Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-04-07
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Corn is ready to hoe in Alabama.


San Francisco is full of Eastern visi- |
tors
The last storm was tornado in Chi
cago.
Great demand for American apples in
Paris.
Bull-frog hams deck the show win
dows of Chicago restaurants.
The yellow fever is raging terribly in
Brazil
Chicago has converted 400 miles of
hogs into pork this season.
Ten thousand dollars have been al
ready contributed to the Greeley sta tue
fund.
The United States grows annually
about 13O.O000OO bushels of potatoes
three bushels for every man, woman
and child.
The first locomotive intended for
two-feet gauge ever built was shipped
from Newburg. n Y, last week.
A man was shot in the streets of Roch-
ester, n. Y, the other day by an unseen
enemy, and with an air-gun, as there
was no report.
There were sold in the United States
last year 851,73S sewing MACHINES.
Twenty-one different styles of manufac-
ture were represented.
The japanese government has pro-
mulgated a special edict tolerating Chris
tianity through the empire, and throw
ing the whole country open to foreign
ers.
Two carloads of California butter
have passed through Sacramento for New
York within the past ten days, the Cali
fornia papers say.
The lapse of time modifes criminal
conduct in public regard. Even Credit
Mobilier and the salary garb will be for
gotten a hundred years hence.
The gold premium, Thursday, during
great excitement, advanced to lis IL
but at the close of business was quoted
at III 1-2
Money in Wall street, Thursday after
noon, loaned for one day at the rate Of
365 per cent. per annum
The State Department is overburden-
ed with applications for office, and the
mission to Bogota is the only vacancy.
The whole cost of our $4,000 miles of
railroad is about 3,437, 639. 749, which
is a sum not very much greater than
England has spent on'her 10000 miles
of railroads.
Charles 0. Brown attempted to MUIR
der his wife at Peekskill, N. Y, We'd
nesday of last week, by stabbing her,
but inflicted only few slight injuries.
He then went and hung himself in the
barn.
S. S. Merrill, of Colebrook, n H.,
left $3.50 lying upon the desk the other
day. while he went into the back store.
He has been wondering ever since how
he came to be so foolish, and who is the
chap that took it.
In the Superior Court at Springfield,
Mass, last Friday, Henrietta Hitch
cock obtained verdict of 81 900 against
Merrick Wood for breach of promise of
marriage. Their betrothal occurred eight
years ago, when the plaintiff was only
fifteen.
The Boston Herald has private advices
from Washington that the worst of the
Colfax case has not yet been told, and
that new developments are likely soon
to be made which will put him in an
even worse attitude before the country
than he now occupies.
The young republic of Spain is having
a rather hard time of it, just now. The
powers of Europe refuse to recognize it
Carlist bands are springing up all around
and now comes word that there are dis
sensions in the ministry, and that Cas-
telar, the brilliant republican leader, il
on the point of retiring from the cabinet
Holt county, Mo-, would be good
field for an energetic missionary. Tn,
papers say that in some parts of tina
county they have preaching once in si2
months and dancing six times week
At the last accounts fddlers were in
greater demand than preachers.
A daughter and son of farmer named
Shortgen, and son of neighbor, named
Wadele. were burned to death neal
Reads Landing Mimi, Sunday before
last. They were encircled by prairi,
fire, and persisted before they could es
cape. When found, their clothes wer,
all burned off, and the flesh was peeline
from their bones.
A Fairfield mother learned of hel
daughters contemplated elopement, ant
on the night appointed for the figh
she put some laudanum in the girls tea
The latter fell asleep and did not walk
up until next morning and in the mean
time Romeo got tired of waiting ant
went home disguised. He goes will
another girl now.
The great musical event of the season
,, in Vermont, it is expected will be tn,
Grand Musical Festival to be held a
Bethel, commencing the 18th of Ma,
and closing the Friday following unde
the direction of Carl Zerrahu, the cele
: brated conductor.
a Chicago now claims population o
: 100000 or 10000 more than she hal
before the fire, and valuation of onl
r $5,OOO,OOO less. Her board of trad
: report shows that the city never did S
S big business as in 1872, when he
!. wholesale trade in groceries and manu-
r featured goods alone is thought to hav
p risen to $50O,OOO,OOO.
e PERE HYAcINTHE is creating an i
! tense religious excitement in Geneva b
g his preaching. He puts himself in raj
i. port with the people, and being locke
: upon in the light of a martyr, yields a
g infence second to no ecclesiastlc in Ell
! rope. His eloquence and honesty are
!, mower which will be more and more fell