Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-04-05
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
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Pictou county, Nova Scotia, and a nun
Der of valuable horses have fallen We
tins to it.
A little son Of Calvin b. Ray, of Bris-
toll. n. H., was burned to death, March
3oth, in FIRE set by matches with which
he was playing, and which destroyed the
house aud barn.
The postal law is SO oppressive aud
unpopular that Postmaster General jew
ell has announced that it will not be en-
forced until the lst Of April.
Prince William county (Va) has a
murderer who does not wish to be re-
spited. but says he deserves hanging,
and the quicker the better.
There are eighty-two priests, eighty
five churches, one hundred and sixty
five chapels, and Catholic population
estimated at two hundred thousands in
the three dioceses Of Texas.
Saw-dust is bad for floors on the hen
merry. Fowls are likely to pick it up
aud fill their crops with it, and it Is
bad for them. A clean earth floor is
far better Even plank floor is better.
An oak tree near Arnsberg in Prussia,
more than thousand years old, is about
to be cut down by the owner, on account
of the inconvenience he suffers from the
frequent visits of strangers to the place.
On Monday the water was falling in
Susquehanna valley. and generally
throughout the flooded region; the loss
in the Susquehanna valley alone is esti-
mated at one million dollars.
What becomes of the supposed power
of the death penalty to deter men from
crime, when such wretc hes as Pemberton
declare that they prefer hanging to i'm
prisonment for life.
The memorial centennial building at
Philadelphia is to be put through, rail-
road speed. By the LIST of July, fully
1000 men will be engaged upon it, all
of whom are required to work II hours
a day.
man in Minnesota is reported to
have found eight hundred grasshopper
eggs in peck of soil taken from an in
fected field. On being exposed to heat,
they all Matched out. So 1t seems the
frost does not affect the eggs.
A family living near franklin. KY,
were SO destitute, recently, that horse
belonging to them died of starvation,
and the children fell to and began to
eat the carcass In another part of the
State 200 families have petitioned the
Legislature for help
How tantalizing to read in the midst
of March snow storm that lat New Or
leans the plum and peach trees are in
full bloom, and the mocking birds are
tuning their pipes for the coming sum-
mer holidays
Senator Cameron, with other Senators,
has gone on a trip TO Mexico, and it is
| alleged that they are after another slice
of that republic. Don't hurry this swol-
lowing of other countries. too fast, gen.
tlemen we haven't yet digested our
previous meal.
Some of the Minnesota lakes have
been SO sealed up, the past winter, that
the fish have crowded IN great numbers
to the outlets for airholes, and thou
sands of them have been caught. About
10 tons were taken from one lake at
taribault, Mimi, the other day.
Three little children, Pete, Willie and
johnny Nolan, were found nearly starved
to death in shanty in Brooklyn, n. Y,
Tuesday of last week. The father died
a week ago, and the mother had since
been picked up drunk and sent to the
island for ten days, without any inquir-
les being made as to whether she left
starving family behind her.
Gov. CASTOR has sigued the Hoosac
tunnel bill, and the toll-gate plan has
everything its own way. The state has
given up all its claims on the roads and
on "the hole, but it is to continue to
furnish the funds. Did ever hole in
a mountain start IN life with such in
diligence Springfield Republican.
Bessie Turner testifes that 1ilton was
accustomed to wander about the house
In his night clothes, changing the hang
ing OF the plcturs on the wall, and try
ing all the beds in the house to find
which was the softest Eecentricities Of
genius
The Wisconsin State Journal says that
Andrew johnson is like the man who
was tipped from load Of hay on to a
stump. hurting his head SO he could not
talk. Years after, when his skull was
repaired and the brain relieved from the
pressure, be finished the speech he was
uttering when he fell.
There are IN the present United States
Senate two ex-Vice Presidents. Hamlin
and johnson one ex President. and an
lmpeacbed one at that two ex.rebel
Generals. Gordon and Cockerell, MANY
OF whose captured flags are on exhibition
at the Ordnance Museum one command
er Of the Federal army, Burnside, and
an ex. slave.
The prepared pages for country news
papers, known as patent insides, some.
times make ridiculous blunders. Not
long ago the cable announced the bad
news that the Pope has had another
chill, aud shortly afterward came from
forty seven Wisconsin newspapers with
patent iusides the announcement that
1.-THE Pope has had another child"
Ohio Is threatened with a profaue
campaign Both Bill Allen and Ben
wade the venerable candidates Of .bo
TWO parties. are doughty swearers and
John Robinson. the circus ma,,ager ana
oaioidate Tor mayor Of Cincinnati, can
swear the bark of hickory tree al a
hundred PAGES. On the whole. Ohio 4
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