Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-04-27
GENERAL JEWS ITEMS.

be called sheet music
Helen Dickens daughter of Charles
Dickens. is creating quite an excitement
in England from Ter writings
{ The census of France just published,
, shows that that country has lost nearly
two millions of its population.
Some Hartford men rendered Mark
Twain welcome supper, and the bill,
amounting to S266, was sent to him.
He paid it.
The fidelity of the wife of Marshal
Bazaine in sharing his exile and endur-
ing all the hardships of living in her
solitary home has challenged admiration
throughout Europe.
The needy settlers Of northwestern
Iowa use for fuel hard twisted prairie
grass, and this substitute for wood and
coal is found to do very we'll.
Local option IS having trial out in
Illinois. So far as heard from sixty
three towns have voted to allow liquor
to be sold, and twenty mine refused.
The New Orleans Picqyaaae wants
some of the female crusaders to visit
that city, and try and remove some of
the bars from the mouth of the Missis-
sippi.
Persisteney is final victory. John
Couch was married in Philadelphia last
week to girl who had rejected him
eighteen times. She said she wanted to
test his love.
A Detroit paper noting the fact that
a man fell down dead while combing
his hair, says: ''And yet there are peo-
pie who will persist IN that dangerous
habit
Brigham Young has offered his recall
citrant spouse. Ann Eliza, fifteen thous-
and dollars if she will subside and stop
featuring. She declines to be bought
off however.
1t must have been disgusting to Mr..
Gaillard, after having survived the
Vile du Havre disaster, to have been
the only man drowned on the Amerique.
Butler will be ffty-six years old next
November. The proposal to make the
anniversary of his birth day of nation
al fasting and prayer excites much en-
thusiasm.
A French custom house officer, DOS.
ses sed. of an inquirlng turn of mind. no.
tlcing the arrival of large herd of rock
ing horses, thought he would see what
those animals lived on. He opened
several, and found their little stomachs
full of cigars.
Gen. Butler has betrayed and aban-
doned the essential principles of the
Republican party. In the future let
the Republican press and Republican
conventions recognize this fact, and the
Gordian knot will at once be cut
Nashua Telegraph.
The most popular remedy for the pre-
vailing and distressing colds of the sea-
son is mixture of equal quantities of
glycerine and whisky. A teaspoonful
is dose to be taken at discretion. 1t
has very pleasant effect on the throat,
and moreover, is pleasant to take.
The lady IN Swanton. who recently
gave birth TO twins. one of whom resem-
bled chantlcleer, rises to explain and
says that the story that she died .of
grief was premature. She still inhab
its this mundane sphere.
The Chicago Tribune says that first
class carpenters in that city. who were
employed year ago at So per day, are
now glad to get 81, so per day. and that
this decline In the cost of labor runs
through the whole scale of employments.
A poor family in Denison, Ohio, con-
slsting Of husband, a wife, and seven
children. were on the point of starvation.
Somebody raised 500 for them, and
what did the wife do with it? She bought
silk dress for $40, and began to take
music lessons.
A Milwaukee paper states that a
young German girl died of joy on meet
ing her betrothed in that city. She
had come all the way from Germany to
JOIN him. She embraced him upon her
arrival, and when he tried to diseBgage
himself her hands were firmly clasped
about his neck in death. Her heart
was literally broken with joy.
A clergyman at Clarinda, Ohio. was
away from home when the crusade be-
gan. He returned in the evening. and
saw his wife standing at the bar of a
saloon, singing as loud as she could yell.
lie supposed she was drunk, and enter
ing the saloon, the tears rolling down
his face, he said. Come home, wife.
you have ruined Northumberland
drunk
Who wouldn't be batteerd and scar.
red veteran in England? An ancient
and used up bandmaster of the British
army has been retired upon the munif-
cent sum OF ten cents a day. Who
wouldn't leave both legs on the battle
held and wear out his arms in sounding
the reveille for so grateful a country.
A terrible affair occurred near the
"Round Pond, about three miles from
Glens Falls, on the 4th inst A frame
house took fire in the garnet, or near the
roof On the inside. A man and bow
went up to extinguish it, when thew he.
came bewildered by the smoke and flame
were unable to descend, and were burned
to death. The wife was below and in her
EFFORTS to aid her husband, was also
smothered and burned up with the build.
ing.
The Boston Herald argues strongly
10 favor or organizing new party to
take the place of the old Democratic
party. As Massachusetts isn't much of
held IN which to try the experiment
we invite the Herald man to get his
new party up and the Democratic nartv
down IN New Hampshire. There is a
me chance for grand flank movement
against the old party If it is only put
through before June sets in.-Nasiun
(N. H. Telegraph.
AN 0fflcer IN the United States Navy