Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-25


takes occasionally. since he has such
large territory to look over. and must
make his predictions daily, weather or
no.
A distinguished clergyman being in
vited in one of our churches, few weeks
since, to open the service by prayer, but
not having received an invitation to
preach, declined, saying that ..if his
friend was going to do the moving he
might whet his own scythe.
Hon. George F. Hoar has given But
Ter an awful castigation. He draws the
blood every time with the cleanest of |
cuts. He shows Butler up as an adven-
turer, a swindler, repudiator and a
blower and sums up his public service
as ''suogger, quarrel. failure
A man named Kellar, of Mine Spring,
Kansas, killed his wife, her sister and
his two children last Sunday night, pill
ed their bodies on the floor. covered them
with straw, and then set fire to the heap.
He was arrested, and the officers had
much difficulty to prevent his being
lynched. 81
The full-rigged young lady of the
period wears suspended from her belt
eight articles, namely: A sun umbrella.
vinaigette, pocket-book, fan, bunch of
keys, glove-buttoner, small case for Thin
BILE and scissors, handkerchief. and, on
Sundays. an ornamental prayer book;
and she looks more like walking hat
rack than fashionable belle.
A girl was taken to the station house
in New Albany, Ind, for drunkenness
and disorderly conduct, the other night,
who, two years ago, was the much adj
mired daughter of a wealthy insurance
man in that city. She was accustomed
to the best society, but her mothers
death and her fathers intemperance left
her homeless, and her ruin followed.
Mr. Beecher gives the readers of his
paper some practical suggestions about
fishing, concluding with maxim Of Mr..
Stoddart especially intended for baehe-
lors, young and old: "Never fall in
love with woman by the water side:
there are situations in which every wo-
man looks like an angel" When should
a woman look like an angel if not when
she is angling. whether for fish or a
husband?
| The Chicago Tribune thinks Butler
stands a good chance to be elected, and
thus moralizes /; Butler Governor of
Massachusetts, and what next The
situation is unique. The State of broad
cloth governed by disorganizer and a
Communard the State of American ira
ditions governed by the brazenest brag-
CART and the dirtiest politician of the
times; Plymouth Rock danced upon by
a scoffer: the State of boasted culture
governed by a guerrilla"
There seems to be fear in some
minds that the proposition to erect g
new State out of parts of Kentucky
Tennessee, and Mississippi is for the
purpose of isolating the colored popula
ton or, in other words, to carve out ;
black State. However that may be
one has only to go into Bourbon County
kentucky. and indulge freely in thu
| great staple of that region to get into ;
, very blue state in less than no time.
The Manchester On. II. } Union tell
of a Newfoundland dog that fell into ;
canal there recently and was unable tt
| get out. At length he succeeded il
e getting his paws upon the bank, ant
: Gov. Smyth's dog, approaching the sit
: uation, seized the drowning dog by tn
neck and making vigorous sally back
t ward, drew him on the bank. The TIVE
dogs looked at each other with the great
0 est complacency and went home.
In the pavilion of the ministry o
agriculture at Vienna, a floating cannon
{ ball may be seen. Although weighing
fifty pounds. it lies like down feathe
I on silvery mass, consisting of pure
3 quicksilver from the celebrated mines o
r Idria. A hundred and fifty hundred
: weight of this metal is exhibited in
e large iron cauldron. offering sight sci
D dom to be met with, and on it rests tn
d solid iron ball.
! From series of very curious expert
!. ments just made, it appears that tn
: high notes of violin string are accom-
q panied with tuficient conclusion to ex
Z plode iodide of nitrogen on paper alike,
to it The sound waves generated b
the explosion of the merest trife of nj
/ tro-glycerine are also. it is found, capa
:. BILE of exploding an equal quantity o
!. iodide of nitrogen at distance of eigh
/ and a half feet.
r Further particulars of the recent stag
e coach accident at the White Mountain
IS show that it was in great measure th
a result of culpable neglect in management
r The stage was heavily overloaded, hay
n ing sixteen passengers and an unusus
S amount of baggage. while the brakes
y through long use and no repairing. ha
: become useless. 1t is reported that th
pole-strap did not break. but that th
s. worst part of the hill had been passe,
d when the horses trotted over water-b
$ in the road, which threw the whif1etret
h on the backs of the horses, and brighten
II ed them into run.
- George W. Moulton, of Springfield,
= = Mass, fell from loaded wagon on whie
- he was riding, and one of the wheel pas
= ed over his chest. He received injurl
- from which he died the next day. f
s. i was 46 years old and unmarried. H
a family would seem to be addicted to dyir
~ accidentally, only one of the male mel