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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-04-01
Some Things Indicated.

The Harrison administration is not
very old yet, but few things can be
predicted of it from what has been
already done and attempted.
The first thing that can be said of
it is that Benjamin Harrison is Pres
ident. No member of his cabinet,
to the disappointment of many dem
ocratic journals, is at the head of the
new government.
No faction or element seems to be
recognized. Men are selected from
almost all shades of politics to hold
important positions, and the chief
qualification seems to be intellectual
and business capacity. The except
ion to this rule seems rare. While
honoring friends and sections the
President nevertheless keeps the
standard of qualification high.
Soldier patriots who by long SER
vice, wounds and sacrifices saved the
country when traitors assailed it, are
not to be rewarded by back seats,
while those who were once in rebell-
ion are honOred.
1t is pretty certain that the repub-
lican party is in ascendency. Those
who stand square for the party and
its principles, as shown by its records
in republican states, by the party in
congress and long list of platform
declarations will be used in running
the affairs of government. While
this is true, it seems that the offices
will not be stampeded, and that hon
orable, faithful men will be used
efficiency being the chief end sought.
The President will set the nation
an example of Christian duty in
making the first house of the country
house of prayer. The Sabbath will
be honored and God will be revered.
The millions of this great republic
will honor the man who shall honor
the nation by noble Christian exam
pie.
Places of public trust will not be
bought and sold, and political ring
masters and grog politicians will not
apportion out the offices of a state.
The administration is to be Ameri-
can. Whatever rights belong to us
will be claimed and maintained,
whether they be assailed by the Can
adams, the Germans, the British or
others.
The above, without going into de-
tails, are some of the things that the
few weeks of the new administration
point to as the governing principles
of Harrison's administration. We
look for such a management of the
affairs of government as will satisfy
all true lovers of their country.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-04-01
The Territories.

In filling the territorial offices Pres
ident Harrison has given signal
proof of his disposition and judgment.
without trumpeting his purpose, he
has quietly made the appointments
from the territories themselves. This
policy not only harmonizes with the
national Republican platfrom, but it
seems to have been reached by the
President himself while serving as
Senator and making a special study
of the territorial question, as he did
quietly, to his own advantage and the
advantage of the public, it seems.
Now he has chance to put his knowl-
edge in practice and he does it
promptly and effectively.
"Retrospect will be safer basis of
judgment than promises" said the
President in his inaugural Although
but three weeks in office the President
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-04-01
Rebellion War Record.

| had an experience with some con-
trabands which it may pay to relate
here. Col. Preston called me to his
tent one day and desired that select
twenty men from the command, to
60 on an errand on which my guide
was to be a negro then in camp. [
selected my men and started out
about sundown. / told the negro as
he was leading us on that if did not
find everything as he represented
] would shoot him. He said he was
owned by man living some miles
away and had trouble with his master
and planned his escape. We reached
the home of the negro's family some
time in the night, and learned that
the wife and children were owned by
a man named Morton, while the hus-
band and father was owned by an
other man some miles distant. The
owner of the wife and children re-
monstrated when we made our errand
known, and seemed very 10th to have
them taken away. We conscripted
a yoke of oxen and cart
and packed in the family with a few
articles of furniture. do not know
how many little "niggers there were,
but the hay cart was about full of
them. In the meantime the men had
been looking about for something
with which to replenish their haver-
sacks and to hold in their mouths,
and had struck barrel Of applejack,
some of them getting considerable
mellow.
Mr.. Morton seemed very anxious
that we prolong our stay with him,
but l did not take kindly to the sug-
gestion, and if ever a pair of oxen
made good time in getting out of the
Confederacy, that pair did. We were
none too quick, for Mosby was close
on our heels before we reached camp.
We got our contrabands safely into
camp about sunrise, and | informed
the Col. that / would suffer a court
martial, rather than go out on anoth-
ell negro stealing expedition.
About this time Mosby got a
piece of artillery and was raiding
about that section of the country do
ing some damage and making quite a
noise Col. Preston received orders
| to hunt him, and we made some ex-
peditions after him, but he was like
the flea, when we went where he was
supposed to be, he was not there We
went to Newarket, and when there
Mosby made a slight attack while
we were at dinner but we finished
our coffee, and then made ready for a
fight, when the enemy disappeared.
We were to return through Thor
oughfare Gap, and I was ordered by
Col. Preston to take 80 men and pre-
cede them there, where he said would
find a company of the 9TH Mich. Cav
airy, Capt. Darling in command. AS
some of the regiment had been am
buscaded the in Gap year before
Col. Preston sent us as an advance
guard to clear the way. We were
advancing through the Gap, a lone
narrow defile in the mountains, wher
we were halted by thirty or forty
men, who proposed to dispute title.
to the road. At this time Preston
came up and sharply reproyed Capt
Darling for not driving out any fore,
of the enemy that might be lurkins
in the Gap. We heard some frin,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-04-01
Interpreting the New School Law.

Answering the inquiries from all
parts of the state, Superintendent
Palmer gives the following interpre-
tation to certain provisions of the
new school law:
% Section ninety requires notices
of a school to be posted up
in two of the most public places in
the district. Clearly, unless this Sec
tion is complied with, a schoolmeet-
ing is illegal, and also everything
done in consequence of it-as the hir-
ing 'of teachers, raising of money,
etc.
(2) A school district clerk can not
legally warn meeting, except the
annual meeting, unless it is applied
for in writing by three voters of the
district. (Section eighty-nine.)
(3) The public money can not be
divided until July; for the new law,
sectiont two hundred thlrty-three, ex-
pressly declares that the selectmen
shall divide the school moneys "be-
tween the Sd and 9th days of july"
and chapter thirty-nine (section six
hundred sixty-one) of the revised
laws, by which division could for
merly be made in March, is repealed.
(4) The attendance of this spring
term must be reckoned with the at
tendance of last year in the division
of the public money; because section
two hundred thirty-fve provides that
the money shall be divided Sin pro-
portion to the aggregate attendance
< during the preceding school
year," and section two hundred
eighty-five provides that "the school
year, commencing on April 1, 1888,
''shall be held to continue and ex-
pre- on June 80, 1889.
60 1t is evidently the intent of
the law that each district shall sup
port a school during the coming
spring; for section two hundred
eiehty-six provides that the superin-
te dent of education shall distribute
supplemental registers to record "the
attendance of pupils to the end of
,hs school year," and the registers
na.e been distributed for that pur-
pose.
(6) 1 also think that it is the duty
of school directors it towns that have
abolished the town system to provide
for the schools until July; it is not
plain why they were continued in Of
flee by section two hundred eighty
eight until that date.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-04-01
The New Commissioner {
Pensions.

The Grand Army Boys throughout
the country will be pleased with the
Presidents choice for Commissioner
of Pensions, Jamss Tanner.
James Tanner was born in Scho-
harie, n. Y, in 1914, and when only
seventeen years of age enlisted as a
private in the Eighth New York Vol
unteers. He became a corporal, and
at the second battle of Bull Run re-
ceived wounds from a bursting shell
which necessitated the amputation of
both his legs. Charles A. Dana ap-
pointed Tanner to a clerkshlp in the
war department in 1864. Subse-
quently he stndied law and was ad-
mitted to the Bar in 1869. From
that year until 1877 he was in the
New York Custom House, first as a
clerk and finally as Deputy Collector.
In 1877 he resigned to become Col
lector of Taxes for the city of Brook
lyn, and in that capacity collected
about s6O,OOO,OOO, every cent of
which he accounted for. He held
this office eight years. Corporal
Tanner has twice been Department
Commander of the New York De-
partment of the Grand Army. He
is we'll known as Grand Army or
ator, and has been a member of the
Grand Army Committee on pensions
ever since that company was organ
lied.
When asked what policy he would
pursue in dealing with the affairs OF
the bureau, said: can best answer
that by quoting one of Gen. Harri.
sons remarks made during the last
campaign. He said: 'sGentlemen
it is no time to use the apothecary's
scales when you come to weigh the
services of the men who saved the
nation If / were asked to define my
ideas on this pension question in ;
/ sentence / should unhesitatingly re
ply ga pensions for every surviving
soldier who needs one, and no sold
ier's widow, father or mother shoul'
be in want. am going to take hol'
of this mighty machine, and | am no
fool enough to think | have nothin:
to learn of its workings" Are you il
favor of an increase in the soldier
pensions p Il tell you frankly [ al
opposed to these 81, 50 and s3
month pensions. If you are going t
give man anything give him enoug
that he may realize that he is gettin
something. If there is an old soldie
who has got claim that you are sat
isied is a good one and he has nc
quite proved it, my policy is to assis
him to secure that proof. You ma
say that | am opposed to knockin
out soldiers claims because of tecl
nical shortcoming."
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-04-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Kdshinat0n. Nnr. 25th.

Washington. Mar. 25tb.
Hope, which is said to be the most
persistent thing in politics, again
springs in the breast of the patient
and lowly office seeker, and at night
when he sits by his virtuous couch
and counts the money in his inside
pocket, he begins to feel mildly en-
couraged. He is not, of course elat-
ed or hilarious, but he is nearly as
happy as he ever expects to be in
this cruel civil service world. He of
the rank and file of office seekers has
already discovered that he would be
satisfied with a smaller section of the
earth than he first requested, and has
changed his application to a lesser
position.
The present crowd of office seekers
is not, however, as easily satisfied
as were the place hunters who came
here when Mr.. Cleveland was elect
ed. Many of the latter throng were
willing to accept anything at all,
from secretary of department to the
laborer who pushes out its dirt. They
were essentially homeopathic in their
school, believing that a very little Of
fee was good thing and practically
as efficacious as great deal of posi-
ton. In this they exhibited more
courage than sense, as many after
wards discovered to their eternal sor-
row, as is shown by the really re-
markable list of designations of dem
Gratis during the Cleveland admnistra-
ton. The present crowd knows full
we'll that an $500 position in Wash
ington is not worth the taking, espec-
tally as full settlement for political
obligation, and they will not seek
them, unless coupled with substan-
tial promise of early promotion. They
have been there before.
A few discharges have already been
made in the clerkships, ,and more may
be expected. The hungry ones claim
to have had last week the presidents
promise to make a clean sweep in so
far as possible, and to begin by re-
instating all members of the repub-
lican party now in good standing who
were turned out by the democrats.
To do this it will be necessary to re-
move ONCE and for all President
Cleveland's decision that no person
shall be eligible to reinstatement over
two years after resigning or one year
after discharge, unless the civil SER
vice examination be passed. That
this rule will be revoked there is now
hardly any doubt. fit is retired, the
ak will be kept pretty busy.
Already the small fry in the Gov
ernment departments are determining
precisely who is to be killed. Clerks
who were appointed so many years
ago that they have quite forgotten
their native place, save for occasion
al letters from their nephews who still
live, very old and feeble, back oD the
homestead, suddenly awake to the
realization that they have been per-
secuted for politics sake, and they
proceed to cry aloud and exhibit their
sores in the market places. In most
of these cases the complainer is re-
ceiving to-day as much salary or
more than he received in the repub-
lican rule, and he took not enough in
terest in the last campaign to go home
J to vote or to contribute one dollar to
/ the funds. These be the political
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-04-01

has settled one question and settled
it right. The settlement stands in
gratifying contrast to the course
pursued by Mr.. Cleveland, who
promised to give the territorial offices
to residents, but who began, contin-
ued and ended with giving them to
politicians residing outside the terri
tories. "Retrospect" is indeed
better than promises.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-04-01

1t is a question of some interest
to know why some of the money of
the good people of Vermont can not
be used in developing our own re-
sources. We have quarries of slate,
marble, granite and limestone un-
touched, and it may be mines of iron
and other minerals, that seemingly
would pay q fair working profit, with
the same amount of enterprise that is
shown in other directions, while thous-
ands of dollars are sent to Fort Payne
or to the over-mortgaged west for in
vestment. Distance seems to lend
enchantment, but the enchantment
fades out under the influence of di-
minishing dividends. = Northtield
NelCS.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-04-01

Farmers who desire to emigrate
may find something in the way of an
inducement in the offer of the Nicar-
aguan government to import 100 fam
lilies of agriculturists per year. Each
family is offered from 20 to 100 acres
of land, 500 in cash and fifty dol
lars worth of farming implements.
One inducement is freedom from the
burdens of general and local taxation.
There is said to be something in the
Nicaraguan climate that is very con-
ducive to laziness, but a knowledge
of this fact may not act as q deterrent
with some people,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-04-01
)RLBANS COUNTY MONITOR
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
GEO. II. BLAK G,
RTON VT.

Il TERMS. WHEN PAID STRICTLY IN ADVANCE
l.50 YEAR. If not paid in advance $500 year
subscribers living outside of Orleans Caledonia
|punties, sl.75 per year.
Keep subscription in Advance. Remit by Post
ofice Order, Registered Letter, or Draft.
Watch the label on your paper, and see that your
credIt is right. If not correct send the money to
bake it so, or notify of error by postal card.
Rates Of Advertising made known on applica-
on. All cuts must have metal body.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-04-01

American fishermen will rejoice
when they learn that the Dominion
government has decided to renew the
issue of fishery licenses to them under
the modus vivendi in connection with
the fishery treaty negotiated at Wash
ington last year. This conclusion
was reached at a meeting of the cab
met council held Saturday afternoon.
1t creates the utmost surprise thro'
out the Dominion, as the speech from
the throne, read by the governor
general at the opening of the session,
intimated that Canada, owing to the
unsatisfactory termination of the ne
gotiations, would not issue further IL
censes, but would revert to the treaty
of 1918. The change in the govern
ment's policy is very sudden, but it
will be indorsed by candidates short
ly. The Newfoundland government
has agreed to cooperate with Canada
in the issue of licenses, which will be
equally good in all British North
American waters. The Canadians
seem to understand that there is a
new administration in the United
States.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-04-01
Postmaster General Wa

Postmaster General Wanamaker
will require better days work of the
clerks in his department than they
have given hitherto. Under his new
rule, clerks will go on duty at 8 80
instead of a. M, and remain at
their desks till 6 instead of 4 o'clock.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-04-01

Send word to Benjamin at once.
rhe Newport Express is dissatisfied
with the appointment of Fred Grant
rs Minister to Austria.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-04-01

AJiiour from g, o.. m., tu ll, m. fruH en- a. Fl.
m, AnonN bAyiaoH, lrgt'b %. Is. ntHIHI
Cashier, IU.H
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-04-01
Gov. Dillingham; Fast Day Procla-
nation.

In accordance with the long estab-
lished custom and in recognition of
the fact that states, as we'll as indi-
viduals, are dependent upon the Su-
preme Being for guidance and pro-
lection, do hereby appoint Friday,
the 9Th day of April next, to be OBJ
served as day of fasting and pray
er.
On that day recommend that all
business be suspended and that in
our homes and in all places of public
worship prayer be offered to AL
mighty God for the bestowment of
those blessings that will best advance
the virtue and intelligence of the
people, and for a continuance of
peace and prosperity within our bor-
darG
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a., Fs pENDlNhL.
nEALER ~ FURNITURE, rOIIIh# hEH
AJNuskCfat Barton w. IN.I
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JOSIAH A. PEARSON.
nENTisE BARTON, VT UIflE H
AJOwcn's lIock. IHH
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-04-01
rheumatism,

DEING due to the presence OF uric
- acid in the blood, is most effectually
cured by the use of Ayers Sarsapa-
rilla. BE sure you get Ayers and no
other, and take it till the poisonous
acid is thoroughly expelled from the
system. We challenge attention to this
testimony -
About two years ago, after suffering
for nearly two years from rheumatic
gout, being able to walk only with great
discomfort, and having tried various
remedies, including mineral waters,
without relief, | saw by an advertise
ment in a Chicago paper that man had
been relieved of this distressing COM
plant. after long suffering, by taking
Ayers Sarsaparilla. / then decided TO
make trial of this medicine, and took
il regularly for eight months, and am
pleased to state that it has effected
complete cure. have since had no re-
turn of the disease. Mrs. II. Irving
Dodge, 1l0 West 125th ST., New York.
cone wear ago I was taken III with
inhammatory rheumatism, being con-
fined to my house six months, came
ont of the sickness very much deblli-
tated. with no appetite, and my system
disordered in every wav. ! commenced
using Ayers Sarsaparilla and began 10
improve at once, gaining in strength
and soon recovering my usual Lsalth.
I cannot say too much in praise Of this
well-known medicine > - Mrs l., A.
Stark, Nashua, n. III
Ayers SarsapariIIa,
PREPARED By
Dr. ]. c. Aver & Co, Lowell, Mass.
Price 81; six bottles, s5. Worth s5 bottle.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-04-01

DIR. q. A, nTMIr.
HOMHOpATiusr CNArrnUUHNtN tNI uI
j II hcc hours 80 tO q H. fu.. HuI e. fU 90 I.. Ir.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-04-01

Deafness can't be cured by local application,
they can not reach the diseased portion of the
There is only way to cure Deafness and that is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by
an iuflamed condition of the mucus lining of the
eustachian e. When this tube gets infamed you
have rumbling sound or imperfect hearing. and
when it entirely closed deafness is the result and
unless the inflammation be taken out and this
tube restored TO its normal condition, hearing will
be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are
caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an infamed
condition of the mucus surfaces.
We will give one hundred dollars for any case of
deafness (caused by catarrh) that we cannot cure
by taking Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for ci. cnlars,
free. F. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, o.
RgSold by druggists, 75c.
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W. e. HANsCoM

A. a.. pAKkTU5
A TpOsT OFFICE, BARTON IANnIhUl NI
"A Fire and Accident Insurance Agent
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J. h. MIUSIIll
INlRE, LIFE, Ahu ACCIDENT fhnIItAHiI
- gent Aaup hut s0uudi IfIiIHIr U.HIHUIH.
eprcsentld Correspondence l' mHI promptly H
sTercd barton, Nt IH.l
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MANUFACTURE AND pEAtEUINII
VI nture, collins, caskttH, gaUgu, fuHm U.H..
stc,t Glover, W. f6I
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE alleged uprising of Flathead In
dians near Demersville, Dak.,- was un-
founded. The trouble was caused by
whisky and the whites were in no danger.
Late reports stated that every thing was
quiet
Hon. LYMAN F. WIsNER, the wealthiest
and most prominent citizen of Hardin
County, Iowa, was accidentally shot and
instantly killed by his only son the other
day while they were out hunting to-
gether
YANKroN COUNTY (Dak.) stock raisers
are excited over the outbreak of con
tagion among their herds. Over 800 head
of cattle have died within two days as
have $50 hogs that have fed on the carcas-
ses of the cattle.
Two arrests have been made at Berne,
Switzerland, in connection with the re-
cent Anarchist circular attacking the
Bundesrath.
IT is thought the leather firm of W. F.
Johnson & Co., of Boston, which failed
recently, will be able to pay 30 cents on
the dollar.
THE cotton raisers of Florida have
started the project of selling their cotton
at Jacksonville instead of sending it to
other places.
UNITED STATES DEPUTY MARSHAL SAM
URL HUGHES, of South Pittsburgh. Tenn,
was shot by an outlaw liquor seller re-
Gently, but a day book in his pocket saved
his life.
AT the annual meeting of the Calumet
g. Hecla Mining Company in Boston, all
the old directors were reelected, and
President Agassiz presented plan for
unneliug to Lake Superior for water.
The wives of the striking miners of
Spring Valley, ILL.,, have appeared in ad-
Joining towns begging for bread for their
families.
THE Wauregan cotton mills, of Rhode
Island, have suspended. The mills were
capitalized at $500, 900. The liabilities were
s, ZOO, 900, with assets, according to the
company, of S2, 900, OO0
The Keystone Furnace Company, OF
Reading, Pa, has assigned. Assets, 500, :
| 600
A TERRIBLE wreck, occurred on the
Knoxville, Cumberland Gap & Louisville
at Flat Gap creek, near Knoxville, Tenn.
Judge George Andrews 8. I. Powers and
Alexander Reeder. three prominent citi-
zens of Tenne ssee, were killed and many
other we'll known people were injured.
j. VANDERBoscH's pretzel factory on
Larrabee street, Chicago. burned the
other morning. Loss, $4,000. A stable
| adjoining also burned and five horses and
a cow were burned to death.
THE yacht Celt sunk in Lake Huron a
| few DAYS ago Those on board escaped in
the yawl, and after being adrift on the
lake for two days were picked up by
] passing steamer. -