Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-08-17
GENERAL. NEWS IrEas.


The Massachusetts State Democratic
Convention is to take place September Y.
Russia IS happy with eleven million
horses fit for military service.
The seashcre resorts along the Bay
coast are more than usually frequented
this season.
England has dry season. and sparks
from the locomotives are burning the
hedges aud the standing grain.
The buff postal cards have met with
a rebuff In Washington, and are to be
replaced by hghter-colored ones.
/ Illinois makes valid, by law, the mar
riage of children-male boobies of sew
enteen to girl babies of fourteen.
A steamer was burned. on Wednesday
morning of last week. near Aurora, Ind,
and 20 lives lost, the victim being most
ly ladies.
Not one of the many balloon aseen-
sions made this summer has produced a
fact to confirm the notion of steady
easterly current in the upper air.
Donaldson with his balloon. the grass
hopper pest and the Colorado potatoe
bug are working this way. Misfortuues
seldom come singly.-Be Remington Ban
1 Rer.
In noticing the Brooklyn matter, some
of our exchanges head it, Give us a
Rest" while others say. Give us The
| Rest.
A rat. which at certain hour every
evening walks from one store to another.
in New Orleans, on lofty wire. is at
tracing much attention, and hundreds
nightly await his appearance.
A California newspaper chronicles
the fact that defaulting country treas
urer from that State has turned mp"
in one of the Fiji Islands, where ne has
plantation and flock of native wives.
The Cape Cod Adpertiser says Albert
Marshall, fishing in dory. last week
caught halibut weighing $50 pounds.
He had not suffered lately for want of
appetite, as his stomach contained two
whole dog-fsh, and the back bones of
eleven more.
Objects close to the eye shut out much
larger objects on the horizon splendors
born only of earth eclipse the stars. So
man sometimes covers up the entire
disk of eternity with dollar. and quen-
ches transcendent glories with a little
shining stud.-E. II. Chaplin.
A Bismark Oak, paper of recent date
says, last nights train was behind
time, owing to the grasshoppers on the
eastern end of this division, which were
so thick as to grease the rails. and CON-
PEELED the engineer to double the road
for fifteen miles, taking half the train
each trip.
The DaEbury man, in his last letter
from London, remarks: "All the theatres
are provided with convenient bars tended
by young women. And these young
women who tend bar in England get
from serenty-fye to one hundred and
thirty dollars year and their board.
They rarely found hospitals
The Newburyport Herald says that
such was the force of the wind during
the recent gale in that vicinity, that
clouds of sand from Plum Island we're
carried mile and half seward, in
such volumes as to cover the inside Of
boats passing by to the depth of two
inches
The bluefsh have driven mackerel in
to Boston harbor. so that at some points
there is fine sport in catching them.
On Saturday Aug. one party caught
100 maekerel at Halls wharf, at the
end of Chelsea bridge.
A Sunday-school teacher was giving
a lesson on Ruth. She wanted to bring
out the kindness of Boaz in command
ing the reapers to drop larger handfuls
of wheat. Now children" she said,
"Boaz did another nice thing for Ruth !;
can you tell me what it wasp Married
her. said one of the girls.
New York was much excited. lately.
over report that William B. Astor had
been shot and was dead Subsequently
it was ascertained that the murdered
man was William B. Astor of Texas, a
wealthy dealer in cattle, and that the
tragedy occurred In that distant State.
1t may be said of the girls of Lansing,
Mich. as of the man in the Deserted
Village" that even their failings lean
to virtues side. They indulge in hand
kerchief firtations on the streets, but is
only to inveigle confding young gentle
men into building where temperance
meeting is in progress.
Paul Boynton has been hired by a
New York inventor to advertise a life
saving dress. Boynton will be carried
from New York by an outward bound
steamer, 200 miles from land, where he
will be left until picked up by passing
vessel. He will carry in rubber bag,
ratlons for one week, and signal lights
and flags. with sectional staff twelve
feet long for raising them.
The idea of paying these bonds in
greenbacks does violence to our sense of
national honor and faith, and if carried
out would tend to lower our credit in
the great markets of the world. To paw
these bonds IN paper would require a
large additional increase of treasury
notes, which would be the first step to-
ward Reputation and that | regard as
lmPossible--Hugh lie CuHoch.
War against portraits in France. At
Macon the police have compelled all the
snopkeepers to take out of their windows
the portraits of Theirs and Gambetta
and required even the grocers to sun,
press the packages of alimentary sub
stances on the wrappers of which were
printed pictures of distinguished person.
ages Funny Frenchmen who deem Il
important to take off the ha.1a r. Al