Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-04-20
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
hos q million sheep.

Bridget.
A notorious desperate, named Nor
gan. was killed in Arkansas last week.
Peat is being utilized in St. Paul,
| When coal and wood peter out this
makes good substitute.
1t is estimated that over 5000 employees
of the Pennsylvania iron manufactures
are on strike.
The Iowa legislature has refused to
prohibit the sale of wine and beer IN
that state. Stronger drinks are already
prohibited by law.
A fire occurred at Nillersburg, Pa,
on the 1st inst. Seven persons are
known to have burned to death. Others
are missing.
A Memphis paper says that the aver
age lawyer of that city can't make mon
ey enough at his profession to keep In
whisky and collars.
LESS cotton and more corn" is the
cry of the Georgia papers, and the re-
ports from various portions of the state
show that that is the policy the planters
are adopting.
We are told that a commission has
been appointed in France. to suggest
some remedy for earthquakes. Wonder
if quinine pills wouldn't be good They
are given in this country to stop shakes. "
Since good looking young school
marin in Wisconsin got $1,000 damages
for being kissed in the cars by a railroad
conductor, the schools have gone to grass,
and it is impossible for male traveller
to get standing room on that train.
The negroes in South Carolina are
killing each other at a very healthy rate.
One Jail contains six negroes, who have
each killed from one to three fellow
mokes. As long as they let the whites
alone, we don't care how vehemently
they work on each other. Lexington
MOS Caucasian.
A negro in Kansas City the other day
doubled himself up to see how far he
could jump. He jumped out of the
world, as he had knife open in his
pocket, and it penetrated several inches
into his bread basket Wonder if there
is any way of making such jumping pop
uiar.
There is a farmer near Flushing who
owns a Kentucky bred mule that has
within the last thirty days, kicked in
seventeen barn doors, unroofed dozen
chicken coops, and trampled the life out
of four of his favorite pigs. He calls it
! Ben Butler.
There is something very sensible in
the impromptu remark of pretty girl:
''lf our Maker thought it wrong for
Adam to live single when there was not
a woman on earth, how crimi nally wrong
are the old bachelors, with the world
full of pretty girls p
friedrich Klennan, the absconding
cashier of the Hoboken n J. savings
bank, who started for Europe, some, time
since, with $4,000 and female that
didn't belong to him, has been arrested
IN London and is on his way back in
charge Of an officer He had managed
to get through all but $500 of the
money.
1t rained birthstone at and around
fernando, Miss, last Tuesday night.
The substance was submitted to careful
analysis and found to be pure birthstone.
The editor of the local paper there saws
what puzzles him is, that it came from
above instead of below. He is now wild
on his geography, and doesn't know any
thing about where the place is located
that he has been so often kindly hidden
to 60.
The editor of the Economist writes in
an open letter to President Grant: ga
veto against expansion would be heart:
lily sustained by public opinion, and
would be duly respected by Congress on
a sober second thought Referring to
the Republican party's pledges in favor
OF resumption, the writer adds: alt is
reserved for you alone to hold it to the
performance of the promises made over
and over again in National and State
Conventions. %
In some districts of India it is the
custom to hold what is known as a dew
lis dance, when strings are passed
through the flesh of young men on both
sides of the body. The dancers some
times die from their injuries There is
resemblance between this custom and
that OF the Sioux Indians, who at inter-
walls have feasts and dances, in which
young men who aspire to be warriors
have strings of Buffalo hide passed
through the flesh on both sides of the
breast, the ends of the strings being at
tached to cross-pole, or to buffalo skulls.
Ihe Would-be braves must dance without
food or drink until the flesh gives way
and they are liberated from torture
The two customs may have had the same
origin.
The modern mode of educating Young
ladies Is not only high toned but expen-
slve. Thirty young ladies belonging to
Dr. Ebeifs International Academy of
New York, embarked last Wednesday
In steamer Victoria for Europe where
they are to travel under the care of their
teachers through Edinburgh, Leith, and
Hamburg, to Berlin, where a term of
ten weeks will be devoted to the study
Of art and history. Subsequently, be-
ginning July 6 there will be a tour of
travels through Dresden, Prague, Vienna.
Ire tie, Venice, Milan, Verona, and
fadrla, whence. crossing the Alps, the
tour will extend to Geneva, Baden Baden.
Heidelberg, Cologne, Brussels, and Paris.
Alter week spent in Paris, the tour
Will extend through England and Scot
land. The cost to each scholar is about
$1,000. The parents of these girls got
their education in a twenty foot country
school house which was kept only dur
ing the winter months.