Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-09-22
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Laura Keene is said to be dying.

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Laura Keene is said to be dying.
The Charlestown Odd Fellows have
arrived in Washington
St. Louis claims ten milIionaires, and
fifty half-millionaires.
A mysterious and not over dressed
wild woman is roaming about the woods
of Union parish, La.
Barnum's "beautiful Circassian girl
is named Mary Cotton, and she is New
York girl, too.
Indiana has the largest public school
fund of any State in the Union, amount
ing to over S8,00O.0OO.
A Danbury boy wants to know if it is
| right for his folks to pay $500 for
! piano for his sister. and make him pick
berries for circus money.
Mr.. Young of the Bureau of Statis-
tics. has got it all down. Only $4,000
Americans went to Europe this year;
and our foreign obligations, all told,
are but 81 ,000,0OO,00O.
A Nebraska man, on his dying bed.
remembered that his wife was smoking
hams, and he said; .sNow, Henrietta,
don't go to shutting around and forget
them hams"
OF the nineteen newspapers in the
world which are one hundred years old,
eight are published in the United States,
and seven Of the eight in New England
A distinguished English divine recent
ly said, in a sermon, that "if the Scrip
ture said one thing and the London
Times said another, 500 people out of
every $40 would believe the Times.
"O!' exclaimed poor sufferer to a
| dentist, s'that is the second wrong tooth
| you have pulled out p Every sorry,
SIR said the laundering operator ''but
as there were only three when ] began,
I'm sure to be right this time
John Rover, of Livingston county, Ky.
knows how to quiet noisy babies. His
own little daughter refused to yield to
the ordinary methods of pacifcation, re-
Gently, and he took her to the river-bank,
knocked her on the head and threw her
in.
Mr.. Dyer, of the Indian Peace Com
mission, who is in Washington, says
, that in the recent war with the Modocs
our soldiers only killed four Modocs,
while the Modocs killed two soldiers
for each Modoc engaged in the war
The yellow fever is devastating the
town of Shreveport, La. There are
600 cases IN a population of 1000, and
J nearly all die Memphis is also attack.
; ed but not SO severely. There is ter
rible panic
While Brigham young, was taking {
vapor-b bach at Salt Lake City, recently
the lamp exploded, instantly killing The
s assistant Charles w. Morrill,, and fright
ening the Prophet so that he jumped
through the window, without stopping
for his clothes.
Cincinnati has a new style of conf
dence game, which is practiced by hacl
drivers. Confederates ride in the car
;. riages and literally pay extortionat
fares to enable the drivers to collect tn,
! same amount from green travellers.
Many crimes hitherto punished b,
4 death in Japan are now, by recent de
i. cree, to be punished by Imprisonment
h The people do not like this modification
a but the government is In advance G
!. them. Murder and some other crime
a are still to be punished capitally.
Mrs NJ. J. Benton, wife of the lat
s. Confederate General, for whom the Ne
< York police have been in search as
t. witness in the Stokes case, ever sine
: the murder, has been arrested. Sh
IS saw Stokes throw away his pistol afte
: the shooting, and it is said that he
testimony will be fatal to him.
ot The Cape May Ocean Wave has
IS leading article about mosquitoes, in while
ID it says that the crop at that place, thong
OF late, is an excellent one, and that Il
1t size of the birds is rather above the ave
We age Visitors are leaving as fast as tt
I'd railroad accommodations will perm
~ them.
Uncertain of tenure is the scalp
~ the mill girl whose head is crowned wit
ne luxuriant hair Lena Griming emplo,
n ed in shingle-mill at Oshkosh, Wis
is was lifted to the ceiling, the other da
is by shaft catching her long hair, al
IN then the entire scalp was torn off, and s.
tn fell to the floor. She cannot recover.
One of the derricks used In the CO.
u struction of the New Government bull
III ing, at Chicago, gave way, the 9th
" day, while handling a seven-ton bloc
= A man who was seated in the top W
&c hurled thirty feet in the air, and Fl
IN upon rocks, sustaining injuries that cat
= ed immediate death.
A curious and barbarous custom h
.w been revived in Shanghae on account
- expected famine in the province of Oh
om kiang. Several men have come befo
~ the authorities and asked permission
- - pray to God to avert the calamity
p the condition that if the prayer is I
80 answered within certain time, th
oIo will suffer themselves to be burned
NV applications of this character are reje
=. ed by the authorities.
Jus A trial that will be watched with or,
interest by henpecked husbands is SC
. to come on at Baltimore A woman
- that city has been arrested on the char
~ ~ of being common scold. The laws
:, ~ Maryland make no provision for !