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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-06-26
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

The Essex county republican conven-
ton will be held at Guildhall, Wednesday,
June %.
A Rutland widow of GA summers has
just captured her seventh husband, a
comely youth of IA.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
State Teachers Association will be held
at Castleton August 8, 10 and IL.
Five cars of cut nails, comprising 1920
kegs, passed through st. Adams from
Montreal last week en- route for Chilli.
The town grand jurors of Vergennes
have ordered all meat markets, baroer
shops and saloons to close Sundays.
Charles HAL Darling of Woodstock has
received the second prize for oratory in
the sophomore class of Tufts College.
LIE Grand B. Cannon of Burlington was
offered by President Arthur a place on
the tariff commission, but he declined it.
DIR. S. w. Thayer of. Burlington has
started on trip to the Yellowstone river
and Manitoba. He will return at COM
| mencement time.
1t is said that the Saratoga and White
Mountain express will run as last year
via Burlington and over the Burlington
and Lamoille track.
Lewis Lyon of Island Pond, a brake
man on the Grand Trunk railway, fell
from his train at West Milan, Wednesday
night, and was instantly killed.
On the principal that 'slazy men take the
most palms, Montpelier man must
claim the championship. He recently
spent several hours washing carriage
with syringe.
Vermont scenery is at its height about
this time, and drives through the coun
try are full of inspiration to one who de
lights in such charming pictures as Ma
ture can give him.
A shooting affair is reported iron
Shrewsbury, between w. B. Gould ant
one Glynn, growing out of abusive cpl
| GlleOS. was uICt GNlCC anu ll'
piece of an ear shot off.
The late Seth Griffith, of Grand Isle
had kept diary of important local event
since 1886, 1t being continuation of hi
fathers diary since 1900, and his daugh
ter is now carrying on the work
The Vermont state fair will be held d
Burlington September II, ID, IA and Il
under the auspices of the Chaimplain Va
ley Association for the promotion of AS
/ riculture and the Mechanic Arts.
1t is said that Senator Edmunds r.
) ceived fee of $4,000 from the plaintiff
for his argument at Montpelier in I'll
case of I.angdon and others against I'll
Vermont & Canada railroad company.
The farmers of Pomfret have sold 1:
head of Jersey cattle to J. J. Richardso
of Davenport, Iowa, for which they ha'
> received $4,000. o. M. Tinkham has t
{ ken them out there, and goes with Il
: last load the latter part of this month.
e Bennington is sinking an Artesian we
g A depth of one hundred feet has be-
n reached without finding water; b
# 'tspecks of glittering ore resembling S
J ver'' have been found. Next we hea
:. Bennington people will be mining t
silver.
- Senator Morrill, of Vermont has init
Is duced bill appropriating $4,000 to pl
" cure from Larkin G. Mead, sculpt'
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-06-26
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Queen Victoria has reigned forty-ive
years.
Col. Ingersoll has sunk $4,000 il
mines and probably has realizing sense
that there is such thing as bottomless
pit
Lovers of the weed will be interested
in the fact that the cancer of which Sena-
tor Ben Hill is dying was developed by
the poisonous nicotine of cigar being
absorbed by a tiny blister on his tongue.
Justice Bradley, of the United States
supreme court, to whom Gulteau's coun-
sci appealed for writ of habeas corpus,
to-day filed denial Of the application
with the clerk of the court. Justice
Bradley holds that the court of the Dis
trict of Columbia had full jurisdiction of
the case, and that no reasons exist for
granting the writ.
| Collector Robertson of New York, says
that he has not received the circular from
| the republican congressional committee,
asking for subscriptions, but some of the
custom house employees had and he wants
it understood, that, as far as his office
goes, no man shall be dismissed or in
any way interfered with for not paying a
political assessment.
The trade dollar must go. The House,
on Monday, passed bill authorizing the
United States treasury to receive trade
dollars on presentation, and give in ex
change standard silver dollars, and re
pealing all laws authorizing furthur coin
age of trade dollars. AS the STANDARD
dollar is worth less than the trade dollar
the government will lose nothing by thu
transaction.
President Arthur does not propose t,
inhale the malarious air of the Whit
House long, and will move in few day
to the soldiers home, which has been tn
Presidents summer residence since Lin
coins time. He may spend short tim
at Long Branch or Saratoga during tn
summer, but expects to have bushes
enough at Washington to keep him ther
most of the season.
The latest advices from Grinnell, low;
show that forty-one deaths have resulte
from the tornado of Saturday night, an
it is estimated that the death roll wi
reach one hundred. Twenty-three pc
sons have died at contiguous points, an
at Grinnell one hundred and twenty pc
3 sons are known to have been wounde'
The property loss in the region traverse
e by the tornado will probably aggrega
: three quarters of a million dollars.
q Mount Pleasant on the same night thru
dwellings were uprooted and two person
killed, while the loss of property w
: reach $150,OO0.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-06-26
THE WESTERN CYCLONE.

Dies MONIES. June 19. The State
Leaders specials trace the storm of
Saturday night from it's origin, at or
near the center of Greene county, to
the southern part of Henry county,
200 miles distant. AS far as heard
from nearly the whole of that dis
lance is strewn with wrecks of houses,
barns, churches, school houses and
fences. The total loss of life will
exceed 100, wounded 250, and the
property destroyed 81, 100000, and
these are all very low estimates.
The total dead at Grinnell is A, and
10 or Is more will die. Many lives
were lost northwest of Grinnell. The
cyclone seems to have formed in the
southwestern township of Boone
county thence it passed nearly due
east to Kelley, then to a point five
miles south of Nevada, thence to a
point ten miles north of Grinnell, and
passing to the west side of the that
town made smash of a mile in
length through the redience portion
of the city, forming an angle and ut
terly demolishing everything in its
way. The width of it's pathway was
about two squares; at least sixty
houses were destroyed in Grinnell.
The course was changed at Grinnell
to southeasterly direction, passing
through the town of Malcolm to
Brooklyn, and on to Richland, Brigh-
ton and Mount Pleasant. A thous-
and trees were literally torn in
shreds. 1t has been impossible to
get news from many localities on &C
count of the destruction of nearly all
telegraph communication. The State
Leader has organized a relief fund
and has sent men in all directions to
procure news of damage and make
arrangements for distribution of aid
to homeless destitute sufferers. A
large number of killed were buried
at Grinnell. Some 5000 persons
present, and the scene was heartrend,
ing. Many of the injured will die.
Several persons are missing
DETROIT, MICH, June 10 A cy-
clone swept through Bay, Tuscols
and Huron counties yesterday a
noon. The district devastated is re
mote from telegraphic lines, but so ia
the story of devastation is sad one
Many houses, barns, orchards, etc.
are swept'away. At Thomas Joyce
house in Bay county, a girl nance
Simpson was fatally injured by beins
hurled against fence. Mrs. Sela
Goshar was badly hurt; a boy nam
Carroll had his skull broken; Mrs
Mcdonald of Gagetown was terribl
mutilated; the track of the storm wa
80 rods wide and 20 miles long.
METROPOLIS, ILL, June 10. A tel
| rible cyclone struck this city yestel
day evening, blowing down sewers
houses, capsizing and sinking th
steamer Jennie Walker and scatter
ing the harvested wheat in the vicin
| ty. A man named Richard Turnt
was killed. The damage is heavy.
ATCHIsoN, KAN, June 10. tt
mails and travellers bring more a
curate reports of the effect of Frids
nights storm, showing that it e,
e tending southwark and westward I
Kansas City, doing greater damas
i than was at first supposed. Mar
small towns and hamlets were visitt
J, and all are in mourning over the 10
0 of life and property. 1t is reports
It that family Of three persons we
e drowned on fiat boat, II miles b
), low here.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-06-26

The Second District congressional
committee is now composed of the
following gentlemen, the last two
having been elected to fill vacancies :
Kittredge Haskins of Brattleboro
(president), w. H. Dubois of Ran
dolph (secretary), Nelson Gay of
Stockbridge, Henry c. Belden of st.
Johnsbury, L. Bart Cross of Mont
pelier, Charles w. King of Lunen-
burgh, and O. n. Elkins of North
Troy. Wednesday, July 26, is the
day fixed for holding the convention
at Montpelier.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-06-26

more. Perhaps he may be made
marquis. He has made money
enough to support the dignity.
Even inanimate representatives of
dignity have been pitched into. A
sailor was arrested the other day for
firing at the statute of Justice on the
top of the City Hall. He explained
that he was saluting her with blank
cartridge, but he was found in bad
company and was locked up. The
cheerful crowd with him was compos-
ed of tramps, who had been guying
a fat policeman, and going through
some religious ceremonies before a
broom-stick dressed in what was in
tended to represent policeman's
clothes, all in the sacred precincts OF
the park.
Then the delightful, gilded youth,
whose fathers made money by oil or
shoddy, or some other way, and who
make money for tailors and jewelers.
by their superb, numerous and vari-
ed rigs, and sporting goods puryey-
ors, by their unlimited purchases of
guns, horses, polo equipments, etc.,
have been evil entreated by that old
enemy of the nobs and snobs, Capt.
Williams. He is back again in the
old peculiar precinct, which is so pc
culiar that all strangers should keep
clear of, but which, singularly enough
most strangers steer right for-that
precinct where the tiger RACES and
the great ant-Jumbo elephant waves
his prehensile trunk, and gathers 'em
in. The Racduet Club is here situat-
ed, an exclusive affair supported by
the very tip-top toniest of the G.. 7.
aforesaid. Its location, so say their
enemies, having been determined
from its proximity to the chosen past
ures for their normal nocturnal pleas
ures. 1t has a gymnasium, and also
bedrooms, for some of the members.
handy to roll into after singing mer-
rily in adjacent juniper groves in the
wee, sma' hours. Well, three of the
"bloods,' one of them easily attired
in buff and dressing gown, hav'
ing just taken bath, were dining
when in rushed their frightened wait
er and policeman who said the
darkey was wanted for an alleged
theft. The gentlemen were horrifie(
at the intrusion and remarking tina
the man should not be arrested with
out a warrant, proceeded to make {
prisoner of the captor. He yelled
something out of the window which
eventuated in descent by party o
comrades from the adjacent station
house who rescued him and "scoop
ed" the colored man and the clu7
swells, not emitting q few Commissions
aud not waiting for the lightly cla
one tie dress. The latter were fine,
in court next morning, and I'm gla
of it. I have no sort of objection t
rich men being just as idle and ex
travagant as they choose, provid
they don't parade their vices and Sc
an example that demoralizes other
who are not rich and can't afford t
be loose and lazy. The tomfoolerie
at the Union club and this affair ar
: making good many people thin
this people had better follow Ber
nett to Europe. RADx.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-06-26

DELICATE FEMALEs.-The exertions of society, add
ed to the cares of maternity and the household have
tested beyond endurance the fal constitutions which
have been granted the majority of women To combat
this tendency premature decline no remedy p the
world possesses the nourishing and strengthening
properties of Malt Bitters They enrich the blood.
perfect Digestion stimulate the liver and kidneys.
rest Lucrative weaknesses. and purify and valize
every function CT the female system.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-06-26

WORTH REMEMBERING.-Now that good times ar
again upon us, it is worth remembering that no on
enjoy the pleasanest surroundings ifn bad healu
There are hundreds of miserable people going about
to-day with dsordered stomach. liver or kidneys, wheI
a bottle of Parker's Ginger Tonic would do then
good than all the medicines they have tried
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-06-26

DELIGHTFUL NovELTY.-Ladies prefer Floreston
Cologne because they find this lasting combination
of exquisite perfumes delightful novelty.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-06-26

USELESS FRIGHT.-To worry about any liver, kidney
urinary trouble especially Brghts disease OF dia
betes as Hop Bitters never O a where a
cur = e
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-06-26

1t is now authoritatively stated that
China will return to America fifty of
the recalled students.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-06-26
AUC'!IQNEER

THE uNDERsIGNEDGIvEs NOTICE THAT HE
Will, ATTEND AUCTION SALES IN ANY PART
OF THIS STATE.
HAVING HAD MANY YEARS SUCCESSFUL
EXPERIENCE AS AN AUCTIoNEER. l GUARAN
TEE SATISFACTION IN EACH SALE. OR RE
o1rIRE NO COMPENSATION. 1 WILL SELL
EITHER BY THE DAY OR FOR A PER CENT.
Address,
u-s7 WI. BARROws. Coyentry.yt.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-06-26
State Nominations.

WILLIAM IL. Dubois. of West Randolph
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-06-26
Madame Martha

Princess of the saddle. in her whiriwind DOUBLE
TANDEM MENACE ACT. This charming eques-
trienne has just arrived from Europe 9 ana
STATIONS.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-06-26
The Tiger Rake !
The Monitor Rake.

This is the strongest rake made and will do better
service on rough uneven ground than any other rake
in the market Two ounces pressure on the foot-eVer
will dump it. The wood is of the best ash and oak.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-06-26

This rake received the highest award at the Centen-
NAL Exposition. 1t is easily handled by boy or girl
large enough to drive horse. have large stock
of repairs, from the wheel to the smallest spring.
Farmers ordering teeth from distance will give the
number of tooth from either wheel.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18

The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Advertiser thinks that the anti.
Chinese arguments in the United States
Senate might very readily become anti
American arguments in China. He
asks:
"What American goes to China to
make his home there and become a part
of that people2 What American who
goes there does not go to make all the
money he can and bring 1t away What
one does not expect to have his bones
buried in his native land Z What one
troubles himself to conform any more
closely than he is obliged to to the GUS
toms and prejudices of the Chinese ? Do
they give no offense in the items of dress,
department. morals and manners of
life ?"
The Chinese are noted for being re-
markedly shrewd and intelligent people,
and it would not be at all surprising if we
should soon hear of an "anti-American''
law in that empire, based upon the very
arguments above cited And the worse
part about the whole thing is, if the Ce-
lestial Emperor should take that notion
in his head, it would cost this country
several million dollars per snnum.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18

A bill now pending before the Legis.
lakure Of Massachusetts has called out a
protest from number of highly esteemed
Boston ladies who have no wish to be
forced to vote. They say:
"The subject of woman suffrage has
not excited any general interest among
the women of Massachusetts up TO the
present time, because they supposed it
to be the action of a small, dissatisfied
class. But there is now the danger of
actual legislation upon the basis of their
representations, and OF the passage of
laws which will compel all women to
take a personal part In politics, in order
to prevent the bad elements from over
towering the good. 1t seemed right,
therefore, that those women who have
heretofore held their peace, because they
felt no necessity of speaking, but who
now apprehend the real danger of having
thrust upon them duties and response
bilities which they do not seek, and
which they feel themselves unable or I'M
willing to fulfill, should utter protest
against the passage of the bill now pend
ing before the Massachusetts, Legisla-
ture."
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18

The indianapolis Sentinel recently an
nounced that corn, not cotton, is king,
and based its conclusions upon the fol-
lowing statistics: In 1879 there were
produced in the country 1,547, 9O1, 79O
bushels of corn, valued at $3.50, 4S6, 2l7;
AS, 756, $50 bushels of wheat, valued at
$497 .O3O, 142; and 1885,, $40, 900 pounds
of cotton, valued at $242, 14O,9s7 The
Sentinel says any other year in the de-
cade would show the same result-corn
would still head the list. The increased
production of corn, from 1870 to 1880,
indicates its great value. The pro-
duction for 1870 was 760,944, 519
bushels, while in 1880 it amounted
to 1 ,754 SCI, 535 bushels, a gain in tn
years of 993, 81, 016 bushels-more than
100 per cent. of the product of 1881.
There was exported go 64S,1 bushels,
valued at $51, 972. 500, while the exports
Of wheat amounted to $167, 698 ass, and
the exports of cotton to $247. 625, TAG.
During the year 1881 about 250, 900, 600
bushels of corn were consumed in the
manufacture of whisky, upon which the
government collected over $67, 600, 600
revenue, and since 1868, corn, in the
way of spirits, has given the government
revenue to the amount of more than
$500, 900, 900.
Notwithstanding this very plausible
statement of its case, the Galveston NeOs
takes direct issue with the Sentinel, still
maintains that cotton is king, and bases
its conclusion upon reasoning which
must be admitted to be sound and just.
1t recites the fact that many years ago,
while Mr.. Toombs was making one of
his greatsspeeches in the United States
Senate, he compared the export products
of the two sections of the country, and
dwelling heavily on the cotton crop, a
Northern Senator interrupted him by
saying: "The grass crop of the Northern
and Western States exceeds in value
the cotton crop of the South" Mr..
Toombs replied: That's true, but you
feed your grass to your cattle, eat your
cattle, and at the end of the year your
crop is gone-eaten up by man and
beast" On this basis the Neaos reasons
that cotton is king, not because the crop
is worth more, estimated in dollars and
cents, than the grain or the hay crop, for
it is not worth as much, but because its
subjects are to be found in all lands and
countries, and is the chief article of
export. The cotton bale is a bill of
exchange, so to speak, and passes cur
rent in every market in the world.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18

There is no doubt that popular senti.
ment in the country is strongly in favor
If a pa-dOn for Mason, or at least a de-
cided mitigation of his sentence. 1t is
admitted. of course, that his offense was
q very serious one. He was soldier on
duty to guard criminal, and so far
from obeying his orders. he himself took
advantage Of his position to attempt TO
murder the very man it was his duty to
protect. Under these circumstances the
finding Of the court martial which found
him guilty cannot be considered severe.
Still. when it is further considered
that his act was against a
man who. in popular opinion, was
outlawed, and that his deed was insti-
gated by Indignation at the base wretch
who had so brutaIly murdered the com
mander-in-chief Of the army of which ne
was a warrant officer, his offense is easily
palliated. This is evidently the view
which the public take of his case.
as is shown not only by the sympa-
thy expressed in words for the convicted
sergeant. but also by that which is
more substantially expressed in the
numerous monied subscriptions taken up
in various quarters for the benefit Of his
wife and child.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18

The manufacture of matches in this
country is principally in the hands of a
single company which operates a number
of factories. There are several compare
lively small concerns which supply a
local trade, but the Diamond Match
Company, since the establishment of the
present heavy internal revenue tax. has
absorbed most of the smaller factories of
the country and closed them A repre-
sentative Of the company recently ap-
peared before the House Ways and
Means Committee at Washington aud
argued against any reduction Of the tax
which on cheap matches is greater than
the cost of material and labor required
for their production. Some surprise has
been expressed at this. but it is generally
admitted that the high tax Is the pEinci-
pal means by which they are enabled 70
hold a practical monopoly and freeze
out small manufacturers.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18

The annual convention of the sumac
manufacturers of Virginia was held in
Richmond Tuesday. Mr.. John Il.
Bryant was elected President for the
ensuing year. A great many matters of
interest to the trade were discussed,
particularly the tariff question. 1t was
resolved to cooperate with the manu-
facturers of dressed skins in endeavor-
ing to secure a higher tariff for their
protection, and thereby to make better
market for Virginia sumac. The grind
ing of leaf-sumac in Virginia has grown
from the insignificant business of about
100 tons per annum in 1865 to the very
considerable business of about 8. 900 tons
in 1881, which represented $240, 900 paid
directly to the poorer classes of people
in Virginia, consisting for the most part
of thousands of colored people, which
is their principal support.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18

Our Washington special this morning
gives us some insight into what a modern
Congressman considers necessary to be
supplied with by the government in
order that he may show appropriate
marks Of respect to the memory of a
deceased President. 1t seems that those
who attended Garfeld's funeral now
want the government TO settle
for about seven thousand dollars
worth of items, among which
are one thousand seven hundred
dollars worth of champagne, brandy,
ETC., and three hundred dollars worth Of
cocktails. 1t is, of course, to be pre-
sumed that their grief over the sad and
tragic end of their late Chief Executive
was so psthetIcally great as to be over
whelming, and it was necessary that it
should be alleviated by, if not wholly
drowned in. the flowing bowl-as it
were
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18

There was no little excitement at the
custom house in New York last Wednes-
day overreports from Washington that
Collector Robertson is to be superseded
by Police Commissioner Stephen B.
French. The latter IS known to be one
of the most intimate friends of Presi-
dent Arthur. aud, should the news prove
true, it will almost necessarily be accept
ed as the commencement of a thorough
revolution in the "gray building in
Wall street, as all the half-breeds will be
put out and all the stalwsrts put in. Mr..
Robertson says he has no information to
this effect, but he would not be sur
prised if it was true. 1t is intimated
that he can have a foreign mission if he
so desires.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-18

The immense proportions of the ocean
passenger traffic last year is shown in the
report Of the landing agent at Castle
Garden, from which it is learned that
the number of cabin passengers landed
at the port of New York last year was
1872. 293, OF which 81 .229 were cabin pas
sengers and Al, O64 immigrants.