Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-07-27
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San Francisco stands next in rank to
Boston in the amount of her donations
to the Louisiana sufferers.
The fact that Redpath is mixing him.
self up in the Beeehcr-Tilton affair sug-
gests the narrowing suspicion that Mrs.
Tilton is going to lecture.-Cfncin,aatl
Times.
Some would be assassin shot at Bis
marck the other day, as he was driving
through the streets of Kissengen. The
ball grazed his wrist inficting trifing
wound.
A girl arrested in Boston, the other
day, for stealing an apple, was so weak
for want of food, that she tainted away
in the courtroom.
Frank Jordan Of Providence, r. l., at
tempted to jump from moving train,
Thursday of week before last, but fell
between the cars and was killed.
A boiler explosion occurred week
ago last Monday, in the starch works of
johnson & Sons at Madison, Indiana.
Four men were badly scalded and three
fatally injured.
Dio Lewis, the woman s-rights, tenn
perance- howl -the-corner humbug says,
"A little more than twenty years ago,
we began to legislate against the sale. of
Intoxicating drinks. Since that time the
temperance movement has refrigerated. .
Brigham Young is about to take an
other wife. 1t is an Irishman' this time,
as he has never INDUCED in woman of
that nationality, and is ambitious to
have every country represented in his
household.
1t is alleged in Connecticut that g.
500 sheep are killed every year by dogs
in that state, and that thousands of
acres of land are going to waste, that
might be proftably employed in pastur-
ing sheep, if the dogs were killed or
banished.
Glassware has been ordered in Pitts
burgh by Hamburg firm for the South
American market. This is owing to the
American pressed ware being very much
cheaper than the cut ware of Europe,
while 1t is almost as good.
The value of the exports from Great
Britain to the United States, during the
first three months of this year, was $685.
499. 27O, a falling off of 81, 216,74O
compared with the corresponding period
in 1878, when the exports amounted to
S62,7l6,O10.
Rev. A. i. Williamson, Methodist
minister, while blowing in his field near
Athens, Georgia, June %, was bitten by
monster rattlesnake, and died in a few
minutes. The reptile was killed, and
measured ten feet in length, and had Is
rattles and a button
Some Chicago visitors went into sa-
loon in Cleveland kept by German wo-
man, and called for whiskey. She told
them that she couldn't sell any, and
then whispered confdentially to one of
them, "Ven you want visky you must
call for vine and pinch NIT your eyes
Some clever fellow has invented sort
of umbrella, from which depends mos
quito netting in voluminous folds The
apparatus can be used for a bed, or on
chair, in or out of doors, and is portable.
With one of these affairs over your head
you can hurl dubious epithets at flies,
mosquitoes, and all other nuisances pc
cullar to summer
Barnum is preparing for his promised
transatlantic balloon trip. He is not
entirely satisfied concerning the easterly
current, and is determined to test the
matter thoroughly before building the
large balloon which is to undertake the
transatlantic journey. A balloon of
smaller dimensions has been built, and
Mr.. Donaldson has been entrusted with
the guidance of the affair. The balloon
was made at Syracuse, is constructed of
silk and will contain about 80, 900 cubic
feet of gas. It is the intention of Mr..
Donaldson to make twelve experimental
trips in this balloon, with view of de-
termining the question as to the exis-
tence of an easterly current, remaining
up each time from twenty-four to forty
eight hours.
| The grasshoppers now desolating Man
itoba, seem to be even more destructive
than they were in Minnesota, though it
is to be hoped that the evil, as in that
State, has been somewhat exaggerated.
That the grasshopper is a burden, we.
long ago, had Scriptural warrant for be-
lieving, but it is only of late years that
the destructive powers of the insect have
been exemplified in this country. Inven-
tive ingenuity may well be employed in
developing some means of forecasting
the coming and preventing the destruct-
iveness of these importunate pests.
The Sandwich Islanders don't seem
content with their new King. after all,
and the opposition is bound to have him
out, one way or another A petition was
in circulation at the time Of the sailing
of the last mail steamer, praying the
Legislature to set aside the election by
virtue of which Kalakua holds the
throne. 1t is charged by American res.
idents that Great Britain has hand in
the movement, the design being to place
some one on the throne partial to the In
terests of that country. If later events
make it appear SO, the Americans, who
have thus far held aloof from the mat
ter, will undoubtedly take an active part
in the struggle.
| Soon after the departure of the steam.
er Meta, July %, it was noticed by par.
ties who had come to see the Cadets off
that woman had fallen overheard from
the wharf Parties in the vicinity Sc
cured ladder and seized the clothing
OF the woman, who asked that she NIGH
be let alone so that she might drown. A
boat from an ADJOINING steamer 600,