Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-08
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


vana just now.
A day of reckoning public school
examination.
There is nothing in domestic matters
that tells more favorably than order.
An Indiana woman committed suicide
because her husband persisted in attend
ng spelling school.
The Illinois House of Representatives
has adopted, by large majority, bill
permitting women to hold offices in the
departments of the state.
He that intendeth not to do good,
should refrain from doing evil but it is
counted evil if we refrain to do good.
We should all have our flowers of time
bright spots in our life to-day, and, if
possible, brighter moments in expecta-
ton for the morrow.
Albany is crowded with politicians
and is now a centre Of interest. Horace
Greedy is there and occupies the room
Tweed had last winter.
1t is said that no city in New England
of the population of Bangor can compare
with her in the number of stylish and
rapid teams owned by citizens
Springfield people are much exercised
in mind just now, over report that
dead COW has been discovered in the res
ervoir of the Aqueduct Company.
Alexis went into ecstacies over Mag
ara. The fall of massive cakes of ice,
the frozen spray and the terrible roar
made his Imperial blood curdle, " if a
correspondent is to be believed.
The President being shown the Cincin-
natl Commercials list of his journeys
since his nomination, dryly remarked 81
wonder if that chap kept full list of my
trips during the war?''
The Missouri Republican queries =
"Where is Boss Tweed to go?'' The
Topeka Record replies; GAS this paper
is not addicted to profanity, we decline
to answer the question
A Norwegian lady, emigrat1ng to Wis
consin, transported her twenty children
in installments. She didn't think it
safe to trust them all in one boat, as in
case of Week, she wouldn't have the
heart to commence life in new country
1t is said thai Tennyson has written
a poem for Bonner's Ledger. LISA great
pity that Shakespeare never had achance
to write for that paper. There's where
Fanny Fern, Henry Ward Beecher and
Sylvanus Cobb have the advantage of
him.
A Mrs. Smythe of Indianapolis, Ind,
now has her fifth husband, and yet she
has never changed her name. She was
born Smith, her first husband was
named Smith, her second Schmidt, and
her third Smyth, her fourth Smithe, and
her present Smythe.
Our Secretary of the Navy does not
believe that Spanish naval officers search
ed the Florida while she was under the
protection of the United States steamer
Shawmut If the commander of the
Shawmut allowed the Florida to be
searched, he will be called to account
for it.
A California scientist declares that be
has prolonged his life by sleeping with
his finger tips touching his toes, and has
invented machine to hold the body in
that position when in repose. He as
sumes that the vital electric currents. In
stead of running off and being wasted,
are thus kept in an even circumfow.
Mrs. Kate NJ Pincin, of Monmouth,
Maine, lately feeling a queer sensation
on the top of her head, was examining it
when she discovered the point of nee
die protruding, and with pair of pin
GERS she succeeded in drawing forth a
needle about one and half inches long.
She swallowed the needle five years ago.
A little boy, the step-son of j. A.
Beal, of Danbury, Conn, while gathering
sawdust at the carpenter-shop of Foster
Brothers, in that place recently, acct
dentally came in contact with a swiftly
flying buzz-saw and received fatal in.
juries. His head was horribly gashed
The report that counterfeit fifty dol
lars of the new issue have made theil
appearance is not credited by Genera
Spinner, he having received no informa
ton on the subject, while one of thu
Treasury secret service corps, who ha
made special inquiry, pronounces the re
port without foundation.
While Mrs. Rivers, living near tn,
Kansas and Nebraska line, was sweeping
a room last week, her broom struck ;
gun under the bed, which exploded, th'
contents striking two or three little chill
dren in the lower limbs, causing thu
death of one and severely injuring thu
other.
Vice-President Colfax has frankly ad
noittad tn some of his friends that not