Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-01-05
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A thirty-fve year old widower o!
Buffalo has recently been married by
his rich mother-in-law, a widow of sixty.
The $4,000 COW. it seems, is not to
go to Europe, after all, the animal hav-
ing been purchased by Col. Lewis Nor
ris, of New York, who has also bought
other of the Dutchess stock sold at the
same sale as the famous COW.
City Solicitor Healey. of Boston, to
whom the question was referred, gives
his opinion that women cannot legally
serve on the Boston School Committee.
Four women were chosen to that position
at the recent elections.
Isaac Farneman, the defaulting treas
urer of Carroll county, Ind. who embez.
zled $4,000 of public money. has been
sentenced to the State Prison for three
years and forever disqualified from hold
ing any office of trust or profit
The intelligence of another marine
disaster, attended by a lamentable loss
of life, has reached New York. The
steamship Elbe, from London for Ham,
burg, has been lost at sea and thirty
two people persisted.
The Vile du Havre is The fourteenth
large Atlantic liner totally lost. The
statement that with the exception of the
Great Eastern she was the largest vessel
affoat, is erroneous. There are many
larger
There is some tall swearing in YER
mont. The unfortunate collector swears
that it was the clerk, and the clerk
swears that it is his employer. This is
a good subject for Poland to investigate.
Boston Post.
The Spanish civil war is affecting the
supply of oranges to Europe Italy,
Sicily. and Malta. as well as the Azores,
can still be depended on, but it is thought
that the supply to the English market
will be insufficient.
The forty-third Congress is remarka-
BILE for three peculiarities 1t is the
largest legislative body that ever assem-
bled in the Capitol; it contains the
greatest number of new members and |
1t has the strongest representation of ex-
Confederates.
At South Bend; the other day, Schuy-
Ter Colfax found drunkard sleeping in
the ditch, and not, like the Levite, pass
by on the other side On the contrary,
like the Good Samaritan, he hired an
express wagon and took the drunkard
to his home, mile out of town.-De-
'rOit Tribune.
One of the first acts of Congress should
nave been to pass vote of thanks to the
commander of the British man-of-war
Slobe for saving the lives of the passen-
.ers of the Virginius, and obliging the
,panlards to raise the American flag from
ne dust IN which they had trampled it.
The Secretary of the Treasury speaks
nore hopefully than heretofore of the
ondition of the National Treasury, and
Expresses the belief that with the con-
lnued increase in the amount of receipts
nd the large rduction in the public ex-
endltures the necessity for additional
axation may be lessened.
Philadelphia, Dec. 3lst. Godfrey
-unkle, German baker on frankfort
Dad, was murdered this morning in a Il
ake-house by young German in his o.
nploy. The murderer robbed the house
s55 and attempted to kill Kunkle's
lie In her bed. He then fed, but was D,
lptured by the police in a neighboring
ger beer saloon.
Springfield will enter upon the new
ar In fairly prosperous condition.
nc manufacturing establishments are 81
i've with one or two exceptions not
e OF them has passed monthly nav
y for labor, and money is reasonably 50
enty among the mechanics. And the
llage bulletin boards show not one
bic sale. 20
John Hopkins, who died at Baltimore
ednesday, was one of the most
ointment business men of that CITY
d his wealth was estimated at sI2.-
1000. He is chiefly remembered. 70
WeVer, for his munifcence toward the
lie had given 81 200, 900 to found
iospltaI, 100000 for a university.
had presented the city park.
The internal revenue receipts, last k,D1
nth, were about $4,000, 900, and the Rer
missioner thinks the monthly aver
OF s8,7O0OO0, experienced before 9
panic, will be reached, next month. Hos
estimated increase of the public e ere
IT, this month, is 100000, and the
asury Is confident there will be no !.
rease at all in January. red u
II the one hundred and tbirtv.one
nbers Of the House of Representatives -
voted recently to give themselves q Wa
Try OF SIX thousand dollars per an Or"
n, thIrty-slx were democrats. and
ety-hve republicans. Of those who o
ed against the bill ninety-one were
ublicans and forty-one democrats =.
bill. "s''ii''
* Mayor Hall Of New York had bis 0,
last week for completely in the
ids and was acquitted. 1t could NOT
ho"n that he received any Of the
en- money, though there was no
VI ne was priyy to the rascaIity Of r
rest 81 the ring. But he wanted TO
governor Z and thought the thieves
q DO the business for him.
ays me Springfield RepuJitcon -
are glad to see that the stupidity alb. c e r.
eauard about Senator Edmunds Line
hg 900 bribe to vote for The sg 'I r.
lriaatlon Of Williams has not life war, war;
""scSi even. Senator I'd u 81
Us mas faults, and grave ones, but
not at all that sort Of man
- unpleasant To criticize % grac.
a '.p fascinating a speaker as Kate IN,
'e'h' Out we can take no stock 10 bcr w