Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-02-19
Brigham Young is sick. G,

General Sherman and Lieut.. Grant
are in Rome.
Vicksburgh had a 10000 dollar
fire last Thursday.
A hail and thunder storm passed over
New York city last Tuesday night.
This winter has been the severest ever
known on the Western plains.
A man 10y the name of Ira L. Cady
was robbed of $4,000 in Fourth Ave-
nue. NY. street car week ago Saturday
The President has appointed Sayes
j. Bowen, ex-Mayor of Washington,
Minister to Eucador.
Chief Justice Chase, it is said, has
hopes Of being either the Demeratic or
Republican candidate for President; he
don't care much which.
The mad editor of the New York Sun,
can't think Of anything bad enough to
call Gen. Grant, 50 he simply calls him
the "White House Jackass"
The Republican Congressional Com
mittee have sent Senator Wilson to help
the Republicans of New Hampshire
float Straw against the Democratic cur
rent.
Five thousand pounds have been sub
scribed in London towards fund to
defray the expenses of a proposed exhi-
bition in search of DIR. Livingston, the
African explorer.
The republicans of Maine elected
their delegates to the Philadelphia con-
vention last Wednesday evening. Res
olutions were adopted endorsing Grant
and Colfax.
Mr.. William Fowler, member of the
British Parliament, made speech in
London last Tuesday, in which he said
that if America wanted money from Eng
land she would have to come and take it.
A Montreal despatch says that Eng
land has ordered eight regiments of
troops to Canada. Hope she won't need
to use them. Uncle Sam has one of his
proud BIRDS way up in the clouds
She is standing on one foot, John, with
an eye upon the line, and will keep good
watch.
In the L. S. Senate last Wednesday,
Parson Brownlow, in making an expla-
nation in reply to some remarks of Mr..
Beck, of Kentucky, called some pretty
hard names, such as ''unmitigated liar"
&C. Mr.. Colfax informed the Parson
that such language was improper under
the rules of the Senate. Mr.. Beck had
said that Brownlow was ''hated and de-
spised by the people of Tennessee" and
that he was false as hell" Rather
pretty talk for gentlemen who carry with
them the title of IN. CO.
A reverend gentleman Of Red Bank
New Jersey, by the name of Wellman,
has "gone on the wings of the wind" to
preach to the Heather Chinee, taking
along with him Ito help him write up
his sermons another mans wife.
A duel was fought at New Orleans, on
the 10Th inst, between Gen Badger,
Chief of Police of that city, and Geo.
W. Carter, formerly speaker of the
House in the Louisiana Legislature They
exchanged shots at 60 PAGES with rifles
without effect, then concluded to call ii
square and be friends.
We learn from the Union, that Mr.
a. A. Earle has sold his "St Johnsbury
Elephant, the ZSmnS-to Mr.. F. J.
Dalton, formerly of the Caledonim Of
fee. Chase says that Earle intends tc
clay off, awhile and prepare to play
Lay on McDuff with his friend Gen
Grout, and adds:
Brother Earle's connection with the
paper has not been financially a success
But he has convinced the people of Cal
edonia county that he is man of ca
pacity, and a ready pointed writer We
shall miss him. We know we shall, fol
he had happy faculty of sending pa
per bullets at us which always came di
rect, and gave us no trouble in finding
where they struck. 1t made business
lively and interesting"
p S.-Mr. Earle is here; has SOLE
the Times, sure, and got bran new sui
of clothes-black hat, clear down to tn
boots. Says he feels as though he hat
got out of-the wilderness often get
up in the middle of these cold nights
sets up in the bed and croacS.
The officers of the Oileans Co. Agricul
tural Society met at the hotel in Iras
burgh, Feb. ID, to make arrangement
for the next fair. The premium list wa
not materially changed. Two more pre-
miums were added to butter so that the
now stand-S6, So, 81, So, So, 81 fc
the best and five lower grades, and eac
exhibitor must enter only one tub. Th
premium on town teams of oxen was II
duced one-half Honey and maple hor
ey were also reduced Instead of 81
on loo ears of seed corn it was change