Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-10-04
General Ne,cs Items.

New Orleans sends $4,000 of food to
Indianola.
Jacob Benjamin, a wealthy resident
of Baltimore. Nd, died last week. from
erysipelas of the throat. induced by
using hair dye on his wbiskers'
Lester Skyes, of West Springfield.
Mass, was buried in we'll, Wednesday
of last week, by the caving in of the
side, some twenty FIVE feet below the
surface. He lived twelve hours, but
died before he could be reached.
On the same day and with the same
tongue the Toronto magistrate who SEN
fenced rich man to one months i'm
prisonment for stealing $4,000, sent
poor woman up for three months Tor
stealing 90 cents.
The favorite trotter American Girl,
supposed to be good for 30 gait,
for any length of time, was beaten
by Lucille Golddust' at Albany, Tues
day, in three straight heats in the slow
time of "a ID, 3 % and 2:25.
Twenty thousand persons in the low
est estimate of numbers present at the
recent soldiers reunion in Rockville,
Ind. 1t was the largest assemblage
that ever came together in western In
diana The wagons and horses covered
40 acres, and were packed close.
A telegram to Montreal states that
frightful tragedy took place at Knowl-
ton, P O., on Monday. An old man
named WEIGH attempted to murder his
wife on Monday morning with an axe.
His son came in, when the old man fired
a shot at him. The son then fired and
shot his father dead The old lady is
not expected to live.
A brutal case of starving came to
light at Cleveland, O., last week. the
victim being boy of Il, who was found
in barn lying on damp straw, almost
naked, and reduced to a mere skeleton
by starvation He died soon after be-
ing found. His parents we're arrested,
and excused their conduct by saying the
boy was an idiot, and there was no room
in the house for him.
Thomas Stark and wife, Germans,
aged so and 60, living near Troy, N.
Y, tried to kill themselves. Thursday
night of last week, with laudanum. rath.
err than 60 to the county or friends, the
last penny being gone, and Thomas hav-
ing been out of work for Is months
They fingered along until Friday, wher
the wife died, but Thomas recovered
and Immediately took another dose
which also failed to kill him, but he
says he will try again the very first op
portunlty.
A most fendish outrage and murder
was perpetrated at Bellefontaine, Ohio
Wednesday of last week Miss Laugh
lin, Is years old, accompanied MAJ
named Schell and his wife on an excur
sion. Mrs. Schell was left with tn,
team, and Schell with the young lad,
started after plums. He returned with
: out her, and search revealed her bod,
nearly nude, with her throat cut iron
ear to ear, and the grass showing that
desperate struggle had occurred Tn
affair eliminated in the hanging o
Schell by an Infatuated mob
The most terrible kerosene lamp ex
plosion on record, occurred in Nebrask
lately, by which the mother, father, tw
boys and an infant-the whole family
were horribly burned, most of them i
attempting to save the others. Tn
!; child has died, the mother and one bo
are in desperate condition, the othe
boy will probably be crippled for life
: and the fathers hands burned so tina
he can never use them. The explosio
, was caused by the lamp being accident
! ally knocked down.
A sad tragedy took place at the res
dence of Mr.. Patrick Fitzgerald, Brook
Ign, last Sunday evening. Mr.. Fitzgel
aid sent his boy Francis, aged Is, to
desk to get a GLACIERS diamond, used t
cut glass. There was one-barrel Dis
tol, loaded, in the pigeon-hole of tn
desk, and the boy took this pistol out
and pointing it at his sister, aged 81
; said, 'LOok out, will shoot you," an
: just as he spoke the pistol went off, tn
| ball entering Miss Fitzgerald's hea
over the right eye. and killing her al
most instantly.
At last the financial conundrum ha
been solved. The Richmond Wing ha
discovered just what the country want
0 1t is abundant and flowing currency.
, "Flowing" is the "lost Ingredient" IL
!. this plan be adopted, and the song {
a the peanut boy, as he meanders throug
the railroad car, will be changed to thi
S refrain: Here's yer only origina
s California, hump-backed, double-iointe
: currency, only five cents peck Let
r flow !"-N Z. Tribune.
:: Samuel H. Farmer, of Poughkeepsl,
n. T., advertised Charles E. Horton i
a paper Of that city last year as ..pel
: feet liar" Horton sued him for libe
and $4,000 damages, and was awarde
$1,000. Palmer appealed, and the cas-
Y has just been argued at Brooklyn. Pal
e msr's lawyer claimed that the word liza
e was term of courtesy used daily in tn
f Poughkeepsie papers. and not libelou
1 in Poughkeepsie. Besides, to saw tina
D Horton was a perfect" liar was a com
j, pliment; to have said he was an imper
$ feet liar would have been libelous. De
e clsion was reversed.
e The Boston NeaOs says: Few san
, men doubt that we must reach har
!, money before we are rid of hard time,
J, This being SO. the work to which tn
: statesmen and economists should ad
q dress themselves is that of arrangin
and accomplishing this. We have ne
i Their faith nor patience for any paten
e double action machine which is to Civ
$ us contraction by imitation. There
q only one way to resume, and that
q Horace Greeley's way. This might a
we'll be done now, or soon, as later. Tn