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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-08-31

1t is not surprising that the report
ed occupancy of the Caroline islands
by Germany has aroused King Alton
so, even in the midst of the cholera
visitation, to show of resentment by
the resignation Of his colonelcy of
Uhlans. The extent and value of the
territory which Bismarck intends to
annex are not of so much Importance.
All these scattering little islands.
punched together just north of the
equator, aggregate not much more
than two. thirds the area of the state
of Rhode Island. There can be
found nothing worthy to be called a
harbor in the whole lot; and while
one of them is mountainous and re-
ported rich in precious metals, and
some few others are fertile, they are
mostly of corralline origin, fiat and
Improbable. But the intrinsic value
is of little account in comparison with
the historic fact that nearly three and
half centuries ago Spanish navi-
gator discovered them and took pos
session for the crown.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-08-31

where the lessee of restaurant Is found
selling Intoxicating beverages that MS IL
cense be revoked at once.
The fastest time on record by an eX-
cursion train on the Central Vermont
road was made by the excursion train
from White River Junction to Missisquoi
park recently. 1t consisted of eleven
cars, drawn by the engine ~. w. Hobart"
under charge of Engineer sNell' Muzzey.
The distance from Roxbury to Essex juno .
ton, which is fifty-one miles, was made
in one hour and five minutes, or at the
rate of mile in fraction over one min
ute and sixteen and one half seconds.
. The last seven carloads of the James L..
Ridgeley monument for Baltimore, Md,
were recently shipped from the granite
yards of the White Brothers, Barre. For
nearly year this monument has been in
the hands of the workmen, and is the
largest ever shipped from Vermont. The
entire monument is in fourteen sections,
and it's weight is about one hundred forty
tons. Height of statue, twelve feet. The
monument complete stands about forty
one feet high, and when erected will be
one of the most attractive and massive
m OnumentS i'm the country
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-08-31
WASHINGTON LETTER.
scrAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR.

Washington, august 9th.
The week has passed without
event Of political Importance at the
capital. There has been sensational
rumors regarding the health of the
president, butIthese have been quoted
by intelligence, direct from his camp
in the mountains, that he is unusual
ly we'll. He is not expected with
his string of fish until the latter part
of September.
The cabinet is scattered here and
there, Secretary Lamar and Attorney
General Garland being the only ones
who remain permanently in the city.
The various departments of govern
ment are conducted without hitch,
and with very little friction, by the
subordinates trained and skilled by
long experience.
Secretary Bayard has gone to his
country residence in Delaware and
the department of state is in charge
of the assistant secretary ex-Gov.
Porter of Tennessee. Secretary Of
treasury Manning is making short
stay at Watch Hill, Rhode Island,
while assistant secretaries Fairchild
and Coon are experimenting the ma
chinery of the treasury department.
Postmaster General Villas is in the
woods of Lake Superior, and Secre-
tary Of war, Endicott is in the tradi-
tional home of witches, Salem, Mass.
The only two cabinet members who
remain in Washington are those
from the extreme south, Mr.. Lamar.
from Mississippi and Mr.. Garland
from Arkansas who, seasoned by the
sultry heat of the cotton belt, find
no terror in the Summer heat of the
capital.
There wos never a greater scarcity
of senators and members in Wash
ington than at present. Senator and
Mrs. Logan who have spent the
greater part of heated term in the
| city, have gone to the Thousand
Islands where they will remain for
two weeks. They we're quite busy
last week moving into their new
$4,000 home. The fine old house
has been furnished in plain but
comfortable fashion and will be an
addition to the many noted and at
trac;iye homes of the capital.
Mr.. Blaine | learn is living very
quietly at Bar Harhor where only .
| year ago he had the eyes OF the
whole country upon him, and where
he was assailed by such a mob Of
we'll meaning but tiresome intrud
ers that his relatives had to establish
a guard about him. Then he had al
immense amount of political work t.
direct, now he enjoys complete rest
and is scarcely noticed except b,
the tourist who is titled as if by al
apparaition when he sees for the frs
time the original face of thousan,
, portraits and caracatures.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-08-31
the ground unmelted.


1t is estimated that fully $4,000
people have already died of cholera
in Spain. If the disease were to be-
gin to abate to-day, the total num-
Der of victims for the season would
probably exceed hundred thousand.
These figures are awful, especially
as they cannot be looked upon as
exaggerated, but rather as under
statements. There is one comfort,
however, to be extracted from vista
tons of this extreme kind they star
tie the world into improvements.
They also, by reducing population in
overcrowded quarters, make living
easier to the hardy survivors. After
a pestileHce or a war is over, and
calm restored, population increases
and the new population is more usual
ly vigorous than the old. If this
proves true in Spain, and if sanitary
precautions are taught the people by
this year of suffering the hundred
thousand who die cannot be SAID to
perish in vain.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-08-31
. Windsor journal.


Gen. Grants death is the signal
for all sorts of "Lives of Grant to
be put upon the market, and directly
a great army Of agents will be scat
tered abroad, reaching every village,
hamlet and isolated farmhouse with
their opportunities to buy. We have
no wish to dictate what life of Grant
anybody shall buy, but it is timely
act to caution thoughtless and unin-
formed readers against being misled
into buying some book that they do
not want under the representation or
impression that it is Gen. Grants
personal memoirs that they are get
ting. There is only one book of me-
moirs written by the Generals own
hand, and ordinary care and lntelli-
gence will tell all who buy OF refuse
to buy whether this is what is offered
them. - BrdttlebOTo PhOeniT.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-08-31

In IL month or six weeks all the
celebrities will be back in Washington
for, no matter how far they may
wander in the summer, the winter
brings them here again. Here many
of them have palatial homes, and
here all enjoy social opportunities
such as cannot be found elsewhere
on this side of the sea.
Great improvements have been
made during the summer, but they
have been made, here and there, over
an immense area, and are not direct
ly apparent to a casual observer In
drive which / took yesterday
counted over two hundred buildings
in the course of erection or finished
during the season. The improve
ments at the capitol for which nearly
a million of dollars were appropriate
ed last year will add greatly to the
symmetry as we'll as the convenience
of the huge pile. Improvements of
streets and parks are constantly GO
ing on. and if they are continued for
ten years longer the process of the
city will be no less remarkable than
that of the last decade.
The Washington papers are dis
ussing the style of monument to be
erected to the memory of Gen. Grant
in Washington. Prevailing opinion
seems to favor an arch similar to the
Arc de Iriomphe in Paris. One ar
fist, who has an eye to the useful as
we'll as the commemorative in art,
has proposed stupendous stone
bridge with single arch spanning
the Potomac from Observatory Hill
to Arlington the latter place is now
cemetery where thousands of the
soldiers of the late war are buried !;
it was formerly the home of General
Lee. Such a bridge spanning the
Potomac would be in itself profound
ly suggestive, and memorial art
could make it all that could be desir-
ed as a monument to Grant.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-08-31

People who visited the summit of
Mount Washington the 26th inst,
had midwinter scene in August.
Although snow storm in August is
nothing phenomenal here, yet it usu-
ally occurs ON the last days of the
month. The cold wave which orig
mated In the extreme northwest and
crossed the country with remarkable
rapidity reached this place on the
evening of the 25th, causing the tenn
perature to fall from 45 degrees to
26, and remained below freezing the
entire day. Frost began to form on
the evening of the 25th, and by morn
ing frost feathers had formed more
than foot in length, causing the
Aocks and buildings to have the same
appearance as in the winter season.
During the afternoon there was a
light fall of snow and it remained on
the ground unmelted. .iH
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-08-31
SABBATH DISSERTATION.

OF late there has been an attempt
on the part of parties and corpora
tons, who are receiving profit from
entertainments, transportation, etc.,
to over ride the laws of the country
and so break down moral barriers
that Sunday entertainments may be
given. railroads, steamboats, and the
like may transport Sabbath breakers
and the hallowed day be abused by
all manner of dissertations. About
seaport towns the pretence is made
that it is necessary to give poor, tir-
ed people of the cities opportunity
to get away into the cool, pure air
of coast or Island resorts. In the
county, camp-meetings of various
sorts are gotten mp, excursions to
watering places, mountain resorts,
etc., are planned and railroad trains
and boats are run to and fro to car
ry the people.
1t has been well said that 'scorpor-
atoms have no SOULS and it may be
expected that the owners of steam
boats, the managers of railroads,
the proprietors of ticket shows, and
| those who feed the crowds at sum-
mep resorts, and the devil, who is at
the bottom of the whole matter, will
/ favor all things of this kind. 1t is
strange, however, that many men
who permit or plan these things are
in the habit, ordinarily, of working
for the moral good of their towns
and communities. How they can
answer conscience, or make their do
ings consistent, when measured By
the Remember the Sabbath day
is hard to explain. They have
doubtless gone over to Mammon
On this same line is the practice IL
all New England of SO running stool
: trains as to compel the shipper o
stock to get his hogs and his sheer
and his cattle together on Sunday
that they may be shipped on Mon
day. In many sections Sunda,
trains are run on the pretence o
necessity, to provide cars for stock
butter or other commodities. Every
+ body well knows that all this
S unnecessary. 1t is not pleasan
to many who are compelled thus t
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-08-31

has fallen into more discreet hands.
For some years the paper has been
so managed that the conference and
denomination at large have not seen
fit to acknowledge any paternal rela-
tons to it, and it has drifted about as
an orphan, either as an annex to
some local paper or ''patent insid-
en-" without friends enough to make
it financial success. We hope it
will be worthy of the denomination
under the present management.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-08-31

Rev. j. r. Bartlett, who has been
running the Vermont Christian Mes
senger, a paper purporting to be run
in the interests of the Methodist de-
nomination of the state, sells the
concern to G. w. Morse. who will
move. it to Swanton where it will
hereafter be published. Mr.. Bart
lett was quite a strong writer. but
got his head SO turned with par
ty prohibition politics that he made
his paper odious to non partisans and
lost his hold on many of the best
clergymen aud Iaymen in the demon
ination, who were Disguised with the
management. We hope the organ
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-08-31
GRANTS FAREWELL AD-
DRESS.

The farewell address of General
Grant to the army. at the close of
the war, was as follows: Soldiers of
the armies of the United States,-By
your patriotic devotion to your coun-
try in the hour of danger and alarm,
your magnificent fighting, bravery
and endurance, you have maintained
the supremacy of the Union and the
constitution, overthrow all armed
opposition to the enforcement of the
laws and the proclamations forever
abolishing slavery-the cause and
pretext of the rebellion-and opened
the way to the rightful authorities to
restore order and lnaugurate peace
on a permanent and enduring basis
on every foot of American soil.
Your marches, sieges and battles in
distance, duration, resolution and
brilliancy of results, din the lustre of
the worlds past military achieve
ments, and will be the patriots pre-
cedent in the defence of liberty and
right in all time to come. In obedi-
ence to your country's call, you left
your homes and families, and volun-
+ooroI in hor 1ofanoo V;otorx,
has crowned your valor and secured
the purpose of your patriotic hearts !;
and with the gratitude of your coun-
trymen, and the highest honors a
great and free nation can accord, you
will soon be permitted to return to
your homes and families, conscious
of having discharged the. highest
duty of American citizens. To
achieve this glorious triumph and
secure to yourselves, fellow country
men, and posterity, the blessing of
free institutions, tens of thousands
of your gallant comrades have fallen
and sealed the priceless legacy with
their blood. The graves of these, a
grateful nation bedews with tears,
honors their memories, and will cher
ish and support their stricken fam
lilies.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-08-31

work on Sunday, to break the laws of
God and do violence TO the CONSCIENCE
es of friends and neighbors by going
about the country gathering in stock
and keeping communities in an up-
roar in getting ready for an early
Monday train. In Vermont SUNDAY
train running is practiced to consid-
cradle extent. 1t may be matter
of convenience, but rarely of neces-
sity. The st. j. & L. G. r. R.. I'M
der former management, did not
run Sunday trains-honor to the
Fairbankses, but we understand as
soon as the new management got
hold of the road, no regard was paid
to the Sabbath, and men who would
not work on Sunday were discharged.
Some railroad managers are hon
orable men. Some of them. possibly.
religious; but the majority :of them
care nothing for the sin of dishonor-
ing the Sabbath, and very little for
the feelings of religious communities.
The rattle of tram, the shrek of
the whistle is nothing, if business re-
quires the dissertation of the day.
Hence there is no way to deal with
such, except by law. Probably the
protestations of churches and moral
communities would be needed, but
the penalties of law are the surest
remedies for crimes against the
rights of citizens.
Attempts have been made from
time to time to pass stringent Sun
day laws in Vermont against running
railroad trains, but the power of the
corporations has been too firmly felt
to allow the passage of such bills.
But a proper agitation of this subject
by the press, the pulpit, and moral
men will SO make a legislature that
ring elements cannot control it.
We would not, however, assert
that corporations are entirely to-
blame for the matters spoken of the
people have it in their hands to so
frown against, and SO withhold pat
ronage from, railroads, steamboats,,
shows, etc., that it will be unprofit-
able to run trains or shows on the
Sabbath. There is a growing ten
dency, partly begotten by practices
in sections where Sunday is not hon.
ored, to make the Sabbath holiday,
by visiting, riding, boating, fishing,
sporting and the like. The evils re-
sulting from a disregard of any law,
OF the breaking of any commandment
are not measured by the infraction
of that special statute, or the viola
ton of that single "thou shalt not, J"
of God. A contemptuous disregard
for the Sabbath by a citizen very
often leads neighbors and commu-
nifty to dishonor the day, and to
bring disgrace upon the town.
| Experience has shown that Sun
day work is not profitable, and
that community or country
that has no Sabbath is cursed of
God. Were there no divine maledic-
tons against Sabbath breaking,
health, morals, the welfare of chill
dren, the blessings of social purity
demand that the day shall be a day
of rest kept holy. Strange that pa
rents will teach their children to break
the laws of God by example! Bad
enough to 60 down without dragging
posterity with one. Whatever else
may occur New England people can
not afford to lose the influence and
blessings of the Puritan Sabbath,
and it behooves all moral men and
every lover of the present and future
welfare of his community to stand
up for the sanctity of the Sabbath.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-08-31
RINN'S BATTLE MONUMENT.

The structure is to be 800 feet
high. An inclined base will rise
above the ground Is feet, on which
will be set . shaft 23O feet high, ter
minating at it's apex in parabolic
curve 90 feet in height. The base
will be membered with slight projec-
tions to the intersection with the
shaft. and Immediately above the
base on each of three sides will be
two long and narrow piercings, which
will form, together with ornamental
members, a horizontal belt. The
shaft will diminish, or taper, upward
with delicate and almost impercep-
tible yelling Cor entasis,) and at its
junction with the apex a group of
small and narrow openings will be
left on each of the four sides, which,
with the connecting ornamental men,
OOiS, VIII lOliu u oeCOuu uOIlZOutdl
belt. In connection with the monu-
ment there will be a museum build
ing, circular in form, SO feet in di-
ameter, two stories in height, the low
er to be divided into rooms for the
custodian and dressing-rooms, and
the upper floor to be used as a his
torical museum for trophies, relics,
etc. This circular building is to be
separated from the monument by an
arch, which is to be used as a porte
cochere, from which access is to be
had 10 the interior of both the muse
UNI and the monument. The latter
will be supplied with an inside iron
stairway, 240 feet high, from the
top of which the surrounding coun-
try may be viewed. The material to
be used is the dark blue, fine grained
dolomite found near the site. The
stone is to be laid in courses two
feet high, random lengths, with split
rock face. Belts and ornamental
portions are to be cut and rough
hammered. The monument is to be
placed on State Arms hill, an emil
nence rising 200 feet above the level
of the valley. In its general con-
tour it will suggest an obelisk, and
though the notifications from that
form are important it will retain
much of the same majestic simplicity
| of lines.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-08-31
Orators and editors do we'll to pro-

Orators and editors do we'll to pro-
mote the decline of sectional hatreds
and the spread of kindly feelings be-
tween all the citizens of all the states
of this grand federal union. But
when they talk of burying Lee side
by side with Grant, and calling hon
ors easy between the rebel and the
national soldier, it is in order to tell
them that they have badly ''slopped
over - Windsor Journal
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-08-31
j. @. Campbell,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Albany, Vt.

Office Hours, Z 10 9, a. m, and to 9, p. m.
Specially made of treating diseases of the Eye,
Ear and Throat; and also that class of Kidney
trouble occurring often and little recognized,
known to the profession Structure of the Crethra
The symptoms of which frequent and painful
urination, soreness and pain in the region of the
bladder pain in the small of the back and down the
limbs; many of these cases thought to be
Bright's disease. Probably $40 of that long list
of KIDNEY complaints in men that are continually
going from one Doctor to another, from one patent
medicine to another and never cured, are de-
pendent on structures which easily cured when
recognized and properly treated.
Three fourths of all the cases requiring the of
catheter caused by structures so slight in
many cases that they only recognized by the
of which L have full set Examination at Office
free. All inquiries by mail promptly answered.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-08-31
NOTICE.

Any one desiring to purchase farm win do well
call on address the subscriber, as he has some
thirty Farms in his hands which be must sold with
in the next six months.
WI BARRows, Real Estate Agt.
Coventry. VT, Sept. Is. s1tf.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-08-31

Hoods Sarsaparilla is characterized by three Pc
cuarties lst, the combination of remedial agents.
3D. the proportion Sd, the process of securing the
active medicinal qualities. The result is medicine
of unusual strength, effecting cures hitherto
known.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-08-31

under the present management.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-01-01

with q Young man, Already MAR
ried, who Gets $4,000 of Her
Money.
CHICAGO, Dec. 30.-The later Oceans
Tim, Ohio, special says: The details
OF an extraoid binary elopemeut and .
$40. 600 sWlndle nave just been made
public. The parties are rich widow OF
rs and man II 80 Several years ago
Abraham Cromwell died leaving his wife
fortune estimated at 100000, nearly
all Of IL in rich Seneca county farms.
Early last summer an oily, plausibly.
talking man calling himself Buckley,
came to this place and did land 0ftios
business, selling Bohemian oats at e8 q
busnel. By some means he became 40
qusinted with the aged widow and in q
short time he gained her complete conf
denoe, 80 much SO that she entrusted
s10, 900 TO his keeping and Il has effect.
ually disappeared. By some strange
chance, the womsn's friends were not
aware Of the proceedings until her money
was gone, the first intimation OF the real
condition OF affairs being discovered only
| on the announcement Of the marriage oil
the couple, who eloped 10 Monroe, Mich,
| where they were married. They re-
turned to this city where the aged wife
now is, but tie whereabouts of Buckley
are unknown. It 10 learned that the old
lady has made her will leaving the bulk
Of her property to her youthful husband.
The sffAir produces q profound sensa.
tion and threats Of violence TO Buckley
are freely INDUCED in. The womAn'f
friends will at once proceed to recover the
property. Il Is said Buckley has wife
elsewhere who understands the situation
and is partner Of her husband In the
| matter.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-01-01
LABOR AND TRADE.


Nearly all Of the recently looked .out
Philadelphia shoemskers are again A,
work in their old places.
Work will be resumed in the Resdipr
cotton factory Al Reading on Monday
next, with $50 hands, q reduced force
and reduction Of 10 per cent in wages
The FoH Despatch of St. Louis, pub
fishes the result Of VASES Of the man.
ufActurlng portion Of that city with refer.
ence to unemployed labor. II appears
from this that IN the territory canvassed
there are 542 firms or factories. In De-.
oember, 1883, they employed q total Of
30, 500 men, 2 100 women and 2,b13 boys,
a grand total Of S5,2O3 persons. In De.
cembsr OF the present year they are en-.
ploying rs, 1913 men, 1921 women and
1880 boys. This shove q decrease Of
5,l77 men, 669 women and 423 BOYS. or a
total decrease Of 6,l69 persons who
are at present out Of work. In
the last two months OF 1888 from a. 900 To
5000 people were thrown cut OF work In
St. Louis, 1900 being relegated to idle
ness by the closing Of one concern, the
Vulcan Iron Works. The Eoa, Dispatci
estimates thSt "tkking into oonsid ration
this fact and the area Of the oity moi
canvassed, nearly $4,000 persons are out
Of employment, nearly ali Of whom are
skilled persons. The census Of 1880 Of
81. Louis credits 81 Louis with II, 900 day
labOrers, and over half these, il Is said.
are also idle"