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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-12-30
superstltIon and AgrIculture

Al correspondent of the Glasgow Her.
aid, who has visited Foula, Scotland.
states that the fishermen are very super
stikious. She adds: Farming is an invo-
cation of at least as much consequence
70 the Inhabitants Of Foula as fishing,
and IN the prosecution of it they are
equally careful to act in obedience to the
ancient. unacknowledged, but living
faith. The land must be dug agrecably
90 the apparent course of the sun. The
sowing Of seed corn should be begun be-
fore noon on Saturday, with the moon on
the increase and the tide flowing. Some
put an egg into the kishie among the
seed corn. When grin ding meal, turn
the quern sunwards. If it be turned
widergates the meal will act as an aperi-
ent. When the moon is on the increase
Is the proper time to kill pig. A hen
should be set on an odd number of eggs
and when the tide is flowing. When a
man Is killing sheep it is unlucky for
anyone Especially womanl to pass be-
tween him and the fire. In dressing the
sheep carefully remove the gall, spit
three times on it, and cover it with ashes,
90 that the dog will not sec it. Do not
mention the name of the pudding when
Il is put in the pot, or it will burst. III
anyone can lay his hand on q eve lamb
that he covets, it will not thrive. If the
liver of lamb crackles when placed.
upon the fire, it is q sign that its mother.
and her descendants will be prolific. A
cow should be fastened in the byre with
her head to the north. A knife should
be stuck into the coupling above her
head to keep away trows or fairies;
Should she be sick, take white money, 81
razor, and pair of shears, and shake
them in sieve above her back. If a:
wound made by trows arrow be discov-.
cred in her side, put finger on it until
another person can daub the place with
tar. Take gunpowder and fire it off be-
tween two peats near her head. Should
this fail in effecting a cure, take he cat
and draw him by the tail across the back
of the COW until he fastens his claws in
her hide. and If this does not cure her
nothing will. When a cow has lost the
power of chewing her cud wrap some
gunpowder in a piece of dough and put
it into dogs mouth and then make the
COW swallow it. Three stones taken
from brook and three stones taken from
the ground ought to be placed above the
head of COW that has been given as
dowry or tocher, so that she may have
no desire to return to her old quarters.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-12-30
The Taking oT ). Tins. >

It Is curious and significant fact that
white native Americans of the working
classes are not greatly addicted to the
acceptance of gratitudes. Something in
the genius of American institutions hao
hitherto kept our poorer people from
falling into this degradation. The
American has been taught that he is q
sovereign; and he feels the force of Pro-
lessor Summers deduction from this
principle. The takers of tips in this
country are largely negroes and persons
OF foreign birth. The employments in
which tips are regularly accepted, as
those OF servants in hotels and restaur-
ants, porters and stewards on ships and
steamboats, and sleeping are almost
wholly mon0polized by foreigners and
negroes The white native American
has his faults and his vices, he is often
an extremely disagreeable person, but he
Is not often found clamoring for back.
sheesh.
The taker of the tips acknowledges
himself TO belong to an inferior class,
and there is no foundation for any such
distinction; the only difference between
himself and the man from whom be
cakes the tips, is that the other has q
little more money. For dime he Dis.
grades himself. Undoubtedly many Of
those who bestow these gratuities are
well pleased to do SO for this very reason.
The ceremony symbolizes the fact that
they belong Co q superior class. When
man takes dime from our hands, it is q
confession on bis part that we are supe-
rior beings he knows full we'll that we
do not accept dime at his hands. The
proclamation and acknowledgment oi
this superiority pleases the vanity of
some people. On the other hand, the
adherence felt by many persons for this
practice arises chiefly from the fact that
they are unwilling to allow any man TO
make the AFFECT confession concerning
himself that Is involved in the taking %
tips. Century.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-12-30
Cooking a Girl.

Earle, who wrote a a very readable.
intelligent, and but little known account
of the Maoris very early in the present
century, speaks Of the gentle manners
and kindly WAYS of New Zealand chief.
whom afterward he discovered to be an
inveterate cannibal. He relates that he
visited the place where was cooking the
body of a young slave girl that his friend
had killed for the purpose. The head
was severed from the body; the four
quarters, with the principal bones re-
moved, were compressed and packed
into small oven in the ground, and
covered with earth. It was case of
justifiable cannibalism. No revenge was
gratifed by the deed, and no excuse
could be made that the body was eaten
to perfect their triumph. Earle says that
he learned that the flesh takes many
hours to cook, that it is very tough II
not thoroughly cooked, but that it pulls
in pieces, like bit of blotting paper, if
well done. He continues that the victim
was handsome, pleasant looking girl OF
sixteen, and one that he used frequently
to see about the pah. To quote his own
words:
while listening to this frightfuE de-
tail, we felt sick almost to fainting We
left Atoi'' 0he chief who had killed the
girD, land again strolled toward the
spot where this disgusting feast was
cooking. Not native was now near it;
hot steam kept occasionally bursting
from the smothered mass, and the same
dog that we had seen take the head Of
the girl now crept from beneath the
bushes and sneaked toward the village;
to add to this gloominess of the whole,
large hawk rose heavily from the very
spot where the poor victim had been cut
in pieces. My friend and sat gazing
in this melancholy place; it was low
ering, gusty day, and the moaning of the
wind through the bushes, as it swept
round the hill on which we were. seemed
In unison with our feelings"
Earle goes on to relate how he. and
three other compatriots whom he sum
moned from the beach for the purpose,
with the Englishman's usual impe-tlnent
interference and intolerance of customs
differing from his own, determined to
Illustrate Atoi's intention. They together
visited the hill where the flesh was cook
ing. and. destroying the oven, buried the
remains in the earth. They found the
heart put on one side for the special de,
location of their constant friend and
companion, Atoi. Earle was afterward
good humoredly told by the chief that
their interference had been of no avail,
as they had found the. grave where the
flesh had been buriedI and opening 1t,
sQOm after he and his friends had left,
had finished cooking>it and eaten it all.
Popular Science Mopt1sly-
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-12-30
ECONOMY or Wood.

correspondent describing how every
foot Of the soil is utilized in France,
mentions the method pursued to supply
the country with fuel by the growth oil
L0mbardy poplar. The correspondent
says: I'm going from Paris to Geneva.
via Dijon, we pass through the best
portion of France. For hundreds 81
miles every inch Of land is cultivated
The abrupt side hills.aTe in grape vines
and the fat land in grain. Here wa see
the phenomenon of double crops-a crop.
Of grain and vegetables growing under
crop Of trees. The Normandy poplar
trees are from an inch TO three feet IN
diameter. They are planted Tricky,
but give no shade. They are trimmed
within six feet of the top. The boughs'
which are cut off every year. make fago1s
enough to warm France. We often see
men and women grading wheat or hoe
ing beats In the midst Of the wood giving
no shade When you look across the
country, the tall boughless trunks lo9A
like black stTeaks painted against tns
sky. They make the view very pictuI.
esque. Wood is sold IN France for
third of cent pound. It is worth .
much as corn in Kansas by the pouInau.
So when tho Kansas man burns corr y
Is no more profigate than the Frenzy Rah
who burns fagots.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-12-30
OLD AND NEW.

Now has another year, a priceless pearl,
/. Sunk back from sight deep in the sable sea
Whence Time, the diver, brought e once
to be
More lightly esteemed by many than the
curl
On the smooth. radiant shoulder OF girl
Yea, Il has gone--we hail the next. and he
I That brings it to as smiles fun scornfully,
And swears this, too, he back ere long viii
hurl
II we such treasure valued as we should,
The world would be much better, and our
days
Be fun Of gladness, and talisInan
Would each gem be toopen doors to good,
For they are potent; and our fellows
praise
Would wreathe our deeds, and distant ages
William L. Shoemaker
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-12-30

bow to Guy Rainbow ia the German r.-
pers, which it almost broke my heart :,
think you had malled to me.
And could you for moment believe
that that Guy was your Guyf" That
was my uncle and godfather, and he
married kind Of fourth cousin of the
same name "
''0h, how we nave both been do.
ceived!n said Miss Snmmercloud.
ssBut we may be happy, vet said mr.
Rainbow. And she looked as if shs
thought they might
And after shaking hands all around
with the Faye family, and kissing the
baby, away they went in the carriage
"Clever Poll" perched on the shoulder
OF its mistress. Tapping its wings, utter.
ing shrill hurrahs, and acting altogether
like bird gone wild with Joy. And IN
Christmas day away went the Fayes in
the same carriage Ebert and his sister
in pretty costumes for were they not to
be best man and bridesmaids, and their
mother in lovely gray silk with bonnet
to match-to the wedding, after an en-.
gagement of twenty-one years, of Miss
Isabella Summercloud and DIR. Guy Rain.
bow.
And from that time Mr.. Faye grew
stronger and stronger. and soon was able
though still little lame, to work, but
instead of returning to the wholesale es.
tablishment at retail salary, he went
into large retail establishment. the head
of which was friend of Mr.. Guy Rain.
bows at Wholesale one.
And ali things prospered forever after
at the little wooden cottage, thanks ero
the Luck Poll Brought
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-12-30

~ssUnser Wilhelm, the German en-
peror, is IS implacable martinez in jail
military service matters as was either
Frederick the Great or his father Il il
: fact that last May he seriously threat'
ened to bring the Grand Duke Of Hess
before Z court martial for having In
fringed the rules Of the German army by
presuming to marry without having pre-
yiously obtained permission. and he
vows that he will never be reconcilcd to
tho grand duke divorce or no divorce
-for having mnde this morganatic Enar-
riage.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-12-30

TIE statisticAI account 81 the proasacs
lion 81 WOOL throughout the civilized
world shows that IA the year 1880 L was
40. o00. 0o0 pounds II 1871 i wes
Iearlv !. 000. 0u0, 900 pounds. while ri
1881 s. Tie United States alone The pro-
fnefion oI WOOL wzs $50. coo. 600 pousARis,
). much s. ~ produced y re u lkole
&sEI1 "a IeSn.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-12-30

A Frenchman who recently died az
recfed il bis will that the sum Of 81, Oeg
should be given To the wounded ID Wv
next war with Germany.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-12-30

Street lamps 1t Berlin arc cxtinguisAed
ii midnight, and the police carry Ian
terms instead of being preceded by .
brass band.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-04-14
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

One of the largest and most costly
Fl. Ainsworth of Castleton. The estimated
cost of the mill, completed and equipped
with engine and machinery, is from $l2,-
900 TO $4,000.
J. r. Allen, street commissioner of st.
Adams, died suddenly last week Tuesday
morning. He was about forty years old,
and leaves a widow and two children.
The res ult of the March run of the
Books Mining Company in Ludlow was
one hundred and forty and one-fourth
ounces, a bar of gold worth $2,s97.
Deacon r. H. Wild, the oldest person
in West Fairlee, died recently. He was
born in West Fairlee in 1894, and has
always resided in that town. He was in
the war of 1912 and at the battle of
Pittsburgh. His town has given him
all the offices in its power, and he died
greatly respected. He became member
of the Congregational church early in life,
and has been one of it's deacons for over
fifty years.
Rev. L. 0. Barstow, D. D., presented
his resignation as pastor of the Winooski
Avenue Congregational church at Burling-
ton last Sunday. DR.. Brastow became
pastor of the church November 5, 1873.
In this time he has gained high reputa-
ton as clear and cogent thinker, Wig
orous writer and an eloquent speaker
and he is very widely recognized as one
of the strong men of the Congregational
denomination
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-04-14

vice Fast Day with sermon upon
Mormonism by Rev. F. D. Chandler.
st. Johnsbury-
Horace Carpenter has sold to Rob-
ert w. Laird of the Granite company
two lots near the depot for $4,000.
Stannard.
Sugar makers are having lively
work this week. 1t is said that the
sap is of remarkable sweetness this
year.
The lumber and material for the
new Methodist church is all on the
spot ready for the carpenters, and
work will be commenced as soon as
the weather will admit.
Sutton.
ALI. Burnham steps high these
days-he will have that boy in the
carding mill in a few days, doubtless.
Miss Babcock from Iowa, who has
engaged to teach the village summer
school, has arrived, and will make
her home at present with Mrs. Laid.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-04-14

In the u S. Circuit Court in Maryland, it was,
on the 10th of March, 1884, adjudged and decreed
that perpetual injunction be issued against Louis
E. Wetter, and eighteen others, restraining them
from initiating the labels of the Rumford Chemical
Works, manufacturers of Horsford's Bread Prepar-
alton, and also from using their old bottles.
The defendants were required to bring into court
all fraudulent labels, and all imitation powder, fol-
destruction.
1t was decreed that the Rumford Chemical Works
be entitled to receive the profits which have been
diverted fro it by of the Infringement and
the defendants ordered to pay all costs.
Thus is another victory scored for the Rumford
Chemical Works, who not long since, causedseveral
parties to be heavily fined for violating the injunc
ton of the Supreme Court restraining all persons
from offering for sale ''Aea Phosphate" $50 called
in any package which shall be substantial or col
orable initiation of Horsford's Acid Phosphate.
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Court fInSoIvency.
CTATE OF VERMONT, I

Take notice that Frederick & Wesley G. Mar
TIN of Albany in said District of Orleans
on the 29th day of March. A. D. 1884,
filed their Petition and Schedules to be adjudged in
solvent debtors and that meeting of the creditors
of said insolven debtors will be held at Court of In
District on the 10th day of April, A. D. 1884 at
O'Clock m to prove their debts and choose one or
more assgnees of their estate and that the payment
of any debts and the delivery of any property belong
ing to said debtors to them for their use. and the
transfer of any property by them forbidden by law
Blythe Court-Attest,
Is Oh. JONES. Register.
Barton Landing, VT, Mar goth 1884.
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C. g. P. R. r. TIME TABLE.


EEWPORT-SoUTH-72 20 IN; 1.16 p m; 9.45 m /;
l0.20pm. NoRTH-5.50 IN; 100 m.
ovENTRY-sourH-7S 80 m; 1922 m. NORTH
-2.45 m; 6.27 pm.
BARTON LANDING-SoUTH-7.43 m; 1.34 pm;
1908 p m; 10.43 p m. NoRTH-4OO m; 2.3e
p m; $3.50 m; GIG p IN.
BARTON-SoUTH-7.5 ms LAS IN; 10.15 m /;
1859 p m. NoRTH-3.47 m; 2.10 m; BAT
pm; 600 p m.
SOUTH BARTON-SoUTH-S11 m; 1.55 p IN;
11.1op IN. NoETH-1.55 p m; 5.4s m.
CLARK'S-SoUTH-S.2 m; 11.26 p m. NORTH
1.1Spm; 5.32 pm.
WEST BURKE-SoUTH-S.35 m; 2.13 p m; 1912
pm; 1872 pm. NoRTH-916 IN; LOS p IN /;
3.20pm; 5.24 m.
LYNDONVILLE-SoUTH m; 2.2S m;
1857 m; 11.55 m. NoRTH-3OO m; l2.4o
pm; sos m; sos y IN.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-04-14
Barton. W.. April IA, 1851.

New Advertisements To-Day.
j. w. Murkland, Barton, Flows
O. ID. Owen, just heeelVeu
Tower Brothers, Now Is the llme
John Wallace. 1t Pays
NJ. j. Smith, Marble aud Uranite
Estate of f. NJ. Perry.
Estate of Caroline Dustin.
William II. Tibbetts, Coventry, Closing Out sale
c. E. Allen, Brattleboro, Plants
D. D. Bean, Barton, To Rent
The Corbin Harrow.
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Closing Out Sale.
VIM. I'll. TIBBETTS.
Coventry, Vt,
Will close out his stock Of
Groceries, Notions, Tin Ware
and Glass Ware,

At low prices. will mention few bargains:
KEROSENE OIL, 12I and 10 cents gallon MO
LASSES, 5octs gallon. PORK, 12cts. LARD,
1scts. GRADUATED SUGAR, Gets. RAISINs,
10 and 12cts. CASSIA, 25cts. GINGER, 22cts.
PEPPER, 2Sets. SODA, pounds for 25cts. BIRD
SEED, Sets. a pound. SALT HERRING, Gets
PICKLED COD, 51cts. MACKEREL, Sets.
LARGE DRY GOLDFISH, Tets. have good
assortment of CONFECTIONERY and NUTS,
which will sell Cheap. will mention few bar
gains in GLASS WARE: TUMBLERS, 5cts.
each. GOBLETS, Gets. each. HEAVY GOBLETS,
Sets. each CHEESE PLATES, and Sets. each.
INDIVIDUAL CREANIERS, 1octs. each. GOOD
HEAVY SETS, pieces, 67cts each.
also have quantity of LADIES' WHITE ME-
RINO UNDER WEAR, that will sell for 45cts.
each; former price, 65cts.
Call and see FOR yourselves. All persons owing
account are requested to call and settle or
before May 10th.
w. II. TIBBETTS.
Coventry Apr. Ia. 1884,
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PROBATE COURTS.

Probate Courts will be held on the first Tuesday OF
each month at the Probate Office, Irasburgh; on the
first Wednesday of each month at my office, Barton
Landing: on the last Friday Of each month at T
CIRCUITS office, Newport o. II. AUSTIN, Judge.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-04-14
ESTATE OF T. Nj. PERRY
CTATE OFvERM0NT,}
ESTATE OF CAROLINE C. DUSTIN.
STATE OF VERMONT

~ UTI0auS UlslfIcG, IS
In Probate Court, held at Barton Landing, in said
District on the 10th day of April, A. ID. 1884.
C. W. Dustin, Administrator de b0nas non with
the will annexed, of the estate of Caroline C. Dus.
tin late of Cratsbury, in said District, deceased,
presents his administration account for examination
of distribution and partition of the estate of said
deceased.
Whereupon it is ordered by said Court, that
said account and said application be referred to a
session thereof to be held at the Probate Office in
Irasburgh, ON the 9th day of May, A. D. 1884, for
hearing and decision thereon.
And it is further ordered, that notice hereof be
given to all persons interested, by publication of
the same three weeks successfully in the Orleans
County Monitor, newspaper published at Barton,
previous to said time appointed for hearing, that
they may appear at said time and place, and show
cause, if any they may have, why said account
should not be allowed, and such deere made.
By the Court-Attest
1917 c. II. JONES, Register.
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ESTATE OF S. r. COREY.
STATE OF VERMONT or,o.,,. =; .tr,o+ :.

y
ESIn Probate Court held at Barton Landing in said
District, on the 4th day of April A. D. 1884.
James McEwen, Executor of the will of S. r.
Corey late of Crasbury, in said District deceased,
makes application for license sell the real estate
of said deceased, described follows, to wit: All
the real of which said s. R. Corey died seized
in the State of Vermont, representing that a sale
and beneficial to all persons interested in said
estate.
Whereupon it is ordered by said Court that said
application be referred to session thereof to be
held at the Probate Office in Barton Landing, on
the sd day of April, A. d. 1884, for hearing and
decision thereon: And it is further ordered that
notice hereof be given to all persons interested by
publication of the same three weeks successfully
in the Orleans County Monitor, newspaper pub
lished at Barton, previous to said time appointed
for hearing, that they may appear at said time and
place and show cause, if any they may have, why
said license should not be granted 14-16
BY the Court-Attest,
c. H. JONES, Register.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-04-14
New Advertisements.


TO RENT.
should like TO rent the upper part of my house
on Elm Street to some family without small chill
dren. 1t makes a very convenient tenement. Has
running water, and garden spot. Rent moderate.
1918 ID. d. BEAN.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-04-14
Boston Wholesale Produce Market
CORRECTED EXPRESSLY FOR
ORLEANS COUNTY MONITOR,
a. ID.

Jobbing and Commission Dealer in Butter, Cheese,
Flour Lard, Eggs, Beans, Dried Apple,
etc, y John street, Boston.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-04-14

REMARKS.-Butter is coming in freely and
prices declining gradually. Old is dull and
nominal to price. Cheese is hardly as firm. Eggs
are lower Beans dull and tending downward.
Flour is extremely dull and prices, although
changed, liSely to decline further. Pork, lard
and hams are off little in price although dealers
seem to be firm in their views. Corn and oats
quiet. Maple sugar is selling at quotations. Pota-
toes continue plenty and low.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-11-25

Mn. CLEVELAND AND Hrs CAB1-
NKr.-The gentlemen who are putting
themselves forward for places In the
Cabinet Of Mr.. Cleveland win do well
to read the little speech that he made
on Saturday afternoon last with re
spect to what may be called the com
mercial policy Of bis administration.
BE said IN SO many words that 50 far
as lay In bis power be would prevent
at al hazards anything looking like .
revolution lii business. This means,
II it means anything, two things.
First, that the Free Trade cranks
shall not be supreme ID bis councils;
and second, that the extreme men in
The factions in bis party shall be ig.
nored ii the distribution of the great
and important Offices. Mr.. Cleveland
II conservative, and he will have q
conservative administration aud an
honest one. If we may form IA opin-
Ion from what he has said thus far be
will steer clear Of the Scylla Of South
ern Bourbonism and the Charybdis
Of Northern fiscal doctrinnairisrn. He
will have no master in the cabinet.
Mr.. Cleveland Is wise.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-11-25
TnE Nan WHoM rHE PEoplr

THE MAN WHOM THE PEopLE De-
LIoHTErH 70 HoNoR. The business
men Of Baltimore are making prepara-
tions to give Hon. a.. 2. Gorman, the
man whom the people delightath to
honor" . complimentary banquet on
December srd 4 more deserving
compliment and honor was never due
81 American citizen than to Hpn. a..
s. Gormans the Napolian Of American
politics
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-11-25

Gov. CLEVELAND found it :neccs-
sary on Saturday to make o short
speech. Short as it was, however, 1t
had much point and force. Heprom-
ised . safe, cheap, economical admin.
istration Of the Government, and as
sured business men that there is no
occasion whatever for alarm, and re.
minded his audience that Democrats
are as much interested In the pros
perity Of the country as Republicans.
Every sensible man will sec the force
Of this The political wreckers Of the
Blaine ntripe, who are now endeav-
oring by alarming reports and predic-
tons 70 upset values, are the worst
enemies the country has to encounter.