Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-01-19

were brief and to the point.
Cartagena the strong hold of the
Spanish insurgents has at last been tax
en-. and the insurgents have been cap
tured or driven from the town. Every
thing is quiet at Madrid under the new
rule.
The old lady said. in describing the
runaway, that her faith in providence
held ont till the breeching broke. and
then she did give up. 1t begins to look
as though the breeching had broken at
Washington.
The Youngest man in the United States
House of Representatives is Lynch, the
colored member from Mississippi. He
was a slave at Natchez until the Union
army entered that town and had no ed
ucation then. He is but twenty-six
years old.
IrraScible old party.-'Conductor,
why didn't you wake me as asked you?
Here am miles beyond my station.
Conductor-I did try. sir, but all |
could get out of you was: All right,
Maria get the children their breakfast,
and I'll be down in a minute.
Mrs. John Gilmore. of Nashville.
Tenn, whose husband had deserted her,
overlook him at Memphis, a few days
ago, and having taken room next to
his in a boarding house, stole into his
room Wednesday night of last week,
and split his head open with an axe,
while he was asleep.
No branch of industry has suffered
so much from the late financial panic
as the iron and other mining interests
of Pennsylvania. Dispatches from that
State show that there is now a general
revival of business, and most of the
mines are now in operation.
Miss Edgar, young lady who was
saved from the ''Ville du Havre, is an
expert swimmer. but after supporting
her mother in the water as long as she
able she had the misery of seeing her at
last slip away from her own exhausted
and frozen arms and slowly disappear.
only one minute before the boat appear
ed which picked up and rescued herself.
A disastrous fire occurred in Matte
Mass, on Wednesday last, destroying
much of the business portion Of the town
and inficting a loss of 100000. In
Boston on the same day seven fires oc-
Cured. one of which caused a damage
cf $4,000. In New York on the
morning of the same day building was
burned and four persons lost their lives
by the fire and from jumping from lofty
windows.
A widow Of seventy years recently
died in Portsmouth, \. H., the truth of
whose life was stranger than many a
fiction. At the age of eighteen she
married the choice Of her heart a young
sea captain. and after brief and happy
honeymoon. he left her for foreign
voyage. The ship was never heard from.
having doubtless foundered at sea, all
on board lost. By her desire she was
buried in her wedding dress, with white
gloves and wedding ring.
Just after the great fire, the clerks of
Macullar, Williams & Parker, Boston,
of their own notion, proposed a reduc-
ton of salaries. Their generous offer
was accepted. Since then, the business
T of the firm has prospered, and, on the
day before Christmas, the partners play
ed the return game. They presented
each of their clerks with check for the
: full amount of the pay surrendered, and
announced that all the salaries had been
, put back to the old figures.
, 4 cadaverous Nevada man sat down
in Detroit restaurant the other day
: and asked for some 'briled fox" but
/ the astonished waiter only shook his
| head. Fried wolf and chunk of mule"
: were next asked for by the plying
stranger. who, when he found he could
= not get either of the three dishes, moved
? back his chair, Indignantly demanded
: to know what man was going to eat,
and added in loud voice, .lf | can't
: get square lunch in the State I'll leave
: for Laramie afore snow file 20
Mrs. Adeline Badger, a noted literary
woman, who had in late election been
elected one of the School Committee in
Boston, mysteriously disappeared few
. Gays since and after diligent search in
Boston and elsewhere, it is ascertained
that she took boat at Fall River for
: New York and during the night of the
passage must have jumped overheard.
Her election in Boston had been decided
illegal as the laws do not recognize the
:. rights OF woman in Mass, and the dis.
u cusslon OF the matter in the papers and
i otherwise is thought to have so affected
them as produced insanity.
An old minister named Reynolds. liv-
ing in Muhlandes county, KY, is accus.
= cd of beating his daughter. Is year.
old frequently and in very brutal
manner. because she refused to marry a
:. certain young man. Finally she con.
scented, but, the evening before the
wedding was to take place, she escaped
She was afterward brought before a
! court, and is now under guardian
< Reynolds Is the pastor of large church
n and has hitherto been held in high es.
: teen.
n One Of the New York clergymen, whe
e Is hne singer, on a recent visit 10 q
Il mad-house approached the cell Of man.
y lac, who rushed for him as far as his
! chain would allow. shouting, .Ill kill
s you IN beat your brains out =
:, CLEAR out 20 Instead Of moving. tbe
> preacher began TO sing, "Our Home in
!. Heaven FIRST. the mailman listened
c then he streached himself out 10 Tho
a full length Of his chain. First one arm
e relaxed and then the other. Tear,
z moistencd his eyes. Then he coiIed NJ
e on his bed Of rags as quiet as a child
n And when the hymn was ended be look.
ed up, saving. "M0re- mnre." Th4