Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-01-18
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
The .ouisianians call il "Sheri-dam

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of age
At the fire. Ian. IL. on st. Paul
street. Montreal Mrs. Choquettc. aged
seventy five. and young man named
Gerad. were burned to death.
How would it look for South Roston
to have king and two governors? Yet
it has rs mrny inhahitants rs the Sand
wich Islands, Boston Erpres'
A Texas lawyer was fined $50 for
telling the jury to GO down to the gro
Gerry and help themselves. after having
given verdict in favor of his client.
a , year old Memphis boy nude the
pistol bullets Hy about. burglars head
SO lively. the other night. that he WIS
glad to drop his plumber, and make off.
There is considerable enthusiasm in
interior Cuba over the accession of Al
fonso, but tie letter informed Spaniaris
in Havana think his reign will be short.
Monday IF week befrc last. Isaac
Nutter, If Wcnd,vilc n H.. was in
stantly killed while choppng in the
woods. by a large tree falling upon his
body.
Great alarm exists in Pennsylvania
over the fact that 2OanO penuiless and
starving miners are on IA strike, and
that proposition has been made to arm
and help themselves to bread.
In New Zealand the off &c seeks the
man. not the man the office. Witness
recent advertisement in local paper
calling for Il man to fill public Office,
the salary ofwhich is 81 800 in gold per
annum.
A salt water camp meeting" is to he
established at Seabrooll. n H.. for the
use Of the Adventists A grove has
been engaged. four acres in extent with
in fifty rods Of the depot and seventy.
five rods Of the ocean
A gentleman belonging in Nantucket,
who has been absent over twenty years
OF the Pacific ocean and has long been
supposed dead. his friends even erecting
a grave stone in hi, memory. returned
to the island recently. to the great sur
prise of his relatives and friends
Julia, wife of Christian Thenrer. of
Rochester, y. Y. leaped from the Central
railroad bridge at the edge of tie Gen
csee Falls. into the river OH I Thursday
evening of week before last. and was
swept over the falls. Grief for the loss
Of child had unseated her reason.
Maggie Cline and Annie Carey. sent
from lIaverliill to the house of correction
thirty days ago for being drunk.
returned January 3. and commenced
shop lifting They were arrested and
various articles of clothing and fancy
goods were found concealed about their
persons.
Since the famine set in. in Asia Mi
nor. fifty thousand persons have migra-
ted from various parts Of ;he country to
the city Of Adana, half Of whom have
since succumed to disease The strange
climate. distress. and extreme rapacious.
ness of the tax gatherers aggravate the
mortality.
The coroner's jury in the supposed
wife murder Case at Wilton. n. II have
found verdict that Ida n Major came
to her dealt. by strychnime. administered.
In their belief. hy Edwin w Major.
Major was ordered to the county iail mt
Manchester to await the action of the
grand jury.
Pettis confession throws foods of
light Oh the reason why criminals are
never caught in New York. Detectives
get their rercentage. then ~ official
c'mity the case is given TO the officer
who has received the percentage on it.
and he works it up so as to get plenty
of ''clews, ; but not to catch the criminals
Alfonso. the new king of Spain-ad-
mitted to lie the ilIegtimate son of a
dlssontc queen forced into exile--and
the representative of f.mlly for gener-
atlons of shame Of Spain. is a youth of
no especlaI promise. and is likely to lie
the tool CT the cornorants. He will be
yearing.
Just now there are two Kings before
the country. viz: King Kaakauq and
hatle' King. The first is AN honest.
sensible man. who asks no particular
tavors Of anybody. The second is a
buXom young woman with a soft arm n
roul waist and il warm hand. whom
Kobcrt Dale Owen mistook for spirit.
The debt Of New York City is believed
to ne more than one hundred and fiftv
millions. 1t has be n impossible under
the administration of Comptroller Green
TO arrive ut the exact amount some
state 1t to be as high as one hundred
and seventy five millions. Ills is about
htteen per cent. Oh the taxable property
OF that city.
A Norman paper at Salt Lake places
the numb Der Of polygamists in the Terri
tory at l.t00 men. 5000 women. Q .0On
children. and the cost and loss. bv leo. |
punishment of all at $1,000. 900 and
thinks that the courts would have
around them 5000 crying women and
5000 crying children. This is proba.
my pretty accurate computation.
he last year was the most prosperous
one for California that she has eyer on
Inyed. Her wheat crop, wool clip. tho
vintage and her miscellaneous industries
Including mining, yielded splendid re-
turns. and business of all kinds is buov.
ant. Better than all-and Il very M.
teriai cause of all her industrial trinmnb
is the fact that her business is on a
specie basis :"
4 NARROW EscArE.-About ton
O'Clock. SATURDAY evening. January .. =
runaway horse who had detached HIM
sen from a light sleigh on Camb,i lgc
street. ran up Joy street with lie Lar
ness ana one shaft attached to him As
SON ., as he had arrived at the top Of the
iiii he continued OH at a furious f.
down the hill cross BEACON -.