Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-04-12
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
They have found another boy VIII
sSnsf Charlie Ross

on the Susquehannah is at sn end.
Something which they call starch
mine has been discovered in Colorado.
Western newspapers give encourag-
ing accounts Of the growing wheat crops.
Florida Is said to be the best timber
Ell state in the Union, having over thir.
N million acres Of timbered land.
Butler wrote sonnet on Niagara,
when Young man. The falls have
reared ever since.
Andy Johnson's wife is slowly but
surely dying Of consumption, in Green
vile. Tennessee.
The Pennsylvania miners are AZ it
again, and mob law reins in that staid
old state.
A granddaughter of Thomas Jeffer-
erson has been seeking employment for
herself aud her son, in Washington.
Isabella. whose papoose Alfonso is
king of Spain for 80 days, has present
ed the pope a $4,000 silver dinner SER
vice
All the business portion of Ticondero-
ga. New York. was destroyed by fire.
week ago Wednesday loss 100000.
A New York dispatch dated March
81, says information has been received
there that the yellow fever has broken
out at Key West and is doing fearful
havoc.
OF all Brigham's so-odd wives, not
one went to blubber consolingly at him
through the bars. when he was in pris-
on. What is SO peoples business is
nobody's.
Gov. Tilden has commenced war upon
another corrupt ring in New York-the
Canal Ring-which is said to have swim
died the people of that state out of mil
lions of dollars.
Col. Jefferson Davis and Capt, Ulys-
ses 5 Grant are invited to reunion Of
the officers of the Mexican war in Austin,
Texas, on the 6th of May.
The jury in the Beeeher case can't get
but the regular 81 day allowed to
them. They asked for 81, and ought to
have 1t. As yet even the authorities re-
fuse to pay the bills for their meals.
You vote for my appropriation and
III vote for yours, = Is the regular con-
gressional bargain.-a bargain which
has laid millions of useless taxation up
on the people, Chicago Tribune.
L. Bryan, who was to have been hung
Friday at Morehead City, was respited
till September by the Governor of North
Carolina. All the officers in the county
had resigned rather than do the hang
ing.
In Europe the ages at which Young
men and women marry are fixed by law,
and vary from fourteen for males and
twelve for females in Hungary, to tweu-
ty-four years for both sexes in Austria.
The Governor of Texas has called
upon the President to protect the peo-
pie along the border from the invasions
of outlaws from Mexico, and the Secre-
tary Of War has ordered the troops in
that state to suppress these lawless raids.
United States officers made a raid a
few days ago into Scott, Wise, Buchan-
an, Russell and Montgomery counties.
Virginia, and captured nine counter
felters and large lot of counterfeit
coin and bills.
The New York Graphic says General
Tracy, of Beecher's counsel, charged at
the head of his column on many a
bloody field, and after the battle has of
ten been seen sitting under tree comb
ing the cannOn-balls out of his hair.
For wager Of $4,000. Mark GRAY
son. of Richmond, Virginia, proposes to
walk around the world in 600 DAYS
He started from New York April Sd.
and he must keep up the necessary dai-
" average Of walking while on ship
board.
At St. Joseph, No.. lately. a negro
woman, becoming temporarily insane at
a revival meeting attempted to fy heav-
onward through a window, cutting an
artery IN her wrist, and fell back on the
floor PROSTATE and bleeding.
At Harrison, KY, a few DAYS AGO
lightning struck the residence of a fam.
lily consisting Of eight members. with
the singular effect. as local paper says.
OF causing them all to become crazy. in
which condition they have since remain
ed.
At the spelling match in Boston. last
week. fifty boys from the Boston High
School contested with fifty editors, proof
readers reporters. and typos, selected
from the various newspaper Offices. The
typos misspelled comfortable" and the |
boys won.
Two more Of the Black Hills miners
have come IN, arriving at Yanktou. Da-
Gotta this time, with big nuggets of
gold aud still bigger stories Of the rich. |
es they left behind. Provisions imnIe.
in for. "''e
A Charlottesville Gnd boy, IA wears |
old, hung himself with piece Of Irvine
on Friday, while temporarily insane from
.ne effects Of illness. HIS mother cut
MN down with pair Of scissors, lust
after IT was impossible to resuscitate |
him. S''''''
a farmer IN Brown County, Texas.
was diving oxen with rope which he
naq twisted round the fingers Of his
rlght hand. when the animal took
fright and ran. The driver was pulled
~ against tree with such force that
al the fingers Of the hand to which the
rope was attached we're torn of.
At La"reDceyille. Pa. few uiobts
ago, young woman was discovered
walking in her NIGHT droes -.