Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-17
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

ana baWled ont fannie, your Teller Is
down to the house" Annie didn't pass
The indianapolis Journal anticipates
that the next twenty four months will
witness an increase in the manufacture
ing enterprises of the West unknown in
any former period.
Senator Edmunds says the indications
are that his resolution authorizing the
Secretary of the Treasury to withhold
all the moneys due the Pacific railroad,
will be adopted.
The water in the Niagara river is low
er than it has been known for many
years. It IS at least thirty feet below
high-water mark. The river is a mass
of ice from the beginning of the swift
water, below the landing, to the falls
True glory consists in doing what de-
serves to be written, in writing what
deserves to be read, and in so living as
to make the world happier for our liv-
ing in it.
The first thing they do out West now,
when man gets elected to the United
States Senate, is to appoint an investi-
eating committee to ascertain how much
his election cost him. BoGY is now on
the grid-iron, and they are making it
hot for him.
A timid resident of Ridgefeld, Conn,
being unexpectedly called upon to ad-
dress Sunday School, rose to his feet
in some confusion, and, after several
desperate but vain attempts to say some
thing appropriate, hoarsely muttered,
g Dear children, never fool with pow
DER
A San Francisco widow keeps the
skull of her deceased husband in glass
case. She once remarked to friend
who was viewing the remains:
Alas how often have | banged these
bones with a broomstick. | am sorry
for it now
Dennis McCarty died in Greenfield,
Mass. last Saturday evening, in great
restitution, having been drinking hard
for several days. The overseers of the
poor we're not notified until few hours
before his death. Not sheet or pillow
case could be found in the house, and
no one to take care of him but blind
wife.
A terrible fatal disease is reported to
be raging in Crawford county, Illinois.
} In Robinson, a town of 500 inhabitants,
the deaths average two day, and thus
far no one once attacked has been saved
| In a town of 200 inhabitants near Rob.
inson fifteen deaths have occurred, and
| on the Goth ult four corpses were lying
in one house. The disease is called the
= DldcK CnOleTd.
: A woman in Illinois has obtained
J, verdict of 81, 200 against a saloon keep
+ er who sold her husband liquor, whicl
: made him drunk, whereupon he fell ant
broke his neck. Another woman GU
+ there was seen to spread soft soap upol
RI ] 4ho l. II III
S husband would pass on his way home
/ She had an eye to business
,. A bill is pending before the Ne,
: York Legislature which proves that whe
n persons are acquitted of crime on
# plea of insanity, they should be confne
N in the lunatic asylum for period of NJ
# less than fifteen nor more than thirt
years. Very few would want to be il
10 sane under such law.
B. Out in Sterling, Ills, the people don
L. believe in letting persons do things b
d hind painted windows and screened door
); They have ordered that all saloons sha
e. remove, paint, screens, and curtains fro
g the windows, that passers- by may S,
n who are in the saloons and what the
It. are there for. They are hard hearte
Id people in Sterling
~ A gentleman connected with a Boste
n bank as clerk recently robbed the ban
ne They called him "fellow" and 9th
T. disreputable names at first, and son
Dr. intimated that he was a thief-for the
KS thought he had stolen only few dc
o, lars but it turns out that he took IS
H. 600, and is not thief at all. but d
re faulter. He has been baied out for Il
s. good of society.
: There is wheat field on the we
! side of the San Joaquin river, Califo
- MIA, thirty five miles in length by eig
in breadth, with an area of 1890
acres, Estimating the average yield
ul 2,S64,20O bushels, or 96.Ol5 ton
ps This amount of grain would load $50
of cars, which, if made up in one trai
ne would reach for over eighty miles
80 The present rulers of Japan are a
young men, the monarch himself havi1
''' scarcely attained the age Of manhood
~ Tho lact feature of tha ravo1utiopa-
= spirit run mad in that country, is affor
~ ed in letter from Arinori Mort, Il
japanese Minister, at Washington,
ca Prof. Whitney of Yale College, propo
at ing that his country should discard Il
gs japanese language and adopt kind
| ,.ncnn Str,,cted EnnliSh In which p