Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-04-20
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

his head: so much for Buckingham !''
A lot of land was sold in Boston on
Friday for $4,000, that was bought
for S3333 in 1916.
A well-dressed young woman was
found dead drunk in the ladies room of
the Lynn Mass, depot on Saturday.
A Georgia negro who bet $40 that
Gen. Washington commanded the fed
erals at Bull Run handed the money
over with the remark: "Well, dis here
hlst'ry business is all mixed up any
way"
A correspondent of the Winchester
Nows says one of the most important
acts so far passed by the Virginia Leg
islature is ''an act for the protection of
deer in Frederick county" and adds:
''Gen Washington killed the last deer
in Frederick little over 100 years ago"
Jennie Collins delivered lecture in
Boston, Sunday night, April 18th,
against old men who seduce young girls.
and read resolution in favor of ap-
pointing a vigilance committee for the
protection of working girls against the
constant annoyance of these ''diabolical,
gray-headed old wretches."
The Graphic has picture exhibiting
the donkey of the West plunging off
precipice after the will o'-the wisp of
imitation, labelled "oats, with Uncle
Sam holding him desperately by the
tail, and Governor Dix in the distance
shouting, "Sam. Sam; spot him on the
shoot.
An afectionate Norwalk Conn.,, hus-
band recently sold his wife's clothing,
while she lay upon her death-bed, and
sought solace for his aching heart by
visiting Barnum's hippOdrome in New
York. On his return he found his wife
dead, and his only remark was, "How
natural she looks !"
A well-known horse-trainer in Ken
lucky has invented an ingenious bit for
the trott1ng horse, SO arranged that
driver can give his horse liquid nourish-
ment during heat by means of rub
ber tube running from the bit to the
seat of the sulky, where there is attach
ed rubber bag for water or spirit.
A learned divine at Burlington. Vt, is
quoted as having recently said to Ii
quor-dealer there: "Wretched man if
the bed of that river was bank high
with the suds of salvation. and June
rise of piety was coming down from the
mountains, there wouldn't be enough to
wash your feet !"
Rev. Mr.. Beeman of Milton, Vt, who was
egged, some tune ago, for engaging in
a temperance movement, being denounc-
ed by lawyer in court, the other day,
for his zeal, pompously stepped forward
and remarked that he could tip the
scales at $50, and that, as long as he
had toe-nail left that could rattle, it
should be used to wage on this warfare
against liquor.
What is the principal difference be-
tween French republic and a French
empire Z? They use the same kind of tao
tics. The present Government, which
is called republican, prohibits news-pa-
per attacks upon the proposed seven
years administration. Until France
can tolerate free discussion, she can
never maintain truly republican gov
ernment.
Collector Simmons has been at the
trouble to justify his claim to the title
of young Christian soldier by making
speech at the Methodist Conference,
in which he made the astounding state
ment: "From my youth | was born and
have been cradled in Methodism." A
second birth that extends all the way
from ones youth up" ought to give
him pretty thorough regeneration. and
make at least Christian soldier, if not
Christian statesman, of him.
1t was natural to expect that so large
sum as that awarded the United States
by the Geneva Arbitrators would cause
a great deal of quarreling The strug-
gle has fairly begun. and some of the
applicants for share in the division
threaten to defeat the work of Congress
altogether, unless their claims are met
There is prospect that Legislation for a
distribution will be postponed for this
session. The insurance companies are
in after share yet.
Nearly two hundred years ago, in a
sermon preached in Boston, the Rev.
Increase Mather deplores the introduc-
ton and use of rum. "It is common
thing that in latter years kind of strong
drink called rum has been common with
us, which the poorer sort of people, IN
town and country, can make themselves
drunk with Those that are poor and
wicked can make themselves drunk for
a penney. | wish to the Lord some
remedy could be thought of for the pre-
vention of this evil !" A long time has
elapsed and the remedy has not yet been
found.
Anson Howard of Londonderry, Vt. but
; formerly of Weston. has been arrested
on the charge of burning his own public
house at Weston and the dwelling Of a
neighbor, G. W. Sprague, in Weston,
between two and three years ago. The
testimony against him is chiefly from a
woman with whom he has been on Grim
inally intimate terms. According to her
story, Howard's object in burning hi:
own house was to get the insurance,
and in burning his neighbor's to satisfy
a grudge. While living at Londonder-
] ry, the woman says. he carried a boy in
cask to his stable In Weston and left
him there. with one head of the cask
loose so that be could slip out after
dark and set the building on fire. but
when the time came, the boys courage
, gave out and he returned home. How
ard then hired man to do it, but ht
got drunk and failed, so be had to star
the blaze himself. The woman mentions
D az ono inc4dent af the first ATTEMPT that