Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-06-09
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

One of Barnum's boa constructors, i'm
ported last year from Africa at vast ex-
pense, died in Boston on Thursday last.
Miss Anthony is willing, not to say
anxious, to prove her fearlessness by
standing ''face to face with Satan"
How about Satan?
A man seventy-three and woman of
sixty nine eloped from West Amesbury
last week, because their children object
ed to their marriage.
Religion is said to be .reviving" in
Indiana to such an extent that there are
almost as many baptisms as divorces,
sixty-three persons being immersed at
Grand Chain alone last Sunday
A resident of Princeton, Ind, declin-
ed proffered glass of whiskey, but lost
his life nevertheless at the hands of the
friend who had asked him to drink and
felt aggrieved at his refusal.
The topers of Salem, Ind, were con-
siderably riled to see their names con-
spicuously posted in every saloon, with
orders from the town officers forbidding
any one to sell them liquor.
A citizen of Bangor Me-, promises to
pay the Society for the prevention of
cruelty to animals, ST, 900 if it will Sc
cure the passage of a State law prohibit
ing the use of the check-rein on horses.
Barnum's agents in Florida have just
captured maintee, or sea-cow, an ami
NAL he has long been endeavoring to Sc
cure for exhibition. 1t is a fine speci.
men. from five to six feet long, and has
been partly tanned, already having beer
taught to eat grass.
The widow IF James Fisk, Jr., has
commenced suit against the Pacific Rail
road Company, Governor Dix, the estate
of Cakes Ames, and against other i'm
plicated parties, to recover six shares O
Pacific Railroad stock, which she claims
belong to Mr.. Fisk's estate.
The negro cook of Mr.. Pretty, sheriff
of White county, Ark, seasoned tn,
family viands, few days since, will
strychnine, having been promised an oil
gray horse if he would poison them all
The attempt was discovered before an,
one had tasted any of the food, and tn
cook confessed that three other negroe
had persuaded her to do it, thinking t
secure possession of the estate
A young lady of Indianapolis, who's
sisters funeral occurred last week, ex
! cused herself from attending the obse
quies by saying that her own weddin
was to take place the same evening, an
the funeral wouldn't leave her in goo
spirits for the pleasurable accompani
ments of the latter occasion; besides sh
had no time.
: Nicholas Moulin or Marion, a suppos
ed accomplice of the Bender family, tn
Kansas assassins, shot himself in th
head last week, inficting wound fro1
which he died. He was in charge
the county attorney, who was takin
him from Texas to Kansas. A youn
t man who is supposed to be Bendel
, was arrested at West Liberty, low;
last Saturday, and a woman thought t
be Mrs. Bender was arrested at Oxford
Ia. There seems to be little doubt
e their identity.
J., Theodore Tilton is authority for tn
e statement that the Rev. Henry War
: Beecher has written letter for public;
ton, in which he says he has alway
: been his friend, that Tilton did not ci
s culate the ISLANDERS against him, an
It that Tilton signed the recently publish
$ ed revocation solely for the purpose
healing the differences between Beech,
p and Bowen. Mr.. Beecher, howeve
% does not see fit to deny the charg
d which have been the cause of all tt
n trouble.