Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-04-27
A lake of ice has been found in North


oranges.
.Going down into the sea in ships"
is scripture for an ocean voyage nova
days. eac York Nail
The sister of John c. Heenau the
great pugilist recently died of suffocation.
She was 50 fat that she could scarcely
move.
Prairie fires have been raging near
Sioux City, Iowa, to considerable ex-
tent. The Indians caused them in order
to raise the game.
Plymouth church has voted six
months vacation to Beecher and he de-
clines it on the ground that it would
be unjust to pew holders.
The Persians believe that the dia-
monds all fell from heaven during the
earliest ages of the world, and are enti-
tied to religious veneration.
The fastest trotting time on record
for five mile heat was made on the Sd
inst. at Oakland Park, California, by
Lady Mac. The heat was made in Is
minutes.
superb Newfoundland dog was sold
on the streets of Kansas City the other
day for $50. He seemed to be more
intelligent than many of the superior
race.
The young ladies of Louisiana are
signing pledge not to keep company
with any young man who makes a prac-
tice of patronizing saloons and dram.
shops.
General John Tyler son of the late
President Tyler, was licensed to preach
by the conference of the southern Meth
odist church, which met recently at
Tallahassee, Florida
A St Louis transfer boat, loaded
with six cars of cattle, while crossing
the river, was driven down stream by
the wind, and collided with some coal
barges. The boat sunk, and the cattle
were all drowned
Memphis was considerably surprised
by d two hours snow on the 9th inst.
On the same day the snow reached
depth Of five inches in some parts
OF Ohio. and at Cincinnati snow, rain,
thunder and lightning were all mix
ed up.
Mrs. Scott Siddons in her present
reading tour is accompanied by the won
derful boy pianist Master Stephen Hen
ry Walker, who was admitted to the
Royal Academy of Music, London, at
seven years of age, who won the bronze
medal only about six months ago. He
is now eleven years of age
A Kansas City judge has decided
that man and wife can enter theater
or other place of amusement on a ticket
which reads, admit one The law
decides that man and wife are one.
and the decision seems to be very lust.
What say our judges.
Gold has recently been found in Ar.
kansas, near the Choctaw line, in paving
quantities. st Louis capitalists are now
making arrangements to work the mines
on large scale. The silver mines. in
the same neighborhood, are said to be !
lnexhaustible. Much excitement pre-
walls over these discoveries.
Anna Dickinson has been physically
Frustrated by speaking and travelling con-
tlnuously since September, and suffered
greatly it appears, from making her mag.
nlhcent speeches ON the social evil in St.
Louis and Chicago, in direct violation of
her physician s orders. She is oblioed
TO cancel all her western engagements.
and get back to Philadelphia for brief
season OF rest before her departure for
Europe
Now that the grass Is up so that the
Indians and their ponies can subsist
without rations and government forage.
the telegraph brings us daily accounts
OF stock stampeded and herdsmen scalp
ed In Texas. A part of the cattle thew
are stealing will be sold by contractors
TO the government next winter for res
ervatlon supplies. What with winter
quarters on the reservations and free IL
cense to raid Texas all summer, the reds
are having good time under the Ouak-
er policy of our Indian ring.
The Hoosac Tunnel is fast approach
ing completion, the operations of the
contractors now being practically con
nned 10 the western end and section.
between the east and the central shaft
only twenty men are now emploved in
clearing out the loose rock REMAINING
IN the bottom. In this section. the WORK
remaining to be done is to construct tbe
central drain and to lay the permanent
track. Between the tunnel Mortal and
the railroad station, a distance of about
two thirds of'a mile, the road bed is sinh
stantiaiiy ready to receive the ballast.
1t IS our painful duty to record the
SAD and terrible misfortune which has
befallen one of the most industrious
farmers of our neighboring county. M
wax brennelen, On last Saturday fore
noon at about eleven, while MIR. Benne-
len was absent from the house. his wife
VINO mas Tor some time past been insan.
III ravlng tit, tried to behead her old.
est child with large knife bnt che
must have had some difficulty with the
knife aud finally took an axe and ont
her head of. She was taken to Com.
merce before Squire Schoon. to stand
preliminary examination.-Ca Cape Cir
odeau, No., Press.
The spirit of religious persecution in
Mexico doesn't appear to be anneasad
10y the trial and condemnation Of SOM
OF the murderers of the missionary Mr.
stephens. Rev. Mr. Watkins, another
American missionary, has received a
n let5er signed by Catholic clergyman
ana sixteen Catholic students, threaten
ing MS life unless he leaves and stating
.nat they have demanded his expulsion
W PRESIDENT Lerdo, and if the demand
IS not complied with there will be a rev
oiutlon. Lerdo has gwen assurances
OF his protection to WatL;,a .l