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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-24
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Missouri has 1871 convicts in the
penitentiary, and probably as many more
including the James boys. that ought to
be within that penal institution.
The trial of the case of Widow Oliver
against Simon Cameron, for $4,000
damages for breach of promise of mar
riage. was begun in Washington last
Monday. The widow was on the stand.
and charged the venerable Simon with
having seduced her under promise of
marriage.
Six murderers were executed last Fri.
day: Devlin at Cambridge, Mass, Pink
ham at Concord, N. H., Gravelin at
Windsor. VT, Chinaman in California,
and two white men in Oregon. There
was nothing remarkable or sensational
in any of the circumstances attending
the hanging of any of these men.
A prairie fire near Aberline, Kan,
last Thursday night. came near destroy
ing the town. A high wind drove the
fame directly into the town, destroying
large amount of fencing, and a couple
of houses. A man named Lebold lost
700 bushels of corn, and 10000 bushels
of wheat. stored just outside of the city.
The total loss to property will be more
than 100000.
A wrestling match between J. H. Nc.
Laughlin of Detroit. Mich. and John
McMahon of Rutland. Vt. for $500 and
the championship of the world, came off
at Boston Wednesday, about 5000 per-
sons being present. Mclaughlin won
the first fall by a grape vine lock after
one hour and five minutes of fine work,
and Mcmahon the second by hip-lock
in ffty-6ve minutes. The referee de-
clared the match draw.
Thomas Doolan, l7.years- old boy
employed in the spooling room of the
Glasgow mill at South Hadley Falls,
Mass, with another boy, stole ride
on the elevator, against the strict rule
of the company. While descending. the
belt which runs the elevator slipped,
and it began to "run." Doolan atempt-
ed to spring out at the spooling room.
but was caught by the head and shout
ders between the top of the elevator and
the floor of the room, and instantly
crushed to death.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-24
DIR. HOSKINS ON HIS GREEN
BACKISM.

Friend Blake: | suppose | must
thank you for your courteous reference
to me in your editorial upon Barlow,
though why you do SO, when nobody
knows better than you, my opposition to
Mr.. Barlow's candidacy, | cannot tell.
1t is true am ''greenbacker in the
fundamental sense of believing that the
Republican party gave US a good thing
when it replaced the old state-bank
money with national notes. But as you
also know very we'll that | am hard
money man and staunch resumptionist,
as we'll as anti Barlow man, it looks
little like malice in you to put me for
ward as if sympathizing with the foolish
vagaries, which some advocate, who are
called greenbackers.
Consequently, Though as l am not a
politician it may not be of much conse-
quence), l think justice requires that |
be allowed to say to your readers that
the greenbacker in my museum" does by
no means belong to an extinct class. The
infationist, anti-specie-payment green
back movement is, as you say, very
much on the decline, if not dead. But
if you think the kind of greenbackism
which favors returning to strictly ma
tional or greenback paper currency (by
replacing the national bank issues with
greenbacks) is dead, all | have got to
say to you is 'just wait and see. It is
true, the bank interest is hard one to
fight. Perhaps it will be able to buy
up men enough in this new Congress
who were elected to overthrow it, but |
doubt the fact. Let me advise you, and
all bank men, not to halloo till you are
out of the woods. Yours truly,
T. H. HosKINs.
DR.. Hoskins seems to take our playful
allusion to his "Greenbackism" as a
personal thrust. Not at all. We thought
our readers might remember his green
back theories, as advanced in these col
umns some time since, and so spoke of
his museum (all these scientific fell
lows have cabinet or museum) as the
place where he would be likely to put
his greenbackism, now that the thing is
becoming political fossil.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-24

1t is stated that recent confessions
which are to be used in prosecutions
against ballot box frauds in Florida
show that the democrats in 1876 made
changes in the returns of one county
sufficient, if they we're corrected to con-
form to the vote, to take the state out of
the list of doubtful in the election of
1876 and make it Republican on the
face or the returns by so large MAORI
ty that if everything which the demo
Gratis claimed before the canvassing
board has been conceded to them the
Republicans would still have been hun.
dreds ahead.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-24
THE CASE OF BISHOP PURCELL.

The default of Catholic prelate in
pecuniary matters is of very rare occur
renee, and the case of Archbishop Pur-
cell in Cincinnati is peculiar and dis
tressing one. His zeal for the church
and for building new and expensive
church ediices in his diocese seems to
have altogether run away with his dis
erection. His affairs eliminated the other
day, and receiver was appointed. The
claims against him keep piling in, and
it is now thought that they will reach
$5,000,000. His available assets ap.
pear to be only about 100000, so that
were it not for his priestly dignity he
would be, doubtless, the boss bankrupt
of the times. He has acted as sort of
savings bank for his people, and the
laboring classes have deposited their
money with him in preference to the
bank, yet he kept no book, gave merely
receipts for the money deposited, and
was SO careless and fOrgetful that he re-
paid sums without taking any acknowl-
edgement, and in one case loaned $14,-
900 with no security, not even taking
note, but simply the receipt of the
man who borrowed the money. The
Catholics generally, even those who lose
their all by him, exonerate him from
any Intentional dishonesty, and there is
an organized movement among Their
clergy to raise the money to repay the
unfortunate depositors.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-24
t st. Johns the first man to give us

At st. Johns the first man to give US a
hearty welcome, and who aided us in
obtaining our charter, was Mr.. Edward
M. Archibald, then Prime Minister of
Newfoundland, and now for more than
twenty years the honored representative
of Her Majesty's Government at this
port, who is also here tonight. 1t is a
matter for grateful acknowledgment that
we spared to see accomplished the work
that we began, and that we can meet
now at the end of quarter of century
to look with wonder at what has been
wrought since in other parts of the
world.
'.One thing only remains in which
hope to be spared to take a part, the
laying of a cable from San Francisco to
the Sandwich Islands, for which l re-
ceived this very day concession from
King Kalakaua, by his Minister, whom
We greet tonight, and from thence to
Japan, by which the Island groups of
the Pacific may be brought into com
munication with the continents on either
side. Asia and America, thus completing
the circuit of the globe
The enterprise alluded to in this last
sentence is already considered an assur-
ed success, and when it is brought to
completion America will have more than
fulfilled Puck's famous boast about put
ting girdle round the earth in forty
minutes.
The remains of Mr.. Bayard Taylor
late Minister to Berlin, arrived in this
| city late on the afternoon of Thursday
by the Hamburg steamer "Gellert, and
were escorted to the City Hall by an
immense procession embracing all the
prominent German element, in fact,
largely predominated, although there
was no lack of native citizens among
those who assembled to do honor to his
memory. Mr. Taylor's position was
unique in that he was regarded with
strong and as nearly as possible equal
affection by two widely separated ma
tions. Without ever abating one jot Of
his Americanism he was at the same
time German, not indeed by naturali-
cation papers, but by the common con.
sent of that whole people, which in his
case meant great deal more.
Arrived at the City Hall, which to-
gether with the Tribune building dis
played flags at half-mast, lay in state
until Friday noon, wheni it went forward
to its last resting place near the family
home in Pennsylvania. RADIx
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-24
TIE PAST WINTER.

Winter has been stern in all quarters
thus far. 1t has swooped down to pinch
Florida's orange groves, and gives the
whole South more snow and ice than it
has had in a generation. The great
cattle herds of the plains have especial
ly suffered, all the way from Colorado
to Texas. Thousands of them are an
nually turned out to winter without
shelter, and with only such food as they
can root out of the dry grasses under
the snow. In open winters this does
we'll enough, but this season the carcass
es of the dead cattle killed by starvation
and frost, lie thickly strewn in Colorado
and Texas. In the Ohio valley, also,
quail and other small game have been
frozen by cold 10 and 20 degrees below
zero, which has also killed the peach
trees. The wheat fields have been safe,
however, buried under 20 inches Of
snow. In Michigan the old people dc
not recall such a winter for half a cen.
fury. Strange to say, in the midst Of
all this arctic weather, Duluth has in
some measure justified Proctor Knots
famous eulOgy by keeping an open har.
Dor. though every thing else on the great
lakes has frozen solid.
Across the Atlantic there is the same
testimony. French as we'll as British
railways have been blocked by snow
and in Europe, as in the United States
the winter Of 1889 will 60 on records
as one most notable for its great colo
and deep SHOWS.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-24

If Mr.. Barlow chooses SO to do, he
can so represent the great majority of his
constituents as to bring credit to Yer
mont. and honor and esteem to himself.
-Monetor.
He sosN do it. but it is the very last
thing the Monitor wishes him to do
Citizen.
The election of Speaker was then at
once proceeded with. The greatest IN
terest was manifested in the votes of the
Greenbackers and of two or three Demo-
Gratis who had threatened to 60 with
them. The first of these men whose
name was reached was Mr.. Barlow, of
Vermont. He recorded his vote for
Judge Kelley. The Nationals straight
outs), with the exception of Smith. of
New Jersey. cast their ten votes solidly
for Hendrick B. Wright, and they were
also reinforced by Judge Kelley, Mr.
Stevenson, of Illinois, and Mr.. Ladd, of
Maine Mr.. Smith. of New Jersey, who
has been claimed by the Nationals, de-
serted them and voted for Randall.
When the roll call was completed, the
vote stood: Randall l43, Garfield l25,
Wright Ii. Kelley l, absent and not
voting 5.-N. Z. Tribune.
Remember this fact, Mr.. Barlow
throws away his first vote.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-24
EXECUTIONS IN VERMONT.

There were, previous to 1889, five
executions in Vermont. The first took
place in Bennington, In 177s-Davld
Redding. The second, Cyrus B. Dean,
in 1903, in Burlington. The third. in
1918, Samuel E. Godfrey, in Woodstock.
The fourth-Virginia-a colored man,
in st. Adams, in 1920. In 1889, Arch
ibald Bates, at Bennington, which was
the last public execution in the State
and the circumstances attending this
murder were very similar to those for
which Buzzell is soon to be executed in
New Hampshire. The number of per-
sons who gathered to witness this execu-
tion was estimated to have been some
$4,000. The Legislature, soon after,
passed the law that all executions should
be within the prison yard at Windsor.
Since 1889, there have been five execu-
lions. Sandy Kavanagh and William
Barnet, both for wife murder, were exc
cuted at the same time, January 20,
1864. March 20, 1868. John Ward,
executed for the murder of Mrs. Girls
void. June %, 1869, Hiram Miller,
for the murder of Mr.. and Mrs. Joshua
G.. Gowen, in Acutneyville, and Henry
Welcome, for the murder of Perry Rus.
sell, January 20, 1871. There still re-
main in the State Prison four more under
sentence of death: John Phair, April
4th; Asa Magoon, November %, 1879
Edward Tatro. the first Friday in April
1880; E. c. Hayden in 1881.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-24

Senator Dawes of Massachusetts,, pre-
vious to his departure for Washington to
take his seat at the extra session of
Congress, was asked his opinion of the
prospects of the session and of the polit-
ical situation generally. He anticipates
that We are entering on long and severe
contest, and that before the questions at
issue are settled there is possibility of
our having more than one extra session.
He thinks the President will not be sue
cessfully coerced to abandon his position
and that of the party on the questions at
issue; that Randall will win in the
struggle for speakership; that the green
hackers have no real strength and that
their claim to hold the balance of power
is a mistake; that Senator Jones will
renew the Chinese controversy in some
form at an early date, but that the Pres
ident will veto any proscriptive measures
that may be passed; that the Democrats
will not yield their position in the super
visors' law, and that Thurman stands
the best chance of the Democratic NOM
ination for President because ''he has
political opinions that accord with those
of all sides within his own party"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-24

men know that this spirit exists, but
they see that the ruin of the party will
follow upon premature disclosure of its
strength The cooler-headed Southern
ers understand this only too we'll. After
few years, if all goes we'll with the
Democratic party, the Randalls will be
forced aside and the Blackburns will be
let loose. Tribune.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-24
Business men who are remarking tn

Business men who are remarking the
complete control of Congress by the
South will no doubt, be gratifed to OBJ
serve that Alexander H. Stephens. one
of the most conservative Southern men
in Congress, thinks this Congress should
issue Sat least" s5OO.OOo,OoO in green
backs, as a method of relief for suffer-
ing country. 1t may be that the bust
ness men of the North who have toiled
along the weary road to resumption,
would like to see a Southern President
at Washington, as we'll as a Southern
Congress, and then, again, it may be
that they would not.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-24

The Canadian Government under the
premiership of Sir J. A. Macdonald,
have presented their scheme of protec-
tive tariff for the dominion in the hope
that the national finances will present
better showing. The Tribune in the
following article sees in the success of
scheme possible drawing nearer of the
day when annexation will be an accom-
plished fact:
1t must be borne in mind that the
Confederation has not been successful as
financial experiment. There has been
one Governor General famous for his wit
and tact in post prandial eloquence, and
now there is another who is somewhat
prosier in speech but has an illustrious
lady by his side; and the Provinces
have been brought closer to the Crown
and possibly to another. But the press
ure of hard times is everywhere felt.
Confederation has not brought with it
the blessings of commercial prosperity.
Deficit has followed deficit. The receipts
of the Treasury from ordinary sources of
revenue have uniformly fallen below the
expenditures, and each year the necessi-
ty for further retrenchment in the
budget has been more pressing. If the
Provinces were to stagger under these
burdens much longer, some of them would
be tempted to withdraw from the Con-
| federation, and the Scotch and Irish of
Ontario would swell the ranks of the
feeble annexation party. The Govern
ment could not afford to disappoint the
expectations of the industrial and agri-
cultural classes. An equilibrium be-
tween the revenues and the expenditures
must be restored on paper, if nowhere
else. This was done in the Finance
Minister'S Busget speech. An effort has
been made to break the force of CONNER
cial and financial depression by radical
change in economic policy. American
Protectionists will watch the result with
intense interest.
We are now considering, however, the
political rather than the economic as
poets of this new policy. If it fails, the
Provinces will take less interest in the
scheme of Confederation than they dc
now, and their ardor has already cooled
If it succeeds. they will be brought
nearer to the great nation across the
border which has built up its own in
dustries and opened for itself markets
abroad by enforcing the same system tt
which the Dominion has turned almost
as last resort.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-24
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Allen Brown, of Bridgewater, is 104
years old.
Another large party of Richford young
men are about starting for the West.
Michael Campbell, of st Adams, has
lately lost three children by diphtheria.
E Morton Smith, late local mail agent
at st. Adams, has been removed by ord
er of the Post-ofice Department.
Col. Asa Wentworth of Bellows Falls
has just resigned the Office of town treas
urer, after holding it for SO years.
Jenny Webster, Burlington girl of
%, employed at one of the hotels, has
died suddenly, and she is supposed to
have been poisoned.
Hon Paris Fletcher of Bridport, has
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-24
IN MATTER OF PORTUS B. BAYLEY.
INSOLXENT.

GTA-E OF VERMONT, Court Of Insolvency.
- District of Orleans
Notice is hereby given that POrtus B. Bayey Of
Bloomington, in said District insolvent debtor on
the 9Th day Of March A. D. 1879, adudged by said
Count to be insolvent debtor the petition of
VIM. H. Blasdell, Administrator of Hiram Blasdelrs
Estate creditor of said debtor, and that meeting Of
said debtors creditors to prove their debts and choose
assignees of his estate will be held at the
office of L. H. Thompson in Irasburgh. in said Dis
trict, the I'd day of April A. D. 1872 at o'clock
a.
And that the payment of any debts and the deliver
ing of any property belonging said debtor to him or
for his and the transfer of any property by hm
are forbidden by law
Attest,-EDSON n. CONNAL+
Register of Coult of Insolvency
ol3 for Orleans District.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-24

The financial results of the New York
walking match are likely to stimulate
the walking mania. The entire receipts
reached S54,607. After paying all ex-
penses, the contestants share the remain
der as follows Rowell, $2I 800; Ennis,
$4,000; Hartman, $500; O'Leary,
$1,000. One of the worst effects of the
contest was the amount of gambling
which attended it. 1t exceeded any
thing in the gambling annals of the city.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-24

The United States treasury holds
twenty millions of silver dollars, and
still tho inOrOOOo gooo ON OF the rate Of
two millions month. There are only
six millions of these dollars in circula-
ton. and the demand is very small in
deed. Sooner or later the coinage will
be stopped. Congress knows that it
ought to be stopped now, but it will
hardly get up courage to do what it
should do until after the next presiden-
tial election.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-24
ESTATE OF ISAAC McNEAL.
commissioners Notice.

The undersigned having been appointed by theI
Honorable Probate Court for the District of OrleansI
Commissioners to receive, examine and adjust all
claims and demands of all persons against the esate
of Isaac McNeal, late of Barton, in said District.
deceased and all claims exhibited in offset thereto,
hereby give notice that will meet for the purposes
aforesaid, at the dwelling house of the late Isaac Nc
Neal. in Barton, the 22d day of April and Cd day
of Sept. next, from o'clock p. m until O'Clock, p
each of said days. and that six months from the
5th day of March, A. d. 1879, is the time limited by
said Court for said creditors present their claims to
US for examination and allowance.
Dated at Barton, this 18th day of March, A. D. 1879.
90 GEORGE ORG Nv W. JENNEss Commissioner.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-24
The New York Times has collected

The New York Times has collected
facts in regard to the business outlook
in fourteen Of the leading States of the
Union, which indicates general belief
in the recurrence of prosperous times.
Manufacturing interests are generally
fourishing. Foreign markets are enlarg-
ing, and feeling of confidence is being
enOendered.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-24
PROBATE OF WILL OF MARY B. PIERCE.
State OF VERMONT,

~ OAAOoAn OAobAASbS Do
In Probate Court held at Irasburgh said District,
the 4th day of March, A. D. 1879.
An instrument purporting to be the last viii and
Testament of Mary B. Pierce. late of Barton, in
said district, deceased being presented TO Court by
T. B. Hamilton, the Executrix therein named, for
Probate.
1t is ordered by said Court that all persons concern
ed therein be notified to appear at sessing of said
Court to be held at t. CIRCUITS office in Newport,
the 28th day of March, A. d. 1879, and show
cause, if any they may have against the Probate of
said Will; for which purpose it is further ordered that
copy of the record of this order be published three
weeks successfully in the Orleans County Monitor,
printed at Barton in said district previous to said
time appointed for hearing.
By the CouTt-Attest,
L. H. THOMPSON Judge.
true copy of Record-Attest,
OLE L. II. THOMPSON, Judge.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-24

A checker tournament for the cham
pionship of the state comes off at st.
Adams March 26th, for a checker board
and s35 in prizes.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-24
EXCELLENT
FARM FOR SALE

The subscriber offers of the most desirable farm
for sale that can be found in Orleans County. Said
farm contains 100 ocres consisting of thirty
meadow land which is in state of high cultivation
a good pasture and good wood lot and a sugar or
chard of 500 trees. The farm will keep from l6 to 2
COWS and a team. The buildings were built few
years since at cost of $780, and are in good state
of repair There is good running spring water at both
house and barn. The farm is situated one mile from
Barton Village and is of the most pleasant easy
to be carried on and profitable small farms in the
whole county 1t will be sold at great sacrifice from
the original cost. Terms of payment easy.
HIRAM BAXTER.
Barton. Vt Feh 10 1919 6tf