Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-04-21
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

11u ObO OOoh-U1bQO OdlC III 4NOW OIA,
100000 volumes were sold.
The effect of the advance in gold upon
the prices of merchandise has thus far
been very slight.
Mrs. Snidkins says her husband is
three handed man-right hand, left hand
and a little behind hand
A body of Utah Mormons are prepar-
ing with exits. cats, sacks and wives,
to follow Brigham to Arizona
An Iowa woman, who owns coal
mine, might have married two men
a day for the last two years.
The peace commissioners are now
'going for the Apaches, hat in hand
This tribe has not yet been coddled since
their last murder party.
Mr. Dim is the manager of gas
company in Mobile We have the ..dim'
without the manager here in Boston,
Heaven save US Globe.
The United States standard bushel,
grain measure, contains 2,15O4 cubic
inches. The "New York bushel' con-
talns 2,2l6.l cubic inches.
The floods in New England, Canada,
and the Western and Southern States,
continue to prove fatal to human life and
inlet great damage upon property.
The "Pub. Docs printed by the
government in 1872, cost the producers
of this country the enormous sum of
s2,436,o52.49. They were worth about
$40 all told.
A money order from Texas town
received at the post-ofice in Bangor,
day or two SINCE had written on it,
Strawberries and cream. How's that
for high ?"
According to the Albany chief of po-
lice, malicious tobacco chewers have
purposely ruined more than $500 worth
of ladies' shawls and mantillas during
the last two months.
Planting time has arrived, and anna
teur farmers and others are procuring
their implements preparatory to turning
over mother earth for the reception of
the seeds.
The passengers on sleeping car on
waking up near Charleston, S. G missed
several gold watches, four hundred dol
lars in money, and quiet young man
with blonde whiskers.
There are nearly 1000 children in
New Hampshire who do not 60 to school,
although the law says that children be-
tween s and IA years shall attend at
least II weeks annually.
1t is stated that applications for pass
ports are received at the State Depart
ment ashington at the rate of 100
per day. And this with no abatement
in consequence of the Atlantic disaster.
On Saturday night, Q2th), H. c.
Gam, editor of the Sentinel, at Warren,
ILL.,, accidently shot and dangerously
wounded his wife, while carelessly hand
ling gun which he thought was empty.
An enraged St. Louis man caught his
clipping daughter, aged fifteen, two hours
after her flight, and, it being her second
offence, he sent her to the blouse of the
Good Shepherd, where she will stay till
she is eighteen.
Intending visitors to the great Aus
trian exposition will do we'll to look to
their vaccination marks as we'll as to
their letters of credit, the deaths from
smallpox in Vienna, at last accounts,
averaging sixty week.
A Wisconsin woman is the latest adj
dition to the list of fools who hide their
money in stoves and burn it up by kin
ding fire in the latter, day or two
since. Two thousand dollars would heal
the Wisconsin females woe.
Judge Quint received $500 for saw
ing Laura Fairs white neck from twist
ed hemp, and now claims an additional
fee for his clerk, who copied Mr.. Crit
tenden's letters. Mrs. Fair objects. OF
course.
New Hampshire Republicans and
Democrats alike seem to commend the
graceful action of Gov. Straw in appoint
ing to seat on the State Bench Hon.
Ellery A. Hubbard, the defeated Demo-
cratic candidate for reelection to Con.
gress.
A Winona paper tells of snow-drift
between st. Peter and New Ulm, Mimi.
on which four hundred shovels were en-.
gagged four days. The snow was from
20 to 30 feet deep, and the cut through
the drift was twelve hundred feet long.
The oldest manufacturer of iron cast
ings in New England, VIM. A. Wheeler
of Boston, died few weeks since. He
founded one Of the largest establish
ments in that city some fifty years ago
and Elihu Burritt the Learned Black
smith," once worked at his forge.
The consumption of tobacco in th,
German Empire is about 100000
quintals, (22l IL pounds each), o
which 100000 are of native production
and the remainder imported. The pro
portion per head at present amounts t.
$40 pounds per annum, while it was il
England, in 1865, .35 pound; in France
l.5S in Austria, l.04.
; The United States mint at Philadel
phia has within the last few months, bee
t doing an enormous business in coinin
< gold and silver, and. within the las
5 week or two, has had to suspend tn
manufacture of base coin so as to devot
the entire capacity of the institution t
fill existing orders for gold and silve
coin. 1t will be remembered that til
law passed in 1878, and which wen
: into effect the first of this month, chang
; ed the standard weight of the silve
: coinage Of the United States.