The
authority of the ChiIian government now
includes the whole of Patagonia; and
the decisive successes which have at
tended their hostile operations against
Peru and Bolivia have encouraged this
spirit of territorial expansion in the
direction of the head waters of the ANA
zoh. which would necessitate the destruc-
tion of the two republics. The destruction
of the Peruvian feet and the complete
rout of the allied land forces places
these two states at the mercy of Chill.
Their subjugation can only be prevented
by the interference of other governments
interested in the issue of the conflict.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-15

$4,000 feet dry brown ash boards and plank, at
once, which will pay cash or goods at cash price.
G. f. PERCIVAL, Barton. VT
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12
Irish Bulls.



There is curious passage in the works of
Taylor the water poet, which shows that in
1880. though the word bull, had not become
identified with the Irish people, yet that the
power of making this special order of blunder
existed among them in full force. "Nowe,"
he saws. "that Irelande doth give birth to
strange sortes of men, whose too create quick
nesse of thought doth impede their judgments,
this storie which 1 have heard will Shove. A
wealthie lord of the countie OF Corke had
goodlie faire house new built, but the broken
bricks, tiles, sandse, lime, stones, and such
rubbish as are commonlie the remnants OF such
buildings lay confusedlie in heaps, and scat
tered here and there. The lord therefore de-
manded of his surveyor wherefore the rubbish
was not conveyed awaie. The surveyor SAID
that hee proposed to have a hundred cartes Tor
that purpose. The lord replied that the charge
of cartes might be saved, for pitt might be
digged in the grounde and so burie ii" "Then,
my lord," said the surveyor, II pray you,
what will wee doe with the earth which wee
dig out of this said pitt?" "Why, you cox
combe,' said the lord, "canst thou not digge
the pitt deepe enough to hold rubbish and all?.
This would indeed have been practical bull,
a looking glass with his eyes shut, in order that
he might see how he looked when he was
asleep, reminding us of a characteristic title OF
an old Irish jig, I'm asleep and don't you
wake me-
The most noted bull perpetrator was Sir
Boyle Roche, who was elected member for
Tralee in 1775. He had a regular blundering
reputation. He was known on one occasion,
after whitening exposure or patriotic denun-
citation of government to say, with solemn grav-
ity: "Mr Speaker, it is the duty of every true
lover of his country to give his last guinea to
save the remainder of his fortune!' Or If the
subject of debate was some national calamity,
he would deliver himself thus: Sir, single
misfortunes never come alone, and the great
est of all national caamities is generally Iol-
belonged to the ancient family of De La Russo
Of Fermoy; he was created a baronet in 1872,
and was married to the eldest daughter oil Sir
James Caldwell, but had no heir. lie used to
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12
Mr.. Rounds's Charges.

II appears by dispatches from Augusta
that the Council has referred the charges of
County Attorney Rounds, alleging tamper-
ing with the returns from Washington
County, to a special committee. This is
step in the right direction. But several
more steps are necessary to be taken. 1t
won't do for the Council several days hence
its special committee saying eve have
examined the charges and found them
to be false' unless at the same time it
presents the evidence on which such
conclusion is founded and makes it evident
to everyone that the investigation has been
an open one in which both sides have been
accorded free hearing. The public will
place no confidence whatever in an exparte
verdict. On the other hand they will rather
regard it as substantial confession OF the
truth of the charges, or at least that the
Council fears they may be true.
Councillor Fogg's remark that the more
he looks at the charges the more absurd they
appear will not have much weight. Moth
ing he can say will The public prefer not
to use the eyes of Mr.. Fogg or any other
Councillor in this matter. They want all
the light turned on so that they can see
for themselves. They will accept nothing
less than this, so it may be as well for Coun-
cil1or Fogg to save his breath in this busi-
ness. Let the committee call all the wit
nesses that Mr.. Rounds names, let the hear
ing be public and then if the charges are
false the public will find it out as readily as
Councillor Fogg, and if true will relieve,
the Councillor from the pain of writing
of Mr.. Fogg himself the public want no
'shenan igan'' in this business.
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12

THERE is such thing as inordinate zeal
to secure the conviction of alleged criminals.
The attorney for the State in the Hayden
murder case. which is now on trial at Nor
wch. proved this when he asked of the de-
fendant's wife this question. ''Now, mad
am, you need not answer this question until
you are told to by the Court. Mr.. Hayden,
you say, is your husband, the father of your
three children, and he has been devoted
husband to loving wife for between eight
and nine years. You have constantly main
tanned pleasant relations, and there has been
and is now the utmost confidence between
you You are convinced of his innocence,
and know that, if he is found guilty, he
must suffer ignominious punishment. I'm
der these circumstances would you not, I'M
der oath as you are, make misstatement in
order to save him from punishment?' The
Court promptly decided that the question
was improper. The worst of it is that
the attorney probably knew it was improper
and asked it simply for effect.
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12

To correspondent who inquiries about
''this Maine business the Spring gfield Re-
publican replies as follows: We cannot say
at this distance what careful analysis Of
the laws and of the costitution may require,
and what weight should be attached to
precedents, but when we see precedents
disregarded and laws declared unconstitu-
tional by executive officers sworn only to
obey them, not to right a wrong, but to
wrong right,-no to voice the popular
will but to defeat its expression,-we ven
ture to assume that the whole procedure is
vicious. 1t cannot be questioned and has
not been questioned that the bona tide re-
turn of the election would give the Repub-
licans majority of the Senate in Maine,
and Of the House, just as the vote for Gov
ernor showed a large plurality vote for the
Republican candidate. Precedents and
usages should not always stand in the way
of defeating great wrong, but they should
be eloquent objections and sufficient bull
warks against the defeat of great right.
1t may be said that we are assuming that
Gov. Garcelon and his associates propose to
shift majorities, when we do not know that
they will do so. True, but if appearances
do injustice to their purposes, it is their
fault, not ours.
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12

General Eckert yesterday resigned the presi-
dencv of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph
Company.
Hugh Dugan, who fred at another man and
killed city councillor in Washington, Del,
was found guilty of manslaughter yesterday.
Pretro BALTIC, convicted of the murder of his
wife in New York, has been sentenced to be
hung January 10TH
John McEvoy, the 15-year-old lad whose
head was sawn asunder in Paterson N. j., on
Monday afternoon, was still alive Wednesday
night, perfectly conscious and answering in
telligently when spoken to.
The direction of the Bureau Veritas an
nounces that during the month of October llS
vessels of various nationalities and eight Eng
lish steamers were reported lost.
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12

Do the alleged Argus. specials from Au-
gusta come by telegraph or telephone? The
reason we ask the question is because dill
gent inquiry in Augusta failed to find the
first person who doubted the integrity and
honor of Judge Virgin. Yet an alleged
Augusta special to the Argus says 1t is
mooted that Judge Virgin will make every
effort to ventilate his strong partisan .preJu
dices in the mandamus matter. If anything
of the kind was ever mooted at all it was not
mooted in Augusta.
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12

THE selection of Senator Edmunds for the
prospective vacancy on the Supreme Bench
is one of the best, if not the very best, that
could be made. Mr.. Edmunds has long en-
joyed the reputation of being one OF the
soundest lawyers in the country. during
a long career in the Senate his legal abilities
have won the recognition of both parties,
and, politics aside, we do not believe there
is Democrat in the country who will not
acknowledge that he is eminently qualified
to fill the position for which he has been
Salactpd
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12

THE Belfast Age thinks the object of Mr.
Rounds's charges is to create an impression
in the public mind that there has been vii
lsiny going on. Didn't it ever occur to the
Age that the Governor and Council had it i'll
their power to check this impression and
that failure to use 1t would be regarded as
a substantial confession that villainy had
been going on?
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12

The Argus stigmatizes the men who
have signed the petitions for an investiga-
ton of Mr.. Rounds's charges as ''poor dolts
who consent to be used as puppets" The
'spoor dots'' include such men as Ex-Gov-
ernors Coburn, Morrill,, Chamberlain, Ding
ley, Connor, Joseph S. Wheelwright, Reu-
ben B. Dunn, Edmund F. Webb and 5. A.
Holbrook. The Argus is growing idiotic.
Better resurrect "Obadiah."
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12

THE Conspirators are trying to cover up
the confession of fraud which the neglect to
investigate County Attorney Rounds's
charges implies by making counter charges
against Republicans. That is ''too thin"
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12

THE Greenbackers in Congress are max
ing their usual amount of noise. The re-
ported dissensions in the Republican ranks
over the currency recommendation are
greatly exaggerated by these soft money men
for effect.
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate signed by Stanley T. Pullen,
Editor. All railway, steamboat and hote managers
will confer favor upon us by demanding credentials
of every person claiming to represent our journal
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12

SECRETARY COVE takes the ground that
he is only the tool of the Governor and
Council. Then those remarkable certificates
which appeared in the campaign supple
ment of the Argus were Gov. Garcelon's
work. were they?
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12
THEI PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 12.

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publiea-
tion but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
muncatlons that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12

EDITOR RUST says truly that the Council
does not propose to deal with the moral as
poets of the counting out business. It's The
immoral aspects it seems to have the
greatest affection for.
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12

WE hope that Mr.. III. W. Swasey enjoyed
his meeting with the Council more than the
Council seemed to.
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12

RuMoR says that we are to have a Jack
sonian Superintendent of the Insane Asy-
lum next year. And his name it is Garce-
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12

EDITOR SPRINGER has gone to Augusta to
instruct the Council. He can give them
a worse earful than Mr. SWasey.
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12

COUNCILLOR FoGG says the legislative
branch of the government is supreme. But
Councillor Fogg doesn't hesitate to dsobey
its laws.
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12
'fR77 and EAR.,' Z,OO1

Is the Number of my Trade Mark s.RYE AND
ROCK ,''and all infringements will be prosecuted.
1t is uneQualed for Lung, Throat and NEaiar-
inl diseases, being Purely Vegetable and COM
bining the excellence of the ..sugnr Cane'' and
the Choicest Cereals.' Why take disagreeable
drugs when this most Delicious Cordial will
produce satisfactory results? Sold by Druggists
and Grocers. My Signature is on every Gen.
uine bottle. Price, 81. N. VAN BELL, SO
Chambers st. n. Y. sel7eod3mo
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12

WE beg pardon of Mr.. Swasey of Canton
for mixing him up with Mr.. Swasey OF Port
land.
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12

Mr. III. w. SwAsEY intimated to the
Council that he didn't like the PRESS. The
PRESS drops tear.
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12

The inside of the Lewiston Gazette which
comes to us this week is geographically as
muddled a mess as the Fusion Conspiracy.
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12

A "JACKsoNIAN GOVERNOR" is good. 1t
seems to be an Argus invention.
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12
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The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12

EHs, CasItets, Collins,
u Robes, and every requisite for funerals.
McKENNA & DOUGHER 424 Congress ST
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12

EEsS, Wood and Metallic
T. Caskets, Cofrins, Shrouds, Caps, &c.
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The Portland daily press., 1879-12-12

IL
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TkyAELOKs. a fall line OF ScasOnabie
T. Goods always on hand.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-24

Gen. Rosser, chief engineer of the Northern
Pacific Railroad, appears to know something
about the negro exodus from the Southern
States. He processes to be able to give an
indefinite number Of them employment, and
says that such as 90 to work for him will
have great deal less work to do than on a
plantation, and will be infinitely better paid
Tor 1t. He already has five hundred employed,
and declares that they will earn enough in a
short while to set up for themselves on home
steads, If they SO desire.
This Is, Of course. all interested talk on be-
half OF the railroad company that employs
Gen. Rosser, which, we have no doubt, Is
really at the bottom of this panicky scheme.
TO begin with, any man Of common sense and
even the most casual experience knows that
the settled, orderly life of plantation affords
easier work and better opportunities for
economy and frugality, and, therefore, for
finally securing, at least, home, than the
vagabondage of railroad labor, with its rough
experiences, terribly hard work and total
freedom from all restraint.
We have suspicion, and it is strengthened
ny zen. Rosser's talk, that this whole busi-
ness is sort OF Chinese cheap labor" dodge
on Inc part OF the Northern Pacific. and that
VIII soon come to be SO regarded by the
people OF bleeding Kansas" and that the
poor aeluded negroes who have pona tboro
Wall oe ieft to endure the consequences Fraad
from all scr1ptural parallels and ,,o,;.;aN,
9luiiass suggestive OF Moses and the tt;.ht -
- .ael rom the house Of bondage. this ,hins.
= uae most cod-blooded piece Of inhnma, ,;.z.
Una. craft and avarice have ever perpetratsd
- ignorance, erednlity and helplessness 1'-''>'
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-24

The Constitutional Convention yesterday
proceeded to the election of a printer, Mr..
Cosgrove, of Natchitoches, being chosen by
an overwhelming majority. The committee
appointed to report what committees were
necessary to properly transact the business
of the body, completed and presented Its
work, which, with some additions, was
adopted. A special committee was also crea-
ted to examine and report upon the State
debt which committee ID to be composed of
three members from each congressional dis
trict. The remainder of the session was
occupied In the discussion Of the reso-
luton offered by Mr.. Stevenson. OF
Iberville. on Tuesday, which asserts that it
Is not the purpose of the Convention to re-
strict or impair 'the political, civil or
religious rights Of any class OF citizens" For
this a substitute was offered by Judge Land,
OF Caddo, which differed from the original
resolution mainly in the addition Of the
words "on account Of race, color or previous
condition of servitude' after the word "citi-
zens." The substitute was finally adopted
BY vote Of 76 to 40, a number OF Democrats
and all the Republicans voting against it
The subject provoked the first political debate
OF the session.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-24

A proposition comes from the Republican
side Of the Constitutional Convention that
the members should take ali oath to support
the constitution OF the United States. The
Republicans are very active in taking oaths
ct this character, and just as active in break
ing them. Why such an oath should be
taken by members Of the Convention Is not
apparent The delegates necessarily took
such an oath when they became electors.
The imposition OF it again would only con-
sumo time, which the Convention cannot
afford to devote to the subj ct.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-24
BLAINE's LAST.

If Blaine is not sensational he is nothing.
There is no amount of honesty, OF sincerity,
Of good sense good feeling or OF truth, that
he will not sacrifice for bit Of pyrotech-
nical gaseonade. To be startling is his whole
stock In trade, and he has wonderful talent
for availlng himself Of dramatic situations,
mounting his piece and escaping behind the
scenes before his audience have time to catch
their breath and recover their cool critical
sense By practicing this little trick he has
succeeded in making quite number of bril-
liant effects In the Senate in times past none
of which, however, have ever produced any
profound or enduring results. These displays
were all very brilliant In the Senate, but they
were quite another thing in the cooler eyes Of
the people who read of them next day in
the newspapers. Latterly, however, they
have not been so successful, even in the Sem
ate, and on several occasions Of late Mr..
Blaine has not succeeded in getting away be-
fore the bubble Of Lis vain glory was pricked
for him by some cool-headed Senator, while
the papers are beginning to crittcise his ef.
forts in this line as merely smart and au-
dacious, and nothing more
Blaine's last venture in this line was la
mentable failure. We allude to his speech on
the army bill, wherein he made an effort to
turn the whole thing into ridicule. Upon the
merits OF the question, as it was forcbly
thrust upon Congress by the Democrats, him
self and his party were at fearful disadvan-
| tage, all OF which was not more thoroughly
| appreciated by any one than Blaine. The
party leaders in Congress, even Garfield
himself had been forced out of their
shells by the white heat Of popular senti-
ment, but they dared not array themselves
openly in favor of military interference with
the exercise Of the ballot. Still they knew