Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-03
GEN NERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Terribly cold in Texas.
Vesuvius is in eruption.

Terribly cola III IeXaS.
Vesuvius is in eruption.
China has now the rinderpest.
And now Nevada has the epizootic.
Cuba has population of 100000.
Incendiaries are working in New York.
A schooner sunk at He'll Gate, Sun
day
Brooklyn averages two Opponents dali
ly.
Husks are worth more than corn in
Iowa.
Oregon has finished its Willamette
canal.
Business is blocked by strikes in Eng
land
Fifty thousand foreigners hunt gold in
Africa.
How to disburse the Alabama claims
is the next conundrum for Congress.
Over 100000 in gold left New
York on Saturday last for Europe.
There are nearly 1900 male and just
lOl female prisoners in Sing Sing prison
Texas wants to fill up, and has sent
an agent to England for emigarnts.
New York, last year, arrested twenty
nine move female thieves than males.
Kansas shipped more cattle East in
1872 than any Western State. {.
A Georgia colored woman has thirty
three children, and yet she is not happy.
And now there Is an epidemic Of rail
road accidents in all directions.
Destructive freshets are announced in
all directions, following the January
thaw
1t looks as though the great theft of
the New York ring would escape after
ALL
The penalty for using postage
stamp seconed time. if discovered is
fifty dollars fine.
All the smart convicts escaped from
the Tennessee penitentiary, as we'll as
from Sing Sing.
1t is said that nineteen newspapers
are to share in the profits of the Georgia
State printing.
A man at Oconomowoc, Wis, has re-
ceived Sl60 this winter in bounties, for
, slaughtered wolves
f Thirty-fvc thousand tons of wheat are
stored at Stockton, Cal, for shipment
to Liverpool.
At Akron; o., recently, girl at a
ball was discovered to have smallpox
e She found it difficult TO obtain partners
: There are thirty-nine live convicts ir
t the Illinois State penitentiary, thirty
seven of whom are murderers.
Sidney Smith said that nothing would
: be done to prevent railway accidents il
g England until they killed a bishop.
d Two United States officers were sho
e dead recently in Nebraska while trying
9 to arrest party of mail robbers
4 The Coos Republican states that fft,
copies of the New York Tribune wer
saved.
IS The dry goods imports during tn
# past week, in New York. reached tn
e enormous and unprecedented total of So
i 435, 500.
+ A New Yorker was attacked and S
seriously injured by huge black cal
i the other day, that he now lies IN Belle
y vue Hospital.
1t 1t is estimated that there are betwee
two and three thousand buffalo hunter
- in Western Kansas, and they averae
~ about fifteen per day.
- Phoebe, New. leaves its natural health
IT, fulness to be inferred from the fact tina
DO no one has ever died a natural deaf
f. there.
n, A destructive fire at Darien. Ga, o.
no CURED on Saturday night. in the cour
le house. The public records and 9th,
- property were burned.
8. The steamer Nick King, bound
:! Florida, struck snag and sunk ne:
e- Darien, Ga, on Friday night. The pa
:, sengers and crew were saved.
81 Over twenty-five billion tons of ra
~ fell in England last year, and she wan
Ut her bishops to intercede for a small
to supply in 1873.
None of the ska tiers have been drow
ed at St Paul, this year. When the il
&c gets to be sixteen feet thick there is Ii
y tie danger of going through it.
A Milwaukee lady had several hu
dred dollars worth of point lace clippt
at off her clothing, by an adroit thief, viii
~ she was at church.
". They have a matrimonial bureau
- in Kansas. They call it bureau befo
1n marriage. but three legged stool a
Gle swers all purposes after wedlock.
Richard Spencer, hanged on the s
IRE inst, at Kirkbale. England, for t
no murder of his mistress, was born in ia
:. and his father was hanged for murdt
The marine losses within the la
ny twelve months. both of life and propert
err exceed any similar period in our expel
Ter ence, A fearful record, indeed.
81 Smallpox is steadily decreasing
re- Boston under the energetic action of t
- new city government and Board
~ Health. 1t never would have spread
up it has done here had the authorities p,
tie formed their simple duty
lde Two school boys at Candor, N,
York State, toyed with a treacherous
volver, lately, under the mistaken id