Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-07-06
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Hartford. connecticut, mas just monu-
mented "old Put"
Edwin Booth retires from the stage
for year. by advice of his pill-bagger.
The Massachusetts, Legislature has
just closed a session of one hundred days.
The London detectives are searching
the world over for missing Lord-and
the Lord knows where he Is
The French Government is in political
Mysteries, and has forbidden the sale of
photographs of the young Prince Impe-
rial.
Louisville, Kentucky, has been get
ting up another little imitation of Sher-
mans grand march to the sea. She blaz-
ed June 2Sth, $4,000 worth.
Eugene Hale declines to serve as Post
Master General on account of i'll health.
G. W. Scofeld of Pennsylvania, is NAM
ed for the place.
Beauregard has been rendered the po-
sition of chief military engineer of the
Argentine Confederation, with authority
to select his own staff and name his own
terms.
The wife of the new secretary of the
treasury is said to be a splendid fnan-
cier. She never paid fifty dollars for
bonnet that she could make herself for
ten dollars.
George Francis Train has come to
himself, admits that he has been making
an ass of himself, and humbly begs the
public to forgive him and let him have
peace. Good. by George.
LONDON, June 3O.-The correspond
eDt Of the Daily News telegraphs from
Rome that the Pope is growing weaker
daily, and several foreign representatives
have notified their governments to that
effect
A lady had her dress trimmed with
bugles before going to a ball. Her little
daughter wanted to know if the bugles
would blow when she danced. ''Oh no"
said the mother, papa will do that
when he sees the BILL
Dispatches from Spain report Estella
and Figueros besieged. No money. Eff
forts to mortgage the PHILIPPINE Islands
failure. No Geographic connection be-
tween Spain and France. Everything
galloping headlong to perdition
A lady sitting in her parlor engaged
In dreamy contemplation of the NOUS
tache of the young gentleman who was
to escort her and her sister to festival,
was suddenly awakened by an ominous
whisper in a juvenile voice at the door
"You've got AIMS teeth and she wants
them"
Advices from Spain state that Mar
shall Concha was killed on Sunday in
the engagement near EsteIla. 1t is stat
ed that the command of the republican
army will now be taken by General Ia
bala. minister of war, and that Sagasta
will become president of the council.
Predicts the Worcester Gazette. in a
gay and festive style, chat at the end of
the year the party for whose good Gov.
Talbot committed political hari-kari
''wlll waltz him back to Billerica. as be-
ing piece of furniture for which there
is no further use
President Barrios of Guatemala, has
ordered Commandante Gonzales shot for
dlsobedlenee to the military laws of the
Republic. The world would be benefit
ed, II the whole pestilent little brood of
cut-throat. mulatto, black-crook s.repub-
hes that infest the Gulf of Mexico bor-
ders were swept into everlasting annihi-
lation.
| The Catholic church has forbidden
IT'S members to join the grange or have
anything to do with it ; and several of
the bishops have called on all who have
attached themselves t. the oraer 70
withdraw from 1t. The consequence l.
a great loss of strength in Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Ohio and other Northwestern
states.
The action of Secretary Bristow in
promoting to positions of great response
blllty and trust clerks who have for ma
ny years faithfully and ably served in
the Treasury Department, is an example
OF practical civil service reform which
needs neither Commissions nor appro-
priatlons to render it satisfactory and
efectual.
The Salt Lake Gentiles sometimes
slop over. Their organ, on the passage
Of the Utah bill by Congress, contained
this heading to the news: "Glory to
Cod Utah Relieved from Polygamy and
Slavery p Naturally enough, it makes
an old one wife Gentle painfully mad,
to see wiry, sassy Mormon with his
200 loving wives clasped to his palpita-
ting bosom and painting for more.
A very large and brilliant comet is
moving rapidly earthwarl. 1t was dis
covered on the 18th of April, by NJ.
Coggia Of Marseilles. 1t is now barely
visible'to the naked eye at l o'clock in
the morning, about 25 degrees directly
below the polar star. It will reach its
perlgee or nearest approach to the earth,
about the Sd of August, when it will ap-
pear $40 times as large and bright as
at the time of its discovery.
The lager beer question is now at rest.
At least its friends have won a great vic
tory over its enemies. The question.
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