Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-03-24
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


The family of Beethoven, the great
musical composer, is very poor.
The eight wealthiest men in New
Orleans are retired butchers
The Wheeling Register speaks of GER
tain Congressman as" mob-o' liars. y
The ice on the Hudson at Poughkeep-
sic, N. Y, is ten inches thick, and teams
cross daily with safety.
The Governor of Massachusetts has
appointed Thursday, April 3rd for Fast
Day.
The Massachusetts Legislature goes on
the record AZ to SO against woman's
suffrage.
Two San Francisco School mistresses
have been suspended for using oaths
that we're not in Webster's Unabridged.
The Legislature of Rhode Island has
legalized marriages between blacks and
whites.
A young Irish girl at Jacksonville,
Illinois, has hair that reaches the floor,
and has refused to take 500 for the
same.
An Iowa man who recently starved
his wife to death. has been hung by a
vigilance committee.
! A New York individual proposes to
swim from that city to Long Branch, 26
miles, next summer.
A Kansas court recently committed a
lawyer for contempt on account of his
using Latin quotations.
Gen. Dix has received letter from
woman who processes that she wants to
be hanged instead of Foster.
The scarcity of coal in England is
likely to result in the stoppage Of some
of the Atlantic steamers.
The French Government has already
paid to Germany, So, 100000, 900 franc,
on account of the war indemnity.
1t is stated that after all obligations
+ are paid, Horace Greely's daughters will
f each have one hundred thousand dollars.
1t is now stated that Gov Geary's
death was occasioned by the use of hair
$ dye, in which sugar of lead was prin-
cipal ingredient.
4 Nearly the whole Prussian Court be-
9 long to the Masonic order, which also
f, includes the Emperor and Crown Prince
;. of Germany.
: The Marshal House, at Alexandria,
Va, where Col Ellsworth was shot at
t the commencement of the war, was burn
t ed on Monday night.
A hog in Iowa that was buried in the
a snow nearly six weeks came out alive,
= but was reduced in flesh from zoe
!, !, pounds to so.
The biggest thing on ice is probably
at Port Deposit, Maryland, where the
ice is damned up to fifty feet in thick.
ness and nine miles in length.
At West Levant, Me-, tunnel more
than sixty feet long has been cut through
q mountainous snow drift which obstruc.
ted the post-road.
r A woman performer was recently bad
!. ly lacerated by the tigers of circus
e while performing in Salem, Ala. Sht
was rescued from the cage with difficulty
&c Somebody who has been "studyine
= our weights reports that, upon The
u average, boys at birth weigh it'll,
y more and girls little less than 81,
~ pounds and half.
% A Venetian musician has invented
{, new kind of VIOLIN The strings are O
is metal and pass around the drum. Tn,
instrument is said to have four times tn
sorority of the ordinary violin.
y Another violent snow storm has visit
le ed the Northwest. Throughout Mime
x \, sofa and Northern Iowa the snow ha
=. =. dr1fted fearfully, delaying the railwa,
~ ~ trains everywhere and in many place
! y completely suspending travel.
u Three boilers at the Orange furnace
10 Jackson County, Ohio, exploded on Sun
. day night, damaging adjacent building
and hurting the hot blast boilers 20
IL, yards from their BEDS Two men wer
$, seriously injured. The loss is estimates
ed at $4,000.
% The maddest man in Camden is Smith
~ He wound up his clock regularly ever
e. night for fifteen years, and then discov
a, cred it was an eight-day clock. Fl
W muses. on the work that he might hav
% done in those wasted minutes, and hi
profanity is dreadful.
ng A brutal prize fight took place at Co
d. Tiers, West Virginia last week Tuesday
a the principals were Harry Kicker, a
ps Englishman and Bryan Campbell, a
to Irishman. The fight was for $4,000
'd. side. 1t ended in a row and a pistt
ny skirmish.
The London Standard is very indis
nant with the Times for the position
L. has assumed with respect to Canad
u.s. and declares that the question will 500
60 be, not whether Canada is strong enoug
TX to stand without England, but wheth,
mt England is strong enough to stand witt
~ out Canada.
his There is in New York City profe
of sional "facemaker who sits as mod
mo- for the artist who manufactures or
ifs tesque masks for carnival times. I'll
ion fexibility of his features is said to be
wonderful that, if necessary, he cou
:, delude the recognition of the smarte
'he detective.
at
nc. Whatever else they may say of
an. Kentucklans-that we play cards, drir
rol- whiskey. and race horses-they ha
Mt never yet been able to say Of us that '
nj, are set of pulling hypocrits and liaI
as That Kentucky women are the han
: soonest in the world that the Kentucl
of horse is the heetest in America, and tn
md if the Kentuckians do play cards, tn
play them on the square, are, we take
indisputable propositions. -Loua svs
ton Courier Journal