Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-04-06
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A. J. Parker, the Democratic Treas
urer of Brown county, Ohio, is accused
of being defaulter to the amount of
$4,000.
One of the most promising cities of
the west is indianapolis. Within three
years it has gained $4,000 in population.
1t now has population of $4,000.
The California Legislature has passed
bill making it a misdemeanor to invite
any person to drink, or to accept an in
vitation to drink, at any public bar.
A veritable widows mite is in the
possession of an indianapolis jeweler. 1t
was coined in the reign of Tberius Ce-
sar is of copper and about the size of
a three cent piece.
Why don't the State Police seize DIR.
Dio Lewis Hotel at IL Beacon street ?
1.-The Hotel Bellevue. Wines and IL
quors are furnished there daily. Why
not start praying band for that hotel?
Boston Express.
A number of ex-confederate soldiers
in South Carolina, recently exhumed the
bones of two Union soldiers. buried in
neglected graves on the roadside, enclos-
ed them in handsome collins and forward
ed them to their homes in Ohio
Wendell Phillips, in recent lecture,
said that the Mayor, Aldermen and Com
mon Council of Boston and all the large
cities. were but standing committee
nominated by the grog shops.
The Iowa legislature has voted to sub
NIT the question of woman suffrage to a
popular vote Whatever the popular
verdict may be, this action shows that
the West has outstripped New England
in devotion to advanced ideas.
The New Hampshire Scythe and Axe
company at Littleton, are turning out
1000 dozen seythes year, and they
have recently put in machinery for the
manufacture of frst-class axes, and are
turning out 1000 month.
| Mr.. Barnum has engaged two celebra-
ted aronauts to make a voyage across
the Atlantic from New York to Europe,
during the coming summer. The balloon
is now building and will be placed on
exhibition in London before bringing it
to this country.
Two professionals from New York,
were in the city Friday, who propose to
make Nashua their base of operations
for faro bank, etc. They were attract
ed thither by the change in our politi-
cal status, and the prospect of license
becoming the prevailing policy of the
State This is a fact, as we are inform
ed. What commentary !-Nashuo Tel
egraph.
Charles Summers idea of celebrating
a National Centennial instead of huck-
ster's fair at Philadelphia was a taking
one. Let US have rousing anniversary
in every State in the Union IN 1876,
sanctioned and partly paid for by Uncle
Sam. Congress should set to work at
once in this business so that each State
will have ground work. Let Pennsylva-
MIA skin its own cats.
The price of good, fresh drinking wa
ter is SO high in San Francisco that ar
tesian wells are all the fashion wherever
they promise to meet the expectations
of those who augur well from appearance
es. There are said to be a thousand of
these '.bores" in California's metropolis
though it is true that an alleged in
suficiency in the supply of Adams ale
is an universal excuse, in that locality,
for spirituous Indulgences.
There was singular beauty in the
death of Judge Hiram Gardner at Lock-
port, N. Y Thursday evening, he read
to his family concerning the deaths of
Fillmore and Sumner said, quietly
4tThat is the best way to go, quickly.
when one is prepared. and went to his
room But he had not finished disrobing
when he sank to the floor. in great pain,
and spoke no more, his death occurring
the next day. Judge Gardner was man
of high distinction and widely esteemed,
and, though in his 18th year, was still
in active life, having on the day before
his death argued suit before a referee.
Our British cousins seem to be de-
lighted with the Pullman cars which
have been introduced on the Midland
Railway, and we'll they may be. The
popular impression that the English
railway carriages are superior to our own
ignores the progress which we have made
in this direction of late years. Even the
frst-elass coaches, in which only noble
men and fools are said to travel, are in
ferior In elegance and comfort to our
drawing-room cars and the luxurious
Pullman naturally opens up visions of
luxurious enjoyment to the not .unsus-
ceptible Britisher. which even the tho't
of collision would hardly disturb.
Men are losing their reverence for sa-
cred things and the clergy are doing the
same thing If the Rev. Dr. McCraig, of
the Ninth Presbyterian Church in Chi
cago may be believed He is publicly
reported to have declared sacred history
to be Hjumble of absurdities = and
be boldly adds that Evolution started
with saw dust and fire mist and made
world. and from monads. trillobites and
flies has climbed all the way up to man
and Christian civilization. When the
church listens to such doctrines as DIR.
Craig is here credited with enuneiating,
can We wonder that congregations grow
sparse and cold.
The Chicago Times thinks the relig-
ious services at the funeral of Dir. Sum-
ner were exceedingly appropriate, While
I he was man of remarkably pure life,
, be was not protesting Christian. No
one ever heard from him any claims to
piety, or of censure for the want Of it in
others, or any criticism upon the faith
! of his fellow-men. For all that really
makes up the character Of an honest,
/ just aud conscientious man, he was uni
, versally esteemed. and yet he was free