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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-30
LIVING EX-GOVERNORS.

Vermonters are proverbially mod
est, but we would be recreant to duty
were we to allow this opportunity to
pass without calling attention to the
healthful influence of the governor
ship of the Green Mountain state as
demonstrated by our list of living
ex-governors. The dean of Vermont's
emeritus executives now surviving
is our venerable and honored war
governor, Frederick Holbrook of
Brattleboro, who was elected to the
position thirty five years ago. The
next in point of seniority are Hon.
George w. Hendee of Morrisville, who
filed out the unexpired term of Gov.
Peter T. Washburne, deceased in
1870, and Hon. John W. Stewart of
Middlebury, who was governor during
the gubernatorial term of 1S70-72.
Redfield Proctor was elected to the
executive chair in 1878, and his sue
cessors as ex-governors were Ros-
we'll Farnham of Bradford, John l..
Barstow of Shelburne, Samuel z.
Pingree of Hartford, Ebenezer j.
Ormsbee of Brandon, William P. Dill
bingham of Waterbury, Carroll S.
Page of Hyde Park, and Levi K. Full
Ter of Brattleboro.
It's noteworthy fact that of the
men who have been governors Of the
State from 1878 down to the present
time, ali are living, and inasmuch as
their combined terms of office have
covered a period of % years, Vermont
can undoubtedly safely challenge any
of her sister states to beat this record.
This distinction in addition to the fact
that we have eleven ex- governors,
with Gov. Woodbury. shortly to be
added to the list by rule, ought not
only to recommend our governors to
the life insurance companies as emf
nently safe risks, but should also en-
title Vermont to the palm among
states for ex gubernatorial longevity.
Free Press.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-30
RECEIVER FOR THE CEN
TRIAL VERMONT.

The Central Vermont Railroad COM
pany has gone into the hands of re-
CeiVerS.
The receivership is the result of a
suit in equity brought by the Grand
Trunk against the Central Vermont
for S615, 712, 40 traffic balances accru
ing for the past four months. Appli-
cation was made by the parties in in
terest to Judge Wheeler of the United
States district court for Vermont Fri
day. The court has named Charles
II. Hayes, general manager of the
Grand Trunk, and Pres. E. @. Smith
of the Vermont Central as receivers
for the Vermont district. On Satur-
day auxiliary proceedings were COM
menced in the United States circuit
who appointed the same receivers for
the Massachusetts, district, fixing the
bonds at $50, 600.
The entire history of the Central
Vermont railroad, from the day of it's
construction to the present moment,
has been one continuous story of loss
and litigation. The road has always
been run at loss, and, experts say,
never can be SO managed as to pay
expenses; and the litigation arising
from it forms disgraceful chapter in
the history of Vermont
The main line-formerly known at
the Vermont Central was completed
in 1850. 1t was built by Burlington
and Boston capital and it's construc-
ton ruined the Burlingtonian engag-
ed in it and there were immense loss
es at the Boston end. In 1854 the road
was surrendered to the trustees of the
mortgages, who ran it year, when it
went into the hands of receivers
Lawrence Brainerd, Joseph Clark and
John Gregory Smith. The personel of
the receivers was changed from time
to time, through death or resignation,
but the practical management was in
the hands of John Gregory Smith.
The receivership ran along for Is
years, when, in 1872, the receivers
notes went to protest. Thereupon, in
the next year, the Central Vermont
Railroad company was appointed re-
ceiver and manager. A few years
later consolidation of interests was
effected and the Central Vermont
Railroad company became the actual
possessor of the property.
1t was supposed at the time, and
has been supposed up to short time
ago, that the consolidation of inter-
ests and reorganization bad placed
the property on hard-pan basis, SO
that it might be able to meet it's obi
cations; but such, it now appears,
was not the case. President Smith
has done everything that could be
done; but to achieve success was an
impossibility.- Burlington NeaUs.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-30

bility of endeavoring to renew the re-
ciprocity agreements made with many
foreign countries under the terms of
the Mckinley tariff act. The replies so
far received number seventy nine.
including the largest manufacturing
concerns east of the Mississippi river,
and those most heavily interested in
the export trade. There is an un-
questionable preponderence of desire
for the renewal of the reciprocity
agreements noted in the replies, and
in many cases the writer's cite figures
to show the great diminutionI in their
export trade that has followed the re-
peal of the provision of the law under
which these agreements existed. In
few cases is there any attempt made
writer's in the matter. A firm favor
ing reciprocity, in answer to the di-
rect question, writes:
"Decidedly; yes. We are more and
more convinced that what we want
is not free trade and the writer makes
this admission after having been for
fifteen years a free trader" The
next statement comes from great
importing house, which writes that
while reciprocity is all well enough
the best interests Of this country lie
in free trade.
Three great commercial organiza
lions are on the committees list of
correspondents, and all of them are
r recorded as most emphatically favor
ing reciprocity. They are the Millers'
National association, @. A. Pillsbury,
president; the Cincinnati Chamber Of
Commerce, and Merchants Exchange
and the Cleveland Chamber of Com
Of the seventy nine replies receiv-
ed thus far sixty four are strongly in
of renewal of the reel
procity agreements.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-30
RECIPROCITY WANTED.

The Wilson-Gorman tariff, in def
ance of equity and of regularly nego-
tiated treaties, struck down recipro-
city with the idea of annihilating that
principle as enacted into law. But
that was a great mistake. The people
want reciprocity as is shown by the
very general response which is being
made by the commercial and manu-
featuring interests of the country to
the circular letters addressed to them
by the ways and means sub commit
tee on reciprocity and commercial
treaties, inviting expressions of
opinion from them as to the advisa-
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-30
SENATOR MILLS ON SPAIN.

There is no likelihood of the pas
sage by Congress of the bill introduce
ed last Monday by Senator Mills of
Texas directing the President to re-
quest Spain to grant self government
to Cuba, and further directing him, in
case of Spain's refusal to do so, to eff
feet a military occupation of the is
land. The enactment of such meas
ure would be nothing else than an act
of war.
Nevertheless, the mere introduction
of the bill. extreme as is its language,
will tend to offset the recent antagon-
ism to the very temperate concurrent
resolution of recognition of Cuban
belligerency. This antagonism has
not only served to disappoint, and,
perhaps to discourage the brave,
struggling patriots, but it has appar-
emily had the effect of making large
part of the Spanish nation believe
that the reaction in Congress was due
to the warlike talk and the vigorous
preparations for war in Spain that i'm
mediately followed the first adoption
of resolutions by the Senate. The ac-
ton of certain obstructive senator's,
indeed, has really had the result of in
Turing the pres tige of the United
States with both Cubans and Spani-
ards, the former being led to believe
that Americans are unreliable friends,
and the latter that we have been aw-
ed into regret for the earlier Con-
gressional action, neither of which is
the fact.-TrdUeler.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-30
State News Items.

Judge L. S. Small, we'll known cit
izen Of Lamoille county, died at Hyde
Park last week.
Buzzell and Mrs. Marsh of North
field, arrested as the supposed MUIR
derers of Geo. Marsh. have been
bound up by the Justice and lodged in
Montpelier jail.
The trial of Ira r. Allen of Fair
Haven, charged with having given
aWay LIQUOR at the state fish hatchery
in November 1894, will begin in Mont
pelier April %.
The Burlington Nea0s says: Cover
nor Woodbury. has received word
from Washington that Vermont's
claim against the government for ex-
penses incurred in raising troops in
the war for the Union that were never
mustered into the service has been
adjusted at $40, 543, 73. This allowance
has been reported to Congress. and is
now under consideration by the Sem
ate committee on military affairs.
The Experiment Station at Burling-
ton has just issued Bulletin so. con-
tanning analizes Of 13 samples of com
mercial fertilizers. They are leading
brands of all but three of manufacture
ers licensed to sell in Vermont. The
analyses and guarantees are compar-
ed and the valuation of ingredients
determined. A schedule of trade
values agreed upon by the Expert
ment Stations of the New England
and Middle States is given and dis
cussed. Two more fertilizer bulletins
will be issued in April and May. The
analyses will be posted in the post
offices. The bulletins, as we'll as all
publication will be sent free Of charge
to any address upon application to the
Station, Burlington, VT.
Children never object to taking Adamson's
Cough Balsam. 1t is pleasant to the taste,
always relieves the soreness OF the lungs at
once and makes restful sleep at night posi-
Bile when all other remedies fail.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-30

4 DoubleP drawing by A. B.
Frost will be one Of the pictorial feat
ures Of Harper's Weekly for March
28th. The same number will contain
under the caption "The Redemption
of the Palms," valuable article on
the great semi-arid regions of the
West, with a discussion of measures
that may be taken to bring them un-
der cultivation. Music lovers will
look forward to another article in
this issue of the Weekly: an intimate
biographical sketch of Anton Seidl,
by w. j. Henderson.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-30
In SeIf-DefenSe

you ought to keep your flesh up. Disease
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stand ard No matter how this comes. what
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Rupture or breach, permanently cured with
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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-30

Annual sales more than 100000 boxes.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-30
A CARD.

We, the undersigned, agree to refund
the money on afifty-cent bottle of Greene S
Syrup of Tar if it fails to cure your cough
or cold. We also guarantee a twenty-five
cent bottle to prove satisfactory or no pay.
H. G.. PIERCE, Barton,
D. W. HILDRETH, Barton Landing,
III. S. WEBSTER, .
A. PADDOCK, North Craftsbury,
j. T. URIE, Craftsbury,
J. FRANK RUGGLEs, West Burke,
WHEELER & LOCKE, Irasburgh. $50
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-30

Harper's Magazine for April con-
tains the concluding chapters of the
story Of 'Joan of Arc" showing the
maid and conquerer as at last the
martyr. The frontispiece is an en-
craving by Florian, of the mural
painting by Lenepveu in the Panthe-
on at Paris-a striking representation
of the execution Of Joan. An engrav
ing is given of Fremiet's statue, and
other illustrations of the closing
scenes of the imprisonment and mar
tyrdom from drawings by by Du
Mond. A poem by Katrina Trask
author of ''Under King Constantine"
entitled "a Night and Morning in Je
rusalem," beautifully illustrated by
Mowbray, is special feature. "Mad
Anthony Wayne's Victory" by the
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, a bright
contrast to the disastrous defeat of
St. Clair, already described by the
same writer in the February Hdrper's,
is clearer revelation than has yet
been made public of the relation of
British commanders in the Northwest
to the Indian wars Of that period.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-30

Beecham's pills for consti-
patton 100 and 25a. Get the
book at your druggists and
go by it.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-30

The Presidential campaign upon
which the country has already enter
ed presents the most complex polite
al situation which has been witnessed
in the United States since the Civil
War. The Republican and Democrat
ic parties are shaken to their centers
by clashing opinions upon the silver
question The Populist party, and
the possibility if not probability of
distinct free coinage party with
Presidential ticket of it's own, serve to
increase the confusion and perpIexity
in which even intelligent and candid
observers find themselves. It is at
such time that the reader of Public
Opinion appreciates the value of
paper that gives him a fair, unbiased,
well-proportioned statement from
week to week of the facts and of the
drift of discussion. Public Opinion
gives it's readers a great deal more
than this, but This is the thing for
which it will be especially sought dur
ing the next eight months. Send
postal card to the Public Opinion Co.,
New York City, for sample copy and
premium offers, or call at this Office
for information.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-07-01

Notices have been posted at all collieries
of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal COM
pany that work is discontinued until fur
Their notice Eight thousand men and
boys are made idle.
John Chamber, laborer living at Chi
cago, attempted TO board "a moving train
on the Michigan Central railway when he
fell under the wheels. His right leg was
cut Off
The City of Highlands has been annexed
to Denver increasing the latter's popula-
ton by 10000.
At Indianapolis, Ind, a team OF horses
attached TO IA carriage in which were ex-
President Harrison and wife, started to
run away and the rig was grazed by an
electric car The horses were finally
quieted.
A hail storm in western Nebraska Gov.
cred the railroads TO a depth of four feet in
some places and blockaded trains.
George II. Eaton, timekeeper of the Chi
cago department of public works, has been
discharged, the civil service investigation
having shown that the Il mekeeper had
taken liberties with the pay roll. Eaton
own clock was unreliable, according TO the
evidence
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-07-01

~ free silver. The pith OF the first 10:
X hat we are unalterably opposed to the
ii, lie gold standard and demand an I'm
ine.hate return TO the constitutional
money of gold and silver by the restors-
ton 10y this government, Independents Of
other nations. OF the unrestricted coinage
Of both silver and gold into standard
money at the ratio of 10 TO l, and upon
terms of exact equality existing prior 70
1873; such silver coin TO be full legal
tender, equally with gold. for all debts
and dues, public and private"
There was minority report. but 70 was
mot In the running" The vote on the
platform was-free silver. 642; 'honest
money" 1850 IL Is shown that the gold
men were stronger than they were expect
ed TO be.
Delegates-at-large 10 Chicago; Allen w
Thurman. of Columbus; f. b. Finley. OF
Bucyrus; l.. K. Holden. Of Cleveland.
and John r. Mclean, of Cincinnati.
State ticket; Secretary of state. Chill
ton A White. of Georgetown. judge
of the supreme court. E. j. Blandin, of
Cleveland; food and dairy commissioner,
Patrick McKeown; member board of
public works. William Beaumont.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-07-01
Thursday, June %.

An aged man, name unknown, was
blown into the lake at the foot of Six
teenth street, Chicago, and drowned.
At Mountain Greene, Mo-, big fight is
on over bloomers. Some of the girls wore
them in public and caused sensation.
The ministers uphold dress reform while
the papers declare the uniforms TO be per-
fectly vulgar.
Emma and Louise Dinker, aged IL and
~ respectively, have been missing from
their home at Chicago since Monday
morning. They may have run away, but
the indications now are that they have
been kidnapped.
The supreme court of Ohio has decided
the excise tax law, requiring express COM
panies to pay an annual tax of per cent.
of their gross receipts on business done in
that state valid.
At Newton Ia, during the perfor nance
of circus trick mule threw its rider
and stepped on his breast, probably in
flicting fatal internal injuries
Nine bicyclists who were arrested by
South Park. Chicago, policemen for riding
without lights on their wheels were fined
s. and costs each.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-07-01
DECLARED A DRAW.
sharkey and Corbett Meet In the Ring at
San Francisco.

sharkey and Corbett Meet In the Ring at
san Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO. June 25.-Sharkey, the
an-of-warsman and heavyweight favorite
of the coast put up a remarkably gamy
contest with the champion of the world,
James j Corbett Wednesday night He
landed frequently on the champion, and
though not a particularly scientific boxer,
his blows were effective, and at the end of
the fourth round Corbett appeared groggy
and unable TO land heavy blow. He fell
down and got mixed up with the referee,
Frank Carr, and fell again. The clinches
by Corbett were interpreted as being due
TO desire to avoid his opponent $ effective
rushes
, Sharkey once adopted foul tactics and
refused TO break away The police rushed
into the ring in the fourth round and
forced Sharkey into his corner. He
strongly objected TO this and was anxious
10 continue-more so than was Corbett
The referee put veto TO Sharkey's ambi-
lions by declaring draw. Ten thousand
people were present in the big Mechan-
les pavilion TO witness the bouts. The
fistic exhibition was under the IN mage
ment of the National Athletic club of this
CITY
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-07-01
Saturday, June 81.

Milton b. Wells, who murdered Jennie
Walters at Goshen, Ind, committed sui
eide by hanging, using rope made out OF
his bedclothes.
Irving l.. Ford, a negro, was hanged at
Washington for the murder of Miss Kre-
glo, white girl 10 years old, who lived
with her parents in the country about a
mile from the city limits.
5. X. Dawson, who killed Walter Scott,
his son-in-law, the day before last Christ
mas, was given ten years in the peniten.
tiary by jury ut Des Moines.
News has been received at Washington
that Venezuela has released the crown sur.
veyor Harrison, arrested for crossing the
disputed boundary line.
Despite the protests of the English cable
company the Brazilian government has
granted to another company the privilege
of establishing LAND telephone service TO
connect Rio Janeiro with all ports north
TO Para. The concession is heartily sup
ported by the press.
Mrs. George Beban has sued the city OF
Chicago for 5000 damages because of her
arrest for kissing her husband on the
street.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-07-01
HISTORY OF A WEEK.


The earthquake in Japan is now TO
ported to have killed $4,000 people.
The dowager empress Of China Is dead.
The agitation Of gold-money standard
10 having It's effect at Hazelton. Pa. The
laborers are demanding their pay In gold.
The color line has been drawn at As
bury Park. N. j., and separate beaches are
provided for whites and negroes.
Louis David aged FL. OF Toledo. o..
made fan of an old officer who was guard
ing live wire The young man grabbed
hold of IL. and was killed instantly
The court HOUSE, of Sheridan county.
Kan. was burned with all the records, by
burglars who had first robbed the treasury
of $500.
Mrs. Isabel Leach, OF Kokomo. Ind,
dropped dead while preparing breakfast
for guests attending Sunday school con-
vention. in which she was too active a
worker
At Tacoma. Wash, are two sea serpents,
ten and eight feet long. which were caught
In Hoods canal Puget Sound. by two
fishermen.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-07-01
MISGUIDED EFFlE CULVER.
indianapolis Church Organist Elopes with
"A Married Man,

Married Man.
INDIANAPOLIS, June 29.-Church and
society circles are greatly interested in the
elopement of Miss Effie Culver, organist,
and Collin j. Campbell choir leader of
the Sixth Christian church of this city
The police have been called upon to locate
the missing parties, but as it is supposed
they have sailed for England, it is be-
lieved the quest of the officers will be
fruitless. Miss Culver is only 10 years of
age while her companion is a married
man 80 years of age. The girl is regard
ed here as musical prodigy and as her
family is one of the most aristocratic in
the state the affair will be more than a
ninedays' subject for conversation.
Campbell is also an embeZzler Manager
r. ID. Hughes, of the Metropolitan Life
Insurance company, for whom the miss
ing man worked, has examined his ac-
counts and finds them short. Warrants
are out for his arrest. Campbell for a
short time was a resident of Chicago. Sew
eral months ago he left there for Indiana,
deterting his wife and children. They
located him and in some way the family
differences were adjusted.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-07-01
Friday, June &c.

King Humbert unveiled monument at
Milan TO the memory of his father, King
Victor Emanuel
James Winrow, of Atchison Kas., has
become insane studying the financial
problem.
New York coal dealers have advanced
the price of coal % cents on the ton.
John Barry, Of New Brunswick, n. j.,
was placed under arrest for snoring. His
defense was that he didn't know when he
snored and could find no law compelling
him to remain awake nights to prevent It.
Mills & Gibbs warerooms, on the third
floor of the building at "a and 26 Adams
street, Chicago, were entered by thieves
and s., 600 worth of lace curtains and dra-
peries taken away in n wagon.
Henry NJ. Stanley, NJ. p, the African
explorer, is i'll in London with inflamma.
ton of the stomach. He has been unable
TO take food for several days and his con-
dition is serious.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-07-01
THE DEATH RECORD.
osEPH X. c. FOSTER. veteran journal.

JOSEPH X G. FOSTER. veteran journal
list, at Chicago
HENRY b. STICK, well-known stock
yards commission man, at Chicago.
HORACE 4. MORGAN, oldest conductor
on the Wabash railway at Decatur, Ills.
Ex-Congressman A Il WALLING. al
Circleville, o.
Captain WILLIAM MATTHIEs. prominent
lawyer and physician. at Leavenworth,
Kan.
Colonel A. G. BRACKET u. 5. A. ire
tired), at Washington.
MARTIN r. MURPHEY. one of the best.
known citizens of Decatur, Ills.
JOHN w. KELLY. the well-known variety
actor, at New York
WILLIAM SHAW, prominent railway con.
tractor, at Beloit, Wis.
DAVID A. KING, old resident of Cham
paign, Ills.