Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-06-22
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Ben. Butler don't want Col. Susan E
Anthony's fine RENTED.

The President of cremation club in
Iowa has named his last baby Cinderella.
100000 bales of cotton will be
made in the United States in 1874.
bringing about sl60.000,000.
Bismarck's wife wears the largest
shoes of any woman beyond the Rhine.
and his daughter follows in the mothers
footsteps.
The New England Fair is to be held
on the grounds of the Narragansett Park,
Providence, r. l.. the first week in Sep
tember
Dora Grange. Lake City. H.. has unan-
imously voted that its members shall
refer all disputes to the Grange for ar
bitration before going to law
Mr. Alfred Dodge of Granville. Mass.
was killed by lightning. Tuesday after
noon. On his side is photographed the
tree under which he stood at the time
he was struck.
Fenianism is again being agitated by
a few hot heads who are trying to get
funds out of the uninitiated. It's play
ed out in this country about the same
as Knownothingism is.
The title of new song is Give me
your hand once more. The song of
the people to the politicians is '.Take
your hands out of our pockets"
The Canadians are making tremendous
efforts to turn the tide of British emf
grafton into their provinces instead of
the yankee states.
An exchange says: The last words
of our Nellie as she turned her face for
a final look at her native land we're
SIC transit" We expect she got sicke7'
before getting over.
A little negro girl near Auburn, Ala,
was covered by thousands of ants, while
sleeping in a doorway, recently, and
their bites brought on a fever, of which
she died in two days.
Grasshoppers are Matching at Lake
Shetek, Mimi, very fast, and are eating
the wheat. The farmers are very much
frightened for fear that the grasshoppers
will take everything.
Five fremen have just been arrested
in Williamsport, Pa, on a charge OF IN
cendiarism. They have confessed that,
since last August, they have burnt prop
erty to the amount Of Sl,000,O0O.
The Newburyport Herald amuses it.
self this hot weather in writing about
lies and liars, and when it gets along to
"Boston lies it says of them: ''There
is passion in the Boston lies, deep-seated,
hot and sulphurous as the glow of the
Internal pit. Now that's just awful !
Pauline Lucca. the noted German
singer, got what she thought was,a di-
vorce from her first husband and married
in q few days after; but the divorce
turned out not to be a divorce at all,
and now Pauline sings sad song and
thinks herself very un-Lucca
A Detroit paper chronicles the last of
the Senecas. The tribe now consists of
one old mustang, chief and three gal
lions of water 'sA few more setting
suns-a few more moons-a brief season,
and that three gallon jug will join its
comrades in the happy hunting grounds
of the spirit land
A little six-year-old daughter of
Rutland clergyman watched Barnum's
street parade with great interest the 9TH
er day, and finally said to her papa, ..If
| want a minister's little girl l could
/ go TO The circus, but 1 suppose L must
set an example to the whole church now"
Henri Rochefort, the notorious French
communist and political lampooner,
about whom something was said on his
late arrival in New York, rapidly sank
into insignifcanee, and having failed to
attract the attention he expected, sailed
for Europe last Saturday, disguised with
America
The Boston Express says: DIR. Dio
Lewis has come out in white trousers
and don't look so seedy as he did when
he came from Ohio Dio has reduced
his price for gassing to So and upwards
for an evening. Elder Knapp, when
on revival tour used to get SO much
per head for converts-why don't Dio
try this gag?
One thousand pounds of nitro -glycer-
Inc IN the Government magazine. four
miles above Shreveport, La, exploded
on the 18th inst. The conclusion was
so great that the whole population rush
eel into the streets, houses were shaken,
and windows broken. There was no one
IN the vicinity Of the magazine at the
time and no lives were lost.
independence, No., boasts of a hero
whom 1t thinks equal to George Cheney.
At the recent fire which partially de-
stroyed that city. Dewitt Guernsey man.
ned the new and only steam fire engine
IN the place, and ran it without steam
gauge or water gauge, at the risk of his
life. He arrested the progress of the
lire. and saved the town.
The Boise City Qdaho) thermometers
marked 30 degrees in the shade last
week. The local paper says: although
the heat Is 50 oppressive to animal life
: Its effect upon vegetation is almost mir
aculous' Corn seems to fairly jump
from the ground peas have begun to
blossom and soon fresh vegetables of
every description will be plentiful and
:, cheap"
Lawrence McNulty of San Francisco.
!. stood IN the window of his boarding
house and addressed crowd ON the sinh.
]ect OF suicide. He spoke of the various
: means of taking life, compared their Ger.
= = talnty and the pain involved. and fire..
: quently referred to notes. Finally he
TOOK razor from his pocket and cut his
: throat, bleeding to death in a few sec.
y y 0nds. He was of course, insane.
a That three well-known citizens Of tbe
n city OF Brooklyn, holding Office as Com.
,e mlssloners of Charity have been tr;ad