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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-07-23

OF rape at Wadena, and asking assistance
| to secure him n new trial. The circular is
| also signed by members of the investigating
| committee.
The Moorhead grand Jury has found In
| dictments against GGarse StanbrO, bur-
| glary; s, Mccoy and Lynni larceny; John
Uurfmany, larceny; j. ii. c. johnson, en-
bezzlement seven indictments; Charles ID
Fox, embezzlcment; L. A. Elder, embezzle-
ment. Fox was the deputy for Clerk 81
Court Hendricks, and on being srfaigned
pleaded guilty.
Ole Benson al kasson, Dodge county
was arrested charged with an attempt to
rape Carrie Larson. He was held in $500
for trial at the next term of court.
The census shows the population OF Lac
qui Parle county to be 800, an increase o.
2,99S in five years.
The Dodge county census shows pop
ulation of 10 ,4S9, Il decrease Of 600 in the
past five years. -
The ca tastrophe of Sunday has cast q
predicted will have a serious effect upon the
business, small as it is. Among hoatmer
it is believed that it will detract largely
from the business Of the small steamboats,
| which have, during the past two or thret
seasons, been much in favor.
The census Of Winona county, just com
pleted, shows population Of 1897.
Chippewa county has population Of g.
SCI, gain OF 1, L % in five years.
William Bowen was killed by lightning al
| Westport.
At Austin, work has been commenced OF
| the new passenger depot OF the Minnesota
& Northwestern railroad. 1t will be the
finest on the line, 22X6O feet, and exclusive
" for passengers, Work has also begun OF
the new freight depot, 4Ox90feet, truss roof
Thompson OF Cleveland and Hadley o
St. Paul are to pound each other with hard
gloves,
DIR, G. e. Bolander, resident OF Red Wins
since the fifties, was found dead in his Office
recently. He had been missed all the after
noon by his family. 1t is understood that
on returning home in order to quiet himself
| he had taken an overdose OF opium.
Commodore Kittson's FLY, Refrain, wor
the stakes at Monmouth Park, N. j. Thu
F, race was for two-year-olds at $50 each
and 81 800 added, $500 to second.
It is said that John G. Oldberg Of Mime
sofa, formerly a draughtsman OF the SUI
pervising architects office Is to be appoint
| ed q special agent OF the treasury at pei
diem Of 81 and expenses,
A horse pitchfork, in the barn on Ton
Moonan's farm just north of GAINESVILLE
fell, striking Mr.. Shaver's ten year-old son
| injuring him severely.
Rev, George Ainslie, for twenty-five years
| q resident al Rochester. Olmsted county
and actively engaged in the pastoral worl
at various points throughout the county
has been for some months in failing health
from a malady that has been diagnosed a!
internal cancerous growth. He Is at pres
emit very feeble and confined to his bed, will
no hopes Of recovery.
Peter Sherman OF Red Wing picked S2i
| quarts OF strawberries from twenty rod
| al ground this season. Mr., Crandall o
Burnside picked over nine hundred quart,
on three. quarters Of an acre. Mr. Sher
mans yield would average 300 bushels t.
the acre
The president appointed Thomas Hal
westminster ut Preston, vice b, s. Loomis
commission expired,
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-07-23

| A severe rain and hail storm visited Meek
er county recently. In Harvey town, Il
few miles north of Litchfeld, much damage
was done. Hailstones are reported to have
fallen two inches in diameter. A number
! OF farmers have sustained losses varying
| from a few bushels to their entire crop.
The destructivepart OF the storm was about
| a hundred rods wide
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-06-01
THE RESULT OF THE PAGE
TRIAL.

The verdict of the jury in the trial
which has been in progress in Rut-
land for two months past, ought, and
doubtless will, give cordial satisfac-
ton among unprecedented people
throughout the state. The case has
aroused wide interest in our Com
monwealth, and throug bout New Eng
land. While it was in form a suit
brought by the Rutland Railroad COM
pany to recover moneys alleged to
have been Incorporated by Gov.
Page, it has been pretty generally
understood that it was in reality the
outcome of a private controversy !;
that it never would have been
brought, except for the fact that Bit
ter personal enemies of Gov. Page
had acquired controlling interest in
the railroad corporation and that its
object was to break down Gov. Page
rather than help the railroad compa-
ny. This evidently is the view taken
of the case by a jury, allowed by both
sides at the start to be fair and hon.
est one; after an exhaustive presen-
tatlon of evidence, and after charge
of admitted fairness to both sides,
from the presiding judge.
Governor Pages reputation, in
this matter, was in a sense the prop
erty of the state. He had been its
treasurer for many years, twice its
governor, repeatedlya member of its
legislature, long at the head of one Of
the great railroad companies of The
state; connected intimately will
banking and business interests o.
great magnitude leading membe
of a leading religious denomination
widely connected by ties of friend
ship and business and kindred; pos
sessing the confidence and respect o
thousands of our best citizens. TIL
fall of such man would have beer
humiliation and misfortune for tn
state; and we congratulate not hir
and his personal friends alone on hi
acquittal, but the community at large
Surely none but his personal enemie
could rejoice in any different issue o
the trial. We trust that the result c
this betokens like result in the cas-
es yet to be tried, in which he Is th
resnOndent.-R mrLin0tOn Free Pres.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-06-01
SOUTHERN IMMIGRATION.

An earnest Mississippi friend of
Southern immigration points out in a
New Orleans journal some of the diff
ficulties in inducing white families to
move South. He says: First, they
do not wish to come to a country so
thickly peopled with the negro race !;
they are not accustomed to that class
of labor and do not understand it.
Second, small landholders in the
South are not given suitable social
recognition by the present inhabitants
and strangers coming here soon be-
come dissatisfied and discourage 9TH
ers from coming. Third, the owners
of large tracts of land in the most ia
vorable regions will not part with
their lands in small tracts, and few
immigrants are able to buy these
plantations as a whole. These opin-
ions having been derived by extern
sive correspondence and experience
have led the writer to declare frankly
that the South will not for many gen.
erations become attractive to immi-
grants. After the many generations
have outlived the memory of seces-
sion, the spirit of the "new South
will bring about naturally more favor
able conditions for Southern immi-
grafton. Mr.. Cable has shown that
respect for labor is needed, and when
this has grown ''social recognition
will not be wanting the laborer. An
educated class of labor is easily un-
derstood, and when colored labor be-
comes educated, white labor will not
be kept away because it is "unacus.
| toned to that class" The conditions
in the South to-day are for many rea
sons "unaccustomed" to the people
of the North, and it is significant
that even a Southern writer says tt
the immigrants who are wondering
whether they shall come South
| GIDon't p
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-06-01

into the wagon and taken home with one
bone of his fractured leg protruding The
limb was broken in three places, but it is
hoped it may be saved.
The state library committee met at
Montpelier Tuesday and remained in ses-
sion until two o'clock the next morning.
A decision was reached, however, and
the library will haye wing added to the
west part of the capitol on the back side.
This is according to the plan prepared by
Mr.. Richards of Boston, which was ia
vored by Gov. Pingree, Lieut.. Gov. Orms-
bee and ex-Gov. Proctor, while the rest
of the committee wanted separate build
ing put up down toward the street. The
discussion, besides being long, was quite
earnest, as each side was fixed in its
opinion.
political episode occurred at Ludlow
over the election Of General Logan. r.
A. Hathorn raised large Hubbard squash
last season, with the name of John A. Lo-
gan on it so large that it could be seen
across the street. He has kept it in his
store all winter and many have asked for
seeds from it to plant this season, but Mr..
Hathorn refused to cut it till Logan was
elected, and accordingly, when the news
of his election arrived, amid cheers and
the raising of the flag, the seeds were
called for and went like wild-fire, the
squash on being cut proving as sound as
a nut, like General Logan himself! Here's
to the live republicans Of Ludlow, and
thanks for our share of the seeds Bel
lOacs Falls Times.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-06-01

Nearly half of the wage-earners of
this country are, it is estimated, en-
ployed directly or indirectly in agri-
culture, and the question of the price
of labor on the farm has therefore a
wider interest than in any other in
dustry. The latest report of Mr..
Dodge, Statistician of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, contains COM
prehensive statement of the wages
paid to farm laborers in all parts of
the country, based upon what is be-
lieved to be entirely trustworthy data.
According to this, the average month
ly wages are, in the Eastern States,
$50. 80; in the Middle States, $23. 10 !;
in the Southern States, S14.27; in
the Western States, $22.26 and in
California, $3.50. The great num-
Der of persons thrown out of employ
ment in other pursuits, and who have
sought a livelihood from farm labor,
has depressed the wages of farm
hands to some extent in the Eastern,
Southern and Western States; but in
the Middle States and California an
advance has been made, even since
1882, and the current wages are the
highest ever known reckoned in gold
yalt1ac
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-06-01

The latest reports. from Europe re-
speeting the prospect of the grain
crops are not so favorable as they
we're earlier in the season. In Eng
iaa1 the weather the first two weeks
of May WAS SO unfavorable as to
change the outlook which the favora-
BILE weather in April afforded. Cold
weather is reported to have done
much harm to the crops in France
and Germany, while the drouth in
Southern Russia has placed the win
ter wheat crop in poor condition. The
reports from the south of Spain and
from Austria-Hungary are far from.
Aattering. The crops in India and
Australia have been harvested and
the yields in both countries is salts
factory. Is is too soon to determine
accurately the extent of the injury in
Europe, but the present prospects
point TO light crop where an unpsp-
ally abundant one was promised ear
ly in the season and was harvested
last year.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-06-01
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Charles B. Greene has been appointed
mail agent between St. Adams and Rich
ford, vice Brownell, removed.
One thousand cords of wood belonging
to the Vermont division Of the Boston &
Lowell road were recently burned at North
Concord. Loss, 81 900.
Mrs. M. J. Martin, postmistress at
Burlington, for the past sixteen years, is
credited with sending the second best
reports, in point of penmanship and ac-
curacy, of any received by the depart
ment at Washington.
C. A. Sage, who for two years past has
been secretary of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association in st. Johnsbury, leaves
soon for New York City, to enter the Bow
cry branch of the New York Young Mems
Christian Association.
D. L. Morgan, department inspector, is
just completing his examination of the va
rious posts of the Vermont Grand Army
of the Republic. There are eighty-six
posts in the state, with total member
ship of about thirty-five hundred.
Addison county court will begin Tues
| day, June I'd, and Judge Veazy will pre-
| side. Assistant Judge E. A. Doud is sick
| at his home in New Haven, and is not ex-
pected to live. There were only eight
cases set for the jury, and some of these
| have fallen through.
The next regular reunion of the Sth reg
| iment, VT Volunteers, will be held at
| Montpelier, on Thursday, June Is, 1885,
| afternoon and evening. This meeting is
| called at this time to make arrangements
for the Excursion to Shenandoah Valley,
also to organize Rife Team which shall
accompany the excursion, and compete
for the prizes, as per notice sent you.
Senator Edmunds has been suddenly
and Unexpectedly summoned to England
to testify as an expert on some points Of
American law, in a case pending before
the British house of lords. He has &C
cordingly made correspondingly sudder
change in his plans for the summer anG
expects to sail for England at once. Mrs
Edmunds and Miss Mary Edmunds will
accompany him.
The Vermont General conference O
Congregational churches meets at Below.
Falls June Oil. A meeting of unusua
interest is expected. Prof. c. E. Putne1
Of st. Johnsbury academy will read al
essay on The Training of Young Convert
, for Efficiency in the Christian Life, an,
, there will be discussion ON The Appli
cation of Christian Principles to Bushes
Life. The ladies will hold meeting il
behalf of missions, as usual.
The ten year old son of Leslie Brow
e of Vergennes attempted to catch a rid
on blackboard wagon recently, when hi
, foot caught in one of the wheels and hi
leg was twisted entirely around the axle
tree. His cutlery caused the horse T.
spring forward, and his body was carrie
] around the aXletree and thrown nearly i
G front of the wheel. The boy was assiste
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-06-01

"Thief" isn't pretty sounding
word, but it is the right name for a
man who takes newspaper and re-
fuses to pay for it. A New York
paper has begun suit against several
delinquent subscribers under the Uni
ted States postal laws, which say
''The taking of newspaper and re-
fusal to pay for the same renders q
person liable to criminal prosecution
as thief, and the person guilty of
the same can be punished as if he
had stolen goods to the amount of
subscription"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-06-01

The receipts of the best days of the
New Orleans Exposition will not, it
is said, compare with the worst of the
Centennial. The receipts of the
greatest day of the Centennial were
$113,673, while the best day of the
New Orleans enterprise has brought
only 81 ,O00,-hardly more than half
the average daily receipts at the Phil
adelphia Centennial.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-06-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
,rEo1A1,oaassrosDExc, MONITOR.
Washington, Mag 10Th.

Washington, May 10Th.
The managers of Mount Vernon
have been in annual session during
the week at the home of the Father
of his Country. This corporation is
known as the board of regents of the
Mount Vernon association, and it is
composed of ladies only. They have
succeeded in making Mount Vernon
a vePitable Mecca to which pilgrimage
is yearly increasing, and they have
given the tomb Of Washington a ma
tional interest. The estate has an
endowment fund of 100000 raised
by contributors in various states
through The solicitations of patriotic
women. This is invested in United
States bonds. During the year the
steamer which goes down the Poto,
mac daily from Washington tc
Mount Vernon and returns, has car
ried $4,000 passengers. The round
trip fee is one dollar per capita, and
the receipts are turned over to the
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-06-01

The value OF the utmost honesty in
State finances has been we'll illustrat-
ed during the past week by the low
rate of interest at which Connecticut
has been able to place loan of ST.
740, 900, due in 1910, and made for
refunding purposes. The entire
amount was taken by two New York
banking houses ut 100.876, and at
three per cent interest. In other
words, three per cent bonds issued
by an American State of undoubted
honesty, are worth to bankers frac-
ton over par. The ultimate holder
of the investment will therefore real
ize somewhat less than three per cent
per annum; but his investment will
be absolutely safe. This is the low
est rate of interest ever yet given fol-
the bonds o. any American State
and the refunding of the debt secur.
ed by it relieves the people of Con
necticut of $50, 900 a year in the bur.
then of interest.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-06-01

The New York legislature ended
its special session last Friday by
passing a census bill substantially
like the one which Gov. Hill vetoed
and then adjourning. The governor
is thus given the rather hard alterna-
tive of surrendering to the Legislature
by signing the bill, OF of Withholding
his signature and letting the state go
without the census which the constI-
tuition requires to be taken once in
five years. This census is to furnish
the basis for the apportionment of
members of the legislature. If none
is taken the republicans will retain
their present large representation.
Contrary to general expectation Gov.
Hill vetoed the bill on Wednesday.
His action is likely to hurt him with
his party because had he signed the
bill the democrats would have gained
two senators and four or five assem-
blymen in the legislature.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-06-01

General Logan's reelection as
United States senator is made cause
ofgreatrejoicing throughout the coun-
try, which indicates the popularity of
the general and that the republican
party is in fighting trim. The gener-
al received over 500 congratulatory
kilograms from all parts of the coun.
try within twenty-four hours after
his election. The most significant
action, however, was taken by the
legislature of Pennsylvania on Friday
when resolution was adopted, ten
dering congratulations to Senator
Logan on his reelection to the Uni
ted States senate, and authorizing
the speaker to transmit copy of the
resolutions to Gen. Logan as express
sive of the sentiments of the people
of Pennsylvania. The resolutions
was passed by a viva voce vote amid
loud applause on the republican side.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-06-01

Senator Edmunds has been unex-
pectedly summoned to England to
testify on some points of American
law, in case pending before the
British House of Lords. He expects
to sail for England next Saturday.
Mrs. Edmunds and his daughter
Miss Mary Edmunds will accompany
him; and after performing the spec
ial duty which calls him. the senator
and family will make a tour of Eng
land, returning home in August.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-06-01

Victor Hugo bequeathed $4,000
to the poor. He left a request that
his body should be conveyed to the
grave in "pauper hearse," without
any religious rites. In the document
conta lining this request Hugo affirms
his belief in God. A fund for a ma
tional monument to the dead poet has
already been opened in France.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-06-01

There has been no particular
change in the condition of General
Grant during the past week. His
throat pains him but little, and he
has been able to ride and walk out
nearly every day. His book is prac-
tically completed, and he is now en-
gagged in the final revision before
sending it to the publishers.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-06-01
HE TOLD TIE TRUTH.

was troubled with Liver Complaint for years, and
suffered terribly. Lake the druggist advised me to
take Sulphur Bitters. took three bottles and now
am well mani. Fenner, Waterbury, Conn.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1885-09-10
Murder and Lynchinu.

CHATTANOOGA, TENN, September g.
Pope Mitchell, an ex-policeman, and now
streetcar driver, was murdered on his car
TINS afternoon by Chas. Williams, a mu-
latto, who fired four shots at him, hitting
him each time, and killing him instantly
After a long chase Williams was captured
and taken to the jail, large crowd follow
ing him with loud threats of hanging.
There are very strong probabilities that
Williams will be elynched before morning, as
an immense crowd now surrounds the jail.
They are in earnest, and serious trouble is
apt to result before morning. Three
companies of militia, the Chattanooga
Cadets, Chicamauga Cadets and Chatta-
nooga Light Infantry, are on guard duty
at the jail, and as they are armed with
reech-loaders the chances for bloodshed
in case of an assault on the jail are very
good. At midnight the situation Is very
grave one, and possibly the Knoxville hor-
ror will be repeated, or innocent blood flow.
Later-The mob broke open the Jail doors,
and are at work on the cell door of the
murderer. The militia, failing to get
orders from the Governor, have been with
drawn, and in all probability Williams viii
be lynched in less than an hour.
SEPTEMBER I, 12:15 A. M.-The mob finally
broke open the door of No. ID, took the
guilty wretch to heupper floor and hanged
him In the hall. Then the crowd, satisfied
with its bloody work, dispersed. The
negro was hung to rafter in the jail in a
most methodical and systematic manner.
He was taken from his cell and carried up
stairs, when his hands and his feet were se-
curely tied. A heavy rock was tied to his
feet, the lynchers lifted him upand dropped
him, and he strangled to death in three
minutes. An hour before he shot Mitchell
Williams had been elected from the car
for entering it, while drunk, in a boisterous
manner, smoking in the presence of ladies,
and when asked for his fare refused to pay
il. He followed the car, and while it was
waiting on a switch shot the driver. At
midnight there was fusilade at the jail,
and it is reported that white man and
negro were shot, but no particulars can be
obtained. <.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1885-09-10
THE COMMONWEALTH.
LouI.,IlIe Lear Tobacco Market.

Burley tobaccos have had a fair general
demand, but there has been no especial ur-
gency, and in certain grades, common lugs,
good lugs and common leaf, prices are
about DC lower, while other grades are
steady. The demand for low grade export
Burleys has been fair. Good and fine leaf
Is without quotable variations. Crop ad-
vices from many counties have been unsat-
isfactory. In addition to the now chronic
complaints from the Burley districts east of
Louisville, there have been more unfavor-
able reports from Brecknridge, Daviess,
Union and Mclean, from portions OF the
Heart County section, and from the Clarks-
vile district The tobacco section OF Ten
nessee is also suffering from drouth. A
seasonable September would go a great
way toward redeeming the crop, but at
present its condition presents marked ir-
regularities, and moderate yield is ndi-
Gated. Weiquote 1884 tobaccos as fol-
lows for full-weight packages: