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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29

mind wherever the people are power
in the Government; and elsewhere the
rulers coupled with their tributes to
successful commander and an ex-Presi-
dent professions of goodwill toward the
United States. Americans have out
grown much of the sensitiveness which
once charterized them in connection with
foreign opinion, but for some months at
least they followed the record of Gen.
Grants course with grati6ed interest.
They felt that every mark of respect and
distinction which he received in some
degree belonged to themselves. The
self-respect and quiet good sense, the
mingled courtesy and independence, the
fidelity to republican conviction in the
midst of temptations that had proved
too strong for some who had preceded
him, were recognized as evidence of quail
tiles which had sometimes been obscur-
ed in the midst of partisan strife. 1t is
fortunate for Gen. Grant and for the
party that made him President that the
proposal to convert his return into a
means of forestalling an exciting politi-
cal incident of next year not only received
no adequate encouragement, but was in
dignantly secuted as an affront to the
party in whose name 1t appeared, and to
the General whose ambition its authors
pretended to consult. The Republic is
not in so desperate strait that there
could be any decent excuse for anticipat-
ing the preference of either the party or
the people. Whatever may be the tu-
ture of Grant and of his relations to pub
lie affairs, he has reason to be thankful
for the failure of the scheme whereby a
corrupt crowd of politicians intended to
use him in manner characteristic of
themselves for, purposes against which
his honest judgment must revolt. The
best compliment we can pay him is to
assume that the absence of all partisan
coloring from the enthusiastic greeting
given him by San Francisco is in har-
mony with his desires. He is glad to
be at home again. and that welcome is
most worthy of him which is the broad
est in its scope and terms. Only thus
can we evince national appreciation of
the man whom rulers and people in Eu-
rope and Asia have gone out of their way
to honor. He must himself be conscious
of the effect upon his own standing of
the light in which he has lived.
A refusal to re-enter partisan life on
the plane to which the men who are
anxious to use him are accustomed does
not imply cessation Of Gen. Grants
influence and usefulness. On the con-
trary, it is the prelude to both.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29
HAYES ON BUSINESS PROSPECTS.

President Hayes, in his speech at
Cincinnati, after saying that the present
was most suspicious period in the his
tory of the country, expressed himself
as follows. Possibly those who have
been brooding over business prospects
may CLEAN encouragement from his
words:
The great business depression which
followed the financial crisis of 1873,
after five long and anxious years of dis
tress, embarrassment and bankruptcy,
has at last been succeeded by revival
of prosperity which is surely and rapidly
extending to every branch of useful
industry. With all values measured
and steadied by currency which is
worth its face in the markets of the
world; with business no longer perplexed
and crippled by an uncertain and fuct-
uating standard with credit which,
according to Daniel Webster. is "the
vital air of modern commerce" upon a
sound and stable basis-which has
restored hopefulness and confidence,
shared alike dy the capitalist, by the
business man and by the laborer with
agricultural crops and products abund-
ant and readily saleable at fair paices.
with our manufacturers seeking and
finding market in foreign countries to
an extent never known before with our
national burdens of debt, expenditure
and taxation heanming -avA-y-5ss-l~--
difficult to manage and carry; with our
country maintaining its honorable and
peaceful relations with all mankind,
the merchants, the manufacturers, and
the working-men of Cincinnati may well
be congratulated that at such time
their countrymen have assembled from
far and near to enjoy and to be instruct
ed by this great exhibition.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29

citizen of Ohio. Sweet, modest, retiring
in his manners, he wanders about among
the machinery, in the art rooms, through
floral hall, wearing a happy, contented
look. and meeting expressions of respect
and reverence on every hand.
1t is too soon to describe the Exposi-
tion-perhaps description will be out of
place altogether, for do not know as
there remains reader of the MONITOR
who did rot ''do" the Centennial Expo
position, and all such are, of course,
surfeited with knowledge. Probably our
Cincinnati show isn't more than half as
large as was the Centennial in which
you took hand but we won't Charge
you only half as much, the admission
fee being reduced to ''two bittee, as the
Chinaman would say, which, emancipat-
cd from his pigeon English, means the
modest sum of twenty-five cents.
Had you been here last week you
could have attended the convention OF
the Liberals and Socialists. Perhaps
neither party has many representatives
among the green hills of Vermont, but
some of the trusts of faith they proclaim,
and some of their projected reforms are
about as "crazy like as the blow and
buster Of the Greenback clubs which
went wandering around in the fog Of
their own ideas up in the Third District
By the by, are greenbackers as plenty ur
there now as they were on last election
dav Or there-a- bouts
BLUE HERRoN.
P0rkop0ES, Sept. 16, 1879.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29
GEN. GRANTS RETURN.

Gen. Grant arrived in San Francisco
on Saturday, Sept. 20, and since that
time has been the guest of the city.
Never in the history of America, unless
it may have been during LaFayette's
visit has there been such manifestations
of respect and honor shown to a living
man. For days the city was waiting in
excitement for the arrival of the steam
ship which was bringing our esteemed
citizen to our shore, after visit to all
the renowned countries of Europe and
Asia, and when the announcement was
made by the ringing of bells and the
booming of cannon that the ship was
sighted at sea, the entire population of
the great city was ready to greet the
chieftain and statesman. An extended
account of the proceedings would be too
long for our space, suffice to say that all
was done that the citizens of the Pacific
shore could do to make the welcome
friendly, becoming and magnificent. The
comments of the N. Y. Times below are
very appropriate aud interesting:
The welcome accorded to Gen. Grant
by the authorities and people of San
Francisco is an appropriate termination
of tour in many respects remarkable.
Neither he nor they could have imagined,
at the period of his departure from Phil
adelphia, that journey undertaken fol
ordinary purposes would gradually be
converted, by the influence of events
into a progress possessing great national
significance. 1t was known that prepa
rations were going on in English cities
and in two or three parts Of the European
Continent for the reception with becom
ing honor of one who added to tn,
achievements Of great soldier the lustr
twice impaired to his reputation by tn
votes Of the American people. Gen
Grants modesty led him to disavow tn
personal aspects of the attention he re
ceived. He chose to regard it as trit
ute of friendship and admiration of hi
country. of which he became the illus
trious representative. The country an
the man were associated in the popula
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29
IS73--1S79. THE BETTER TIMES
COME.

1t is just SIX years this month since
the panic, it has been called, or, proper
ly, the financial reaction and depression
began in this City, and soon extended
throughout the country. In September,
1878, Jay Cooke & Co., were the first
bricks that tumbled down, and many
other banking bricks, all over the land,
followed straightway. Six years ago
the Stock Exchange was closed conf
dence was nearly paralyzed credit sore
ly crippled. and the Republic in COM
mercial distress. The first thought was
that confidence would be restored, and
that business would revive in a few
months, at farthest. But the exact
contrary proved true. The second year
was worse than the first; the third worse
than the second. Failures everywhere
increased; prices declined more and
more; general dullness augmented the
dependency of merchants, bankers,
manufacturers, agriculturists, steadily
deepened. Even real estate, always re-
garded as the basis of value, was stag
nant; it could not be sold at half price !;
its largest owners suffered from poverty.
1t seemed as if the monetary troubles
would never end. The country had
never had such an experience. All talk
and all predictions of better times prov
ed empty. Hopes were excited only to
be disappointed the trade of the land
languishing in spite of every effort to
restore it; many people had well-nigh
come to the conclusion that prosperity
would never return. The Republicans
looked to resumption of specie payments
for relief; the Democrats asseverated
that resumption was impossible. Re-
sumption came, however, and business
has been mending ever since. The con-
trast between September, 1878, and
September, 1879, is very marked. 1t is
more than obvious it is conspicuous al
at all points. Every sort of trade is re.
viving. The Metropolis reflects all
cities and towns. To-day, the bushes;
quarters here are thriving. The down
town streets and wharves are crowded
with bales, boxes, packages, with drays
carts, trucks. The hotels are full, ex
ports are enormous, money is active, new
building are going up, houses are il
demand, immigrants are coming in man
ufactories that have been closed for year
have resumed active operations, the Re
public has PROFESSIONALLY entered upol
new era of prosperity, the long-looked
for. constantly deferred better time
have actually come at last; the Unite
States stand forth at present as one q
the most favored and thriving countrie
on the globe. Every American citize
: is encouraged and in good spirits, unles
, it be the Democrat who feels that hi
party shall be beaten by the ripenes
| and success of the entire land in til
= face of all his lugubrious prophecies
5 Nea0 York Times. Sept. Is.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29

A letter from South Carolina reports
the attempted assassination of Frederick
Nix, Jr., postmaster at Blackville. in
that State. He is leading Republican,
was active in helping to bring the Ku-
Klux to trial in the United States courts,
and was subsequently made postmaster.
On the 10th, one Willimans. notorious
Red-Shirt leader, entered the postoffice.
called loudly for his mail, and ordered
Postmaster Nix to hurry up. When the
postmaster turned to get Willimans'
mail, the latter reached through the
delivery window, and tried to shoot the
postmaster in the back. The ball went
through his arm. and ploughed across
his breast. Willimans than left the
Office, and no attempt was made to arrest
him, the town authorizes refusing to act
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29
ASH SETS


comprise some nice styles of Quee|
Anne and Eastlake patterns; and hi
can sell better BLACK WALNUT
SET for the money, than can bi
bought of any other dealer. He USE
only first class stock and employ
first class workmen, and charges a ia !
profit and has only one price whicl
brings his goods at low figure ia
first class work.
In Upholstery goods he can Civ
better prices and far better work thai
parties can who buy in Boston AM
get goods that are only made to sci
and get out of sight, without any r{
gard to future reputation. He is tn
only party that manufactures upho
stery goods in this county, and VIII
keeps in stock, frames, covers, DC. L
this way customers can have an
priced covers, and any style of frame
they want, and pay for just what the
get. A new lot of PARLoR SUIT'
Patent Rockers, Lounges, Sofas, Rock
Parlor Chairs, &C., are now ready TO
inspection, both on the Fair Groun
and at his extensive ware rooms, col
ner of Main and Water streets. ID
not think you have seen all the Ia
until you see the nice casket and otht
goods shown in Mechanics Hall an
at Percival's ware rooms.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29

The White Mountain hotels are clos
ing a most successful season. A rough
estimate places the money expended by
visitors in the mountains the past sum-
mer at 81 100000. about $4,000 of
which was paid to the Profile, Glen.
Crawford, Fabyan and Twin mountain
houses. Snow fell on Mt. Washington
Saturday afternoon.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29

Twelve men, Weston, Rowel, Ennis
and other noted pedestrians. walked for
the international belt in New York last
week. Saturday at 2 p. m. the score
cfood 90 folInws
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29

That remark Of the President's-"The
lawlessness which to-day assails the COL
ored man will tomorrow find other vic.
ms''-will strike the majority of people
as a very pertinent remark.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29

President Hayes is swinging around
the circle and receiving great ovation
everywhere he goes.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29

wish to call the attention Of the ladies of Barton
and vicinity that am now in my shop and ready to
commence business. l have just received large
line OF
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29

Real estate. acres, 8, 162, 43S
appraised at. ............ S7l.ol1sS1
Personal estate appraised at. l5,Si5.533
$50, 1854
One per cent. of which is.... 1856, 1856 IA
Add polls. ...... rs, 295 at So 14e,590
Less deduction. ............. 31ls-143.472 90
List of State taxes......... Sl.0o7. 4o7 IA
AS compared with the grand list of
1878 we find an increase in the number
of polls of l, LOB; increase in the value
of real estate, S16S,595; decrease in
personal property. 81. 469.590; decrease
in total list, Sll.1S5.
MIR. Wallace w. Wilmot sawyer in
Fitzgerald's mill, Brighton, met with
most painful accident last Saturday.
1t appears that he was wiping some oil
from the friction pulley which runs the
'haul up" wheel, when his right hand
was caught aid pulled in between the
pulley and wheel, and held there by
their rapid revolution until some one
ran into the engine room and had the
steam shut off Then, the machinery
running light, it took some two or three
minutes to stop it, Mr.. Wilmot's hand
was SO firmly held between the pulley
and wheel that it was impossible to
remove it even after the machinery had
stopped until a piece of joist had been
sawed off, making some five minutes
that his hand was held in this terrible
position. The flesh on the inside of
his hand was all worn off to the bones,
but fortunately none of the latter were
broken. Happily the back Of the hand
is whole. and DR.. Adams has hopes Of
saving it. Mr.. Wilmot may be sci
down as a man of good courage, for he
walked nearly half a mile before having
his hand dressed, and on Tuesday was
quite cheerful in the prospect of getting
around again in three or four months
Herald.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29
THE WALK.

Porkopolis. Sept. 16, 1879.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-05-18
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, May 17.-Chief
Justice Waite left for Charleston
last night to preside on the bench
of the United States Circuit Court
for South Carolina until the 10th
inst. Ex-Gov. Chamberlain, of
South Carolina, and several other
prominent lawyers who have cases
at Charleston to argue before the
Chief Justice, also left for that city
last night. From Charleston the
Chief Justice will 90 to New York
to perform circuit duty for Associate
Justice Hunt.
The House Committee on Foreign
Affairs authorized Mr.. Wilson, of
West Virginia, to report to the
House, with favorable reccommen-
dations, the joint resolution pro-
viding for further treaty negotia-
tions with the Government of Mexi-
CO. The resolution provides for per-
fecting postal arrangements between
the two countries, and authorizes the
President to appoint as many COM
missioners as he may deem neces-
sary to carry out the requirements
of the measure. The salary of such
officers is not to exceed five thou
sand dollars.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-05-18
MARYLAND.

BALTIMORE, May 17.-The ninth
annual Conference of general Sec
retaries of the Young Mems Chris
tan Associations of the United
States convened here, and will con-
tinue its sessions until Tuesday.
There are about one hundred pres
ent, including representatives from
many of the principal cities of the
country, also gentlemen from Ca-s
ada, Switzerland, Germany, and
Australia. These conferences are
held for the discussion of gu tions
of Importance to the Associations
present. This meeting of Secre-
taries is preliminary to the assem-
bling Of the biennial international
Young Mems Christian Association
on Wednesday next.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-05-18
MICHIGAN.

DETROIT, May 17.-The commit
tee appointed by the Legislature to
investigate the case of the expul-
sion of Catholic pupils from the
Flint Asylum for tho Deaf, Dumb
and Blind, concluded It's labors last
evening, deciding that the arguments
of counsel will be heard at Lancing
on Friday next. The Trustees of
the Institute have passed a
resolution reinstating the expelled
pupils, and allowing them
all freedom and privileges pertain
ing to their religious belief. The
expulsion was in consequence of the.
Catholic pupils to participate in the
commencement exercises at the In
stitute, at which they would be re-
quired to join in singing the Eng
lish translation of Mozart's mass,
the action of the pupils being in
accordance with the advice of Rev.
Robert W. Saine, Catholic priest of
Flint parish.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-05-18
KNOXVILLE TENN. SUNDAY MORNING MAY Is. 1879

ested. The parts can not be better
than the whole. The people are the
parts, the State is the whole. Loss
of credit to the State loses credit
to the individual who helps to make
the State. The people are the State,
and if we would prosper and develop
the great natural resources of our
State, our citizens and corporations
must have credit. The State, as a
sovereignty does not need it and
could not use it. The Constitution
practically inhibits it. But our
State as representative Of our COM
mercial and business enterprises,
our manufacturing and agricultural
interests must have it. With it
comes progressto to all industries of the
country. Without it every branch
of industry languishes and droops,
until stagnation ensues. That we
will settle the debt we do not doubt.
That we will do all we can do to res
store our credit we regard equally
certain.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-05-18
CONNECTICUT.

New YORK, May IA special
from Norwich, Conn, says : At
the trial of Wesley W. Bishop, for
the murder of his wife, set down for
Tuesday next, the plea of
guilty of murder in the second dc,
gree will be offered and accepted
by the States Attorney. For at
least four months the States Attor-
ney has had a standing offer from
Bishops counsel to plead guilty to
murder in the second degree if mat"
ters were allowed to drop there.
This the States Attorney for long
time persistently rejected. There
is now reason to believe he has ac~
cepted the proposition, and Tuesdays
proceedings will consist simply of
a formal and legal ratification of
this agreement.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-05-18
Chancery Sale of a Valuable
River Farm in Knox County,
Tennessee.
Nos. 3137 and 320s.

NJ. M. Alexander. Guardian. We. j. A. Brooks et
al and A. j. Wilson, Guardian, ct al vs. j. A
Brooks ct al.
DURSUANT TO AN INTERLOCUTORY De
l. cree pronounced in these consolidated causes
at the January term. 1879 of the Chancery Court
at knoxvihe Tenn. will sell, at public auction,
to the highest bidder. in ont of the court house
door in knoxville
THURSDAY, 10TH DAY OF JUNE NEXT
at II o'clock a. M, the tract of land mentioned
and described in the plsIzdings, lying in the -
civil district of Knox county, Tennessee, On the
north side of the Tennessee (formerly Holston)
River adjoining the lands of James s. Boyd.
Haws and others, containing thee hundre /
acres, more or less.
TERMS.
Said sale will be made subject to the home
stead rights of J. A. Brooks and wife (Which has
been assigned to them) and will be made upon a
credit Of +, IL. Is and "A months and in bar of the
equity of redep ton, taking from the purchaser
notes with good security. and retaining a lien as
further security for the purchase money. Said
land will be sold first in three several tracts
according te the plat FLED, made by o. g. Van
derhoof in IA, to>wit: tract No. 1, 1914 acres;
No. 2, 53.1 acres and tract No. 8. 22513 acres.
said tract No, will be sold subject to the home
stead of Jos. A. Brooks, which has been cut of
same. and will then sell the whole tract in one
tract and adopt the sale which produces the
high est price. This i4th day of May, 1879.
may14w4t NJ. L. PATTERSON, c. & M.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-05-18
Cincinnati Market.

CINCINNATF, Nav 16.-Flour strong
Wheat quiet; red, 81 05al 90. Corn in
fair demand and firm. Oats, 32a35c
Pork quiet but firm, and held at 1Oc
Lard; current make, $615. Bulk
meats quiet; shoulders, $3 55a3 60
$3573 cash to sellers for June; short
ribs, $4.65a4 20; short clear ribs, Acc
Bacon; shoulders. Ale; clear ribs, sic;
clear sides, 53c. Whisky in good de
mand and shade higher, 500. But.
ter dull and dropping; the heavy re-
ceipts have depressed the market.
Sugar steady and unchanged. Hogs
steady and firm; common, So 50s3 20;
light. $3 20a35O
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-05-18

By telegraph to the N. Y. Tribune
WASHINGTON, May Ex-senator
Hill in his recent speech came very
near proving that he had always
been a White-sould Union man and
that 81. Chandler" was the guilty
original cause of the recent quarrel
between the sections. The follow
ing resolutions, which were intro
duced into the Confederate Senate
in October, 1862, by the gentleman
from Georgia, will now be of gen.
eral interest:
1st. That every person pretend
ing to be a solder sn officer =
the United Stats who shall be cap
tured on the soil of the Confederate
states after the 1st day of January
1868, shall be presumed to have er-
tered the territory of the Confeder>
ate States with intent to incite
insurrection and to abet murder,
and unless satisfactory proof be ad-
duced to the contrary, before the
military court before which the tr' al
shall be, had, he shall suffer death.
And this section shall continue in
force until the proclamation issued
by Abraham Lincoln, dated Wash
ington, September %, 1862, shall
be rescinded.
End. Every white person who shall
act as commissioned or non-com-
missioned officer commanding ne
groes or mulattoes against the Con-
federate States, or who shall arm,
organize, train or prepare negroes
or mulattoes for military service, or
AID them in any military enterprise
against the Confederate States shall,
Il captured, suffer death.
ord. Every commissioned or nom
commissioned officer of the enemy
VINO shall incite slaves to rebellion,
" pretend to give them freedom
under the aforementioned act of
congress and proclamation, by ab-
quoting or causing them to be alb
quoted, or inducing them to abseond !
shall if captured suffer death.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-05-18
MINOR DISPATCHES.

ALLENToN, Pa, May IA
large double breaker and saw-mill
owned by. Pardee & Co., Hazleton,
situated on the estate of A. S. & E.
Roberts, with all the machinery and
two stationary engines, were de-
stroyed by fire last night; loss
twenty-five thousand dollars, insur-
ance, twelve thousand.
SAN Francisco, May IA fire
at Chico consumed the Central Ho-
tel, several dwellings and number
of stores and work shops. One man,