Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-04-06

orer In quebec.
Memphis papers refer to cucumbers
and green peas in a casual way.
Queen Victoria will be ffty-fve next
oath of May. She is in the thirty
seventh year of her reign.
Don't forget the Legislature and its
arduous struggle in your prayers. to-day.
Boston Globe. 4pril 2.
New York has used more than mil
lion postal cards per month since they
were first issued in May last.
The hog cholera is raging very vio-
lently around Jerseyville, Ills. Over
500 hogs have already died with the
disease.
Senator Brownlow passed through
Lynchburgh, Va, on Friday, on his
way to Knoxville. He required the as
sistance of two men in going from one
car to another.
a strike has occurred at Weodberry,
Ind, in large cotton factory Men,
women and children were employed
twelve hours per day, and very reason
ably demand reduction Of the hours
of labor.
The spring bonnet will be very large,
and will turn up on one side and down
on the other, something in the cavalry
style, they say. Ofcourse the girls will
look killing in them.
Two Detroit girls have been arrested
for playfully getting on a locomotive.
/ opening the throttle valve and starting
the machine, taking the precaution, how
ever, to jump off as soon as the wheels
began to turn.
The workmen of the Great Western
Railway of Canada call their mutual
benefit society by the crisp and graphic
title of 1.-The Great Western Railway
Air Line Employees Mutual Benefit So,
ciety of St. Thomas" and the name
proves great attraction.
A lady in Lake City, Florida, has
growing in her garden genuine cork
tree thirty feet high, the bark on which
is sufficiently thick to make bottle corks
There is also in the same garden gen.
uine black pepper bush. which yields
regularly full crop of the berries.
At the St Patrick's celebration in
Baltimore two colored associations
marched in the procession. They did
not claim to be Irish, but they liked
music and wanted to march. and as the
Irishmen wanted to swell the procession
the matter was easily arranged.
A New York man, living on farm
In Alabama, was ordered by the kuklux
to leave, but. instead of so doing, he re-
manned and shot three of them. His
neighbors expressed their qualification
by electing him county clerk
There has just been published the
third volume of the life of Dickens, with
the story of that great mans latter days.
His separation from Mrs. Dickens is
told in manner that will place Mr..
Dickens with the meanest of the char
acters he created.
What land we live in While thous-
ands are clamoring in the East for bread
and the luxury of good beef steak is alb
solutely beyond their reach, six hun
dred fat beeves are being slaughtered at
Fulton, Texas, daily, for the hides and
tallow, the bones and flesh being thrown
away.
A correspondent, writing from Rome.
says that an Englishman was knocked
down there during the carnival for IN
sulting the American flag. The stars
and stripes were hanging from the bal
cony of Mrs. Major Goddard, and the
Enghshman remarked that the nasty rag
should come down. An American was
standing near, and the Englishman
promptly went down to the pavement.
The greatest bell in the world, the
emperor William Bell" destined for
the Cologne Cathedral, has Just been
finished. Itweighs about &C, 900 pounds
is eighteen feet high and fourteen feet
wide. The first moulding of the bell
proved failure, and considerable diff
Guilty has yet to be overcome in trans
porting the immense mass from Frank,
enthal, where it was cast, to the top of
the tower OF the Cologne Cathedral.
Nearly all the distinguished men who
took part in the violent political con.
tests of l850-5l, twenty years ago, are
now dead. They were Clay, Webster. 4
Calhoun, Cass Buchanan, Douglas, Ben.
ton, Fillmore, Seward, Chase, Sumner.
Clayton, Corwin; Bell, Everett and
Dickinson. This demonstrates what an
immense and fatal span in human exis.
tence Is composed in two decades of
years. We see hardly name now that
inquired In the great contests that we had
before the war.
DIR. Lewis threatened crusade against
tobacco, and lovers of the weed are fore.
warned of their danger. We presume
that he will set on foot praying bands
10 lay siege to cigar stores. and endeav-
or to soften the obdurate hearts of smok-
ers: Luckily these latter have a means
OF defence in the very habit which is the
OBJECT OF attack, and, without word of
expostulation, they can quietly puff
forth volumes of pungent smoke and
eliminate the crusaders. unless they have
powers OF endurance such as would never
make them averse to smoking.
ne heavy Rev. ]. D. Fulton preach
ed a discourse on HELL" in Brooklyn
on sunday last. when the damned
victim OF Gods justice" said his rever.
enee' secs the accomplice of her SINS
IN hell she will curse those ewes that
gazed with wicked glance on the object
OF her wicked desires. There she rises
IN 'ne vast waves of fire, and sinks again
there she wrlthes in torture-that o;ri
you grasped in the round dance tbat
gli Ior whose impure embrace you gave
up the saviour. Now, Won and che o.