Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-04-28
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Cyrus w. Field is in Paris.


There are 100 American missionaries
in Turkey, Persia, Palestine and Egypt.
Horse-car tracks are just about to be
laid in the streets of ancient Jerusalem.
Senator Sumner passes most of his
time in bed, seeking entire rest and quiet
Roman Catholic journals claim rapid
rate of progress for Catholicism in
England.
Spring brought Nebraska the hardest
snow-storm of the last sixteen years.
It lasted three days.
The New York free medical college
for women graduated six of them week
before last.
Senator Cragin of New Hampshire,
made $4,000 on a recent real estate
speculation in Washington.
Garroters have appeared in Boston,
and the hardware stores are selling re-
volvers at brisk rate.
Sea captains say that there is not
good lighthouse on the entire coast of |
Nova Scotia west of Halifax.
The rumor is now, that James Gordon |
Bennett is about to marry a German
princess.
Later details of the Modoc treachery
show that Gen. Candy was shot, stabbed,
robbed and stripped.
A Rochester man put his terrier dog
by force into a baggage car, and the an
imal died IN fifteen minutes, of fright.
A divorced wife has heaped Goals of
fire on Detroit husband by inheriting
100000. Its just his luck.
A Cleveland saloon keeper, too poor to
buy a knife, and having no taste for
poison, stabbed himself with a piece of
glass.
1t turns out that Capt Williams, of
the Atlantic, was dismissed from the
Williams & Guion line for drunkenness.
So says the Nation.
| A Buffalo girl, pretty and eighteen,
has sold over five hundred sewing ma
chimes in the last two years. She travels
with horse and wagon.
There are only nine cities in the world
with population of more than a mill
ion London leads the list with its
three and quarter millions.
An explosion took place on Saturday,
O9th), in a portion of Dupont's powder
works, near Wilmington, Del, killing
one of the workmen.
Mr. Corcoran has sold two hundred
acres of land near Washington city to
the government as an addition to the
Soldiers Home, for the sum of 1915, 900.
A riot occurred in Knightsville, Ind,
Wednesday of week before last, in which
the negro laborers and white miners
with their wives, joined viciously. The
militia restored order.
Senator Brownlow is described as
'thin, pale emaciated, shaken with palsy,
and to outward appearance a wreck. "
He has gone to his home in Knoxville,
Tennessee.
. "They are playing Two Wives at
the Boston Theatre with perfect impuri-
, ty,'' says the Boston Globe. This is
nothing remarkable, as they are doing
it all over the country.
t The number of persons out of employ
e ment in Philadelphia is appalling One
. insertion of little advertisement for a
e clerk in a railroad office brought 9S5 APP
a plicants in a single day.
The remains of a man who was buried
in California cemetery, ten years ago,
a were recently found to have become
= petrifed, weighing between four and five
q hundred pounds.
!. Gen. Howard having urged that citi-
d zenship should be conferred on the In
- dams, Western paper suggests that
e Capt. Jack would make cheerful citi-
It zen at long range.
Capt. Williams of the Atlantic is
;, suspended from duty for period of two
7, years. He should either lose his COM
/ mission or not be punished at all. He
( is either guilty or not guilty.
e The undaunted perseverance of the
II i mule has again been exemplifed by four
y of them, late of Kentucky They re.
Is fused to look out for the locomotive en-.
II CINE, and were disposed of accordingly
D. Midnight burglaries are quite fash.
a ionable in the suburban towns around
New York, and rumor asserts that q
rafting fire of revolvers may be heard
- from II to 3 o'clock, any night, and the
. local coroners are in high spirits.
e, young man named Sullivan, who
al attracted by curiosity, went to the steam
e, boat wharf at Fall River, Saturday Q9)
ID to see the survivors of the Atlantic
lg found his brother, whom he had not see1
~ for years, among them.
!. Henry Merrill of Pittsburgh, N. Y.
r. recently assaulted Cornelius Stafford
- with sword, inficting serious wound
y on the head. Mrs. Stafford went to tn,
y rescue of her husband, when she receiv
u ed several blows from Merrill TIL
TO- latter was taken to an insane asylum.
ie A fire at Granville, N. Y, WEDNESDAY
~ the 10Th inst, destroyed SINNERS hote
~ ~ and the dwelling house east of it. Th
on trotting horse Waiting Dan. and othc
u horses were burned. Loss SIS, 900: in
~ " sured for 5000. The fire was suppose
-, to have been incendiary.
so A Rochester couple who were marie
nd in February, after three days accquain
to ance, quarreled the morning after ma
is riage. have been at ever since, and o
ed Wednesday the husband shot his vii
up twice in the neck, and then put Blu
it'll let through himself. Both are obst
od nately recovering.
ire The body of Lieut. William L. She
:. ~ wood twenty first United States infantry