Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-07-01
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

An artesian well in California spouts
speckled trout. -
The ladies of Paris, Kentucky, are
forming an anti-speak- evil of-yeur-neigh-
Dor society.
A young man in Louisville, Kentucky,
answered matrimonial advertisement.
and became the accepted suitor of his
own sister.
Phebe Campbell was hanged at To-
ronto Thursday morning for the murder
of her husband.
The emotional insanity plea has
spread to the Indians. One of them the
other day, when arrested for killing and
scalping some white men being asked
to give an account for the eccentricity,
said: ''Me heap crazy. Me too much
crazy"
A vigorous engagement was fought
between the Carlists, who have reap
peared in Spain, and the regular troops
of King Amadeus, on Friday, at Pascal
ten in Navarro The Corlists were de-
feated, and the loss on both sides was
very heavy.
The Egyptian plague of seventeen
year locusts has come down upon Long
Island It is said that at Elmwood
they emerge through holos'in the ground
nv tbousar1ds In the form and semblance
IL grubs, took unto themselves wings
and began at once to screech most lust
lily, and to devour every green thing.
The knoxville Herald says that &C
counts from all parts Of Knox county,
Tenn, agree that the wheat crop will
exceed in quality and quantity that of
any other year for half a century past
even the famous yield of 1857 not ex-
cepted. And what IS true of Knox
county seems to be generally true of East
Tennessee. The quality Of the wheat
is excellent.
Buffalo is to have grand time ON the
Fourth of July. Over $4,000 have
been set aside for premiums alone in
the regattas. The first purse is Sl,O75
second 1915; third $1O5. Yacht races,
and sculling matches, will be the prin-
cipal parts of the programme. Fire
works of course will come in.
The State of Texas would contain the
entire population of the United States
without making it any more thickly set
tied than Massachusetts and the same
State would hold the entire population
of the French Empire Tor Republic that
now isl and leave uninhabited margin
of sixty miles around the boundary of
the State.
The honess and baby lion belonging
to G. F. Bailey & Co.'S Menagerie. died
at Wilton on Friday, from the excess
i've heat. The thermometer indicated
so degrees in the shade. and all the
wild beasts in the collection, suffered
badly. Many would not eat and others
were Frustrated.
The Postal Record states during last
year nearly three millions of letters were
received at the dead letter Office. of
which number sixty-eight thousand
could not be forwarded for the reason
that the name of the county and State
were left out of the directions four hun
dred thousand were unstamped, and
more than three thousand were mailed
with no direction at all. The strang-
were found in these letters money orders
to the amount of two millions of dollars.
Since the death of Mr.. Bennett rumor
has named several gentlemen for the
mantle of managing editor of the New
York Herald. All of these reports
are erroneous. James Gordon Ben.
nett, Jr,, having been managing ed
itor of the Herald for the past five OIL
six years, will remain so, being fully
qualified for that responsible position by
an experience of all the phases of jour
nalism known to the vast resources anC
duties of the Herald office.
A farmer near Grattan, Michigan, re
Gently attempted to smoke out rabbit
and burned up half mile of fence anC
his apple orchard. But he got the rab
bit.
Two twin brothers in Ohio were al
we are somewhat superfuously Informed
by a local paper "born on the sam,
day" they subsequently became broth
ers-in-law by marrying sisters, went int
business as partners, died on the SAM
day, and repose under the same tomb
stone
The three greatest sensations of tn
Jubilee have been the reception of tn
British Band, of the French Band ant
of the Jubilee Singers of Nashville
The rendering of the John Brown Song
was sublime, chorus, orchestra, guns
, and all, forming grand background t
, the plaintive cry, mine eyes have see1
, the coming of the glory of the Lord.
1t is the grandest demonstration of tn
day. and shows how nightly God move
, forward to unifcation and redemption 0
the race.
, The sensations of the hour, Genera
, Grant in the Coliseum. If only Senate
:, Sumner could be there at the same time
, it would be peace jubilee that woul
echo from the skies. Why not? LIE
the great Senator welcome the grea
2 President, and save the country from tn
, possibility of Ku-Klux government
!, under the guise of false peace.
| Romeo was self-msde elephant. H
came to this country without dollar i
q his trunk, took Greeley's advice, wen
West, and died last Friday worth $40
900.