Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-12-01
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

IHc DpdiilSH press praise Z reSIuenC |
Grant for his moderation.
Cole county, Mo-, offers regiment
for the conquest of Cuba.
Longstreet tenders the government
$4,000 Louisianians to conquer Cuba.
Illinois in one day rendered its Gov
ernor four regiments of troops for the
capture of Cuba.
The drifts of snow in Quebec are in
many places from eight to ten feet high,
rendering the roads almost impossible.
The New Hampshire Democratic State
Committee have called the State Con-
ventlon in Concord on the Sth of Janu-
airy.
Titusville, Pa, has raised and offers
the government full regiment for SER
vice against Cuba.
New Orleans has raised a regiment
for service in the prospective war with
Spain. The work was done in one day.
There were on board the Virginius
fifty men, officers and crew, and one
hundred and two passengers.
The Cuban volunteers are brutally
ravishing the widows of murdered Ma
sons, and the news of the horrid work
is arousing the members of the sublime
order in all parts of the country.
Mr.. Robson can now sit down mo-
ment and fan himself with his tarpaulin
hat. The forty-two veterans of the war
of 1912, who met in New York last
Wednesday, offer to protect the forts.
The Postmaster General has issued
an order reducing the registration fee
on domestic letters and packages from
fifteen cents to eight cents, commencing
on the 1st Of January next.
Stokes and Walworth are both to be
removed from Sing Sing prison to Au-
burn. Both are in delicate health, and
their removal will therefore not be i'm
mediate. Walworth, it is said, suffers
greatly from remorse.
The New York merchants generally
agree in the idea that there is no occa-
sion for any trouble with Spain. They
hold that the ''Virginius' was never a
trading vessel, and that vessels engaged
in legitimate trade will never be inter-
fered with by Spain.
The Boss Tweed trial is over. The
arch-rascal has been found guilty on
every count in the indictment, number
ing 204, and the old scoundrel has re-
tired in charge of the sheriff. The law.
yers are now fighting off a judgment by
the court, and the issue remains for the
future.
The green paper with which lozenges
are covered is extremely poisonous; but
children are allowed to purchase them
! and place them in the hands of infants
who always carry things to the mouth
A piece of this paper, twenty inches
| square, was analysed and found to con.
| tain metallic arsenic sufficient to destroy
f the life of an adult.
7 1t is rumored that the world did no
, come to an end, the other day, at thu
time appointed by the Connecticut AID
} ventists. Those Connecticut Adventist
: have been fooled so often that the thins
+, is becoming little serious. If tn
t world should come to an end just abou
: now, they would be a deuced sight NOR
astonished than any of the rest of us
}. Cowier-Joumai.
t Private letters received at Washing
e ton say that for some time past the in
: habitants Of a portion Of northwester
e of Lyon and Osceola, have been sufferin
b severely for the lack of actual necessitie
!. of life, caused by the utter failure of tn
n grain crop there last summer. Thes
g sufferers are in need of everything i
), the way of food, fuel, and clothing.
y The postmaster has no right to fol-
ward, free of additional postage, lette
r which has been received by mail, an
S is put back into the office with the oil
p address marked out and new on
S written. All such letters must be re
e stamped, as the postal authorities d
y not send them gratis. When perso
# leaves town and requests the postmas
e ter to send his letters on their arrival
d to his new address, this can be don
s without payment of extra postage.
S The United States Senators, who's
: terms expire on March 4, 1875, al
n Ames, Mississippi, Bayard, Delaware
l. Foreman, West Virginia; Brownlov
Il Tennessee Buckingham, Connecticut
u Carpenter, Wisconsin; CasserIy, Cal
ifornia; Chandler, Michigan; Edmund
l. Vermont; Fenton, New York Flanagan
n Texas; Gilbert, Florida Hamilton
It Maryland; Ramsey, Minnesota Schur;
/, Missouri Scott, Pennsylvania Spragu,
l. Rhode Island; Stewart, Nevada; STOCK
e ton, New Jersey; Sumner, Massachr
# sets: Thurman, Ohio, and Upton, NJ
y braska, twenty-five.
IS If anybody Is led to suppose from tn
6 Providence correspondence of the Ne
d York papers that Rhode Island intend
L to declare war against Spain, on he
t. own hook, and without waiting for til
r, General Government, he will be quit
4. mistaken. The State contemplates n
y such measure: she is too regardful {
= the obligations of the Constitution. Th
a tremendous excitement, the ''enthusi
asm." the "offers of service" the "r,
{. cruiting," the fastening "to the front,
' are all on paper. If the country shoul
= unhappily become involved in hostilitie
N we are quite sure that Rhode islam
% will do her duty, but she will wait fo
te the formal declaration by Congress-
,e Providence Journal
l. The New York Tribune proposes til
S. following plan for aiding the Secretar
Is of the Treasury in his silver scheme
lie specie payments "Why should not tt
N Treasury Department issue chromos
Is The religious weeklies do. 1t is ben
g, 6cent, parental, and, like the rest of tt
he currency, connected more or less wit
a. the printing press. WHY not, instea