Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-01-25
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

has laid down his bone
The Minnesota Democrats have nom
mated Hon. lgnatius Donnelly for y. /
S. senator
Dogs have the toothache. 4 New
York lady paid dental bill Of $50 on
account of her poodle.
The message Of Governor Stearns of
Florida shows that State to be In d
highly prosperous condition.
The new Providence depot is declared
by adopts in judging Of those things the
best in the world in every respect
The petroleum exported from Phila-
delphia last year, amounted to 13,009,-
Il2 gallons; enough to grease half the
world.
4 man TO be known must keep his
name before the people. He must let
them know where he is. what he Is, and
what he is doing.
Sharon, the 10000, 000.aire Of Neva-
da. has just invested in a United States
Senatorship. We fear this rose of Shar-
on rose by sharin' his merry-gold.
An honest farmer. being asked why
he did not subscribe for a newspaper,
explained, Because my father, when
he died. left me good many newspapers,
and | have not read them through yet.
James Wylie. the Scotchman and
champion checker player Of the world, is
now in Illinois; he has played 1000
games since he came to this country, Il
months ago, and lost but II.
Little Willie McCrea. an adopted child
of Charles Skinner, near Senica, Kansas,
was abducted week ago last Tuesday,
and no tidinSs can be obtained of him,
by the family who are tenderly attached
TO him.
The Beecher-Tilton abomination is
daily dragging its filthy length along, in
the Brooklyn courts, and affords a rare
aud dainty feast to all the foul scandal
loving old christian women in that city
of churches, shams and shames.
The Brooklyn Eagle IS now q moral
sheet Its editorial staff, reporters.
clerks, printers. pressmen and carriers,
have all Joined the Church, belong to
temperance society, and 60 to Sunday
school regularly And blessed are the
peacemakers.
Miss kellogg says that American
girls have the sweetest voices in the
world. When one of them puts her
mouth to hole in the fence and "hol
lerS' to the girl next door to fetch
back them crimping irons it fills the
air with melody.
St. Louis IS making grand preparations
for the entertainment OF the slate-colored
Sandwich Island cannibal. Kalakaua.
If his tastes are consulted, it will afford
an admirable opportunity for the moth
ers of that overgrown village, to get rid
Of their surplus brats
Probably the largest elm ever cut in
Maine was recently cut on his farm by
Mr.. Harrison Farrar of Paris. 1t seal
ed $3.50 feet, and 300 rings were count
ed from the outside to within three
inches of the center. where they became
too iudistinct to be counted. 1t was
probably 800 years old.
1t is stated that sixty different nations
now burn American kerosene. Germany,
in 1873, consumed 52.Il6.773 gallons,
at a cost of SII, 469,l5l; Belgium, o.
6l6,550 gallons. costing S5,l27,408
England, 81, 100000 worth, and Ire
land about 81, 34l,765 worth.
1t is reported that Miss De Montford,
the mesmerist, has come to grief. In
Westfeld, Mass, her agent hired four
fellows to perform as subjects. and they
went through the antics as instructed.
but they could get no pay for their serv-
ices and have published a card exposing
the fraud.
No more pork for q certain Clarks-
burg, Mass. farmer His own pigs
sickened and died, 50 he bought lot Of
North Adams butcher He ate and
enjoyed portion Of It. but in trying
out the lard his good wife found some
twenty worms the size Of Knitting
needle, and from one to two inches in
length. And that family are living on
beef this winter.
Three hundred colored citizens peti-
ton Congress to set aside some section
of the South or Southwest for the excln-
slve residence and use of their race.
with a view to organizing colcred terri
torlal and state governments and pad
ding their own canoe generally. The
petitioners are satisfied that they don't
stand any kind of show among the
white folks.
A deplorable suicide. arising from re-
liglous melancholy and mental derange-
ment. occurred last week in the case Of
young and intelligent women, the
daughter of William Hooker, a wealthy
farmer of Whites Valley. Pa. For five
or SIX years, she has fancied that she
had committed some greivous sin, and
was continually building alters in her
fathers fields, and sacrificing lambs as
burnt offerings thereon.
Massachusetts is q model State. Gov.
Castor states in his message that of the
forty-two millions of passengers carried
over the railroad in Massachusetts dur
ing twelve months, but a single one was
Killed and but seven were injured. This
IS record of which the State may we'll
DC proud. 1t is notable fact, however.
that railroad accidents are yearly de-
creaslng IN number as the appliances
Tor their prevention multiply
We have maintained from the first
that Beecher was innocent Of the charges
brought against him. We think when
the facts are all brought out that he will
be acquitted. Iilton and his Woodruff.
Claim combination desire to build them.
selves up by pulling Beccher down.
his Is the whole gist Of the matter ~