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Morris tribune., 1880-11-25
Diamond Making.

A New York paper says that trying to
make diamonds will beat least until
they have been made-an interesting
subject to the majority of men. The late
effort of James Mactear, of Glasgow, to
produce diamonds artlfcially is by no
means the first that has been made. The
earliest experiments of any importance
were recent, however-only ffty-two
years since. Latour and Gannall, the
French chemists, then presented pure
pieces OF crystalized carbon to the acad-
emy OF sciences, and caused thereby great
excitement, supposing that the secret OF
making diamonds had been discovered.
The result proved that the small crystals,
although transparent, brilliant and hard
er than quartz, would neither scintillate
nor refract rays of light sufficiently to
render them valuable. Notwithstanding
that they are composed of the same ma
terial as diamonds, they had little beau
ty. They were submitted to the heat
test, as Mactear's crystals were, but, like
his, they underwent no perceptible
change. Champigny, director of the Gel
ebrated diamond firm in Paris,
pronounced them genuine; where
upon followed the great diamond
panic (1S28), which affected the whole
commercial world. A few years later,
the French savant, Despretz. again start
led the world by announcing that he had
produced artificial diamonds. His
method was to fix cylinder of pure car
bon to- the positive pole of a weak Dan
iell pie, and platinum wire to the neg
ative pole, and then to plunge both poles
into acidulated water. In two months
the negative pole was covered with a
black coating, which was sent to Gaudln
(Marc Antoine) to be tested on hard
stones. Mixed with little oil, the black
particles would polish rubies, and as the
diamond alone will do this, Gaudln did
not hesitate to declare the particles dia-
mend Dust, a conclusion generally &C
cepted at the time by men of science.
The question, "Can diamonds be made
alti6cially?' is still open, and many
chemists feel sure that ere long IT will
be answered in the affirmative by exper-
iments absolutely successful. They have
already beea produced in material,
though not in properties. 1t is thought
that these may be obtained by cutting
the crystals differently from what they
are now cut.
Such discovery would not be more
remarkable than the discovery made by
Enguiner (1456) in producing facets, and
perfected by Coster in making planes on
the Koh-l-noor. The effect OF sucn dis
covery may be conjectured by reference
to the diamond panic of 1928. Itwould
revolutionize value, and create prodigi-
GUS commotion In both hemispheres: but
the commotlon would abate in due time,
and good would unquestionably result.
The value OF all diamonds in royal treas
uries, in mercantile, titled and private
hands, and elsewhere, is stupendous. 1t
has been estimated at five billions, or ac-
cording to the French Enumeration, $5,-
0O0,000,000. To destroy capital to that
amount would upset for time the whole
worlds commerce, were the capital ac-
tive. But the capital locked up in dia-
monds is wholly dormant.
Morris tribune., 1880-11-25

umphantIy: "but, you know, you could not
upon large scale plant corn in any way at
all approaching this; and, even if you could
do so, the land would not be ready in Sep
tember.''
As matter of fact, any ordinary corn
drill may be easily arranged as to plant prac-
tically and without unusual expense in the
manner described, Besides the developed
ears containing more than double the num-
ber of grains, the mere comparative size of
the grain thus grown is such as alone to give
40 per cent. increase Of crop.
Under this system, too, the improvement
obtainable by selection would tell enormous.
ly. FRED. e. HALLFTT.
Morris tribune., 1880-11-25

ohe country in search Of the estrays
and succeeded in finding a NUN
Der OF them in the city, some in adjacent farm
houses, while at Kasota nine were found in q
body, all evidently highly pleased at what
they considered huge frolic. Two men were
found by farmer about four miles from the
asylum, with their feet and hands badly froz
en- Their names were John Ford and Henry
Miles. They may have to suffer amputation.
They received immediate and kind attention.
Several others had suffered frost bites, but
they were not of a serious nature. 1t is esti-
mated that there are now from thirty five to
forty patients missing, some of whom may be
lying dead beneath the ruins.
Morris tribune., 1880-11-25

The Ehenne sugar refinery in Nantes,
France, burned the 18th. Loss /, 500 600 francs.
The Marquis of Sligo has removed all
his valuables from Westport, and Iwill reside
in London until the agitation in Ireland Is
ended.
A Dublin telegram OF Nov. IL, says
an additional reward Of 95OO has been offered
for the discovery of the murderer of Lord
Montmorris.
A detachment Of 400 British troops
has been sent into county Galway, ireland.
on account Of rumors that arms are being fur.
nished the people from America
The great trial Of nihilists, including
persons accused Of being authors Of the explo-
sion on the Moscow railway and In the winter
Morris tribune., 1880-11-25

PRES. ANDREW D. WHITE, of Cornell
University, the United States minister to
Germany, is writing Life of Thomas
Jefferson" to form one of series of BIZ
ographies of the founders of the American
Republic, to be published during the
coming winter. Professor Goldwin Smi tn
is to write "Life of George Washington, !"
for the same series.
Morris tribune., 1880-11-25

THE number ofcandidates examined in
music during the last twelve menths by
the various English examination bodies
is unusually large. Trinity College, Lon,
don, heads the list, with 5,669; the Uni
versity of Cambridge comes next, with
500; and the University of Oxford last,
with ss1; the combined total being 1871
candidates,
Morris tribune., 1880-11-25

Mr.. Stage, the portrait painter, has
just finished portrait of Judge Richard
son, of the Court of Claims at Washing
ton. The work was done under an order
from the Government, and is to be hung
In the Treasury Department at Wash
ington.
Morris tribune., 1880-11-25

DIR. w. A. P. MARTIN, the distinguished
Oriental scholar and president of the
Imperial Tung Wen College, at Peking,
China, who recently sailed from the city
tor Europe, holds a commission from the
Chinese Government to visit both America
and Europe, and to report on their re-
spective educational systems. DR.. Martin
will be absent from China about two
wears.
Morris tribune., 1880-11-25

WHEN Hans Christian Andersen, one
OF whose dearest hopes, in going to
Sweden, had been to meet Frederika
Bremen, was presented to her, on the
deck of steamer, she had never heard of
him and was quite formal. Reproduced
one of his books, however, as she left him !;
and after an hour OF so she hurried back.
Il know you nOoO,' said she, and thus
began lifelong friendship.
Morris tribune., 1880-11-25

COUNT Won MoLTKE, chiet marshal of
the German Empire, refused the title of
prince offered to him by the Emperor of
Germany, on the OCCASION of the eighti-
eth anniversary of the Counts birth,
which occurred recently.
Morris tribune., 1880-11-25

THE population of Delaware is 145,-
654. The males slightly exceed the
females in number. There are "a, 1853 of
the former, and 7s,O51 of the latter;
S.472 residents of the State are foreign
born. There are 34.456 colored people
in the State. In 1870 the population of
Delaware was 125,O15.
Morris tribune., 1880-11-25

MR.. MoNcURE D. CONWAY, the Amerl-
can, who has won place among promi
nent English Liberals, was at one time a
bitter co-slavery man, and ultimately be-
came an equally pronounced, uncom-
promising abolitlonist.
Morris tribune., 1880-11-25

FAMINE is again threatened in some
OF the provinces of British India where
the rainfall during the months of June
and July was from four to six inches be-
low the average. The situation causes
grave uneasiness In government circles
at Calcutta and London.
Morris tribune., 1880-11-25

THE completion of the Southern Pacif-
ic is looked for by the farmers of Cali
tornia to open new and favorable route
for the export of their vast surplus wheat
crop. 1t is even prophesled that this
route via the Southern Pacific, New Or
leans, and the gulf will carry the entire
crop of that State, almost Immediately
after its opening, and that wheat alone
will give the road fifty thousand tons
of freight a month.
Morris tribune., 1880-11-25

THE diamonds of New South Wales,
according to G. s. Wilkinson, govern
ment geologist, have been chemically
formed in the cement of Miocene and
Piiecene conglomerates, which is very
ferruglnous and sometimes silicious. He
thinks the water contained carbonate
with silica, and that chemical reaction
took place, setting free the carbon in a
crystallizsd form, and in similar man.
ner accounts for the formation of uumer-
GUS minute scales of graphite in the Tri-
assic Hawkesbury sandstone
Morris tribune., 1880-11-25

LYDIA MARIA CHILD requested that
her funeral should be strictly private;
her coffin of the plainest, without flow
ers; and that she should be buried in her
simplest clothes.
Morris tribune., 1880-11-25

The ex-Empress Eugene will spend
the Christmas holidays in the Isle Of
Wight, and take possession of her new
home, Farnborough Hill, on the first of
January
Morris tribune., 1880-11-25

The Andoyer Theological Seminary,
yielding to the sentiment which demands
fuller and more thorough preparations
for all kinds of professional work, has
decided to lengthen its terms of study
from three to four years.
Morris tribune., 1880-11-25
w. j. MU N RO,
CURRENT TOPICS.

1T is said that the students of Cornell
University have almost entirely aban-
dOned the practice of smoking.
Morris tribune., 1880-11-25

The New Orleans PScGyu'ae thinks
that man, like razor, is made keen by
being frequently strapped.
Morris tribune., 1880-11-25

ILLINOIS leads all the other States in
respect to the revenue it contributes to
the support of the government the
amount contributed for the last fiscal wear
being ga, 3,000, 900. Ohio comes next and
contributes $1s,OOO.OOO. New York State
paid $16,OOO,OOo, Kentucky, $500, 900,
and Virginia, $5,7OO,OOO, of which $5,-
100000, was duty on tobacco. The en-
tire sum paid by all the Southern States,
including Maryland and Missouri
wass$sS, ,OOO, 900. The Northern, West
ern, and Pacific states paid $ss, ZOO, 900.
The greater portion of the internal.rey-
enue receipts is reallzed from the tax on
whiskey.
Morris tribune., 1880-11-25

TIE terribly destructive potato beetle,
(DoryphorG decema-Iins0tG), against the
incursion of which even strong European
governments have engaged to battle, has
not yet succeeded in getting strong
foothold there, though some reports of a
few skirmish parties having been seen,
here and there, sometimes come to hand,
though of doubtful authenticity. But it
has by no means ''given up the shlp;"
for naturalists well acquainted with them
have found them in some numbers the
past season ON vessels crossing the ocean.
and they will doubtless soon step on the
inhospitable shores of the Old World.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-02
THE STATE REFORM SCHOOL.

A recent visit to the State Reform
School at Vergennes, confirms our form
er impression of the excellent work done
in that institution. The school now
numbers lO3 boys and 20 glrls-a total
of 1913. We found everything as neat
and "clean as wax" Thorough order
and discipline are secured, with very
slight apparent constraint. The boys
and girls looked healthy, we'll cared for
and cheerful; their exercises in reading,
geography and arithmetic were exceed
ingly creditable; and the whole appear
ance and conduct of the scholars showed
that they are under wholesome and ele-
waiting influences; and that the institu.
ton is school rather than a prison.
The success of the experiment, if il
was such, of the girls department il
especially gratifying. They occupy ;
separate building, with ample and con
venient rooms and accommodations
have their own grove and playground
and have no communication with tn
boys except that all meet in the chape
for prayers, and in the Sunday School
Under the careful watch of the superin
tendent, matron and teachers, no i'll re
suits whatever have followed the estat
lishment of the girls school in the sam
grounds; while some beneficial result
are noticed. The girls are instructe
in sewing and homework as well as
their studies. They make their ow
clothes and the common clothes of til
boys, knit all the socks for both school,
with knitting machine) and do tt
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-02

The SOUTHEASTERN Railway Compa-
py, of which Bradley Barlow is presi-
dent and H. A. Alden Supt, now con-
trolls 234 miles of r. R. line, and the
road is doing large business. Since
navigation closed on the st. Lawrence
and the ice has formed thick enough
they have laid track across the river
on the zee, aud now run trains over the
river. The strIngers are laid on cross
timbers 60 feet long, and the track is
said to be perfectly safe. 1t is said that
in consequence of the anchor ice coming
down the rapids and banking up on the
edge of the ice as it formed below, the
ice at the point of crossing is about eight
feet thick. About three miles of rail-
road was built last summer. under the
direction of S. S. Thompson of Lyndon
vile, which makes good terminus Oh
the river where there is a fine wharf and
landing. Ia the summer cars are car
ried across the river on immense ferry
boats, and the high toll asked by thu
Victoria Bridge Co., is avoided. Thu
SOUTHEASTERN pays $40 for each passen
ger car that crosses the bridge. A larg
car shed recently built on the whar
was blown down by the recent har'
gale.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-02
THE KELLEY DEMOCRACY.

The fight which ragged so vigorously
between the contending factions of the
New York Democracy during the late
canvass is not yet over-nor will it end
so long as there is probability of Mr..
Tilden becoming again a presidential
candidate. The campaign againt Rob
inson was only small part of the war
against Tilden, and with the opening of
the presidential campaign the siege must
of necessity be renewed. And so con-
ference of the Kelley leaders was held
in Albany last week, which adopted a
series of resolutions, declaring in sub
stance that there could be no harmony
so long as the Tilden cause of distrac-
ton remained. 1t resolved to hold a
state convention and make a delegation
to the national convention against him.
The movement represents nearly eighty
thousand Democrats who voted for KEEL
ley last November, and it has the SYM
patty of fifty or hundred thousand
more. This action would seem to ex-
tinguish Mr.. Tilden's last hope of car
rying New York, and consequently all
hope of obtaining the presidential nom
ination.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-02
END OF THE BOGUS LEGISLA-
TURE IN MAINE.

The bogus legislature iu Maine came
to an ignominious ending on Wednesday
last. Having failed in an attempt to
enroll force sufficient to take the cap
itol by arms, it was decided to appeal
to the Supreme Court. Questions were
submitted, and the Court 'sat down" in
the hybrid legislative body with such
force that there was nothing left but a
dirty grease spot. One of the member
of the bogus body described the situa-
tion pretty fairly when he said. before
the decision of the Court: "They have
hit us once very hard on each cheek,
and they will now probably give us a
sumner square in front" This they
did. Some thirty properly elected mem
bers of the bogus branch took their
seats quietly IN the Republican legisla.
ture, and thus, in all probability, ends
the attempt of piratical crew to steal
the legislature of New England State
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-02


was closely followed by general bruis-
ing with such weapons as were most
convenient. The family Immediately
entered complaint to the town author
tiles, and Mann was arrested and tried
in the afternoon before Justice VIM.
The case promises to reveal matter
of interest in that community relative
to the mysterious disappearance of
child some years since. Maan threatens
to give the particulas of how the child
was murdered and burned up if this
prosecution is not stopped. Mann
was fined $50 and costs. and placed
under $50 bonds to keep the peace for
one year. He appealed to the county
court
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-02
washing and ironing of their own de-

washing and ironing of their own de-
partment.
The cases of many of these girls when
they were received into the schools, were
received into the schools. were extremely
discouraging; but all have shown very
marked improvement in character and
habits. Some who were terribly vicious,
dirty and diseased, have become not only
clearly and correct in their persons and
outward deportment-as all are COM
PEELED to be-but obedient. industrious
and trustworthy. Six girls have been
sent out to places in good families, and
all of them, so far as is known, are liv-
ing correct lives. One has married
respectable young man and is settled
comfortably in life with every prospect
of being decent and worthy member of
society. Others are in good homes and
doing well. The rescue of these girls
from vicious surroundings and the
saving of them from lives that bid
fair to be worse than death, is a work
beyond all price.
Of the boys, we believe that about
fifty have been bound out to places, dur
ing the past year. after they had estab-
lished in the school characters which
made it safe to send them out There
are no high fences or barred enclosures !;
but the attempts to escape have been
very few. Cases of corporal punishment
Inflicted only by the superintendent
are rare and the boys are governed
largely by moral incentives. They do
the work of the farm-which, however,
being of but 100 acres, affords occupa-
tions for only small portion of their
time-and at other times, outside of
school and play hours, are employed in
seating chairs with cane. 1t would seem
to be desirable that instruction in other
useful trades should be added; but it
is probably hardly practicable under ex-
listing arrangements.
The charge of such an institution of
course requires especial qualifications of
temperament and versatile capacity. To
such qualifications of temperament SUI
perintendent Fairbank and his estimable
wife, the matron of the school. add long
experience. They are wholly devoted
to the school, and have the respect
obedience and often affection of the boys
and girls. They seem to be we'll second.
ed by their assistants, and are doing q
work, the value of which to the State
cannot be estimated in dollars and cents
Free Press.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-02
PRESIDENTS AND POLITICS.

BRATTLEBoRo, VI, Jan. %, 1880.
TO the Editor of the Monitor:
Having for some time been reader
of your excellent paper, partly on ac-
count of my early associations in that Vi
cinity, and more upon better acquaint-
ance with its management, / look
forward to the time of its arrival with
interest. | always find something IN
structive as we'll as entertaining. In
your last weeks issue, was much inter-
ested in your article, ''For President,
Who ?" How much depends upon this
answer And the question is, who shall
dictate this answer? Shall the scheming
politicians do it, or will the voters who
constitute the rank and file decide it
That those who make politics trade
will dictate who shall be nominated, il
permitted, there cannot be a doubt
Should they succeed in putting in nom
ination man after their own heart, they
will then apply the party lash to whir
all into supporting the nominee. Past
experience has taught US that the chance.
of electing better man will be we'll nigh
hopeless, in either party. Having beer
member of the Republican party from
its infancy, look back upon its record
with much satisfaction, and forward t,
its future with fear and anxiety. Ii
looking back upon the record, find i
waging war against wrong and oppres
sion, and on the side of right for tn
sake of right, with determination a
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-02

The latest reports that come from st.
Louis show that Mr.. Moody is doing a
great work there. He has interested
the ministers, some of whom are holding
special meetings in their own churches,
where many conversions are reported.
All of Mr.. MoOdy's meetings are crowd
ed, and are followed by large inquiry
meetings. He is holding great meetings
each day at 4 o'clock in the afternoon,
which are crowded with business men
and clerks. The influence of the meet
ings is felt in all the towns and cities in
the vicinity.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-02

An eminent Boston merchant and
man of affairs believes that, if the Re-
publican National Convention should
fail to nominate Gen. Grant, it Is quite
on the cards that the Democrats would
nominate him. He says he has good
reason for believing that such a move
has been talked over with favor in GER
tain Democratic circles at Washington
and that the Southern men are especial
ly favorable to it. He thinks that it
would certainly be made, if Gen. Grant
could be pursuaded to accept such a
nomination. But then he couldn't, and
he will almost certainly have prior en-
gagement.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-02
The State House MUST BE TAKEN

The State House MUST BE TAKEN
out of the hands of the mob IF IT COSTS
THOUSAND LIVES. If Joseph l.. Smith
is Governor let him show it. If not,
he had better resign in favor of some
one else Wade Hampton, of South
Carolina, took one State House away
from the Republicans. We say, TAKE
THIS OR BATTER IT DOWN Where are
the men who voted against the Repub-
licans? Are they willing to be thus
cowed and kicked about by bond-bloated
bank brokers Had the red coats done
in l775 what they done last week at
Augusta, we should have had Lexing-
ton and Bunker Hill years before. If
WE DON'T CAPTURE THE CAPITOL we are
forever disgraced. Garcelon would have
captured it before this.-Maine Green
back Chronicle.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-02

The General Assembly of Rhode
Island commenced the adjourned jan
uary session at Providence on Tuesday.
Governor Van Zandt delivered his an
nual message showing satisfactory con-
dition of the affairs of the State. The
bonded debt less sinking fund, is ST.
S32,462. The Governor recommends
the extension to women the right to
vote on school questions. The Govern
or recommends a prohibitory instead
Of the present liquor law. The aboli-
ton of the tribal authority of the Mar
ragansett Indians, and modification
Of the Insolvent laws are also recon-
mended.