Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-03-31
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

highest point since 1870.
A powder mill exploded in So Acton
Mass, on the 9th, of March. killing
the agent and two other men,
Senator Caldwell, the Kansas senator,
accused of procuring the election by
bribery, has resigned.
James McElhaney the wife murderer,
was hung in Boston on the 23d Of
March
The Grace Irving small govern
ment steamer went down in the recent
storm, off Duxbury Mass, with all
on board.
Crime is said to be on the increase in
France
The upper classes of England are be-
coming more temperate.
Great Strikes are threatened among
the miners in England.
The Senate of the United States has
adjourned, having completed its bust
ness.
police justice at Elgin. H., fined
citizen five dollars for keeping a rat in
a trap two hours before he killed him.
They don't allow any one to ..locate"
in the new colony of Siddy, Kansas, who
uses tobacco in any form.
Kansas farmers say it will take 49,
900 bushels of their corn to pay for the
recent entertainment given by the Ne
braska Legislature.
A company is being formed for the
purpose of laying another telegraph ca
BILE from England to America It will
be laid in the summer of 1874.
A small boy in New Haven made
sensation for short time by quietly
transferring card bearing the words
take one, from a lot of handbilfs in
front of store, to a basket of oranges.
Hon. Austin F. Pike, who has been
elected to Congress from the Second New
Hampshire district. is an able man. of
considerable Legislative experience, and
his friends anticipate that he will make
an honorable mark at Washington.
The Bank of England has been SWIM
died out of large sums of money of late,
and it is supposed to have been done by
Americans. We can furnish England
with murderers. forgerers or swindlers if
she needs any.
Joe Smith, the leader of the anti-polyg-
amy Mormons, and son of the founder,
is reported to have recently purchased
the first Mormon temple at Kirkland, o.,
and it is supposed that the Mormons now
living in Illinois intend to return to
their early settlement.
Memphis has beautiful girl, on
whose account three young men lave
committed suicide, four duels been fought
and six old bachelors sent to the lunatic
asylum. She can't help being hand
some, aud some men can't help being
idiotic.
Mr.. Gladstone Premier the real exc
cutive head of the British government,
resigned on the 10Th inst, because he
could not control parliament, but no
other man being found, whom the Queen
could entrust with forming new minis
try, he returned to his post on the Goth,
and things are again quiet.
BY the promotion of Secretary Bout
well to the Senate of the United States,
the Secretaryship of the Treasury was
made vacant. Judge William Richard
son of Mass. was nominated and con-
frmed as Secretary of the Treasury
The financial affairs of government will
be managed much as heretofore.
A Cincinnati man who suspected his
servant girl of using kerosene oil to kin.
die the fire with, thought he would try
her. one night, so he poured the oil out
and filed the can up with water When
he landed in the dining-room next morn.
ing, there was no breakfast and no fire
to cook it withholding but stove full
of soaked wood and the foolishest girl
: he ever saw.
A murder as mysterious as that Of
Nathan. and not unlike it was lately
committed in Brooklyn, N. Y. Charles
Goodrich, wealthy merchant residing
in Degran street, was found after hav.
ing been diligently searched after by his
brother, in the basement of his own
house, lying upon the floor with two
pistol wounds upon his person. No clue
is yet obtained which fastens suspicion
upon the murderer. 1t is surmised thai
i. he may have been murdered by his mis-
tress, whom he was about to abandon
Those good people who are in sucf
distress because Gen. Grant did not We
to the Congressional salary swindle
should bear in mind that be was headed
off in the matter, for it was placed il
the general appropriation bill, very Gun
ningly, as an amendment. A vetC
would have clogged the wheels of gov
eminent, at the late hour the bill wa
passed. There was method in the whole
arrangement, and designed to put tn,
President in position where he coulC
not help himself Watchman.
A Milford Conn man gravely tell
the world that he has patented process
for the manufacture of imitation fur
which so closely resembles the origina
article that good Judges are almost de
, ceived by its appearance. The mater
, ials used are base of thick wooden o
, felt. and hair shaven from small and re
fuse pieces of the skin of fur-bearin:
animals. The hair is beaten into tn
! wooden base, and the resulting combina
: ton is 50 finely put together that the OLE
test of blowing into the hair hardly re
veals the deception.
FRENCH FINANCES After Waterloo
history tells US that the allies extorted
from France l,535,O0O france for tn
! war expenses sustained. Though thi
sum was so much smaller than the sun
demanded by Germany at the presen
time. and now nearly all paid, yet j