Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-17
GEN ERAL NEWS ITEMS,


the gift of an cid gentleman who wish
ed it to be placed where it would do
the most good
A married couple in St Paul, MINI, /
published card in the city papers re-
spectfully requesting the parties who
have so kindly interested themselves in
their personal affairs to bring in their
bills for advertising.
Four foot pads attempted to rod Rev.
F. P. Marvin, editor Of Boston Daily |
Nevs, last Saturday evening. One
seized him by the collar and presented a
pistol. but Mr.. Marvin shouted for as
sistance and the robbers fled.
Oh, the. snow, the beautiful snow;
such husky thing, you know; blush
ing your nose and chilling your toes ;
as whirling along the street it goes. No
silly praise for that coolest of frauds,
the beautiful snow.
Henry B. browne, wealthy and esti-
mable citizen of Providence, r. l., drop
ped dead last Friday evening, at the CEN
trail police station, whittier he had gone
to get an officer to arrest man whom
he had found secreted in bed In his
house.
Roger Meehan, so years eff age. of
Hillsboro' N. H., was found wandering
around the Grand Central depot at New
York, last Saturday morning, with his
throat cut 1t appeared that he had at
tempted suicide at Hillsboro, and was
sent by relatives to Bellevue hospital.
AS Rev. Q. T. Lovejoy was returning
home to Surry from Kecne N. H., re-
Gently, he was seized by two men, who
demanded that he should stop. Mr.
Lovejoy planted his fist on one man. and
felled him, whereupon the other fled,
and the minister went on his way rejoic-
ing.
A savage blood hound broke from his
fastenings in the yard of a Brooklyn, N.
Y, man, last week, and shockingly man
gled poor washer-woman, who was at
work near him. Her situation is criti-
CAL but the dog has not been killed and
his owner says he shall not kill him un-
less he is compelled to do so.
The Savannah Republican rejoices in
the prospect Of Alexander H. Stephens
election to Congress, because the vet
eran war-horse will not be sent back in
to a solitude which was repulsive, and
might prove fatal to him, but will go
again to the forefront of the battle,
which he snuffs afar Off and longs again
to plunge into"
"Humbug" is corruption of the
Irish word aim bog, pronounced oombug,
signifying soft copper, or pewter or
brass, or worthless money. such as was
made by James /, at the Dublin Mint
twenty shlllings of which was worth
only two pence sterling. At first APP
piled to worthless coin, the world be-
came the general title of anything false
or counterfeit.
When girls think too much of their
beauty, they are very apt to forget that
the powers of conversation are needed to
please. Beauty may strike severe
blow on the heart, but it requires con-
versational powers to follow up the blow
and render it effective A plain woman
who converses we'll will soon cause the
want of beauty to be forgotten by her
powers Of entertainment.
Workmen in digging well in Anne
Arundel County, Maryland, have found,
forty light feet below the surface, some
very curious petrifactions, including the
foot of deer of gigantic size, and oys
tiers and marine worms The form Of
the animals was perfectly preserved. but
/ how tt deer's foot came where marine
animals exist is for biologists to de
termine.
Ex-Gov. Geary, OF Pennsylvania. died
very suddenly at his home in Harris
burg, last Saturday morning He had
returned from a trip to New York the
night before, and was apparently in goot
health, but about 9 o'clock Saturday
morning, while breakfasting with hi:
family and in the act of helping his lit
tie son, his head suddenly fell back, anc
/ before his wife could get to his side o
f medical aid could be summoned, he wa
t dead.
l A woman in Atlanta, Ca, who wa
awakened by black burglar in he
;, room the other night, refraiued from
t arousing her husband, who reposed peace
e fully by her side, for fear of contes
k between them. The Atlanta Heral
f calls this feminine fortitude, and erie
+ all honor to the heroic wife, who to shiel,
: her husband from danger, forced dow
: the rising screams, and stilled the throb
n bling of an anxious heart And tina
burglar went off with So As, too.
: The Nashville Tenn. Banner re
o lates this: A gentleman in West Nash
e vile, before retiring for the night, too
), the precaution to place his gold watc
: and chain under his pillow He wok
d up the following morning to find that
S had unaccountably been spirited away
d After looking everywhere about the room
/ he found it forced half way into raj
/ hole. He pulled it out, and, to hi
|, great CONSERVATION, found rat at tn
end of the gold chain, in which it ha
e pecolhe ehtahgled, ana been hanged o
the neck until dead
J. AS might be anticipated, Shutes d.
t. falcation has brought out neat littl
It story about poor New Hampshir
Il widows dream She had $3.50 in tn
= Exeter Saving Bank. and recent
r dreamed, two nights in succession, thu
e her husband came to her and told her |
f. take the money out of the bank. In
l. pressed by the dream, she asked her elC
t. est son to get it for her. but he onl
d laughed at her fears, and then she tol
y the younger, who complied with he
/ wishes, and secured the money on tt
20 Saturday before the defalcation was di
u covered
G.. According to tho confession of Erop