Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-06-01

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Rev. T. P. Frost of Brooklyn, n. Y,
will deliver the address at the com
mencement exercises of the Vermont
Methodist Seminary at Montpelier on
June p.
The Boston and Maine Railroad will
soon put on a new express train be-
tween Boston and Quebec via White
River Junction, lea-iBg Boston about
p. m, and leaving there on its re-
turn at 7.45 a. m.
The ''boy preacher" Harrison, is
getting venerable, but that he is los
ing none of his vigor is indicated by
the fact that one of the leading church
es in New Haven is debating with
warmth whether he shall hold a revi-
val within its walls or not.
The next annual excursion of
Vermont Press Association leaV.
Vermont points Friday, July 10, and
the members are to rendezvous at
Boston the same day and banquet at
the American House in the evening.
Saturday is to be passed in Plymouth,
Mass, and Sunday at Nantasket Beach
The death-roll of the last congress
was of unprecedented length, but that
of the congress elect is already being
drawn out with a rapidity quite as un-
usual. Houk of Tennessee follows Spi-
nola of New York and Ford of Michi-
gan, and the first session is yet six
months away.
With next month Prof. E. A. Bishop,
principal of the Vermont Methodist
seminary at Montpelier, will complete
10 years of labor with that institution.
He improves the occasion to invite
the 10 classes that have graduated un-
der his administration to a reception
at the close of the coming commence
ment exercises.
The date of the Vermont State fair
at Burlington has been changed to the
first week in September, so as not to
conflict with other fairs in Northern
Vermont and New York. AS now de-
cided upon, the fair will be held the
week following the August meeting
of the horse breeders association at
White River Junction.
The long contest over the Senator
ship in Florida has ended in the re-
election of Senator Call. The contest
seems to have occasioned a good deal
of agitation in that state, but little in
terest was taken in it elsewhere, it be-
ing a matter of small account whether
Mr. Call or some other equally incOn-
sequential person was chosen.
A meeting of the Vermont Farmers
League has been called at Montpelier
June 5. Each county league is enti-
tied to two voting delegates and each
local league to one. In case no dele
gates are formally appointed, the Of
ficers of the leagues can act as substi-
tutes. Hon. George t. Powell, presi-
dent of the national league, and other
noted speakers will be present.
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J. w. Hobart, having resigned the
position of general manager of the
Central Vermont railroad, which he
has held for several years, the presi-
dent and directors of the road have
issued an order abolishing the office
after the first of June next. On and
after that date the duties of this office
will be performed by E. G. Smith, the
second vice president of the road.
Uncle Sam seems to have an unusu-
al number of diplomatic questions on
hand. In addition to the negotiations
for reciprocity with Spain, Mexico and
several of the South American nations,
the United States has controversies
with France and Germany about the
exclusion of American pork, with TIA
" on account of the Malta, and with
England on the seal matter, while the
ties with Chill.
Advices from Washington say that
Senator Stewart of Nevada has pre-
pared an amendment to the constitu-
ton, making the president of the Unit
ed States ineligible for a second term,
which he will introduce into the SEN
ate on the first day that congress
meets. He says that he has assurances
that the amendment will receive
strong support in the senate, and he
believes that it will pass that body.
The senator explains that it is the sys-
tenn of reelection that he condemns,
and not the act of any particular man.
In spite of the enormous cost of put
ting down the rebellion, no civilized
people in the world are so lightly bur
dened by national debt as the citizens
of the United States. The debt per
capita in this country is only S14.63,
while in Italy the per capita is S7S.O6;
in Great Britain, SS7. .79; in the Meth
erlands, 1856, and in France it is
piled p to S116.35. The contrast in
our favor is made the more conspicu-
Gus by the fact that while the indebt-
edness of nearly all the foreign nations
has nearly doubled in the decade from
1880 to 1890, that of the United States
has been reduced nearly one half dur
ing the same period.
Ex-senator Warner Miller, Presi-
ident of the Nicaragua Canal Com
pany, comes back from his Southern
trip firm believer in reciprocity. He
is quoted as saying that ''the princi-
pal islands of the West Indies and
Central and South America are in ia
vor of reciprocity with the United
States, their markets being here. But
TO build up this trade lines of steam
ers were necessary. Under the new
Shipping act he thought these lines