Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-07-07
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GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Jesse Grant, the father of the Pre-
ident, is dead.


Continued successes of the Carlists |
are reported In Spain. 4
1T isFrumored that the Asiatic cholera
has broken out in Brussels and Paris.
& The friends Of Vice. President Wilson
are much alarmed about the state of his
health.
The collection of semi-annual interest
and dividends made affairs lively IN
Wall street. last Wednesday.
Ex-Governor Jewell of Connecticut
our new Minister to Russia, sails in the
Java for Europe last Wednesday.
The grasshoppers are SO thick in Min
nesota that the schoolma ans ride horse
back to school, aR ~ NJ
It is claimed that the trial of Charles
A. Dana, for alleged libel. will result
in scandalous disclosures.
The Sioux Indians declare that if they
have war and the soldiers shave their
heads to prevent scalping, the 'reds'
will cut off ears in place Of scalps
Foreign mail advices state that mis-
understanding exists between Bismarck
and Count Ven Arnim, German ambas-
| sador at Paris. as
| A party Of citizens of Rawlins wy
oming, recently had a quarrel with a
band of Ute Indians, encamped near the
town A dozen of the Indians were kill
ed by the whites,
The New York Commercial Advertis-
er consoles itself with the reflection that
there is a great deal of phosphorus in
the flies served up at the restaurants,
and that phosphorus is brain food.
The Indictment against Victoria G..
Woodruff and Tennie Clafflin, for send
| ing obscene literature through the mails.
cannot be sustained and the case is dis
missed.
The Chicago Post asks, when will
Christian benevolence respond to the ur-
| gent demand of the times for the organ
ization of a society for the prevention
of the murder of parents ~
Sad but also amusing is the statement
of a rural journal that "the late John
| Carpenter of Marquette, Mich, knocked
the ashes out of his pipe on the head
of a key of blasting powder
The St. Louis Democrat says
Whales are running their noses against
that portion of Rhode Island that sticks
out into the water below Providence,
and the inhabitants are troubled with
earthquakes. ..a
At Salem. Ind, on Sunday morning
band of masked men entered the jail
tore down the inner doors, dragged a no.
torious criminal, named Hefferen, from
his cell and hung him. The terrified
victim was not even allowed time to pray
before being ushered into eternity.
Work was commenced. Saturday, up
| on mammoth balloon in New York b,
Messrs. Wise and Donaldson, under tn,
auspices of the Graphic company, tn,
builders agreeing to make an aerial voy
age to Europe. The expedition viii
start about the goth of August.
The Washington correspondent of th
New York Times telegraphs that it i
learned from some active politicians o
Massachusetts,, that the anti. Butler mel
have no fears whatever of his nomination
by the Republican party for Governor
On Friday night, Samuel JONES' a.
eccentric man living on Long Island
was brutally murdered and his house
robbed of large amount of money AM
bonds, The affair is wrapped in myste
ry, and the perpetrators of the horribl
butchery have not been discovered.
The census report credits Kentuck
with the production of 10000 gallon
: of the delicious syrup known as mapl
molasses. If any one has curiosity t
know how many billions of packages Q
refined sugar she produces, let him coun
her pretty girls, says the Courier-Joul
a nal.
The dead body of Col. Lionel Perc
! Sidney of the British army was foun
: on the beach at Staten Island, N. Y.
e on Saturday night From certain bruise
on the body, and from the fact that b
was about to draw $4,000 from th
bank when he was last seen alive, it
thought that he was waylaid and mul
f dered for the money.
Nasr-Ed-Din, the Shah of Persia,
Y the son of Mohammed Shah, one of th
- forty-eight children of the late Abba
Mira, eldest of the 259 children of tn
'o celebrated Faith Ali Shah. He himse
n is the happy father of six daughters an
three sons, all grown up, or nearly 81
h though he is only forty years of ag
l. and they have already given him twel,
:. grandchildren.
g Henry Ward Beecher publishes a lie
. ter, denying the charges against hir
70 and stating that. if Mrs. Victoria Woo,
to hull or any other person has any Of b
7e letters. they are welcome to publish the
" to the world. The church committee a
:. pointed to Investigate the charges pr
L. fered against Bowen have not as y
Il taken positive action.
The New York Times has been SO mu,
improved in its last issue that its olde
ne readers would hardly recognize it. Wi
IN the arrival ola Walter press from Euro
1e the proprietors have changed the emit
OF face Of the paper for the first time sin
a. the death of its founder. This is b
OF one step in the steady onward progre
a which, for three years past, the Tim
ey has been making AS it now stands
er respect to public affairs, it may have
e. satisfaction of knowing that, where it
de not admired. it is feared.
ey
ey A Dutchman went to the lottery off
sr, in Louisville the other day, and inquir
nut for ticket No.9 He either wanted
mt or SO, or 999, or $4,000, but no 9th
in number would satisfy him. On inqui
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