Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-29
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Hayti-tity !, War in Hayti !

Henry Ward Beecher is 50 years old
and nearly as good as new.
A million dollars in gold, according
to the figures at the mint. weigh just
about two tons.
The slave trade is still carried on be-
tween Africa and the south side of Cuba
by Spanish outlaws.
Great Britain positively refuses to rec
ognize the claims of the United States
for indirect damages.
A Chinese newspaper has entered up
on its two-thousandth volume. 1t has
lost all its original subscribers
Nasty is to lecture next season in OPP
position to the Woodruff theory of mar
rage HIS title is Hannah Jane"
The latest bugbear is the assertion
that if Grant is reelected Butler will
be Secretary of State.
Gen. Spinner is among those promi-
nent republicans who believe Grant will
get a great many democratic votes this
year.
A woman named Maher, residing in
Greenbush, N. Y, was struck down and
had her neck broken Sunday, in attempt.
ing to stop fight between her two sons.
Ten thousand dollars is pretty good
salary for preaching, but there are four
teen clergymen in New York city who
receive it.
A Syrian has set up steam Touring
mill at Acre. near Mount Carmel, and is
grinding wheat for the whole population
of Galilee and along the coast.
Up to this year the coolest March on
any modern record was in 1886. For
many years to come March of 1872 will
be referred to as 1.-The cold March
Cincinnati hotel-keepers are congrat-
ulatlng themselves over the probability
that the coming convention will remain
in session three days.
A dispatch has been received from
Bombay, announcing that the ship Ma
ria, for Liverpool, has been wrecked, and
thirty five persons lost.
The Profile House, at the Franconia
Notch, N. H., has been enlarged and
will accommodate 600 boarders this sum-
mer. Its dining hall is 1872 feet long
Mrs. Sarah Newcomb, of Illinois, re-
Gently ruined handsome bedpost by
dashing out the brains of her husband
with it.
1t is reported that the famous English
race horse Sterling, said to be the fast
est horse in the world, will be brought
over here this season and matched against
our fast nags.
A colored waiter of Milwaukee hotel,
who is careful of his reputation. has sued
a paper for libel in charging him with
having been a member of the Georgia
Legislature.
A North Carolina State Senator has
been fined 81 for shooting robins on the
public highway and he asks what's
the use of being legislator if highway
robin is not to be suppressed.
A Californian, who has raised figs for
the past ten years. says that the white
Smyrna fig can be grown and cured as
well in that State as in Smyrna or any
of the countries on the Mediterranean.
Bismarck is besought by $4,000 wo
men of Alsace and Lorraine, not to draft
J. their husbands or sons into the army
He won't be apt to be more merciful tt
the conquered than to the native Germans
Over half of the wealth of the Statt
of New York is owned in the city of New
York. The last total valuation of al
the real and personal property of tn,
State is Sc, 500,S4l. 264, of which So.
47O.26S,7O0 is in the city.
The late George Peabody, the Londol
banker, once sawed cord of wood il
Concord, N. H., to pay for a night
lodging at the tavern. That was prac
teal lecture to young men who fail t
pay their board bills because they ar
g out of business.
f The Prussians are fortifying Met
with enormous canons of steel, and ar
charging Strasburg so that, instead o
10000, it can contain 100000. The,
are also making canal parallel with tn
p Rhine, and an enormous basin for ship
coming from the North sea.
s A musical prodigy has appeared i
Wurtisboro, N. Y, little German gin
named Paulina Korn, four years old
who plays any air on the piano or organ
n after having once heard it. She play
t everything off hand, and her execution
!. superior to that of many experience
h players.
. Certain church goers in Norwich, Cor
necticut are puzzled. A month ago
e clergyman from Meriden preached yer
/ fine sermon to them. Last Sunday
/ clergyman from Eagleville preached ell,
= quently to them, but it was the SAN
sermon. Now they are anxious to kno
who wrote it.
" Boston, Mass, April ia boy Fl
&c teen years of age, son of J. G. Laughter
lie residing in East Brookline street, con
5. mitted suicide yesterday by taking la
" danum. He left note saying he w
!. tired of living and hoped to 60 to be
:" ter world. also expressing an opinic
10 that he was insane.
s. The spirits in Corinna, Me-, ha,
D. told man that there is a mine of quic
IS silver under his house. Accordingl
rs with pick and drill he is digging for
= and 80 he has boon for two yoare, so i
t dustriously that he has entered the boz
It. els of the land to the extent of sixty fee
but the quicksilver is as far off as eve
cd Charles Sutton, for several years wa
f. den of the Tombs Prison, in New 70
al city, will soon publish history
~ that famous institution for the last TIL
oi ty years. The authors experience al
nd the fact that he has had access to valu
be BILE records. should enable him to pl
no duce an interesting and readable volun
ct The fear that our posterity some thol