Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-08-26
MISCELLANEOUS.
At a great bargain pause awhile.

The national debt is being paid at
the rate of SO minute.
The decrease in the national debt for
the month of July was $3,427, 2SS.1S
The reduction of the public debt for
Aug. is expected to reach $12, 100000.
Gen. Sherman and Miss Grant and
party will sail from England for home
September 5.
Illinois proclaims the biggest corn crop
ever raised since the seven fruitful years
of Egypt.
SANKEY'S little African adventure is
called the romance. of the nineteenth
century.
A brother Teuton describes Mr. Schurz
as ga shentleman dot is very elastic NIT
his brains"
There are 1000 manageable young
ladies on the island of Nantucket, and
only 100 young men.
Charlotte Cushman is reported to have
earned $4,000 last year by her profess
sion as reader and actor
Out in Ohio they ask you to believe
that a pig can live nine months under
straw stack without food or water.
Fernando Wood says that "all good
men,, including himself, are for Greeley
Fernandy is slightly .'sarkastical."
Brick Pomeroy's La Crosse Democrat,
that at one time had circulation of
hundreds of thousands, is now dead.
The King of Spain has signed the de-
cree providing for the gradual abolition
of slavery in Cuba and Porto Rico.
It is said that Jay Cooke is about to
enter into arrangements with Philadel-
phia belle to superintend his cooking
The latest of Colorado's wonders is
petrifed palm tree % feet in diameter,
discovered 81 miles southeast of Denver.
Mrs. Mitchells, woman worth $780,
900, was arrested in the streets of San
Francisco as a common drundard, re-
Gently.
Michael Louery, of New York city,
while intoxicated, threw his wife from
third story window, seriously injuring
her. He was arrested.
A brutal teamster at Somerset, Mass,
recently became angry with baulky
horse, and fastening a rope to the an
imals tongue pulled it out.
DIR. Houard proposes to tell the tale
of his suferings to the American people.
Over 20 lecture committees have already
solicited the privilege of introducing him.
A Cincinnati wife left her husband S
board but took the bed with her. He is
puzzled to know how to word legal no
tice of warning to the prospective cred
itors.
'Im so thirsty said boy at work
in cornfeld "Well, work away"
said his industrious father, ''you know
the prophet says, ''Hoe, every one that
thirsteth'
A lady's hustle caught fire recently
at Oshkosh. Wis, and burned several
feet deep into rage, newspapers etc., but
was extinguished before the flames reach.
ed her flesh.
The Kansas City Times learns, by pri-
vate letter, that daughter of w G.
Brownlow attempted to elope with 9
Knoxville stone cutter, and has been i'm
INJURED in convent.
DIR. Livingstone has given the name
of Lincoln to one of the lakes discovered
by him in Africa ''as tribute of low,
to the great and good man America en-
joyed for some time and lost
A resident of Brownstown, Mich. ha
been committed to Jail in default o
$500 bail, for chopping cow with al
ak until she was dead, the animal hav
ing provoked him some way.
A seventy-fve years old French bal
let girl manipulates her unpadded calve
with a spryness that makes her younge
companions sea-sick and dis-heartened
Age will tone the old girl down however
What an agreeable world this woulC
be to live in if we could pump all tn,
pride and selfshness out of it! l
would improve it as much as taking tn
? fire and birthstone out of the othe
world.
A lively Hoosier maiden wept whe
she read how Longfellow had cut his pa.
tern so as to ruin him for life. She wa
so fond of his poetry, she said, as 81
0 snufied the pearly tear drops from he
/ nose.
Q A wife and daughter of one of tt
J, best families in Elizabethtown, Ky
o. have become converts from Christianit
? to Judaism, which is the third instan,
of the kind reported in this country fc
: many years.
: The death of President Juarez depriv
e Mexico of the ablest ruler she has ha
y for many years past He was seven
IS years of age, of Indian blood and brit
and began life as a servant in wealth
49, 1dluiiy III OdAotOo.
4 To whom it may concern Look n
upon the watermelon when it is re
II nor upon the stewed cherry when it gi
vt eth its color in the cup; at the last
1t biteth like soft-shell crab, and stfnge
ar like the cholera morbus.
st Earl Granville says that he has
t. doubts of the commences of the lette
!. purporting to come from Livingston
> Livingstone's son believes that the +
re pers and letters brought to him
Stanley are from his father.
is One young lady at the Ocean hou
re who calls butter, .buttaw. waitaw
Il. wears nine diamond rings on one of h
% hands, and hustle on which she, t