Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-11-06

failure this year. aud the people are :
suffering from want, Eighteen hundred
IeelanderS emigrsted recently to Canada. ,
The negroes Of Georgia, considering
their poverty. have been among the
most liberal contributors 10 the fever !
sufferers of Savannah aud Brunswick.
A man seventy-6ye years old is nn-
dergoing two months imprisonment in
Lueerne county. Pennsylvania, for kill
ing boy.whom he had caught stealing
fruit.
Apples in Michigan are seventy-hve
cents barrel. At Battle Creek alone.
twelve thousand barrels are stored.
Potatoes are poor. and bring seventy i've
cents bushel.
Two enterprising Calfornians, who.
four years ago, planted thousand
acres in walnuts and almonds, will net
over two hundred and fifty thousand dol.
lars from this years crop. |
Great depression exists throughout |
Servia, and it is said that all ranks of |
people would most gladly welcome |
peace. The spirit Of the Servian popu-
pulation has completely collapsed.
There is considerable activity in the
lumber trade in. Ottawa. The demand
for all kinds Of sawn lumber for the
United States markets is steadily on
the increase and fair process are reali-
zed.
A Newport man stopped runaway
horse by dashing pail of water In its
face; and the woman in the carriage, in
stead of thanking him for saving her
life. grumbled because her dress was
| spattered.
A clergyman at East Bolton, Quebec,
seized bride as security for the non
payment of his fee, and the husband
had to give security for the one dollar
and twenty-five cents ere he could OBJ
tain his spouse.
The waters in the New England riv-
ers are lower than they have been for
many years. At Thurston Ferry, n. H.,
on the Merrimack, there is to be seen
the remains of an old wharf which have
not been seen before the forty years.
Beecher, in his newspaper. asks peo-
pie to write to him for advice on moral
ity. He says: IF you are perplexed
and want light or eounsel-write us.
If you are puzzled respecting Bible in
terpretion or practical duty, write us"
A brave and good little Ohio boy sat
! on fence two hours in the freezing
cold of dead winter. watching broken
! rail on the railroad track, so as to car.
; ~ the latest news of the impending &C.
/ cident to his father, who was local ed
: itor.
E The Belgrade correspondent of the
London Times states that in the county
between Paratkin and Deligrad, and il
n the mountains near Saitschar, there ar
! one thousand one hundred men and wo
a man who are almost naked and LITERAL,
1 starving.
4 A Chinaman arrested in San Fran
; cisco, the other day. was found to hav
on coat of mail made of cloth, cottol
= batting and paper. thick enough to turl
;. knife or bullet 1t also had pocket
for knives and hatchets, and rings +
4 hang an iron bar on.
! This year the Thanksgiving proclaim
m alton of the President has a specia
a meaning He reminds the country i
# fitting language that it must rende
thanks for the blessings not only of
year but of a century of existence as
: free and independent nation.
= An unmarried but not young woma
! in Chicago has a father who will not a
low her to change "lS45" to 1855,
h. the record of her berth in the Bible
N and she turns pale with fright ever
III time her lover goes near the sacred 70
umn as it lies on the parlor table.
at The executive committee of the Your
ay Mems Christian Association of Il
g United States aud British provinc
n have issued circular calling for Il
to observance of the week beginning No
Y. ember 18th as one of prayer. as it is
* be observed all through the rest of t
he world.
7as The San Francisco Chronicle has t
exclusive information that England
of defence of Turkey is only make believ
on. and that great empire is to be esta
of lished between the Bosphorus and
alb Adriatic. with the Duke of Edinbur
nal and his Russian wife (the Cars on
tie. daughter) of the throne. This solV
fol- the problem.
'est Mrs. Burnham, Of Atlanta, visit
hen the Centennial Exposition. and tn,
the met man who said that he was c
n.y. onel Delang. of Boston, and very VIC
thy. On the second day of their
quaintanee they we're married, and
Dad the third day the bride was looking
-act her husband and one thousand tn
nth hundred dollars which had disappea
and with him.
ded There is perfect rush of Centen1
ing visitors at the White House nowadayi
ON the President received three thous;
EN- before noon, the other day. The {
case pets are all up, and Mrs. Grant rema
and ed to "Miss Grundy,' as she glanced
mar the bare floor Il cannot have the
Eeen pets put down until there ceases to {
alu- crowd going over them. every day
did, Mrs. Hayes would have no cal
LEG to use when she comes.
md, The people who are wagering Il
,orts money on the chance that either
rted Tilden or Mr. Hayes will be inaugu
was ed President of the United States
We the fourth of next March should re
this. their bets. The fourth Of March
EVIL fall on Sunday. and as was the case
her President Washington in 1893. '
and President Monroe in 1921, and +,
rank Tyler in 1859, the next President
till be inaugrated on the following Nom
i he the fifth of March.