Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-06-30
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Peaches are ripe in Louisiana.

Peaches are ripe in Louisiana
The cholera increases in the west.
The Carlists have been whipped again
Yale College catalogues one hundred
and sixty Smiths.
The area of California is sufficient to
form l45 States as large as Rhode Island.
From present indications the cotton
crop of 1873 will be the largest raised
since the civil war.
Five men were overcome in New York
by an injudicious mixture of sunshine
and whiskey,week ago last Sunday.
Louisiana expects this season to have
the largest sugar crop since the memor.
able harvest of 1850.
A Montreal justice sent boy to Jail
for twenty days for shooting small birds,
and confscated his gun.
Pennsylvania spends $4,000 900 for
public schools, 100000 less than New
York, but more than any other State.
The civil service advisory board re.
commend that the country be divided
into four districts, each to have chief
examiner, etc, etc. Fiddlestick
A New York lady wears set of Etrus-
can jewelry made over a thousand years
ago, which is pronounced superior in de-
sign and finish to anything made at pres
ent.
Young men with a disposition to s.bur-
GLE will be interested in knowing that
a full set Of burglars tools, including
revolvers and slung-shots, costs about
$1,000.
The Roman Catholics of Erie, PENN,
are building cathedral 200 feet long,
III feet across the transept and IS feet
across the nave and aisle The 'spire
will be 225 feet high.
Another Union Pacific Railroad man
gone. Horace f. Clark, president of the
road, died last week. He was lawyer
by profession, a member of Congress in
1867, and son-in-law of Commodore
Vanderbilt. His age was So.
John B. Cough, on returning home,
few days ago, found awaiting him. it
is stated, nearly 1000 invitations to lee
ture the coming winter He intends to
accept about 200 of the whole number.
Cough is said to be more in demand as
lecturer than any other man now living.
A letter to the Richmond Wing. from
Charles City county, says: ''The only
news of interest to write is that the stur-
geon season is over, and harvest is about
to commence. The crops are fine
Wheat crop is better than it has been
since the war. Farmers are in fine
spirits.
The wheat crop in Michigan never
made a better showing for the season, the
reports from all quarters of the State
show it to be nearly all headed out, and
by July 10, should the weather continue
favorable, will commence the harvesting
of one of the biggest crops on record.
William Hersch, soldier from the
garrison at Fortress Monroe, was muir
dered at ten o'clock, on Saturday night
at Mill Greek, about mile west of thu
fort. He was struck on the head will
slung shot by some unknown person
, and died in few minutes. A man nam
: ed Davis has been arrested on suspicion
A young married woman of Lewiston
Me-, left home to attend the fair at Port
< land, against her hush and's wishes
: When she returned he chided her 70
, contempt of court for which she fool
: ishly attempted to take her own if
with strychnine. At last accounts sh
was in precarious condition.
0 The Augusta Me. Journal hears o
clergyman who is afflicted with Job
: comforters, can neither sit or stand
: but is obliged to suspend himself in mid
r air, after the fashion of the gymnasts
n Occupying position between heave
e and earth, he is able to preach the trutl
a untrammeled.
n We regret to announce that the cele
y bration of st. Jean Baptiste day a
Coaticook was saddened by the death @
+ two men engaged in firing a salute a
: noon The men, Edward Valliere an
! Thomas Mahern were killed Instant
!. by the premature discharge of cannon
: The Coroner's jury found that the caus
q of the premature discharge was in const
j quence of their not guarding the ven
. and the use of a poor swab.-Staastea
Journal.
J A loaded pistol, at full-cock, with
= cap on the nipple, four pounds of blas
:. ing powder, and five pounds of gunpoN
der and broken glass, made up the cor
: tents of box which loving Englis
!, husband sent to his wife. Fortunatel
J. J. the arrangement for the discharge
= the pistol failed to work, and the woma
- has invoked the majesty of the law ;
gainst him.
n The rage for the 'ie" termination |
20 girls names has come to disastror
/ conclusion in one Oregon family.
[e farmer named AXE christened his eide
e. girl Belle. She had some cards printe
T. III the SIZE fashion, and-well, aft,
N looking at the result she concluded Bel
re was pretty enough for her and burnt
g. them.
5 Notwithstanding the bother made ov
Boston's defective fire extinguishi1
ne facilities, the city has at the prese
Id time one third more steam fire engin
of and twice as much other apparatus, al
in twice as many fremen and fire. alar
J. boxes as the city of Philadelphia, wi
or its % wards and over Fl miles of teri
Y; tory.
OF A Philadelphia surgeon was call
RI, the other day to house uptown to al
od putate the leg of a woman. He is nes
d sighted man; and when he reached t
re, house he got into the wrong room a.
mt calmly sawed off the limb of the serva
girl, who was German who had col
NO over two days before, and who thong