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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-08
Southern Manufacture Of Cotton.


In the past ten years the South has
more than doubled the amount of cot
ton manufactured within her borders.
In 1870 there were used 45,032,866
pounds of cotton; in 1880, 10l, 1897, 256
pounds. In 1870 there were II 1862
looms and 416,9 spindles running; in
1880 10, 222 looms and TAOS spindles.
This array of figures hardly Indicate
fairly the progress that the South will
make In the next ten years, for the rea-
son that the factories in which these
spindles are turned are experiments in
most of the localities in which they are
placed. 1t is the invariable rule that
when factory is built in any city or
country it is easier to raise the capital
Tor subsequent enterprise than for the
hrst one. At Augusta, Ca, for instance,
where the manufacture of cloth has
been demonstrated success, the prog
ress is remarkable. In the past two
years two new mills, the Enterprise and
Sibleyr with $4,000 spindles each, have
been established; and a third, the King,
has been organized with capital Of
100000 and $4,000 spindles. The
capital for these mills was furnished
about one-fourth in Augusta, and the
balance in the North. With these mills
running, Augusta will have 10000
spindles, and will have added about
10000 spindles to the last census re-
turns. In South Carolina the same
rapid growth is resulting from the es-
tabllshment of one or two successful
mills; and in Columbus, Georgia, the
influence of one successful mill, the
Eagle and Ph9nix, has raised the local
consumption of cotton from 1927 bales
in 1870 to $4,000 bales in 1880. In At
lanta, Ca, the first mill had hardly
been finished before the second was
started; third is projected, and two
companies have secured charters for
the building of forty-mile canal to
furnish water-power and factory fronts
to capital in and about the city. These
things are mentioned simply to show
that the growth of cotton manufacture
in the South is sympathetic, and that
each factory established is an argument
for others. There is no Investment that
has proved so uniformly successful in
the South as that put into cotton facto.
rles. An Augusta factory Just adver-
tises eight per cent. seml-annual divi-
dend; the Eagle and Phoenix, of Column
bus, earned twenty-five per cent last
year; the Augusta factory for eleven
years made an average of eighteen per
cent. per annum. The net earnings of
the Langley Mills was $4S0,O00 for its
first eightyea on capital of $500, 900,
or an average of fifteen per cent. a year.
The earnings of sixty Southern mills,
large and small selected at random for
three years, averaged fourteen per cent.
per annum.
Indeed, an experience varied and
extended enough to give it authority
teaches that there is absolutely no
reason why the South should not profit
ably quadruple its capacity for the man.
utacture of cotton every year in the next
five years except the lack of capital
Henry w. Grady, in Harper'S Magazine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-08
WHAT IS THE GAIN?

What is the gain?
If one should run noble race,
And at the last, with weary pace,
Win to the goal, and find his years
A harvest field of waste and tears,
OF turmoil and of buried trust,
Rich with dead hopes and bitter dust,
And strife and sneer and ceaSeless pain,
What is the gain?
What is the gain!
When, having reached Suniit height,
Through barren sweeps of gloomful nlghC,
Hoping to see beyond the crest
Fair lands of beauty and OF rest,
There lies before, stretched far away
Unto the confines of the day,
A desolate and shadeleSs plain,
What is the gain!
What is the gain?
To sail for months of cold and toll
Across wide seas, where winds recoil,
Only to gather strength and roar
A louder challenge than before,
And find, when through fogs thick and dun
The rocky coast at last is won,
No haven from the storm-veXed main,
What is the gam?
What is the gain?
The race is won, we see the light,
We conquer where the storm-winds tight;
We show the way to those who wait
With faint hearts by the walls of fate;
Our banners fiutter in the van .
OF battles fought orthought and man,
And ignorance and darkness wane,
This is the gain.
Thomas s. Collier.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-08
AL. WAYS LYME,
Gnol-a A,.t;ct


AL. WAYS LYME,
Snake Artist.
"Well, what can we do for you?'
asked the man. ed.
"Pm'n artist-snake artist"
$50 l see."
eyes. Well, l write snake stories
for the public press. Most enter
tanning reading Imaginable. Never
does any harm, because nobody be-
lieves 'em."
WhatP''
S'fac'. Nobody takes any stock
in 'em. but they read 'em all the same"
4" What have you done in that line?"
"Pve written all the boss snake
yarns in the West for the last ten
years.
Bring any sketches with you?"
"Well, no; but l can get one up in
few moments"
He sat down in the religious ed
itor's place, and in five minutes handed
over the following, with an upstate
date line:
"On the morning of Wednesday of
this week little Elite Strayoff, the two
year old daughter of one of the
wealthiest and most influential men,
bers of this community, met with an
adventure which might be rega rded
as incredible but for the fact that it
is vouched for by reliable witnesses.
She got lost in neighboring forest
and was chased by huge snake,
which emerged from deserted hut in
a wild ravine, where it had been lead
ing hermit's life, subsisting on wild
herbs and eking a precarious income
by telling fortunes. When the child
saw the terrible monster she was al
most paralyzed by fright, but with 9
superhuman effort regained possession
of her faculties and began to flee.
She was, however fated to be over.
taken, as the serpent pursued and
caught up with her before she had
gone ten miles. Then he opened his
mouth and prepared to devour her,
when all at once his attitude changed.
Instead of carrying out this resolution,
to the exceeding surprise of his in
tended victim, the monster smoothed
her hair and patted her little cheeks,
and, gently releasing 3d. diamond
brooch from her throat, pinned it in
his shirt front and walked rehectively
away. The friends of the girl found
her soon afterward, and on learning
her strange story went to look for his
snakeship. They found him sitting
in front of his hut studying the Cape
May time table, with view of be-
coming watering place hotel clerk
The editor assured Mr.. Lyme that he
possessed too much genius to be per-
mitted to run at large, so he employed
him to write obituary notices.
change.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-08

My daughters painting said
BUILDER, proudly, stopping before an
alleged work OF art. Beautiful, ism t
itP' Yes" replied Fogg, slowly,
"but what do you call itP what does II
representa-" "Ah, well-yes-the fact
is we have not decided what to cali II
yet; butisn't it lovely?" Boston Tran
script
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-08

Thrilling incident: Adolphus' cour-
age was up, Falling on his knees he
cried: Angelina, dearest, make me the
happiest of men by accepting my heart
and hand" Casting one look at the
great paw, Angelina thrilled in everv
hber as she replied sweetly: 80. Adolp6-
us, this IN smore than l expected. Dos
Ton transcript.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-08

"A story comes from Barcelona of a
rich Catalan capitalist, long resident in
Cuba, who has recently died there and
left his fortune of $12,000,0O0 to be di.
vided between four negroes, formerly
his slaves, who once saved his life from
a wildcat when he was out hunting.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-08

lightning struck a calf, at New
port, Me-, that was covered with white
ana black spots. Every white spot was
singed, even to the taking off of the
SKIN, while not hair of the black spots
was injured. VA M ''
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-08

The story goes that Mrs. Corvallis
West, the far-famed professional
beauty" is coming over with the new
British Minister, kinsman of her bus.
band, to grace the legation establish.
ment-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-08

There is little flirting done in Con-
sstantlnople. Criminal punishment awaits
Ine man rash enough to address a fe-
male on the street.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-08
Snake Stories to Order.

Nobody knew how he got in; but he
was there, and after borrowing chew
of tobacco from the police reporter he
handed his card to the managing
editor;
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-04
THE PRESIDENTS VISIT.

President Garfield has accepted the
invitation rendered by W. G. Smith to
become his guest at st. Adams during
the meeting of the Teachers Institute.
The president will leave Williamstown,
Mass, on the afternoon of July 9TH for
st. Adams. He will be accompanied
by his wife and three children, Secreta-
ries Window, Lincoln, Hunt, and Post
master-General James, with their wives,
while it is probable that Secretary Kirk
wood and Attorney-General MacVeagh
will be of the number. A member of
Gov. Farnham's staff will tender the in
vitation at Williamstown on behalf of
the governor to visit Vermont. Adju-
tant-General Peck, Quartermaster-Gen-
eral Kingsley. Judge-Advocate-General
Hooker and Col. Childs, chief of staff,
will also meet President Garfield at
Williamstown and accompany him to
the state line, where Gov. Farnham will
formally receive him on behalf of the
state. The party will then proceed to
St. Adams via Rutland. A special train
with the Central Vermont DIRECTORS Cal
Bellevue will be placed at the dispos'
al Of the presidential party while il
Vermont. On the arrival of the presi
dent in St. Adams he will be received
by the militia companies and band anG
escorted to the residence of Hon. W. G
Smith. On Friday President Garfield
will address the public from stand ii
the park, and in the evening he viii
hold a reception at the Weldon House
Half fare on all the local trains will b
charged during the sessions of the In
stitute, July 9th, 9Th and 9th. 1t /
probable that extra trains will be rul
on Friday, the 2sth to accommodate tn
crowds who will wish to see the presi
dent and other official dignitaries
Saturday the presidential party will
leave for the White Mountains via Mont
peher. Gov. Farnham will deliver tn
opening address of welcome to the mem
bers of the institute on Tuesday.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-04
THE COMET.

1t Is ascertained that the comet is
now moving away from both the earth
and the sun, leaving the former at the
rate of about 100000 miles. per day,
and the latter at the rate of 100000,
its apparent motion in the heavens be-
ing 5 deg. north daily. When first
noted it was not sufficiently high to
avoid setting every night, but its mo-
tion has since carried it to point where
1t does not sink below the horizon, and
could we suddenly change midday into
midnight it would be shining brightly
almost in the zenith. Its motion being
away from US it will gradually grow
fainter and smaller, having reached its
maximum brightness Thursday, but it
will probably remain visible and no.
ticeable object in the skies for several
months. At present the diameter of
the nucleus, or head of the comet, is
about 1000 miles, and of coma, or
vapory envelope surrounding the head,
about 10000 miles, while the immense
tail sweeps out into space at least A.
100000 miles. or more than sixteen
times the distance from the earth to the
moon, and I6O times the distance
around the earth. In regard to its
shape. it is that of fan curved slight
ly to one side. It was noticed on Sat-
urday evening at the Harvard observa-
tory that the tail is divided about half
way from the extremity to the head, the
right hand edge being regular and 60
ing off straight. while the other is rag
ged and irregular. The tail does not
present its full size to US, as it is in
clined at an angle which foreshortens it
to considerable extent.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-04

15.-Edward Shumaker. age II. came
home one day last week with lacerated
finger but evaded giving the cause of
his wound. On Sunday he started to
go to Sunday-school with his father, but
suddenly began crying. He was taken
home sick and it was found that the
wound was caused by the discharge of a
toy pistol. Owing to ignorance Of the
cause of the wound at first, it was mis-
treated. Lockjaw has now resulted and
the lad is dying a horrible death. Par
ents who can read this one out of the
many cases, and still let their children
take the horrible chances with the infer
nal things. are proof against any eau
tion.-New York Sam
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-04
TOY PISTOLS.


Probably few parents realize the dam
ger there is in the toy pistols and paper
caps and cartridges which are handled
so freely by children. The percussion
wafer on the paper cap is ordinarily
composed of a illuminate of mercury,
one of the most destructive explosive
agents and deadly poison when intro
duced into the blood. There is power
enough in one of these little caps to tear
a finger or put out an eye. A wound
OF the hand nine cases out of ten is fol-
lowed by lockjaw and the horrible death
of the little victim, because the poison
enters the wound and there is but little
chance for surgical assistance and the
slightness of the wound does not Induce
parents to attempt assistance until it is
too late. In some cities where deaths
have occurred, the sale of the murderous
toys has been forbidden by ordinance.
A New York newspaper recently detail
ed twenty-five cases of lockjaw and death
among children which it has noted with
in few months. and all were caused by
toy pistols and illuminate of mercury.
! To nail the moral down so that the most
needless can find it. is appended the fol-
lowing dispatch Canton. Ohio, June
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-04
A BUSINESS-LIKE ADMINS
TRATION.

While the factions rage. the Admin
istration does its duty steadily and
faithfully. The Treasury Department
is rapidly clearing away the last of the
five and six per cent bonds. Up to Sat-
urday night, this administration had
succeeded in refunding $l9O,OOo,OO of
the six per cents and about $348,O0O,-
900 of the five per cents, and it expects
by July lst to have many millions more
of the old bonds exchanged for three
and half per cents. Already its oper-
ations have saved money for the taxpay-
at the rate of nearly SlO,OoO,OOO year
ly, and the redemption of six per cent
bonds, which begins this week, and of
five per cents which will begin next
month, will save large sum besides.
Meanwhile the Department has been
purged of frauds which, though petty IN
detail, are by no means Insignificant in
the aggregate.
The State Department has been doing
its duty not less faithfully. Already
obstacles to the expectation of products
of this country have been removed in
more than one foreign country by the
earnest representations made on behalf
of the United States, while other foreign
governments have the same protest un-
der consideration. The rights of Amer
lean citizenship have been asserted with
new vigor, and the commercial treaties
of the United States with foreign nations
are being carefully Investigated, with a
view of obtaining useful notifications.
Details Of improvement in the conduct
of the Interior Department have been
recorded in daily dispatches, and there
is promise of important changes in that
quarter also. The Post-Office Depart
ment has been almost revolutionized al.
ready, for it evidently was in special
need of reconstruction. The exposure
of frauds. and the revocation of fraudu.
lent contracts, have already saved about
Sl,000.000 yearly for the government
but this is only small part of the ad
vantages which a thorough and faithful
Administration may be expected to Sc
cure in this department alone. In Other
departments also. the spirit of reform
has been felt, and in proportion to tn,
defects discovered have been the improve
ments made or proposed.--N. Z. Tribune
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-04

an estate valued at $4,0OO,O00 He was
born in Vermont, and, after graduating at
the university of Vermont, was admitted
to the bar in 1888, removing to Wiscon-
sin, then a territory, in 1887. He was
speaker of the state assembly in 1868, and
was member of the AID and Add Con-
crosses.
Sunday, June 10, .Philo Lewis of Waits
field, whose wife had been for some days
visiting friends in Granville, went to see
her and tried to induce her to return home,
which she refused to do. He then at
tempted to accomplish what he, no doubt,
designed to do on the way home. Seiz-
ing stone he called her attention to
something outside of the window, dealt
several blows upon her head and had she
not escaped, would have killed her. He
then took razor and cut his own throat.
He made CHASTITY cut almost from ear to
ear, but not striking the jugular vein
He was about two hours dying. He was
broughl to Waitsfield for burial. No rea
son has yet been assigned for the darl
| deed.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-04

flocks to our manufacturing towns and
cities prove that Canada, under It's pres
ent condition, affords them no field for
the future. The protective policy adop-
ted by the present government will
prove rather detriment than an advan-
tage, chiefly because the several prov
inces have no natural commercial rela-
tons which will enable them to exchange
commodities and thereby derive the ad-
vantages which that system affords the
United States. Besides, Canada, even
if its population were compact and ira
ded with itself, could not maintain large
and varied manufacturing interests, for
the very good reason that four millions
of people do not constitute a sufficiently
large body of consumers to maintain
them.
There is said to be growing feeling
in Canada IN favor of annexation to the
United States. This may be perhaps
more properly styled growing dissatis-
faction with the present relations of
Canada with the rest of the world and
with its scattered parts. 1t has always
been assumed that the United States
would jump at the offer of Canada to be-
come part of the Federal Union. This
may have been true in the past, but we
doubt if it is so BOW. Our people are
not now so anxious as they have been to
annex the whole continent. The thing
for Canada to do under the present con-
ditions is to sever its connection with
Great Britain and become entirely indie
pendent of both that Government and the
United States and get rid of its own top
heavy system. Once Independent. it can
enter into a commercial alliance with
the United States, which would permit
its trade and industry to prosper by seek
ing the natural channels. Such union
would be mutually beneficial. The
United States can prosper without it but
Canada cannot.-Boston Journal
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-04

The New York San says: "Since the
California commission chosen under the
new constitution has been in power, the
freight rates of the grasping and i'm
mensely profitable Central and Southern
Pacific railroads have been reduced on
an average fully 20 per cent. while all
manner of inequalities and discrimina-
tions have been removed or remedied !;
and while comforting these benefits upon
the people of the State, the fact that no
hardship was inflicted upon the railway
corporations is shown by their ability
to go on uninterruptedly with their
work of building the Southern Pacific
line out of the clear profits of the Cen
trail Pacific" a'eea
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-04

Senator Hill of Georgia, IN the course
of recent interview, said that the war
was to the South blessing in disguise,
that it taught the people of that section
the much-needed lesson of self-reliance
and industry, and that he did not be-
lieve that the real friends of the South
wished or dreamed of reversing the re-
suit. AS an instance of the effects of
hearty acceptance of the situation, he
pointed to the growing prosperity of
Georgia, the most enterprising of all
Southern States, whose people are ma
king money, building mills and con-
structing railroads. He regarded civil
service reform as one of the burning
questions of the future, and believed
that the fathers of the Republic made a
great mistake in not regulating this
matter when framing the Constitution.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-04

that purpose, then no thanks to the
north pole for that luxury. Our neigh
Dor, Alexandria. is establishing iron
works through the help of the energetic
Yankee, and you need not be surprised
to see a whole feet of iron-clads sail
from the port of that old city. A more
industrious and thrifty people will
waken the slow going place, as she will
yet arise from her ashes to new life.
HIS TX MARK.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-04
INDEPENDENCE DAY.

MS lmportduG HaIlondl nolludy ouSuC
never to pass without being duly re-
membered and honored by every Ameri-
can citizen. There Is not much danger
that the older citizens will forget the
day, for its long observance has made it
reviewed and important to them, but in
the hurry and connection of this fast
and crazy age, the young may not be
taught the significance of the day and
the events in our national history, which
make it truly national holiday. The
principles of love of country are the Sc
cond most important things in the educa-
ton of citizen-religion always first
and there is no one means better
adapted to this end, than the old Gus
tom of celebrating on July 4th. We
like the old style, with the cannonad-
ing at day break the reading of the
Declaration of independence; the his
torical addresses the young ladies rep
resenting States and Territories; the
floating Stars and Stripes the martial
music; the minor sports of gun-fring,
fire crackers and those smaller things
that let off, most effectually, the pent
up patriotism that is Unborn in Young
America. Somehow, there is something
in powder and noise, that wakes up the
young and stirs the old better than al
most anything else. There is,of course,
loftier, better sort of pleasure obtain
ed from other means, but the things
mentioned are necessary. We do not
recommend the horse trot, the potato
race, the creased pig, the rum-bottle,
or the public ball, as the best things for
a proper and useful celebration 1t re-
quires little time, expense or labor to
get up suitable, elevating. instructive
and pleasing celebrations in any COM
munity where the day can be honored
and all who attend made happier and
better. We have, perhaps, too few ma
tional holidays; and there is altogether
too little in our lives that teach patriot
ism. True patriotism is a bulwark Of
national safety, and deep down in the
character Of every citizen should be laid
the principles of ardent love of country
Early training, in this, as in everything
else. is most essential. Nothing is bet
ter calculated to instill these principles
in the minds of the youth, than Fourth
of July we'll kept. In many near local
tiles the people are suitably remember
ing the day, and they are receiving
much pleasure and much good. Tn
story of the nations birth, the revolu
ionary struggle, the sacrifices of our an
cestors and all that pertains to our ear
ly history cannot be told too often
Let the cannon boom, the flags float
the orators soar on spread eagle strains
Let the shrill fife and the rafting dru1
wake the echoes, let the shout and th
hurrah be heard, let the old Springfield
musket speak in loudest tones, let ever
boy have something with which to max
noise. let the young ladies wave th
"red, white and blue" and sing the Sta
, Spangled Banner-in short, let the da
l be duly honored.