Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-05-11
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

a song for the female temperance cru
saders.
A Mississippi paper proposes this
motto for the country:
Corn and Economy,
Hog and Hominy.
Using Cancelled postage stamp caus-
ed a man TO be fined $500 and costs in
the United States district court the 9TH
er day in Utica New York.
Australia produces black swans. and
has recently developed a vast deposit of
white coal, which burns readily with
brilliant flame.
And now Icelanders are beginning to
seek homes in the United States. They
are said to resemble the Scotch in APP
pearance. and are bright, Clearly,
healthy looking class.
Michigan ought to be happy. A res
olution has been passed by the legisla-
ture that in view of the large balance
In the state treasury, no tax shall be
levied for this year.
\ law court in Iowa has fined a farm
er $50 because he made his son turn
grindstone sixteen consecutive hours. for
going home with an old maid from
singing school
Senator Jones derives five millions as
an annual income from a single silver
mine in Nevada. The only wonder is
that he has been kept out of the senate
so long. This is a very good world to
live in.
The proposal for Congress to recognize
the independence of Cuba finds small
favor anywhere The general impress
ion seems to be that it will be wise to
want until there is something to recog-
nize.
Three fourths of the members of the
South Carolina legislature are negroes,
and more than fifty of them can neither
read nor write; yet these negroes are
said to be superior to the white members,
who are the very scum of perdition.
The Rev Henry Ward Beecher makes
this comprehensive reply to an anxious
questioner who is DESTROYS of knowing
whether a man can love his second wife
as the first: THAT depends en- what
sort of a wife the first was. and what
kind of life the second leads him.
1t is merely local pride When
New Orleans proudly shows Quebec
shirt-front stained with fresh strawber-
~ juice. the latter triumphantly exhib-
Its to New Orleans sore on the side of
the nose, made by mosquito of this
years growth.
The government botanist who is sur
veying in Australia mentions in an off
oial dispatch, a fig tree which in size far
surpasses the far-famed trees in the
Yosemite country. The tree three feet
from the ground measures $50 feet in
circumference and at 90 feet-where it
sends forth giant branches-the trunk
measures so feet round
You never see a young girl in velvet
and her mother in tulle except they are
an American mother and daughter and
L never saw French woman whose front
hair looked like a poodle dogs back
Vanity without common sense has made
more frights in looks among American
women than their Creator is accountable
for.-4dcertiser.
The Boston Herald SAYS: Misfortune
never comes singly. Here we are with
civil war In Arkansas, and half Louis
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ana at this time above all others Ed
ward Payson Weston writes himself a
request to walk 500 miles within six
consecutive days of six miles within 500
days or something of that sort. It's all
one. He can't do it whatever it is.
Twenty-four hundred miles of tele-
graph cable is being put on board the
steamer Faraday at Woolwich, destined
to connect the bit of sea-coast which
New Hampshire boasts with the shores
of Great Britain. When dozen or so
OF telegraph lines are stretched across
the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, COM
petition will bring the price of messages
down to what 1t ought to be-
Among the calamities of warfare. per-
haps even more to be deplored than the
misery and ruin which attend its actual
progress, must be ranked the widespread
social decentralization which it inevitably |
leaves behind it. The history of every
| country shows in this respect a melan-
eholy uniformity, exhibiting, long after
the close OF every war, a startling in
crease in its criminal statistics, more
especially IN crimes of violence.
The pride of mankind is great. A
night or two ago family living ON
Seventh street, New York, was awakened
by unusual noises in the house. and on |
turning out saw the eldest hopeful rush
ing about in his suspenders, brapdisb-
ing new Weston, aud shouting. There
is =. a man IN the house. A long search |
failed to show any foundation for the |
young. mans warlike demonstration.
when he mildly informed the breatbless |
and exhausted tribe that it was his birth
Gay. He was twenty-one
An important result of the floods in
Louisiana Is the effect they will have
on the cotton crop of the current season
According to the best estimates. not less
imam 100000 acres of excellent cotton |
iand In Louisiana, Arkansas and Miss
issippi have been submerged. and the
growing crop totally DESTROYED. The |
amount OF the staple thus lost will nrob- |
aoiy not be less than 3oo,00 bales an
amount sufficient to produce a very per |
eeptiole effect on the general market |
besides impoverishing a large number
of planters. mum
a case will soon come before the cir.
cult court in indianapolis, which Is ca
novel that 1t will bear stating. Some
years ago a lady married here and
growing tired of her liege. was divorced |
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