Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-04-13
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


Reports from the famine in India
show the distress to be nearly at an
end.
Florida alligators are resumlng the
smiles of other years, as the time APP
proaches for the departure of Northern
visitors and their rifles.
A German paper published in Ghlca-
90 prints poem beginning Mother,
dear mother, come home with me now,
and addressed to the crusaders.
A terrible story comes from Nevada
A whole family was found brutally
murdered, the lifeless bodies OF the
husband and his wife's paramour being
found clingIng together as in a death
struggle. There is no living witness
of the deed.
A lightning express train will be
run on the Grand Trunk during the
coming summer. It will run from Bos-
ton to Chicago without change of cars,
making the distance from Montreal to
Toronto in eleven hours.
did you execute this instrument
without fear or compulsion from your
husband % blandly asked the Judge,
of "a wife who had signed deed. Clear !
Compulsion He compel me! You don't
know me, Judge"
An exchange says that Miss Grants
fance, Mr. .Sartor Resartus" is now
the reigning brevet bridegroom in Wash
ington He is % years of age, blonde,
wears delicate mustache, has rooms
at the Arlington, and parts his hair at
the equator.
A new instance is added to the list
of marvellous escapes of balloonists in
the report of the collapse of balloon
in California when 600 feet in the air,
precipitating the occupants, four gentle.
men and two ladies, to the ground with
out serious injury to any of the party.
Boston, Mass, had very interesting
little riot at the North end last Sunday
afternoon, a thousand persons having
gathered to see four or five drunken
Italians cut each other up with knives,
but a squad of police arrived just in
time to prevent anything serious, and
baeed three of the brawlers.
The fact having come to the knowl-
edge Of the public that Tweed is board
er, living in luxury, on Blackwe IFS Is
land, instead of being treated as GRIM
inal, intense indignation is excited
against the commissioners whose abuse
of trust is thus discovered Commiss-
ioncr Laimbeer has exposed the wrong,
but his two associates defend it.
The South and West can dictate
the course Of the government If they
choose" but they never will be able to
indulge in this dictation until they con-
sent to initiate the example of New
England in the selection and mainte-
nance in office of their servants. AS
long as we send blockheads and blund-
erers to Congress, and New England
sends shrewd, sharp, well-drilled men,
just so long will we be overreached and
out-maneuvered in the administration
of national affairs. st Louis Repubk-
can.
Resolutions were adopted by the State
Senate at Albany. Tuesday, indorsing
Gov. Dix's message and asserting the
judgment of the Legislature of New
York is that it is the duty of the Ad-
ministration at Washington, and of
Congress, to stay the pernicious and
ruinous policy of increasing the volume
of irredeemable paper currency, and to
take measures for speedy resumption of
specie payments.
A settlement was completed on Mon
day between the Northern Pacific Rail-
road Company and the estate of Jay
Cooke & Co., whereby the advances
made by the latter to the former are
; discharged by the acceptance of the COM
pany's first mortgage bonds and other
, securities. This settlement leaves the
: railroad company with only nominal
floating debt to be provided for.
/ Two bulls broke from a drove al
) Brighton on Tuesday afternoon. swan
: the Charles river to Cambridge, and
t rushed into the yard of Harvard college
One of them then struck for Somerville
f and a couple of policemen fired several
9 shots at him with their revolvers, with.
out effect but finally lasso was thrown
q around one of his legs, and he was kill
: ed with an axe. The other one rar
e through several streets in Somerville
pursued by a large crowd, the most con-
S spicuous person being an Irishman, with
o a lasso, mounted on lean horse The
|. Celt at last flung his lasso over the
brute's head, but was pulled from his
o horse into the mud. while the bull kept
/ on his way till he was killed by police
!, men,
t The San Antonio and Austin Texa.
:. stage, carrying the mail and eleven pas
t sengers, of whom three were ladies, was
|, stopped about % miles from Austin
e Tuesday. by three men, who cut the
: front horses loose and took all the pas
/. sengers money and jewelry, broke oper
: their trunks, and Quilted the mail-bags
taking off one of them. Among the pas
sengers were Bishop Twigg and Mr.
4 breckenridge, president of the Nationa
o Bank of San Antonio, from whom the,
: took $1,000. They secured about $1,000
a from the passengers
n The indomitable pluck which sustain
% Gen; Butler in confronting all New
d England with the assertion that its rem
a resentatlves will vote only for a inancia
scheme whereby the bankers of tina
# section may the more effectually ..grin
, the faces of the poor" is not to be de
o. splsed. The gubernatorial chair of tn
,e proud old commonwealth of Mass, ca
le scarcely be considered as beyond tn
D. reach OF the man who possesses the cour
At age to charge greed and sectionalisn
s. directly upon his colleagues, and to de