Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-08-03
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A Lebanon Ky. gent. IN ardentlv
greeting a long-parted wife, broke one
of her ribs.
Willard Fillmore was arrested for
knocking his wife down the other night
in New Orleans.
It will Questionable hereafter to call
indiscretion between men and women
.'nest hiding" Saratoga papers please
copy
The human butcher boy Pomeroy SAYS
he is willing to 60 to sea if they win let
him up He would make a good skip
per on that lake of FIRE and birthstone
that we read about.
A shark about seven and a half feet
long was killed in Vinalhaven harbor,
Maine, the other evening by q party of
stone-cutters who stoned him to death.
A Worcester Mass. milkman was fined
$50 and costs. on Saturday. for bedding
milk containing only 80 per cent, of
water.
Dlgnifed Observation-Disclosures and
Mrs. Tilton setting on the floor looking at
the pictures" The she devil. Victoria
Woodruff, sits on the pedestal quietly
observing the results of her Vaccinations.
Ex-senator Foote is stumpig Ten
nessee against Andy Johnson, Who is
candidate for the United States Senate.
His speeches are of decidedly PERSONAL
character.
s.Do bats ever fly in the dayime?"
asked q teacher of his class In natural
history. s'Yes, SIR said the bo5s con-
fdently. What kind of BATS ex-
! claimed the assoniehod teacher. Brick
bats ]" yelled the triumphant hoys.
Oshkosh. Wis, has just suffered from
fire more serious comparatively than
the Chicago fire. Six hundred build
ings were burned and 5000 people rem
dered homeless Loss about Il, Oe0 600;
insurance 100000.
An Iowa doctor has been experiment
ing with the grasshoppers and finds that
they are wonderfully tenacious of life.
immersion under water for three hours
renders them ivelier than ever, and
they eat arsenic with all the avidity of
modern BELLE
A John Bull, who had been introduc-
ed to the Emperor of Russia, kept pac-
ing steamers deck, exclaiming 1.-THE
Gear is great the Gear is great Yes"
said a bystander ''.but God is greater"
'.oh, to be sure, " was Bulls reply "but
then. you know the Gar is young yet. y
A trade In rattlesnakes and moecasins
is sprlnging up in Savannah. Negroes
catch the snakes, bring them in alive
and sell them to dealer in the market
for fifty cents and dollar apiece, and
the dealer ships them in cases TO Europe.
The American people are not indiff-
erent to the future of their families.
Nowhere IN the civilized world are the
domestic ties so tender and strong: no.
where does the word Home express so
much /; and nowhere do the people as a
class practice so much thrift.
The Lincoln monument at Springfield,
Ill, is to be dedicated Oct. Is. Presi-
dent Grant has been invited to deliver
the address. He will probably decline.
he said the other day he could not make
a speech If he would, and he would not
if he could.
A terrible land slide has recently oc-
Cured at Alava, in the province of Ma
varre IN Spain. The overhanging rocks
fell upon and utterly destroyed the VII
Iage. The disaster was so sudden tnat
few of the inhabitants neaa4na1 Tu~
hundred eorpses have already been re-
covered
A special from Seneca, Kansas, saws
that Charles Cook, a merchant of Bulls
City. Osborn county, who has been de-
ranged for some time past, thrust knife
blade through the brain of his infant
child, last Friday, and then beat his
own head with q Ratchet, breaking his
skull and inficting mortal injury. Pc
eunlary trouble is the cause of his insan-
ity.
Mayor Stokley of PHILADELPHIA. has
offered reward of $4,000, for the can
ture of the abductors of Charley Brews-
ter Ross. and the restoration of the child.
The child was stolen on TIE afternoon of
July lst from Washington Lane in Ger
mantoWn near Philadelphia.
A handsome young white girl of Port
Gibson, Miss, recently married her
father s quondam dinning-room servant.
dark mulatto. The latter is at pres- /
ent member of the legislature. The
brides relatives are in great grief, while |
the groom's colored friends snub him
numerically.
Gov. Howard of Rhode Island has an.
pointed DR. Edwin III. Snow of ProTi-
dence, Hon. William B. Lawton of War
rem and Hon. William D. Crayton of
Warwick upon the commission to build
a new prison for the State. The prison.
IS to be built on the State farm and the
expense IS estimated at s35O,000.
An editor out in Pennsylvania con-
dennis the postal card, and in the same
paragraph boasts that he has never used
one The postal card will hardly be
abolished on such experience. The fact
that millions of the cards have been
used IN the year of their introduction is
proof enough of their utility. They are
as handy as pocket.
Not long ago lady, a graduate of
one OF the most famous schools in the
land, upon an anniversary, was asked to
return to the school for day and read
an essay upon an important topic. The
essay was rarely beautiful and Inspiring
On their way from the hall one of the
listeners asked another. WAS not that
hne 2 "4es." replied her friend. ..but
what mean little trail she wore" Fan
ey man remarking at the close of a
lecture by George William Curtis off
was line. but his coat tail was too short
OF an inch and a half"
The North Carolina, Kentucky and