Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

10 seek the redress of grievances by
going to law is like sheep running for
shelter to bramble- bush.
At Bradford, Ont, on Sunday morning
five persons were burned to death, the
house in which they were living having
from some unknown cause, caught fire.
Chang, the giant, has found a young
woman in Australia who has consented
to change her condition. No cards.
A Fort Wayness has been married
three times to Messrs. Robbs, Robbins
and Robinson. respectively.
st. Louis has Free Thinkers Socie-
ty, and Louisville caps it with a Free
Drinkers Association.
Mr. Slack showed his lack of filial pi-
ETY. at Bridesburg, Penn, by caressing
his father with a crow-bar. 5000 bail.
The joint efforts of 147 Indianans,
armed to the teeth, worked the death of
two foxes after long and desperate con-
test.
A Kansas billiard table is described
by a recent correspondent as having old
boots for pockets and eight broken hoe
handles for cues.
Hartford no longer allows goats the
freedom of the streets, and they will
henceforth be confined to the Masonic
lodges.
1t is not true that doctor on the ju-
ry in the Tichborne case has complained
that if he is kept away from his patients
much longer they will all get well.
A gentleman in search of man to do
some work met on his way lady, not
as young as she once was, and asked
her, ''Can you tell me where can find
a man p ''No, [ cannot" she replied,
for have been looking these twenty
years for one myself
A marble cutter recently received
from German an order for tomb
stone, with the following epitaph ''My
wife Susum is dead if she'd life till
next Friday she'd been dead shust two
weeks. AS tree falls so must she
stand
1t is stated that in Martin county,
Ind, few nights ago a gang of thieves
went to saw mill. took down all the
machinery, including engine and boiler,
loaded it on the cars of the Ohio and
Mississippi Railroad, hailed a passing
train, hitched the cars to it, and hied
away to Illinois Very shrewd thieves
Aor else a very imaginative reporter.
A shooting ARRAY occurred on the 18th
at the Waverly House, St. John, n H.
James Whiteman, emigration agent of
the Northern Pacific Railway, addressed
some offensive remarks to a young man
named Samuel Isaacs, of Montreal, who
sat opposite to him at the table, where
upon Isaacs drew his revolver and fired
three shots at Whiteman, one ball graz
ing his shoulder. Isaacs was promptly
taken before magistrate
A San Francisco journalist, desiring
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performance of band of Chinese must
clans, asks them to imagine themselves
in boiler mandatory where five hun
bred men are putting in riyets. NAM
moth tin-shop next door on one side, and
a forty stamp quartz mill upon the 9TH
er, with drunken charirart party with
six hundred instruments in front, and
four thousand enraged cats on the roof. .
There is an important lesson in the
comment made by murderer who was
recently hanged, upon the instruction
and care bestowed upon him by mission.
aries and ministers during his last day;
of life: IF had received as much at
tention before being put into prison as
have since, | should never have beer
here" To prevent is better than to cure
evil.
VAcCINATIoN.-Ac correspondence in
quires when smallpox is epidemic
; and the type so virulent as at present
is it safe to vaccinate % 1t is to be pre-
; sumed that the medical faculty conside
that it is safe or they would not be prac
ticing vaccination by hundreds daily
Moreover, if it were dangerous, the dan
ger would ere this have become too obvi
E ons to be matter of doubt On tn
contrary it seems to be the only know
measure Of safety and, with its nov
, wide practice, We expect soon to see tn
number of smallpox cases sensibly di
2 minished.- Fitness.
DEATH OF THE OLDEST MAN IN TIL
: UNITED STATEs.-Harvey Thacker,
: son-in-law of Daniel Boone, and a ma
1 tive of Buncombe county, n. c., ha
just died in Shasta county, Cal, at th
n age of l28. He is supposed to hav
l been the oldest man in the Unite
e States, if not in the world No mel
{ ton is made of his life record during til
revolutionary war, though he was iu.
t 33 years old when that war broke on
IS but he is said to have served after |
S was 20 under General Jackson at Il
J battle of New Orleans, under HarrisC
i at the battle Of Tippacanoe, and also
e the Black Hawk war in Illinois.
: The danger arising from the negle