Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-11-09
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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to defend him.
Henry Clay described mule as Ian
animal that has no pride of ancestry and
! no hope of posterity.
The Car of Russia has bestowed upon
/ NJ. Theirs the Gordon of the white Ea,
gle" as badge of honor,
A fellow who was scalped by the Me-
docs, has been visiting BoonviIle, Mo-.
and exhibiting himself to the street loaf
/ erS.
1t Is said that the last photograph of
the Princess of Wales is so great fav-
orite. that 100000 copies of it have been
sold.
General Hawley took the first prize. a
| sporting rifle. at the ANIMAL prize shoot
ing of the Franklin Club. near Hartford.
Conn.
Dr.. F. H. Enders, of North st. Louis,
has been chosen by the king of the Sand
witch Islands, as Medical Director Of the
Kingdom,
James Luke, charcoal dealer in New
York. was shot dead by woman named
Sarah Cronk. whom he had insulted, on
Saturday October 81.
Gossip saws that General Sickles and
Mr.. Remington viii soon provide the
necessary funds for the starting of an
other American paper in Paris.
John MacMahon. of New York, has
challenged any man in the United States
to wrestle for $1,000 or $4,000 side !;
square hold. best two in three
A Russian Abbess is on trial at Mos
cow, for forgery to the handsome tune of
100000. If she were only a man and
in America. she'd be sent to congress
sure.
As white garment appears worse when
a little soiled than does a colored one, so
does small fault in a good man attract
more attention than great offence in a
bad man. 81 @
The Cincinnati Gazette trots out VIM.
Orion aid Joseph Medill. as probable
presidential nays. One is head of the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
and the other of the Chicago Tribune
The Quebec Gazette, the Oldest paper
in Canada, having reached the ripe age
81. lilo years, has been disposed of to the
proprietor of the Chronicle. It-is said
1t will continue to be published as sep
arate paper. -a
3 Senorita Soledad Juarez, the daughter
of the late President of Mexico, has be-
come village .school-marm through
the force of necessity. She is a dark
brunette beauty, and has carefully cul-
tivated mind ~ l
Gen. Miles eomplacently regards his
Indian campaign a great success. Satan
ia and seven old squaws have surrender
ed, and three poll eyiled mustangs were
captured month or so ago. Peace
relgns on the plains. a
The -coopers of New York have been
''locked out. and their trade society has
resolved to organize a cooperative shop
and guarantee to supply merchants at
saving of 90 to so per cent Thus the
boss eoopers are likely to be beaten at
their own game. s, 4-s
lgoaDr. w. A. Eastland and Frederick
Norris, two farmers of Mercer county.
kentucky. called In a surveyor TO lay off
their boundary lines. They did not like
~ -=As- tor tod. aaa .u4n-4a mp tho
matter by shooting each other four or
i've times. Eastland was killed and
Norris badly wounded
Information received from Southwest
ern Nebraska shows that thousands of
people are in starving condition. One
informant saw many who for weeks had
nothing to eat but baked squash and
pumpkin and salt. and others who had
lived on baked -four and water,
one. meal a day for. weeks. len
thousand people in this State will need
aid sufficient to keep them from starya
ton and cold during the winter. Hun
dreds of people are naked and on the
verge of starvation, and without means
to leave the State. a1
Failures. suspensions, smash -ups are
the all-prevailing fashion down-east.
Mackin & Co., bankers. of Newark. New
Jersey. went up, October %. for $780,
600. The Locomotive Works, of Pat
terson. New Jersey, the hugest thing of
the kind IN America. suspended the
same day. with $4,000, 600 of entangle.
ments- The next morning, October %.
the great banking house of Henry Clews
& Co., New York, closed doors. and
made an assignment for the benefit of its
creditors. And still the cry is Let 'em
went Its blood and stealage money.
Little girl. while playing on a rail.
road track at Hollidaysburg, Penn, got
her foot SO wedged in a frog that she was
held fast, Her mother saw the pred;e.
ament and heard an approaching train
She ran TO the rescue of her child b,,t
could not extritcate the foot. The train
came on, and. although the engineer an
Piled the brakes, it was clear that It
could not be stopped quick enough.
Inc mother. finding that the girl could
not be less than manned. held her as fsr
on The track as she could while the cars
went by. foot was crushed, bnt a
hfe was saved.
General Banks star is in the ascend.
ant once more. 1t is to be regretted
that a representative SO faithful and 80
deserving as Mr.. Gooch should be the
victim Everything the republicans of
the district could do appears to have
Dcen done: but when man is, ..borp 10
lne purple like Banks, it is useless for
anybody to stand in his way. Earlv n
hl5 life Banks seen,ad IN