Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-12-30
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The temperance bureau of Chicago
is to establish monthly newspaper
Mrs. Gould. an American lady has
school of two hundred pupils at Rome.
Robert Bowles has been released from
Newgate prison, having secured bail at
S20,500
The Boston relief fund has reached
1913, l3l, and Harvard fund Sl2l,
266.
Within a year the consumption of
opium in this country has increased
about 100000 ounces per month.
Descrtion from the English army is
going on at the rate of 700 or 500
month.
Dartmouth College, n. H., is about to
build a gymnasium in connection with
the Colledge that will cost $4,000.
One-twelfth of the male population of
Sacramento is afflicted with influenza
and sore throat
A man who has tried it in Kansas
says religion and Texas cattle herding
don't go hand In hand
| The number of letters received at the
Grand Rapids post office has doubled
during the last year.
Daily weather reports are hereafter to
be furnished to such of the post offices of
the country as can be reached every day
by mail.
The House post office committee will
report against Mr.. Cresswell's ruling in
regard to collecting double rates on let
tiers only partially paid.
The London Times commends Presi-
dent Grants recent message as a ester
ling picture of the prosperity and rapid
growth of the country"
John Webb of New Hartford, Ct, shot
himself recently, because a woman to
whom he was engaged married another
man.
1t is reported that George William
Curtis will have charge of the. Tribune,
and the London correspondent Smally,
will be recalled to assist him.
Orange culture pays well IN Florida.
Five hundred trees ON nine acres of land
have yielded 100000 oranges, which
sold for $4,000.
| 1t is proposed in Kentucky that the
Legislature charter a faro bank, to be
run by the best citizens, in opposition to
the Louisville library lottery.
An Iowa man cannot remember where
he hid coffee-pot, full of silver, during
the war, and has scratched nearly every
hair out of his head thinking about it.
M. Roen, distinguished member OF
the French Institute, has been struck
from the jury list, because he acknowl-
edged he did not believe in the existence
of God.
One of the most interesting and hotly
contested lawsuits ever witnessed in
state has been concluded in Michigan
1t originated from the fact that two
: women claimed the same waterfall.
The report of the Warden of the Hi
nois Penitentiary shows that, under the
operation of the new system of hiring ou
convict labor, the penitentiary was self
sustaining the past year for the first time
Several capitalists of New York ant
elsewhere are agitating project to es
: tablish in that city a new independen
e newspaper, to be run on the plan of tn
card published by Greeley in the Tribune
1t is said that it is proposed to put
million dollars into the enterprise.
t A Philadelphia lady who lost both he
: arms by an accident, manages SINCE
machine with her mouth. A batchelo
: friend says this is another demonstra
e ton of the great truth that everything
e in nature can be made to serve usefu
0 purpose at some time or other.
Brick Pomeroy's opera house at La
Crosse, Wisconsin. is advertised for sal
by Mrs. Brick that was, but isn't, fo
: she was divorced few years since, get
: ting $4,000 alimony, Brick mortgage
t the opera house to her for security henc
n the sale.
; A Dublin operate audience amuse
itself by throwing bouquets on the stag
{ which is attached to the end of fin
S cord AS the gratifed prima DOM
l. stoops to pick it up,it is Tipped away fror
h her, amid roars of laughter from a
parts of the house.
# One of the girls who greeted Wash
ington with a song of welcome on th
occasion of his entry into Newburypor
Mass, has just died in that town. He
;. name was Sewell, and she lived to be 9
~ years old. We've been thinking that
II was about time to hear of the departul
5, of some of those girls.
re The London Morning Post recent
Y celebrated its fifth century by devotin
e, eight of its wide columns to the reminis
ence of men and things a hundred yea
! ago By noon copy of the paper coul
=" not be had for love or money in all Lo1
4 DON
. The Prescott (Arizona.) Miner sa,
T. of Gen. Cooks campaign against tt
r. Apaches "In less than two months
,e has avenged the murder of Loring an
8. others; taught the savages to respe
the power of the United States, ar
l. made them come to him and accept SUI
IS terms as he has felt disposed to gra
to them"
u The great English chancery suit
Townley VS.. Chase heirs, involving ;
estate worth G2,OOO,OOO sterling,
* about $26O,OOO,OOO, which has been
the courts of London for the last thir
y years, has been decided in favor of Cha
:, heirs, who numbered about one hundre
60 Daniel Webster was at one time t
IL counsel for the American Chase he'll
to and Robert Peel and Sir John Russo
BY once endeavored to make a compromi
Of with the heirs through Mr.. Russell.
Ia Edward A. Pollard, the Southern e