Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-08
ST. JOHNSBURT.
NEWS CONDENSED.
Spain has 1000 nunneries.

Texas pastures $500 head OF cattle
MARYLAND farmers threaten to raise
cane.
Bonner values his horses at 81, 49,
900.
A Tilted lover in Alabama stole the
presents he had given the tickle fair one,
and repents in Jail
Labor is scarce in Ottawa, Canada,
and lumbermen get $50 dollars per
month and found
An Alabama planter shot eighty brace
of snipe, on his own land, in one fore
noon last week.
The season is very backward in the
South, and the planting prospects not
cheering.
The Chicago Times calls Forney ''a
sycophant by nature and politician by
profession"
Science shows clearly that man has
lived upon this earth for more than
5000 years.
The first floor of the fiat buildings Of
New York are rented at $4,000 a year,
without furniture.
At recent bull fight in Madrid. three
horses and two male performers were
killed.
Carter calls Yarmouth "a thief, trail
tor and most artistic liar Carter Is
d. D.-ond has fought many iuefs.
The earth is said to be growing small
er. In two thousand millions of years
it Will be as small as Rhode Island.
The latest report in London is that
the Queen will abdicate in favor of the
Prince of Wales as soon as his health is
fully restored.
The home organ of Senator Carpenter
is in quandary as to whether his elo-
quence most resembles that of Demos
themes or Daniel Webster.
Daniel Thompson, the tallest man in
Maine, died on Saturday last, of fever,
after short illness. His height was
six feet seven inches.
A New York wedding cake weighed for
ty pounds. 1t was in the form of a
, three-story house, with sugar bride
and groom coming out of the front door.
A man having poured gallon of rum
into the canal at Lowell, the factories
have been prohibited from the use of
the water, it being an unlawful mixture.
, Horace Greeley is said to sometimes
swear that he will quit the business Of
: journalism and take to teaching writ
ing school for living.
The Ogdensburgh Journal says that
one of the lumber firms of that city has
made contract to supply the Boston
Coliseum with about 100000 feet Of
' lumber
e Three large willow trees on Mr.. Cock.
roft's place at Saugatuck Conn. grew
from slips taken from tree near the
t grave of Napoleon Bonaparte, on the
4 Island of ST. Helena. The slips were
5 brought from thence nearly eighteen
years ago, and the trees which are theil
product, are large and thrifty.
Two men having arranged to fight
duel in Rhode Island, the Governor is
sued a proclamation forbidding it. where
, upon one of the parties sent him not,
saying that one of them would stand il
: Connecticut and the other in Massachu
S sets, and shoot over his miserable littl
e State.
d A severe storm of thunder and light
$ ming passed over the city of ST Loui
t on the evening of March 80, accompa
e MED by a heavy rain and terrific tornad
t from the southwest. A, large brick mai
: ket was leveled to the ground in a twink
: ling. Two persons were killed and quit
: number severely injured.
6 New York came near being scare
. to death week ago Saturday, by tn
l. report that Horace Greeley of the 7ri,
l. uae was dead. Newsboys resort to a
sorts of ways to sell their papers, an
0 late in the evening several appeared Q
# the streets, shouting at the top Of the
= voices. death of Horace Greeley
. The Greeley who died was child tv
E years old.
: The Cincinnati Commercial tells
droll story of an indefatigable old gel
is tleman from Kentucky, who last wee
visited faro bank in that city. 70
n tune frowned upon him, and soon h
- pockets were empty. He offered to stal
% his pistols, but the establishment decli
Ut ed. Then he took out his gold mountt
tn teeth, sent them to a pawnbroker, I
i'll ceived $40, and lost them. Out he wen
al pawned his oyercoat, returned with
:, few dollars and lost again The unde
81 un coat followed its companion, and We
Il; and cravat went to keep them compan
nd He was then adjudged complete ban
ct rupt and assigned to prominent Sc
Mt, among the high players of form
tly times" He went out of the house,
the dim light of dawn, toothless wrec