Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-04-19
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The Grain Inspector OF Chicago Is
int II to the extent Of about Ss0,000
Robert Mathar. a tobacco manufacturer
Of Montreal, has abseonded, leaving la
bilities Of $4,000 chiefly il New York.
A bin was lately introduced into The
English House OF Commons to allow un-
married women to vote, 1t failed by
small majority.
Cardinal Manning opened the cathO-
lie College at Kensington, on the 10th.
with an address. in the course Of which
he said he regarded himself as iutrusted
with commission of warfare, for he be-
fieved the church was approaching
crisis the most 6ery for 500 years.
The real old fashioned spelling match
es are all the rage now. They have
them in Boston. in New York, in Chi
cage. in St Louis. and in Kansas City.
All the bon ton 90 and spell. Mayors,
Generals, Senators, and Governors, and
generally the bigger the man, the bigger
his photographed blunder.
Two men named Charles H. Miller
simultaneously had divorce suits in a
New Haven court A decree In one
case was granted. Both Millers took
the decision for their own, and remar-
ried. and the Miller who isn't divorced,
therefore. has two wives on hand.
General disorder and mobocracy in
the coal districts of Pennsylvania Mi
ners swarming about in rude. desperate
gangs and the sheriff with his posse
completely whipped out Two regi-
ments of infantry and one of cavalry
have been ordered out to quell the riot
ers. All on account of the hard times.
A despatch dated Paris. April says:
During the stallion show to-day Gold
smiths Abdallah was instantly killed
while going around the track. He was
met by his full brother. John Bright,
and the shaft of his sulky entered his
breast and came out near the top of the
shoulder, causing death in few min.
utes. His loss is greatly deplored, as
he was considered one of the best horses
In the United States. He was valued at
$4,000.
Mrs. James H. Kendrick, mother of
f. A. kendrick, Cashier of the National
Bank at Lebanon. N. H.. was taken sud-
denly i'll. Sunday of last week, and died
the following Tuesday. She was sup
posed to have been poisoned by the tea
which she drank, as others who drank
OF 1T were also sick. An analyzation of
the tea, made by Boston chemists, re-
vealed large quantities of white arsenic
IN the grounds, but none in the tea
There is rumor that the poisoning of the
family was part of plot to rob the
bank. which is strengthened by the fact
that the lamp near the bank was twice
extlngulshed on the same evening.
METEoRIo STONES IN IowA.-The
Iowa City Republican says: 1.-The eff
forts of Professor Leonard to obtain pos
session of the fragments of the great
meteor of February II, have been crown
ed with very fattering success The
portions found aggregate about Us lbs,
of which he has secured over 100. They
fell in Iowa township. Iowa county,
Iowa. The meteor does not appear to
have consisted of a single body, but of
twenty or more separate bodies grouped
around central mass, whose weight
was forty or fifty pounds. The pieces
were scattered over a region about four
miles long by one and three-fourths
miles in breadth. Doubtless other pieces
will yet be found, and it is thought DOS
sible, but not probable. that still larger
piece than any found may yet be dis
covered"
Capt Paul Boynton has excited the
wonderment of the British people. and
in fact, of all other people. who are just
beginning to find out what sort of man
this curious specimen of American citi-
zen is. Capt Boynton is now about
thirty-eight years DID,. and has spent
much of his life on the New Jersey sea
coast. as member of the Coast Guard.
He is an expert diver. in fact seems to
have been born for this employment.
and has saved the lives of probably hun
dreds of people. Recently he has as
tonished the world by his exploits in
an Ingenius swimming costume, con-
structed in compartments. fitted to car
ry provisions, weapons, rockets. etc.,
and in which he dropped into the sea
from a steamer off the coast of Ireland,
IN a furious storm, at half past nine
o'clock at night. and remained padding
for the shore, the gale all the time in
creasing, until four o'clock in the morn
ing, when he reached the shore, having
travelled thirty miles and overcome ter
tible obstacles. He has since crossed
the British Channel in the same manner.
Italy is not alone the storehouse of
her own treasures, but the shrine which
has attracted the mental worship of
many nations under the SUM- Her own
historians have been reinforced by thou.
sands of foreign contributors There is
hardly an Italian village, and not one Of
her many brilliant capitals, that has
not been made freshly familiar by some
grateful and enthusiastic stranger. How
little, In comparison, we Americans re-
member of France Even England. the
fountain of our mother tongue, is not so
well known in the United States as this
lovely land of art and song. Many
more Of our people speak French than
Italian, still many more read and talk
German, and yet Italy is. to-day, more
steadily present in our literature, our
music. our architecture, and in our re.
hglon, than either France or Germany.
although comparatively few of her peo-
pie have mingled with the ocean Of for
eign emigration
postmaster General JEWELS latest
discovery Is, that parties who have Sc
cured contracts for large number of