Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-16
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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Phoebe Cousins says the Queen of She
ba was lawyer by profession, only she
was ashamed to tell of it.
The Boston Journal plaintively asks.
as to the New Hampshire result, "'Will
it be needed at Washington for GER
tainly nothing else seems to be.
1t is thought by the Worcester Spy
that this year will, quite likely, settle
the question whether the republican par
ty is, to purge and live cleanly or go. to
the graveyard. No party that tolerates
Butler as a leader can win in rs, the
Spy thinks.
An active and wide-awake republican
of western Massachusetts, reports grow
ing feeling there in favor of Gen. But
Ter, and that shrewd men who calculate
to be always with the winning party are
now for the first time in favor of his
nomination for governor.
Katie Welsh, girl of IL, was found
in the Boston and Albany depot, at Bos-
ton, Mass, last Monday evening, and
told the officer who took charge of her
that her aunt, one Mrs. Harrington who
keeps boarding house at South Natiek,
had told her to take the train for Boston
and shift for herself.
John Clark, his wife, and infant few
days old, who was turned out of doors
by an unfeeling landlord recently, was
discovered in the outskirts of Freehold,
N. j., in starving and frozen condi-
ton. The wife has since died. She
was found lying on decayed mattress,
with no covering.
Complaint is heard from the direction
of Worcester that republican papers in
other states haven't as much sympathy
as they ought to have with Massachu-
sets republicanism in its painful efforts
to protect itself against Butler. 1t
mourns unto them, and Ghey don't la
ment, as it were.
ga man who was buried at Denver,
eighty-one years ago was exkumed the
other day and found to be petrifed His
grandchild has made arrangements to
exhibit the stone at ten cents admission.
This IS a nice story to send circulating
through the newspapers. Where was
Denver eighty-one years ago
Last Friday evening a girl named
Mirtt was arrested in Ticonderoga, N.
Y, by two men, who demanded what
money she had, with threats ofiniury if
the demand was not complied with. She
handed the highwayman S15, when they
vanished. Two young roughs named
Slucia have been arrested on suspicion.
The moment any party identifies it.
self with its ofice-holders, and not with
the great political inspirations which
gave it birth, it has reached its climax,
and its hours are numbered. The dem
ocratic party went to the dogs because
Of that error, and the republican party
is in rapid pursuit of its fate.
The Hartford Courant cheerfully re
marks that the New Hampshire result
is ''by no means discouraging to Con-
necticut republicans. In 1871 the dem
ocrats carried New Hampshire, where
upon the Connecticut republicans walked
up and Won There is more inducement
for similar action, this year, than there
was then, and we do not doubt that such
will be the result"
Ex- President Baez, of st. Domingo.
was arrested in New York a few DAYS
since, on charges by Davis Hatch, of S.
Norwalk, Ct, for cruel treatment, and
held in $4,000 bail for trial. Mr..
Hatch, while a resident of St. Domingo.
was suddenly arrested for some offence,
tried before drum-head court martial
and sentenced to death, but pardoned
and his property confscated.
Mollie Holbrook was arrested Thurs
day OF last week, in New York CITY. and
while going through Hamilton, Ont. in
charge OF detective, on her way to Chi
cago, where she is charged with stealing
$40, 1000, jumped from the train, and ran
to Canadian policeman, claiming his
protection. She was taken before mag
lstrate and discharged, as she could not
be detained under Canadian laws.
There are good many doctors at
work upon our financial disease, but we
doubt If any of them makes a more true
diagnosis and suggests better remedy
than the quaint old Boston merchant.
who said :; eve have been spending too
much money. Let US pull up short, and
every man and boy, instead of buying
coats and trousers 60 to the tailor's and
lay IN stock of odds and ends of cloth
Tor seat-pieces and elbow and knee-patch.
es TOR year or two."
As if Philadelphia hadn't trouble
enough already about her centennial
there is talk of running an opposition
show at'Cincinnati. The place is CEN
trail, and self-conceited and has .rino'
ana deal OF experience in exhibitions
and other big things, and-well. thew
say there's no patent on the idea. and
by all odds they are better situated for
1t than the Qauker city, and could af.
1ord 1t with less financial and political
/ embarrassment.
A correspondent of the Chicago Tri-
pune sees little but gloom in the future
OF Denver, Colorado. Many departments
OF trade are overdone, he says, 1.-THE gen
teel professions and occupations are over
stocked but there is almost a total
dearth of manufacturers and producers
but very little ground in the vicinity Of
Denver is cultivated not half enonob
Is raised for lone, consumption, and if
II were not for the travel and the mines
the proud city of Denver would be aban,
doned to the buffalo and coyote in less
than year.
A Baltimore woman has taken time
py tne forelock. A few days since she
brought to the register Of wills in that
city will made by her husband and
which she desired IN eIo 0