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C OUNTY
VOL. 24--NO. 40.
Barton, Vermont, Monday, October 7, 1895.
Geo. IT. Blake, Publisher.
RLEANS COUNTY MONITOR.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
CEO. H. BLAKE.
BARTON. VT.
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ate where your paper is now sent.
Kates of Advertising made known on ap-
lication. All cuts must have metal body.
Prophet Wiggins savs that the great
akes are drying up. Wiggins is not.
President Clevelands's third term is
hot causing the country nearly so
niich anxietv as is his second.
And we would also have'a remark -
ible rice crop this year. Careful es-
imates place it as 175,000,000 lbs., or
iO p. c. morelthan in 1890. We do not
produce as much as we annually con
sume, but we shall come this year
nearer the mark than ever before.
The movement to shorten the pres-
Iidential campaigns of the future is
most commendable, and its success
Iwould bring so much relief to the
people of the country. The average
voter is intelligent enough to thor
oughly size up candidates and weigh
issues in the period of two months.
By all means let the campaign be
I shortened.
Speaking of the work of the late
Democratic convention in New York,
the New York Press says:
Yet what a travestyof Democracy
is this! The Democratic party is the
natural foe of monopoly, and yet the
State Convention, with inconceivable
stupidity, ' grants soj".far as it can a
perpetual monopoly of power and
privelege in the party organization in
this city to one faction.
Senator Hill is hardly to be blamed
for feeling somewhat perturbed over
the political outlook in his state. Two
years ago he made a most active and
vigorous campaign for Maynard, and
lost the state by 101,000 votes. Last
year he made a tremendous fight for
himself and lost the state 156,000. He
has "sounded the keynote" and open
ed the campaign again this year; but
the people do not seem to be paying
any attention to it. It is possible that
he is beginning to see that the people
are tired of D. B. Hill.
When China once heard that Eng
land wanted the viceroy of the pro
vince of Sze-Chuen removed, for his
connection with the missionary mur
ders, he did not remain viceroy long.
England has a persuasive way of se
curing attentiou to her requests. Ger
many too, according to the cable des
patches recently, has made her wishes
known so audibly as to have action
taken on them at once. Meanwhile
the United States maunders along in
so helpless and lackadaisical a fashion
as to increase China's contempt for
her.
The executive committee of the
Woman's Association, opposed to
having the privilege of suffrage ex
tended to women, has issued an ad
dress to women, urging them to si
lence, that is, to simply abstaining
from voting. The address urges that
the present division of labor and re-
sponsibility
founded in
between the sexes is
immutable natural law,
and is therefore wise and politic.
There will be great interest in the re
sult of the vote, though it can only
have the legal effect of a recommend
ation, either way.
The advocates of increased activity
in securing good roads are using the
apparent approach of the use of horse
less carriages as an additional argu
ment in favor of their movement. In
this they are unquestionably in the
right. If horseless vehicles are used
to fill any large place in everyday
life, conditions must be made such
that they may be used for much more
than mere pleasure riding within the
limits' where streets are kept paved
and smooth as now. The great major
ity of country roads, even in the bet
ter provided arts of our country in
that regard, are not practicable for
anything of that description. Roads
will have to be immensely improved
above what they now are before the
day of the horse is past in the country.
It is understood that the suffrage
committees of the South Carolina
constitutional convention has finished
its work and that the plan agreed up
on is a modification of the Mississippi
one, with a "loophole." That is, there
is a straight educational qualification
as a contingency after the first regis
tration of voters. This is intended to
shut out the colored voters, no mat
ter how well qualified they may be,to
let in all the white voters, no matter
how ignorant they may be. To place
race prejudices and race hatred in the
fundamental law of a Commonwealth
is a burning shame and disgrace.
The decision of the jury in acquit
ting Walcott and O'Brien of prize
fighting, in face of the declarations of
Judges Ely and Sherman, is the most
valuable contribution that could be
made towards the future supression
of prize fighting in this State. It
serves to call public attention to the
matter and to arouse public indigna
tion. Early in 1896 the laws on the
statute books in Massachusetts will be
framed in such a way that we shall
certainly be on par with Texas in
stopping prize fighting. If our offici
als had the same spirit in the matter
that the Texas governor has it could
be made so unpleasant for the prize
fighters that they would not, even
now, speak of Boston as the "para
dise of pugilism." Boston Recorder
The announcement is made by a
leading medical society in Philadel
phia that consumption is decidedly on
the wane in that city. From 1881 to
18S7 the average number of deaths
per year from the disease was 2800,
and for the last seven years the aver
age was 2643. Taking into account
the increase in population, the decline
in the mortality from consumption
has been over 30 per cent in fourteen
years. Physicians in the city attri
bute the marked change to the im
proved paving, draining, cleaning and
sewering of streets and alleys, and to
the greater caution exercised in deal
ing with the disease as probably con
tagious. The figures are a striking
example of the vital importance of
municipal and personal cleanliness.
It is reported that Pres. Faure of
France will visit Russia next spring
as the guest of Nicholas II., and be
present at the coronation of the lat
ter at Moscow. There would be nat
urally attached considerable impor
tance to this visit in itself, but if
the French President first visits
Denmark, Sweden and Norway, it will
have additional significance, especial
ly if the programme should include,
as is intimated, a grand display of the
combined French, Russian and Danish
fleets at Coburg. England, Germany
and Austria would be inclined to re
gard thi3 visiting as a direct menace,
and counter demonstrations would be
the order of the day. But demon
strations of this kind do not contri
bute to the peace of Europe.
Sec. Olney is understood to have
given the British Guiana-Venezuelan
boundary question careful consider
ation, and to have arrived at the con
clusion that the case is one on which
the United States should declare it
self. The British claim has been a
steadily advancing one, and is dic
tated solely by the desire to grab ter
ritory for the purpose of extending
British trade and British dominion.
An admission on the part of the U. S.
ot the present British claims to Ven
ezuelan territory would be nothing
less than a virtual abandonment of
the Monroe doctrine, and it is under
stood that the administration has de
termined not only to vigorously re
assert that doctrine,but to insist upon
its rigid application in the Venezue
lan case. The publication of the paper
prepared by Sec. Olney will naturally
be waited for with interest.
From the close of the war until it
was voted out of power the Republi
can party steadily reduced the na
tional debt, and as steadily reduced
the taxes. During Harrison's admin
istration the payments on the princi
pal of the debt amounted to 8244,815,
S90, and at its close the war taxes
only those upon liquor and tobacco
remained. Since then not a dollar
has been paid. On the contrary the
Cleveland administration has steadily
added to the debt. It has sold two
bond issues of S50,000,000 each in 1S94
and another of 62,315,000 in 1S95.
These bonds bear a high rate of in
terest, four and five per cent, and be
fore they mature they will call for
8124,000, which added to the princi
pal makes in round numbers $236,
000,000 that the country has got to
pay to cancel the deficiencies up to
date. Then there is the shortage
since July 1, which amounts to enough
to swell the total to just about 300,
000,000. This at the rate of ten mil
lions a month.
Democratic financiering comes
high, but perhaps the education that
comes with it is worth the money.
Mirror and Farmer.
Ex-Gov. Campbell of Ohio is a
courageous man, but it is a question
whether he is always judicious. Of
course, as democratic governor of his
state, he would be pleased to have
the support and sympathy of the fed
eral administration. But he has on
several occasions emphatically insist
ed that our government should adopt
speedy measures to secure from Eng
land an acknowledgment of the val
idity of the Monroe doctrine. Only
last Saturday in a speech at the state
capital he demanded that our admin
istration should "call a halt in the ag
gressions of England." But it is not
ed that he has thus far received not
so much as a single word of sym
pathy or endorsement from Cleve
land in the fight he is making in Ohio.
Perhaps word has not yet reached
Gray Gables that Campbell is running
for governor.
Gold doesn't seem to be coming our
way very rapidly, but official statis
tics show that the world's gold pro -duction
had increased from 105,774,
900 in 1S87 to 179,965,600 in 1894,
while the product of South .Africa in
creased from 1,919,600 to 39,696,330.
The annual average output of gold
mines of the world in the eight years
beginning with 1887 was 184,129,675,
or $30, 333,474 more than the annual
average of the fourteen preceding
years. Another year and this country
will make enormous additions to the
world's output of the precious metal.
In fact good authorities estimate that
the gold production is to-day at the
rate of 210,000,000 per annum, or
100,000,000 more than the annual
output a few years ago. The gold
mining craze has hardly struck this
country, yet scores of mines are be
ing opened and developed which
promise to add further millions to this
output in coming years. One mine
alone, on the "mother lore" of Cali
fornia, the Utica, which has but re
cently become a producer, is getting
out gold at the rate of 250,000 a week
while the Cripple Creek camp is pro
ducing millions every month.
The London speculators have gone
even madder in South African specu
lation than they did over South Am
erican securities. The indications are
that the consequent disaster will be
quite as great, if it is not greater. The
degree which the craze has attained
may be judged from these figures:
Ten represantative South African
companies, with a nominal capital
value of 25,000,000, have risen in the
market value during the past 30 days
more than 50,000,000. The increase
of the total South African shares in
the market quotations during the
same period exceeds 250,000,000. It
is true that there has been a substan
tial advance in all classes of securi
ties, but speculation is still confined
to mines. The public gets little or
none of the good things. A certain
West Australian company offered os
tensibly for public subscription next
week will be offered nominally at par.
the capital being 2,000,000, but al
ready 312 p. c. premium is bid on the
Stock Exchange for options on these
shares. In other words, the market
value of this embryo company's stock
already amount to more than 8,000
000 and not a share has yet been is
sued. A NEWSPAPER MAN'S DEATH.
Geo. S. Fisk, who had been con
nected at different times with both
the St. Johnsbury papers, and latterly
with thu Burlington News, died in that
city at midnight of Wednesday, after
a long illness which, beginning with
typhoid fever, terminated in con
sumption. Mr. Fisk was 27 years old
and was the only son of Rev. P. B.
Fisk, the well known Congregational
clergyman, for several years past in
charge of the parish at Lyndon. On
account of the lung weakness just
mentioned he passed several years of
his youth in Florida and Minnesota.
Returning to Vermont he took charge
of the Morris ville office of the News
and Citizen. From Morrisville he
came to Burlington, as assistant on
the Clipper, leaving there to come to
St. Johnsbury. Less than a year ago,
on Christmas eve of 1894, he was mar
ried to Miss Alice Morgan of Burling
ton. Mr. Fisk was a bright and ready
writer, had a faculty for news gather
ing, and did faithful service wherever
he was engaged. His untimely death
will be sincerely mourned by many
friends who will sympathize with the
stricken household.
The funeral was held at Burlington
on Saturday afternoon under the aus
pices of the Odd Fellows, of which
order Mr. Fisk was a member. Republican.
A NEEDED REVISION.
There is one topic touched in the
recent able and statesman-like mes
sage of President Diaz to the Mexican
Congress, to which prompt and frank
attention should be given by our
government. That is the condition
of the treaty law as between the two
countries with reference to extradi
tion of offender from either country
because of oLnr 3s committed in the
other.
President Diaz criticizes the treaty
with great pertinency and force in
various particulars. It was negotiated
in 1861, when the amount and charac
ter of the contract between citizens
of the two countries were very far
short of what they are now, when
these old treaty regulations have to
be applied to an immensely different
condition. He points out that pro
ceedings under it are slow and costly.
In this particular it shares with most
of our laws in this country. Shrewd
and unscrupulous lawyers have gain
ed inch by inch on the original pur
pose and administrative methods of
our laws until the courts are being
largely used as shields against the
prompt execution of the laws in favor
of those who have money to pay an
adroit counsel. It is no wonder the
operation of this treaty is being sub
jected to the same kind of manipu
lation. A further defect is that it does not
cover what may be called crimes
against commercial laws and inter
ests. Embezzlers, defaulters, forgers
and others in the same general cate
gory, cannot be extradited under this
treaty. Probably this is not remark
able, for in 1861 there was little inter
course between the two countries, and
for an embezzler to run away to Mex
ico was only for him to plunge into
another kind of danger.
But the oldest provision is that
neither country can be called on to
extradite its own citizens. That is, if
a Texan goes over to Mexico and
commits any crime for which he
Should be extradited, if he can get
back into Texas he is safe, and so of
citizens of Mexico visiting Texas on
"criminal business" and returning
home. If an Englishman, for ex
ample, could manage by shrewdness
not a difficult thing at all, if Mexico
has a naturalization law to secure
citizenship in both countries, he
might go on ad infinitum vibrating
between the two countries, commit
ting crimes in both and escaping from
both. It was a most clumsy provision
from the first, and it has grown to be
little less than grotesque.
The expansion of our "settled"
country toward the southwest the
extension of railway connections be
tween this country and Mexico and
the rapidly growing intertwining of
commercial, industrial, financial and
social relations between the two
countries, make it of the utmost im
portance that no obstacles b9 thrown
in the way of the preservation of the
easiest and most friendly terms be
tween the two countries, by any ob
solete or clumsy legal complications
growing out of arrangements made a
third of a century ago. Immediate
steps should be taken by both gov
ernments to obliterate this absurd
treaty and substitute another in har
mony not only with the spirit of this
age, but with its material develop
ment. It is as a stage coach would be
between Boston and New York.
SYMPATHY FOR CUBA.
Chicago's great mass meeting to ex
press sympathy with, and encourage
ment for, the struggling Cubans, real
ly spoke for more than the Western
metropolis. It spoke for the people
of the whole United States. Every
week of the stubborn contest of the
Cuban patriots has seemed to increase
the admiration, for them which is en
tertained in this country. Their heroic
perseverance against heavy odds has
intensified the popular belief that
their cause is just and right.
American interest in Cuba indepen
dence is not selfish. It is the autono
my of the island, its complete separa
tion from Spain, and the establish
ment of a republican form of govern
ment which the American people
would be glad to welcome, and not
Cuba's annexation to the United Stat
es. This feeling has no root in hostil
ity to Spain, toward which country
we bear all our old traditional friend
liness. It really springs from the in
stinctive desire of all Americans to
see every portion of the New World
freed from the domination of the Old
and"yielding allegiance to a duly chos
en Government of its own instead of
to foreign potentates and princes. It
may be objected that Cuba is not yet
ready for a republic, that the masses
of its people lack the requisite intelli
gence and sober sense of self-restraint.
Judged by our North Ameri
can standards all this may be true,
but could Cuba, free, be less happy,
prosperous and tranquil than she has
been as the vassal of Spain? Every
Latin-American Republic in this hem
isphere, however poor or turbulent,
is vastly superior for its very freedom
to the ignoble condition of province
of some European dynasty. And in
Cuba's case this freedom means the
incalculable boon of complete and
permanent relief from the tremendous
burden of royal taxation which filches
the money from the pockets of the
poor to fill the exhausted Spanish
treasuries. Exchange.
Great Britain may have secured the
lion's share of the spoils of that Bour
bon raid on American industry com
monly known as the Gorman-Wilson
tariff, but other foreign nations have
come in for a good proportion of the
plunder. There is Germany, for in
stance. Official reports of the cotton
woolen and silk trade of the Empire
show that the lucky Teutons have
captured a large business which used
to be done by American manufactur
ers, and that at all the chief German
textile centres things are booming. In
unfigured woolens alone there has
been an increase of 2,000,000 in ex
portations. a large part of which has
gone to the United States. There has
been an immense expansion of the
German trade in hosiery, in laces and
embroidery, in plain woolen cloth
and in silk and half silk goods. The
German mill owners, who a little
while ago were execratiDg McKinley,
are now inclined to regard Cleveland
as the greatest benefactor their coun
try has had since Bismarck. Boston
Journal.
General Schofield retires from his
high office with the esteem of the en
tire people and the reputation of an
ideal soldier. He possessed just the
qualifications demanded in the head
of the army. That he may enjoy many
years of rest and enjoyment is now
the wish of his fellow countrymen.
Opening
ays,
Thursday
and
Oct. 10 & 11
1 v '
at the
Newport.
The public arc
invited to inspect the
display of New and
Attractive Goods lor
Fall and Winter
Garments for
Ladies and Children.
Millinery?
Pattern Hats,
Dress Goods, Novelties,
Suits from Dressmaking
Department,
Carpets,
Portieres,
and choice tilings
all over the store.
GILMAN&CO.
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Friday,
Oilman store.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
BARTON NATIONAL HANK. lU'HINhte
Hours fronts a.m., to, 12, m. I'rom 'I ti
4, p. m. Amory Davison, Pres't; II, K. Dewe y.
Cashier.
CHARLES ClRAVr.H,
SPECIAL AOHNT FOR CONNECTICUT
O Oeneral Life Insurance Co., Jiarton, V't.
JOSIAH A. PEARSON.
DENTIST, HARTON, VT. OFFICE IK
Owen's Block.
J. N. WEBSTER,
INSURANCE AOENT; MI LEA (J E BOOKK
to Kent, Railroad Tickets for Kale at cut
rates. Oflice over the Rank, llurton, Vt.
DR. J.C. CAMPBELL.
PHYSICIAN AND BURGEON, ALBANY
Vt. Special attention given to treutinf
diseases of the Eyes or Ear; Fitting Glasses.
etc.
GEO. H. NEWTON,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. OlFICF
Hours 8 to 9 a. m.; 1 to 2 and 8.30 to
p.m. Ollice at House.
Irasburgh, Vt.
N. M. SCOTT'tJ
ON MAIN STREET IS THE PLACE TO
get cut rate Railroad Tirkets. MI!ik
Books to rent on nil New England roads
Member of American Ticket Brokers' Asso
ciation. OHkeon Main St., neirly opposite
p. o. Barton, Vt.
V. B. BOWMAN.
TTAIR DRESSER AND BARBER. LA
11 dies' Hair Dressing a specialty. Jluzor
Honed to order. Owen's Block, Batton, Vt.
A. P. BEAN,
C, LOVER, VT.. SELLS THE U. S. CREAM
T Separator; has fewer parts to clean t hah
other separators nnd does t horonph separal -ing.
Also, agent lo- the Mutual Life Insur
ance Co. of New York, and Union Mutual Fire
insurance Co. of Mont pf lier. Correspond
ence solicited and promptly attended to.
CHAS. W. HOLMES,
T
TEACHER OF VIOLIN, JUST BETUHNED
from a year's study undr Prof. 1 it li ,
of Berlin, will he in Newport one day ;u h
week. Early applications for lcons desira
ble, and maybe made at the Mure of A. K.
Cowles.
CLARENCE H. WILLI. Y.
17MRE, LIFE am ACCIDENT INSURANCE..
Slock Insurance In the best coin pa n ies .
Stock nnd Mutual Insurance in the Vermont
Mutual and Union Mutual Fire Inmtuut
Companies. Farm Stock Insurance Jv n i.i
advantageous rates in the New England Fire
Insurance Co. Solid Life and Accident In
surance. The Northwestern Mutual Life In
surance invites comparison on Management ,
Dividends and Heult. The employers Lia
bility Assurance Corporation of London i
managed conservatively and Nettles for acci
dents quickly Prttronize home industries.
Barton Landing, Vt.
GEO. J. KELLEY.
f GENERAL AG ..NT FOR I If E PIDEN1 X
J Mutual Life Insurance Co.. Ilui'lbml,
Conn. Also agent for t h ree ot her com pa nics,
representing a capital of h: uyo (too. I.hik
lines iu Life, Fire. Accident and Endowment
Bonds placed on short notice. Due notice "f
expiration of po!iei.s always given . HH on
Main St., Albur y, VI.
KEEP YOUR MONEY A V INTEREST.
VERMONT SAYINGS INVESTMENT CO.,
MONTPEI.IEK, VT.
4 Pkii Cf.nt Paid ro:i Li-:s Than Mom iis.
h Pkk Cknt I'aio i'im! li Monti:' anhOvi it.
G Pi;u Cknt Paid iou . Yi ah.
This company is nubiuet toexaniination aid
su perv Isioii ot t lie 1 r s occt or of I i i 1 1 Vt.
E. E. BLAKELY, Vie- Pres.
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M. SCOTT
Has put in .1 onri
lino of Feed which
he will sell at bottom-
prices.
Hest brands of
Flour always on
hand.
Please give me a call !
Barton, Oct. 5th, 18;.".
COMMISSIONKKS' XOTICK.
Estate of Moses Haines.
VI.IVI, ) III. IJUllI '4 I, IMU K,, . 111.,, ill IP .'l
said days, and t hat sii in..iilh irom tlir V'.Hli
.'..Ifwlr v. .. ... ..... I. ...
day
by said Court for sjid creditors fprr-cil
tbeir claims to us for ex ami i. at ion and allow-
oi .viiir., j, i), inj.t. it ine iimr iiiinii ii
pce.
Dated at Oreensboro, Vt., this 21t day of
September, a. !. yy.tn.
H. H T M.MAN'.
J ConimhsioiK s
40-42 D. B. IICNTEK,
COMMISSION.... XOTICK
3tate of E. Hill.
The undersigned, bavins been appointee
by the Hon. Probate Court lor the Ditri t o'
Orleans, Com n-is i oners, to receive, txamlii
and adjust all claims and demands of nil pel
sons asrainst the (state of 1.. Jl. Hill, late
of Irasburb. In said District, deceased, a tie
all claims exhibited in offset thereto, hereb
trive notice that we will meet for the purposes
aforesaid, at the Irasburph House, in sai1
Iras burgh, on the 21st day of October and tftti
day of March next, from I o'clock p. m.
until 4, p. ni., each of said days, and that six
months from the 10th day of hep. A. l., 1K'.i. ts
the time limited by said Cou rt for said creii
tors to present their claims to us for eiamin.
at ion and allowance.
Dated at Irasburgh, Vt., this 27th day of
September, A. D. lsu...
1. H. WEBSTEIt, ,
38-41 P.. F. DltENAN, Commissioners,
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The u udei'MK ncil , Ikiviiik Im m nppoinUd
by the Hon. Probate Court for the Histrlet of
Orleans, Commissioners, to receive, examine,
and adjust all c'liins and demand of ail per
sons against the estate of Minn Haines,
late of (treenshoro. in Maid l)it i id. deecs
t'd, and all claims exhibited in oltM t thereto,
hereby give notice that we will meet for the
purposes aforesaid, at the residence of Mr.
Margaret Haines, on the 2i.t!i day oi Octo
ber and :)rd i!av of Eebriurv mxt. from