Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-07-21
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

ne O6JOSepn Hospital at New Bed
ford is to be used as United States
marine hospital
Two lines ofcable are about to be laid
between Placenta. N. F., and Sydney,
Cape Breton
Postal cards of either country, when
not SO prepaid, will not be forwarded in
the mails between the two countries.
A despatch from London says that a
terrible storm swept over Yorkshire,
Sunday, July Ii doing much damage.
The steamer Tigress sailed from New
York Monday evening on her expedition
in search of the Polaris.
A quarrel at PikesvilIe, Ohio, July
10, resulted in the death of Jack Reed,
one of the wranglers.
1t is reported that the trial of Kate
stoddard, the alleged murderess of
Charles Goodrich, will take place very
soon.
A serious railway accident occurred
near Buffalo, Tuesday morning. Two
trains collided and several persons were
killed
The department of agriculture at
Washington, recommends that more corn
and less cotton be raised in the South
ern States.
Brigham Young's project for settling
Arizona with Mormons has failed, and
the entire colony has returned to Salt
Lake City, with their faith in the pro-
ject greatly shaken.
1t is rumored at Washington that the
payment of the Geneva board will be
made in United States bonds, and that
the Secretary of the Treasury will ac-
cept them.
The regulations ana instructions gov
erning the use and treatment of postal
cards in the domestic mails of the Uni
ted States and Canada, respectively, are
equally applicable to the postal cards
mailed in either country and addressed
to the other country.
Mr.. Horace Fairbanks of St. Johns
bury has secured for the Art Gallery of
the Athenaum, Bierstadt's celebrated
painting "The Domes of the Yosemite -
This is called the very best work of this
celebrated artist. and is the same that
has been exhibited in the large cities Of
both this country and Europe.-Cate-
DOMAIN.
The Mecosta County, Mich, Ponce,
says: "The biggest days work of saw.
ing yet on record was done at Stone
Seeley's saw mill, Sand Lake, a few days
ago. 1t was done with a 6S inch cir
cular and patent edger; time. 10 hours
and So minutes. The total amount
sawed was los, 726 feet, inch, inch anG
a quarter, inch and half and two incl
stuff.
/ President Grant has issued a forma
proclamation announcing that there vii
be held in the city of Philadelphia, al
international exhibition of arts, man
ufactures, and products of the soil ant
mines, to be opened the 10Th day o
April, 1876, and to be closed on the l9tl
day of October of the same year. Sec
rotary Fish has addressed frlendl,
note to all the foreign powers, inviting
them to participate.
The next to the last act in the Modo
tradegy has been played. Captain JAG
and his companions have been foun
gnilty by the military commission, an
when sentenced, and the execution G
the sentence-death-shall have take
place. the lava beds will be known onl
in history as the haunt of bloodthirst
and treacherous savage band, whose ez
tinction was hailed with Joy, and who's
wrongs, if so be they suffered wrongs
We're unconsidered.
One of those peculiarly western inst
buttons, tornado, passed over Neosh
county, Kansas, last week. 1t frs
struck a stone house near Galesvill,
prostrating it as though it were built c
cards. Four persons, three of thel
children. were buried in the ruins an
instantly killed. The other houses wei
swept from their foundations, and sev
eral dwellings in different parts of til
county were struck by lightning. l
the narrow belt of the hurricane every
: thing, including houses, fences and crop
was swept clean from the face of tn
earth.
EXCHANGE OF POSTAL CARDS WIT
6 CANADA.-An arrangement has bee
concluded between the United Stat,
and the Dominion of Canada, providir
! that United States postal cards male
at any post Office in the United Stat,
and addressed TIC Canada, and Canada
: postal cards mailed at any post Off
in Canada and addressed to the Unite
States, when prepaid an additional pc
tage of one cent, by afixing thereto &
e ordinary one cent postage stamp of II
: country of origin in addition to Il
e stamp printed or impressed on the car
e shall be reciprocally forwarded and d
n livered in the country of destination fir
e of charge.
The Goodrich murder mystery,
= Brooklyn, has been cleared up at las
4 and the murderer, Kate Stoddard, b
been arrested and confessed. 1t is t
old, sad story of seduction, a short al
immoral connection, after which the b
y trayer tires of his victim, and in endea
). oring to get rid of her, she turns, in b
I despair and fury, and shoots him dea
It Neither the contempt nor disgrace viii
/ attends such death may be enough
n deter men from sacrificing decency, mt
n ality and pity. in the pursuit of passic
d But surely the thought of the crush
le and wretched wreck of womanhood W
l. has confessed that in fit of frenzi
e jealousy she killed Charles Goodrit
70 ought to serve to convince those of /
sex who have like temptations, that he
l. est work, however hard, Has no abyss
a wretchedness so deep as that with IRE
It ularly formed attachments, and ends
IS the desertion that provokes revenge.