Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-02-08
GENERAL. NEWS ITEMS.

the Tribune.
The Minnesota man who propheslcd
mild weather for January. was found mo-
zen to death in bed last Tuesday,
The Marquis Of Harrington will be
nominated for the leadership Of Che Eng
lish liberal party.
Tho strike Of the Fail River Mass.
weavers threatens to extend. The oper.
atives claim to have received an offer Ct
aid from England.
4 bill Is before the Illinois legisla-
ture. to appropriate $4,000 70 compie'e
the LONG unfinished monument 70 Stephen
A. Douglass, at Chicago.
some representative colorcd men now
in Washington have issued an address,
calling upon Congress for the enactment
Of stringent laws concerning the south
The statement If the Public Debt for
January shows an increase CT $780,
$40 y for the month and Of 1907 ISL
Is since the beginning Of the fiscal year.
James Brooks. constable at Lawrence,
Mass. accidentally shot two Of his child
rem. seven and five years Old, by drop
ping his revolver on the floor The
younger was killed instantly aud the
other seriously injured.
The Hawkes. family Of North Saugus
Mass. still occupies the farm owned by
It's ancestors in 1910. The house was
built in 1865. Adam Hawkes. owned
the iron mine which supplied ore to tho
first foundery il the country.
The whole press Of the country is
agitatcd over the question Of Susan b
Anthony S age. Where's the use? 1t
can never be settled The family rec
ords were washed away in the Deluge,
when Methuselah was drowned.
Judge not, that yc be not judged. "
says the blessed Savior who died on
Calvary. And yet. aIas in how many
of our churches it is true. that every one
seems to consider himself or herself 4
sort Of moral half bushcl to measure the
faults aud frailties of others il.
Ex-Gov Johnson of Kentackr has a
watch bearing the inscription: Present
ed to Hon. Patrick Henry, i delegate in
Congress from the Province Of Virginia
by his friend Charles Carroll, Annapolis,
Md, July %, l773, which a forger
once gave him for defending him in
court.
The Secretary Of the Treasury on
Monday issued call for the redemption
of Sl5.OU0, 900 $50 bonds of 1862, to
be paid on the lst day Of May at the
United States Treasury. at which date
interest will cease. OF the amount thus
called in. SI2.O0O.000 are coupon bonds
and $1,000 900 registered bonds.
NEWMARKET. N. H.. Jan 3l.-Mr.
Andrew S. Doe, aged about 56 years, of
this place, yesterday afternoon took a
heavily loaded gun and presenting it at
his face fired it off with his fyot His
head was almost entirely blown from his
body. Religious excitement is supposed
to have been the cause OF the terrible
| act
The freezing of murcury happens at
80 or 20 degrees below zero, but abso-
lutte alcohol, it is declared, has never
been frozen. though Prof Farraday
found it looked u little turbed when
subjected to a temperature (artifciaD of
l66 degrees below zero High wines
contain Z 3 per cent of alcohol Proof
! spirits Of government standard are plac
ed at 90 per cent alcohol. Ii the Sc
verest cold of Arctic explorations proof
! spirits never froze
One Of the most noticeable sights
about Chapultepec. Mexico. IS the grove
OF gigantic Expresses, saiG to be from one
thousand five hundred TO two thousand
years old. with trunks Scared and tom
by shot and shells fired in the many
battles that have taken place in the i'm
mediate neighborhood On top of the
rock Is the old Spanish castle, built OF
porphyry, marble and sandstone. 1t con-
talns fine scientific library aud conser-
vatory. The whole rock beneath it is
honey eombed with passages. stables. eel
lars, dungeons, storero and powder
magazines some Of which were excaga
ted BY the Aiontezumas.
The winter thus far has been unusual
iy severe IN England and On the Cont.
nent, and the cold weather has raised
the death rate in London about 10 ne,
cert This is owing not 50 much 10 Tho
cold as to the want Of appliances t.
meet 1t. characteristic Of English homes
and English conveyances. One ca,
scarcely End a house III England thai
has the comforts Of American house,
generally, and the railway cars are usu
ally without any means of heating otbe,
than the animal heat Of the passengers
which Is soon exhausted. There i No
country III the world where one can hav,
SO many comforts. whether ut home or i,
travelling, as IN the United States.
The Queen of Eugland's daughter.
are certainly examples to the rest Of N,
fashionable world in industry and taste
at the royal Swiss cottage each Of II,
prlncesses has "a garden which She cnlt;
Yates with her own hands. Tbcv lov,
also learned to cook. and they freopapt
ly SIT down to u meal prepared bv on,
or the other Of their fair hands. l.ouisc
vile OF the marquis Of Lorne. is elevot
artist and all Of them are accompiishe,
Is some way or other, besides boino ~
cellent lnguists. All these matter
take time and hard work to learn. and I
IS evident that the daughters Of a queen
aithoush born to every luxury. have Ia
daWdied away their time IN fasbionoLl,
dissipation' like many Of their humble
, sisters
Wednesday, session Of the lowe
branch Of Congress had not ended al A.
.lihe OF our latest dispatches from Wash
inLgton Thursday. The cause Gift Is Fl
clustering Of the democrats in order /
aYold action upon the civil rights bin