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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09
NATIONAL THANKSGIVING.

The American people have always
abundant cause to be thankful to AL
mighty God, whose watchful care and
guiding hand have been manifested in
every stage of their national life, guard
ing and protecting them in time of peril
and safely leading them in the hour of
darkness and danger. 1t is fitting and
proper that a nation thus favored should
on one day in every year, for that pur-
pose especially appointed, publicly ac-
knowledge the goodness of God, and
return thanks to Him for all His gracious
gifts.
Therefore, 1, Grover Cleveland, Presi-
dent of the United States of America, do
hereby designate and set apart Thursday,
the Goth day of November instant, as a
day of public Thanksgiving and invoke
the observance of the same by all the
people of the land. On that day let all
secular business be suspended and let the
people assemble in their usual places Of
worship, and, with prayer and songs Of
praise, devoutly testify their gratitude to
the Giver of every good and perfect gift
for all that He has done for US in the
wear that has passed, for our preserva-
tion as a united nation, and for our de-
liverance from the shock and danger of
political CONFUSION; for the blessings of
peace and for our safety and quiet, while
wars and rumors of wars have agltated
and afflicted other nations of the earth;
for our security against the scourge Of
pestilence which in other lands has claim
ed its dead by thousands and filled the
streets with mourners; for plenteous
crops which reward the labor Of the hus-
bandmen and increase our nations
wealth, and for the contentment through
out our borders which follows on the
train of prosperity and abundance. And
let there also be on that day thus set
apart reunion of families, sanctified and
chastened by tender memories and asso-
Citations, and let the social intercourse Of
friends with pleasant "reminiscences re-
new the ties of affection and strengthen
the bonds of kindly feeling. And let US
by no means forget, while we give thanks
and enjoy the comforts which have
crowned our lives that truly grateful
hearts are inclined to deeds of charity
and that kind and thoughtful remem-
brance of the poor will double the pleas
ure Of our condition, and render our
praise and thanksgiving more acceptable
in the sight of the Lord.
Done at the city Of Washington, this
second day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-tive, and of the
independence of the United States the
one hundred and tenth.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
BY the President.
r. +. PAYARD, Secretary of State.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09

which he maneuvred in company with
Mr.. Fish, but it is undeniably tri-
umph Of retributive justice. If the
progress of the case has been slow
it has also been sure; and the result
removes the suspicious which the
long delay and the frequent post
ponement of the case naturally
aroused. The promised revelations
involving persons of high character,
which were threatened in case the pros
ecution of Ward was pushed, resolve
themselves into the reven9eful NUT
terinos of convict on his way to
Sing Sing, who is stripped OF his pre-
tence as holder of powerful and
startling secrets and now appears as
commonplace but ingenious swim
dIer. If, as District-Attorney Dor
sheimer intimates, suits for the re-
covery of the money dissipated by
Ward are to be instituted, what has
already been accomplished tends to
remove apprehensions of miscarriage
of justice.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09
REPORT OF THE UTAH COM
MISSION.

The Utah commission has submit
ted to the secretary of the interior
it's annual report upon the proceed
ings of the commissioners. They
say that in practice no polygamst
was allowed to register or vote at
the last election, nor was any such
person elected to any office. No
name of a polygamist can be found
upon the registration list, and none
of this class are holding office. New
ertheless, it is true that nearly all
the officers chosen in the last and
preceding elections are Mormons,
who, while they do not actually live
in poiygamy, subscribe to the doe
trine of polygamous marriage as a
divine revelation. The firm attitude
of the government and faithful exc
cution of the law, sustained by pub
lie sentiment, have exerted in the
last year depressing influence upon
the Mormon people never before ex-
perienced. 1t is believed that there
have been very few polygamous mar
riages during the present year, but
it is not regarded as prudent to loof
upon this fact as indicating anything
more than suspension of the prac
tice. resulting from vi gorous enforce
ment of the law, and not as an actu
al surrender, attended by genera
and decided change of sentiment
The hope has been indnlged that tn
Mormon people would finally Sc
their line Of duty and yield Willing
acauiescence to law, but the resul
has been disappointing. as far as th
leaders of the church and the princi
pal part of their following are con
cerned. A declaration was often re
peated, during the past year, by tn
chief officers of the church that it
their settled determination to refus
obedience to law, and to defeat a
efforts from every direction TO put a
end to polygamy. They propose /
prosecute those persons who desil
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS,

The decrease in the public debt for Oc
tober will be about $l2,000,000.
Washington's new sewer, twenty-five
feet in diameter, will cost 100000.
An Ilion, N. Y, justice has sent two
men to jail for stealing an umbrella.
Serious outbreaks of cholera are re-
ported in the provinces of Spain on the
Bay Of Biscay.
Carl Schurz has made on offer to the
stockholders of the Boston Post to take
the paper off their hands.
There is an old man employed as night
porter at Plumstead, near London, who
has not been to bed for seven years.
A furnished and rust-eaten pocket
knife, once belonging to General Grant,
has been sold in New York city for 500.
1t is estimated that $150,000 damage
was done by the rapid rising of the Ka-
nawha river in w. Virginia Oct. 3lst
Six lives were lost in the Race, off
New London, CT, Sunday night, by the
explosion of the boiler of a steam dredge.
The Hudson Bay Company's steamer
Princess Royal has been wrecked in Hud-
son Bay, and the cargo, valued at 81, 1000,
900, is total loss.
| President Cleveland arrived at Wilkes
| barre, Penn, Monday. About 1000 per-
sons were at the depot to greet him, and
after short stay he left for Buffalo.
Mrs. Estelle Hunter, of Hinesdale, N.
H., charged with the murder of Charles
| E. Hunter, her husband, on June 90, was
recently discharged, no Indictment being
found against her.
Millions of squirrels have been emigrat-
Arkansas shore near Memphis. Thous-
ands have been killed by farmers. A
similar emigration occurred in 1872.
There are about five hundred forty-five
thousand native Christians in the Chinese
empire who have been converted by Ro
man Catholic missionaries. Those con
VofbcQ by IIOJeSLdnG HlSSlOudIlcS are
much fewer.
The remains of General Mcclellan ar
rived in New York city from Orange, N
j., Sunday night, and were conveyed
to the residence of Mr.. William G.. Prime
on East Twenty-third street The tuner
al occurred on Monday, the I'd inst.
Thomas James, colored, residing neal
Gainesville, Fla, has family of "a chill
dren, SO of them being now at home will
their father. He has had three wives al
living at one time. Only one Of them il
now living. and she claims 10 of the chill
dren.
a bold attempt was made, the Both ult
to ahduct the four-year-old son OF c. j
Pope of Boston. Mrs. Pope took thu
child to market with her, and he remain
ed about the doorway playing, when TIVE
} shabbily dressed men enticed him ava.
with a stick of candy The mother fol
, lowed, and the men grabbed the boy ant
; ran into IL house, but he struggled, yell
ed. aud finally escaped.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09

The Northwest" correspondent
of the New York Journal Of Com
merce at Chicago reiterates the story
that the corn crop is of poor quality
and he claims that 1--WE have not
raised bushel more of sound mer-
charitable corn than we did in 1884, ="
The season was late and made stow
er rather than ear and the fall has
been wet aud unfavorabie for drying
In some sections the grassboppers
ate off the silk, inducing kind OF
dry rot in the ear, owing perhaps to
a failure to fertilize properly. The
prevalence of hog cholera induces
the farmers TO send in their hogs
early. This observer thinks the
spring-wheat sections will have tC
supply the winter area with wheat
and flour after February 1. HI
thinks that half of the Mlnnesot;
and Dakota crop was forwarded dur
ing October to market, although The
receipts were less than half wha
they were a year ago.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09
GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN.

Gen. George B. Mcclellan died
suddenly from neuralgia of the heart
at his residence at Orange Mountain,
n. j., on the morning of the 29th
ult. He was born in Philadelphia,
Dec. 3, 1926, and graduated from
West Point in 1916, with high rank,
being Immediately assigned to duty
as second lieutenant of engineers.
He served with distinction in the
Mexican war, and was brevetted first
lieutenant and captain. From 1851 to
1885 he was engaged mainly in en-
glneerlng work in different parts of
the United States, and in 1055-56,
as captain of artillery, was mem
Der of the military commission visit
ing the seat of war in Crimea. The
next year he resigned his commits
sion in the army to accept the posi-
ton of chief engineer of the Illinois
Central railroad, and in 1860 became
president of the St. Louis and Gin
cinnati railroad. In 1861 he was
commissioned major-general of Ohio
volunteers, and was placed in COM
mand of military department COM
prising the states of Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, and parts of Pennsylvania
and Virginia. Soon afterwards he
was commissioned major-general of
the regular army, and commanded in
several successful engagements in
West Virginia. After the first battle
of Bull Run he was called to Wash
ington and placed i'm command of
the division of the Potomac, and on
the resignation of General Scott he
was appointed general-in-chief of the
United States. His success in or
ganizing the army of the Potomac,
his disastrous Peninsular campaign,
and his retirement after Antietam,
are too well known to need repeti-
ton. He was brilliant, accomplish
ed soldier, and was idolized by his
troops, but unfortunately failed to
make the most of his magnificent OPP
portunities. His personal populari-
ty led to his nomination as the dem
ocratic candidate for the presidency
in 1864. He was overwhelmingly
defeated by Abraham Lincoln, who
received the electoral votes from all
the states participating in the cleo
ton except those of Delaware, Ken
lucky and New Jersey. He resigned
his major-generars commission on
the day of election, and soon after
visited Europe, where he remained
till 1868, when he returned to the
United States and resumed the prac-
tice of his profession as engineer.
In 1877 he was elected governor of
New Jersey. The funeral services,
held in New York on Monday, were
simple and informal, as desired by
the family, and were largely attend
ed, the remains being taken to Tren-
ton. N. J.. for interment.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09
No doubt Dakota is fully entitled

No doubt Dakota is fully entitled
to enter the Union, and ought to be
admitted at the coming session of
congress. 1.-THE population of the
Territory" says Governor Pierce in
his annual report, ''has now reached
416, 900, os against 1876, $50 in $780,"
The report states that the farmers
were never more prosperous and the
material interests of the Territory
have advanced wonderfully within
the past few years. The governor
recommends that Dakota be admit
ted to the sisterhood of States; that
the school lands be protected from
squatters, and that the Crow Creek
Indian reservation be cut up and the
land given to the Indians IN several
ty. The financial condition of the
Territory is said to be excellent and
the tax levy is but three mills on a
dollar.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09
THE ELECTIONS.

The elections on Tuesday last re-
suited about as was anticipated by
those who had carefully noted the
current of events. Virginia goes
democratic and beats Malone for the
U. S. Senate, thing somewhat to
be deplored in the line of Republican
ascendancy, as the Republican ma
jority in that body is small. New
York is carried by Hill, democrat,
by few thousand. The foreign ell
ements and rain and mud work
ed against the Republicans. Some of
the results are given below:
Massachusetts re-elects Gov. Rob-
inson by a majority of about 5000,
and both house and senate are
strongly republican. The vote was
small.
New York is democratic by small
plurality, but the senate and house
are republican. Hills plurality in
New York city is $4,000, in Brook
Ign his plurality is about 5000. The
republicans will have a majority of
80 on joint ballot. In the senate
there will be p republicans and II
democrats in the house 76 repub-
licans and 50 democrats.
TRENTON, n. j., Nov. 4. Returns
come in slowly from the interior and
southern counties of the state, but
enough have been received to show a
republican victory in the state, Sc
| far as the senate and the United
States senatorshjp is concerned. The
republican majority tn the house has
been heavily reduced, while the ma
iority in the senate has been largely
increased. Out of Fl senators last
year the republicans had but IL
Next year they will have 13, and sc
be sure to return Senator Sewell.
Up to noon, Nov. A, the State Reg.
lister has definite returns from 6;
counties in the state of Iowa and par,
tial returns from all. His figures
make up a Republican majority or
the State ticket of between Il, 900
and 5000, and give the Republic
ans 81 members out of the 100 in thu
House, and 80 out of the so Sena
tors. The figures of the Republican
State Committee agree with those o
the Register.
The indications in Virginia Nov.
were not changed from those tele
graphed the night before as to Gen
Lees majority reaching 5000, ant
it may 90 to 10000. AS to tn
Legislature, sufficient returns hav
been received to show that the Dem
ocrats have already 62 out of tn
100 members of the House of Dele
gates and % out of the 40 member
of the Senate. The Republican
, have 16 members of the House an
+ II Senators. The counties yet t
be heard from will increase the Den
, ocratic membership to two-thirds m;
jority in both houses.
9 Later returns from one-half tt
state show net Democratic gam {
: 1888. The Democrats claim 20, 0(
f majority on the state ticket and twi
n thirds of both houses.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09
ELECTION IN NEW YORK.

The election of Gov. Hill in n. Y.
places in the Gubernatorial office in
that state, by the deliberate choice
of her citizens, one of the smallest
and least worthy men ever nominat-
ed for that high station. Governor
Hills political record allies him
closely with his former partner in
business, William M. Tweed, and
identifies him with some of the most
notorious political and legislative
achievements of the men whom
Tweed controlled. His career as
governor, since he succeeded MI.
Cleveland upon the latter's election
to the presidency. has been distin-
guished by consistent demagogism,
and his exertions to secure the NOM
nation, supplemented by his person
al conduct of his campaign, have af
forded a repulsive spectacle of eager
self-seeklng. When the democratic
convention presented him as its can
| didate, the act seemed a suicidal one
to most unprecedented observers
the more so that his character was
emphasized by contrast with that OF
Ira Davenport who was nominated
by the republicans. The republican
party presented to the people of New
York ticket which was absolutely
clean from top to bottom, and all OF
ther candidates were men of higf
character and conceded fitness fol
the positions to which they were
nominated. But the voters have in
dictated their preference for Governor
Hill and his associates.-Journdl.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09

Fraud and corruption never pay,
in the long run, whether practiced by
individuals or communities. A Gin
cinnati paper says that the business
men of that city are so Disguised
with the corruption of it's govern
ment and the scandals of it's politics,
and are so hopeless of relief, that
some large mercantile houses will
probably be removed to New York
or other Western cities, which are
better governed.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09

The president has appointed two
members of the civil service commits
sion, the Hon. Alfred P. Edgarton
of Indiana, and VIM. L. Trenholm
of South Carolina, both democrats.
Mr.. Edgarton was member of con-
gress from 1851 to 1855. 1t is stat
ed that he byS conviction is a friend
of civil service reform. Mr.. Tren-
holm of South Carolina, is the gen.
tleman to whom Gov. D. FL. Cham
berlain referred in the interview
printed in the advertiser on Sept. Z,
as the writer. in the Charleston Neacs.
of "the very ablest word on the sill
yer question" that he had read dur
ing the past year. There remains
TO be appointed the successor of Mr..
ThOman.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09

There has been a marked decline
in the business of making new fourth
class postmasters in Vermont during
the past two or three weeks, and it
is rumored that Mr.. Atkins of Mont
pelier has taken refuge in an orphan
asylum. He has not really
been heard from through the col
umns of the argus since about the
first of July, the date which he fixed
for ''clean sweep" of the offices tc
positively take place.-PhgniG.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09

So great has been the demand for
Johnson's Anodyne Liniment that l. S.
Johnson & Co., manufacturers, have been
compelled to resort to the law to defend
themselves from various parties, who
have stolen their name and made fraudu-
lent goods. Their advertisement always
prompt, accurate and honorable in bust
ness, which is pretty good sign that
they are making valuable medicines, that
continue to sell in the market.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09

to obey the law, and this has con
WINGED the commission that some
more decisive plans to reduce the
polygamous element, and correspond
ingly increase that of federal author
ity in the civil government of Utah
should be presented to congress-
W0shinQtOn Dispatch.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09

Secretary Endicott is opposed to
granting further encouragement, on
the part of the government, to Arctic
exploration. This is a wise decls-
sion. If any more adventures want
to commit suicide in the region of
the North pole, let them pay their
own travelling expenses thither.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09
"a NEGROES

Who left the United States for Liberia last year
have lately returned being unable to stand the eli
mate Everybody going to q new climate should
have bottle of Sulphur Bitters with them a
safeguard against disease.-Hartford Courant.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09

The sentence of Ferdinand Ward
to state prison for ten years may not
be the end of the sensational swindle
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09
ALFRED COLTON'S ESTATE.
S,TATE OF VERMONT,

y Orleans District, SIS.
In Probate Court, held at Barton Landing within
and for said District, the 14th day of October,
A. d, 1885.
Fred L. Cotton, administrator of the estate OF
Alfred Cotton late of Irasburgh In said district, de-
ceased, makes application for license to sell the real
estate of said deceased described follows, to wit
An the real estate of which the said Alfred Cotton
died seized in the State of Vermont, representing
that sale thereof necessary to pay the debts due
from 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 Lane ing, OF
the 4tb day of November A. d 1885, for hearing and
decision thereon; and it is further ordered that al
persons interested be notified hereof, by publication
of the same three weeks successfully IN the Moni
tor, a newspaper published at Barton, previous tt
said time appointed for hearing, that they may ap
pear at said time and place and show cause if am
they may have, why said license should not b,
granted.
42.44 C.H. JONES, Register.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09
SAMUEL BEAMS ESTATE.
CTATE VERMONT,
J. A. GRAY.

y )0rleans Districts
In Probate Court held at Barton Landing, within
and for said District, on the 10th day of October
A. D. 1885.
o. V. Perciva, administrator of the estate of
Samuel Beam late of Glover in said district, deceas-
ed, makes application, filing Herewith the consent
of the heirs in this state for license sell the real
estate of said deceased described as follows to wit
About Is acres of lot No. l, in the 9th Range in
Barton in said district, being all the real estate of
which the said Samuel Bean died seized in the State
of Vermont, representing that sale thereof will be
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 said Barton Landing
the thday of November, A. d. 1885, for hearing
and decision thereon And it is further ordered
that all persons interested be notified hereof, by
publication ofnotice of said application and order
thereon, three weeks successfully in the Monitor
printed at Barton, before said time ofhearng, that
they may appear at said time and place, and show
cause, if any they may have, why said license
should not be granted
By the Court-Attest
42-44 III. JONES, Register.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09
JESSE ALDEN ESTATE.
CTATEOF VERMONT

y 0rleanfDistrict, ss
In Probate Court, held at Barton Landing in said
District, on the 23d day of October, A. ID. 1885.
Job Guild, Administrator of the estate of Jesse
Alden late of Barton, in said District deceased,
makes application for license to deed the real es-
tate of said deceased, described follows, to wit
The whole of Lot No. ITO, drawn to the original
right of Herman Pangborn, situated in Irasburgh
in said District, containing 10 acres, more or less,
representing that said Jesse Alden in his lifetime
was under contract to convey said real estate to
Loren S. Alden of Irasburgh aforesaid
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 18th day of Nov, A. d. 1885, for hearing
and decision thereon And it is further ordered thai
notice hereof be given to all persons interested by
publication of the same three weeks successfully il
the Orleans County Monitor a newspaper published
Barton, previous to said time appointed for hear
ing that they may appear at said time and place
and show cause. if any they may have, why sait
said license should not be granted.
By the Court-Attest
1916 C. II. JONES, Register.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09

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