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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-11-14
THANKSGIVING DAY.
Ely THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERI-


BY THE PRESIDENT Ot me UNITED S1A1ES OF AMEhA-
CA, A PROCLAMATION.
1t has long been the piOus custom of our people,
with the closing Of the year, to look back upon the
blessings brought to them in the changing of
the seasons and TO return thanks to the all giving
source from whom they flow. And although at this
PERIOD when the falling leaf admonshes that the
time of sacred duty is at hand our nation still lies
in the shadow of great bereavement and the mourn
ing which has filed our hearts still finds expression
toward the God before whom but lately bowed in
grief and application yet the countless benefits which
have showered upon during the past twelve-month
call for ervent gratitude and make it fitting that
we should rejoice with thankfulness that the Lord in
his infinite mercy has most signally favored
try and our people. Peace without and prosperity
within have been vouchsafed u.s. No pestilence has
visited Shores the abundant privileges of freedom
which fathers left in their wisdom still our
increasing heritage and If in parts of our vast domain,
affection has visited our brethren in their forest
homes yet this calamity has beeu tempered in
sancted, by the generous compassion for the
sufferers which has been called forth throughout our
land.
For all these things it is meet that the voice of the
nation should go up to God in devout homage.
Wherefore 1, Chester A. Arthur, president of the
United States, do recommend that all people observe
Thursday. the Gath day of November instant by
ing so far as may be from their secular labors and
meeting their several places Of worship, there to
JOIN in ascribing honor and praise to Almighty God,
whose goodness has been so manifest in our history
and in lives and offering earnest prayers that his
bounties may continue to us and to our children. In
witness whereof have hereunto set my hand and
caused the seal of the United States TO be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this 4th day of No
vember in the year of Lord 1884, and Of the indie
peudence of the United States the 106th
By the president CHESTER A. ARTHUR
JAMES G. BLAINE, Secretary of State.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-11-14

The Chicago special train on the New
York Central and Hudson River rail-
road is marvel of railroad enterprise.
1t leaves New York 7 o'clock a: m. one
day, arriving in Chicago $40 a. m. the
next day. The fare to Chicago is 1925
and seats in the limited express will be
So extra, or $1425. Meals are served
on the train, which consists of FIVE or
six palace coaches, mail and one or
two baggage cars. This will be the
limit, as the train will not be enlarged,
no matter how great demand for seats.
for the special object Of the train is to
make time, and everything is arranged
with that end in view. The train will
make only such stops as are absolutely
necessary. An idea of the rapid rate al
which they will travel is gained from
the statement that the distance from
Albany to Syracuse is made in three
hours and thirty-fve minutes. A FIVE
minute stop is made at Syracuse. anc
the remainder of the route to Buffalo il
covered in three hours and forty-fv,
minutes, making seven hours and TWEEN
ty minutes from Albany to Buffalo,
distance Of about $50 miles.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-11-14

The annual report of the pension bu-
reau, just submitted to the Secretary of
the treasury at Washington, shows that
on the 30th of June, 1881, there were
PCS $50 pensioners 28,740 pensioners
were added to the roll during the year,
and the names of 1912 were dropped.
At the close of the year the annual pen
sion averaged Sl07, and the aggregate
annual value of all pensions was S20,
769,967. The total paid for pensions
during the year, exclusive of certain ar
rears in claims allowed prior to Jan. %
1879, was s49,723,147; the differ
ence being accounted for by arrears Of
pensions.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-11-14
BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF VERMONT, A
PROCLAMATION.


Although cur country has suffered much from daas
tcrs both upon and land and by disease, drought
and tornadoes, and especially has been called upon to
mourn the death of Chief Magistrate whom all par
ties and all sections of broad land unite in
ing and whose death all alike lament, yet within our
own commonwealth we have for thankfulness
and gratitude. Here, plenty and abundance have re-
warded the laboTs Of the husbandman; business has
been prosperous; epdemics and pestilence have not
oiiced people; the sound of hostile arms has not
resounded among these hills the comforts of peace
and the happiness following contentment have multi
plied homes have been secure the blessings, de-
cared inalienable byour bill of rights of "enoyng and
defending life and liberty. acquiring, possessing and
protecting property and pursuing and obtaining hap
piness and safety still assured to in higher
degree than ever before; and, not least among the
of thankfulness in state well through
out the country, have been brought to the centen-
NAL anniversary of the lost great battle of the Revou
ton in the midst of prosperity and bave seen the
constitutional successor of deceased president enter
upon the duties of his high office quietly and without
shock to the country or the government.
Therefore, for the observance of our New England
festival and IN compliance with custom long observ
ed and now national, 1 appoint Thursday, the 24tt
day OF November instant as day of thanksgiving
prayer and praise; and recommend that all persons
refraining from their usual abors and employments
devote portion of the day to such devotional exer
cises, public and private, due to the Creator o
the world and the Redeemer of the race, and GU
own sense of thankfuIness and gratitude for life ant
happiness prompt to Offer In the midst of our en-
joyments at the hreside and in the family circle ant
in the midst of not unseemIy amusements may we re
member the poor and needy within orders, and b.
charities fill their hearts with thankfulness an,
praise.
Given under my hand and the great seal Of the stat
in executive chamber at Bradford this 9Th day of No
vember in the year of Lord 1881, of the ndepend
of the United States the 1O6th, and of this
monwealth the l04th. ROSWELL FARNHAM
BY the governor,
LESTER f. THURBER,
off vii nd itarv
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-11-14

Gen, Sherman, in his just-published
annual report, as General of the army,
complains that the companies engaged
on the Western frontier are too small
for efficient discipline and for economi-
cal service. To protect at one time set
tiers against Indians, and again Indians
against the settlers, reinforcements have
to be frequently hurried forward from
great distances, be says, and always at
heavy cost for transportation This
cost in the aggregate he thinks will be
more than sufficient to supply an In
crease of twenty per cent of private
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-11-14

Republic, and in the development of the
mineral resources of the region along
our southern border. Great states and
thriving towns will spring up along the
new route, as states and cities have
grown along the central road across the
continent.-Neao York Tribune.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-11-14

soldiers, and be asks for that increase.
Gen. Sherman recommends the repeal of
that clause of existing law which limits
the enlisted force of the army to 25,-
600 men. and to enact that each and
every company in the army may be in
creased to at least fifty privates, max
ing sixty-two enlisted men aud three
officers to each of the 40 companies,
thus increasing the army proper to &c.
geo enlisted men, which number, in
practice, will probably never exceed
$4,000. He says: This should form
the com batant force, and as experience
and universal practice have demonstrate
ed the necessity for another or non-com-
Blatant force, further urge that special
provision be made by law for total of
3,7S9, for all purposes, which number
added to the 26,660, before explained.
will make total enlisted force of every
nature and kind of 3O,449.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-11-14

The trial of Guteau should be full,
fair and free. He is poor wretch, for
whom there is no sympathy anywhere.
His trial may develop new facts regard
ing insanity and homicidal mania !;
whether it does or not, it offers us an
opportunity to present to all nations the
spectacle of great people capable not
only of administering their own govern
ment in civil affairs, but of governing
themselves in the most trying emergen-
cies and administering justice always
without color of partiality, passion OF
prejudice.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-11-14

The total vote in Ohio at the last
election was 625,O0O, as compared with
$4,000 at the previous election. The
temperance vote was 10000 and the
greenback vote 1000. Governor Fos-
ter was reelected by plurality of more
than $4,000, or by a majority of more
than 1000 over all the other candidates.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-11-14

To AccoMoDATE THE PUBL1c.-The proprietors of
that immensely popular remedy, Kidney Wort in rec
ognton of the claims of the public which has SO ber-
ally patronized them, have prepared liquid prepare
ton of that remedy for the special accommodation of
those who for any reason dislike to prepare it for
themselves 1t is very concentrated and as the dose
is small. it easily taken by many. 1t has the
same efectual action in all diseases of the kidneys,
liver or bowels.-Home and Farm.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-04-08
In Equity.
In the Circuit Court
for
Daniel Sect
We

Daniel Scott In Equity.
In the Circuit Court
Thomas W. Kerr and for
Mary e. Kerr his wife. Hartford county.
THE object of this Bill is to procure decree
i setting aside deed from Benedict Legoe, of
Hartford county, to Mary @. Kerr, wife of Thorn
day of April, 1879. The Bill of Complaint charges
that Benedict Legoe being indebted to the COM
ey, and not having the means of paying the same
apart from the land so as above conveyed, fraud
ulently made said deed, not for bona fide but
hinder, delay and defraud the complainant and
his othor creditors of the Just and lawful debts,
benedict Legoe has since the making of said deed
died intestate, without leaving any personal pro-
perty out of which to pay his said debts. II Is
by the court, that the complainant cause copy
of this order, together with the object and sub
paper published in Hartford county once a week
| for four successive weeks, three months before
the 10th day of July 1884, giving notice to said de-
| wife, and warning them TO appear in this court,
| In person or by solicitor, on or before the said
10Th day of July, 1881 to answer the premises and
not be granted Pro e0s y against them. ,
mhiS-5t BY 4. LTNGAN JARRETT, Clerk.
i subscriber has obtained from the Register Of
Wills OF Hartford county, Nd, letters of admins
| tration on the personal estate of
| WILLIAM t. MUNNIKHUYsEN,
| late of said county deceased. All persons having
| claims against said deceased are hereby notified to
exhibit the same, with the legal vouchers thereof
On or before the 2sM day Of February 1882,
| or they may otherwise by law be excluded from ali
benefit of said estate. All persons indebted tc
said estate are requested to make immediate pay
ment. Given under my hand and seal, this 28tf
day of February. 1881.
HOWARD MUNNIKHUYsEN,
mh4-6t Administrator.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-04-08
Why the Law Is Uncertain.

Language is an imperfect instrument for
the expression of ideas. Not a few of its
forms are ambiguous; that is, they speak in
two ways. Readers and hearers are left in
old Isaac's perplexity The voice is that
of jacob, the hand is that of Esau. They
have two meanings SO that the reader is in
doubt as to the mind or intention of the wri-
ter. Those who draft statutes know how diff
cult it is to frame law which shall be free
from ambiguous expressions. or equivocal
terms Judge Story once told personal in
cident which illustrates this difficulty He was
employed in Congress TO draft an act. So inn
portant was it that he spent six months in
trying to perfect the phraseology. His pur-
pose was to make the statute so clear that the
most astute lawyer should be able to cast the
shadow of doubt upon its meaning The
draft proving satisfactory to the lawyers in
Congress became a law. In less than year
a suit, involving the Interpretation of this
very law, came before the court over which
Justice Story presided. Having heard the
argument of the able attorneys, the Judge
confessed that he was unable to decide upon
the meaning of statute which he himselfhad
framed. He, of course, knew what he had
meant to put into the law. But the criticism
of the two lawyers showed him that he had
used such ambiguous expressions that it was
doubtful If he had said what he meant to have
said
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-04-08
Senator Malone.

In the United States Senate, Il few DAYS ago,
Mr. Brown, of Georgia, said it was peculiar
coincidence that the Senator from Virginia,
who, up to a late period, had always been a
Democrat should vote with the Republicans
on the organization of every committee and
that in very short time afterwards the Re
publicans should meet in caucus and nomi-
nate his intimate friends, Gorham, who bolt
ed the party and been read out of it, and Rid
debcrger, who had always been Democrat.
1t might have been no bargain it might not
even have been an understanding, but be
would call it peculiar coincidence" The
situation reminded him of the story of the
coon and the skunk The coon had left home
day and on his return found some other ami
nal in the hollow of his tree He thought it
was a cat and challenged it as such
NO." said the poecat, II am coon"
"You don't look like coon"
But am coon"
"You don't talk like COON"
"But | am a coon"
"You don't smell like n coon and you amt
a coon" Laughter. This transaction did
not look exactly like a proper transaction
and it did not smell like proper transaction.
Laughter The Republican side reminded
him of the man who caught wolf and then
had to call to friend to help him to let it 60
or rather it reminded him of the man who
had won an elephant at rattle and did not
know what to do with him. The Republicans
had won the elephant in this case and were
not in very good condition to get rid of
him. If they did not stand by his friends he
might turn and rend every chairman of theirs.
Laughter. He also ikened the Republicans
to the astronomer who fell into state of
great excitement at discovering an elephant
on the moon only to find that there was q
mouse between the lenses ofhis instrument.
Possible his Republican friends had not
caught the elephant they thought they had,
for possibly it might turn out to be dimn-
utiye form of n little mouse.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-04-08
Pearls OF Wisdom.
One to-day is worth two to-morrows.
Look on the bright side of every thing.
Rustln 10 NOT ip1uct ny nor 10

One day is worth two to -morrows.
Look on the bright side of every thing.
Bustle is not industry nor is impudencc
courage.
Do little well and you do much.
Use n book as Il bee does a flower
Never open the door to little vice, lest a
great one should enter also
Pleasure is precarious, but virtue is i'm
mortal
Never put off till tomorrow what you can
do to-day.
Never spend your money before you have
Never trouble another for what you can
do yourself
Never buy what you do not want because
it is cheap.
Pride costs more than hunger, thirst or
cold.
We seldom repent of having eaten too lit
tie.
Nothing is troublesome that we do willing
ly.
How much pain the evils have cost US that
have never happened,
One kind word may turn away a torrent
of anger.
Take things always by the smooth handle
Be not the first to quarrel with friend.
One doubt may lead to disbelief
Solitude is the nurse of wisdom.
Wit is the lightning of the mind
Perseverance is the bridge by which diff
Guilty is overcome.
Economy is the household merit.
Frugality proves an easy chair for old age
Envy is n selfexecutioner.
Gold is the dust that blinds all eyes.
Music is soul embodied in sound
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-04-08
9nrtital.
ONEsIOE OF THE CASE.

A grabbed old bachelor was sitting alone,
Thinking, no doubt, OF the Joys that had flown,
Of the sweets he had tasted the bliss he had
known, .t.
or the maiden he wooed, then left her to mourn
Asmusing he sat with the cat on his knee.
The dog at his feet gazing uneasily
AT his masters grave face, all plainly could see
He was perplexed, as ne gulped down cup OF
hot ten.
To dwell thus alone: thought I'd ne'er miss
The Benedicts Rrecting-a wife's evening kiss
woman to me seemed a fair Nemesis.
II ought to be happy, with never a care.
No shop bills to ycN me- no trials to bear:
come home when please, my own meals pre-
pare:
And for many long years I've avoided the snare.
but my age is increasing I've lost the desire
10 get up in the morning and build my own fire
Besides there's my washing and mending to hire;
Such conflicting emotions provoke me to ire:
MY buttons, alas they have all taken wing,
While now in their places I'm forced to use
string:
My clothes are quite seedy; haven't thing
That Is decent, yet still to my freedom | cling.
I'm do it :" he cried, jumping up in his gee,
While the cat fled in fright from her post on his
knee,
"Ill get me II wife. and then will see
If I'm less contented than when was free"
His cup of delight was filled to the brm,
And he thought OF maiden so neat and trim,
That he wood for his wife-but his smile was
grim,
When, on asking the question, she wouldn't have
him
Thus fare the old bachelors who linger and wait,
Content to remain single. thus toying with fate,
Sometimes their abilities they overrate,
when, surprised and chagrined, they find they re
too late.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-04-08
VARIETIES.

Why is q scholmistress like the letter
Z? Because she makes classes of lasses.
Much as he loves roast beef John Bull Is
continually getting into an Irish stew.
In what case is it absolutely impossible
to be slow and sure? In the case ola watch.
Much as the monkey surpasses man in
agility, he cannot run up store bill as easily.
An old maid speaking of marriage says
it's like any other disease-while there is life
there is hope. 0.
WHATS the difference" asked a teacher
in arithmetic, between one yard and two
yards?" "a fence" was the reply of men,
Der of the class. The teacher was silent.
"A boy was troubled for fear that he
would not know his father when they reach
ed heaven, but his mother eased him by re-
marking: "All you'll have to do is to look
for an angel with red nose ON him."
--"What do you suppose Lot thought
when he beheld his poor wife turned to pill
lar of salt? ?" 81 suppose" replied our wit,
with admirable gravity, she thought how he
could get himself-a fresh one"
Distressing Accident; A man went into
a house last night and picked up gun. OF
course he didn't know it was loaded 1t
went off. So did the man. And the man
who owns, or, rather, who owned the gun,
would give $50 to know where they went
Detroit Free Press
"A widowers courtship: Med" she
said to him. pensively, in tone implying to-
tai lack of confidence in herself, II don't
think can ever be to you what your first
wife was" "Great Cesar, Mary" was the
enthusiastic response "if l thought that I'd
marry you tomorrow Brooklyn Eagle.
Secretary Evarts tells an anecdote about
John Marshall, who when fellow passenger
in the stage-coach exclaimed: 1--WE are near
the birthplace of Patrick Henry; how could
he fail to be an orator when born amid this
grand scenery" young man this scenery
has been here ever since Patrick Henry was
born but there have not been any more Pat
rick Henrys."
"A Galveston dandy didn't like the new
pants lie had received from his tailor, so he
told the artist who built the paints "Look
here, l can't use those pants. WANTED them
for a dinner party, and they are so tight
can't walk in them" "Well," growled the
tailor, "if you don't get to be any tighter than
your pants you won't find any trouble in
walking.
Juvenile Nihilst: A Brooklyn boy who
had taken great interest in listening to the
accounts of the assassination of the Gar, filed
a soda water bottle with lacks and coal dust
and, sealing stealthily into the nursery, hurled
1t at the feet of his little sister. His surprise
only began, however, when his mother un.
coiled a trunk strap and invited him to step
up stairs with her for q few moments.-B,ook-
Ign Eagle.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-04-08
A WoMAN's VITA woman's advice h

A WoMAN's VITA woman's advice Is
generally worth having; so If you are in any
trouble, tell your mother, or your wife, or
your sister. BE assured that light will
flash upon your darkness. Women are too
commonly judged yertlant in all but woman
ish affairs. No philosophical students Of the
sex thus Judge them. Their intuitons or in
sights are the most subtle, and If they cannot
see cat in the meal there is no cat there.
advise man to keep none of his affairs from
his wife. Many home has been saved and
many fortune retrieved by mans full con
idence in his wife. Woman is far more
seer and a prophet than man, if she be given
a fair chance. AS general rule, the wives
contide the minutest of their plans and
thoughts to their husbands Why not recip.
rocatc, if but for the pleasure Of meeting con
fidence with confidence. The men that sue
coed best in life are those who make conf
dants OF their wives independent
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-04-08
8altn. ADVERTISEMENTS.
Boot & Shoe House,
1872 N. Cay ST., Baltic.
Than anywhere else


Ladies, Foxed CATERS. .........$1 90 to 81 90
Ladies' Foxed Button ................ | % to 90
Ladies' Newport Ties. l 90 to l rs
Ladies' Newport Button .............. 90 to LIS
Ladies' All-Leaiher Button immune. 80 to 3 90
Ladies' Leather Boots ................ / 90 to g 90
Ladiessand Misses Slippers at all prices.
Gents Button CATERS. .......,.....$ 81 % to 50 so
Gents Lace Shoes at all prices.
Gems Fine Long Boots. ............$2 80 to 81 so
Boys Lace Shoes and CATERS at all prices.
In selecting my stock | have tried my hest to
combine durability with style and will guarantee
to give you at all times good wearing Shoes for
the price paid as any house in this city, or will
send you by mail, to any part of the United States
any price shoe you want. aud If not pleased with
your bargain, return 1t and receive your money.
NOTlCE.-lf persons sending to lS2 North Gay
Street, will take the measure of their old shoe on
the inside with stick, then copy the length of
stick on piece of paper, writing whether they
have slim, medium or wide foot, will guarantee
perfect fit. In ordering by mail please send
postofiice order or registered letter. and you will
receive what you want by return mail; but. a, all
tiHfg remember the BNLnBey,