Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-04-14
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Mass.
The Ocean House, summer resort at
Rye Beach, is burned. Loss, 100000.
By falling wall, eight men were
killed in Rochester, few days since.
There are 42S,759 more males than
females in the United States Do not
give it up girls.
The news is that Servia, dependency
of Turkey, is in state of revolt, and
serious results are likely to follow.
The Great Eastern is now taking on
board the cable which she is to lay be-
tween Lands End and New York She
is expected to leave her moorings at
Sheerness in May or June.
Miss Emily Faithful, the noted Eng
lish woman now in this country, is pain
ed to see that many American girls
protesting to be highly educated are
merely clipped into weak solution of
accomplishments .
1t is estimated that fifty thousand
persons have visited Florida during this
season, and have spent in the aggregate
about five millions of dollars. The cir
culation of this vast sum of money has
infused new life into business in that
state.
Success attends the insurgents in Cuba.
An important point in the eastern depart
ment on the coast, has recently fallen
into their hands. 1t will prove an elig-
IDLE base Of operations in the future,
inasmuch as supplies may be received
there without much danger from the
Spanish off Gals or army.
An old bachelor said "there's sight
more jewelry worn nowadays than when
| was young; but there's one piece that
| always admired that don't often see
now" "What is that 2" asked young
lady, ga thimble," was the reply
The man was regarded with contempt
and scorn by every lady in the room for
the rest of the evening.
The Lancaster, On. h. Republican
of the 9th says: 1.-The lumbermen have
wound up business for the season. 1t
is estimated that from 25,000,00O to
3O,00O.O0O will 60 down the river from
places above Lancaster this spring. Bow
man & Co. have purchased about IT,
100000 of what has been cut, and the
Turner's Falls Company the rest"
By the falling Of the walls of a build
ing being erected in Middletown, Conn.,.
five men were killed and large number
injured on Wednesday last. An investi-
cation is of course being held but it
will not prevent carelessness. A like
accident just occurred in Rochester, and
but few days since the walls OF burn
ing building fell in Boston. killing sew
eral iremen. The cause in each case,
was carelessness in construction.
DIR. Parker, at the meeting of the
Temperance League recently held in
New York, stated that the average man,
aged twenty years. in good health, had
an average of forty two years of life,
while the social drinker, from the same
point of view, had only an average of
thirty-fve years. The habitual intern
perate man had much poorer show
DR.. Parker has made the subject of al
cohol and its effects almost lifelong
study.
All the laborers in New York are
threatening to strike The makers of
gas have stopped work, and the wicked
city sits in almost literal darkness
Other workmen are clamoring for the
eight hours system or an increase of pay.
The spirit seems to be contagious as in
other cities certain classes of workmen
are about to strike" The result will
be that. in most cases. the strikers" af.
ter spending what little means they have
will return to their work. and the coun
try will be poorer for the loss of labor
and injury to business.
The London Enquirer condemns the
unwillingness of British railroads to ac-
cept Improvements. 1t says: ut is be
yond question, be the cause what it may
that the locomotive engines used in tn,
United States cost less money and d.
more work than English loco motives
No English locomotive superintendent
has ever proposed, however, to build al
engine from Yankee patterns and try i
on an English line. The thing would
be contrary to all precedent, and threfor,
it is not DONE"
Michigan has just discovered that tens
of thousands of her acres, hithert,
deemed worthless on account of tn,
dense growth of sweet fern, is reall,
valuable, for this luxuriant vegetable i
found to be a much more powerful as
tringent than hemlock, and far superio
to that substance for tanning purposes
yielding 40 per cent. extract where hem
lock yields but 4. Tanneries will sool
spring up in the vicinity of these vas
astringent fern plantations, and Mich
gan will be placed in a position to expor
leather as we'll as saw logs
In Illinois, by constitutional enactmen
and the decision of the supreme court
: a wife has the right to trade and carr
4 on business on equal terms with he
A husband and now the court has decide
: that this privilege to married womel
/ carries with 1T responsibility Tor thel
> own words, and that husband canno
: be sued for SANDER uttered by a wife
: That is right. If married woman
e to retain all the rights of a femme sol,
: it is certainly just to protect the husban
+ from what is comprehensively known i
t law as the .'torts'' of his wife, to sa
u nothing about her tantrums.
The New York Times calls attentio
:. to the danger of overworking childre
!, in our public and private schools, as 70
Il lows: There can hardly be questio
9 that, taking the country through, pa
e ents are doing a serious injury to I'll
physique Of their children by requirin
J. excessive brain-work and too many hou
l. in close school-rooms. We hear con
n plants on every side in regard to IL