Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-06-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS,

committed the recent massacre of Modoc
prisoners.
The canker worms are committing
great ravages in Western Connecticut.
and the apple crop will be almost de-
stroyed.
The total amount Of '.back pay re-
turned to the United States Treasury IS
$l92,0l7 81, and the number of Selia-
tors and Representatives who declined to
receive it is forty-six.
Surely murders are frightfully cpl
demic at present from Maine to Mexico.
Newspaper editors have never seen such
a period of crime before. Horrors ON
horrors head accumulate p
A Pittsburg man who had promised
his wife not to touch another drop of
'local option as long as he had hair
on his head, shaved his head smooth and
then got blind drunk without breaking
his word.
The editor of the Fredericksburg, Va,
NeacS was asked by . stranger '.If it was
possible that that little town kept up
four newspapers, . and the reply was
"No, 1t takes four newspapers to keep
up the town.
Cases Of yellow fever on vessels from
Havana are reported at New York and
Hampton Roads. The cholera prevails
still at Memphis and Nashville and
there are indications Of its appearance
at Cincinnati.
Among the articles exhibited at the
June meeting of the Anthropologieal In
stitute in London was s'a bow and pois-
oned arrows, lately used by the Modoc
Indians, and found in Capt. Jacks
stronghold in the lava BEDS
Lord Derby, in a recent letter, is very
severe on Englishmen for their diligent
and senseless extravaganza in foreign
travel. He softens his stroke, however,
by saying that American tourists make
themselves still more ridiculous
A cucumber bug ran away with the
Utica Herald mans cucumber vines, and
he advertised the thief In consequence
his desk is so buggy. that it could run
on wheels, and three thousand bugs have
come to stay in his garden.
The Chicago jubilee appears to have
been chiefly remarkable for its magnif-
cent display of buxom country girls. 1t
is true that music hath its charm, but
these cheese-press and hay NOW gals are.
after all. the most potent ''charmers.
A steam wagon is to be built very
soon to run on the turnpike between
Nashville and Pulaski, Tenn. It vii
weigh about three thousand pounds, and
will be able to carry ten thousand
pounds, or fifty or sixty passengers, with
ease.
Mr.. Horton of Clyde, N. Y, started
to go home from the village where h,
had been doing some trading, last Thurs
day night, but thinking he would hav,
one more drink, started to turn around
when his horse backed the wagon off in
to the canal and Mr.. Horton was drown
ed.
; A fend in the shape of a woman re
Gently died in Kansas, and confessed OF
| her death bed that she had poisoned 81,
, persons; the best part of the story i
, that the dose which she had prepared
for her seventh intended victim she acct
, dentally took herself, thus saving tn
State the trouble of hanging her.
< A self-possessed young man called a
house in Atlanta, Ga, few morning
| ago and asked to see his wife, ''She i
not here, . replied the mistress Of tn
< house. There is none here but tn
members of my own family" "Well,
t replied he, tits one of them | want t
n see. | married your eldest daughte
t last night
The Conference of Congregations
: churches in Rockingham county, Ne
Hampshire, held at Greenland last weel
: passed protest against the running {
: Sunday passenger trains over the Bo:
{ ton and Maine railroad, under the nam
t of milk trains, and appointed a CON
: mittee to present their protest to til
g management of the road.
# An old farmer named Carnby lost, 8
+ Chicago, the other day, in less than Oh
l. minute, his wife. Sl05 in greenback
o and five toes. A pick-pocket snatche
the money from his hand on a departin
: train and jumped off. The victim 70
: lowed him, but stumbled, and had pa
e of his foot amputated by a car vince
: The train with Mrs. Carnby and tt
) thief disappeared in the distance, lea1
o ing the unfortunate old man in til
h ditch.
l. Two murderers in North Carolin
= condemned to be hanged on the 9th inst
d received communication of their sentenc,
/ to Imprisonment for life just one hol
before the time appointed for their ex
cution. A large crowd had already co
= lected around the scafold, the prisone
8 were dressed for the occasion, had take
, leave of their families, and were engay
= ed in devotional exercises when Il
- message from the Governor arrived.
h A New York contemporary says TIL
l. murder seems to be the safest GRIMM
IN item ON the calendar in that city, tod;
re and the cheapest article in the market
ot human life. The purloining of prope
= ty, from the smallest sum upwards,
ID attended with sure punishment, but
or murderer is SO Gonized, and has so mai
as loop-holes through which escape>is re
d, dered possible, that he is pretty sure
L. go clear. These are startling facts. b
I'd they are nevertheless true, not alone
,g applied to New York city, bnt all ov
I'd the country.
ed Indiana seems to be land of elor
c. ments. Last weeks record runs thu
en- First, Father Lablanc, Catholic prize
run away with a juvenile Miss Hopki1
H. and as yet they have not been hea
Of from next, rural Lord Ullins daue
as ter was borne to the river bank by /
IS young man, who padded her eighte