Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-08-31
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is in Wiseen.
SIN. and in poor health.
IL single life is bad. then IL stands to
reason that isable life is twice as had.
An indianapolis hreman has fallen
heir 70 fifty thousand dollars.
The new way to fish. in Califoraia. Is
/ BY exploding ant-pOwaer under the
water.
/ Boston Corhets. the man who shot J.
Mikes Booth. Is keeping hat-store IN
! Philasselp Aia.
Ida Greeley is spending the summer
in she SACRED Heart convent at Nam
hattanville. New York.
/ A Britisher has figured it out that
I there viii be go total eclipse Of the sun
visible in Loadon until July 81. 1881.
/ A Cuban lady st Saratoga wears a
necklace of American twenty dollar gold
/ pieces. valued at FIVE hundred dollars.
England is having very dry season,
and sparks from the locomotives are
burning the hedges and the standing
grain.
A bullet has just been taken from the
palm Of veteran of Waterloo. where 1t
had been imbedded nearly ffty-nine
years.
The government expedition to observe
| the transit Of Venus was last heard from
I ar Bahia Brazil. July IL
Lucy Hamilton Hooper calls the
French Assembly - mad-house full of
monkeys. Ne American paper ever
thought Of saying that about State
Legislature
/ In Paraguay. gentlemen kiss the ladies
when they are introduced and generally
when they afterwards meet. For price
Of tickets, time Of sailing. etc.. see daily
papers
A stroke of lightning killed the horse
on which . man was riding. In Colorado.
few days ago. without even so much
as scorehing the pantalOons of the man.
Mrs Ross. the mother of Charlie Ross,
the stolen Philadelphia boy. is now sub
ject to fits Of violent hYsteria. She in
sists upon suit of clean clothes being
laid out, every day. to await the arrival
of her little boy.
A young man. eighteen years old, six
/ feet ten inches IN hight. three feet and
a half across the shoulders, and weigh
ing four hundred aud ninety pounds, re-
Gently attracted great attention in St.
Paul, Mimi. where he was ON visit to
his friends
An abstract of the forthcoming report
Of the Beecher investigating committee
IS published 1t reviews the evidence
at length. and concludes with complete
exoneration of the Plymouth pastor
The report is unanimous
The German papers mention as proof
that the inhabitants of Alsaee Lorraine
are becoming more reconeiled to their
new position that the village fetes, which
were suspended after the war. have been
revived
An explosion occurred in a colliery
near Hanley. Stafordshire. England.
Aug 24th, causing the instant death of
eight miners Had the full force been
on hand no doubt many more would have
been killed
/ A Paris paper says: Letters from
/ London announce the result of examina-
tons passed at WooIwieh BY the Prince
Imperial He has been placed, among
/ the pupils Of his standing, in the first
class for riding. in the third for fortif-
cation aud il the second for artillery.
/ California. whose history dates back
only about twenty FIVE years, promises
soon to take her place as one of the great
est States IN the Union Her population
in 1850 was only 1000, but slRee that
time 1t has increased more than 700 Der
cent, or at the rate Of about thirty per
cent each year.
Il serious riot has been raging in Gar
rand county. Ky- most Of the time since
Wednesday, growing out Of quarrel
between rival political leaders The
rioters are arranged on each side with
out distinction Of color, and the inter
ference Of the United States troops had
at last accounts restored peace. Anoth-
er serious political fraeas IS reported
from Owen county, Kentucky.
Baron AnseIm De RothschiId. Who
/ died recently at his country seat at Dob
ling. near Vienna. was man Of extreme
simplicity Of character, In spite Of his
immense wealth By his express desire
recorded N his viii, his funeral was Gel
ebrated without any pomp- A hearse
drawn by two horses, followed only by
. few servants. conveyed the body 70
the northeastern station. whence It was
taken TO the domain IN which the fauiIy
vault i situated The fortune OF the
baron Is estimated at more than thous-
and millions Of francs
Among the delegates to the recent
Louisiana Republican convention at New
Urieaus was full-bleoded negro named
Reese, who was q curiosity and the center
/ o. observation He was Jet black. six
feet tail, and weighed fully Eve humid
red pounds His dress was very uecu-
lar, his appearance venerable and his
expression one Of the utmost good hunor.
a dIvan was built for hin, upon which
he saE through the meeting. taking no
part IN the proceedings. but beaming
IKE fltanie cherub On everything and
Everybody His hair, which was A
WHITE a. SLOW. contrzsted strangely With
his ebony face.
disturbance bordering On war has
broken out-In the town IF Lancaster IN
kentucky The trouble eommenced Al
she recent election and was inteusf6ed
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