Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-09-29
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Philadelphia has 100000 inhabitants
and l5o,016 voters w -
Treasurer Spinner is very sick with
malarial fever. -
Sixteen carssof tea and three of silk
went East from Omahaaon Sunday.
There are two reasons why we don't
trust a man. One because. we don't
know him, and the other because we do.
A female lecturer says that the only
decent thing about Adam was a rib,
and that went to make something better.
& "a son -in-law of Gen. Won Moltke is
on a pleasure tour in this country. On
Thursday he was at Utica, n. Y.
Heavy frosts in, all the, northwestern
states Sept goth, doing damages to to-
bacco and the late corn crops.
A gang of counterfeiters of three and
five cent pieces were discovered at work
and arrested at New York Tuesday
night. @ ~ US aaa 5
The daily average (including Sundays
of crude bullion received at Omaha over
the Union Pacific Railroad for shipment
East, from Jan. /, 1873, to date. has
been 10000.
Latest footings of the Maine election:
Dingley's majority about 10000 House,
republicans, 104, democrats. 40, indie
pendents, z Senate, republicans, 80, DEM
ocrats, J.. .
A dispatch from Calcutta, announces
the loss at sea of the ship Indus, cool
lie trader. Four hundred and eighteen
coolies perished
The national association of Spiritua-
lists has elected Mrs. Woodruff president,
and those opposed to her theories have
seeded from the organization ,
Some idea of the mining activity in
Nevada may be formed from the fact
that the United States mint at Carson
is coming about a million a month.
In Black Hawk township, Grunday
county, Ia.s two prepossessing girls grad
yates, age % and 20, are praetieing medi-
cine, and the number of young men on
the sick list is really astonishing,
William Cullen Bryant, now nearly
80 years old and enjoying a healthy old
age, is said to be contemplating voy-
age round the world, and will start on
the journey the present fall or the next
spring. $780,. IL, t,...4 ,.n..Fs,
A strange and fatal disease, produc-
ing great CONSERVATION, is prevalent at
Kelton. Utah. Persons die in few
hours after being attacked with the dis
ease. 1t resembles a fever el 80
The number of deaths in Boston for
the, week ending September 20, was
155, 76 males and 70 females. OF
/ American parentage. IS !; foreign, 100.
By cholera infantunl, %: consumption,
16; typhoid fever l4gh sai 90 tIsbs
In recent suit against the Boston
/ and Albany railroad, Mrs. Elizabeth
! Parker, of Worcester, Mass, received a
verdict ofS19,5O0, for injuries sustained
on that road in consequence Of the care
lessness ola brakeman. a pas
The President has ordered that large
amount of green back currency be sent
to New York, to be expended in the
4 purchase of bonds, thereby assisting
those who are suffering from the want
of legal tenders during the financial
disturbance. 1 y
An Ohio woman lately travelled with
one ticket, four trunks, two band boxes,
flower-pot, poodle dog. umbrella, jug
of milk, lunch basket, paper sack full Of
peaches and boy of Is whose age she
gave at 9.
Gen. Scofeld, commanding the de-
partment of Columbia has issued spec
ial order for the execution of the Modocs
on the Sd day of October, 1873, between
the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and two
o'clock p. m. of that day. ,l =
Mr.. Edward Robinson who was th,
: first man to oficiate as railway conduc
+ tor. is now living IN Utah. He is nov
Sc years old, and at the age of % b,
was the first of six selected to run train
on the. Liverpool and Manchester rail
way, The first road ever built
Secretary Belknap has engaged Jane
S Parton. the historian, to arrange for tn
!, publication of the original manuscript
: papers of Washington, which recent,
' came into possession of the war depart
| ment. Among the papers is the origina
n order book used by Gen. Washington
/ when he was in command of the army il
d the field. Eas az,1 .ea.aa. ia
d The State of Mississippi has a law
}. passed by the last Legislature, by whic
v it is provided that every person holdin
Office in the State who shall be foun
!. drunk shall, upon conviction, be deeme
j. guilty of high misdemeanor, and shall
e by the judgment of the court and ser
o tence, be removed from office.
!. A dispatch from Teheran, announce
% the return of the Shah of Persia to b
e capital. The whole population turne
IS out to escort him to his palace. III
: Shah in a brief speech stated he ha
J. visited the parliaments and principal il
'6 stitutlons of Europe with the speci;
u object of introducing what he saw goo
% in them into his government.
= William Pattie, of New Hampton. \
y H., was arrested last Friday, charge
- with the murder of his wife, who W;
!, found dead, suspended by the neck
!; = their house, a few days since. He Co
~ fessed that she died during scuf
- with him, he having his hand over
,. mouth at the time, and that he place
- her where she was found
= Matters at Madrid wear more fa
j. orable aspect. CASTELAR,, Serrano al
I Topete have been holding conferenc
which is likely to produce importa
- consequences in favor of the nation
- cause. The cable informs us that Il
. Bank of France has agreed to furni
~ l0O.OO0,00O francs to the Spanish Go
~ eminent. a fact which nroves the exis