Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-12-22
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

SIoU,UUU.
Colonel Frederick Dent, father-in-law
of President Grant died at the White
House last Monday night.
Worthington, Mass, boasts of house
one hundred years old in which no flu
neral ceremony was ever performed.
Eight cents instead of fifteen, IS to
be the fee for registered letters to any
point in the United States after the first
of next January.
Tweed is said to be the I'd congress
man ever sent to the penitentiary. Poor
old Justice had her eyes punched out.
before the American republic was born.
The treasurer of Jackson county,
Iowa, who recently defaulted for $40,-
900, has been arrested and released on
bail of $1,000. Just $4,000 premium
for villainy is the Hawkeye style.
A Newmarket, England, chief cut off
the tails of more than 100 horses, and
sold them to chignon manufacturers.
A newly-appointed policeman in Pat
erson, n. j., was knocked down while
making his first arrest He Immediately
resigned.
That famous steam gong on one Of
the mills in Fall River, twenty miles
away, is heard almost daily in Middle
boro, and some of the Br1dgewater peo-
pie, still farther away, set their clocks
by it.
The American generals, Stone and
Loring, in the service of the Viceroy of
Egypt, have been promoted to the rank
of major generals. Gen. Sibley has been
discharged on account of physical inabil-
| ity.
George w. Westbrook, arrested in
Brooklyn for counterfeiting United States
bonds, somewhat resembles farmer, is
about fifty years old, and was the origi-
nal proprietor of the Mexican Mustang
Liniment.
There is a woman in Iowa, who, al
though possessed of the usual organ of
| speech. has not spoken for five years.
Under state of religious infatuation
she made an oath that she would never
speak more, and has so far kept her
word.
Paris, Dec. l6. A dispatch from the
N. Y. Herald correspondent at Madrid
says that CASTELAR, made an official call
on Minister Sickles to-day, accompanied
by the Secretary of State, and made a
formal announcement of the surrender
of the Virginius and prisoners. The ut
most cordiality was shown on both sides.
No year in the present century has
witnessed SO many appalling marine
disasters as that which is now drawing
to its close. First the Northfeet went
down in the English channel with $50
souls on board next came the Atlantic
with nearly the same number of victims
then the City of Washington, and last
the loss in mid-ocean of the Vile de
Havre with two hundred and twenty-six
lives.
5000 workmen are out of employment
in Patterson. New Jersey, and horrible
tales of starvation and misery come wall
ing on the breezes. The city authorities
have ordered an expenditure of S25, 900,
as relief fund. but this is mere drop
in the hideous bucket of necessity. Mon
day of last week, huge mobs of shaggy
haired and desperate men paraded the
, streets, shouting, BREAD or blood p
Some proposed to pillage the provision
stores ON the ground that it would be
better to live in Jail with food and fuel,
than to remain starving, freezing, free
= MEL in the streets.
Missouri's pet highwaymen, the bold
3 and dashing James and Younger broth
ers, have just been exploiting in Cass
county. Cleaned out a store near the
Kansas line Robbed everybody who
rode up to it while they remained
e Brought down one gentleman who at
s tempted to escape, by a center shot a
. fifty yards distance. And rode off il
triumph, laden with plumber and leading
one or two stolen horses. A large party
S pursued but were defeated in skirmisl
!; near Monegaw Springs, losing one pris
4 oner. prominent citizen whom the ban
dts held as a hostage while they mad,
y good their escape.
Danville, Kentucky, is elated owe
: the possession of a 1lO-year-old negress
: She is, of course, nimble in body ant
# sprightly in mind, talks clearly, withou
), spectacles and sees fuently withou
r stammerlng. She, like all the rest of he
" tribe, distinctly remembers the Revolu
ton; expiates wildly on the surrende
of CORVALLIS. and was intimately &C
y quainted with General Washington
S whom she describes as ga powerful ser
is ious-loeking man." When will the las
: of these venerable humbugs cease to as
tonish the average rural news-ragge
% with stupid rehashes of Munchausen an,
to kitchen Mother Goose.
~ Carrying little farther the crimina
.. folly of Talmage and that sort of clergy
i men who make light of the marriag
of ceremony, the managers of the Connet
), ticut Girls Industrial School at Middle
: town on Thanksgiving day entertaine
III their pupils in the chapel by a moe
It. marriage ceremony, in which Mr.. an
us Mrs. Eastman were married by Mis-
IN Morrell teacher, who personifed
~ clergyman. The children are said
= !, have been highly pleased. The ma
10 riage relation is such joke, and divoro
is SO easy, that Connecticut papers thin
it well to prepare these candidates Fl
reform to regard the whole affair in tt
light of dramatic performance, viii
the fact that a religious ceremony
burlesqued at the same time makes
all the more edifying.
no The Richmond Enquirer declar
there is a class of noble old Virgin
aristocrats, who, if. they had the poV
er, would engraft upon the laws of Il