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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-07-05
MRS. PARTINGTON AT THE
"SOCIABLE."

There was no mlstaklng the costume,
and the fact that the venerable dame
led small boy by the hand confirmed
the impression that Mrs. Partington was
indeed in the assemblage. There was a
momentary lull in the buzz of. conver-
sation, and the party gathered around
the new conner, eager to shake her by the
hand. "Bless me !'' said she, with a
beaming smile, which played over her
face like sunshine over lake, "Bless
me how salutary you are just as you
ought to be at time like this. when
nothing harmonious should be allowed
to disturb your hostilities. You are
very kind. I'm sure, and | am glad to
see you trying to enjoy yourselves. We
had no church sociables in my young
days, but we had huskin' bees, and
quiltin' bees. and apple bees, and"
..Bumble BEES" said Ike, breaking in
like a boy on thin ice s'and though we
had good times. and sociable enough,
goodness knows, when red ears were
found they were nothing to the superfu-
ity of this" There was slight dis
turbance in the circle, as Ike in his
restlessness placed his heel on circum-
| iacent toe, but it was stilled as the mas
| ter of ceremonies came up to introduce
the minister. 'Glad to see you, mad
am" said the minister, II hope you may
find the hour spent with US happy one"
81 know l shall, sir, % replied she, "for
happiness depends very much on how
we enjoy ourselves, and enough of any
thing always satisfies me. How could
l help enjoying myself in a scene of
such life and animosity as this ?" Every
true, madam" "And then the lights,
blazing like a CONSERVATION, and the
music and flowers make it seem like
Pharaoh land"
The minister was called away, and the
master of ceremonies asked Mrs. P. if
she would like ian ice," which she
family heard. IA NICE" she re-
piled, looking at him and hanging on to
the long, as if it were the top bar
of gate; "oh, very" A rush by the
contestants in a game here broke in
between them, the band gave crash
which seemed to start the roof, the mass
of people moved to and fro. Ike started
off with new crony in quest of some
suggested peanuts. and Mrs. Partington
backed into a seat. She looked pleas.
antly upon the moving spectacle through
her own parabolia, her fingers beat time
to the music, and her oil-factories
inhaled the breath of flowers and the
smell of coffee from an adjacent room,
till she was becoming "lost, when she
realized that figure was standing be.
fore her, and a cold spoon was being
thrust into her right hand. It was the
attentive manager, again. with an ice
cream which he invited her to take
"You are very surprising, sir, said she
smiling. 81 was unreasonable at the
moment. Thank you; will. | an
partially fond of ice cream, and this il
MANILA, too, which is my favorite" She
ate with sense of enjoyment caught
from the scene and went away soor
after, when Ike had joined her, will
plethoric pockets, bidding the manager
convey good night from her to th'
party, saying she had enjoyed rea
sociable time.-B. p .Shiiiaber.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-07-05
THORNS AND ROSES.

From morn till night Johns hammer rang,
The tale of labor telling;
But oft he marked, with envious eye,
Squire Hardy's cosy dwelling.
One day the Squire himself came by:
my horse has lost shoe, John,
And that's the least of all my cares,
But cares don't come to you, John.
The lightning struck my barns last nigth;
Ny child near death is laid, John;
Mol life is not what folks suppose,
'Tis not of roses made, john"
And then the Squire rode sadly of,
John watched him in amazement,
And, as he watched, two faces bright
Peeped from the open easement
He heard his wife's voice, sweet and low,
His baby's merry laughter;
John gave his anvil such blow
1t shook each smoky rafter.
81 would not change with Squire" said he,
"For all his land an money;
There's thorns for him as well as me,
But not such roses bonnyw
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-07-05
John w. Murkland.
Barton, vt.
SPECIAL NOTICE.

Now is your time to buy CULTIvATORs and
CHURNs. We make and sell the best made-most
northumberland we think the best Churn in the
United States. It's the Improved Box-no leaking
no packing with cloths-no putting down-butter
all comes eyen-alI clean and neat. Put together
with bolts-iron frames-will last so years. SOLD
ON TRiAL-you will perceive there not be any
humbug about them. II you want a churn, please
try one and oblige,
JOHN w. MURKLAND,
1Iachinist and Founder,
Rnrfnn. VI.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-07-05
THE INQUIs1TIvE SMALL BOY.

The other day lady, accompanied
by her son, very small boy, boarded a
train at Little Rock. The woman had
a careworn expression hanging over her
face like tattered veil. and many of
the rapid questions asked by the boy
were answered by unconscious sighs.
"Ma," said the boy, "that mans like
a baby, amt he ?'' pointing to a bald
headed man sitting just in front of
them.
"Hush.''
"Why must l hush %
After few moments silence "Ma,
what's the matter with that mans
head ?''
"Hush, | tell you. He's bald"
whats bald ?''
"His head hasn't got any hair on it. "
"Did it come off ?"
81 guess so"
"Will mine come off %
Sometime, may be"
"Then I'll be bald, won't I 2"
eyes"
"Will you care ?''
Don't ask so many questions
After another silence the boy exclaim-
ed; "Ma, look at that fly on that man. S
head"
eff you don't hush, I'll whip you
when we get home"
"Look There's another fly. Look at
'em fight look at 'em p
MADAM" said the man, putting
aside newspaper and looking around.
"What's the matter with that young
hyena ?"
The woman blushed, stammered out
something, and attempted to smooth
back the boys hair.
"One fly, two fly, three flies" said
the boy innocently, following with his
eyes basket of oranges carried by the
news-boy."
"Here, you young hedgehog" said
the bald-headed man, .'if you don t
hush I'll have the conductor put you of
the train"
The poor woman not knowing what
else to do, boxed the boys ears and
then gave him an orange to keep him
from crying.
"Ma, have l got red marks on my
head 2"
"I'll slap you again if you don't
hush"
Mister said the boy. after short
silence, "does it hurt to be bald
headed ?'
"YOungster," said the man, 'if you'll
keep quiet I'll give you a quarter"
The boy promised, and the money
was paid over.
The man took up his paper and re
sumed his reading.
This is my bald-headed money,
said the boy. "When | get bald-head
ed I'm goln' to give boys money. Mis-
ter, have all bald-headed men go
money ?"
The annoyed man threw down hi
paper, arose and exclaimed: !: MADAM
hereafter when you travel leave tina
young gorilla at home. Hitherto
always thought that the old prophe
was very cruel for calling the she bear
to kill children for making sport of hi
head, but now | am forced to believ
that he did a christian act. If you
boy had been in the crowd he woul
have died first. If | can't find anothe
seat on this train I'll ride on the COW
catcher rather than remain here
1.-The bald-headed man is gone," sal
the boy. and the woman leaned bac
and blew tired sigh from her lips
Little Rock Gazette.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-07-05
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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-07-05
AN IMITATION OF WORDS
WORTH.

There is a river clear and fair.
'Tis neither broad nor narrow;
1t winds little here and there
1t winds about like any hare;
And then it takes as straight course
AS on the turnpike road horse,
Or through the air an arrow.
The trees that grow upon the shore
Have grown hundred years more;
So long there is no knowing
Old Daniel Dobson does not know
When first these trees began to grow;
But still they grew, and grew, and grew,
AS if they'd nothing else to do
But ever to be growing.
The impulses Of air and sky
Have rear'd their stately heads SO high,
And clothed their boughs with green;
Their leaves the dews Of evening quuff,-
And when the wind blows loud and keen,
I've seen the jolly timbers laugh,
And shake their sides with merry glee-
Wagging their heads in mockery.
Fix'd are their feet in solid earth,
Where winds can never blow;
But visitings of deeper birth
Have reach'd their roots below.
For they have gain'd the rivers brink,
And of the living waters drink.
There's little viii, five years child
He is my youngest boy;
To look ON eyes so fair and wild
1t is very joy
He hath conversed with sun and shower,
And dwelt with every idle flower,
AS fresh and gay as them.
He lolters with the hriar ROSE
The blue-belles are his play-fellows,
That dance upon their slender stem.
And have said, my little viii,
Why should he not continue still
A thing of Natures rearing?
thing beyond the worlds control
living vegetable SOUL
No human sorrow fearing.
1t were blessed sight to see
That child become Willow tree,
His brother trees among.
He'd be four times as tall as me,
And live three times as long.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-07-05
Barton Foundry and Machine Shop.


We make the famous Wooley Plow Is sizes) The
No is his famous premium plow, and all sizes are
just as he made them and all work well and better
than when made by Mr.. Wooley for the reason they
are all ground smooth before leaving the shop. We
also make slde-hl plows, and satisfied that we
can and will give you better plow for your money
than can be bought elsewhere in Vermont. We have
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-07-05
PATENTS.

J. William Mister, Solicitor Of Patents. GIT Seventh
S., or Box 229. Washington. d. @. No fee required
unless Patent is obtained Send for circular Giving
terms, &C. Established 1870
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-07-05
0rlEans County @Onitor,
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
GEO. H. BLAKE,
BARTON, VT.

TERMs.-Strictiy in advance $l.5o per annum. If
not paid in advance S2.00 year. Subscribers living
outside Of Orleans County must remit 10 cents
for postage For convenience In remitting, we will
give credit for year and four months for $780, to
subscribers In tho county and year and three for
S200 to subscribers without the county, when sent
strictly Ia ddUdnce.
RATES OF ADVERTISING made known on application.
Remit by P. o. Money Order, Registered Letter, or
when your subscription expires. and see that your
payments are kept in advance When money is sent
us we shall give you the credit the label at
II the label Is not advanced within two weeks, notify
us by postal card.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-07-05

1t is estimated that the Texas cattle
drive of 1880 will realize to that state
about $3,0OO,OOO.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-18
The Forty-seventh Congress.

The late national canvass has been a
very disappointing one. When it opened
the Democrats believed that they could
elect their candidate for President and
would keep control of both HOUSES Of
Congress. The Republicans would have
been satisfied to have been assured of
the Presidency alone. The Senate was
freely conceded to the Democrats, for
at least half the next Presidential term.
The House was held by the Democrats,
and the Republicans had little hope of
wrestling it from them. 1t has turned
out that the Republicans have not only
carried the Presidency, but have won
back the House, and will possibly make
a tie in the Senate which would give
them the control as the Vice President
would have the casting vote. Their
majority in the House will be from five
to ten. The Senate is now composed of
forty-three Democrats and thirty-three
Republicans total rs. According to
results in the several States on the I'd,
the Democrats will lose one Senator in
each of the following States; Connec-
ticut, Indiana, New Jersey, New York,
Ohio and California. They. have gained
one in Mississippi and one in Nevada.
Net Republican gain four. Making
the vote stand thirty-seven Republicans;
Democtats counting Ma
hone, of Virginia, and Davis, of Illinois.
as Democrats, and assuming that the
Tennessee Legislature will elect regu-
lar Democrat which is somewhat mixed. |
If the Democrats when they had the |
power had removed Kellogg from the
seat to which he was elected by pre-
tended Legislature that even the Hayes
would not recognize,
the Senate would have been held by
the Democracy as 3 breakwater against
Radical encroachments until another
appeal could have been, made to the
people But Ia his case, the rose-water
treatment was resorted to by the Dem
,crsts in order to plaeate Conkling d
Co., and what has it amounted to
Mr.. Jonas, the one rightful Senator
rom Louisiana, is not to blame, nor is
Of the Committee which
Investigated the case, and laid the facts
,are before the Senate. They did their
luty. They warned in time. They
It least can say TO the ghost of the
slain in the house of its
Thou canst not say we did it
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-18
The New York EmbrOgliO.
TIE DEMOCRATIC PROTEST

New YORK, Nov, 8.--The following
circular letter, signed by VIM. A. Fowler,
/ Chairman of the Executive Committee of
the Democratic State Committee, was
issued to-day:
"Reports Of frauds in the elections held
in this city and Brooklyn on the I'd of
November are such that if the frauds re
ported are established the electoral vote of
this State will be cast far Hancock and
English, and steps for a thorough investiga-
tiQn are now being considered. Meantime
we hand herewith the blank form of a
protest, which you will please execute, varied
in substance according to circumstances,
and hand in to the County Canvassers as
early this week as possible, not later than
! Thursday, 18th inst. The form of the
protest is as follows
The undersigned hereby protest against
the allowance of the vote cast for Presiden-
tial electors at the election held November
2, 1880, in, as carvasSed and returned
by the Board of County Canvassers of said
county, for the reason that
We would respectfully request that the
protest may be attached to the return
such vote that we may not be considered to
have by silence aequiesced in those acts.
n. Y. Sun (Dem.
We hear some talk about taking away the
electoral vote of New York from Garfield.
to whom it belongs, and giving it to Han
COCK to whom it does not belong.
Courier-JournalJ
Gen. Hancock, with characteristic gal
lantry and good sense, settles the matter
definitely by declaring that he would not ac-
cePt the Presidency on techRicality. Nor
would we have aim. One experience of
that sort ought to be enough to last the
American people century at least.
GEN. HANCOCK HAS EXPRESSED NO OPINION
RELATIVE TO THE ELECTION.
New YORK, Nov. lin an interview
with Gen. Hancock, at Governors island,
by an associated press reporter this MORN
ing, the General denied that the letter pur-
porting TO have been written by him to an
army officer, at Washington, touching the
New York vote, was written by him, and
said that he was one of the few persona who
could not discuss the Presidential election
at present, without indelicacy. He also
said If there was letter in existence from
him, purporting to be of that tenor, let it
be produced.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-18
The Frauds in New York.

What is reported to be going on in
New York, looking to a challenge of
the Electoral vote of the State, on the
ground of fraud in the registry ofvoters
in New York city, Brooklyn and else
where, and through this, colonization
and repeating to the extent of twenty or
thirty thousand votes, is probably true.
There can be no doubt that there is a
move to enquire into and 10 press the
charge of fraud, and if it has been per-
petrated as alleged, it will be proper
enough to expose it, aHd to invoke the
judgment of the country upon it. But
this as far as the matter will be carried
As majority of the Democrats in 1876,
when they knew that their Electors
were counted out, in Louisiana and
Florida, were not willing to insist upon
Congress counting the vote as cast, and
actually assisted in framing the Electo-
raj Commission expedient by which
the candidate who was not elected.
was carried into the Presidency over the
public judgment against him, it is not
probable that anything more serious
than an investigation will be under
taken by the leaders of the party at this
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-18
The Negro Emigrants to Kansas in a
Bad Fix.

Kansas, that land of the free and home of
the brave, which opened its arms to the OPP
pressed African year or 50 ago, but has
never redeemed the promise that started the
exodus from the South--a free farm and an
outfit of mules-has sent special envoy to
New York to solicit aid for the suffering
blacks. The charitable people of Gotham
are told that, notwithstanding some 10000
of the exodusters have been sent off to other
States large contingent to Indiana,
Notwithstanding the past twelve months,
there are no less than $4,000 negroes in
Kansas still. A very large number of these,
it is stated, are in a condition of poverty
and general wretchedness that is beyond
description, and are certain to endure terri
bic suffering and privation during the
coming winter.--St Louis Republics.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-18
IRIS not Louisiana alone that i in

IT Is not Louisiana alone that is in
terested in BUSTING Kellogg, the usurper,
in order that the place he fills may be
occupied by a legal representative of
the State. If the step is taken at the
approaching session, it viii secure a
Democratic majority in the Senate for
the next two years The New Orleans
States speaks of the matter with point,
saying
If it is proposed to do justice to Louis
lana and to recognize the right of her people
to be represented by men of their choice
there will be no hesitation in ousting Kel-
logg and seating the successor of the late
Judge Spoford. Kellogg has no shadow of
title to the position be now holds, and if he
is retained it will be through the conditions
of an alleged compact between some Repub-
lican and Democratic Senators by which
Gems. Hampton and Butler were quieted in
their Senatorial seats.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-18
The National Democracy.

1t must not be inferred that we COM
cur with Mr.. Walter B. Barker in all
be has said in the communication
printed elsewhere. 1t does not follow
that the Southern Democracy are to
ALLEVIATE themselves from the Northern
Democracy and become strictly a Sec
tional party, because they were defeated
in the Northern States in the late
election, and for the other reasons set
forth by Mr. Barker. Parties are
united on principle, and when the
elements forming them cease to agree
in their ideas of government and of
public polity, they ought to separate.
Not otherwise Until it is shown that
there are irreconciliable differences of
this kind between the Southern and
Northern Democrats we shall be in
favor of preserving the organization
that holds them together. So far as
the course of the Northern Democrats
on sectional issues are concerned, they
have fought the good fight bravely
against the vindictive and proscriptive
legislation of the dominant party. If
they have been borne down by superior
numbers under the influence of the
sanguinary passions aroused by the
war, it is their misfortune as well as
ours-not their fault.
To show the unreasonableness of our
correspondent, it is only necessary to
allude to his complaint that Mr.. Sey-
mour, one of the purest and best men
of this or any other age, was nominated
by the Democracy for the Presidency in
1868. The South participated in that
nomination, and the Convention could
not have made better one. He carried
New York over Grant and would have
been elected President if the Southern
States had been permitted to vote. He
cites the votes of New York merchants
for Garfield in the late election, but
does not say they were Democrats.
They were Republicans, and of course
the Democrats of that section are not
responsible for what they did. The
fact nevertheless remains that the
Democracy carried that city for Gen.
Hancock by upwards Of 40, 900 majority.
Our correspondent places the whole
blame of the loss of the Democratic
victory of 1875 upon the shoulders of
the Northern Democracy, when it is a
matter of record that the Electoral
Commission device, the agency by which
the Fraud was perpetrated, received
the support Of as many Southern as
Northern Democrats. Hon. Ben. Hill
in the gushing letter which has just
been published, claims special credit
for the Southern Democratic leaders in
averting revolution by means of that
scheme. He was an actor in the affair,
and certainly knows where the response
bility, whether for good or evil, belongs.
Probably the discussion Of the tariff,
the currency and internal improvement
questions which should receive the
immediate attention of Congress, will
compel a new adjustment of parties,
and result is the formation of new par
ty lines but the occasion has not yet
arisen. When it does, the concurring
elements will come together and solidify
as naturally as waters seek their level
and run into the same channel.