Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-10-20
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A full jury has been obtained for the
new trial of Stokes.
The Long Island Savings Bank was
robbed of about SIS, 900 Tuesday.
jeff Davis. Ben Butler, and Andy
Johnson were lately in Washington.
s Mast is said to receive carte blanche
and ten thousand a year from the Har-
pers.
A balloonist named Coe made sue
cessful ascension from Auburn, New
York, on Saturday.
A despatch from Denver, Colorado,
denies that John G.. Heeman is dead,
but says that he is very sick.
The immigration to all parts Of the
United States during the past year was
l66,o43. against l53,626 the previous
year.
Lafayette J. Wolfe, who killed Perrin
in Charleston some time ago. has escaped
from the South Carolina penitentiary.
The members of the Evangelical
Alliance have had reception at the
White House in Washington.
Eighty horses were burned recently |
in Boston fire, and eighteen at fire
in chinatown n H.,
There is nothing so effective in bring
ing a man up to the scratch as a healthy
high spirited flea.
The trial of Bazaine, the French Mar
shall who surrendered at Metz, is being
held in France. Some have predicted
that he would be court marshalled and
shot.
Fighting has been going on between
the Spanish and insurgent fleets in the
harbor of Cartagena. The government
feet was victorious.
"What," said teacher to a pupil,
''makes you feel uncomfortable after
you have done wrong ?" My papa's big
leather strap" feellngly replied the boy.
| A man out west was offered dish of
maccaroni soup. but declined it, declar-
ing they couldn't play off any billed pipe
stems on him.
A summary of the effects of the great
storm of the 9th of August on the
Nova Scotia coast presents the appalling
fact that over eleven hundred vessels
were destroyed and about six hundred
lives lost.
John T. Irwin. the man who processes
to know all about the Nathan murder,
has arrived at New York. The officers
now admit that his story is not fabrl-
cation, and important developments are
expected
Forney has nailed up this list from
which to select Presidential candidate
in 1876: Oliver Perry Morton, James
g. Blaine. William Tecumseh Sherman,
Charles Sumner, George S. Boutwell,.
The result in Ohio indicates the cleo
ton of Governor Noyes. and the selection
of Legislature that will make Thurman
the next Senator. The vote in the State
was much lighter than was expected.
Travelling along the sea coast of Flor
, ida. gentleman noting the barrenness
, of the country, asked native, .'What
do you live on here ?" .'Live on" repli-
ed the man, ..Why, we live on fish and
strangers"
The government is drawing on the
green back reserve to pay current ex-
penses, but the amount taken does not
exceed S3,00U,000, and it is believed
r that it will not be necessary to withdraw
j. more than twice that sum.
The Evangelical Alliance held it;
q closing sessions in New York Saturday
After the adjournment the American
t branch met and organized permanently
$ under the name of the United States
D Branch of the Evangelical Alliance
4 1t is hardly safe. nowadays, to mann
a mountain or a baby after a man til
t he is dead. He may embezzle or tax
a back pay, or become a dreadful railwa,
d autocrat. or candidate for the Presi
: dency; then you II wish you hadn't don
|, it.-Grace Greenwood
Fifteen of the North Adams Chimes
u shoemakers have returned to Californi
n where they have engaged work at thei
!, trade at an advance to $50 per month
u This does not look as though the Amer
: can workman would soon be ruined b,
&c Chinese cheap labor. .
- Lowell Mass. is becoming fnanciall
~ fashionable, and can now boast YER
~ respectable" defalcation. 1t is the oil,
story. The cashier living beyond hi
means and the directors too stupid
n see it, No wonder men are asking
= Where will the lightning strike next I?
= The last defalcation which naturall
) took place in New York. reaches tn
- very respectable sum Of three hundre
- thousand dollars This neat abstraction
- which fully entities its author to plac
~ among the masters of abstract scienc,
= y was made by the cashier Of the Stat
= Treasury
I'd The election returns received fror
ID Pennsylvania indicate decided victor
as for the republican ticket. The low
to election resulted in the success Of til
a republican candidates by 10000 or 40
At 900 majority. Nesmith is elected
he Congress in Oregon by a thousand m;
he jority. The tickets in Ohio are great
cd scratched and no result is yet given.
he We commend to the consideration
ed ministers who are given to preachir
long sermons the anecdote of the lit
be boy who kept awake in church as lor
w as he could, but finally went to slee
.ts had his nap, walked up to find the mi
10 lister still preaching, and innocent
=, whispered Mother. is it this Sunda
&c night or is it next Sunday night?''
Sc. A colored philosopher thus unburde
am ed himself on one of woman's wea
ON nesses: Jim, de men don't make SUI
= fools of themselves about women as
1's women do about men. If women lo
ne. at de moon, dey see man in it.
NJ dey hear a mouse nibbling, it's mai
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