Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-11-17
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


The first number of the st. Adams
Advertiser appeared, Monday morning.
A saddle-haired Vermonter is spark
ing Anna Dickinson.
Shreveport is almost annihilated by
the scourge.
There are about 5000 yellow fever
orphans in Memphis and Shreveport.
Mobile, this summer, has been the
healthiest city in the Union
The London News calls Mark Twain
saucy fellow.
A iady's dressmaker Mortified her the
other day by telling her that she s'would
cut her body out in the course of the
afternoon y
The people are going it alone in
Maine. Twenty-Five applications for
divorce in York county, and eighty in
Cumberland
The Madison, Wis. Journal says:
at is a strange and pleasing sight to
see sixteen-ye old scowls soften and
fade from the faces of old Democrats as
they pass along the Streets
Mrs. Henry J. Raymond, widow of
the dead editor, is in Europe, slashing
around with the dollars at prodigal
rate.
A woman named Kate Barker is as
tonishing Knoxville with her skill in US
ing the pistol. She drives nail at ten
PAGES, and the young gallapts don't
write her any love-letters.
George Huntington Of Middlebury
has been arrested on charge of black
mailing Colonel L. E. Knapp of the
Middlebury Reporter. by distributing
1000 circulars, filching from him his
good name.
Coming home from a ball in car
riage full of young ladies, a gentleman
declared that he had no objections to
rings on his fingers, but he had a decided
objection to "belles on his toes
Barnum has arrived in London. He
will go at once to Paris to hold con-
ference with the most prominent aero
naut of Europe upon the subject of a
transatlantic balloon voyage.
The ladies, young and old, living on
the street formerly called Maiden Lane"
in Burlington, are profusely grateful to
the Mayor and Alderman for changing
it, at their solicitation, to "Union street
1t sounds prettier, they think.
We have many beautiful meteors
these autumn nights. One evening a
tender swain said to his .sweetness,"
''Some of these falling stars seem to
leave behind them bright path, as if
they were celestial messengers, flying
eastward, the dust of heaven falling
from their feet, and making a track of
light behind To which the maid re-
piled: "They alters make me think of
the circus man who swallowed fire."
The Rev. Mr.. Smith, pastor of the
First Congregational Church in East
Hampton, Conn.,, preached in advocacy
of the liquor license law on the Sunday
following the Good Templars' meeting
at that place. The members of his
choir, who are Templars, were highly
indignant and have revolted. The
minister now uses a tuning fork and
does the singing himself, to the salts
faction of the congregation.
A Jamaica letter says that an enter.
prising Captain advertised for women
and some forty presented themselves
in the belief that as laundresses they
might do well, and many industrious
women were among the passengers. Or
arrival at Limon Bay, they were moi
permitted to leave the schooner until
: some man came on board and selected
one of the women as fancy dictated
and, paying down SIS in gold, wa:
, permitted to take her ashore.
The great cause of benevolence ad
vances at London. There are abou
! $4,000 homeless in that city with Win
ter coming on and no work to be had
This appalling prospect has aroused tn
E sympathies of a noble Duke and dozel
Lords. who accordingly have come t.
r relief of the suffering masses by raisin,
e a magnificent fund for the endowmen
/; of a Home for Destitute Dogs. TIL
hungry poor will thus be relieved fror
5 providing for stray curs.-Detroit Irit
atne.
This is from the Savannah Advertiser
= '.Thcre will be wonder at the Maco
: fair in the shape of Confederate sol
n dier who had his nose cut off by sabr
3 during the war. Not caring to loos
4 that facial adjunct, he placed it bac
4 and bound handkerchief around hi
head to hold the nose until it took roc
again. Unfortunately for him it wa
!: put on upside down, and when he want
1t to blow his nose he is compelled to stan
IS on his head to do1t.'
= The finances of Europe afford goo
, study to the political economist. Thel
% is no one of its nations that can affor
,. to go to war, yet the air is full of rumol
IL of trouble. Germany and Russia al
eaten out of substance by immense stant
u ing armies. France and Austria al
he bankrupt through defeat. Italy an
m Spain never had any credit to boast Q
IN Turkey is continually ''sick; = and En-
IN land feels too keenly the need of econom
pc to carry any assertion of rights too ia
n And to tell the plain truth, the Unite
s. States, though full of recuperative enere
ut is not ''fush'' yet.
~ After all, the ocean is not full of SUI
!, fathomless abysses as we have BET
~ ~ taught to believe, although there is
VI sufficient depth of water for all practic
d purposes. The Tuscarora, which f
nc 1 several months past has been makil
X soundings across the Pacific Ocean
A. connection with the Geographic cat
~. ~ project, reports that the greatest dep
cd to be found anywhere between Californ
and China, where soundings were take
we was only two miles and half. Sever
is curious discoveries were made. viii
ad will add greatly to marine scienti
L. knnwledra and disnel CERTAIN incorrf