Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-01-06
Mercy is nobility's true badge.


Zealously endeavor to maintain good
principles.
Incidence is the rust of the mind and
the inlet of vice.
Gentleness often disarms the fierce
and melts the stubborn.
Thefts never enrich aims never i'm
poverish prayers hinder no work.
The papers are full of "great snow
storms" and tie consequences thereof.
Establishments will not facinate us,
nor will threats of .'halter' intimi-
date.
Bermuda Islands discovered 1909 ;
settled 1912 nearly. destroyed by a hur-
ricane, 1880.
George Francis Train has been arrest
ed and arraigned for trial, for publish
ing obscene literature. He plead guilty.
Minnesota proves, this year, to be the
third State in the Union in point of
wheat production, aggregating twenty
six millions IF bushels
The Shaker colony in Virginia is
growing very rapidly, and applicants
are numerous. The colony never talks
politics, goes to bed at eight, and drinks
milk and weak tea.
A boy only eleven years of age has
just been sent to the penitentiary for a
year for house breaking in McMinn Co.,
Tenn. He says it is the first scrape he
was ever in, and that when he gets out
he intends to behave himself.
A darkey left in charge of the tele.
graph office while the operator went tc
dinner, heard some one call over the
wires, and began shouting at the instru
ment, de operator isn't YER The
noise ceased.
1t is said that the President calls the
course hitherto pursued toward the Nor
mons 'a shilly-shally policy" and ht
declares that if necessary he will place
Phil Sheridan at Salt Lake with 10000
troops, and will enforce the laws with
out war.
Dr.. .Talmadge's church, in Brooklyn
New York, was burned on the 22d il
consequence of defective fue. TIL,
fire broke out as the congregation wer'
gathering for service, and their forenoon
service consisted in gazing upon thei
burning church edifce. Loss S95,0OO
Insured for $40, 900.
The foods in Europe still continue
In Paris the river Seine has overfowe,
its banks. The quays are flooded ant
the stores near them closed, and all traffi
in that quarter is carried on in boats
Dispatches from Ghent report tha
streams in that section of Belgium hav
risen above the embankments and tn
country is flooded.
Washington dispatches state that it i
thought that the polygamy problem will
soon be settled by the Administration
The delegations in the interest of Brig
ham Young in that city, who recent
came from Utah, are working with les
hope to avert the coming storm. Presi
dent Grant has recently expressed hi
determination to put an end to the MOI
mon institutions. After the Holiday
the necessary laws will be presente
in Congress. Rumors of an impendin
change among the high officials in Uta
are current.
The irrepressible newspaper man ha
got into the South African diamond field
and started tri-weekly paper for th
benefit of the population there and ther,
abouts, 1t is called the "Diamon
News" and purports to be published +;
Dutoitspan, though exactly where tn;
is. is zone of the things which no fello
can find out" As the subscription pric
is $50 per year, it will readily be see
that but few subscribers are needed
keep it going.
The following notice is posted in Lii
coin county, Massachusetts, which plai
I ly shows the need of the ''schoolmastel
in that region:
"Ce hear. Eye don't want ennibod
that has hosses which has the Eppizut
innfewenza, or any other infernel nam
to cum thru this gate under penalty
havin of their, the hosses. tales cut
close behind their, the hosses, yea
Keep shi. Mountaineer
In all probability nothing could aft
that man but dose of quinine or
small pox.
A Louisville negro convicted of mi
der and waiting the execution Of
sentence, managed TO produce the bel
that he had the small pox, by applyi
croton oil to his face, producing pustu
similar to those made by the diseases a
> was removed to the pest house, where
soon eluded the vigilance of his nur
and escaped. He was captured, a
days after, near the scene of the murd