Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-05-24


form were arsiStioally decked with dow
ers.
The Walter A Wood moving machine |
company had thirty-three machines ON
board the wrecked Schiller. valued at
$4,000. and insured for $4,000 IN
Switzerland company,
orrin Shipman wants Victoria Meod-
hull 70 come and start community '0t
the right stamp" on his Valeour Island
property. where the free lovers recent
experiment failed.
Thirty illicit distilleries in St. Louis.
Chicago and Milwaukee have been seized
By government officers, A number Of
revenue officers are charged with COM
plicity in defrauding the government.
A skiff. containing AlouEo Jackson
and Albert Smith. with their wives aud
tive children OF each. went over dam
at gainesville. o. last Sunday night
Both women and Que child of each fam
lily were drowned.
They don't have much compassion on
people who kill their illegitimate child
rem IN London. il seems. A woman who
put her bastard child out of the way,
recently, was sentenced to death in spite
OF Recommendation to mercy by the
jury.
Business was entirely suspended at
Topeka, Kan, the other afternoon, and
large numbers of citizens set out shade
trees Of every variety. about thousand
in al. on the state-house grounds, three
bands Of music assisting.
A national convention of bank cash
iers and bankers is to be held on the
Goth of July next. at Saratoga. The
object Of the convention is free discus
sion of questions relating to banking and
finance generally.
Peter H. Bradbury. of Clarke county,
H.. got into quarrel with Clara Hell
ems 1T Marshall, Tuesday of last week.
and tried to shoot and strangle her,
when she cut his throat from ear to ear,
| then fed to the woods, and has not vet
been found.
A gang of rufhans visited country
store twelve miles north of Clinton. Mo-,
Thursday of last week. forced party of
gentlemen and ladies. playing croquet.
to 90 inside, then relieved the party, the
store keeper, and the store, of all porta-
bic valuables to be found. after which
they very eoolly rode away.
Joseph Wheeler, of Barnston, P. O.,
gave nights lodging to a struggling
Advent preacher. short time age. Du-
ring the night the man attacked Mr..
Wheeler, declaring he would kill Mrs.
Wheeler, as she was a witch. This
frightened her so that it induced an ILL.,
ness which resulted in her death.
The Rev. J. L. Howell, Presbyter-
ian pastor in Minneapolis. Mimi, hung
himself few days ago. Within a year
his wife has been found dead in her bed,
one daughter had been drowned, and an
other had been thrown from horse and
killed. These affections had greatly de-
pressed him.
A PAIR of boots with gOld-tipped toes.
and heels of the same metal, and valued
at 500, have been made at Idaho CITY,
to be worn by the high sheriff. next
Fourth of July. when there is to be a
festival celebration there. and ultimate
ly to be sent to the centennial exhibit
ton in Philadelphia.
The Erie railroad is not earning mon
ey enough now to pay the interest on its
debts even The stock is really and alb
solutely worthless and the sooner it is
wiped out, the better for the morals of
railroad management and Wall street
speculation
Layinia Thomas. daughter of a cler-
gyman In Woodruff. n. Y, ran away
with John Travis, who has wife in It
haca- He robbed her of her watch and
money. She left him and had him ar
rested. but the disgrace troubled her so
that she threw herself before a freight
train last Friday. and was instantly
killed.
A Mishawaka, Ind, family went to a
circus, the other evening. with some com
plimentary tickets that came to them
from some unknown quarter, and when
they returned. found their house had
been broken into and rifed of every
thing valuable. 1t is supposed that the
burglars sent the tickets in order to get
their victims safely out of the way.
There is man in Paris with a great
project He proposes to light the city
with one lamp. He wants a big lamp
and wants to suspend it at q proper
height BY means of balloon. His ar
gument is that all Paris can be lighted
on that plan as we'll as an opera. The
authorities have prejudice against his
plan, because he boards in lunatic asy-
lum-
The English know so little about the
Yankee dish called chowder. that thew
have no other name for it than fish.
broth 1t seems that the word as we'll
as the sayory mess comes to US from the
French Our early fishermen on the
banks, minglIng with their French breth.
ren, took kindly to the savory French
dish, and caught its name from In c6o,,-
. deere, the kettle in which il was cooked
What ludicrous blunders the tyues
Will make The Boston Commonwealth
tells OF the celebration of the nineteenth
birthday Of reverend gentleman, ..whc
on this occasion baptized his great-grand
: child This would lead one to infe,
: that the good man must have begun life
; al very early age, but the truth is the
: greatgrandfather was celebrating hi,
: ntnetietA birthday. which makes ali tbs
dinerenee IN the world. though it is on
: ~ matter Of letter or two.
: The ox-eye daisy Is in fashion tbi,
. spring among the artificial iower-mak