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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-07
VERMONT METHODIST CON-
FERENCE.

The 18th annual meeting of the
Vermont Episcopal Conference, at
st. Adams, closed its session Mon
day last. The appropriations for
the relief of superannuated preachers
and preachers widows in need was
reported by the stewards of the con-
ference to be S2,01375. The report
of the committee of reference on
matters pertaining to the Burlington
District question was adopted. This
report makes an argument in favor
of the Vermont Conference view OF
the question, reviewing at length al
the points in controversy and con.
cludes with the following resolution !:
Resolred, That ]. d. Beeman, P. N
Granger, II. A. Spencer, r. Morgan, anC
j. r. Bartlett be, and they hereby arr
appointed commissioners on boundarie.
as provided in paragraph 800 of the Dis
cipline, to meet the said commission iron
the Troy Conference at such place and a
such time during the ensuing conferenc
year as may meet the mutual convenience
of both commissions, to receive whateve
information upon the pending Issue ma
be available.
The reports of the committees Oh
temperance, the anniversary speakers
on the centenary of the organization
of the Methodist church which occure
in 1880, on conference entertainment
the Bible cause, church extensions
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-07
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Thomas McMullen of Milton, a brake
man, lost foot in the Burlington freight
yard on Tuesday.
At recent auction sale in New York
five colts by 'sDean Sage" owned by j.
w. Gray of Randolph, sold for $3,S65.
Governor Barstow has appointed Hon.
Loveland Munson judge of probate for
the Manchester district, vice Hon. Ran
ney Howard, deceased.
At the recent municipal election in Rut-
land Martin G. Evarts was elected mu-
nicipal Judge by nine majority over J. D..
Spellman.
The toll bridge over the falls at Bel
lows Falls was built in 1856 and is sup
posed to be the first bridge built across
the Connecticut river.
Sheldon & Sons of West Rutland have
the contract for furnishing IL 900 soldiers
headstones. The lettering is all being
done by hand, the old sandblast method
not having been found so durable.
Mrs. Sally C. Young has given very
generous gift of So 900 to the Congrega-
tional church of Orwell, for the sup.
port of preaching. She recently donated
beautiful bell and clock to the town.
The railroad wood shed at Jonesyille
was burned last Friday evening, with 25(
cords of wood and a saving machine
Loss about $500; insured. Fire suppos
ed to have caught from freight engine.
The Burlington Free Press announces
that Mr.. w. P. Rice, for four years super
intendent of the state prison at Windsor
contemplates resigning that position, t.
engage in the banking business in thu
west.
a special agent of the pension offic,
| from Washington, d. c., is looking int
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-07
KILLED BY A CONGRESSMAN

HARRoDsBURG JUNCTION, KY, April
27. A terrible tragedy occurred
about 7.30 o'clock this morning on
the train of the Cincinnati Southern.
Philip B. Thompson, Jr., a member
of Congress, from Harrodsburg, and
Walter Davis, a grocer of the same
place, who had just sold out in order
to go to Chicago, boarded the Gin
cinnati train. Thompson took aplace
in the baggage car from Harrodsburg
to Harrodsburg Junction. Davis was
in the other part of the train, neither
knowing of the others presence.
When the change of cars was made
at the junction, Thompson espied
Davis in the car. He Immediately
approached him. Davis started for
the door, and going out was about to
step off the car when Thompson
pulled large revolver, and firing
through the window struck Davis in
the back Of the head over the ear.
The ball penetrated the skull and
passed out of the forehead over the
right temple. Davis fell dead along
side of the smoking car. Thompson
| pocketed his revolver and at once
started for home. There were nc
police around and no one made any
attempt to detain him. The train
did not wait but orders were giver
to take the body of Davis back tt
Harrodsburg. Pat hester, new.
agent of the Southern, who was OF
the train was an eye witness of tn,
murder. He stated that when th,
scuffie ensued, Thompson pulled hi
revolver and shouted: s'Now yol
| take my wife to Cincinnati again,
and fired the fatal shot. The hote
records in Cincinnati show that Of
Nov. 9th Mrs. Philip B. Thompso
stopped at the St. Clair Hotel in Gin
cinnati and left on the 10Th. On tn
j 28th of November man registere
at the st Clair as III. Davis, Harrods
4 burg. KY, and left on the 29tE
| Mrs. Thompson is reported to hay
!, said at the ST. Clair that she near
to get a divorce. She was at th
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-07

pension matters in Addison county, in
the interests of the government. He says
that there is work enough of this kind to
be done in that county to occupy a man
for year or more.
Vice President Edmunds. wife and
daughter, Miss Arthur and party of la
dies and gentlemen from the east arrived
at Guaymas, Mexico, Monday. The vice
president is making an excursion around
the harbor The Mexican authorities
will call upon Mr. Edmunds.
Ten car loads of beef cattle passed
through this port recently, from Canada
to Glasgow, Scotland, being forwarded
from st. Adams in bond. An unusually
large number of hogs and beef cattle are
just now passing through from the west.
st Adams Messenger.
George Sylvester Marcy of Hartland
went out to his barn to do his chores the
other night, and while descending a lad
der fell short distance to the floor.
Nothing serious was expected from the
accident at the time, but before morning
he began to grow worse, and one of his
household went to a neighbor for help,
but on his return Mr.. Marcy was dead.
Judge Royce made out and swore to
his inventory this year, and it is reported
that all or nearly all the ST. Adams tax
payers who for two years past have not
complied with the listing law have this
year given in their inventories as the law
requires. In the abstract filed by the
listers recently, Ex-Governor Smith is en-
tered at S74 900 real estate, and S211 700
personal property. His tax will be about
50, $50.
A suit has been brought by Belden &
Idle in the Orleans county court against
the Southeastern railway company for
Elisha F. Berry. Mr.. Berry was injured
by the collision on the Southeastern road
December 8, 1882, and has not been able
to leave his bed since the time of the ac-
cident, and his friends think he will die
of his injuries. The suit claims 500, 900
damages. Mr.. Berry formerly lived in
Wheelock and has been living in Sheffield
since the accident. His home is in Iowa.
Some six weeks ago Clarence Thurber
of West Halifax, a boy of fourteen, was
thrown while wrestling with one of his
playmates. He struck his head in falling,
and lay partially Stunned for several
minutes. He soon recovered and nothing
more was thought of the matter until a
fortnight ago, when he complained of a
severe headache. A physician was sum-
| moned, but could do little and the boy
died in day or two, the cause being the
bursting of a blood vessel at the base of
| the brain caused by the fall.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-07

"Without entering into COMPARE
sons between the many companies in
this city of insurance, we can, with
out partiality, say that the Connect
cut General Life Insurance Company
is one of the s0undest and safest in
which to invest. In the ratio of as
sets to the value of Policies by
which the stability of a company is
measured quite as much as by any
thing else, the General Life stands
among the first, while it's officers and
directors are gentleman of promi-
nence anc ability, well known integ-
rity, and long experience"
After thorough examination OF
the business and securities of this
company in April 1881, the Insurance
Commissioner of the State says:
"The assets of the Company will
stand any test of soundness that car
be applied to the investment of trust
funds, and the perfect order ant
strict regard to economy which every
| department of the business of the
Company, are worthy of all praise.
Hartford Courant.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-07


st. Clair ostensibly visiting a lady
boarder there.
After the shooting Thompson re-
turned to Harrodsburg, made state
ment to the court, and was held for
the grand jury in $4,000 bonds. In
his statement to the court he said his
wife had acquired habit of intem-
perance, and that Davis got her
drunk at Cincinnati, at the ST. Clair
Hotel, as he had learned from the
proprietor of the hotel last Tuesday
Thompson has been indicted by
the grand jury for murder.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-07

Chaplain McCabe intends-to spend
the entire Summer in tour of church
planting upon the frontier. He will
be in Dakota throughout June, will
spend July in Northwest Iowa and
Nebraska, and the month of August
in Utah and Montana.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-07
ESTATE OF PRESCOTT V. SCOTT.
Notice

The undersigned, having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District of Orleans
Commissioners, to receive. examine. and adjust al
claims anddemands of all persons againstthe estate
of Prescott Scott late OF Crasbury in said district
deceased hereby give notice that will meet for the
the dwelling house OF Lucia Scott, the 25th day
OF May and the 2sth day of November next, from IL
o'clock m. until o'clock, p. M, each of said days
and that six months from the 2Sth day of May
A. d. 1888, is the time limited by said Court fol
said creditors to claims to us for exam
inatIon and ALLOW ance.
Dated at Craftsbury, VT. this 4th day OF May
A. ID. 1888.
EDWIN S. sTRATToN, / cor,n,,ss,one,s
1921 JAMES McEwEN, commissioners
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-07

Gov. Ludlow of New Jersey has
approved the act passed by the Leg
islature prohibiting the sale of cigar
cites or tobacco in any form to boys
or girls under 16 years of age, under
penalty of $40 for each offence. The
enactment of this law is the enforce
ment of the prohibitory principle in
legislation, and it is significant that
a Democratic Legislature and govern
or are compelled to rely on it as a
matter of self-protection in their
State. 1t is wise and wholesome
statue, and it is none the less so that
it will he extensively evaded.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-07
Rochester, S. B. Currier

Rochester, S. B. Currier
Waterbury, W. J. johnson.
Waterbury Center, R. L. Bruce.
Williamstown, Geo. L. Wells.
FRANKLIN, w. d. Malcolm.
Bellows Falls, III. F. Austin.
So. Londonderry, j. E. Knapp.
So. Royalton, o. w. Barrows.
Springfield, |. McAnn.
Woodstock, A. I'll. Webb.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-07

Sunday-schools, together with me-
MORALS of Revs. Caleb Fales and
Edwin S. Locke and Rev. S. B.
Spinney, were submitted and ordered
placed in the minutes.
From the report of the statistical
committee the following shows the
standing numerically and financially
of the Methodists in Vermont. The
number of members in the churches
in the conference is Ii, 553, with 1741
probationers and Il local preachers.
Three hundred and fourteen deaths
have occurred during the year, and
IA children and $50 adults have
been baptized. There are now 172
churches in the conference valued at
1914, 95S, and III parsonages valued
at S169, $50. There has been paid
out for building and improvement of
churches and parsonages during the
year S23, 092.31 on old indebted
ness $8,483.43. leaving present
Indebtedness of s15, 591.75. There
are 222 Sunday-schools with 241S
officers and teachers and 1884
scholars of all ages, an average at
tendance of 1913. For ministerial
support there has been paid $780,
7S1.12, with 11,478.63 for current
expenses and $4,081.57 for expenses
of Sunday-schools, and $5,951.18
for missions, including the collections
of the Woman's Foreign Mission
Society.
We give appointments in st.
Johnsbury district with those in
some other places filled by pastors
known in this vicinity:
P. n. GRANGER, Presiding Elder,
St. Johnsbury Centre P. O.
Albany, H, t. Jones'
Barton, S. S. Brigham.
Barton Landing and Bloomington,
Leonard Dodd.
Bloomfield and Lexington, C. W.
Morse.
Canaan, Fl. E. Howard.
Coventry, to be supplied.
Craftsbury, H. w. Worthen.
Danville and West Danville, G. FL.
Sweat.
Derby, G.. A. Smith.
East Burke and East Haven. Aus
tin Scribner.
East Charleston, to be supplied.
East Lyndon and Kirby, L. c.
Dickinson.
Glover and West Glover, John
Thurston.
Greensboro, Stannard and West
Wheelock, to be supplied by Z. B.
Wheeler.
Guildhall, G. P Flanders.
Hardwick, w. G.. Robinson.
Holland and Morgan, W. S. Jenne
Irasburgh, A. B. Blake.
Island Pond, W. [. Todd.
| Lunenburgh and East Concord
John Mcdonald.
Lyndon and Lyndonville, A. M
Wheeler.
Newbury and West Newbury, J
II. Winslow.
Newport and Newport Center, Eli
sha Folsom.
North Concord, Victory and Gran
by, to be supplied.
North Danville, to be supplied.
North Wolcott, to be supplied b,
G.. S. Hamilton.
Peacham, G. w. Stowell.
st Johnsbury, E. W. Culver.
St. Johnsbury Centre, W. A
Evans.
, Sheffield and Wheelock, |. E
, Chase.
' South Walden, to be supplied b
/ L. E. Taylor.
= Walden, to be supplied.
West Burke and Sutton, Ell. F
< Gushing.
Y West Concord and East St. Johns
D bury, supplied by G. E. Burnham.
Westfeld, Troy and Jay, G. v
Goodell.
Wolcott, to be supplied by .
Morse.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-07

A SPECIFIC FOR CHANGE OF LIFE.-We are IN recent
OF letter from J. T. Handy Esq, of Floral Ask in
which the writer says Samaritan Neryine cures fe
male Decline and during the change of life it is spe-
cifc' Suggestive facts. truly. Sl5o.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-07

If our Government shall find some
way by which to ship back to Eng
land the dynamite conspirators who
are making this country the base of
their nefarious operations, the people
will heartily rejoice. We welcome
the oppressed of all nations; but we
don't want to welcome oppressors of
any kind, and these are they who
would foster political schemes by
killing innocent men and women.
The country is large, but it is too
small for O'Donovan Rosa and vic
ious folk of his sort whose lives are
a curse to the country they live in,
and who ought to be sent out of the
country for the country's good.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-07

Keep out a bright look fol- the
planets in the month of May: for the
planetary records of May are full of
matters of exciting interest. Two
of the giant planets, Neptune and
Saturn, reach conjunction. Mercury
arrives at eastern elongation, and is
visible as evening star during the
entire month. Venus and Mars are
in close conjunction. Every planet
in the system, viewed from the earth,
is in the northern declination. The
moon comes in for distinguished hon
ors. She is very near Saturn; she
occults Beta Scorpii, and she gets up
for q favored few in the far away
region of the Southern Pacific Ocean
the grandest, most sublime, and awe
inspiring spectacle that terrestrial OBJ
servers ever behold, for nearly six
precious minutes, her dark shadow
conceals from view the glorious orb
of day.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-07

The Irish Land League held a great
convention at Philadelphia and form
ed new organization, the Irish Ma
tional League. The resolutions re-
cited the wrongs Ireland has endured
for centuries, and urged the Irish
people to persevere in demanding
justice from England, a large repre-
sentation in Parliament, home rule,
for Ireland, like that enjoyed by
Canada and Australia, and the en-
couragement of Irish industries.
They protest against the policy of
coercion, and assisting of ILish peas
ants to emigrate in order to get rid
of them for the benefit of the land
lords. They also urge the Irish peo
pie coming here to quit the cities ant
go into the country, where they car
acquire homes for themselves. The
faction of Irishmen in favor of the
use of dynamite had no recognition.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-12-01
CHRISTIE s GEORGE
CARRY A FINE LINE OF
Dntiaag Gum
AT THE NEW JENELRY STORE.
which WiIs Won Eie@

you want hobnail liver, drink
poor whisky, or beer.
If you want Bright's disease. drink
fusil oil whisky or glucose beer.
If you want dyspepsia, drink sui
phuric acid whisky, or grape sugar
beer.
If you want softening of the brain,
drink lightning whisky, or India
cookie beer.
If you want kidney disease, drink
juniper gin, or doctored beer
If you want apoplexy, fill your
block with poisonous liquor
If you want to be liable to all the
diseases that flesh is heir to, weaken
your body with excessive drinking.
If YOU want to be Il bIoated, red-nos-
ed, pimply-faced, bIear-eyed, shaking
trembling, SOLDERING, jabbering, rag
ged, filthy, idiotic old fool, a curse to
humanity and Il blot on creation, Just
keep on drinking, and YOU will have
all the above unhealthy and inhuman-
ly attributes.
If you would he respectable, clean,
healthy, well dressed, well-to-do, an
ornament to society, a blessing to the
world; if you would live long, and die
happy, totally abstain from all that
intoxicates.-Bufialo Standard.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-12-01
Bob Burdette Is still saeL;n

Bob Burdette is still seeking after
information. Now he wants to know
Why you put teaspoons into the
vase upside down?
Why the pantaloons of goddess
atheist who never said prayer in his
life bag at the knees just as quickly
and decidedly as the brooches of the
saint who spends half his days on his
knees?
Why is 1t wrong to eat pie with a
knife?
Why so many Generals in the army
have been privates ever since the war?
How the directory of railroad
company can get rich, while the stock
holders gradually starve to death?
How receiver prospcrs and grows
fat on business that ruined the mer-
chant?
What the State would do for peni-
tentiaries if all the rascals should sud
denly step up and confess?
Why a woman falls like Il flash not
two inches from the banana skin. she
steps on, while man fails like a cy-
clone half way round the b'oek howl
ing like demon at every plung, and
at last climaXes with Il crash under n
peanut-stand on the other side of the
street?
Why when spring chickens are so
small you have to eat them by the
dozen to taste one, the price is so high
you have TO buy them by the chicken?
Why Il man frequently tries to
make himself necessary when he would
serve humanity much better by max
ing himself scarce?
Why is it so much easier to lose
half dozen bets than it is to win one2
Why some people remember the
Sabbath-day" as though it was only a
parlor-car porter, and give it Il quar-
ter in full for all demands?
Whatever became Of the ''blue glass
remedy?
And what went with all the archery
clubs?
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-12-01
The Meaning OF Our Flag.

Robt G. ngersoll
The flag for which the heroes fought,
for which they died, is the symbol of
all we are, of all we hope to be. 1t is
the emblem of equal rights. 1t means
free hands, free lips, self-government,
and the sovereignty of the individual.
1t means that this continent has been
dedicated to freedom. 1t means uni
versal education light for every mind
knowledge for every child. 1t means
that the school-house is the fortress of
liberty. 1t means that governments
derive their just powers from the con-
sent of the governed;" that each man
Is accountable to and for the govern
ment; that responsibility goes hand in
hand with liberty. 1t means that it
Is the duty of every citizen to bear his
share of the public burden-to take
part in the affairs of his town, his
county, his State and his country. 1t
means that the ballot box is the ark
OF the covenant; that the source of
authority must not be poisoned. 1t
means the perpetual right of every cit
izen of the Republic, native or natur-
allied, must be protected at home in
every State, abroad in every land, on
every sea. 1t means that all distnc-
tons based on birth or blood have per-
lshed from our laws that our Govern
ment shall stand between labor and
capital, between the weak and strong,
between the individual and corpora
ton, between want and wealth. and
give and guarantee simple justice to
legal remedy for every wrong. 1t
means national hospitality-that we
must welcome to our shores the exlles
Of the world, and that we may not
drive them back. Some NAV be de-
formed by labor, dwarfed by hunger
broken in spirit, victims Of tyranny
and caste in whose sad faces may be
read the touching records of a weary
lite-and vet their children, born of
liberty and love, will be symmetrical
and far, intelligent and free
That flag is the emblem of a SUI
preme will-of a nations power Be
meath its folds the weakest must be
protected and the strongest must obey.
1t shields and canopies alike the lofti-
est mansion and the rudest hut. The
flag was given to the air in the Revo-
lution's darkest days. 1t represents
the suferings of the past, the glories
yet to be, and, like the banner of
heaven, it is the child Of storm and
sun
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-12-01
NO Northwest.

Moike Mcclure of the Duluth Times
has settled the hash of this great North
western country. We are to have no
more Northwest. Moike in his little
Times last Sunday fixed the whole
matter. He only leaves us one chance.
lie says:-''The only hope for the
Northwest is the growth of Duluth "
There you have it, you great North
west. Moike Mcclure has spoken and
the Northwest trembles-at the stencil
from his nostrils, Lord, what hast
thy people (of the Northwest done
that such a judgement should fall up
on them? Is there no escape? Must
all the people of the Northwest move
to Duluth or pass into OBLIVION? Is
there no appeal from this pronuncia-
mento? Ca big word may appease
MoFke,) None Then farewell, North
west, for ''by the eternals" the North
west is not going to move to a town
like Duluth. Moike probably wants
to get crowd in there to help pay
that $4,000 Indebtedness that the
courts would not let them repudiate.
At such price we must get along
without any Northwest.