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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-03

The local cotton market remained
steady and unchanged, with a fair de-
mand for spots. The reported sales for
the day We're 1,1SO bales. At the Cotton
exchange al the first call The market was
DuHetlned steady and unchanged with
sales of TAI bales. AT the second call il
was unchanged, with reported sales of 395
bales. At the last call the market closed
bales
The following were the official spot quo
atoms, at the close of the market at the
Cotton Exchange to-day:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-03

Hubbard Bros &iod-s Circular.
New York, Dec. 2.-Hubbard Bros. &
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-24
General News Items.

Gen. Nelson A. Miles arrived al
Southampton, England last Wednes-
day on his way to the scene of the
| Greco Turkish war. He was asked
whether the conclusion of peace,
when brought about, would change
his plans. He said it would not, that
! he should start at once for Constan-
tinople and that he intends to see the
Turkish army and the armies of Eu-
rope generally before returning to the
United States.
kaleidoscope pictures of the Corbett
Fitzsimmon's fight at Carson are barr
ed from exhibition in Canada. Sir
Oliver Mowat, minister of Justice, has
drafted ain amendment to the Grimm
al code making it misdemeanor to
exhibit pictures of prize fights IN Can
ada. The penalties are severe, in
Guiding fine of from $500 to $4,000
and Imprisonment for a term not ex
ceeding u months. The amendment
will be made a government measure
and passed through both houses at
once.
A south bound passenger train on
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
railroad went through a trestle near
Ardmore, I. t., last Sunday morning,
FlICOOu pOTSOUS were uJuFGO,. UWO
fatally. A rain storm amounting al
most to a water spout caused a sud
den rise of all the small streams in
the vicinity, which caused a
trestle to give way. The coach
next to the last, the one Immediately
in front of the Pullman, was left
standing directly over the chasm, one
end resting on each bank of the gulch.
The Pullman remained on the track.
The baggage car telescoped with the
passenger coach, and the latter was
all but demolished.
Advices from London say that the
settlement of the terms of peace be-
tween Greece and Turkey threaten to
be long and difficult. The Porte has
begun by demanding everything in
public sentiment of Europe will be
outraged if single point in the list
suggested in behalf Of the sultan be
conceded. England will certainly OPP
pose every one of the preposterous
claims. England's policy in the me-
diation will be to restore the status
quo antebellum, except that the
Greeks shall evacuate Crete and per-
haps pay small indemnity The
powers are realizing now that the
process of securing Turkish consent
to such terms will be more dangerous
to the peace of Europe than the pres
ent war. In fact, the political perils
of the eastern situation are only just
beginning. The general public, in
Guiding the stock markets, take, how
ever, most rosy view Of the future.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-24
State News Items.

The Green Mountain stock farm of
Randolph is now furnishing the
White Star line of steamers with the
butter they use going both ways
across the water. They are now
shipping $50 pounds of butter per day
on an average.
The Passumpsic Congregational club
will hold their spring meeting at the
South Cong, church in ST. Johnsbury,
Thursday. May 27. An address will
be delivered in the evening by Rev.
Matthew Cantine Julien of New Bed
ford. Mass, on s.The Huguenots in
New England"
Vermont National Guard will be held
at Chester from Monday, August to
Friday, August Is inclusive. An ad-
ditional parade of the First regiment
and Light Battery as authorized by
Section All, Vermont Statutes, will
take place at Chester, on Saturday,
August Il.
Eugene NJ. Campbell of ST. Johns
bury starts Tuesday, May 25, for Zu
rich, Switzerland, to attend the in
ternational supreme lodge of Good
Templars as a representative of the
grand lodge of Vermont. The other
delegate is the grand chief templar of
Vermont. Chauncy EEL. Hayden, pr1n
cipal Of Essex Literary institute.
A sad accident occurred last week
at the home Of Alexander Ferguson
of North Pawlet. His little daughter,
aged two and q half years, was scald-
ed by falling into a wash boiler of hot
water. The mother had put the boil
er on the floor and went across, the
street, and while gone the child fell
into the water. She lived for two
hours. The flesh dropped off from
her shoulders to the end of the fin
gers. The child was favorite in the
neighborhood.
The steamer Archie Stewart of OF
tawa arrived in Burlington recently
with II barges, bringing 2,575, ZOO feet
of white pine lumber. This is by far
the largest shipment Of lumber re-
ceived at Burlington in many years,
and comes in anticipation of the new
duties likely to appear in the new
tariff bill. The steamer returned to
Rouses Point TO meet nine barges,
seven of which are loaded with lum
Der for Burlington and two for Yer
gennes. During the month of April,
1897, IL, 392, 900 feet of logs came into
the district of Vermont through the
customs, an increase in lumber of
over 7,0O0,0 900 feet over April, 1896,
and II, 100000 over April, 1894.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-24
THE UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION.

One of the very few directions in
which the world has practically
agreed to work together in amity is
that Of the development Of interna
tional postal facilities. It is greatly
to the credit of the United States that
the idea of the union originated with
one Of our citizens and that it's es
Enlistment is due to the persevering
support of this country. Montgomery
Blair, Postmaster General under Pres
ident Lincoln, was the first to see the
Importance of general system in the
| handling of foreign mails, and at the
height of our civil war preliminary
| international postal congress was
held at Paris, most of the countries of
Europe sending representatives. Uni
form rates were agreed upon, and
within ten years the maximum
foreign letter rate from the United
States was reduced from 81 .02 to 34c.
The universal postal treaty dates
from the congress held in Berne in
1874, and other congresses met in
Paris, Lisbon and Vienna, all the par
Elephants agreeing to constitute
''single postal territory for the recip-
rocal exchange of correspondence
between their post Offices" Every
civilized nation on the globe, except
two Or three in Asia and Africa, are
taking part in the international post
al congress assembled in Washing
ton.
Now that the statistics of the postal
departments of the world are careful
ly gathered at the central headquar-
tiers of the Universal Postal Union, at
Berne, the United States is able to see
at glance its national conspicuity in
postal affairs. 1t is easily first in the
number of post Offices, 70,991; the
number of employees, 1874, 607, and the
length of all routes, 454,59O miles.
Germany is second in number of post
offices and employees. The number of
pieces of mail matter handled for
each inhabitant of New South Wales
is 92.6, while in the United States it is
1919. In proportion of post offices to
area, Switzerland heads the list, with
one office to every as square miles,
the United States ranking sixteenth,
with one Office to 56.3 square miles.
This country is immensely ahead in
the total length of railroad postal
routes, 1863, 773 miles, Germany, which
is second, having ~, 243 miles. Congo
is at the foot of the list, with total
of ten offices, or one to every 104, 220
square miles, and 1900, 900 inhabitants
but, of course, not much is yet ex-
pected of Africa.-GLobe- Democrat.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-24

Hon.George n. Dale of Island Pond,
John Ell. Watson of Bradford and
John Young of Newport, the COM
mission appointed on the case of ex-
States Attorney J. @. Jones of Rut-
land, against whom disbarment pro-
ceedings were brought by Judge
Rowell, fled their report last Thurs
day. The committee finds Jones
guilty of the charges made; that in
the letter he wrote to Judge Rowell
asking for certificate on which to col
lect his salary, he gave him false
report in regard to proceedings in
prosecutions named, claiming that he
had carried out the instructions of
Judge Rowe1l, when, in fact, he had
not. The proceedings referred to
were suits to collect forfeited bail in
liquor cases.
Commencement week at.Montpelier
seminary begins on Sunday, June Ii,
with the annual baccalaureate SER
mon in Trinity church by Rev. E. M.
Smith. On Monday and Tuesday,
June IA and Is, the yearly examina-
tions will be held. On Tuesday even
ing, June Is, occurs the annual prize
speaking contest. Wednesday, June
16, at O'Clock, annual class day ex-
ercises; 10 O'Clock, annual business
meeting of the alumni association;
O'Clock in the evening, annual con-
cert of the musical department. On
Thursday morning at $3.50 will occur
the graduating exercises, followed by
the alumni banquet at the Pavilion,
and in the evening the annual public
reception will be given in the semi
nary chapel.
State Superintendent M. S. Stone
and his associates have completed
arrangements for the summer schools
to be held in Barton, st. Johnsbury,
Randolph, Putney, Middlebury and
Essex Junction. 1t was thought best
to hold these schools at the same
time, Monday, August 2, to Saturday,
August IA. Among the prominent
educators in New England and else
where, who will be present are DR..
William A. Mowsey of Hyde Park,
Mass; A. w. Edison of Worcester,
Mass; I. Freeman Hall of North
Hampton, Mass; G. T. Fletcher of
North Adams, Mass; Miss Flora E.
Kendall of North Leominister, Mass;
L. P. Nash of Gardner, Mass; Miss
Isabelle Terry of Easthampton,M Mass,
and III. w. Maxsom of Plainfield, NJ.
Every effort will be put forth to make
these summer schools the best and
most profitable ever held in the
State. Mr.. Stone will gladly give adj
ditional particulars.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-24

Try GRAIN O! TRY GRAIN o! Ask
your grocer to-day to show you pack
of Grain Q, the new food drink that takes
the place of coffee. The children may
rink it without I'M ury as well as the adult
All who try it, like it, GrainO has that
rich Seal brown of Mocha or Java but it is
made from pure grains and the most deli
cate stomachs receives it without distress.
a the price of coffee. 15c. and Csc per pack
age. Sold by al grocers.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-24
rs THE


TWO Greatest Blood Purifi-
ers ever produced in Natures
Laboratory combined IN ONE,
with every medicinal and cur
alive property of each perfectly
and permanently preserved. It
has no equal-not even a rival
but stands alone as the one
single certain, safe and speedy
specific for soothing, ST. ength-
ening and sustaining the whole
suffering human system.
1000 the BOttle-1c the Dose.
Get 1T of any Druggist, or
THE JAMES w. FOSTER CO.,
BATH, ~. n.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-24

More than twenty years practice in ans
wering the questions of inventors and
owners of patents have given G. A. Snow
& Co. of Washington, D. c., remarkab BILE
facility in this line as may be seen from a
little book they have sent US, and which
they will send free to any address. In this
pamphlet, they have anticipated and ans
wered about every question inventors
have invented, and thae is saying good
deal
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-24
Geo. H. Davis.

Our guarantee is like a Bank |
} Check-if your purchase does
I not suit you, bring back the
goods and draw your money.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-24

DE PORT OF THE CONDITION OF
N THE BARTON NATIONAL BANK, at
Barton, in the State of Vermont, at the close
of business, May IA, 1897.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts, $209, 494.35
U. S. Bonds to secure circulation, 37,5OO.o0
Premiums u. S. Bonds, S,550.00
Stocks, securities, ETC., 6,650.32
clearinghouse, furniture & fixtures, 100000
Due from approved reserve agents, 9,452.14
Checks and other cash items, 282.18
Notes of other National Banks, $4,000
and cents. 1o1.4O
La1Cfut money reserUe IN bank, 06z:
Specie, S,525.10
Legal-tender notes, 2,OO5.OO
U. S. Certif's of Dep. for legal --
tenders, 1O,53O.1O
Redemption fund with U. S. Treas
urer Is per ct. of circulation), 1,6s7.5O
TOTAL, 1892, 1879
Capital stock paid in, $15Ol0O0.00
Surplus fund, 6,425.00
Undivided profits, less expenses
and taxes paid, 5,360.11
National Bank notes outstanding, 49, 10000
Individual deposits subject to check, 40,513.19
Demand certificates of deposit, Al 605.72
Cashiers checks outstanding, 5,033.97
TOTAL, 1882, 697 SO
STATE OF VERMONT, 1, H. K. DEWEY,
COUNTY OF ORLEANS, SIS. Cashier of the
above named bank, do solemnly swear that
the above statement is true to the best of my
knowledge and belief.
II. K. DEWEY, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
22nd day of May 1897.
Correct-Attest,
ANGRY DAWSON
WIN. 3. BLAsDELL Directors
J. E. DWINELL,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-24

The two year-old son of George B.
Walton of Montpelier fell from a two
story window Monday and died from
a fractured skull.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-24
The Peoples Store.

D EPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
Ia THE BARTON NATIONAL BANK, at
! Barton, in the State of Vermont, at the close
! of business. Nav IA. 1897.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-24

If you wish a sample copy write
us and it will be mailed FREE.
Evening journal., 1897-03-01
SOME QUEER CUSTOMS.
Mining Camp Dishwashine and Tory Is
land TenmnlSirg.


An old camper out once related TO a
Mortified housekeeper his experience Of
dishwashing in miners camp. 1t did
not take much time. though the com
pany was numerous and the utensils Of
the Kitchens were in constant use. The
reason why it took but little time he
sufficiently indicated by the statement
that the cook pot was not cleaned till
it became too small 70 hold q pudding
Of reasonable size. Then somebody got
a hammer and knocked off the hardened
accrctions from its interior till il was
restored nearly enough to its original
capacity 10 render further service
On Tory island, an out of the way bit
of an Irish islet, and indeed to a less
degree throughout Donegal, the natives
are not much more dainty in their liv-
ing, and their habit Of letting the
grounds remain indefinitely in their tea
pots has disastrous consequences.
Every day and all day long, says
a recent writer, the teapot sits stew
ing in the ombers of the hearth, and at
each successive brew fresh tea is thrown
in, but the old is never thrown out un-
til the pot is choled. " The result is an
unusual and excessive rate of insanity.
Little wonder, when Tory island boy
who was questioned as to his usual
meals, conld reply:
"Stirabout for breakfast and tay for
dinner; tay, av coorse, at taytime and
stirabout for supper, whiles we have
tay fer breakfast instead and stirahout
for our dinner, and then another sup OF
tay before bedtime.
However, this diet, injurious as it is
TO the nerves, does not seem 90 affect
the muscles The Tory islanders are
robust and vigorous race, the men av.
eraging feet in height ard the womor
unusually tall and strong. The womu
indeed have need of all their physioa
strength, since it is they who do the
bulk of the outdoor work, while th'
men stay at home and spin and weave
"At Anaery Strand on Sunday
morning, says the same observer, 'ou'
may witness a strange sight At low
tide more than mile of roundabout j
saved by wading across narrow bay
/ The men include IN their Sunday
wardrobe shoes and stockings Ih
women, by courtesy and custom, wea
'mal tyeens' -footless stockings, with
loop passing over the toe. Each GOO
wife takes her good man upon her shoul
ders, and the heroes are conveyed acros
cry shod. Youths Companion.
Evening journal., 1897-03-01
Her Trlbute 70 Lner stone.

Mrs. Mary e. Holmes, the faithful
and efficient president of the Illinois
Equal Suffrage association, has been
obliged by domestic cares and duties
to resign her official position. She will
be greatly missed, but viii continue to
advise and plan for the cause. In pri-
vate letter she writes:
If dear Lucy Stone was on the earth,
I should explain 70 her first Of all why
have resigned my state position. She
was and is my inspiration and god
mother in suffrage work. She was such
a good wife and mother that / feel sure
she would tell me TO do my duty to the
home before any other. hope I can re-
turn 20 the work at some future time,
bat now heart and brain must be given
90 the home and home interests. shall
still do what little I can for our beloved
cause and shall watch the battle with
great interest.
Evening journal., 1897-03-01
SHIP LIGHTING.
Row Electrical Appliances Are Now 9TH
ized For This Purpose.

tied For This Purpose.
When electrical plants were first IN
stalled aboard ship, lead incascd cables,
run in ordinary molding, were used al
most entirely, and in case Of iron ships
the hull was frequently employed for
the return circuit. The latter method
scon passed out Of use, for it not only
increased the fire hazard, but was in
efficient mechanically, and also liable
to give rise to disturbing influences ON
the ships compasses.
Lead incased conductors i'll ordinary
molding were used on the first two
United States men-of-war having cleo
trio plants-the Trenton and Omaha
but with unsatisfactory results in each
case. In the latter ship, the electrical
plant of which was installed by the
wvitor in 1884, the lead incased port
and starhoard mains passed through
holes bored in live oak knees, one hole
to about each six feet of run, and the
writer has vivid recollection of the
difficulties encountered in boring several
hundred three-quarter and half inch
holes through about eight inches Of
gnarled oak, very nearly as hard to
pierce as some Of the tougher metals. II
is perhaps needless to say that the cost
of labor and tools was no small item in
the cost Of installation.
Lead incased conductors were finally
discarded, except in some special work,
as the protection from injury to the in.
sulation and from moisture, which the
lead sheath was supposed to give was
found TO be illusory. Dents caused
short circuiting on the sheath of the
conductors while punctures, permitting
the entrance of moisture, led 10 bat
grounds as we'll as short circuits
At the present day what may be call
ed a composite system for the installa
tion Of the distributing conductors il
employed Equal security in all part
of the installation is the object kept il
view, aid to obtain this several systems
are blended together as one While
molding and flexible conduits are uscS
in the saloons and cabins, the conduct
ors in the machinery spaces and hold
are run in iron coduits, which are thor
oughly insulated on the inside, an,
special fittings are employed in passin,
through the decks and bulllheads. Spe
cial water tight switches, cutouts ant
fixtures are also used wherever there j
exposure to the weather. E. G. Ber
nard in Casters Magazine.
Evening journal., 1897-03-01
He Likea solitndn.

joaquin Miller has been in New Or
leans recently, grizzled and gray, but as
young in the eyes "as a 20-year-old
youth flushed with the victories Of a
patient muse, F" so the reporter puts it.
The aged poet said he had no money
and cared for none, but found in nature
refreshment for body and mind. 1T is
a life among the solitudes that tinges a
mans aims with sentiment and gives
10 his soul light that sordid ambition
either drives away or makes impossi-
ble, +" said joaquin.
Evening journal., 1897-03-01
wildcat and Porcupine.

A large wildcat that had gone hungry
three days sneaked down the big beech
ridge above Balygump, Me-, with its
face screwed into as ugly a sneer as
ever a wildcat wore Beyond the ridge,
where the ground sank into a gullyhEe
swamp, the wildcat found fat porcu-
pine on the ground. The cat evidently
found the porcupine tempting TO look
on, for it promptly went ON the hunt
with all the craft it could exercise. Be
hind a hummock, along snow ridge,
over a fallen log and through a sprin-
king Of bush tops the cat made its way
and approached the porcupine. Then it
sprang and gripped its claws on its prey.
1t sought TO roll the porcupine over 50
as to bite it ON the belly. 1t succeeded
only partially, and filed its jaws full
of short quilts from the porcupine'
side. The porcupine died quickly. but
the wildcat, with its jaws distended
with the quilts, could not cat tic meat,
being able only to lap up litue cf tho
blood.
The agony to the wildcat was so great
after awhile that the brute rolled ovel
and over in the snow, finally forcing q
quill through an eye and into its brain.
New York Sun.
Evening journal., 1897-03-01
Buttons.

Buttons are certainly as ancient rs
the siege Of Troy, in the ninth century
before our era, for, both in that unfor-
tunate city and at MycenR, Dr.. ScL--e-
mann discovered objects Of gold, silver
and bronze which could have had no
other use than that Of buttons. In me
dieval times the clothing Of the cc,lmon
people was generally fastened with
wooden pegs Of the type and form Of
those resorted TO in emergencies by tho
country boy Of the present day. Buttons
covered with cloth We're prohibited by
George !, in 1920, TO encourage the
manufacture of metal buttons
Evening journal., 1897-03-01
BRIDAL FAvORs.
An Ancient and Curious German We'd
ding Custom.

An Ancient and Curious German We'd
ding Custom.
In The Ladies Home Journal Max
Won Binzer writes Of his experience as
"A Page at the Berlin Court" upon the
occasion of a double royal wedding and
of the preceding and succeeding festivi-
ties. Describing an ancient and curious
custom, he writes: "And now-after the
wedding, dinner and ball-came the
'Fackeltanz. Several Of the highest
officials entered the hall with flaming
torches. A procession was formed, with
the bride in the midst A number of
complicated polonaise figures We're then
executed, after which the line closed
about the bride and groom and marched
out as escort to the bridal chambers.
AS the doors Of the bridal apart
ments closed upon the happy pair VIC
found ourselves Immediately next the
entrance We waited expectantly for the
next feature, holding our advantageous
position with some difficulty. In a few
moments the doors few open, and half
a thousand silken garters, with the mon
ograms embossed on the gold buckles,
were thrown out by the ladies of honor
Court etiquette was for the nonce for
gotten. Generals, courtiers, chamber
lains and state ministers scrambled and
fought with one another for these me-
mentos. But we pages, rest assured, got
the lions share. have several Of these
souvenirs now, although many were
given away by me that night to beseech-
ing dignitaries "