Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-04-13
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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1t looks now as if Congress would
pass the much needed postal telegraph
bill. France, England and Germany
have enjoyed the postal-telegraph privi-
lege for years.
Mrs. Grant and Nellie are at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, passing few days.
The wedding presents to Nellie are i'm
mense-Stewart alone giving her $4,000
in silks and laces.
Cough don't like the new temperance
demonstration. 1t switches his locomo-
tive completely off the track. He un-
derstands putting but does not seem to
be quite posted on the praying business.
The Saturday Review says that every
fifth or sixth woman in society is blab.
For proclaiming this truth the New
England Women's Club Rooms at No.
fremont Place has excluded the Re-
view from its tables.
There was large demand for Russia
Salve on the corner of Merchants row
and State street Boston, April lst.
Some of the jolly clerks kept a hot horse
shoe doing its ftful foolish work all day
on pedestrians.
Bishop Grace of Illinois has sent to
Pope Plus TX to see if Roman catholics
could join the Oranges, a secret society.
The Pope replies that any Catholic can
join if he found nothing therein conflict
ing with his conscience or creed
Hon. r. B. Elliott of South Carolina,
the eloquent colored orator, has accepted
the invitation of the colored citizens of
Boston to deliver eulogy on Sumner in
Faneuil Hall on the I4th of April-the
anniversary of the death of Lincoln.
'She jumped three hundred and fifty
one times She died the next day."
Such is the brief record of Flora Bar
thole, member of the high school at
Lawrenceburg, Ind. She beat her play
mates at jumping the rope, and paid for
it with her life
Advices from London to the Secretary
of State announce that the British gov
ernment is anxious to be properly rep
resented at our Centennial, and is only
awaiting definite action on the part of
our government to know whether the
exhibition and celebration will be inter
national or merely national. Prominent
Englishmen laugh at the idea of their
government feeling any hesitancy about
participating in the celebration of the
American independence on account of
the separation of the colonies from Great
Britain.
A certain lawyer had a portrait taken
in his favorite notwithstanding with
one hand in his pocket. His friends
and clients all went to see it, and every
body exclaimed-''Oh, how like it's the
very picture of him. An old farmer
only dissented-" 'Tain't like?" Ex-
claimed everybody-"Just show us
where faint like "Tair't-no
faint! responded the farmer. Don't
you see he has got his hand in his own
pocket; 't'would be as like again if he
had it in somebody else's.'
To show what pluck. vim, back bone
and industry will accomplish just read
an instance that lawyer Thompson, of
| No. l6 Old State House Boston related
to us. Last fall boot and shoe dealer
of Boston failed and was bereft of his
bottom dollar. He bought of his assignee
a lot of old debts, amounting to about
$1,000, for which he traded for lot of
second hand sewing machines which he
sold at indianapolis for $4,000. Taking
this sum he bought plantation in
Northern Texas through which the new
railroad passes. A few weeks since he
sold the plantation for $4,000, and is
now in Boston happy as clam in high
waterfall done within the past six
months.-Boston Express.
A California paper being requested to
reprint the beautiful little pastoral
about Mary's little lamb, quotes "from
memory" to this effect
Mary possessed diminutive sheep
Whose external covering was as devoid Of color as the
CONCEALED aqueous fluid which occasionally pre-
sents insurmOuntable barriers to railroad travel
And everywhere that Mary perigrinated.
The juvenile southdown was certain TO get up and get
right after her.
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Which was In contraventiOn Of established usage;
II caused the other youthful students to cachnuate
and skyfungle
To perceive an adoescent mutton in an edifce devoted
| 10 the dissemination OF knowledge.
And SO the preceptor elected him from the interior
But he continued to roam in the immediate vicinity
And remained in the neighborhood until Mary
Once more became visible
what causes The juvenile sheep to banker after
oueried The lnaulsitive children OF their tutor
-Why, Mary bestows mueh affection upon the little
animal TO which the wind Is tempered when
shOrn. you must be aware.
The preeeptor with alacrity responded
As an evidence of returning prosper
ity of the business interests of the Coun-
try. the New York papers notice the
, full resumption of the domestic c.
Sewing Machine Co. We quote from
the WorLd' of March oath: The ''do-
mestic" resumes. The Domestic Sewing
Machine Company. which in common
with so many other business establish
ments was forced into temporary sus-
. pension during the course of the panic,
has recently been enabled to resume in
, full. Its assets have at all times been
: more than sufficient TO meet all its liza
bilities, aud its original capital stock
? has never been in any way imperiled
but the general tightness and stagna-
ton of three months ago, forced it into
a temporary difficulty which was mag
3 nifed at the time into something more
!. serious than it really was. All that il
ever asked Of its creditors was a trliIne
: extension Of time, proposing to pay all
r obligations in full, principal and inter
; est. This was promptly and cheerfully
granted, and the result was shown that
7, the confidence in the management OF the
Company was not misplaced, for theil
e business now goes on as heretofore. a
!, statement of their affairs show that oyel
. and above all liabilities they have theil
: entire capital stock Of sI.000.0oo un
7 impaired. Heretofore they have man