Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-05-08

sold for SIG.
A shipment of twenty-five boxes of
Chinamen's bones was recently made at |
San Francisco to China.
All the Black-hillers have had their
heads shaved, to give the redskins as
little scalp advantage as possible.
Only thirteen million feet of lumber
have been cut on the Andiscroggin this
year, against twice the amount last year.
At the recent election in Minneapolis,
Mimi, the ballot boxes were decorated
with flowers in honor of the ladies who
voted.
The Portland Press thinks at least
five thousand drinking men have signed
the pledge in Maine during the past six
months.
The sheriff of Perqulmans county, N.
c., weighs four hundred and ten pounds.
When a prisoner is refractory he sits
down on him.
The bill of the Massachusetts, legisla-
ture to legalize Mr.. Parton's marriage
with MS step-daughter has been defeated
by the Governors veto.
Are there any drinkers left in Wor-
cester county? Some two hundred signed
the pledge at recent temperance meet
ing at Ashburnham, Mass.
The Russian government has In con-
temptation a railroad through Central
Asia over two thousand miles in length,
the estimated cost of which is two hun
bred million dollars.
Belle Plain, Iowa. claims the smallest
woman in the world-Maggie Minot.
She is eighteen years old, twenty-six
inches high, and weighs thirty-one
pounds. Tom Thumb is six inches
taller.
Old Uncle Ben Greer, Marshal
county (Ky.) darkey who claims to be
one hundred and thirteen years old, and
has some documents to back it up, was
recently married to young woman Of
fifty-seVen.
John Murray, of Baltimore, came to
his death while cutting his toe-nails.
the other night; his knife slipped and
entered the inner side of his thigh, sew
ering the femoral artery, and he bled to
death.
A woman near Bolton, England, sold
some impure milk from her farm, and
the result was violent outbreak of ty-
phoid and milk poisoning, from which
twenty people died, the woman who
owned the farm among the number.
At st. Henedine, Dorchester county,
Canada, Thursday, April 9th, a girl
named Labouillier, shot and killed Mrs.
Murphy, lady for whom she was sew
ing. She then gathered up all the val
uables she could carry, and tried to es-
cape, but was arrested.
Six men are reported drowned by a
food at Stevens Point in the State Of
Wisconsin. The north part of that city
is entirely under water and its inhabi
tants are being rescued by boats. A
number of dams and improvements OF
Wisconsin River were carried away.
P. T. Barnum's great Centennial trav
cling show opened in New York las
Tuesday night to 10000 persons, and al
| many were turned away. The spectacle
surpasses in extent aud magnifcenct
anything hitherto attempted by the If
repressible Barnum.
The Ragusa correspondent of thu
London Times telegraphs that from thu
18th to the 18th of April, Mukhta
Pacha lost 1900 men, killed, wounded
and sick. The insurgent chef, ~Sosica
writes that 800 Turks have been decap
itated and fifty insurgents killed anC
wounded.
Miss Nellie Lyon, of Boston, Will
out riding with some of her friends Of
Saturday, April 29th. became great,
alarmed, thinking the horses were run
ming away, and suddenly sprang iron
the carriage on Main street, Charleston
receiving injuries from the effects o
which she died.
Mrs. A. NJ. Halderness, otherwis
known as Nine. Lamonte, a Boston fol
tune-teller, was committed to jail Thurs
! day week before last on a charge G
poisoning her husband, who died sud
denly the Tuesday before. A post-mol
tenn examination developed traces {
poison in the stomach of the deceased.
The Protestant husband of Roma
Catholic woman was denied buriel IN th
: Roman Catholic cemetery, at POI
1 Schuyler, N. Y. There was no Guibor
rioting. The widow quietly withdre
: from membership in her church, and n
moved the bodies of several relativ,
from the cemetery.
A paper company in Holyoke, Mass
has manufactured an immense ream
. paper for the Centennial The shee
. are six by eighteen feet, the ream weigI
! about ton, the value of the four hui
bred and eighty sheets is one thousaI
FIVE hundred dollars, and if cut into 0
u binary sheets of note paper they wou
b make FIVE hundred thousand sheets.
K Garibaldi has written to the Prin
). Minister of Italy, accepting the gift
o $4,000 offered him by the nation al
). the King some time ago. He says t
/ gift will enable him to cooperate in t
/ works for the improvement of the Tibt
a and that he has decided to accept it |
is cause of the fidelity to the CONSTITUTE
n displayed by the King in recently chan
70 ing bis Ministers.
lie An explosion of dualin at the Germ
of Mine, Newbury. Mass. occurred on t
ly 26th of April. Miners were engag
warming dualin in pans, when it explc
ed. James MeGill. age q years,
IN Oswego, n. y, was fatally injure
ne John Carter was thrown thirty feet il
:. a ahaft had IL s...r... "a L. IL.