Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-06-29
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

t the New York frihune's building.
IF no unforeseen disaster befalls it.
T the present wheat crop Is expected to be
the largest ever harvested in the South
and West.
! Tom Scott has been elected President
Of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad
Company. the most powerful corporation
in the new world.
There is niger Samson in New Or
leans, aud it took twelve ordinary white
men to capture him after he had broken
the iron bars of Jail like pipe-stems.
A SLAYER, with $50 chattels on board,
has just been captured by the British
government. The slaves were being
taken from Mozambique to Madagascar.
The factory girls of Lowell. Mass.
turn out 739 miles of paper collars
month, and weep to think of the count
less young men whose necks they will
embrace.
Fire crackers are to be prohibited on
the Fourth Some people are so timid
that they object to having popcorn sold
on that day. Perhaps they object to
pop-beer, also.
Simmons can fight if called upon.
He knocked the stuhing out of those
two Washington Hoars last week. Hit
EN- again, Billy, they have no friends
about this part of the country.-Bostoaa
EapresS.
Jefferson Davis has returned from
Europe and gone to his home at Mem
phis Tenn, while the sour apple trees
on which he was to be hung are as thrift
ty as ever.
Social murder-"0h, she's been talk
ed about The midnight assassin, who
stabs you to death in the back, is ali an
gel compared to the iends who murder
character with this convenient phrase.
John Bright, the well-known member
of Parliament, said. in a recent speech
on temperance, that he thought the sue
cess of the cause depended upon public
opinion rather than on the passage Of
prohibitory laws.
The British government, through the
Niceroy at Calcutta, continues to feed
3 100000 destitute Indians. A real
old-fashioned, starve-to-death famine has
prevailed for months among these miser-
able creatures.
Snow fell, Friday morning of last
week, at Manitou, a hundred miles north
Of Grand Rapids, Michigan. 1t is in the
latitude of Jay Cookies and Schuyler
Colfax's Northern Pacific belt of perpet-
ual orange-groves and myrtle bowers.
Enterprising Chicago has got out
new directory which gives her a popula-
ton of $4,000. Why didn't she make
it 100000 at once, and be done with
it ? That would have laid ST. Louis out
for decade to come and it would have
been just as easy. Figures never lie.
The recent Republican Convention in
Maine, Vermont, Illinois and Indiana,
all passed resolutions condemning the
imitation of the currency of the country.
Some of the Congressman who were SO
strongly in favor of imitation will be sup
piled with stay-at home ticket.
The Peabody Mass. folks were so mad
with the brute Robert Durkee that ere
nation would have been exercised upon
him recently if he could have been got
out of Salem Jail. The idea of father
running daughter of seventeen and then
help practising abortion is too horrid to
think Of
There is society in Brooklyn-Mrs.
Dr. Cuyler, D. d., President-for put
ting down eorsets, carriers, high-heeled
shoes, false hair, waterfalls, monster
bonnets, rouge, hair dye and other fem
lnlne vanities. The society makes but
little Roadway. 1t has the world, the
flesh and the devil against it.
The soundings for the Japan cable
show that at least six submarine noun
tain ranges lie between Honolulu and
Yokohama. The SUBMITS of one range
reach to the surface. The height of
these submerged mountains is from 1000
to 10000 feet, and their peaks are COW
cred with coral and lava. The remainder
OF the ocean bed seems to be a level PLAIN.
The new twenty-five cent currency is
IN circulation. 1t is about the size of
the new ten cent scrip, being only
fourth OF an inch longer and of the same
width. The vignette of Robert j. Walk
er, Secretary of the Treasury, covers the
left half Of the face of the scrip. and
the U. S. seal printed in red ink. with
the denomination printed in figures and
letters above occupy the right half.
A daughter of Gardiner Brookings.
one Of the most respectable citizens Of
NoolWich, Me-, aged 10 years, left. her
home, Friday afternoon, to visit friend
about mile distant. About 7 o'clock
she started to return, but nothing was
seen of her again till Sunday night.
when she got home, giving sufficient ev-
idence that a horrible crime had been
committed. No arrests have been made
SYRACUSE, y. Y, June 23.-At an
early hour, this evening, while festival
was being held in the parlors on the sec
ond floor Of the Central Baptist Church
corner OF Montgomery and jefferson
streets, the floor, which was crowded
with some 300 persons, fell, the whole
number falling in the crash, with the
tlmbers- There have been fourteen al.
ready reported killed, and there are. at
least, seventy-five persons injured, MANY
fatally. The city is in great excitement.
Monday afternoon Gov. Talbot swal.
lowed hearty dinner with the Ancierss
at faneuil Hall with the famous old
John Hancock punch bowl filled to the
brlm with luscious rum and brandy
punch Immediately before him and cham
payne corks flying like minnie balls all
around him. In one hour after he was
hobnobbing with three-score Of nrol,;b;