Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-11-30

a Minnesota man makes the winter
seem short by giving his note payable
IN the spring.
Navigation is now virtually closed for
the season on the great lakes, the canals
and the Canadian rivers.
1t is estimated that there are nearly
100. 900 men and women out of employ
ment in New York city.
Mary Janish, disolute woman, is in
the Tombs for roasting her child to death
in New York, on Saturday.
General Fitzpatrick Is said to be at
work upon a new war drama, with the
assistance of Nasty and Mark Twain.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln was at Chat
tanooga. Tennessee. Friday, en- route for
Florida where she will spend the winter.
The friends of a ..God in a constitu-
ton amendment are preparing for a
national convention on the | 5sh and 9th
prox.
Victor Emmanual says that NJ. Theirs
is the Little Red Riding Hood of French
politics, and that Gambetta's party is
the wolf
A Troy man worth $751; hung
himself the other day. If they must do
it, that's the kind of men to go aboutit,
as it loosens the currency.
Worcester. Massachusetts, has just
water enough to last ninety days
There must be rain before that time.
But how do they calculate SO accurately,
to day?
Hell hath no fury like u woman
scorned." and unless the Empress Of
Russia is an exception to her sex, Europe
will yet heal from the slight shown her
her by Victoria.
According to writer in the Atlantic,
sit is not impossible that there may be
still standing in California trees which
were in existance when Adam and Eve
walked in Paradise"
The Milwaukee News says: The St.
Louisian never dies suddenly. He
walks around half dozen years, telling
people about his liver and chewing quin-
inc, before crossing the river. sts
All the railroads in Illinois have been
notified of the law requiring them to
provide wood mans ak, sledge-ham
mer. a hand saw, and two leathern
buckets for each passenger car despatch
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A regular decrease in population of
France is shown by the census reports
from year to year. and at the present
rate the country will be entirely depop-
ulated in one hundred and eighty-three
years. +f
A wretched old farmer named Sullivan
in Illinois. is unhappy. In consequence
of the protracted drough. he only. has
| 100000 bushels of corn, 10000 bushels
OF oats, and 5000 tons of hay to worry
through the winter on. =
| A Bridgeport, Connecticut, man, who
was chopping wood last week, accident
1 ally cut one of his fingers badly, and was
so enraged that he deliberately laid his
hand on the chopping block and chopped
the finger entirely off.
There is man living at the Carroll
county, New Hampshire, poor farm, who
spent all his property in a law suit, where
the sum involved was only 49, and he
had two opportunities to settle for So
when he knew he was in the wrong,
and admitted as mnch.
j A California farmer received by mail
three years ago, about a spoonful of oats
which he planted and the next year
he planted the produce oft. This year
he repeated the process, and has Just
harvested, from an acre and half of
land, 200 bushels of oats. or. ..--,
Nutmeg crater phizzes will soon be
the prevailing style in some parts Of
Texas. Smallpox is raging terribly.
In Roma, out of a population of only
700, nearly one hundred have died
and In Brownsville, 5 children of one
family have persisted with it. -7#
A dense fog enveloped the south Of
England, on Saturday and Sunday, and
many casualties are reported. The
navigation Of the Thames was dangero us
and steamboats, suspended their trips for
two days. At Liverpool, boats ceased
plying between the ferries. Railroad
accidents occurred at Wolverhampton,
Shrewsbury and elsewhere.
l Recently a telegraph clerk in France
refused to transmit message in these
words, Third epistle of John, verses
!, thirteen and fourteen" under the Law
which forbids the transmission of dis.
patches not written in plain language
reference to the text indicates that the
dispatch was merely an economy Of
! words. The text is as follows: II have
, many things to write, but will not with
q Ink and pen write unto thee; but
Z trust | shall shortly see thee, and VIC
shall speak face to face"
. The President is greatly ANNOYED al
numerous statements that have appeared
since the elections about proposed chang
q es IN his cabinet and difference betweer
q himself and his cabinet officers. He saw,
he does not see what the object of these
a statements is, except to create FEELING
:. OF uncertainty in the country and keeI
: up an excitement. There are not only
, no difference between him and his cabi.
a net offcers, but he has not the slightes
Idea Of changing any of them.
@ The New York Herald is bound no
r to be beaten on its own ground by an,
6 other newspaper. 1t has a correspon
a dent de, reported captured in Spain. Tn,
). Times man was reported" killed, to b,
; sure, but, as it turned out, he was ma
: even prisoner. while the Herald ma,
d prove It's case and possibly manage t,
f have It's man executed. 1t would no
: be pleasant for the man bnt The 49,