Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-02-19

named Dillon, and has put her under
vocal training.
George Harper, a colored lawyer,
made his first speech in court at Louis
vile, recently, making a favorable
impression. Colored witnesses were
also admitted in case which was of
white man hanged with rope
Air castles are as old as Adam, as
| believe there is not man, woman,
or child, but what has, or is building
them. And they will continue to
be built so long as there is living
person on the earth. The child looks
forward to the time when it will have
grown up to manhood or womanhood,
and tells what it will do and be when
it reaches that passage of life.
A Western poem on the burning of
Chicago thus describes the origin of
the fire:
''That night woman, at the hour of nine,
Went in a barn to milk COW, and when
The beast kicked DER her lamp vicious kline
Will sometimes do, it lit some straw and boards
of pine
This sublime introduction, with what
follows it, so affects the Chicago Re
publican that it offers to cheerfulIy
publ fish the obituary notice of the
"poet' free, if anybody will find him
and kill him.
A man has not risen very high, who
expends lis energy only in scorning
and contempt for the evil. That OK
will not grow very fat and strong
which spends its hours in the pasture
field horning and scraping up the this
ties, to the neglect Of filling his stom-
ach with the sweet and nutritious
grass. And so in the church, the men
who boast they can scent out heresy
in the very hair of a mans head or in
the cut Of his clothes, are very lean
and miserable saints for the most part
SToKEs.-Mr. Southack the faith
er-in-law of Edward S. Stokes has
been FRUSTRATED with two or three at
tacks of apoplexy since the tragic occur
renee. Previous to the murder Stokes
correspondent regularly with his wife
who has been in Europe some months
educating her little daughter. Since
the tragedy he has received no letters
from her, and as at last accounts she
was in Paris, the shock to her nervous
system in consequence Of her husband
killing a fellow-man, had probably
Frustrated her to a bed of sickness.
AN INSANE WoMAN-A young
woman whose fathers palatial resi-
dence is situated in one of the princi
pal streets of Missouri's capital, recent
ly in the space of single twenty-fou
hours managed without discovery t.
get herself tied in the matrimonial
knot Of eight different men, and tolC
them all to come at the same time thu
next day to obtain her fathers bless
ing on their union. They all did so
and the scene that ensued can be bet
ter imagined than described. The Ia
dy meantime had left the State dis
guised as a Jew peddler.
FANNY FoRREsTER.-Here is on
of the many beautiful thoughts t.
which Fanny Forester has given eA
pression:-
"Oh, let me die in the countr
where l shall not fall, like the singh
leaf of the forest, UNDECIDED; wher
those that love me need not mas
their hearts to meet the careless mu
titude, and strive as a duty to forge
me! Bury me in the country, ami
the prayers Of the good and the tear
of the loving; not in the dark, dam
vault, away from the sweet scente
air, and the cheerful sunshine, but /
: the open fields among the flowers tha
| loved and cherished while living"
The other day we were told th
story how years ago the wings Of
: neighboring town attempted to secm
the vote of Johnny Beeden, an oil
democrat, for a Mr.. Paddock whol
they had put in nomination for tow
representative. Johnny was entice
into a store, where he was piled wit
arguments and whiskey till he w;
full and ready to vote anything, an
e like the friends and kinsfolks Of Baash
! who turned their faces to the wal
, Qst Kings, 16:11) so turned john
his face to the counter. "What al
t you doing there ?" inquired his advi
| ers. "Voting for Paddock, dears, ies
: voting for Paddock" -Erchdnge.
THE FEMALE SUFFRAGISTS DEFEA
ED BUT NOT DIsMAYED.-W dshi,s
ton, FEB, y. A delegation of fema
suffragists appeared in the reporter
gallery of the House to-day and pr
> sented a memorial through Mr.. Kelle
of Penn, asking that they be above
: to appear at the bar of the House
! open session on Saturday next al
) make an appeal for the removal
! their political disabilities. A resol
/ ton offered by Mr.. Kelley grantir
| permission was lost by eighty
o ninety-fve, many of the leading r
f publicans and Democrts voting in Il
= affirmative. Encouraged by this vo
the delegation annouced afterwa
that they intended to press their a
If peal until it was granted. They we
$ greatly encouraged by the vote.
- DETECTIVE SQUIREs IN TROUBLE
> A. p. Squires, who has been considC
= ably known in this section for the Ia
- year or two, in connection with the
- rest and escape of several crimina
: has got into new trouble at Worcestt
% Mass. 1t appears that Squires h
y something to do in arresting the CIR
! ton, (Mass.) bank robbers, and he
/ charged with having taken $500 fro
; a trunk which he has not satisfacto
> ly accounted for, and a suit for its
covery was commenced, and Hon.
g Emory Aldrich became bail for hi
l, but on Saturday last he declined
a be bail for him any longer and he W
)r Dut in iail at Worcester. On Nc