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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-22

The SUN will deal with the events of the year 1880
in its own fashion, now pretty well understood by
everybody. From January to December 81 it will be
conducted as a newspaper, written in the English
language and printed for the people.
As newspaper THE SUN believes in getting all the
news OF the world promptly, and presenting 1t in the
most intelligent shape-the shape that will enable it's
readers to keep well abreast of the age with the least
unproductive expenditure of time. The greatest in
terest to the greatest number-that is the law control
ing its daily makeup. 1t now has circulation very
much larger than that of any other American news
paper, and enjoys income which it is at all times
prepared to spend literally for the benefits of its read
ers People of all conditions of life and all ways of
thinking buy and read THE SUN; and they all derive
satisfaction of sort from its columns for they
keep on buying and reading it.
In its comments on men and affairs, THE SUN believes
that the only guide of policy should be common sense,
inspired by genuine American principles and backed
by honesty of purpose. For this it 49, and will
connne be- absolutely independent of party class
oliquo, organizations interest 1t is for ALL but of
1t Will continue to praise what is good and rep
rebate what is evil taking that its language is to
the point and plain, beyond the possibility Of being
misunderstood 1t is influenced by motives that do
not appear the surface; it has opinions to SELL
those which may be had by any purchaser for two
cents. 1t hates injustice and rascaty than
it hates unnecessary words. 1t abhors frauds, pies
FOOLS and deplores nincompoop of every species 1t
will continue throughout the year 1880 TO chastise the
rss class instruct the second, and discountonance
the third. All honest men, with honest convictions,
whether sound mistaken, are its friends. And THE
SUN makes bones of telling the truth to its friends
and about its friends whenever occasion arises for
plain speaking.
These are the principles upon which THE SUN will
be conducted during the year to come.
The year 1880 will be one in which no patriotic
American afford to close his eyes public affairs
T. w ENGT,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-22

powerful tribe, have had what may be
termed a pudding" on the occasion.
The marine monster was eighty feet long.
and the proceeds of the sale of the oil
will keep them in clover for the Winter.
A National Agricultural Society has
just been formed here. About hundred
delegates from over twenty States or
ganized, adopted constitution and by
laws and expect to go down to posterity
as founders of one of the most important,
eventually, of American institutions.
The aims of the association are similar
to those of the Royal Agricultural So
ciety in Great Britain.
A petition praying for the repeal of
the legal tender law, for presentation to
Congress, has been signed by many
of the foremost bankers, manufacturers
and merchants of this city. Their sig
natures, in small type, crowd four COL
umns of morning paper. 1t is for
midable and influential document, and
as the Administration is in sympathy
with its objects, something may come of
| it.
Household friends as ScriJner's Mag
azine and st. Nicholas have become.
their present Christmas number will be
welcomed as surprising in beauty and
interest even the very best of those
which have gone before. The recent
new departures in wood engraving, iu
which Scribner's took an carly start,
have been availed of with bewitchlng
effect. The very poorest print in the
varied collection. if such term can be
used where all is so good, is work Of
art. Truly, in Typography and illus
tration we have far advanced beyond
the best work of Europe. RADIx.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-22

1t is impossible to exaggerate the importance of the
political events which it has in store the necessity
Of resoute ygence the part of every citizen who
desires to preserve the Government that the founders
gave The debates and acts of Congress- the utter
ances of the press the exciting contest of the Repub-
lican and Democratic parties, now nearly equal in
strength throughout the country the varying drift of
public sentiment will all bear directly effectively
upon The twenty fourth Presidential election to be
held in November. -Four years ago next November
the will of the nation expressed at the polls, was
thwarthed by an abomnable conspiracy the promoters
and benefcares of which still hold the offices the
stole. win the crime of 1876 be repeated in 1880? The
past decade Of years opened with corrupt extraya
giant and nsolen Administration intrenched at WASH
ington. THE SUN did something toward disloeing the
gang and breaking its power. The same men are now
intriguing to restore their leader and themselves to
places from which they driven by the indignation
of the people. VIII they succeed? The coming year
will bring the answers to these momentous questions
THE SUN will be hand to chronicle the facts they
developed and to exhibit them clearly fearless
ly in their relations to expediency and right.
Thus, with habit of philosophical good humor in
looking at the minor affairs of life and in great things
steadfast purpose to maintain the rights of the peo-
pie and the principles of the Constitution against all
aggressors, THE SUN IS prepared to write truthful
instructive, and at the time entertaining hosiery
of $780,
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Address
Nh. of eeTI,a S,,x,, Mo-,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-22
THE ELECTORAL VOTE.

The plan of Mr. Bicknell of Indiana,
who is chairman of the house sub-com-
mittee on the counting of the electoral
votes, in substance, makes the concur
renee of the two houses of congress SUI
supreme. If there is dispute over the
returns of any state, it is to be referred
to the supreme judicial court of that
state for decision but such decision
may not be final, since it may be over
ruled by the two houses of congress con-
curing. If the court makes no decision
at all, the returns cannot be counted if
either house objects. The bill, as
we'll as the report, assumes that con-
gress has the fullest judicial powers in
counting the electoral votes-a doctrine
entirely at variance with the utterances
of leading Democrats several years since.
and, we believe, not in accord with the
intent of the trainers of the constitution.
We believe that the power of congress
in this matter should end with the de-
termination of the legality of the certif-
cate of the state, leaving all other ques-
lions to the state authorities to deter
mine. In sustaining his bill, Mr..
Bicknell, who is Democrat, makes this
remark:
Livery state has the highest interest
and a right to demand that the electoral
votes of every other state shall be lawful
votes and that the result cannot be
fully secured unless the right of ultimate
determination be retained in both hous-
es of congress-"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-22

The usual amount of legislative folly
was ventilated in Congress on Monday.
In the Senate, Mr.. Voorhees, advocated
the claims of the soldiers of the late war
to be reimbursed for the difference be-
tween the value of greenbacks and gold
at the time of their payment, with the
addition of 6 per cent. interest compound
ed semi-annually. Mr.. VOORHEES, thinks
that this would not only be a measure
of strict justice, but would give re-
markable impetus to industrial pursuits.
In the House, Mr.. McMillin, of Tennes-
see. introduced bill to levy and collect
income tax; Mr.. Gillette of Iowa, pro-
posed to compel the Secretary of the
Treasury to pay out all gold and silver
coin IN the vaults of the United States,
not required for current expenses, in the
purchase of Government bonds; and Mr.
Bragg of Wisconsin, put in bill for the
restoration to military rank and the
privileges of back pay of Gen. Fitz John
Porter. There were also bills of more
rational tenor to change the time for the
meeting of Congress to the Second Mon
day In January, to regulate the counting
of Electoral votes, and to confne ordi-
nary bills to one subject clearly express
ed in their title, and to exclude from
appropriation bills all legislation not
directly affecting the subject matter Of
the appropriations contained therein.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-22
GREAT FRAUD AND STEAL IN
MAINE.


The late State election in Maine was
was very holly contested and resulted
in great victory for the republicans.
They elected a large majority in both
branches of the legislature, and lacked
only few votes of choosing their candi-
date for governor by majority over
both the greenback and the democratic
candidates. The laws of Maine require
that the governor and his council shall
issue certificates to the members elected
to either branch of the legislature, but
give them no right in the decision of
contested cases, after they have been
certified to by the proper officers in the
towns and cities. 1t happens in Maine,
that governor must either be chosen
by a majority vote, or elected by the
legislature. The method prescribed for
the election of governor by the legisla-
ture is that the House shall select from
the candidates voted for for governor,
two names, and these shall be sent into
the senate, and the one who receives the
highest number of votes shall become
the governor. Last year it happen
ed that the greenbackers and demo-
Gratis had majority of votes, and de-
feated the republican candidate in the
election, and chose Garcelon. the demo-
cratic nominee, though he had had a
very Insignificant vote. Governor Gar
celon and his council issue the election
certificates to the present legislature,
and in order to keep themselves il office,
they have deliberately set down and
counted ont on slight technicalities, and
Aimsy and utterly worthless causes
nearly thirty republican representative
and eight or ten senators. This re
verses the will of the people, makes tn
House and Senate Democratic, ant
keeps the dishonorable governor ant
others in their fat places another year
There has been nothing like it in tn
annals of usurpatiOn and political chi
canery in the North heretofore. Grea
indignation exists in Maine and through
out the country. When it comes to tina
pass in free New England that a fe'
miserable politicians can subVert th
will of the people and set aside cOnstit'
lions, law and justice. it is time
resort to the old fashioned means
righting wrongs. 1t can be said to tn
credit of great many democrats
Maine and elsewhere, that they denouns
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-22

the fraud as great crime. 1t is stated
by some who are supposed to know that
there may be no way to prevent the
steal. The makers of the constitution
and laws of the state in all their care to
meet all cases that might arise, could
not conceive of state of depravity SO
deep and black as that into which Gar
celon and his council have fallen. They
acted on the belief that governor would
be governed by the rules of common
honesty, and did not foresee the present
state of political infamy. This changes
entirely the result of this election, and
it will make a political if not an armed
revolution in the State.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoNrroR.l
WASHINGTON, Dec. Is. 1879.


WASHINGTON, Dec 16, 1879.
The city is alive with republlcanism
of the liveliest kind. The members of
the National Committee are here for
their meeting tomorrow, and with them
come large number of people from all
parts of the country. -into-ootod IA vari-
Gus ways in the next National Conven-
ton. There are differences of opinion
as to candidates of course and also as to
place of holding convention as we'll as
the organization of the committee itself,
but there is no difference as to the stead
fastness in the republican cause, and
there is the greatest confidence in sue
cess that ever attended the preliminary
arrangements for big campaign. After
the organization of the committee is per-
fected, that and the Congressional Com
mittee will probably act in concert in
the arrangement of the grand contest of
1880.
Congress will adjourn on Friday until
January 9Th, and the work which the
democrats will allow to be done will be
so little, that they may as we'll not have
met at all. The pension and forti6ca-
ton bills are all the appropriations SO
far passed, and all of consequence that
will be considered. The judgment of all
candid observers is that the republicans
have got the confederate democrats on
the run so badly that they will dare to
do very little and will do that little
hastily. The main object of the majority
seems to be adjournment as soon as the
session is opened.
The outrage in Maine by which the
democratic officers counted out the re-
publican majority of 81 in the House.
and in the Senate. causes good deal
of comment here. Thirty-two republican
members were counted out directly, not.
outstanding they received large MAORI.
ties at the polls. Many democrats de.
precate the act, for they know what the
end will be, and reaction will bury thon
very deep in the State. The trick re
veals the cloven foot of democracy, anG
shows the necessity for vigilance and
activity in the coming campaign.
During a recent visit to the State o.
Wisconsin, my attention was called t.
the large body of lands of first quality
now for sale by the Wisconsin Contra
Railroad which runs from Milwaukee tt
Ashland on Lake Superior. The quality
of these lands, the railroad facilities
and the character of the settlers in thai
section, make it one of the most attrac
tive points for emigrants.
The report of the Commissioner o
Agriculture is an unusually interestin.
one this year, and should be in tn
household of every farmer. LOGAN.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-22

1t looks decidedly Grantish from all
points of the horizon. The democrats
are catching the fever now, and are laud-
ing General Grant to the skies. If the
republicans do not nominate him for the
presidency, there is danger that the
democrats will. 1t will look "a little
queer, at first, to see them run up their
banners inscribed with. "Grant and
Potter" but it will not be as great a
.'Aop" as they made when they took up
Greeley.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-22
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Senator Edmunds is 90, but looks 60.
Montgomery abounds in wild animals,
and hunter recently killed his sixth
bear for the season.
Three prisoners in the Franklin
county Jail attempted to escape last
Wednesday night. but did not succeed.
Some malicious person tried to poison
the cows of a Bridport farmer by mixing
strychnine and rat poison with their
feed. He did not succeed, however, in
his attempt. The mixture is to be an
alyzed.
James Pherson of Middlebury, charg-
ed with forgery, had hearing in Leices-
ter last Wednesday. He was held to
appear before the county court in the
sum of 5000. Not being able to procure
bail he was committed to Jail.
Windsor county court has decided the
celebrated Lyman bridge case in favor
Of Mr.. Asa T. Barron. giving him
$l.Ol5 damages. This is against the
town of Hartford, and the case will
probably go to the supreme court.
NJ Senator Morrill, of Vermont, is said to
sick at heart at the shifting positions on
the financial question, and intimates
that when the subject comes up for dis
cussion in the Senate, if it does come
up, he shall give his opinion of the sit
uation.
DR.. J. H. Peck of East Montpelier,
died on Sunday morning from an over.
dose of something taken for toothache
He had taken aconlte, laudanum, pare.
goric and chloroform, and too much Of
one of these or combination of them
all killed him.
The engine of train on the Addison
Railroad, Vermont, jumped the tracl
last week. and rolled over an embank
ment when near Larrabee's Point. Tn,
engine turned over three times and lodg
ed upside down. Two of the tire,
freight cars followed it, but one freigh
car and passenger car remained on tn
track. None of the passengers wer
injured, but the engineer, the fireman
and another employe of the railroa,
company were killed.
At Hyde Park, Vt. Monday, Judg
Powers announced an important suprem
court decision, to the effect that labor
ers employed on railway have tn
right to attach the personal property c
the road to secure their pay, whic
amounts in equity to first lien, an
. that the appointment of receivers di
not invalidate the claims of the mel
, This decision applies to the Lamoill
Valley Railway, and if the claims /
not paid before the lst of June next a
!. the personal property of the road wi
: be sold to meet the demand.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-22


SERVES EN- RIauT.-Considered how
Justify they called for the dollar of
the daddies, the members of congress
manifest a singular aversion to the coin
now that they can have it. The secretary
of the treasury pays out ten per cent.
of all the salaries in standard silver
dollars and includes the senators and
representatives with the other employees
of the government. Members are so 10th
to load down their pockets with the
heavy money, that the sergeant-at-arms
Of the House has over six thousand silver
dollars in his safe and doesn't know
what to do with them. Treasurer Gill
fillan won't take them back, but keeps
on sending ten per cent of every dis
bursment in the Objectionable coin. The
only way out of the difficulty seems to
be for the members to hire dray to
take the bags of money to their various
residences.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-22

The Gar of all the Russias is report
ed as abont to abdicate Four attempts
upon his life have turned his imperial
crown into a crown of thorns. He is
confronted by gigantic conspiracy per-
vading all ranks, and which aims at the
life of the Car as the first step in the
revolution of the country. 1t would
seem that sceptre held by such ten
ure would hardly be worth the taking.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-22
ESTATE OF CELESTIA U. WHITNEY.
Notice

The undersigned having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District of Orleans
Commissioners to receive, examine, and adjust all
Ceesia n whitney late of Crasbury in said District
deceased and all CLAIMS exhibited in offset thereto
hereby give notice that will meet for the purposes
on the i4th day-of January and l4th day of April
next from O'Clock. until o'clock p M, each
Of said days. and that six months from the l4th day
July A. D. 1879 is the time limited by said Court for
said creditors to present their claims to for
nation and allowance.
Dated at Craftsbury VT. this 2Sth day OF November
A. d. 1879.
os, 4 Au r RTTTS MORSE. Commissioners.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-22

will convert an old feather bed worth S. into
worth Sl5 l remained in Lyndon five months, and
renovated 400 beds. stopped at West Burke thirteen
weeks and renovated 225 beds.
The public are invited to step in and see how the
work is done. Bring in your beds.
Perfect satisfaction guaranteed
Barton Nov. IS, 1879.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-22
FEATHER BEDS
RENOVATED BY STEAM.

Having just put up Steam Renovator in the old
J. w. Hall store, 1 am prepared to make old
feathers into Ones making them perfectly clean,
pure and healthy and double in bulk. have carried
on this business nearly six years. have renovated
thousands Of BEDS pillows, &C., and no person
vet regretted the small expense required to convert
dirty fattened old feathers into new ones, "soft as
dowDy Dilloys are"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-22
Views, Views,
VIEWS.
Soc, 75e. and $lOO per dozen

Ihave about fifty dOzeI|
StereOscOpic Views which
will sell from now until
Jan. 1, 1880, at the abOyd
prices--all new and every
one perfect. They cOnsis
of some of the best sceneT j
i'm the world, includin !
some very nice views q
Bible Lands. This is d
rare chance to get vieWs|
as the above prices are les
than One-half the cost Of
them by the gross.
Room i'm the Skinner i
Drew block, first door !;
head of stairs.
j. N. WEBSTER.
Barton, Dec. 15, 1879.
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l. w. ENGLAND, Publisher of sThe SUM- New York; City
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-22
w A N TED.

$4,000 feet dry brown ash boards and plank; al
once, which will pay cash or goods at cash price.
C. F. PERCIVAL. Barton. VT.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-22

Resolved That while the convention appreciates
the fidelity of all Its officers, during the past year.
desire especially to express thanks to the Cores
ponding Secretary, A. j. Albee for his persevering
efforts to secure organized, systematic efficiency of
all the schools in the county.
Resolved End. That convinced as we are of the
great value Of complete organization. most
earnestly and afectonately exhort those Sunday
schools in the county who have associated them
selves with us, even SO far TO the enquiries
of our Secretary, to come with US, that may do
them good. and that they may do us good
Resolved 3d. That the statistics of our society show
ing that less than one-haf of the children in Sab
bath school, and our knowledge of the greater need Of
Christian instruction, both here and in less favored
regions, make all determined henceforth as
individual Christians to try rescue the perishing
for the dying" that may snatch them in pity
| from sin and the grave"
Resolved 4th. That the THINKS of the convention be
extended to the good friends Of this pleasant valley
village for their cordial hospitality and that assure
them of our continued interest and prayer for their
| special welfare.
A resolution was presented by Rev.
Mr.. Somerville thanking Bro. Chamber
lin for his efficient direction of the
singing of the convention, which was
adopted.
After singing by the children, J. N.
Daggett was invited to address them.
His remarks were pleasing. and rivited
the attention of the children, and evi.
IDENTIFY made impressions on their minds
Rev. Mr.. Chaplin next spoke to the chill