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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-02-13
State News Items.

Large quantities of fine grade cop
per ore are being shipped from Straf-
! ford to Baltimore, Md.
The farm house owned by Oscar
Baird of Barnet was burned Feb. II
Loss 81 900.
A five-year- old child of Joseph Paule
of Brattleboro was fatally burned Feb.
9, by setting it's clothes on fire while
playing with matches. sa,a
Fred York, promising and indus
trious young man of Windsor, shot
himself through the head recently.
Dependency was the cause of the
rash act.
Wallace Stiles,a farmer Of St.Johns-
bury fell from load of hay last Mon
day, striking his head on the pole of
the wagon. and receiving injuries from
which he died.
Lysander Kenny, an aged and re-
spected citizen of Grand Isle, commit
ed suicide last Wednesday by hanging
himself in the barn. No cause for the
rash deed is known.
Mrs. Napoleon Richards of St.Johns-
bury was terribly burned Feb. 9, while
attempting to start fire with kerO
sene oil. Her husband and daughter
were badly burned in trying to quench
the flames.
The firemen of St. Johnsbury have
formed a mutual benefit association
for the purpose of aiding firemen dis
abled while on duty. The fire COM
panies in Barnet and Lyndonville are
included in the membership of the
association.
Governor Fuller and wife attended
the banquet recently given at the no.
tel Vendome in Boston by the sons
and daughters of Vermont in that
city. The governor and Mrs. Fuller
held a reception in the parlors pre-
was one of the post-prandial speak
erS.
Citizens of Burlington have made
application to the state fish commits
sioners for ten thousand brook trout
from the hatchery at Roxbury for dis
tribution in the small streams near
Burlington. In their opinion, streams
SO stocked can be protected from lille
gal fishing, and that in a very few
years rare sport for the disciples of
Isaac Walton will be abundant.
Pensions have recently been grant
ed to the following Vermonters: Orig
inal-Samuel Palkey Edwin B. Dodge,
Nathan Parker, Frank w. Smith,
George A. Watkins, Ahira Heath, Ben
iamin Bixby, Alfred S. Fisher, julius
@. Griffith, Austin Dumond; addition
Stafford, Henry FL. Walker,
Albert n. Smith; original, widows,
etc., Sylvia A. Douglass, Lucy A. Da-
Wis.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-02-13
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS OF THE MONITOR
Washington, Feb. 8, 1892.

ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR
Washington, Feb. 6, 1892.
The President has heard the official
proposition made by the commission
ers from the new provisional govern
ment of Hawaii for the annexation of
that country to the United States, and
is now, with his usual thoroughness
and care, studying the question, in
all it's bearings, in order to make up
his mind whether he will take any
steps towards annexation, make any
recommendations to Congress, or
leave the whole matter for the in
coming administration and Congress.
Before the commissioners arrived it
was thought probable, indeed it was
Informally agreed that a treaty by
which the United States took the re-
publican government of Hawaii under
its protection would be about the
proper thing for the present, leaving
annexation to follow, as it unques-
tionably would nave done in few
years. But when the ultimatum of
the commissioners annexation or
nothing-was received the situation
was changed. The President and all
of his Cabinet are favorable to an
neXation, but as IT would have to be
preceded by Congressional legislation,
and the life of the present admins
tration and Congress is SO nearly spent
it may be deemed advisable by the
administration not to begin what
would probably have to be ended by
the new Congress and administration.
A decision will probably be reached
in few days. The Hawaiian flag
red, white and blue stripes, with a
red cross in the corner-is flying from
the top of the hotel at which the Ha-
waiian commissioners are quartered.
There is nothing foreign looking about
the members of this commission.
A determined effort is being made
to secure some silver legislation on a
compromise basis before the session
closes. Dan Lamont and Don Dickin-
son are here in the interest of the
new administration, and to submit to
the silver men several propositions |
for compromise, all of them involv |
ing a suspenion of the purchase of |
silver by the government. They say
that if their efforts are not successful
an extra session of Congress will GER
tainly be called.
Prob ably no single action of the
President during his entire term has
been more talked about than the
ton of Judge Howell E. Jack
son, of Tennessee, an able jurist, but an
democrat, to succeed
jhe late Jnstice Lamar on the bench
Of the U. S. Supreme Court.
Sec. Fosters report on the condi
ion of the Treasury, and his estimates
If receipts and expenditures for
his and the next fiscal year has put .
IN end to the talk about a bankrupt
which has been more or less :
PREVALENT among democrats ever t
ince Congress met. 3
The amount of mutilated currency !
low being presented to the Treasury G
or redemption averages 81 800, 900 a
ay, being much larger than for many
ears. 1t is believed that this is large
7 caused by the scare concerning the
arrying of the germs Of contagious
iseases in old paper money. 2
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-02-13
General News Items.

Rev. William Jewett Tucker, d. D.,
of Andover Theological Seminary was
unanimously elected Feb. 10, by the
trustees to be president of Dartmouth
College, vice president, Rev. DR..
Samuel Bartlett, resigned. The new
ly- elected president will enter upon
his duties May 1.
Mrs. William G. Whitney, wife of
ex-secretary of the navy, died at her
home at O'Clock, a. m. Feb. 5, of
heart failure. Only Mr.. Whitney and
the nurse who attended her during
her illness, were present at the death
bed, the end coming unexpectedly.
The new battle ram Katahdin, some
times called the "Ammen ram,'' was
launched at Bath, Me-, Feb. 5, with
appropriate exercises. The ram was
built on plans suggested by Rear Ad-
miral Daniel Ammen, is 251 feet long,
A feet wide at the extreme points,
cost 1890, 900 and weighs 10000 tons.
President Mcleod of the Boston and
Maine railroad and Frank Jones, chair
man of the executive committee, have
secured lease for SO years, duly sign
ed and approved by the board, of the
Connecticut River railroad, guaran-
teeing an annual rental equivalent to
10 per cent on the capital stock, which
is $3.50, 900, and per cent on ST. O0,-
900 scrip.
The old home Of Mr. Blaine, at Au-
gusta, Me-, will always remain in the
possession of the family and will not
be rented. This was his wish. Mrs
Blaine and members of the family talk |
of making trip to Europe the com
ing season. Mr.. Blaine's property, if |
handled, will amount to fully
81 ,OOO,O 900, and there is not dollar of |
upon it. OF late years
Mr.. Blaine had been calling in such
as might be called of a
speculative character, SO that all the
is we'll situated at the pres
7nt time. -
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-02-13
UTAH and STATEHOOD

The New York Independent does a
good service in calling attention TO
the admission of Utah to Statehood.
A bill favorable to such action has
been reported in both the House and
Senate, and it is probable that some
disposition of it will be made in the
near future. Unlike the admission OF
the other Territories, it is not a mat
ter of Utah's material qualifications
for becoming State. So far as popu-
lation and industrial development are
concerned it's position is strong one.
Furthermore, one does not have to
be reminded that the Territorial form
of government is only temporary
condition in our system. But the
social fabric of Utah is permeated
with an evil which is not only a me-
mace to it's prosperity but an offence
to civilization and a disgrace to the
country which has to put up with it.
The United States Government has
done a great deal by strict legislation
to crush polygamy out. The vigorous
enforcement of this has caused the
Mormon leaders to at least openly re-
spect these laws and to live in con-
formity with them. This attitude of
the nation, too, has given courage to
capitalists and immigrants, and the
result is the beginning Of an era of
business prosperity to which the Ter
ritory had hitherto been stranger.
s,,+ oh ir 70 Ia
looked is the fact that those who are
most earnest to have Utah admitted
to Statehood are the Mormon leaders
and the politicians who hope for
places under the new Government
This certainly gives color to the fears
Of those who are against such action.
Among these latter are the business
men and the Americans of the Terri
tory who are outside the influence Of
the Mormon church. They say, and |
with truth, that Utah is prosperous
enough under national control. Why, |
then, make change until the nation |
is assured that the new State will be in |
fact and spirit an American one?Three
y OStIS OCeoA SOAJ SiAOoSAA w RiONO
the abandonment of an important
part of it's creed by religious body.
Inasmuch as the step is irretrievable,
Congress cannot consider the matter
too seriously or too much apart from
'spolitics ''-BOston Journal.
The value Of "protection' to YER
mont farmers is strikingly illustrated
by the receipts of "duties" at the st.
Adams custom house during the
month of January. These exceeded
$50, OOO Among the dutiable impor-
ations were 272O tons of hay, 1929
bushels of pears, 9OO, 900 feet of lum-
Ter, 20, $50 dozen eggs, 1926 bushels
# barley and 81, 675 pounds of wool.
Under free trade system all of these
rticles would have come into COM
M Oly,o +o h
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-09-13

ness comes the report from the rice farms
near Kiesimmee, grown upon the re-
claimed land that has heretofore been
worthless. The rice harvest began Mon
day, the first car load having been
shipped Wednesday. The rice is pro-
nOunced first class by competent judges
and it will be twenty days ahead OF any
rice in the country, This is great ad-
vantage in itself and will put Florida
rice in market at time when, there be-
ing little or no competition, it will bring
q better price than later in the season.
The yield OF the present crop averages
sixty bushels per acre, and the second
crop will be twenty or more bushels, and
will pay all the expenses of growing the
entire crop. The second crop is from the
second growth after the first cutting and
is a ieatur, of the Florida ice.
Considering the vast amount of unre-
claimed land in the State, what wonder
ful possibilities exist in connection with
the culture of one of the worlds staple
articles of commerce!-TampaT Times.
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Early Oranges for Europe.

For TIE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIsT.
Prominent upon the last page OF the
issue of the AGRICULTURIsT for the 23rd.
instant stands the advertisement of
Messrs. Campion, Goodsell & Co., of
L0ndon-:he English branch of the house
of E. T. Goodsell of New Y ork City.
On perusing the first words, we find it
difficult to imagine that the adyeI tise
ment ever emanated from Is Philpott
Lane, London, for we believe no one
practically aCquaint ed with the London
fruit market would write that "London
offers an unusually good market for
ealIy oranges" There is really a very
limited demand for oranges in England
at any time before Christmas, and the
trade does not get into full swing much
before the beginning of the new year.
But without pausing to enter into any
further discussion Of this point, we will
pass to a very much more important
aspect Of the same question. We sup
pose few if any of thote interested in the
shipment of oranges will hesitate
for moment in accepting the proposition
that it is most desirable that we should
tuild up market for our fruit on the
far side of the Atlantic, and thus secure
an outlet for the possible future surplus.
Granting this pOstulate, we ask the ques-
ton, is it wise move to attempt to
build up market, or rather to capture
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-09-13

Chief Engineer Blair Burwell of the F.
C. & p. railroad was in Orlando Sunday
looking over the ground and holding con-
ferences with contractors preparatory to
taking bids and awarding he contract for
constructing the mammoth depot herefor
that road. The prospects for an early
commencement Of that work are very fa-
vorable, and the expenditure in Orlando
of the large Gum Of money required for
the erection of this building will materi-
ally improve business in every channel.
Bids for the construction of the aforesaid
building will be opened in Jacksonville
Friday, September 10.-Daily Reporter
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Rec Growing Experiments.

The experiments in rice growing in
tie rich muck land in Osceola county
gays the Fort Meade Pebble, the present
season have proved that Florida is one
of the finest States in the Union for rice.
The average yield on Col. B 4rkley's 800
acre plantation was IS bushels per acre.
This grower is so we'll pleased he will
plant 900 acres next season. Mr.. Diss
ton is we'll satisf with the result and
no doubt thousands Of acres will he
planted next year. There are millions
of acres in Flori Ia adapted to rice grow
ing, and within ten years we expect to
see her furnishing the bulk of the rice
supply in the UDitel States. Score an
other one for the peninsular paradise.
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800 Reward, 500.

The reader of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure
in all it's stages, and that is Catarrh.
Halls Catarrh Cure is the only positive
cure known to the medical fraternity.
Catarrh being a constitutional disease
requires p constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system, thereby Destroy
ing the foundation OF the disease, and
giving the patient strength by building
up the constitution and assisting nature
in doing it's work. The proprietors have
go much faith in it's curative powers, that
they offer One Hundred Dollars for any
case that it fails to cure. Send for list of
testimonials. Address.
F. J. CHENEY x Co., Toledo, O.
p9~ Sold by Druggists, -.
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nothing. So the orange grower is to buy
this ground phosphate and use it as a
complete fertilizer at $S ton, or accord
ing to the other circular, he is to buy
,1nmonia and potash besides and mix his
own complete fertilizer, saving $50 a ton
There is a good deal of wisdom in
what the State Chemist says in the re-
cent Bulletin on the subject of home
mixed fertilizers. There is long, long
list of "ifs," conditional upon which q
saving in cost may be effected. How
many of our farmers can claim to be
something of a chemist, " or have facil-
tiles for cheaply obtaining ard mixing
raw m aterials. or can spare the time, or
are possessed Of the requisite patience or
skill? 1t is absurd to suppose that the
grower who mixes his own materials can
do it cheaper than the wholesale manu-
facturer who has every advantage in
buying and every facility for mixing
and this leaves out of account the far
superior mechanical condition of the
properly mixed goods.
AS to the use Of soft ground phos-
pilates in Florida there are few soils on
which such fertilizer is less calculated
to be advantageous, or to come into solu
ton quickly. Heavy soils are" those to
which the rock phosphates are best adap-
ted, and especially soils rich in humus,
if the phosphoric acid is to be made
available. The good effects Of phos-
pilates on peaty and moor land are very
marked on this account, that the humic
acids, and humate of ammonia have
strong solvent action on the phosphoric
acid. It is a very slow process to wait
for the solution of a ground phosphate
in a light sandy soil like the average pine
land of Florida, all too slow for these
days of high farming and keen competi
ton.
We are not decrying the Florida phos
pilates when properly used, and in the
right place-but we do argue that their
right place is not on an orange grove to
be used as complete fertilizer. We adj
nit that there have been many outrage
Gus humbugs in the line of commercial
fertilizers, but we doubt if there have
been many which could surpass in bold
ness the claims quoted above as urged
for soft phosphatcs, and which your cor
respondent justly stigmatizcs as the
veriest humbug. H.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-09-13

The residence Of Mr.. T. J. Wilson, just
west OF the union depot, was destroyed
by fire Thursday night. The alarm was
given at o'clock, and in forty minutes
the house was almost entirely consumed.
Green Cove Spring.
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Work for workers! Are you ready 70
work, and do you wanI 70 make money?
Then write to B. +. Johnson & Co., of
Richmond, Va, and ste if they cannot
help you.
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competitors, with the sour, tasteless
fruit of November and December? We
speak with the authority OF personal ex-
perence when We say that the London
market prominently, beyond any other
in the wor d, demands the best of every"
thing, and will pay for it. Againsreak-
ing from personal experience We say
that the Florida orange, when Mt its
best, is the best We have picked the
golden fruit from the trees in several
lands, and found none which begins to
compare with the product Of the Florida
grOve-in fact, in the words Of the Rom
an poet, who must certainly have been
an Irishman.
"Cui nihil simile aut sccundum
"There's nothing like it, or even second to it.
And so, having his peerless fruit, which
woul undoubtedly take first place in
any high class market, VIC are to build
up a trade in England with it in it's green
November unripeneHs, instead of waiting
a month or so, and then Offering it to
the English palate n sweet and luscious
fruit. We must remember that, while
there is a very poor class Of oranges
grown in parts OF Italy, Sicily and ZONE
districts in Spain, which floods the
English maj kets with a cheap fruit, there
are some powerful rivals already in the
field, and having hold on the very class
in Ercr Il nh off md }n INV hn
Florida fruit. We doubt if our oranges
would even replace the cheap Mediterra-
mean oranges with the poorer classes;
they could not be sold at low enough
figure. But there are the delicious NAL
tese Blood, the St. Michaels, and several
fine varieties from Spain-while the Tan
are second only to the same grown in
Florida.
How suicidal seems this policy-to at
tempt to establish our fruit and to GUST
these we'll known varieties, by shipping
it to England in @ sour, half ripe condi-
ton. The Florida orange is gradually
becoming know to a certain class of
English buyers, mostly through small
aud often domestic shipments made by
the legion of young Englishmen in the
State. 1t need hardly be said that it ia
becoming gradually known and appre-
ciatCd. People who have tasted this
luscious fruit in February and March
will naturally advertise it to others, and
we can fancy the feelings Of one who, say,
in the following November, buys the
Florida orange in London-his palate
all on the qui vive with eager anticipation
when 10! on tasting it his mouth is all
puckered up with the raw free acid, and
he sadly concludes that the Maltese
Blood at one-third the price will satisfy
his soul for the future.
The unfortunate venture Of Mr. Good
sell with the EthelwOld last year was Of
course no fair test. 1t is of course open
to question whether ripper fruit would not
have stood the trying conditions Of that
voyage more satisfactorily than the IN
ripe stuff which was sent. 1t is easy to
enumerate a. score Of agricultural prod
ucts which will neither cure nor keep
under any Gil cumstances, however favor
able, if gathered immature. Anyhow,
the fact remains that the cargo arrived
in England spoiled, and the orange
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Florida's Rice Production.

In line with the claims made by the
Times of Florida's wonderful productive
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Real Estate Directory.


Any one contemplating the purchase Of real es-
0te in FLORIDA should acrite to the purtdes teloso
in aDbGte6er section they s0iSh to locate. IT is the
effort Of the Ayrtculturist to haze none but first
class firms represented in this column.
TT A. DeLAND has the most complete and
LIZ extensive assortment OF Real Estate OF
any in Florida, consisting of houses and lots,
small and large tracts OF improved and unim
proved land Orange groves from all ages from
one to fifteen years old, and from oil sizes from
onehalf acre to twenty acres or more. Much OF
this at very great bargains and on easy terms.
For further particulars call on address Fl A.
DeLANp. office opposite postOffice.
M w. SARGENT dealer in Real Estate
W1 . DeLand, Fla, has complete set OF Alb
stracts of Titles in Volusia County. Fla. deeds
perfected and taxes paid for nOn-residenrs. Cor
respOndence solicited.
ELORIDA'S advantages for small investments,
i see Real Estate Journal, Arcadia, Fla,
$1OO per year: sample. with State map, 10 cents.
A HI. HUTCHINSON Dealer in REAL
~ ESTATE, DeLand, Fla, Taxes paid and
assessments attended to for nOn-residents.
John H.. NUCKOI4S, dealer in Improved
- and Cnimproved Real Estate. DeLand, Fla.
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NLORIDA'S advantages for small investm ents,
II see Real Estate Journal, Arcadia, Fla,
$1.00 per year: sample, with State map, 10 cents.
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John H.. NUCKOI.S, dealer in Improved
and Cnimproved Real Estate. DeLand, Fla.
The morning call., 1893-12-29
TAX OR LICENSE?

The Oakland Times would like TO have
The CALL explain why, if the tariff is a
license which foreigners cheerfully pay
for the privilege of selling in our markets.
the Republicans took the duty off sugar
when it was bringing into the national
treasury S60,000,000 a year. THE CALL
has often defined the conditions under
which the tariff is tax and those under
which it takes the form of a license paid
by foreigners for the privilege of selling
goods in our market. The tariff is a tax
when it is imposed on articles which we
necessarily import. Sugar is such an
article. Whatever may be the possibilities
of the beet-sugar industry In the future, at
present we import about seven eighths
OF the entire consumption. The one
eighth of home product does not appre-
Gladly affect prices. Under these condi.
tons the sugar duties were a tax paid by
the consumer. The Republicans thought
that the treasury could do without the
100000 600 revenue drawn from this source
and consequently repealed the tax, ana, to
protect the home industry, gave a bounty
OF 2 cents pound on home production.
The wisdom of this policy seems to have
impressed the Democratic Ways and
Means Committee quite forchly, as the
tarlh bill reported contin ues sugar on the
free list and continues a constantly de-
creasing bounty for seven years longer at
the end of which period the sugar industry
may be self-supporting.