Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-05-25
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

sion of the patent feeding advice.
A Southern paper says that Gen. For
rest 1.-The brilliant confederate cavalry
leader" is now engaged in hauling wood
to Memphis, driving the team himself.
The Fourth of July comes on Saturday
this year. This will give the American
Eagle an opportunity to rest on Sunday,
after his herculean efforts.
The superiority of American cast iron
is acknowledged in Europe. 1t Is %
ner cent. stronger than German and 10
per cent better than English.
Ex-senator Robert Toombs made
nleasant call on the President Monday.
THAT was better than calling the roll OF
his slaves on Bunker hill.
A Chinaman thus describes trial IN
our courts: lone man is silent, another
talks all the time and twelve wise men
condemn the man who has not said
word.
Religious excitement prevails IN the
Colombian State of Cauca, South Amer
lea. The cry is, down with the nor
NAL schools, the Masons and the Prot
estants y
It was ninety-four in the shade at
Washington week ago Sunday, and
now Congress may be expected to hurry
up its business. Congressman fear hot
weather more than they do the newspa-
pers.
1t seems almost impossible to have
short crop of fruit this year The lat
est report is from West Virginia. where
the trees are reported to be in admirable
condition.
The number of geese in Lake Cham
plain is said to be immense. Their prin-
ciple operation seems to be to sail about
the lake on floating cakes of ice, but they
keep shy of the shore.
The New York Tribune in sportive
mood accuses Spring, gentle Spring. of
initiation and issuing pleasant promises
which she never meant to redeem, get
ting infected generally with our ''abom-
Unable financial theories"
The base for James Fisk's monument
at Brattleboro. which weighs four or five
tons, arrived on Friday. and the monu-
ment having already arrived at New
York, will soon be set up at Brattleboro
with great ceremony.
1t is reported that Gen. Butler will
not be a candidate for re election to Con-
gross. Unless the voters of the Sixth
Mass, district endorse the salary grab,
imitation, Sanbornism and Simmonsism.
it is high time they determined that he
should not be.
The Pennsylvania delegation now pro-
pose to put their votes where they will
do the most good They are ready tc
vote for anything or nothing, if thereby
they can secure votes for the Centennial
bill when it comes up again. This course
is more disgraceful than the total failure
of the centennial scheme possibly could
be.
The temperance crusade appears tt
have done wonders in Philadelphia, if &
lady who writes from that city tells the
/ truth and nothing but the truth. She
says that between three and four hun
q dred saloons have been closed, and 22t
saloon keepers and l23 bar tenders have
signed the pledge. Twenty thousand
! women are engaged In the work
! They tell a queer story about the doc
tors in certain Texas town, who were
all away last summer to attend medi
q cal convention. They were absent abou
q two months, and on their return fount
e all their patients had recovered, the dru,
stores had closed. the nurses had openec
dancing schools, the cemetery was Gu
I up into building lots, the undertaken
= had gone to making fddles, and tn
hearse had been painted and sold for
. circus wagon.
Miss Lester of Baltimore has sent t
# Tennyson wild daisy, picked from Poe
:. grave, recently. The package was tie
If with a white satin ribbon, upon who
was written: ''The only blossom frol
+ the nameless and neglected grave of EG
a gar Allen Poe. 1874" Itwas the onl
y flower to be found on or near the dest
+ late place.
a 1t is wonderful how much man ca
ne endure and yet live. A youth of S
ID Louis was assaulted by an enemy, an
ly his throat cut from ear to ear, the iu.
d. ular vein being barely missed his lie
e. eye was destroyed, the right hand nea
ds ly severed, several deep wounds inhicte
on his back and shoulders and on DO
lions of his body, and he was left lyin
"a on the ground for dead. But contral
- to all expectation, he did not die, an
~ Is now so far recovered as to be out
:, a. danger.
,to 1t almost takes ones breath away
,r. read OF the speed of some of the Engli:
as lightning express trains. The EXPIRE
I'm train on the Great Western Railroa
lat which leaves London (Paddington st
81 tom at ll.45 A. NJ, arrives at Swind,
raj junction, seventy eight miles, LIP.
at an average rate of ffty-three and
al half miles per hour Few of our Anne
led lean lightning express" trains keep
i'll a speed of thirty miles an hour.
i've Oregon takes the lead, this year.
ON Congressional elections, that event occr
led ring within her limits on the first d.
On OF June next. There is but one distri
the In the State, and the Republicans, De
EN- oerats and Independents have each tic
vas cts IN the field At the election of n,
m NTH, the present Democratic incumbe
,wo the majority in his favor was 1000. /
the the Republicans claim their ability
18th more than wipe that out at the conf
election.
nry The St. Johns Ne.os says the Miss
at quot river, at Masonyille, was recent
we, covered with 5000 logs belonging
the Mr.. A. 0. Brainerd, of st. Adams. VIII
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