Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-05-26
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

United States on the 4th of July.
The total cost of the Geneva arbitra-
ton was Sl44.000-a small percentage
on the SIS, 100000 awarded.
1t is said there are twenty persons in
Georgia under the sentence of death, all
to be executed within the next sixty
days.
John Cassidy, 30 years old, work
man in the Manchester, n H., print
works. was caught by a shaft, Thursday
of last week, and instantly killed.
Joaquin Miller spent three years of his
early life with the Modocs and the In
dian maid of whom he sings so raptur-
ously was Modoc squaw.
The New York Commercial Advertis-
er thinks we can get even with the Mo-
docs, by sending out Brother Talmage
to read 'em Bancroft's history Of the
United States.
A Pennsylvania man used nitro lyc-
crime to blow out ledge. AS he hasn't
been home since, his wife hasn't made
any definite arrangements about spring
bonnet
A party Of performers in Lent's circus
got upon bender at Manchester, N Ill
last Friday morning, and were arrested
The ringmaster, both clowns, and sever
al of the leading performers, were among
the victims
Mrs. Brown, of Burlington, sings her
Hush, my babe to her infant son Will
liam, who measures twelve months one
way and one hundred pounds the other.
She spanks him with pile driver.
Bayard Taylor is the New York Trib-
nae'S Vienna special correspondent In
describing the opening festivities of the
fair he says that all European languages
were heard, German predominating,
English coming next.
An English captain, who died few
days ago, requested that a splendid gray
charger valued at $3.50 should be shot
after his death. and that costly phae-
ton should be destroyed His friends
were foolish enough to comply.
A Washington physician has discov-
cred that nearly all persons who live to
be eighty or over, retain a thick head of
hair to their deaths, while those who
become bald in middle life seldom live
to be older than sixty-fve or seventy.
Some lively girls in Pittsburg, with
malice aforethought. placed the ef6gy of
a woman in young mans bed, and
strewed the room with hoop-skirts. false
hair, etc. He hid the false hair, and
the lively girls stayed at home from
church, next Sunday.
A country newspaper which recently
spoke of .'buttered thunder and was
asked by a cotemporary if that had any
affinity to CREASED lightning mani
tested some anger in explaining that
'muttered thunder was what was in.
tended.
A western paper makes this attempt
to silence the originators of old lady
items: An old lady 39l years old lately
walked 200 Iowa miles in one day, chop
ped 10 cords of wood, dug 90 bushels Of
potatoes, and then danced all night.
A white girl, four years old, was muir
dered in the woods near Lynchburg Va.
| by colored boy seven years old. Thu
girl was found with her head beaten il
and her bloody clothes by her side Tn,
boy confessed that he killed her because
she refused to give him white marble
William M. Tweed, whose case wa
called up for re-trial last week, did no
appear. and is not in New York 1t i
rumored that he has, through agents
recently been selling his real estate il
New York. and has been advised that
as his conviction IS almost certain il
case of new trial, he had better no
return to New York.
Thad. Stevens left his nephew tn
residue of his estate-estimated at iron
$4,000 to S100,000-on condition tina
he abstain from drinking. He has no
done so, and in accordance with pro
vision of the will, the executors ar
about to use the money to found an OF
phan's home at Lancaster, Pa, opene,
to all races, religions and colors.
Annis Rosewood, his son. William, an
John Washbaugh, having previously ha
some difficulty with one John Kari, Q
Jacksonville, Ill.,, made desperate al
tack on him at his residence Monday {
last week, and gouged out both his eye;
The wife of Karr coming to his assist
ance, was knocked down and brutal
beaten. The assailants were arrested
The pursuit of information is som,
times attended with difficulties, even
San Francisco. One inquirer who az
piled to the Chronicle for information +;
to where Cain obtained his wife, is CT,
ely rebufed, the only reply vouchsafe
him being this: Upon any subject of
0 public nature we never refuse to thro
9 the desired light. But this is altogetl
er different thing. 1t is famil
matter with which we do not care
G meddle."
Lu Lu, female gymnast, is now tt
wonder of New York. She goes throus
a series of bewildering and stunning tr
> peze performances, after which she tax
her place in front of the ladder and
:. shot into the all thirty feet with a I
/ pidity almost inconceivable. Does til
/ daze or dizzy her? Not III the leas
e she lands upon the trapeze amid thu
ders of applause, and concludes her c
n reer by turning a triple somersault fro
v the swing upon the trapeze into the L
l. beneath.
:. A desperate named Lawson, ne
e Lake City, Florida, killed man nam
5, Mcdonnell, whose brother immediate
e started to avenge the murder. Laws
: attempted to escape in a swamp, but W
a captured by bloodhound and held f;
y until Mcdonnell came up. The mi
1oror xuac alIovuad Hftoor 70 L.