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bourers' were very poor mot having . second
suit Of clothes, and even that suit was
ragged. To oil. clothing was supplied ct
the expense of the Antigua Governments.
from whom over $1,000 have been received
end expended, exclusive of passage money.
The men get a bounty Of es, and the
women Sc. each, part of which is given
here 10 clothes, or paid TO their friends.
The Emigrants have RENTED several sums
from time TO time, for their families.
Demerara only offers a free passage.
Grenada now offers Inducements to
labourers to repair the roads, and the Go.
vernon seems to be the patron of the
schsme, but WI have not heard OF any
people having gone there.
The Lieut.. Governors speech also
contains the following on the financial
condition of the island during the
past year
..The Revenue for 1880 was .s136 400.
The Expenditure was E136.s 6 This SUM.
however, includes Loans to the amount OF
G6. 1853, leaving an actual expenditure OF
f~129,613, 10 other words, a surplus OF
Sc, 589. The balance to the credit OF the
Public Treasury on 3tst December last
was s16 500, The Revenue for 1851 is
estimated at 9133,295 THIS | believe is o
low estimate. and the expenditure as
s13s, 416. Several extraordinary items
which will not recur ap pear this year
under the head OF Expenditure. such as
Ell 500 for taking the Censue. CLOGS for
military rebate, and G1.034 as compensa-
ton for abolition of office. The increase
on account of education which is included
in these Estimates amounts to 32,326.
Recent enquiries have led me to the cOnclu-
sion that under the head of provisions for
the public institutions considerable saving
can be effected, and the matter is receiv.
ing the attention it deserves"
Of the weather the same paper
saws that it continues to be very dry,
and the young crops must, it is feared, feel
its influence. irrespective OF the INJURY al
ready done to the current crop. Sugar
making is continued, and the total ship.
ments up to to-day, are 9.s76 hhds. Sugar
and $3.50 puncheons MOlasses,
On the 99th instant q short trial trip
was made on the Railway line for the pur-
pose of testing the new locomotives.
Mr. w. H, Jones. Chairman of the Board
of Directors, Mr.. Grundy. the Manager,
Mr.. Ross the Contractor, and several other
gentlemen were present. and expressed
themselves highly pleased with the results.
There were a number of spectators along
the line, watching the movement OF the
engine with evident interest.
, 1881-04-20

From the Gazette we learn that the
weather had been hot and dry. The
eanss were yielding well and the
yeang sprouts had not yet suffered
hen 10 absence Of rain. We clip
, 1881-04-20
ANTIGUA.

AN IA ga ~ w
reach the wreck of the English bar
que Botsford. The Committee report
that II widows, l aged mother, and
90 children under ten years of age
had been left unprovided for, and the
Committee decided to give $40 to
each widow, SIS to the mother and
75cents a month for each child so
long as the fund lasted.
Some Of the leading merchants and
planters were trying to get up a brass
band, and in a letter to the Observer
they say
at is not we believe generally
known that there is a body of
men in st. Johns who already play
remarkable we'll. They owe their
present efficiency in the first
Instance to the tuition kindly
given them by the Rev. MIR. Weis
and to their own voluntary industry
and perseverance. There can be no
doubt that a good band would be a
great boon to the community gener-
ally as a source of innocent amuse-
ment,and would stimulate and elevate
the strong natural turn which our,
working classes have for music.
We have heard these men play,
and are satisfied that with superior
instruments, good music and re-
gular practising they would soon
form a good band.
We venture t hope that by-and-
by the Government may be induced
TO make an annual contribution for
the support of this Band on the on
dition that il should play on certain
public occasions and on the pasture
on Monday afternoons as we think
that it would attract holiday makers
and keep them from excessive drink
ing or other mischief.
TO equip the band with good in
struments, music, &C., give them
some simple uniform and pay them
for regular attendance at practisings
would require a considerable sum,
and we therefore respectfully solicit
the aid of the general public in this
work, which we feel confident would
in a short time benefit and entertain
ALL"
To this we may append the re-
mark that ourWestEnd amateur band
intends to give a concert shortly, and
we hope they will be mel in the same
liberal spirit as is shewn in the above.
The Observer has the following on
the weather and the crops
1--WE regret that we are unable TO
send news to distant readers interest
ed in the colony of any favourable
change in the weather, which still
continues dry, though all that can
be desired for the manufacture of
Sugar. The effect of the drought on
the present crop is now being felt, the
later planted canes giving but a poor
return in most places ; but no signs
of distress are yet apparent in the
young plants for next year, and the
cultivation being splendid, moderate
" good weather would ensure a mag
nifcent crop for 1882. The ship
ments Of Sugar to date amount to
1893 hhds., 327 trs. 296 bbls Mus
, 1881-04-20
BARBADOS.

the Legislative Session on the 31st.
The Globe says:
"The Opening Speech, which is Of
considerable length, sketches out a
large programme for the ensuing SEES
sion, embracing many points in con-
nection with legal and social reforms,
the administration of Poor Relief, and
and the construction of urgent public
works, the Lunatic Asylum, a new
Customs and Bonding Warehouse,
and a new Harbour Police Barrack,
for the erection of which the Govern
or recommends a loan on public secu-
rity, instead Of increased taxation,
and the burdening of the present gen.
Grafton with the cost of works which
are undertaken in the interests of
culture generations who might rea-
sonably be expected to bear a portion
of the cost. The scheme which Mr..
Robinson sketches is Swallowed forthin
the following extract from theSpeech:-
"A SUM of f21,000, as will be
seen from a memorandum | shall
transmit to you, may be obtained by
borrowing on the security Of the pre-
sent outstanding assets Of the Colony.
"rhese assets as they fall in should
be formed into a sinking fund at the
Colonial Bank. At the end of 1890
that fund will amount to f21, 900 and
the debt can then be repaid. The
interest on that sum for ten years
will be the only charge on the gener-
al Revenue. To the amount of f21000
thus raised a further sum of 10000
might be added from unexpended
balances, making f3I 900 immediate
ly available for public works, and
leaving $500 of the balances avail
able for unforeseen contingencies.
"Any further amount that may be
required land if all the contemplated and
necessary works are undertaken. at least
100000 more will be required, should be
raised by Drbentures bearing interest at
S per cent"
We find the following interesting
notice of recent emigration from Bar
bados quoted in the antigua Observer
from a Barbados paper
From the 1st August to 31st December
1880, 1Os persons were sent to Antigua
by Mr., ]. H. Shannon, Agent to the I'm;
migration Co nmissiDnefs Of Antigua.
Dsmely, 81 mel ard II womsr. g labour,
ers, and I man, Q women and IS children
members OF lsbourers' families. to whom
free passage were 6 iven.Of this number
there we're 2 white men, and l white
an. 1 Zanzibar man; 2 men, I wo-
man and l girl from st, Cro,x ; ! man. and
l woman who came specially fsom St.
Vincent to 60 to Antigua. the woman
having been there several years before ;
ard ] man from Tobago. Many Of the L.
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ey voted by the legislature. There are
four inmates-eighty-fiv boys and nine
teen girls. The total expenses of the
school for the two past years has been
$39, 384.25. The receipts from all sources
amounted to $13,647 IL, leaving $25, 737.-
IA to be provided from the state treasury.
Gideon Burnham, who lives on the
owns a farm that would be very hard to
beat by any meadow farm in the state,
acre for acre. He has 65 acres of NOW
and tillage land. On this the past sea-
son he raised LOO tons of hay; Ill bushels
of wheat, this on 215 acres, with less
than bushels of seed; SO bushels of bar
ley ON two acres, and three hundred bush
els of potatoes, beside a patch of corn,
roots and other crops. He keeps 81 COWS,
4 horses, yoke of oxen and other stock
to amount to SO animals. A year ago his
cows and heifers averaged 185 pounds OF
butter, this year the average may be a
little higher. The land is deep black
loan, underlaid with a very hard sub-soil,
| and the farm, like others in the vicinity
has always been noted for its very re.
markable grass-producing qualities. The
farm was owned for many years by the
late Stephens Jackson, one of the leading
farmers and citizens of Woodbury. fol
| many years.
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ELECTION OF TEN q. S.
SENATORS.

The Massachusetts Legislature Tues
day. reelected Senator Dawes. The
democratic candidate, Gen. Butler, re-
ceiVed Al votes in the House and three
in the Senate. The Maine Legislature
elected Hon. Eugene Hale to succeed
Senator Hamlin. Gen. Hawley was
elected by the Connecticut Legislature.
Senator Bayard was reelected by the
Delaware Legislature. Senator Bald
win, who was appointed by the govern
or in November, 70 at the death of
Senator Chandler, was elected by the
Michigan Legislature to complete the
term which expires March 4, next, and
Congressman Conger was elected for the
long term. The Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture took one ballot, but did not elect.
John Sherman, Secretary of Treasury.
was elected by the Ohio Legislature.
Gen. Ben. Harrison is the coming man
in Indiana in the House Tuesday he
received 81 to SO for Gray (democrat)
while Gray had one more vote in the
Senate than Harrison. The Missouri
Legislature reelected Senator Cockrell
The Nebraska Legislature failed te
agree upon candidate Paddock is
the leading candidate. The Minnesota
Legislature reelected Senator McMil
an. The New York Legislature elect
Thomas M. Platt, Conkling man. IL
Pennsylvania, singular state of thing
has arisen. The republican caucus ha
nominated Mr.. Oliver for Senator, blu
AZ republicans, supporters of Ex-Speak
er Grow, refused to attend the caucu
and will not vote for Oliver.
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the rest of the world, the subject is worth
mentioning. There seems little doubt
that Jay Gould practically owns at this
minute the entire telegraph plant of the
country, and all connected with it, bodies,
souls and breeches. As this is but an
item of his stupendous enterprises, it
looks as if Vanderbilt, with all his monop-
olies, were bound to play good deal of
second fiddle in the future. Jay is fond
of flowers, and had distressing loss Of
his entire and unique collection, valued,
in hard cash, at nearly $250,000, at his
superb mansion up the Hudson, when the
greenhouses caught fire from overheated
flues Jim Keene, the other chief corner
conspirator of the street, had a similar
affection, and David M. Stone, editor of
the Journal of Commerce, whose collec-
ton, if smaller, was, at least, as choice
as either, lost the greater part of it few
days ago in precisely the same way, and
caught terrible cold besides in dancing
about his whitening treasures, vainly try
| ing to save some of them.
We have been having regular hang
| mans holiday of late, with no end of ex-
ecutions all round u.s. The Staten Island
murderer, poor wretch, was sentenced
| several times, being respited from time
| to time in consequence of the wonderful
ingenuity and perseverance of his counsel,
| and has been kept in the torture of sus-
pense for nearly three years. Horrible
| suffered, it would almost seem that the
| bitterness of such long delay was cruel
and almost sufficient expiration. If they
must be hanged, why not get the job over
| quickly? Charles A. Dana, of the San,
| who is not generally credited with toe
soft heart, and whose head is certainly
hard enough, is strong opponent of cap
ital punishment, and he is getting great
many people to agree with him.
The time honored clocks of Trinity
Church, and St. PauPs Chapel, where
Washington worshipped, have been in
dulging in strange freaks of late. The
cold seems to have paralyzed them, ant
after doing good service since the Revo
i luton, they have taken to stopping a
unreasonable times with exasperatins
frequency. What changes these old dial'
have looked on! What would the OLE
boys, who first regulated their diurna
occupation by their faces, have said t.
the scenes Of the present day. The Broad
way of 1881, with its perpetual jam, hold
more money and more people in twenty
four hours every day, except, perhaps
on Sundays, that the whole continen
was worth hundred years ago.
| d
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ASTONISHING FIGUREs.-The total
imports at New York during the past
calendar year reached $3.50, 100000,
which is Sll5, 100000 in excess of the
previous years figures, and $lO7,2OO,-
900 in excess of 1872, the largest pre-
vious total in the history of that port.
The exports of the past year from New
York were $406, $685. 600, which is $751;
100000 more than during 1879, and
the largest ever recorded in the history
of the country. The Journal of Com
MERGE estimates for the whole country
about $775, 0O0 900 imports aud about
S980,OOO,0O0 exports for the last year,
showing balance of trade of $1l5,-
100000 in favor of this country, and a
total foreign commerce of $l,665. OO0,.
900 for the twelve months just ended
This is record without precedent in
our history.
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Some interesting statistics of great
religious denomination are given in the
recently issued Methodist Year Book
for 1881. There are now in church fell
lowship 4 500, 900 followers of John Wes-
ley, with Methodist population esti-
mated at 23,400,O00. There are nine
teen living bishops, of whom IL are in
active service in the Northern States
and 6 in the Southern. The net CAPT.
tai of the publishing house of the North
ern church is $l,55O,OOO, and its total
profits in A years have been over S.
100000. 1t issues 1900 books day
on the average. About 60 periodicals
emanate from the church in the North,
and $50 from all Methodisms. The
church in the North appropriates for
missions S778.OOO for 1881, about half
of which will be expended at home, and
the balance in foreign fields. There are
10000 itinerant preachers in the field,
and 1000 local preachers. The church
has numerous UNCONVENTIONAL academies
and seminaries. and no lack of colleges.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-01-24

MAINE.-The committee on guberna-
torial votes, by vote Of thirteen to
three, adopted the following report:
"The joint select committee on guber-
material votes having attended to their
duty, ask leave to report: Whole num-
of votes cast, 147,SO2 Harris N.
Plaisted had 1918; Daniel F. Davis,
1854; Joshua Nye, 800; William A.
Joy, 1874; Harrison NJ. Plaisted, 81;
scattering, So; and Harris NJ. Plaisted,
having received plurality of all the
votes cast, is duly elected governor of
the state of Maine for 1881 and 1882"
The republicans have been true to the
principles for which they took and
maintained so firm stand year ago.
With plausible excuse for throwing
out Mr.. Plaisted their political opponent
they have had the moral courage and
the honor to declare him legally elected
and relinquish whatever of advantage
the possession of the governorship might
have given them. The contrast between
the republican and the democratic par.
ties is fairly exempliied by this act
The events of year are too fresh in the
memory of the people to require spe'
cial reference to the points of difference
The people will mark them and repub
licanism will not suffer by the compari
SON. Wotchman.
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CONGRESS.

Friday Jan. Il. The Army and
Military Academy Appropriation bills
were passed finally in the Senate; no.
tice was given by Mr.. Salisbury that
he would call the kellogg case up. Sew
eral amendments to the Funding bill
were offered in the House.
Saturday. No business done.
Monday. In the Senate bills, were
passed for the relief of General Ord and
authorizing the Secretary of the Treas
ury to purchase certain property of the
Freedman's Bank.
Several important bills were intro
duced in the House; among them one
to establish system of government tel
egraphy, and another calling for the ap-
pointment of an international commits
sion to inquire into the alleged fishery
frauds. 1as5
Tuesday. The Halliday Relief bill
was passed by the Senate after it had
been greatly altered.
In the House report was presented
from the Committee on Elections de
claring Bisbee elected over Hull from
Florida; the bill to place Genera
Grant on the retired list of the Army
was reported adversely; the Refundins
bill was debated at length and fnall.
reported from the Committee of th,
| Whole. >e
| Wednesday. The attention Of tn
Senate was largely taken up by MI
Williams, of Kentucky. who spoke il
favor of his measure to prevent tn
spread of contagious diseases among CAT
tie; the matter was finally referred to
special committee.
The Refunding bill passed the Hous
finally, substantially as reported fro1
the Committee of the Whole.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-01-24

The snow storm and gale in Great
Britain on Wednesday was very re-
markable one, and has not been equaled
ed during the last twenty years. In
London and vicinity the storm appears
to have been particularly severe. and in
addition to the inconvenience of a heavy
fall of snow, which the Londoners do
not understand how to handle, they
have been afflicted by an inundation Of
the Thames, which flooded hundreds Of
houses and drowned good many peo'
pie. The loss by the flood is placed at
about $lO,OOO,OOO. .
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-01-24

The QUEEN ON IRELAND-The Queens
speech upon the opening Of Parliament
made special mention of the unhappy
state of affairs in that portion of her
dominions. She plainly admits that the
situation is of an alarming character"
that "a system of terror" prevails so as
to interfere with the administration of
justice. "Agrarian crimes have great
ly multiplied. She expresses her de-
sire to remove every grievance. She
recommends legislation regarding the
relation of landlords and tenants, and
respecting the limitations of the owner
ship of property, SO that the tenants
may enjoy great privileges and be able
to secure proprietary interest in the
soil. Meantime she gives notice that
she will ask for additional powers, in
asmuch as the existing laws can not be
enforced. The English Government
have most difficult problem before
them, difficult with any class of people
but especially so with the hot-headec
Irish. If Gladstone can solve this pro
blem, he will win new and splendid
laurels.
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looked somewhat worn by it. His tour,
which has been filled up to the last pos
sibility with sightseeing, has also been
exhausting; but he has brought home
rich and fruitful memories. Brother
Malcolm is eager for his familiar minis
terial work, and hurries back to his dis
trict, to lead on, as heretofore, his earn
est band of pastors in their evangelical
church.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-01-24

Special Agent Butterfeld Of Vermont,
who went tn Snnth Carnlina at the in
stance of Gen. Walker to retake the
census Of that State, is grati6ed at the
success of his mission, but indignant at
the reception accorded him by the South
Carolina people. AS soon as they found
he was Yankee, he says, they treated
him with supercillious GOODNESS and sus-
picion. Instead of lending him their
aid in an undertaking on whose success
SO much of interest to them depended,
they, as rule, threw obstacles in his
way, or stood aloof. He is satisfied
with his experience in chivalrous South
Carolina, but does not wish to repeat it.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-01-24

MUTILATED COMA profitable bust
ness can be done by drilling holes in
silver coins, and it will continue just as
long as the public is willing to submit.
The law maintains the face value of a
coin in spite of abrasion until the de-
nomination becomes 1ndistinguishable,
but it does not compel any one to ac-
cept money from which portion of the
metal has been removed by punching,
clipping or boring; consequently, if the
people were to refuse coins mutilated
in any of these ways the practice would
quickly be discouraged. So long as the
public accepts the bored coins the BUSH
ness will flourish. and the holes be made
larger. ..
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LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence of the Monitor.1


NEW YORK, Jan. II, 1881.
One Of the most cheerful conventions
held of late-like Falstaff, cheerful in
itself and the source of mirth in others
was the first annual meeting of associated
undertakers. These honest ghouls have
felt aggrieved, it seems, by the piratical
inroads on their earnings of livery stable
keepers, church sections and confederate
wholesale dealers in millinery for the
tomb, who care not to whom they sell as
long as they get their money. So they
banded together in self-defense. The
profession were in grave earnest and
talked right to the point. They thought
they ought to have 'the cream of the
funerals" and not the skimmings, and
have taken measures to freeze out the
interlopers. Everybody has been trying
to be funny about them, and SO I'll not
try, just for a change. I only wish I'd
heard of the meeting in time, though
They kept it very quiet and were very
nervous about being reported. But, of
course, some leaky vessel gave it all
away. .3 paA s4.siis
Austin Corbin, the local railroad king,
has gone in hot and heavy for improve
ments on the Long Island Railroad. He's
going to make it the model one of the
country and develop the fertile lands,
which are in such close neighborhood to
the great city and have been so long neg
lected. Eighty new locomotives and ever
so much new rolling stock, for freight as
well as passengers, is to be supplied al
once. There are to be waiting rooms al
every little stopping place-not before
perfect rivers to get to the miserable lit
tie platforms during the recent thaw-
and, among other improvements, the new
duplex Ericsson caloric pumping engines
gotten up by the Delameters are to b.
used all along the line, with the heavie
steam pumps they have just perfected fo
more important work. The embellishins
the conductors with bell punches hai
caused some dissatisfaction, but the boy
are taking it philosophically and nov
amuse themselves trying to induce trav
cling small boys to attend them as page
to carry the obnoxious anti-knocking
down checks.
Talking of punches leads one to thin
of punch, and punch of oysters, and tina
reminds me that for the first time in tn
century we are suffering from famine c
the toothsome bivalve. Most of tn
sources of supply have been frozen ovel
, and sloops have been icebound or wreck
ed by the dozen. The choice varietie
, are being actually wholesaled at $15
thousand, and there is a like scarcity {
scollops and CLAIMS.
Eighty millions of dollars is veT
comfortable little sum of money to sta
: business with. l don't often troub
you with financial news for the very GOO
reason that the telegraph takes it to yo
|. much quicker than the mails which carr
:. the letters of RADIx; but when the tel
It graphs are all to be, consolidated undo
y one head, and that head the long craniu
C of that dark-visaged and close-moutht
e little man who puzzles Wall street al