Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-08-23
General Neacs Items.

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the mother of triplets.
An Indian read the Declaration Of
independence on the Fourth at OWykee,
Idaho.
The price of exemption from military
service in Spain is 5000 real, or a thou
sand dollars in gold.
Great suffering exists throughout
China from the prolonged heat, the Their
mometer at Pekin being at 100.
The wives of five of the ex-Presidents
of the United States survive-Mrs. Polk,
Mrs. Fillmore, Mrs. Tyler, Mrs. Lincoln
and Mrs. johnson.
1t is proposed to food Sahara, and to
float ships into the desert. Africa will
thus be opened to civilization by letting
the ocean into it.
Bathing in masks is getting to be
seaside fashion. But keen observers
notice that the mask never surmounts
handsome figure.
The bar keepers of Providence are
Justly indignant that SO many people are
squandering their money for excursions
and CLANS, instead of saving it to buy
rum with.
The Detroit Post is alarmed at the
report that the Long Branch Sartoris
baby has very little hair on Its head.
The Post says: This is ominous. Bald
headed, and not month old! Caesar
was bald-headed %
The New England fair at Manchester,
beginning September Z, promises to be
a grand affair. and $4,000 are offered
in premiums, $4,000 of which will be
given for trotting horses owned in New
England.
MADRID, August 13.-It is said that
the government intends to send 10000
men to Cuba to enable General Valmes.
eda to execute his plans for the reduction
of the instruction In that colony.
Making all allowance for drought and
food the prospect now is that the wheat
and corn crops of the country will be
the largest raised at any time during the
past six or seven years. The apple crop
is everywhere failure.
This story is told for truth by Min
nesota paper: During recent tornado
two sheep were carried fully a mile BY
the wind. and finally landed in a tree
top, where they were found pinned to
gether by board that had been driver
through their bodies.
When Andrew johnson was governo
of Tennessee, an ex-blacksmith wa
chic, Justice of the supreme court, ant
b the governor with his own hands mad
a vest for the chief justice. while tn
c chiefjustiee went to the forge and mad
e a shovel and tongs to present to tn
c governor.
c Messrs Moody and Sankey, the reviv
{ alists, arrived from England on Satua
day, August IA. At their request ther
was no formal reception, but a few clel
: gymen and laymen met them and Ofere
!; prayer upon their safe return. Nj
Moody is to spend two months vac:
. ton on the old homestead with b
o mother at Mortified. Mass. and Sanke
=, y takes rest at Newcastle. Pa. aftt
] which their programme is undecided.
. Andrew johnson and Senator Brow
. low were specimens of good haters. II
. former, four years ago, said to Brow
= low: death has already laid his iC
fingers upon you And yet you sit,
!, poor. galvanized corpse. and laugh
h: the face Of the King of Terrorsl' Al
e. now the shrivelled Parson, in tolerab
good shape. sits and listens to the clio,
he as they fall on Andy's coffin.
Hs The Troy Times puts it thus: 81
e, New Jersey. the other day, Mary Hine
ay a mother of seven children, was lock-
Tor Tor up for an indefinite time, with her bah
on the charge of stealing a few raj
All Tweed gets is twelve months il
%, prisonment for stealing $4,000, 900. B
on then the law is the law; or perhaps !
should say. the courts are the courts -
he, Four Of the inmates Of The st. Lot
raj insane asylum died Saturday. AugU
~, IA. from the effect of sleeping potic
on The sedatiye contained So to 45 dro
OF mud extract OF conIum to the Il
ing spoonful, and was administered to elev
patients. seven Of whom suffered no har
The sedative had been used before VII
On out injury. but the cOnium in this C;
%. was new and much stronger.
n. = Webb, the swimmer, started 70 or
arr. the channel from England to FrsI
ssd without the aid of his apparatus. We
Or ago last Thursday afternoon, but '
~ns picked up at midnight. having acco
=. plished little more than half the
ere lance, on account of the roughness
M. ~ the water. He vas in good coDditi
he and feels confident that In good wa
o. be could have performed the feat