Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-09-14
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Mr.. Henry lore OF IoftShouths W. 4
has eloped With his mether.ia-law. The /
dare Of Yore viii soon be over.
4 boy named hugh 6illea was arrest.
ea in Portland. On Wednesday. for steal |
lug SIC from blind man, The money !
was all spent,
There were eleven deaths Of children
in Fall River Mass, last week, where |
the parents were toe poor to pay the ex-
penSes Of the funerals.
Miss Mary pomeroy. the dead victim
Of that Jersey City Presbyterian preach.
er'S tiiaholio lust, was niece of "Rrlek
Pomeroy. formerly of the la Crosse
Democrat,
lt aoes not seem like very hard times
when the aggregate amount of 100000
has been put up in purses for fast horses
to run on the various race grounds, the
present season.
A negro named Albert Brown out rag,
ed a seven. year-old girl at Canton. Pa,
Friday night, cut her throat from ear to
ear, and then jumped himself in front
of a passing train. breaking both legs,
He is now in custody.
A lady entered telegraph office in
New York. q few days since, and, after
delivering her message, earnestly re-
queSted that the answer should not be
read by the operator, as it was of a very
private nature.
The scriptures tell us of FIVE foolish
virgins. who had no oil in their lamps.
The newspapers tell of 5000 more fool
ish virgins. who ell their lamps far too
much with oombustible and Unstable
kerosene and petroleum.
y Penn, priest stopped prize fight
by getting possession of the stake money
which had been deposited with woman.
He told the bruisers to go ahead, but
as there was no money to be gained they
lost there appetite for "mill."
NEW York. Sept IA special des-
patch to the Times from Baltimore says
that nearly every vessel arriving there
recently from the West Indies has had
yellow fever on board, and the experience
of some crews has been terrible.
Central Park. New York. is getting
to be all the attraction on Sunday.
Large crowds enjoy the natural and ar
ti6oial beauties placed before them. and
the place Is really becoming to New
York what the parks and gardens are to
London.
SYRACUSE, SICILY, Sept. 1.-The
eruption of Etna shows no signs of abate-
ment. The inhabitants are fleeing from
the villages at the foot of the mountain,
but it is thought that no harm will be
done. The direction taken by the lava
streams Is remote from the cultivated
parts of the mountain
A Kansas farmer set FIRE to his dry
grass, in order to smoke off the hopper
grasses But the little pests liked the
fun. While the grass was burning they
just jumped up on the fence to warm
their feet and enjoy the spectacle.
\ mathematical correspondent, who
advocates horse-raoing, shows its benefits
to Springfield. financially, as follows:
Number of strangers in town, 10000;
average expenditure of each, $40; total
receipts, 100000. And won't that
hide the immortality of trotting horses?
The crusaders did not effect much in
Ohio, according to the Cincinnati Com
merclal, for says that paper, in nearly
all the towns where the crusade succeed |
eu IN closing the shops, or in which they
succeeded in suppressing the retail bus
mess by municipal regulations, the shops |
have been reopened and the ordinances
repealed
The New York Sun says: One man
at least, comes out of the Beecher-Tilton
scandal with an unsullied reputation.
HIS name is Horace Greeley When
Tilton urged him to call at his house
during his absence Mr. Greeley de-
cllned. He said he did not think it a
good habit to visit wife while her hus-
band is away. These were creditable
words.
One of the Georgian congressional
candidates is described as ''well-formed
and highly impregned with nervous gan
CHA; he has mysterious sunset sombre
about his face his eyes have dreamy
sparkliness that enchants like amulets:
and his entire organization consists of a
delicate telegraphic network, that trans
mlts the nervous fluid like lightning
throughout his whole system" No op.
position.
The Bangor Why & Csurier, in an
article on the approaching election in
Malne, eongratulates the Republican
party there on its condition. 1t is free
from the distracting issues which make
trouble elsewhere, and its candidates
ENJOY the public confidence and respect.
and their election will ftly express the
views of the people on the important
questions before the country. Happy
Maine FF'
captain Jordan, colored man. stole
gun from another colored man named
Noah Scott. near Atlanta, Ga. recently
The captain was arrested, and his pron.
osltion was that, instead of being locked
up ne should allow Noah to give him a
whipping. After much discussion il
was agreed that the whipping should
consist OF thirty-nine lashes ON the bare
Dack with strap. A great number of
people went out to the bushes to see the
punishment, which was relentlessly in
nicted and philosophicaIIy borne.
Chicago and Milwaukee are At Il
again. This time it is a paper of the
much-burncd city which says that Mil
"agKee gIrl Of good family and respec-
table accomplishments, while TRYING =,
a social party. to kick statuette fron
a bracket On the wall. drove her foot
entirely through her left ear, and the
family physician says that a suroicaI