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A Cough, Gold or Sore Throat

should not be neglected. BRowN's BRoN.
CHIAL TRooHKs are o simple remedy, and
will give immediate relief. Price rs cents.
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Money for tho Unmarried.

One of the most solid and subst atial
institutions In this country Is the Mar
riage Fund and Mutual Trust Association,
Of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They are organ
lied under the laws Of Iowa, and heir of.
fcers and directors are among the leading
and most prominent business men o Cedar
Rapids. Every unmarried person should
have IA certificate in this association.
1t Is n splendid Investment, as safe AZ
government bond. You can Just rs well
have q good sum of money to commence
married life on as not. A large number OF
members have been paid of, receiving over
800 per cent on their investment. Write
for circulars fully detailing the plan, which
Ii the finest known. Do not postpone IL.
Good agents wanted. Mention where you
saw this notice. f5.3m,
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The Romance OF a Button.

Boston Herald.
The hutton cut by a confederate
soldier, on the battle fold OF Bull Run,
frsm the coat of Col. Fletcher Web
ster, 18th Massachusetts volunteers
(Webster's rogimeut), was presented
10 the Webster Grand Army post,
Brockton, this evening, at Grand
Army hall. The presentation speech
was made by Comrade Gsorge Kimball,
of b ,ston, the button being received
by Commander George A. Grant on
behaIf of the post. After further re.
marks by Joseph w. Thsyer, OF Chel.
sea, and a reading by Miss Clara A.
Marry, the audience were treated to
a COLLATION. by the ladies CT the post.
Tne button, which Is elegantly framed,
Is accompanied by the following In.
scription: "This button was taken
from the breast OF Dol. Fletcher Web
ster, 18th Massachusetts volunteers
Webster regiment), as he lay dead
upon the battle field of second Bull
Run. August 81, 1862. Col. Webster
was found dying by Jesse Burley, of
company fl, 10Th Virginia, O.
s.. A. Burley tenderly cared
for Col. Webster's Immediate
wants, and, In return for his kindness,
the wounded officer gave him q ring
from his fpger-an old family keep
sake. (This ring has nee the war
been returned to the widow Of Col.
Webster.) When Burley returned to
his regiment, he gave the ring to
Qusrtermsster George j. Jones, act.
Ing brigade quartermaster of Gar
pett's brigade, TO keep for him, at the
same time requesting Jones to go and
see If anything more could be done
for the wounded officer. Quarter.
master Jones succeeded in finding
Col. Webster, but death had relieved
him from his sutferings, and, as he
says in his letter, I'm the kindest Of
feeling and on account of his great
reverence for the Webster name h,
took this button from bis breast, ano
and has ever since tenderly preserved
1t. 1t was received through the mai
by Comrade George K,mball of tn,
Webster regiment from George T
Jones, Fort Valley, Ga, January 10
1883, and by Comrade Kimball pre-
scented to Fletcher Webster Post Is
g. A. r., March 80, 1888.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-12
Peculiar Growth OF Trees.

ut. Sterling (Ky.) Democrat,
Mr.. Samuel Howard relates o curl.
GUS story about me tree growing on
the inside of another, which he dis.
covered on his farm some time ago.
He sage he had occasion to cut down
q large black locust tree, which was
found to be- hollow, and in the hollow
of tho )nouet tree rev another tree,
OF Il d,if rant KIND, which was ten
inches In dinnettr aud about twenty
feet high, and 1t had put forth several
branches, though they were incom.
passed IN q very small space. He
says the inside tree was alive and
seemed quite thrifty, and how 1t grew
and f1ourished In 40 small q space
without air or light was a mystery to
him, and he would like to have some
scientist explain the matter.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-12
I'D wines are worth $50 q gallon by the

old wines are worth $50 a gallon by th,
quantity.
Taking the cars for Cad;z, and ap.
preaching the coast, the road run,
through salt marshes for several milep,
where the manufacture OF salt Is car
ried on extensively. The marshes
have been made Into narrow canals In
all directions; the sea water Is let In
and the hot sun Of the long summer
evaporates il and leaves the salt, which
is piled up In huge py ramids all about
the marshes, looking like the white
tents Of q military encampment.
These pyramids are from 20 to 40 fee,
square and half as high, without any
covering, the rains only serving to
make them more solid and compact.
Csdiz Is situated ON an island-like
peninsula, q long and narrow sandy
isthmus alone connecting 1t with the
main land. 1t contains nearly 70 00O
inhabitants; the streets are narrow
and well paved, the houses clean and
white, and there are evidences Of com
fort and prosperity, but there does not
appear to be business enough In the
city to keep the people from going to
sleep In the daytime IF they feel In.
olined. Bat the beggars have rather
more "buslness" in them than
the people. They approach the
stranger and lay their hands upon hi
arm Ia such ~ pertinacious az
to demand attention, and 40 denial.
will not abate their persistent plead
lngs. Many of them appear to be
healthy and able ,dled, and the way
they will follow u visitor Into q store
and continue tn beg while he Is look.
Ing at anything, without q word OF
interference from the merchant, Is
decidedly amusing as well as annoying.
1t Is 'nterestlng to remember that
the philosophers of old, living on the
shores Of the tideless Mediterranean,
came here to Csdiz to investigate the
marvels OF the %place-the tides and
the disappearance of the sun beneath
the western waters. One thought the
waters were sucked In by subma.
rine winds, and another con-
Guided 1t was the work of living
monsters of the deep, and 1t was
generally believed that the sun
went into the water and returned to
tho earth by some subteranean passage
for q fresh start the next morning.
When philosophers investigated these
things and formed such opinions, Is It
to be wondered at that Columbus was
accounted a crank when endeavoring
to Investigate his grand conceptions,
which were pronounced "vain and I'm.
practicable" M. II. r.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-12
An Answer Wanted

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WASHINGTON, ID. O., :
NAV IL. 1890

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he does; cause he always takes his gun
with him." "Hsve you any Presby.
terians around here'' "I don't know
il he killed any or not. You can 90
behind the houss and look at the pile
of hides to see il you can find any of
the skins" II see that you are liv.
Ing in the dark eyes, but my hus.
band Is going to cut out q winder
soon."
Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-12
Missionary Work.

Wheeling Register. .
SIS your husband at home2" "No;
he Is coon hunting. He killed two
whooping big 'ooons last Sunday"
Does hs fear the Lord2" II guess
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-02-19

showmen at that wonderful conglom-
Grafton of steam-pumps and apple
parers, sew ing machines and folding
bootjacks, yelept the American ms
tltute Fair, which draws shekels
every Fall from the yokels and
groundlings, are in the throes of an
election. They are under the inn
preston that the world is standing
still awaiting the result. 1t is prob
ably decided at this writing, and if
/ get time to see newspaper before
this goes to press I'll mention which
way the thing goes, not that it is
of any consequence. Horace Greeley
was the first President, and General
Cochrane, who fought hard in his last
and first disastrous political campaign,
leads the ticket of the ''outs.' The
members, as rule, are good old fell
lows, most of whom almost live in
the Cooper Institute, where, when
they are not muddling themselves
over machinery as amateur engineers
in one room, they are spouting non
sense about farming in another, OIL
considering new devices for increas-
ing the harmless attractions of theil
annual show, each one of which is
invariably described by pious fraud
to be an improvement on its prede-
| ceSSOr RADIX.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-02-19

The death of Hon. William E.
Dodge of New Yark removes from
the ranks of phiIanthropic merchants
a conspicuous and wealthy member.
He was born in Hartford, Ct, Sept.
4, 1905, and at the age of thirteen
he went to New York city where he
became a clerk. From this humble
position he rose to be one of the first
merchants and business men of the
city, his wealth at his death being
estimated at ten millions. Mr.. Dodge
was very active worker in the tenn
perance reform, always contributing
bountifully of his means to advance
the cause. We have heard it stated
that Mr.. Dodge was the author of
the proposed constitutional amend
ment prohibiting the liquor traffic in
1900, which has been generally as
cribed to Senator Blair of New Hamp-
shire. However the real fact may
be, there is no doubt that in the
death of Mr.. Dodge the temperance
cause in America loses a sincere an6
generous promoter whose place il
will be hard to make good.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-02-19

an increase in the flood. And this
may happen again. Nor can we tell
whether there may not be greater
suffering in store than has befallen
the tens of thousands of homeless.
destitute unfortunates in Cincinnati.
We are told by the Signal Service
Bureau that the lower Mississippi
will continue to rise, that it will reach
the danger line at Memphis on Mon
day, and that the foods in the Mis-
sissippi below Carlo will prove de-
structive. 1t is to be hoped that
these warnings may prevent loss of
life at least in the districts referred
to. But the same bulletin predicts
an additional rise in the Ohio above
and below Cincinnati, and speaks of
approaching heavy rains.-Tribune.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-02-19
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Mayor Hatch of Burlington reiterates
his determination not to be a candidate
for reelection. q
DR.. Burdick of Winooski was thrown
from his sleigh on Tuesday evening and
one rib was fractured.
E. C. Gallar, at Fulton Market, dis
plays thirty-one pound turkey that was
raised at Highgate No small family will
dare attack gobbler of that size
Conductor M. Severance, who came so
near death because of an overdose of
choral, has resumed his duties on the
passenger train over the railroad between
Brattleboro and South Londonderry.
Mrs. Orren Mead, who died at Hines
burgh recently at the age of 81 years,
was for nearly so years prominent for a
piety which expressed itself no less in
charity to the poor than in church work.
A. c. Spaulding, of Jericho, is prob
ably the largest butter dealer in the
state, buying for Boston, Lawrence and
Worcester markets. He has used $125,-
900 in his business during the past nine
months.
Charles Mason arrived at Island
Pond short time ago, having travelled
| on foot from Massachusetts and worn off
six toes in the operation That is, his
| feet were frozen, rendering amputation
/ of the toes necessary.
The estate of the late Trenor w. Park,
of Bennington, is estimated at So, 500,0 900.
He left no will, but the heirs, it is said
| will carry out his intention of establish
ing and endowing home for destitute
children at Bennington.
John Lyon, whose funeral was attend
ed at the Congregational church on Fri
day, Feb. 2, was killed at Putnam, Conn.
few days before. He was brakeman
on the N Y. & N. E. Railroad, and while
at work on his train was struck by +;
4 bridge and killed instantly.
If Senator Edmunds should happen tx
be the next president, it will not be tn,
first time he has been addressed as Pres
ident Edmunds. In the files of the Ere
Press twenty years back, is notice of
meeting of the Burlington base ball clul
in the spring of '63 signed G. F. Edmunds
president.
William Holman, from Connecticut
aged about 38 years, at work in the saw
mill, of Mr.. Hoadley, at Pownal, recent
went into the engine room, where h
caught his clothes on revolving wheel
and every shred of clothing was tor
from his body, and the latter was throw
into the room adjoining the boiler house
dead.
Mr.. Philip Judd of Morrisville was re
Gently found dead in front of his team
He had gone to the woods for a load O
logs, and was making a new road, as
seems he had broken the crust a shor
distance, and was returning to the team
Mr.. Judd has been resident of Morris
vile for many years and will be muc
missed by the people of that town.
The directors of the state agriculture
society met at the American House, Bun
lington, Wednesday night, and discusses
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-02-19
THE CONSTITUTION AMEND
MENTS.

Voters will remember that at the
coming Vermont election they will
vote not only for municipal officers
but on the two proposed constitution
al amendments which the legislature
decided to submit to the people. On
the ballots are printed the amend
ments and just below each the words
''yes" and no." and the person
casting the ballots should erase one
of these words, the one INCREASED in
dicating his choice. The first article
of amendment is as follows:
SEC. 1. The representatives hav-
ing met on the day appointed by law
for the commencement of a biennial
session of the general assembly, and
chosen their speaker, and the sena-
tors having met, shall, before they
proceed to business, take and sub
scribe the following oath, in addition
to the oath now prescribed: sYou,
- - do solemnly swear Cor af-
firm) that you did not at the time OF
your election to this body, and that
you do not now hold, any office OF
profit or trust under the authority OF
congress, so help yon God Cor ii
case of affirmation), under the pains
and penalties of perjury"
Sec. 2. The words s'office O.
profit or trust under the authority O
congress" shall be construed to NEAR
any office created directly or indirect
ly by congress, and for which emolu
ment is provided from the treasur,
of the United States.
The second proposed article O
amendment reads as follows:
SEC. l. The secretary of stat
and auditor of accounts shall be elect
ed by the freemen of the state upo
the same ticket with the governor
acknowledgement and treasurer.
SEC. 2. The Legislature shall carr
this article into effect by appropriat
legislation.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-02-19
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
spondence ofthe Monitor.l
NeW York, February ~.


Neao York, February ~.
Fitz Hugh Lee is here, the gallant
cavalry leader of the rebellion, with
a staff of the fine riders who used to
make things warm for the boys TWEEN
ty years ago. They come as the
guests of the Brooklyn Thirteenth,
whose acquaintance they formed on
the dusty fields of Yorktown at the
famous encampment last year. They
are getting wined and dined to an
alarming extent, and everybody is
getting jealous of the jolly militia
men who have captured the good
looking Virginians. There is talk of
some of our millionaires banqueting
the crowd, including the drum-major
and darkey water-bearers, as on no
other terms does it seem possible for
anybody to secure the society of the
genial Southerners, whom 1.-THE pride
of Brooklyn have been fortunate
enough to get to visit them. Some
how New Workers always did gel
along with the representatives. of the
umquhile erring sisterhood, and new
er feel happier now than when fol
lowing Greeley's example and shaking
hands across the, etc.
Talking of millionaires and billion
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-02-19

BY evidence submitted some time
since by Farrell, an Irish conspirator
who had turned queens evidence, the
existence of band of murderous
criminals in Dublin was established.
Their purpose seems to be to avenge
by dagger and pistol any effort to ad-
minister in Ireland the laws of the
kingdom. The evidence of Farrell
has been supplemented by the testi-
money of Kavanagh, the carman who
drove to Phoenix Park the men who
in May of last year murdered Caven-
dish and Burke. The evidence seems
to be conclusive 9nd the Identification
of the murderers complete.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-02-19

Politicians are already making
speculations as to the successor of the
late Marshall Jewell, of Connecticut,
as chairman of the republican nation
al committee. The general feeling
is that the party needs its most eff
fective organizer, and one of its
strongest men, to manage the coming
campaign. The name of Hon. Will
liam E. Chandler, secretary of the
navy, is heard on every side as the
most suitable selection for the posi-
ton, as it is felt that under his lead
ership the party can retrieve the
losses in congress made at the fall
elections.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-02-19

The winter amusement of the
newspapers of the venerable Com
monwealth of Massachusetts is con-
fined exclusively to Governor Butler.
The old man is used as a target for
''the sings and arrows of outrageous
fortune" and made to realize that
there is mo peace for the wicked"
The buncombe of his flaming inaugu-
raj has all passed for nought, and his
quixotic notions have been pierced
like bubble by the press and the
legislature. To be a successful re-
former requires something more than
the livery of reform and the preten-
ton of the average democrat.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-02-19
WESTERN FLOODS.

According to reports from Cincin-
natl, prominent business men there
say that the damage from the present
overflow of the Ohio River in Cincin-
natl. Newport and Covington will
amount to millions of dollars. The
stage at Z o'clock Sunday night was
81 feet 8 inches high and rising near
ly two inches hourly. Thousands of
people crowded all the bridges watch
ing the floods. A rise of three feet
more was expected. All the transfer
wagons in the city are employed in
removing goods from danger. Steam
ferry and street railroad communica-
ton between Cincinnati and the Ken
lucky side of the river was cut off
entirely. In Newport the military
barracks were flooded, and nearly two
square miles of the city was under
water. People were busy all day
taking coal and provisions in boats
to the inhabitants, and delivering
through the second and third story
windows. All the houses and facto-
ries along the entire river front at
Covington were flooded, and the wa
ter was in the second story of some
of them. For nearly ten miles the
river front at Cincinnati was more OF
less under water. At 8 O'Clock the
gas works were submerged, and there
was only enough gas to last through
the night. The pressure was so weak
that the gas would not burn in many
places. The water supply was in
danger, only one engine at the pump
ing works being able to work Its
capacity at the last trial was 10000
900 gallons per day, while the daily
consumption is 100000.
On Monday herd of three hun
dred cattle were drowned in Mil
Creek, but human life appears to have
been spared. Business has suffered
severely. In the revenue office the
sales of stamps on Monday amounted
to less than So, instead of between
$4,000 and $4,000, the usual daily
average. Pitiable cases of suffering
are reported. One woman refused t.
leave her home, and her family were
compelled to desert her to seek SAFE
quarters. 1t required the unitet
strength of four men to take her GU
and hold her fast in the boat. A
woman in the last stages of consump
ton was rescued from a second-stor,
window. An old woman at the lowe
end of Walnut street was found fran
tically engaged IN bailing out tn
flood through a window. She wa
fast losing her mind. A four-yeal
old child, both deaf and dumb, wa
found deserted at No. III Elm street
The child was benumbed with til
cold when taken out of the water
The funeral of little girl occurre
on Elm street. The coffin was pla(
ed in skiff and followed by doze
boats carrying friends and relatives
A woman named Margaret Hamilton
nursing an infant four days old, VIZ
rescued from a shanty near the Licl
ing bridge.
At Louisville, KY, late on Monda
night, the dam which protected tt
: lowlands of the eastern portion {
the city gave way, and the torrent {
water which followed submerge
; twenty blocks of houses, compellir
, the people to seek refuge on the roof
1t is feared that many were drowne'
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-02-19

felt money; and State VS.. the Cow
entry boys for riotous proceeding !;
against A. II. Gilman for burglary
and larceny; against Arthur Brown
and Joe. Pierce for larceny. The
states attorney has filed a new in
formation against Alonzo Brooks and
Willard Herman, the court having
quashed the former indictments.
There were Sc new entries in the
law docket
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-02-19
THE FLOODS IN THE WEST.

Only few weeks since we read of
the ravages caused by the overflow
of the Rhine in Westphalia, in the
Grand Duchy of Baden, and in the
Palatinate At nearly the same time
we were told that Vienna was threat
ened by the rising of the Danube,
whose waters wreaked such disastrous
havoc in Lower Hungary. All this
we read with apparent Indifference;
but now that our own Ohio Valley
is devastated by the sweep of resist
less floods, the significance and the
misery of such great calamities stand
out in their true light. Yet we can
not picture the suspense and terror
which have haunted the Ohio Valley
for more than two dreary weeks. 1t
was about the first of the month
when the heavy rains and thaws caus-
ed the first suffering from floods in
Ohio and western Pennsylvania.
From Akron, Cleveland and Column
bus in the former, and from Bradford
and Pittsburg in the latter state, came
note of alarm. But this was hard
ly heard before Cincinnati was invad-
ed by the deluge, and there thus fa1
has been the greatest suffering. The
Ohio, from peaceful river, has be-
come a turbid, angry sea. The
streets near the river, devoted tc
wholesale business, and lined with
factories, machine shops, and Goa
yards, are many feet under water
while houses further back are flooded
and the poorer classes living in the
upper part of the city along the rive
banks have been driven from thei
homes. Gas has been cut off. fue
limited, the supply of provisions ever
interfered with, buildings carried
away, and railway communication
almost entirely interrupted. Their
are tens OF thousands homeless in th
city, and as many more in the distric
for twenty-five miles around. Jus
across the river from Cincinnati ar
Newport and Covington, KY, whic
are separated by the Licking river
Along this are flooded and abandone
factories and rolling mills, while
Newport alone 800 acres are covere
with water, over l 200 houses inur
dated, and $500 families homeless:
In Louisville, KY, on Monday nigh
the breaking away of dam adde
the sudden submergence of twent
blocks of houses to the other ravao,
of the waters. From Lawrencebur.
Madison, indianapolis and Jefferson
VILE in Indiana, come tales of di
tress, while the same story is heal
from score of other towns, but Ii
tie needed because of the far great
distress of Cincinnati and the su
rounding district.
Thursday afternoon the river
Cincinnati showed a depth of &C fe
21a inches, greater than in the foo
of 1882 and 1847. The fact of the
being no increase during the d
caused a hope that the worst b
come, but the same hope was indul
ed on Tuesday night and followed