Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-15
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

a resolution in favor of the joint resolu-
ton asking Congress to pass an act re-
Chinese immigration.
The Illinois House of Representatives
has adopted, by large majority, bill
permitting women to hold offices in the
of that State 8
u The Illinois House of Representatives,
which has large Republican majority,
has adopted resolution in favor of Mr..
Summers proposed amendment to the
Constitution, making the President incl
igible for more than one term.
President Grant has appointed four
ladies, since he has been in the White
House. to the highest grade of post office,
with salaries of $4,000 per annum. In
other grades the appointment of ladies
already number by the hundreds.
General Lees birthday is January 10,
and the occasion will be celebrated at
Lexington Va, by his family and friends
His old Lieutenant General Jubal Early
will deliver memorial address as part
of the solemnities.
A curiously Endorsed letter was re-
ceived at the Chelmsford England, post
office the other day. 1t is addressed ''to
the handsomest unmarried blonde lady;
not twenty-five years of age, in Chelms-
ford: Postmaster to be umpire and
bears the Boston (U.S.) postmark.
A boy was recently saved from ter
rible death at rope and Irvine factory
in Massachusetts by the promptness and
presence of mind of a little girl The
boy was caught in the machinery and
was being pulled into it as fast as pos
sible, when the little girl ran with a
knife, cut the betting and released him.
The New York Times Washington
correspondent, referring to the Louisiana
middle, says: 1.-The present is regarded
as a most excellent occasion for giving
| both the factions there lesson which
they will remember What with i'll
judged zealots on the one hand and I'M
scrupulous plotters on the other, the SAT-
est way out of the difficulty for the Adj
ministration, so far as it is concerned, is
to rebuke both
The Chicago fire worked one refor-
nation at least At meeting to re-
build lately, Mr.. Hill, the most exten ::
sive brewer in the city before the fire,
stated that his burned brewery would
never be reconstructed, as he was
sick of the business, and would not
continue his traffic even if the brewery
should be rebuilt by others and given
to him. 1t had been profitable bus
mess, he added, but all his employees
We're more or less drunkards, and he
preferred to 90 into some other calling,
even if he made less than half the
money which his brewery paid him.
Some anonymous individual thus
sums up the peculiar social characters
tics of some prominent cities: 'In Bos-
ton society everybody snubs everybody
else, in New York society every body
gossips about every body else, in Phila-
delphia society everybody attends t Q
the morals of everybody else, in Balti-
more society everybody fraternizes with
everybody else, and in Chicago society
just at present everybody is borrowing
from everybody else. Boston, therefore,
is aristocratic, New York and Philadel-
phia democratic, Baltimore patriarchal,
and Chicago communistic."
United States District Attorney Bates
of Utah, addressed an important letter
to Senator Trumbull, asking from the
judiciary committee advice and instruc
tions as to what he shall do without
money to pay the expenses of the cour
for prisoners, jurors, witnesses, etc. Ht
says that the territorial Courts, as theil
officers are all Mormons, will not pun
ish their followers or leaders for higl
crimes at all. but do frequently punisl
Gentiles unfairly and unjustly, and un
less the United States courts prosecnt
criminals, anarchy must soon exist there
and neither life nor property be safe
| The cost of keeping prisoners and tn
. expenses for transportation alread,
l amount to $4,000. There is no sucl
t amount on hand for present or futur
;, expenses. The attorney concludes:
l see no other course for the government
y but to provide money Immediately 70
1 the prosecution of the great crimes nov
a charged, or order them all dismissed.
: A FEARFUL SoENE.-The particular
of the dreadful trapeze accident at til
o Union-Square Theatre, New York. al
: thus detailed:
n A female gymnast and danseuse know
as Geraldine, young and beautift
4 woman, was in rehearsal of the fyin
&? trapeze performance to be given in tn
t. afternoon. She gives certain porto
d of this feat in company with Mr.. Leol
* old, and they were, it is understood