Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

in Kansas and Iowa.
They are eating spring onions down
in Arkansas, and the boquct season IS
also setting in.
dispatch received at the indian
Office, London, states that over million
people are starving to death IN the fam
ipe-stricken districts of India.
By the death of Lunalilo, King of the
Sandwich Islands, Hon. Ezra Allen, an
American. becomes ad interim ruler, by |
virtue of being chancellor of the hing-
dom.
In Mississippi, the Lieutenant Gov
ernor, Secretary of State, superintendent
of Public Education, and the Speaker
of the House of Representatives are ne
groes.
Mrs. Astor recently wore about 5 900,
600 worth of diamonds at a party. She
was nearly covered with them.
Mr.. Glenn, of Colusa county, CAL,
will put in 40 900 acres of wheat on
his little farm this spring, We hardly
think the patch worth the trouble.
A dispatch from Calcutta, says 200,
600 persons are perishing for want of
food in Bengal, and it is thought 800,
600 persons would die from starvation.
There has never been a clergyman,
lawyer, physician, editor, deacon, stew
ard, church warden, class leader nor
son of clergyman in the New Hamp-
shire state prison.
A highway robber captured in Maine
the other day proved to be graduate
from Harvard, but after all his education
was a help to him, as he pleaded his
own case and got off with three months
III Jail.
Nothing mean about them. The De-
troit Free Press tells US that an Eastern.
man was iynched there the other day,
but the lynchers finding that they had
made a mistake, sent the body home in
a very nice coffin.
The Brooklin papers suggest that the
ladies inaugurate their whisky war in
that city by skirmish among the ma
hogany mounted, Turkey carpeted club
rooms of the champagne aristocracy.
The motion is good one and we hope
it will be acted upon.
Ex-President Johnson Governor Hen
bricks. of Indiana. Ignatius Donnelly,
of Minnesota and Josiah A. Norton, of
Chicago, al old political stagers, are
now leading Changers.
A man giving his name as Ezra I.
Cook is under arrest at Providence r. |.
charged with extensively swindling the
hay and grain merchants of New York,
Michigan, Vermont and elsewhere.
It is a somewhat significant fact that
the only two countries in which the stop
ping and forcible robbery by armed
men of railway trains prevail, are Spain
and the United States.
Charles ". of Spain. said If [ knew
every language | would speak Spanish
to God, Italian to wife or sweetheart,
French to my friend, English to my bird,
German to my horse, and Hungarian to
E the devil.
Mr. Zebadiah Shattuck, soldier of
, the war Of 1872. who used an old flint
! musket at the battle of Plattsburg, died
5 at Nashua, N. H., on the 18th, aged
nearly eighty-two years.
A few days before Mr. Summers
O death, he was engaged IN familiar oon-
e versation with friend, and the subject
Y of death was incidentally introduced
o Mr.. Sumner said, in closing his remarks
$ on the subject; "For myself, l am per
V fectly happy for [ have no ill-will to-
|. ward any man, and am conscious that
f have done nothing with i'll intent"
/ The Atlantic Monthly says the ole
a swindle about hearing the murmur O
the sea in shell is a humbug For i
e you will hold a beaver hat, or gobble
: or pickle bottle, or an oysser can t,
n your ear, you will hear the same deli
It clous murmur.
4. Chas. Kingsley says he is especial,
d struck with the capacity of American
D for public speaking, and that he heard
l. last week, half a dozen better speeche
he thrown out upon the spur of the momen
IF than he would have heard in Englan
rs in twelve months
I'd Some of the matter-of- fact topers O
Ohio take practical view of the cru
IN SADIE against whisky. They say that, s
K far as it is effectual, it lessons the dc
ne mand for whisky, and is sure to brin
ne down the price Hence they cheerful
~ give it the light of their countenance.
ne which is considerable.
III The clerical mountebenk of Brooklyn
ne Talmage AYERS that he considers 18th
"a campaign against the grog-shops in til
ne West to be the grandest aud most ma.
II II nifcient thing that has been done o
]" earth since the day when Deborah,
IT, I; the name of the Lord God Alright
III hurled ruin and death on the armed Of
p pressor of Israeli
II And now they. tell US that AND
=, johnson of Tennessee has blasted h
~ political prospects by giving aid an
ol comfort to the temperance women's w
Fy' IN his native town" If this be so. v
at can only condole with him that he shou
w. be, as the poet says, ''chastened for h
H. hottest deeds and punished for his pu
est thoughts
leu The entire biography of Senator SUI
I'VE ner was compressed by Mr.. i. c. Cowdi
ew at the Chamber of Commerce meetil
ne M In New York on Friday, in these ft
'he welghty words The salient points
icy his character and career were vast er
dltlon and cultivated tastes, tireless
asst dustry and sublime courage, fidelity
his convictions and persistency of purpo.
me unselhsh patriotism and unbending
.os- tegrity."
lnI A sad case of being buried alive h
:. been discovered at Chapmanville, P
np' Mrs. Anthony Coggswell, who gave eve