Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-04
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

oa0 ouO uoiioi ioA q uOStOi.
The editor of the Boston Post square
" says he isn't Greene enough to accept
aSdemocratic nomination for Governor.
The New York Herald makes SIC, 900
a year from its personal column.
The lawyers and the devil make more
by it.
The Boston Post wants the Massachu-
sets Democracy to ''be up and doing"
while the Lowell Courier reports 1--WE
had supposed it was up and done
Katie Bender. of the family of Kansas
murderers, is believed to be in France. /
America and French detectives are after
her, and expect to identify her by her
general ugliness and her red hair.
The spirits have ..busted' an Aurora
Qll.) family. They revealed to the un-
suspecting wife the desperate sins of her
husband, and she has sued for divorce
and he has sued her for lunacy.
Here in the East we are perpetually
worried by '.the boy who bathes," but
out at Lafayette, Ind, the papers are
complaining in right down earnest be-
cause troops of girls go in swimming in
conspicuous places in the river.
When private citizen of Bonny river,
on the west coast of Africa, accidentally
sets fire to chiefs house they dig out
his eyes, cut off his ears, boil them for
his supper, and then bury him alive.
A recent letter relates such an incident.
dispatch says that at the burning
of hotel in Prairie Du Chen, Wis,
"several of the servant girls leaped from
the third story window into the arms of
Capt. Hobbs.'' That Hobbs must be
pretty cordJ boy. -
BALTIMORE, July 29.-James Green,
a fisherman. while hauling a seine in
Chester river, across Chesapeake Bay,
yesterday, was seized by shark and
all the flesh was stripped from his right
leg. Green was brought to this city,
where his leg was amputated.
/ Two little girls, 10 and II years
old, hooked twenty pound salmon
while at Halifax, recently. The elder
of the youthful fishers was dragged in
to the water by the leviathan. but their
united strength was too much for him,
and they dragged him home in triumph.
A Strausburg (Pa.) girl agreed to kiss
a young man every night for two years
if he would quit smoking. He made
nightly pilgrimages to the garden gate
for six months and collected the prom
ised sweetness, but she has taken to
onions and garlic, and he is getting
thin ~
inexperienced husband in Lafayette,
Ind, sent two switches home to his wife
from which she was to make selection,
but before doing it he had changed the
tags, putting the twenty-five dollar one
on the ten dollar switch. and vice versa
After a critical examination by herself
and lady friends, the choice fell upon
that labelled twenty five dollars. and
she decided to keep it, Notwithstanding
her husbands plaintive protest that he
could not afford to pay out more than
ten dollars for such an article.
q = Josh Billings is in New Hampshire,
and is .'doing" the White mountains.
At the Summit house, last week, he
came into the dining room with heavy
Il ~1--ss~ c~ltA.-I i.r hio Aesud
/ He put them both in his chair, and sal
on them. The landlord who is very
, polite. said to him, .sAllow me to take
, them" He replied, 81 guess we'll LEI
, them stay. | know where they are
e now" He said to the waiter girl, tx
her establishment, PASS us some nap
kins: will be through with them in ;
e few minutes.
: The solid Republicans of Massachu
;. sets show no inclination to play Sinbac
q to Gen Buffers Old Man of the Sea
n They do not propose to allow him t.
t fasten himself on the neck of the part,
|. organization. When such men as tn
S Messrs. Hoar and Mr. Dawes lead
movement against the author and defend
9 er of the salary grab, and the apologies
. of Cakes Ames. there ought not to b
: much doubt of the result. 1t is com
, forting to know that Butler himself i
n far from CHEEKY, and that, though har'
. at work, he has lost some of his comica
. audacity.
d Elihu B. Washburne says:-I was il
It Congress when the salary was but $4,000
and | always found it more than suffi
e cient to meet my necessary personal ez
- penses. When it was raised to $500
: I tn ought it too much, and think so still
Il but raising it to $500 is nothing NOR
# or less than stealing. Every year tina
" was in Congress | laid by a portion G
! my salary, and none of my constituent
If ever complained that didn't live de
o Gently. The people don't send thei
" " representatives to Washington to liy
like princes, buck the tiger, and kee
half dozen mistresses.
~ Last week was decidedly fiery weel
# We have recorded for that time owe
,s forty serious confagrations in the Unite
m States and Canada The total loss wa
- nearly one and half million dollar
10 The Baltimore fire was, of course, th
70 most serious, with its losses estimate
es at million, but Montreal with its burr
70 ed $4,000, Jackson, Tenn, with i
re- 100000, Cleveland with its S6O,OOt
of Portland and Newark, with their $50, 90
m apiece, Norwich and Pawtucket wit
10 their $4,000 apiece, Toledo, O., NJ
= Carmel, Pa, and Hearne, in way-o
Texas, with their $4,000 apiece, ha
d. all of them very respectable ash heap
a. clearly indicating that the fire fend
It without sectional prejudice. Real
,t there must be stop put to this sort
le thing Our fires cost us pretty nearl
I'd as much as our national government
IN and what is worse, are not assesse
rs equally.
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