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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-01-05

Lonely, in ruins, but yet picturesque,
the old Newgate prison of Connect
cut, named for its London prototype
of gloomy memory, stands upon a
green hillside in the town Of East
CRANKY. Viewed with a glass from
Bartlett's tower, n lofty observation
point away across the Pennington
river, it resembles an old castle-tur-
reted, mOated, bearing the unnistak-
able marks of age This old mine
prison holds a unique place among the
antiquities of New England.
Today. as one stands beside its
crumbling and vine covered walls and
looks across the peaceful valley of the
Pennington, with its quiet villages. ii
is not easy to realize that the place has
a history written in blood and suffer.
ing. Only IA descent into its subterra
mean caverns puts the visitor in the
mood to feel the spirit of the stories
which the place has to tell
Newgate has been successfully a cop
per mine, a colonial prison. military
prison i'm the Revolution and a state
PiiSOii- IiiS AiSb CLlshl'tti VI It's Al0boig
opened in 1905, and the last chapter
closed over sixty years ago, when the
prisoners of the state were removed to
better quarters i'm the new prison at
Wethersfield. The amateur mining of
its early history, conducted ut first 10y
clergymen, had a comic cast. The
horrors of its later history were tragic,
and through them we gain some in
sight into the ideas of penal discipline
which ruled in the old "blue law col
ony New England Magazine.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-01-05
England's Accountable English.

The common people in England
speak all sorts OF dialectc abomina-
tions, but with the exception OF perhaps
one man in 10000 they do not speak
anything that bears any respectable re-
Iation to written English. The English
drawing burr is quite rs unintelligble
and not half so musical as that brogue
of the Irish which the English are SO
fond of ridiculing 1t is, on the whole,
nearly as easy for an American TO under
stand a French porter us an English
one, and if the Frenchnan prctcnds to
speak English he speaks it hundred
times better than the Londoner does.
When it comes to proper names, names
of streets, or anything which cannot be
guessed from the context. the average
LondOner is as utterly unintelligible to
the ear unframed to the monstrosities
of his pronunciation as if he spoke
Choctaw. It is thousand pities that
the English cannot be taught to speak
the American language, which is a
hundredfold more clear, more classic,
more elegant and more consistent than
the tongue spoken in England Chi
cagO Tribune.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-01-05
..Now You as a newspaper man llnow

'Now you as a newspaper man know
the value of $50. and so do |. 1t
seemed wise for me to say No but
secured the necessary instrument and
told her | would comply with her re-
quest at her own peril. AN right,
she answered, and in five minutes /
had completed my novel task She
had an idea, you know, that her arms
and neck would exhale n delicious per
fume, and she went away as happy as
a two days old butterfly.
I'm about a week she came back and
wanted me to inject some more of the
potent essence in her arms and neck.
On her right arm / noticed an inilamed
spot just where the previous injection
had been made, and / told her that it
looked rs though an abscess was form
ing there.
Never mind she said. 4 want to
find out if there is anything in it.
"Then l firmly declined to pursue the
experiment. She departed in a state
of wrath, and have not seen her from
that day to this. She was my funniest
patient. ," New York Press.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-01-05
4 Natural Inquiry.

A certain witty bishop found him
self, few months ago, crossing the
Bay of Fundy, from Digby to ST. John,
in company with certain Mr.. Caswell.
The Bay OF Fundy has a reputation
for turbulence only to be matched by
the English channel or the Bay of Bis
cay. Mr. Caswell was struggling with
a violent attack of seasicBness; but the
bishop. who was above such weakness,
was very cheerful and inclined 10 con
versation
He had failed, however, TO catch Mr..
Caswelrs name correctly, and persisted
in calling him Mr. Aswell" At last
the sufferer in moment of ease cor
rected him. saying,
"Caswell. my lord; my name is Cas-
well, not Aswell."
'Oh!" said the bishop, eying him
critically, rs a new spasm seized upon
his unhappy acquaintance. "Well,
Mr.. Caswell, don't you think you would
be Aswell without the sea Harper's.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-01-05
The Use of Hair Powder.

The rise and fall of hair powder is
one of the most interesting things in
the chronicles of fashion. In 1914 some
ballad singers at the fair of st. Ger
maine powdered their hair in order to
produce an eccentric figure. This is
supposed to be the origin of the Gus
tom, but SO slowly did it spread that a
century later, during the reign of
George l, two ladies who powdered
their hair were laughed at, and at the
coronation of George III there were
only two hair dressers in London.
But in 1895 so universal had it be-
come that the annual amount of flour
used for hair powder was valued at
FL, $50 600, or more than Sc, $50, 900,
and the number of persons wearing it
were estimated at 200, 900. Think of
the loaves of bread this flour which
went to serve a caprice of fashion
would have made2 After this the
fashion dwindled, until in 1903 the
amount of flour used for powder had
sunk to the value of about 5000, 000.-
Cloak and Suit Review.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-01-05
A Doctor Tells of Beautiful b
Strangely SOuIless Woman.

Doctor Tells of Beautiful but
Strangely SOuIIess Woman.
''My funniest patients" said the doc
tor, who in truth is a well known and
hard worked NJ. d. up town. ''Well,
that question is something of a facer.
You newspaper fellows do ask the
queerest questions.
''Tell me, Doc, " urged the scribe, in
familiar, offhand style, having played
marbles with this now eminent physi-
clan in the long ago, tell me about
the most singular patient you have or
ever had, as the case may be-"
II see" said the doctor thoughtfully,
you are bound to stick to me like a
vampire until l tell you something, so
here goes. A certain named woman
who lives on West Fifty-seventh street
has a mania for everything cxtraordi-
nary. She is what you would call
beautiful woman, but I don't believe
she has even an apology for a soul.
Whether her husband realizes the latter
fact do not pretend to say, and if he
does he has too much pride to confess
it TO the world. Well, this woman
came to Dle one morning with q little
vial, and requested me to inject some
of its contents in her arms and neck
OF course | inquired what the liquid
might be. She answered:
That's all right; / will give you $50
if you will do it.
9 But, madam protested, 4 am
not in the habit of injecting unknown
fluids into the human system.
'Oh, | know what it is, she an
.swered, and, moreover, | don't want
it in my system nor in my veins
simply want it administered under the
skin.
Il looked at her a moment and won
dered, though she did not look like one,
if she was morphine fiend She seemed
TO divine my semi-suspicions and said:
No, it is no kind of morphine. Smell
of it.
''She held the little vial in her own
hand TO my nostrils, which inhaled a
potent fragrance in which rose oil was
represented, You see, she explained,
I have friend who has just returned
from Paris, where she has seen this
thing successfully done Gone, here ID
0 fits dollar note. 40 YOU refassF
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-01-05

NoTIcE.-We, the subscribers. Geo. II. Blake,
E. f. Dutton, n. NJ. Scott, o. d. Owen. H. C.
fierce, Barron & Hamblet, Henry G. Gay, Joseph
n. Webster, II. r. Cutler, F. w. Baldwin, hereby
associate ourselves together a. corporation, IN
.der,the Laws Of the state Of Vernon to be known
by the nesSe OF 'sThe Barton Manufacturing Com.
Epsny" fOf rhe purpose OF manufacturing lumber,
sshelF stock, etc., ~ 5erton In the county Of Or
icsns, IN said state, Esta capital stock Of Thirty
taaf Hssdrfh Dollars, deldsd into tLr;y.four
EhaFei uTsaT hHHared daIisrs eaca,
Dates 81 hsffaf -, flh dies ri 0sresszsg, 4. u,
ssqa,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-01-05

1t is proposed using the Eiffel Tow
er 20 exhibit the rotation of the earth
bp the Foucault method. The pend
ulum is a bronze wire $50 feet long.
with S steel globe at the end weigh
ing 1913 pounds.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-01-05

At Greenwich the moon has been OBJ
served with scarcely an interDission for
$50 years. -Boston Globe.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-01-05

The most curious thing about muffs
which were in use before the year 100
is that in 1902 they were made from
leopard skin
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-01-05
ALL SORTS
Put to flight-Carrier PIGEONS.

Put to fight-Carrier Pigeons.
The usual treatment of catarrh is very unsatis.
factory, as thousands of despairing patients can
testify. A trustworthy medical writer says: "Prop
er local treatment is absolutely necessary 10 sue
cess, but most of the remedies IN general use by
physicians afford but temporary benefit A cure
cannot be expected from snufs, powders, douches
and washes" Ely's Cream Balm is a remedy
which combines the important requisites of quick
action, specific curative power with perfect safety
and pleasantness to the patient
Helen Watterson The Woman About Town of
the New York Evening Sun.
ASK Your FRIENDS ABOUT IT.-Your distress
ing cough can be cured. We know it because
hemp,s Balsam within the past few years has
cufeu 50 many coughs and colds in this community.
Its remarkable sale has been entirely by its
genuine merit merit ASK some friend who has used it
what ne thinks OF hemp's Balsam. There is no
medicine so pure, none effective. Largo bottles
Soc and 81 at all druggists.
The number of American writer's who settle in
London is yearly the increase
Deans Rheumatic Pill are a sure cure for all
forms OF chronic and inflammatory rheumatism and
neuralgia Entirely vegetable, always safe.
the Boston Press Club has introduced chess into
is rooms.
Delicate Ladies who have that tired and all
gone feeling, and don't like to be disturbed, will
continue to be troubled with this complaint until
they renew their impure blood. Sulphur Bitters
will cause new and rich blood to course through
every artery and vein in the hnmau system. Sc
another column
Charles Dudley Warner viii soon go to Europe
for year.
DEFoRMITY FROM BRIGHT's DISEASES. ID.
VanBuskirk, of Demarest, y. j., says "Dr. Da-
vid kennedy's Favorite Remedy, of Rondout, n.
Y, has cured our daughter of bright's disease ar
ter all other means had failed. She was so swollen
that she measured 45 inches around the waist. and
IS inches below the knee. To say that W, fee
thankful for such boon as Favorite Remedy is
but poor expression"
The Chaperone is a new monthly at ST. Louis
For internal cramps and external chils John
sons Anodyne Liniment excels anything IN use.
Sir Edwin Arnold will soon resume his old con-
nection with the London Telegraph.
Chamberlain's Eye and Skin
Ointment.
A certain cure for Chronic Sore Eyes,
letter, Salt Rheum, Scald Head. Old
Chronic Sores, Fever Sores, Eczema,
Itch, Prairie Scratches, Sore Nlppl0s
and Piles. II IL cooling and soothing.
Hundreds Of cases haYs been cured by
70 after oil otbaF trealment hgd failed,
q Il PM nn IN gYsHh 81 r,al hnve,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-01-05

and in heaven are now thanking God
for 1857, which, though the year of
worst financial calamity, was the year
OF Americas most glorious blessing!
How 60 you account for 1857, its spirit
uaI triulnphs on the heels OF it's worldly
misfortune? 1t was what my text calls
the power from on high.
That was thirty-three years ago, and
though there have been in various
parts of the land many STRINGS of the
HOLY Ghost there has been no general
awakening Does it not seem to you.
that we ought to have and may have
the scenes OF power in 1857 ecipsed by
the scenes of power in 1891? The cir
curnstances are somewhat similar.
While we have not had national panic
and universal prostrati0n as in 1857,
there has been stringency in the
money market that has put many of
the families of the earth to their wits
end. Large commercial interests col
lansing have left multitudes of en-
ployes without means OF support. The
racIled brains of business men have al
most or entirely given way. New Illus
trations all over the land of the fact
that riches have not only feet, on
which they walk slowly as they come
but wings on which they speed when
they go Eternal God thou knowest
how cramped and severe and solemn a
time it is with many And as the
business ruin of 1857 was followed by
the glorious triumphs Of grace, let the
Of Io fO1l Nv
the hallelujahs of o nation saved in
1891
Brethren in the Gospel ministry if
we spent half as much time in prayer
as we do in the preparation of our ser
mons nothing could stand before US.
We would have the power from on
high as we never had it. Private mem
bership OF all Christendom! if we spent
half as much time in positive prayer
for this influence as we do in thinking
about it and talking about it, there
would not be secretaries enCuSs, to
take down the names of those who
would want to give in their names for
enlistment.
We would have hundreds of cases
lIhC DlIOSC ICCChIIE ISBOIOC WHICH, a.
man said to an evangelist; Il am a lost
sinner. Pray for me- Ny wife has
been a professor of religion fer years,
but knew she did not enjoy religion,
and [ said if that was all there was in
religion I did not want it. But for the
last few days she has looked and acted
in such an elevated and glorious spirit
tbat I caOnot stand * AWAY from God
I want the same religion that inspires
her" Gomez Come. all through the
United States, and all through Christen-
dom, and all around the world, let us
all join hands in holy pledge that we
will call upon God for the power. Oh,
for the power from on high, the power
that came on Pentecost, yea, for ten
thousand Pentecosts. Such times will
come, and they will come in our day if
we have the faith, and the prayer, and
the conservation.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-01-05
THE REVIVAL OF 1857.

In those days what songs, what SER
mons, what turnings TO God. what re-
citais Of thrilling experiences, what prod
igaIa brought home, what burning It'd
ings of souls saved, what serfdofn Of
sin auaneipatsd, what wild ront of the
foFaes Of darkness, what Victories for
the ffnsh What miliians 81 Garth
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-01-05

OOQ WrOugnG! ana Il telegram went
back, saying, Two hundred souls
saved at our meeting today"
ship came through the N:arrows
into our harbor, the captain reporting
that himself and all the crew had beer
converted to God between New Or
leans and New York. In the busiest
marts of our busiest American cities,
where the worshipers of Mammon had
been counting their golden beads, men
began to calculate, What shall it
profit a man if he gain the whole world
and lose his soul?" The walters in res
taurants after the closing of their days
work knelt among the tables where
they had served. Policemen asked
consent of the commissioners of police
to be permitted to attend religious
meetings..
At Albany members of the New York
legislature assembled in the room of
the court of appeals at half past s
o'clock in the morning for prayer and
praise Printed invitations were sent
out to the firemen of New York saying.
Come as suits your convenience best,
"ir@'ii0i LII IiI0 VI cltlzeliS uresS, ouC
come! Gomez Quarrymen knelt among
the rocks. Fishermen kne1t in their
boats. Weavers knelt among the looms
Sailors knelt among the hammocks.
Scboolmasters knelt among their classes.
A gentleman travelling said there was
line of prayer meetings from Omaha to
Washington city, and he might have
added line of prayer meetings from
the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, and
from the st. Lawrence to the Gulf of
Mayioo
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-01-05

He Describes Forward 1Iovement-Ihe
Conflict between Right and Wrong
Christians should Not Lose Courage,
but should Press on to Victory.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-21
Forbes Bivouac.

The meeting of Forbes BiVOuac
next Tuesday night promises to be
one of more than usual interest,
even the annual meeting which this
is.
Most OF the pre- sent officers will go
out by limitation Of their terms OF Of
flee, and other officers will be elected.
The president of the State ass0cia-
ton, DR.. w. j, McMurry, OF Nash
vile, promises to be with them and
probably several other members OF
Frank Cheatham Bivouac. Our
bivouac seems to have the most cor
dial relationship with every blvouac
in the State, but especially is this
true of Frank Cheatham Bivouac,
md our boys seemed determined to
make it pleasant for them by in
vitipg the public and ladies especial
ly to hear DR.. McMurry's address,
and we hope the courtroom will be
crowded to hear this highly esteemed
veteran Confederate.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-21
Senator Harris Talks.

Senator Harris has returned from
Washington, and stopping at Nash
vile was interviewed by the Ameri.
can. No man in Tennessee will
question the sOundnesS of his De
mocracy or doubt his judgment on
political matters, and especially lead
ing questions with which he has
been dealing, and he is better posted
on them than most of the people.
lie occupies the position of Il party
leader in the Senate, and, by the
way, fighting side by side with Sen
utor German during the last session,
made the best record and achieved
the most brilliant victories of his
whole public career, for which Ten
nesseans will honor him more than
ever, especially for his leadership in
the fight against the Force bill.
In regard to the Democratic nomi-
nation for the presidency, he said:
"CIevelnnd's position on silver
coinage, in my opinion, has destroy
Ell his chances for the nomination in
1892. Free coinage is MS clearly a
party principle rs the reform of the
tariff, and the Democratic party is
just MS positively committed to it,
Before Mr.. Cleveland expressed him
first ballot was all but certain. Now
there are not more than three Demo
cratic members of the Senate who
believe that he will get the nomina-
ton. He has placed hims II in OPP
position to principle of the party,
and no man, in my opinion, is big
enough to do that successfully"
Senator Harris further expressed
the opinion that the party would he
stronger in New York il the candi-
date is chosen from another State,
and he thinks il Campbell can beat
Mckinley for governor in Ohio next
fall, he will surely b. the next presi-
dent. The fight will be made on
principles and he thinks Campbell
will win. He also said Harrison
would bc renominated without doubt
and will be beaten.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-21
The Postoffioe Building.

70 The Tobacco Leaf-Chroniclel r
Communications being in ordrr
in regard to the location of the post
office, suppose it right and proper
that there should be a general eX-
preston Of opinion on the subject.
First and of necessity the location
must be one that will not admit Of
any other building being constructed
in forty feet Of the government
building. This requirement takes
the Public Square out of question
Therefore the selection will have to
be secured from private property,
The old bank corner has one advan
tage, as suggested by "Citizen." 1t
would be sufficiently isolated and
look well from the r. II. bridge, but
would take the whole appropriation
to buy the property and build the
foundation. Other considerations
should and will, think, exercise "a
more potent influence than looks,
etc. A public building of the nature
of a postoflicei should be centrally
located, not for II few business house,
right in the outer edge of town, but
for the city.
GAINESVILLE is a growing city, and
as we expect in few years to see the
business and business houses extend
out Franklin street to Tenth street,
it would be far better to locate the
postoflice with a view TO such growth,
especially if the location will be a
central one to the masses, even at
this present time.
Such a place would be in the vi
entity of what is known as the
double pond on Franklin street.
The Harrison property on the
east side of the public school
would be a good site; the
Gill corner, or what il
known as the old shop corner, on
Franklin. Why should the location
be central? First. Because the mail
is distributed by carriers, and it will
be more convenient for them. Sec
cond. Persons do not go the post,
Office, under a free delivery system,
except to buy money orders and
stamps, and the latter can be had
from the carriers. Therefore it will
be more convenient for the MASSES,
and finally the site can be secured in
this locality ut cost that will leave
to put up "a building, and
i will look well as II companion to
our public school, the pride of the
rity.
Let us have a central location for
the postohice, and take the necessary
steps to have it built as soon as pos
,ible. ii. /
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-21
Letter From Mrs. Mooney.
correspondence Leaf. Chronicle.l


1 suppose that the TOBACCO LEAF
Is still alive, but ! have not seen
copy of it in many months. | occa-
sionally see "Clarksville boy" ard
the sight reminds me of old times
and old friends never to he forgotten.
/ love my new home and the new
friends, but in sweet sense cid
things are best. The last Clarksvil-
liam | met was Archie Trawick,
grown into a wide awake, handsome
young man. / should never ha c
recognized in him the efficient little
treasurer of the Juvenile Missionary
Society that organized years ago in
GAINESVILLE. | hope that 'fhe Little
Lights still burn rightly.
| was greatly grieved when ]
learned of the death of Mrs B. N
Herring, with whom l was so long
associated in literary and church
work. With all her gains Clarks-
vile has had some irreparable losses.
| count up many who have gone out
to return no more.
Beyond the signing and the dying,
they live to sigh and die no more.
We are having bitterly cold wealth
er following heavy rains. The hya.
cinths and butter cups, which are
blooming beautifully are pendant
icicles, but lovely in their snowy
shrouds.
This afternoon Mr.. Alfred Gardner
who makes frequent business visits,
to your city, suffered heavy loss in
the burning of his beautiful home.
1t was entirely consumed.
Dresden has been unusually
healthy this winter-just now there
is no sickness.
Our merchants are getting ready
for spring and by Easter Sunday
new hats and new bOnnets will cease
to be matters Of speculation.
Mr.. Mooney is holding his pro
tracted meeting in Hickman. His
health is almost perfect. Mine too,
is good Notwithstanding the cen
finement of the school-room.
With kind remembrance to all
old friends.
Mrs. SUE +. MOONEY.
Dresden, March 16, '9l.