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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-21

Terrific cyclones are visiting vari
Gus sections of the country. Last week
terrible storm struck Kansas City,
Mo, demolished a large number of
buildings, killed and wounded many
people and in its further progress did
immense damage. The loss of life
is great. Another storm of less vio-
lence visited Southern Michigan and
Ohio doing great damage; several
persons were killed. At points far
Their west the storms have resulted in
loss of life and property.
Hon. Israel Washburn, the war
Governor of Maine, died at Philadel-
phia on Sunday. He went there
about two weeks ago to have sur
gical operation performed. Governor
Washburn was born at Livermore,
Me-, June ), 1913, and was the old
est of family of eleven children.
He was elected Representative to
Congress in 1850 and served till 1861,
when be became Governor of Maine.
In 1868 he resigned that office be-
cause Of failing health, and was ap-
pointed collector for Portland. In
1877 he gave up that position. He
has been lecturer of some note, his
favorite theme being ''Robert Burns
and ''Walter Savage Londor.''
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-21

HARRoDsBURG, KY, May 16. The
jury returned a verdict of acquittai
to-day in the case of Hon. p. B.
Thompson, on trial for killing Walter
H. Davis. The jury were out one
hour. The verdict was received with
a deafening shout by most densely
packed house. Thompson, as soon
as the jury was polled and dismissed,
was crowded upon by friends, who
warmly shook his hand and congrat-
ulated him. He bore the ordeal with
the same GOODNESS that has marked
his conduct throughout the trial.
That this Hon. GU p. B. Thomp-
son shot a man when he was retreat
ing from him was of course known 10
every juryman, and that this same
Thompson has shot several Other
men in his life time is equally wei
known, but such is the state of soci
ETY. and such the peryersion of law
in Kentucky that the murderer il
allowed to go free.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-21

7.00-Address by Mrs. NJ. I'll. Hunt,
National Superintendent Department of
Scientific Instruction.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-21

That "devilish" pistol scored a
large number of victims last week, as
it does every week. One of the sad
dest accidents from this cause was
the killing of Mrs. f. L. Stoddard,
wife of the rector of an Episcopal
church, by her husband who was
handling a revolver. She was shot
dead. In New Hampshire, Ransom
Tilton died of a pistol wound, receiv-
ed from a shot fired by his brother
in-law, in an alteration.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-21
Tuesday EVENING,


6.00-Consecration service, Mrs. G. W.
Cowles.
Miscellaneous Business.
7.OO-Bible reading, Mrs. M. L. T.
Hidden.
Address of Welcome-Mrs. o. New
comb; Response-Mrs. r. King.
Addresses by Mrs. Hidden, Miss Moore
and others.
Adjournment.
WEDNESDAY MORNING.
93O-Prayer and Praise meeting, Mrs.
w. n. Bacon.
1oOo-Reports of Secretary and COM
mittees.
1O30-Bible ea1ings, Miss Moore and
Miss Powers.
Evangelistic Work, Mrs. Geo. Brigham.
Social Gatherings, Mrs. E. E. Ware.
Temperance in the Sabbath school, Mrs
c. c. Colby, Mrs. r. King.
Legislative Work, Miss Moore.
A Young Womans Part in this Reform,
Miss E. NJ. Nichols.
Adjournment.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
1.30-Praise meeting, Mrs. E. E. Ware.
2.O0-Our New School Law, Mrs I. l..
Niles.
Temperance Literature, Miss Moore,
Miss Bishop.
Juvenile Temperance Work, discussion.
Hygiene, Mrs. Tibbetts.
Prize Essay Plan, Miss Moore.
Woman's Work, Miss A. Robbins.
County organization, discussion.
Question Drawer, Mrs. O. Newcomb
| Miss Moore.
Adjournment.
| WEDNESDAY EVENING.
6.30-Prayer service, Mrs. Daily.
7.00-Address by Mrs. NJ. III. Hunt
National Superintendent Department o
Scientific Instruction.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-21

The Insurance Spectator recently
published the names and residences
of 800 or more of the most success
full and wealthy business men in all
parts of the country who have insur-
ed their lives for over $4,000, 900;
the highest amount ON any single life
being s350,000. Such practical
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-27
The Terror of Fort w ortn-
Dapper Little Too hpick of a Man Who
Thoroughly cowed our Fierce Fellows
New OIL ans Times-nemoerat.

New OIL ans Times-Demoerat.
Several year ago, waen Fort Worth was
wild Texas town, Dusenbnrs was an exotic
there He was civilized and cut his hair, and
was despsed by the other men. Que day dappsr
littlesDusenbarys surprised everybody by reform
ing. He was in Callahan's Retreat when there
entered four of the most ferocious.look'ng rut-
fans who had ever been seen in Fort Wolta.
They came with clankng spurs ana h7ice
boards, two revolvers to each maa and a large
bowie knife for lagniappe and they sat down
to table and called for whiskey all around
trenor ran through the assembly. Fort Worta's
best citizens were for moment staggered. But
Dusenbury never qualed The strangers emp
tied their glasses, called for more, and them
glancing menacingly around, they launched
forth in furious abuse of Texas and Texans,
their language being garnished with that pro-
fusion and ornamentation of profanity, pecn-
liar TO the guileless cattle 3rover of buse snes.
AS they ceased Dusenbury marched up 10 The
table at which the strangers sat. His flashing
ayes, his heaving breast, his i've feel OF tower
ing form reduced the spectators to speechless-
ness. Even the strangers paused and scented
impressed.
''Gentemen, said Dusenbnry, diving into
his trousers and bringing up an ancient silver
watch, "you have wounded the finest feelings
of my nature in your remarks about Texas and
you must retract them or-but never mind.
give you five minutes to retract. Five BL:nuteS
to secure your safe return to home and friends.
Five minutes TO avoid grave upon the lone
some plain Five minutes!" An awful silence
fell upon the crowd. The blood curdled ii the
veins of every Fort WORKMAN present. VIVA
had they been treating this tirs-eatipg Terror
with scarcely yelled contempt? Had they been
absolutely counting death for years? But just
then one of the strangers recovered his power
of speech and said:
"Why, stranger, if you feel that way about
it, of course We'll cut it short. We didnJ mean
it for YOU or any. of your friends, but was just
talking loose-like.'
| And with that they all four got up and skunk
| out, their six shooters Hopping feebly against
| their hips and tLeir very spurs looking dropped
| and weary as they went. Wi the closing of
| the door. Dusenbury's eye reeled in its socket;
| the excitement which had thus far held him
up gave way and he collapsed, habby little
heap upon the floor. The assembled citizens
crowded around him!
all by surprise. We never thought you were
fighter"
Didn't your"
mo. Why don't you know these arc four of
the worst men in the cattle business2 And we
expected every minute to see them 20 to shoot
ing. VI ere you armed?n
well, had pistol for show bat / aon't
believe it was loaded and couldn't have fired
il, any how"
Great heavens, mani suppose they had re-
| fus to retract, what on earth would you have
| done?"
| Dusenbury stopped, looked all around to see
| if anyone were passing, pulled his friends ear
close down to his lips and whispered:
"Id have extended the time.
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-27
Whittier's Opinion of Boile d Din

The old-sashionod New England beverage
cider was mentioned, and Mr.. Whittier stated
that he had once derived much benefit when
unwell, "when nothing tasted good" from the
use Of cider. Huntington suggested that with
out cider we should not have vinegar. "Well,',
said Whittier, vinegar is not of much use, af-
ter ALL" "Excspt," replied Huntington, 'to
eat on cabbage aud cucumbeIs' 'Neither of
which are fit to be eaten" remarked the poet.
81 think it would be good idea to start pro-
hibition party on these two articles. AS for
cabbage it is not fit TO be eaten; If you cook l.
in your house. yon have got to burn your house
down afterwards TO get rid of the SMELL it is
certainly the most diabolieal smell that was ev-
er invented" and Whittier, who was sitting
near the open stove crate, upon the top of
which he had deposited his tall hat, folded his
arms and laughed hearty silent laugh. "What
do You think of oniOns? asked "Well," he
replied, "onions are not quite SO bad, for you
get rid of the smell of those in three or four
days." "Then," said Huntington, "you would
not approve of the old-fashioned boiled din-
ner'?" mo / think that is detestable DISH
I remember that my father used to have ii, in
which cabbage, onions, beels, potatoes, tur-
nips and carrots were boiled mp together, and
turned out into great sh all in heap, with
a 9, eat greasy piece of meat in the middle I
think that is why the present generation is not
so strong as the former. It'll owing to the way
the parents lived, eating so much pork and po-
tatoes Our last war showed that. The farm
ers were not nearly as strong as the men re-
cruited in the cities Portland, Portsmouth,
aud Boston," "But the people in the cities do
lot have the fresh al We get in the country"
said Huntington 81 know that" replied
Whittier, but thew live better, and that makes
a great difference
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-27
Josh Billings Gait.
His sagacious Rules for the Preservation
of Eealth,

Never run into debt, not if yu can fad any
thing else to run into.
Be honest if yu can; if yu cant be honest.
pray fer help.
Marry young, and il yu make hit keep cool
and don't brag about II.
Be kind to yure mother-in-aw, and il neces-
sary, pay for her board at some cheap hotel.
Battle thoory once week ~ soft water and
kasteel sope, and avoid tite boots.
Exercise in open air, but don't saw wood
until w are obliged to.
Laff every time yu feel tickled, and laff once
in a while enpynow.
Eat hash washing days. aud be tbankphull
If yu have to shut yure eyes to do it.
Hold the bahy half the tine, aud allwuss
start the fire in the morning and put on the
tea kittle.
Don't jaw back-it only proves that W. are
az big pbool az the other phello.
Never borrow what yu able TO buy, and
always have sum things that ya won't lend.
Never git in hurry; w walk good
deal further in day than va can run
Don't sware; it may convince yu, but it IL
sure not to convince Others
If yu hey daughters let yure wife bring them
up, if she has got common sense, she eau beat
all yure theorys
Don't drink too much nu slider, and however
mean yu be. don't abuze kow.
Luv and respect yure wife ennyhow: it is
good deal cheaper than to be all the time wish
ing she was somehow different.
Don't have emmy rules for long life that yu
won't break be prepared to-day to die to-mor-
row is the best creed for long life that I kno Of
If you kant get haff loaf take whole
one; whole loaf IL better than no bread.
Don't miss any phuD, not if you hav to go 10
miles out of yure way TO find it.
Don't keep but one dog; there liz no man but
a mean pauper able to keep three.
NoTE-B trieing to follow the abuy guide to
helth and happiness, the Billings family has
bekum what IL IL.
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-27
Montreal at Night.
The Brilliant Scene at the Ice Carnival
Down the Tobogganing Hills.

At night, under the influence of twenty elec-
trio lights, the scene was enhanced fItyfold,
writes the correspondent of the New York
Herald, if it can be compared in that way. Iu
the city the covered Kinks were in full play.
AS I write the ice palace is alight The pre-
vailipg tint of the structure is bright yellow,
like what is called the white beat of iron, but
the streaks and lines of the ice, the cracks and
joints, all give different directions to the light
and reflect it from SO many thousand facets
that it assumes auroral brlliancy, changing
with each step of the beholder to blue, green,
deep orange or delicate pink aud purple. Seen
from Mount Royal, high above it suggests a
many-sided star dropped into Dominion square.
The moonlight modifes its effect too. 1t Is
marvellously bright to. might, and the loaded
nonpareii type of the Herald can be read with
ease in the open air, and was, by actual trial. a
mile away from the electric light. What
would such sight have been with only the
stars for competitors?
Tobogganers are on the hills in hundreds.
Such sight. One after another from the hillside
the toboggans fit noiselessly down the steep
down, down, each one on the tohOggan holding
his or her breath Who can breathe in such
situation? The only thing can liken the sem
sation 10 is the headlong descent OF balloon,
only you know that you are upon mother earth
and there is no numbing sensation. You feel
the friction, yet you have hardly time TO hear
it until you are at the bottom of the steep-one
Thousand feet in quarter of a minute Then
the pace sackens gradually as you dash on
ward, ceasing when the momentum is past
From the top of the hill it is division of shad-
owS fleeing downward with the peculiar sw ISL
of skyrocket. The reverse picture follows
the walk up the hill and the Irritation with
bellies whose eyes, at least to their consorts,
rival the stars. This is toboggapiDg as found
it. The new tobogganing track the Cote de
Neiges Hill was opened toward evening, when
thousands of spectrtors aud participants were
on the ground. The newly formed line gave
great satisfaction, being SO well constructed
and safe That no danger to voyagers is appre-
hendeA.
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-27
CITY ADVERTISEMENT rs.
Notice 10 Contr. ctnrs.

GEALED proposals viii be received at the City
y Clerks Office, City Han, Portland until twelve
O'clock m jar. 20, 1888, to furnish the city with
Granite Paving Blocks, to be delivered in the city
in the months of April, May and June $685. under
the following conditions and specifications:
Payment to be made after the blocks have been
accepted by the Street Commissioner AID Commit
tee on Streets, and upon certificate Of measure
ment or count by the City Civil Engineer.
Each and every stone TO be OF first quality granite
straight split and free from punches depressions
and ia every respect equal to sample blocks sub
mtted with proposals, snd to be OF the following di
mensions
Sto inches long.
3lta to Az inches wide.
to 3 inch, s deep.
For further information inquire of the Street
Commissioner Commi tee on streets
The right is reserved reject any or all proposals
The successful bidder will be required to furnish
bonds with sureties satisfactory to the Committee
for he faithful perform. nee OF the contract
Proposals to be endorsed. Proposals to furnish
the City of Portland With Granite Paving Blocks"
addressed to A. LITTLE, Chairman
janis dtd
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-27
Sinilia Simllibus.

In making the division of the State into
Congressional Districts reference should be
had so far as maybe 10 the natural relations
OF People of the several counties to each
other and the convehiences ofintercommun-
ication. One Of the most conspicuous ex
amples of natural utilization is that between
Penubscot aud Piscataquis counties. Piss
cataquis is a rib taken from the side of Pc.
nobscot, the Piscataquis River runs into tie
Penohscot, land the Pscataquis railroad RUS
to Bangor Pscataquis men send their
slate, iron, potatoes eggs and shingles to
Bangor, which is as much center for Pts
cataquis as for Penobseot County. The po-
litical relation between the counties is of so
long standing that the memory of men now
living runs not to the contrary. Persons
living elsewhere could hardly imagine how
great grievance it would be for Piscataquis
to be separated from Penobscot What nature
and custom have joined together letnot man
put asunder.
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-27

PHILADELPHIA Press; The esteemed
New York World intimates that the purpose
of Senator Blair's bill, appropriating $105,-
100000 to be distributed among the States
for the support of the common schools is to
corrupt Southern members of Congress.
WheseEer a Democrat Of the World type
sees five dollar note he is instantly i'm
pressed with the belief that the owner of the
money wants to buy him. 1t is much like
the country girl who resented the caresses
of an ambitious lover: ''You shan't kiss
me unless you are stronger than l am-aud
goodness knows you arer'
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-27

THE American monthly magazines have
large circulation in England, are as fully
noticed by the London daily and weekly pa
pers as the periodicals of that country, and
now, it seems, are about to win the addi-
tional glory of making more than one Eng
lisn magazine cheaper. Rumor has it that
the price of several London publications is
to be reduced one-half in consequence OF
the competition. The Britishers clearly
have only two remedies at hand. They must
improve the quality of their productions or
put prohibitory duty on American month
lies. For popular reading our magazines
leaye the English periodicals nowhere
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-27

The bill introduced into the New York
Legislature providing for biennial sessions
of that body after this year, proposes that
Senators shall be elected for four years, aud
members of the House for two years; that
the salary of members shall be $3.50 per an
mum with the present allowance for travel
sions an extra allowance of $40 per day.
The measure is not popular.
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-27
i I'll PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, JAN. 81.

EVERY regular attache Of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate sighed by Stanley Pullen,
Editor. All railway, steamboat and Hotel Managers
will confer favor upon by demanding credentials
of every person claiming TO represent our journal.
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-27

The latest applicant for pension is Pri-
vate Dalzell of Ohio, who petitions Congress
to pass pecial act in his favor, on the
ground that he contracted typhoid lever in
the war, from the effects Of which he has
never recovered, and that he forgot to apply
for pension in time to receive the benefit
of the arrears act.
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-27
DRAWING FROM LIFE.
MEETINGS
SPECIAL mEETING

a SPECIAL meeting of the Stockholders of the
N Deer Isle Silver Mining Company will b. held
az their Office No. 80 xchange street, Port and
Me, on Wednesday, Jan. 3 st 1888. at p m. for
the purpose of considering the following PROPOSE
sitions:
st To sell the property of the Company.
I'd To assess the capital stock
I'd To devise some other plan for relieving the
company of its financial en-. barrassmens.
4th. TO transact any other business that may
le ally come before it
Per order of Board of Directors.
W. G CARNEY, Secretary.
Books of Transfer of stock will close on Saturday,
Jan. n at p. m. jauI 6dzttheneodtds
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-27

The letters written by the prisoner
Napoleon Ill. from the fortress at Ham,
to Madame Cornu, will be published ia
1885; and Renan, who has them in charge,
says that while there is nothing political in
them, they will furnish exceedingly interest
ing reading,
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-27

THE Rev. w. FL. Charming, writing from
London TO friend, says: edwin Arnold
is, without exception, the most asto.,ishingIy
productive writer who has ever come within
my cognizance. Do you believe, can you
believe, that only last May he began to COM
pose series of poems on the ninety-nine
beautiful titles of "Allah'', according to the
Koran and the poets and narrators of Islam?
This book he completed; copying it out and
illustrating it with Arab texts in blue and
crimson characters, with his own hand, dur
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-27

UNDER the head, Bodily Deformities in
Girlhood," it is remarked in the Popular
Science Monthly that ''the ingenuity of an
Edison could not devise machine SO favor
able to the production of fat-foot as the
tight-fitting, high-heeled, long-topped boot
at present worn by girls
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-27

SINCE Governor Cameron of Virginia has
had the small p6x at his. home in Richmond
he has been so relieved of the worriment of
politicians and place hunters that he has
grown fat. In his case, small pox in the
house has been well-spring of pleasure
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-27

AS Georgia man says he can raise 3D.
500 pounds of watermelons to the acre, the
inference is that he has taken the Herodic
precaution to kill all the boys within 10
miles of his plant.
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-27

THE ways and means committee of the
house have agreed on bill to prevent the
appreciation of adulterated, exhausted and
bad teas, and hope to have it passed at this
session. Samoles of some of these bad teas,
which are sold by auction as low as Al cents
pound, are worked off with gift packages,
chromos, croekery. ETC., were shown in the
house restaurant, both dry and in infusion,
in order to give PRACTICAL illustration to
members of their vileness. England has al
ready prohibited the Importation of such
rubbish.
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-27
COOK BOOK
We have greatly 10 proved the quality G

Os I'VE BsTTEas
The odor noticed in frying is now almost entirely
removed, and it is unequaed by any Cooking OIL in
the marker Cox Books contain ng valuable Re-
eeipts and instructions how u, e OLIVE BUT rFR
by the Principal of the Phi ade lphia Cooking School
furnished free upon application
WARRINGTON BUICHER's SONS.
NOES PHILADELPHIA, PA. sod7Ot
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-27

The news that Lord Garnet Wolseley is
to succeed the Marquis of Lorne as Cover
nor General of Canada, will create lively
sensation of surprise on both sides of the
Atlantic. The martial career of the new
peer has been enc of unusual success, but
there are few features of it which give one
any clue to his probable value as a civil adj
ministf ator. and executive. The brilliant
administration of Lord Dufferin in Canada,
and his subsequent triumph in diplomacy
would seem TO indicate that the qualities
most needed in the Vice regal representa-
tive al Ottawa are precisely those which
camp training cannot develop. The tele-
graph says that in Ottawa the news OF VOL
seley's selection gives great satisfaction.
The chances are that before he has been
there year he will be the most unpopular
Lord-Lieutenant Canada ever had.
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-27
Shepard Church Collection
FOR QUARTETTE AND CHORUS CHOlPS.

A fine collection of Quartets and Anthems of a
novel and striking character, by such composers as
G'unod, Stainer, Rubensl Elm. Sullivan, kheinbsr-
ger, Franz and Schubert in all about 30 pieces bv
about 40 noted musicians Compiled anu arranged
by w NJ RICHARDSON and j. e. BURGESS. The
solo singers are well remembered. Price $f.25.
The Portland daily press., 1883-01-27

THE New York Herald has some Just
words about the boorish st. Louis press in
reviewers. 1t says: Upon the whole, it
cannot be thought that the Southern gentle
man out in Missouri honors his claims TO be
considered man of the gallant and chval-
rio type. If Mrs. Langtry had been treated
so coarsely in any eastern city as she has
been in St. Louis-if there had been such an
indulgence of mere brutal mob spirit tow
ard lady-the Southerner who believes
himself the true cavalier of the time might
have contemplated with scorn and horror
the plebean spirit of Yankee rogues. But.
alasl the Southern gallant is very like a
ruffian