Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-01-07

the room to suffocation. And then
they go home perfectly happy, with
ruined dresses.
, The certificates from the third and
fourth districts of West Virginia and
the third district of Tennessee are
not yet in, and there is no prospect
of full returns under ten days. The
latest advices from Tennessee are to
the effect that General Taylor will
give the certificate in the Chattanoo-
ga district to the republicans. The
democrats claim one West Virginia
congressman. In the event of such a
showing the republican majority in
the next House will be four, leaving
out the Chattanooga district,i in which
case the certificate, the democrats
state, appears to be informal.
The tremendous struggle for office
has reached the masses. Not only
are republican congressman over
whelmed with applications, but even
the mail of local claim attorneys is
loaded with inquiries and requests
for advice as to applications. One
man wants to know how to get post
leadership; another wants a star
route mail contract, and thousands
want to be postmasters. Many rural
preachers are anxious to be in the
diplomatic service, probably from a
vague idea that there is relationship
between the minister diplomatic and
the minister clerical. A New York
man writes to know if he can get the
post-office in his place before the
middle of next April. But the most
sublime confidence is exhibited by an
Indiana man. 'sDo you think it will
be safe,' he writes, ''for me to move
to Washington before March 4, and
be certain of a place by April 1st?"
There are innumerable applications
for departmental 'sBlue Books, from
which the applicants desire to select
their berths.
The republican senators from the
West appear to be little disappoint-
ed with their party's tariff bill. The
bill was hastily prepared as a cam
paign measure, and such senators as
| Mr.. Manderson do not hesitate to
say that the eastern capitalists OBJ
tanned undue influence as to certain
articles. Senator Stanford objects
to the sugar clause as injuring the
sugar culture in California. Alto
gether, it is quite probable that the
bill will undergo many material
changes before it suits all the repub-
lican senators.
The expense of the Inauguration
ball. together with the alleged evil
effects of dancing, has aroused the
ire of some local clergymen as well as
those of the West. They seem to re-
gard the ball as q sort of official, ma
tional endorsement of the powers of
evil, sort of carnival of sin. 1t may
not be understood by these good peo-
pie that the ball is entirely private
affair toward which the government
pays not one dollar. The people who
''pav the fiddler, therefore, have
only personal and private RESPONSE
bility, and General Harrison cannot
be held as responsible.
A great many stories are told
about Secretary Whitney that serve
to leave a pleasant impression of the
man. During the last campaign he
was waited upon late in October by
hungry assessment committee with a
doleful story of the impossibility of |
getting the employees of the navy de-
partment to give any more money.
The secretary has already given, it is
rumored, over $4,000. "Well,"
he said impatiently, 81 can't choke
it out of them. How much did you
expect to get?" They told him that
$4,000 more had been hoped for. He
turned to his check book, and made
out his check for tbs amount, cheer
fully asking the committee to give
the navy department a breathing
spell, and let the clerks get enough
together to pay their board.
Among the curious patents issued
recently is one to Gillette, the actor
author, for the stage effect represent
lug the clatter of horses feet, which
has been so much used in recent
plays. The issuance of this patent
establishes the right to patent any
stage trick, even if it is as simple as
producing thunder. In other words,
no man can steal another mans thun-
der with impunity.
England opens the year with the
unique experience of sending one
member of Parliament to jail for
what is practically political offence,
and indicting another for conspiracy.
There is no other country in Christen-
dom where duly elected members of
the National Legislature are prosecut-
ed and imprisoned Systematically for
the sake of their opinions. 1t is
unique experience because the Eng
lish Government alone employs this
method of harrassing political op-
ponents, but it is not by any means a
novel one for the present tory Ad- .
Irish members were
under arrest and in Jail, sometimes
as many as a dozen at time, from !
the beginning to the end of the year
of grace, 1888.
The endorsement Of German Syrup is unparael-