Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-08-24
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Rerrh won't even heat an egg.


The Lowell Courier calls a total alb
stinenee address water spout
Six men recently caught 1000 pound
of trout in enc day from a Montana
stream.
Holland. Italy. and Belgium have ret
ognized the Spanish Republic.
Harvest dances viii soon be resorted
to BY the Changers.
Blondin, the rope-walking cross be-
tween lunatic and humbug, is now
living in Australia.
Monroe Divers, negro. was hung by
a mob. week ago Friday night at Mar
rensburgh. No. for rape on six years
| old child
Die Lewis modestly asserts that so
per cent. of the fashionable wine drink
ing of Boston has been stopped by his
efforts
There are $4,000 children in ST.
Louis, who never enter a Sunday School
or Church. Away with foreign mission
airy societies. till We reclaim few of
the heather at home.
Hon. Joseph II. Wightman. ex-mayor
of Boston. is in Jail for debt. 1t is
little singular that an enlightened State
ike Massachusetts, retains this relic of
darker times.
Ulysses S. Grant, Jr.. and Jesse Grant,
sons of the President, Lieut. Otis, aud
son of Thomas Murphy of New York.
have just accomplished pedestrian trip
of 200 miles from Huntington. Pa. to
Pittshurg.
A son of John Mexican. of Fall River.
Mass, while earelessly handling load
ed pistol. discharged it into the face of
younger brother. nine years old, fear
fully mutilating it, and destroying one.
if not both, of his eyes
A Minnesota paper recently created a
sensation by announcing. in double
loaded dispatch from New York, the sui.
eide of Mr.. Henry Ward Beecher.
A Western journal announced that "a
baby was born week before last with one
leg in Chicago" The New York Com
mercial Advertiser is curious to know
sACAS tAO Obu Ct lex hdS-
The estimated annual production of
butter IN the United States is no less
than seven hundred million pounds. and
while the best sells at dollar pound,
so much is poor that the estimated val
ue Of the whole per pound is but fifteen
cents.
A New York leather dealer went into
William Street restaurant for dinner
the other day, but the proprietor think
ing the lll-elad merchant was beggar,
violently elected him from his hash-house.
Suit was brought for damages, and the
leather dealer recovered $500, enough
to buy suit of clothes sufficiently good
to impress even the keeper of third
class eating saloon.
At fremont Village, about six miles
north of Springfield. Ohio, lightning
struck church spire. week ago Wednes-
day afternoon. Frustrating nine ladies
who had gathered in the vestibule await
ing funeral service. Five ladies were
quite seriously injured and the others
condition Is considered critical.
War Of races IN Mississippi. The
town of Austin captured and pillaged
By armed niggers- The citizens fleeing
IN every direction Memphis and Hell
ena pouring in their battalions of white
men to the rescue Gems. Chalmers and
White in Command The place retaken
and thirty niger insurrectionists caught.
All comparatively quiet now.
Allen Crary, of Keene, n. H.. was
found dead in the street Aug. 18th, with
his throat cut He had been on de-
bauch during the evening. William
Mclaughlin, his companion. who was
near him IN drunken stupor. has been
arrested on suspicion A butcher knife
belonging to him, was discovered under
the murdered man.
A terrible domestic tragedy occurred
IN New York Aug. I4th. Mr.. Brand
stein. while under the influence of liquor.
shot his wife in the right side Of her
head. Then. in attempting to shoot an
othcer who went to arrest him. shot an
other man. Then, finding that he had
no chance for escape. he shot himself
through the head. from the effects of
which he subsequently died in the re-
ception hospital
A terrible murder occurred at Creston
Iowa. week ago last Monday morning.
Just before daylight, J. T. Burnett en-
tered the house of his step-son, IL
BrIster. and cut his throat from ear to
ear The presumption is the murderer
must have alarmed his victim az he an
preached the bed. for there was evidence
OF quite struggle. Brister's wife was
IN bed with him and was literally drencb-
In blood The woman was so erazed
that the name of the murderer was all
that could be got ont Of her.
The Hartford Courout has come 70
the conclusion that the Republican party
'-ean only hold It's own and command
the confidence Of the majority Of patri-
otie men, North and South, by positive
platform, and when the time comes. bv
TIE denomination Of gentleman of the
highest character, whose character wouId
De accepted by the whole country a. a
guarantee Of wise and conservative DO
lItlcai action for the. Presidency" This
Is It's platform. which. it says could be
written IN the top ola mans hat: "sre-
&c payment Home rule. Civil service
| reform"
| a special to the Cincinnati Enquirer
OF last Monday. gives this bit of Ken
.aeky go-to-meeting style Near Car
hse' Nicholas county, Ky. recently. a
man named Hamilton. while ATTENDING
The Methodist church, becoming offended
a something said, stood up On bench.
and hourished pistol thomas sbaw
one Of the trustees. sueceeded :, 80,