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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16
The Produce Market.

BUTTER-The market continues firm for
choice grades, and dealers are still push
ing prices on the best creameries up, in
the hope that buyers will take hold of the
medium grades, which are in heavy sup
ply and dull. The demand is still almost
wholly for the finest goods, although the
best second grades are doing better.
Special brands of Western creamerles are
quoted at 81 to 22c., but the supply of
such is small. For Western extras the
asking price is 10 to 50c., but below these
grades the market is very dull and heavi-
ly supplied. Northern creamery is still
selling mostly in jobbing way, and the
wholesale price is nominal. Diaries are
in limited demand and moderate supply.
We quote Western extra cmry, 10 to 20c :
fancy well known marks, 81 to 22c; firsts
and extra firsts, IA to 18c: extra lmita-
tion cmry, IA to 15c; firsts, II to l3c;
factory, choice, II to 1213c; others, 10 to
lie; n Y and VT extra cmry, 20 to 22c;
extra firsts, 16 to 19c; N Y and vt dali
ry good to choice, II to lie; low grades,
10 to lie. East cmry, good to choice, 10
to 19c. The above quotations are receiv-
ers' prices for strictly wholesale lots.
Jobbing prices, l to &c higher.
PoTAToEs-There is no material change
to note in the market. We quote choice
native rose and hebrons, $1.50 to 1.75
per bbl; New Hampshire rose and he
brons, 50 to 55c per bu; Houlton hebron,
58c; Aroostook hebrons, 55 to 5Sc; Aroos-
took lose, so to 53c; VT rose and hebrons,
so to 53c: n Burbanks, 50 to 5Sc; n Y
sweets, 50 80 to 2.75 per bbl; Jersey
bulks, So 70; Jersey double heads, 50. 75
to 3 per bb.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16

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week, aged afty -ulne years. Ma ien q
widow and three ssns. ue haI IsfH =
village trustee. seicCtman and eanarfla.i
with the DIRE department snd beard el
trade. and was director iu several banks
and corporations, and was senior mcmber
OF the firm Of Dunn a Cramton who did
a wholesale aud retail business iu stoves
and tinware.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16
Commissioner Tanner.

Some months ago, before Commits
sioner Tanner had been very long in
office, but after his peculiar policy
had become manifest, the Journal
suggested that he was going too rap
idly, and that if he did not look out
he would get ahead of the procession.
He has got ahead of the procession.
The administration has been lenient
with him, and he has had an abund-
ance of friendly advice and admoni-
ton. But he has disregarded the adj
vice and chafed under the admoni-
tions until patience has ceased To be
a virtue His resignation has been
demanded, and the vast and delicate
responsibilities of the pension bureau
will be transferred to other and firmer
and more efficient guardianship.
Corporal Tanner must be given, we
think, the credit of perfect integrity
and good intentions. The trouble
with him has been that he has over
rated his own personal Importance
and ignored the lesson which rs
soldier he should have had by heart
due Difference to the requests of
his superiors. His precipitancy was
hurting and not helping the cause of
the soldiers, and alternating the sup
port of men who otherwise would
have been his friends. Pension leg
islation is to be for some years to
come one of the most conspicuous
and one of the most difficult subjects
which congress will be called on to
consider. The republican party and
a considerable section, if not a ma
jority, of the democratic party is dis
posed to meet the wishes of the vete-
rams with liberal hand. This being
the case, it is all the more important
that the administration of the pension
bureau, with its annual disbursements
of scores of millions of dollars, should
be methodical, prudent and sagacious,
and in all ways above reproach. The
bureau has not had such an admins
tration under Commissioner Tanner.
His policy has been erratic and eX-
travagant, and after bearing patient
lv with his blunders for a long time
the president has been compelled, no
doubt with reluctance, to request his
resignation. If Gen. Harrison were
man after the mold of his prede-
cessor, he would doubtless have re-
tanned the commissioner in office and
received the popular clamor against
him with contempt. But fortunately
for the country the president has the
courage to do his duty and subordi-
nate partisan considerations to the
interests of the public service.-BOS-
ton Journal.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16
WASHINGTO LETTER.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR.

washington, Sept. y.
The business of loaning money to
government clerks at usurious rates
of interests has fourished since the
last election, lenders being reasona-
bly, certain that republican clerks,
and nine-tenths of the employees, no
matter by whom appointed, claim to
be of the same political faith as the
reigning administration, will be re-
tanned in office for at least four years.
The sharks seem to spring from the
ground. Some have cosy offices in
fashionable buildings, two have even
banking establishments, and these
carry their offices about in their an
cient and infrm silk hats. One of
the banking establishments, run sole
ly as Shylock affair, pays its depos-
itors one per cent month, which is
however not surprising when one is
informed that the institution loans out
its money in amounts of $50 or 800
at two to five per cent month. Some
of the smaller Shylocks receive as
high as twenty per cent month.
Many of them are department clerks
themselves, and by loaning to the
chief clerk or the chief of their di-
visions secure immunity from punish
ment and are even able to dictate
terms to their unfortunate debtors.
The other day treasury clerk, af-
ter having refused to pay further even
the principal of note for 800, upon
which he had paid $24O interest in
two years, was boldly reported to
the auditor under whom he works, for
failure to pay his debts. Strange to
say, while no law exists to compel
payment, this auditor insisted upon
the immediate payment of the entire
principal and the last months inter
est, under pain of dismissal. I have
since learned that the usurer is a
brother-in-law of the auditor and my
surprise ceases.
Secretary Teller, whose great abil
ity and broad character have never
received sufficient need of praise,
understood these money lenders as
they are. He thoroughly detested
them and during his administration
they fought shy of the interior de-
! partment. One man who was en-
| ployed in the patent office and who
had loaned money at ten per cent
per month to fellow clerks for SO
many years that he had come to be
worth about $4,000, reported a
mess senger in the office for owing him
$50 and failing to pay him promptly.
The secretary sent for both men. The
messenger, shiftless, weak fellow,
with large family and small sala-
i ~, had no defence to offer. His ac-
cuser was eloquent and in conclusion
called attention to the fact that he
was poor cripple, whom it was 4
sin to cheat and who needed every
cent he could get. Secretary Teller
listened to him smilingly and courte-
ously, and only when the shark was
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16

Whether Chancellor Bismarck can
succeed in bringing about general
disarmament among the European
powers, is a question about which
there will be grave doubt. 1t would
indeed be q crowning achievement of
q life which has been tumultuous and
full of surprises. The cost of main
tanning these huge armies has become
so burdensome as to seriously dis
tress financially Russia, Germany
and France, while Italy staggers un-
der the weight of debt and taxes
thus imposed upon her. The triple
alliance of Germany, Austro-Hunga-
ry and Italy, to which England has
given marked sympathy, if not actual
adherence, ensures peace, as practi-
cally the only disturbing power left
is Russia, which with this formidable
combination against her, could hardly
make serious headway in her schemes
of ambition. There is, then, a show
of reason in the plans of Bismarck,
and certainly the industrial prosperi-
ty of each country would be advanc-
ed by the release of these men to oc-
cupy the peaceful avenues of trade
and agriculture.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16
Steve Brodie, the Brooklyn Bridge

Steve Brodie, the Brooklyn Bridge
jumper, donned a rubber suit on the
morning of Sept. z, and went over
Niagara Falls. By the use of two
paddles he made his way out into
the river about 600 feet above the
horseshoe falls and floated down
over the falls. He was taken out of
the river about 200 feet below the
falls. He gives his experience as
follows: After the entering of the
river he weakened, and would have
given anything if he could have got
once more on land. He attempted to
swim ashore by using his paddles, but
the swift current swept him back and
turned his foot toward the brink of
the cataract. When he saw it was
impossible to get out, he felt as a
man does who is to meet death, and
PRAYED for dear life. Just as he
came to the brink he became uncon-
scious through fright and remained
so until he struck the water at the
base of the falls. There the force
with which he struck temporarily
brought him to, but he knew no more
until he was lying in his rubber suit
at the waters edge. 1t was believed
at first that his internal injuries would
be fatal, but last accounts seem to
show that his injuries are chiefly con-
fined to severe sprain of the right
ankle and back, and to a number of
bruises on the body.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16
Samuel Sullivan Cox.

The news of the death of Samuel
Sullivan Cox comes upon the country
suddenly and unexpectedly-he was
so lately displaying the full vigor and
vivacity of his rare faculties as a
speaker away off on the other side of
the continent, in the young states of
which he was the sole democratic
champion in congress. His friends
believed that his far western tour had
given him a fresh start, physically
speaking, and that he had before him
many years of honorable and brilliant
public service.
Mr.. Cox was a class by himself,
unique, peculiar, original, and never
sinking to the level of the common
place. He was all his life stalwart
democrat. but he had as many warm
personal friends in the republican
party as in his own. His versatility
amounted to genius, and even pre-
vented his getting the highest politi-
cal rewards, for the average demo-
crat distrusts leader so capable of
sudden surprises and so gifted with
wit. He could brighten up the most
statistical of speeches on the tariff
with a play of delicate and delicious
l. ho hoo
well as convince the heads, of his fell
low legislators by the vividness and
heroic daring of the men engaged in
the life-saving service on our coast.
He delighted in congressional work
that had no politics in it. To him
more than to any one else is due the
legislation that has made our coast
life-saving service what it is.
Probably he was the only man liv
ing who could have changed his resi-
dence from Ohio to the metropolis as
he did, latter achieving a national rep
utation in his native state, without a
considerable break in his public ca
reer. But while he never lost his
"Buckeye''peculiarities and admirers,
he became at once thorough New
Yorker, and was soon one of the best
known of our citizens, identifying
himself with the activities, the inter-
ests, the social organizations and the
entire life of the metropolis. Repub-
lican merchants and business men
generally who wanted his help in con-
gress for measures affecting our local
trade and interests found him ready
and eager to show that he was more
than partisan, and that he was as
ready to serve republican as demo
cratic constituents.
His career has been long and varied
and successful. Whether in congress
or in our diplomatic service, or as a
writer of most interesting works of
travel, he was always "Sunset Cox"
active, original and fertile in re-
/ sources.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16
its defenders.

A terrible accident is reported from
Antwerp, Belgium. A quantity of
dynamite exploded in a cartridge fac
tory, killing two hundred persons in
stantly and destroying vast amount
of property. The magnificent cathe-
dral, with its priceless art treasures,
was injured, and for a time the city
itself was endangered by the conda
grafton following the explosion. The
docks, only completed few years
since, escaped with but slight dam
age. Had the wind on Saturday
been from a different quarter, Ant
werp would have suffered blow from
which she would not have recovered
for fifty years, and the ravages of
the flames among the foreign ships
would have caused the disaster to be
felt in almost every other important
port in the world.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16
THE VERDICT UNANIMOUS.

W. D. Suit, Druggist, Bippus, Ind, testifes 81
can recommend Electric Bitters the very best
remedy. Every bottle sold has given relief in every
One took six bottles, and cured of
rheumatism of 10 years standing" Abraham
Hare, druggist, Bellville, Ohio, afrms "The best
selling medicine ! have handled in 20
years experience, is Electric Btters'' Thousands
of others have added their testimony, that the
verdict is unanimous that Electric Btters do cure
all diseases of the Liver, Kidneys Blood. Only
half dollar bottle at FL. C. Pierce's Drug Store.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16

When a man gets shot down in
cold blood because he marries a wo-
man that another man does not want
him to marry, 1t is likely to make
marriage unpopular, we fear, and es-
pecially near northern Vermont, and
it may be catching and spread. Sc
riously, however, the murder of Geo.
Gould by Sherman Caswell was as
cold -blOoded and wicked as fiend-
ish nature could make it, and we
hope that no plea of insanity or any
thing else will be successfully bro't
to bear on this case, and that the law
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16

The sugar-refnery belonging to
Messrs. Dick & Meyer, on Kent Av
enue, Williamsburgh, Brooklyn, was
destroyed by fire on the afternoon of
Sept. z. The firm, who are members
of the Sugar Trust, estimate the loss
at 81, 900, 900, which is partly cover
ed by insurance.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16

The long expected appointments
for surveyor and naval officers at the
port of New York were made on
Monday. George w. Lyon gets his
title to the post of surveyor, and
Thomas B. Willis is made naval Of
ficer to succeed Silas M. Burt, who
was retained by President Cleveland.
Ernest Nathan is nominated for col
lector of internal revenue. The in
terests of the politicians have not
been overlooked.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16

Maine seems to be enjoying a
marked revival in its shipbuilding
industry. There are some thirty
shipyards in the state, which have
forty vessels under construction. OF
these Sc are schooners and three
shiDs.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16

The Vermont veterans who have
returned from the Milwaukee encamp-
ment say that Judge Veazey is GER
tain TO be elected commander at the
next years Grand Army gathering
in Boston. Such was the general
understanding after Colonel Veazey
took himself out of the way of Gen
eral Alger.-SprinqteLd Republican.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16

Victoria Woodruff, now Mrs. John
Biddulph Martin, of II Hyde Park
Gate, South Kensington, S. W. Eng
land, is out in a broadside announc-
ing her candidacy for president of
the United States. Belva Lockwood
must needs look to her political in
faraStG
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16

A colliery explosion occurred near
Edinburgh recently, resulting in the
death of fifty miners; only fourteen
of the sixty-four men at work in the
pit having been rescued. The scene
of the disaster was Penicuick, a small
town within ten miles of Edinburgh.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16

It is estimated in London that tour
lists, mostly from America, have left
more than $40, 100000 behind them
in Europe this year, in hotel and
railroad bills alone, without counting
money spent on purchase.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16

will be fully carried out. Sometimes
such cases lead us to feel that the
law is slow and there ought to be a
quicker way to rid the world of such
brutes, but it is probably best as it
Manchester. ". H. Union.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16
ORLEANS COUNTY MONITOR.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
GEO. II. 81 AK c,
BAR TON. VT

TERMS. WHEN PAID STRICTLY IN ADVANCE
sI-5O YEAR II not paid in advance $500 year.
Subscribers living outside of Orleans or Caledonia
counties. sI.75 per year.
Keep subscription in Advance. Remit by Post
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Watch the label on your paper, and see that your
credit is right If not correct send the money to
make it so, notify of error by postal card.
Rates OF Advertising made known apphca-
tion- All cuts must have metal body.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16

The largest bar of gold ever cast in the
world was turned out at the Helena ON.
t. assay office Wednesday. 1t weighs
500 pounds and is worth 100000, and
will be exhibited at the Minneapolis EX-
position.
NJ. Geo. C. Furber, editor and owner of
the White Mountain Republic (Dem. has
bought the Littleton Journal (Rep.), and
will unite the two papers under a new
name, and conduct the new paper as an
Independent local journal.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16

"Jack the Ripper" has committed
another of those atrocious crimes
which has startled the world for so
many months. Whoever he may be
he doubtless took the advantage Of
fered him by the absence of the Lon
don police, who are engaged in watch
ing those "horrid" strikers, lest they
should steal loaf of bread. The
fact that his latest outrage was COM
mitted two days before it was dis
covered does not attest very strongly
to the efficiency of the police of Lon
don.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16

In the great Wild West they do
things well. Even in the matter of
duels they make a better job of it
than they do in the South. 1t was
but the other day in Idaho, when two
young men, rival lovers of young
lady, fought duel in which one was
shot through the head and instantly
killed. The other received a bullet
in the breast and died within five
minutes. They started out to kill
each other and succeeded admirably.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16

Eleven years in charge of the package depart
ment, Boston & Maine Depot, Boston, Mass. Miss
Helen Jones says: was a sufferer from general de-
bility biousness and water brash for several years.
and life seemed almost burden me. After
ing almost everything, Sulphur Bitters cured me.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16
SPRING HILL STOCK FARM,
VERGENNEs, VI, April 9th, 1859. !

Props Ctty Drug St0Te:-
have repeatedly used DIR. Miller's SPAWN Oint
ment upon cases of SPAWN and ringbone with entire
success and in of swinney with proper treat
ment, it has proved the most eficatious remedy
ever used. Without detailing the history of any
particular case, unhesitatingly say that DR.. Mil
lers SPAWN Ointment is not only the best prepara-
tiOn in the market for the it is advertised TO
effect but that is the only spawn and ringbone cure
worthy of the name that have ever used and this
includes several liniments of more less repute.
I cordially recommend it to brother hOrsemen a
remedy ofvalue. Very truly, F. A. Woodbridge.
Manufactured by THE CITY DRUG STORE, Yer
gennes VT, and sent by mail receipt of 81. 1s4y
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16

How NIcE-A child who has taken Ham
burg Figs cathartic will never again look
them medicine. but viii be likely to ask for them
under the inpres that they simply preserv-
ed fruit. % cents. Dose one Fig. Mack Drug
Co. N. 7. Sold by druggists.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16

A discovery of the wealth of a mis-
erly old farmer was made near New
castle, Ind, recently. Some of his
relatives went to his home and insist
ed that his money be safely depos-
tied. He brought out a bundle con-
tanning $1,000, and after much per-
suasion produced from various places
in the old farmhouse his wealth. In
the garret, slowed under the rafters,
were found bundles of bills, and from
beneath the floor were brought boxes
and tin cans filled with gold and sill
yer coins amounting to $4,000.
Many of the bills and coins bear old
dates.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16

Woman's suffrage does not lose in
the new state constitutions. In
North and South Dakota, Washing
ton and Idaho school suffrage is ac-
corded to women; and in Montana,
upon all questions submitted to the
vote of taxpayers women taxpayers
can vote. In South Dakota and
Washington it is provided that the
question of giving women full suffrage
shall be referred to special vote of
the people, and women now voters
can vote on the question. There is
q real advance along the whole line.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16

Short Stories will be feature of Har-
per's MdgHzine for October. Edward
Belamy, Annie Trumbull Slosson, Marga-
ret J. Preston, and Mrs. Lucy G. Lille
will each contribute one.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16

Corporal Tanners ideas were right;
his methods were wrong. His course
in office, while properly open to criti-
cism, did not weigh half so much
against him as his foolish public ut
terances. The men who saved the
Union should in turn be saved by it
from poverty and privation. The
Mugwump policy of denouncing as
paupers and "the off-scouring of the
nation" the men who marched to the
front in time of need is neither vindi-
Gated nor acquiesced in by Tanners
resignation. The republican party
stands pledged to deal fairly by the
soldier to the last dollar in the treas
ury, and the size of the "surplus"
should in no way be regarded as the
measure of the nations gratitude to
its defenders.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-16
A Matter of Importance.

The following letter from Mr.. + A. Woodbridge,
the proprietor of Spring Hill Stock Farm, Nergen-
mes, VT, is worthy of record. Mr. Woodbridge Is
the owner of a large stock farm and proprietor Of
the imported thoroughbred Percheron Stallion
''Favori,' the winner of several first premiums at
the Vermont State Fair. As thorough going
horseman his opinions of weight in any matter
touching the care and treatment of that class of
stock. Concerning DIR. Miller's celebrated SPAWN
Ointment he says: