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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-23
BLIND TOM.

SOME CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT THE Ne
GRO MUsIcIAN.-Blind Toms birth
place is Georgia, and he began to excite
attention as musician at the age of
four years. All sounds afforded him de-
light; even the crying of child caused
him to dance about in state ecstacy
When at home he often bit and pinched
his brothers and sisters to make them
emit cries of pain. If kept away from
a piano, he would beat against the wall,
drag chairs about the room, and make
all sorts of noises When in London a
flute was produced for him, of a very
complicated pattern, and having %
keys. He frequently rises up at night
and plays this instrument, initiating up
on it all sorts of sounds which he may
hear at the time. Once, when the agent
attempted to make him stop playing a
piano in high-toned hotel, at o'clock
in the morning, Tom seized him and
threw him through the door. In Wash
ington, he threw man down stairs who
came in his room. When at home in Geor-
gia he lives in building about two hum
dred yards from the house, and there re-
mains alone with his piano, playing all
day and night, like one possessed with
madness. Bad weather has an effect
upon his music. In cloudy, rainy sea-
sons, he plays sombre music in minor
chord and, when, the sun shines and
the birds sing, he indulges in waltzes
and light music. Sometimes he will
hammer away for hours, producing the
most horrible discords imaginable. Sad
denly change comes over him. and he
INDUCES in magnificent bursts of har-
mony, taken from the best productions
of the masters. Since his childhood he
has been an IDIOT, and he played nearly
as well at the age of as he does now
but now his repertoire is much larger
as he can play anything he has ever
heard. He now plays about seven thou
sand pieces, and picks up new ones
everywhere. 1t is curious fact that
be will not play Sunday school music
if he can help it, having great dislike
| for 1t.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-23
las no estate shall be let out and sold to

has no estate shall be let out and sold to
make satisfaction.
No man shall court maid in person
or by letter, without first obtaining
consent of her parents; 95 penalty for
the first offence, GlO for the second, and
for the third an Imprisonment during
the pleasure ST the court.
Whoever sets fire to wood and burns
house shall suffer death and any per-
son suspected of this crime shall be i'm
prisoned without the benefit Of bail.
No one shall read common prayer,
keep Christmas Saints day, make minced
pies, play cards. dance or play any in
strument of music except drum, trumpet,
and jewsharp.
No minister shall join people in mar
riage, the Magistrate only shall join
people in marriage, as they may do it
with scandal to Christ's church.
When parents refuse their children a
convenient marriage, the Magistrate is
to determine the point.
The Selectmen on finding children
ignorant, may take them away from
their parents and put them into better
hands at the expense of their parents.
Fornication shalt be punished by COM
pelling marriage, or as the Court shall
think proper.
Adultery shall be punished with death.
A man that strikes his wife shall pay
a fine of ten pounds.
A woman that strikes her husband
shall be punished as the Court directs.
A wife shall be deemed good evidence
against her husband.
Married persons must live together or
be imprisoned.
Every male shall have. his hair cut
round according to cap.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-23
INTIMACY OF PARENTS WITH
CHILDREN.

The number of American parents. in
telligent, well-informed, comfortably
circumstanced, who have very little
knowledge of, and no kind of intimacy
with, their boys and girls after these
begin to 60 to more advanced schools,
until they enter upon practical life or
marriage, is very much larger than is
generally supposed. This lamentable
ignorance might not be SO strange In
case of fathers absorbed in business, and
seldom in the house except to eat and
sleep-the more to be regretted-but it
is startlingly strange in the case of
mothers, who are the natural guardians
and protectors of home. Even these,
too, often have the notion that American
boys and girls are exceptions to human
ity that they must be permitted to do
pretty nearly as they choose, and that
they will be all the better for it. AL
though they and their husbands may
hold theoretically that all persons
| should, from the first, carefully instruct
their children that they are their best
friends, and that all confidence and
counsel should be given to and sought of
them, they very rarely act upon the
sound opinion. They are strangers to
their children their children are stran-
gers to them. Consequently they have
no power to shield them from the dan
gers which always bcset inexperienced
youth. They too often lament their
error bitterly the domestic tragedies
ever occurring. though seldom made pub
lie, are hardly suspected), all the more
bitterly because tits discovery it is
irretrievable.- York Times.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-23
BY THE STREAM.

Sweet tangled banks, where ox-eyed daisies grow
And scarlet roppies CLEAN;
Sweet changing lights, that ever come and go
Upon the quiet streamI
Once more see the fash of splendid wings,
As dragon flies fit by
Once more for me the small sedge-warbler sings
Beneath sapphire sky.
Once more feel the simple fresh content
found in stream and soil
When golden Summers slowly came and went,
And mine was all their spoil.
/ find amid the honeysucxle flowers,
And shy forget-me-not.
Old boyish memories of lonely hours
Passed in this silent spot.
Oh, God Of nature, how thy kindness keeps
Some changeless things on earthl
And he who roams far off, and tolls and weeps,
Comes home to learn their WORTH
Gay visions vanish, worldly schemes may fall,
Hope proves an idle dream.
But still the blossoms flourish, red and pale,
Beside my native stream.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-23

worse !" and he eyed the haggard, ghast-
ly face.
"What grating noise is that ?" he
asked himself; and in the same instant
he sprang forward with cry of horror.
The passenger had an auger in his
hands and saw lay beside him.
He had bored a hole through the
side of the vessel, below the water line,
and the water was already coming
through.
The boy clutched Farnall, and shook
him like wild beast. "You are sink
ing the ship. Help Help!''
The madman turned on him quietly,
and nodded.
"Yes, we'll all go down together.
Don't make that outcry. Nobody can
hear you.''
He had caught the boys wrist, and
held him with the unnatural strength of
the insane.
Nobody could hear him. Dan re-
membered that, and became suddenly
silent. Horror and fear only made
thought more vivid.
Death was just at hand. There was
nobody to drive it back but himself, and
he was in this madman's hold.
He stared into the fierce CLASSY eyes
with an agony of his hesitation.
Farnall laughed back at him.
81 thought of burning but this is
quietest. | want to 60 calmly into the
great hereafter. We shall all 60 togeth-
er in-a few minutes, " glancing at the
stream of water gushing out of the open
ing.
80 mother, mother! !' cried the shiv-
ering boy.
"Well all go together. Kings among
the ancients went across the Styx at
tended by the slain on their burial. 1
will be followed by the Yankee captain
and his crew !"
A sudden flash lighted Dams eyes.
"Not by the captain" he said.
His own voice startled him, it was so
calm, and in a tone so different from
any which he had ever spoken before.
"The captain and Mr.. Briggs will es-
cape!" he cried.
why, what do you mean?" cried
Farnall. "Escapel How can they es-
cape?'
Because they are not in the hold.
They will take to the boats.
Il never thought of the boats.''
Dan felt chill run over him. He
tried to speak, but his voice had failed.
He had but one chance, and he must try
! it.
81 will go and bring the captain and
Mr.. Briggs down, if you like. Then
they can't get away.
"Ha, ha Pretty good joke. Well,
go bring them, and be quickl" loosen
ing his hold, and pushing Dan away.
Dan walked slowly to the ladder, then
he made one wild spring up.
ITO the hold To the hold A leak I"
he shrieked, and fell gasping to the
deck.
Within another hour, the madman
was in irons, and the leak had been
stopped, and the water pumped out of
the hold. The danger was past, and
all snug and taut.
The crew made hero of Dan. Even
Captain Payson spoke out his hearty
praise:
''The lad saw what was to be done,
and did it. He had courage, and, what
is better, good sense. Who taught you
to use your wits, my boy p
Al
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-23

A deaf mute used the new audiphone.
Can you pay me the five dollars you
owe me ?" These were the first words
he heard. ii prefer to remain in my
original condition." he said, sternly.
and threw the audiphone out of the
window.
"See the moon," said lady to her
nephew, bright little bow of FIVE, as
they sat looking out of the window the
other day. 1.-The moon !" said the little
man; "you can't see the moon in the
daytime" "Yes, you can," continued
his aunt; ''there it is over the trees"
The little fellow had to admit that be
saw it. but added "Tain't lighted any
way"
An English girl wants to know how
long girls should be courted Our
opinion may not be worth much in such
matters. but we think long girl should
be courted in the same manner as short
girls are courted-with operas, carriage
rides, confections, sitting up nights, and
so forth. If man can't court a long
girl without carrying step-ladder when
he goes to see her, he had better resign
in favor of some one who can.-Hartford
Times.
Not long since. native of the Fejee
Islands presented himself to a missiona-
ry and humbly begged to receive the
rite of baptism. But objected the
priest, ''you are polygamist-you have
several wives" "Only two THAT
is one to many" Good; l will get rid
of one of them" keep the one that
you have lived the longest with" "No,
| prefer the other, she isyounger. "As
you please" Eight days afterward the
converted savage returned to the priest
with his face radiant with innocent Joy.
Now, father" said he, 'you can bap-
tize me-" "You have only one wife
nOw?" "OnIy one, on my word" And
he pointed to quite a pleasant-looking
young woman who accompanied him
"And what has become of the other p
asked the priest. 20, ate her!'
When the angry passions gathering
in my mothers face | see, and she lead,
me to the bed-room-gently lays me OF
her knee, then | know that l shall catcl
it, and my flesh in fancy itches, and
listen for the patter of the shingle on my
breeches. Every tingle of the shingl,
has an echo and sting. and thousand
burning fancies into active being spring
and thousand bees and hornets 'neatl
my coat-tails seem to swarm, as | lister
to the patter of the shingle. oh so warm
In a splutter comes my father-who
supposed had gone-to survey the situa
tion and tell her to lay it on; to see he
bending Ger me as listen to the strain
played by her hand and shingle in
wild and weird refrain. In a sudde
intermission, which appeared my onl
chance. / say: Strike gently. mother
or you'll split my Sunday pants :" Sh
stops a moment, takes breath, tn
shingle holds aloft. and says: IL ha
not thought of that.-my son, just tax
them off," Holy Moses ! and the ar
gels cast thy plying glances dowr
and thou, oh family doctor. put goo
soft poultice on; and may with foe
: and ounces everlastingly commlngle.
/ ever say another word when my motl
er wields the shingle.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-23
MY SCOTCH LAssIE.

If I had the brush of angel,
Dipt in colors rich and rare,
/ would paint with choicest thinning
My Scotch lassie fresh and fair,
Fresh is she as dewy morning,
Fair as blossoms on the spray,
Fragrant as the blrch-tree waving
In the fresh breeze Of the May.
o, my bright and blooming lassie!
Maids more stately wsll may be;
But no stateliest maiden ever
Breathed a smile so sweet as she.
o, my bonnie blithe fond lassie,
Mild as bloom on hawthorn tree.
Rich as June, and ripe as Autumn.
Flower and fruit in one is she.
Saw you ever cowslip warmer
When the zephyrs came to woe?
Saw you bright-eyed speedwell peeping
Meath the hedge with purer blue?
Warmer than her keen pulse keeping
Time to all things true and good,
Bluer than her blue eyes swelling
In young loves divinest mood?
Softer floats no plumy sea-gull
Than her bosom's heaving charms
Swan on lake not whittier swimmeth
Than the whiteness of her arms.
II had the brush of angel,
Dipt in colors rich and rare
No! no trick Of brush or pigment
Ever limned form so fair.
Let them linn who live in dreamland,
Where the brain-born phantoms sway;
have feasted on the substance,
And the shadow pales away.
will not make dainty mockery
With painted thin display
0fa life that breathes and Dungeons
With the fullness of the May.
will see my dear Scotch lassie
In the ray that sweeps the hills,
In the bright far shimmering ocean,
In the slver-fashing rills.
will see her where the wandering
Bee sucks honey from the brae,
Where the mavis to the mavis
Pours his rich full-throated lay.
! will feed upon the sweetness
or her presence near to me,
And her wealth ofgrace that hangeth
Like peach upon a tree.
will live ON the dear memory
0fthat hour of burning bliss,
When she lent her lips and thrilled me
With the rupture of her kiss
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-23

The death of Brevet Major General
George Sykes, colonel of the Twentieth
Infantry, Q. S. A., is announced. He
was a native of Delaware, where he
was born 58 years ago. and he was grad
uated from West Point in 1912. He
served in the Mexican war with credit,
and subsequently served on the frontier
against the hostile Indians. When the
war began he was captain, but hasten
ing North he was made major of the
new Fourteenth Infantry, and In the
first battle of Bull Run commanded the
battalion of regular troops. In Septem-
Der, 1861, he was made brigadier
general of volunteers. and until the
beginning af the Virginia Peninsula cam
paign Of 862 commanded the defsnces
about Washington. He was then placed
in the command of the division of regu-
lars in Fitz John Porter's corps. When
GeneralfM Mead was promoted to the COM
mand of the Army of the Potomac,
General Sykes succeeded him in the COM
mand of the Fifth Corps. at the head
of which be did splendid service at
Gettysburg and on to the end of the war.
In 1866 he was mustered out of the
volunteer army and made Lieutenant
Colonel of the Fifth Infantry. Two
years later he was made Colonel of the
Twentieth Infantry. which was his
command at the time of his death.
The young emperor of China has sew
enty expensive wives to provide for. and
their silks and satins last year cost half
the land tax of the empire.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-23
CAST IRON
SUGAR ARCHES !!
TO sUGAR MAKERS

TO SUGAR MAKERS
Now is your time to order Iron Arches and not be.
as many last season. too late TO obtain them. l
have made quite a number of improvements on them
during the past summer and made one new style,
which think the best thing out.
for one year. and every one knows that " they are
going to crack at all they will crack the FIRST year.
have made a new CRATE pattern and think the best
CRATE ever made for Sugar Arches. The Arches
made 90 and 40 inches wide. and any length The 40
inch are designed for evaporators. sold IA Arches
last season. and not one failed to give satisfaction
where heater, and straight pipe, ls 90 feet high
and OF 10 inches in diameter, were used with
damper; l have had trouble with Arches where they
we're "set up" with pipe running into brick Chin
ney and an elbow in the ppe-by that means not
getting good draft. Please eall at the shop and look
the Arches over for yourself-send call and get
circular containing prices Sizes and what people say
who have used them.
Agents wanted in every town.
j. w. MURKLAND,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-23

"Well, girls" said the mother, "you
are big enough now to be of some use.
1t may make you mad to tell you of it.
| am going to discharge the washer
woman. Wiring out. wild bellies 2 is
to be the motto In this house" And
visions of parboiled hands running the
scales on the washboard instead of a
piano fitted before the minds of those
sad daughters.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-23

A sale by auction of a tract of land
ffty-one by thirty-eight miles in area in
Kansas, is to be made to satisfy mort
gage of 100000.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-23
Ia THE GREAT CAUSE OF
~ Hum1an MiServ

Just fuolished' In Sealed Envelope Price six cents
Lecture ON the Nature, Treatment, ard
radical cure or Seminal Weakness, or Spermatorrhna
induced by seltAbuse. Involuntary Emissions Impo-
tency. Nervous Debility. aud Impedments to Marriage
generaly; Consumption, Epilepsy, and Fits Mental
ana lhysical lneapacity, &c.-By ROBERT j. Gull
NEhWELL, NJ. d.. author Of the Green Book" &C.
Tue NOrld-renowned author, In this admirable Lee
tufe clearly proves from his experience that the
awnl consequences OF SefAbuse may be enectually
removed without medicine, and without dangerous
surgical operations. bOugies. instruments. rings or
coiaiT' pointing ont mode OF cure nj once certain
anu encetlnl by which every suerer. matter What
hs eono'.lon may be- may cure himself fcheaply pri-
vatey and radically
g-Ihis Lecture prove a boon to thousands
sent under seal In plain envelope. TO any address,
on receipt OF six cents. or two postage stamps
Address the Publishers
THE CULVERWELL MEDICAL CO.,
Al Ann 81. New York; Post ONCE Box 1886.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-23
NEWSPAPERS COMPELLED TO
ADVANCE THEIR PRICES.

The one interest that has not felt the
exhilarating effects of the boom in busi
ness is the newspaper interest. The
prices of materials, as far as production
is concerned, from the lead type to the
paper stock, have all advanced; the
latter, in some cases, more than fifty per
cent, while there has been perceptible
increase in all incidental expenses.
The only way in which newspaper can
make this outgo good is by increasing
its receipts; but in many parts of the
country this has not been possible.
The circulation of the newspapers may
have been in some degree improved, but
not enough to Offset the enlarged out
lay. In consequence of this, a number
of the western newspapers have been
forced to make radical changes. In st.
Louis most of them have advanced their
selling prices; in Chicago the two lead
ing journals, the Times and Tribune,
took completely different ways of meet
ing the deficiency. The Tribune is to
drop its supplements and otherwise re-
strict its expenditures, but make no
change in the price of its printed sheets.
The Times, on the other hand, frankly
says that it must have more money for
what it does, and, while promising not
to lessen in any way its desirability as
a newspaper, has increased the price of
each issue one cent. The readers of
these newspapers, will, if the proposed
plans are lived up to, get the worth of
their money, whichever they may buy,
only the Times will now have chance
of being much stronger paper than its
rival, and looked at in this way, has
made the better selection of the two
Boston Herald.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-23
The Monitor"
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
GEO. HI. BLAKE,
BARTON, VT.

TERMs.-Strictiy in advance, Sl.50 per annum. II
not paid in advance $500 year. Subscribers living
outside OF Orleans County must remit 10 cents extra
for postage. For convenience in remitting, we will
give credit for year and four months for $780, to
subscribers in the county and year and three for
81 % to subscribers without the county, when sent
strictly in Advance.
RATES OF ADVERTISING made known on application.
Remit by p. o. Money order, Registered Letter, or
Draft. Watch the label on your paper and notice when
your subscription expires and that your payments
kept in advance When money is sent us we shall
give you the credit the label at If the labels
not advanced within two weeks. notify us by postal
card.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-23

A deaf mute used the new audiphone.
"Can you pay me the five dollars you
owe me ?" These were the first words
he heard. IL prefer to remain in my
original condition" he said, stcrnly.
and threw the audiphone out of the
window.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-06-03
Sheriff. Sale.

Dl virtue and authority Of two
I)cXrciitiuns. issued from the office
of the clerk of the circuit court Ht
Aulrain county. Missouri. return
able one 1T the june term, 1880, and
one rcturnablr January Term, 1850.
Of said court. and To me directed, in
favor of Mary W. Burnham and
against John Burnham. | have levied
upon and seized all the right. title.
interest and claim Of the said John
l;urnham of, in aud to the following
described real estate. to-Wit: Lots
~ seven and (S) eight. in block (22)
tWvntN-tWO, original town of Mexico.
Au,lrain county, Missouri, and
the northwest quarter of the
southeast quarter of section Gl)
eleven, township (5l) fit y-onc range
(lo) ten, subject TO an annuity To said
Mary W. Durham for So, for and
during her life. All lying and beng
i'll III" said county, and state Of Mis-
souri,, and | will, on
Wednesday, June l6, 1880,
between III" hours Of nine O'Clock in
the forenoon and five o'clock in the
afternoon Of that day, at the east
front court house door, in the city OF
Mexico. county of Audrain atorc-
said, sell the same, or so much there
of as may be required, al public
vrnduc, to the highest bidder, for
-ra-h i'll hand, (subicct to all prior
liens and judgnciits,) Ia satisfy said
execution and costs. This May 18th,
1850. II. GLASGOW.
i 81 Sheriff Of Audrain county, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-06-03
City or;iisi;tEce.
Be it endcted by tie CITY C'o"ucI Of
Hclrtro-

BE it enacted by tie CITY Co"acH oj
Nerjc0-
SECTION /. That no bull shall be
kept or stood within the CORPORATE
limits OF tac city for the purpose OF
being let az put to cows, unless tie
owner, or keeper, or AGENT, III behalf
Of the owner or keeper of -4ii ami
NAL. shall have procured II license
trom tic City Clerk giving permits
-ion to suC!. oWncr or keeper 10 keep
the same for the purpose above men
toned. Such license shall describe
the situation and location of the
place or lot in which il is proposed to
keep or stand said animal, and said
bull shall be kept, or let, or put to
lows AT 10 other place than the one
described in said license.
SEC. >. That the clerk shall not
issue any license provided for in tho
foregoing section ill the applicant
for the same shall procure for the
clerk 4 written statement in full by
the head, OF four families rcsidin"
nearest TO the place where such ami
NAL is Kept declaring that the Keeping
or standing Of the AIN will not in
any degree annoy them or their fam
lilies. Every such applicant for such
license shall pay to the collector JIG
dollar per month that he may prepare
to Keep such bull.
SEc. 3. For each and every bull
that shall be kept or stood contrary
to the foregoing sections, one and
two the fNt,int. np IfnIrY. M. ,;tIn,
of these, shall pay a fine Of five dol
lars.
Approved May ri, 1880.
!. {. BASSFOitD, Mayor.
+. r. GILLIAN. Clerk.