Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-09-01
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Governor Davis.
The cholera has again broken out in
Fayette Missouri. Four persons died
on Wednesday.
The discovery of new oil territory
four miles southwest of T'itusville, Pa,
is announced.
Arrangements are made for exchang-
ing postal cards with Newfoundland.
The number of deaths in Boston last
week was l53, decrease of A from the
number reported on the previous week.
There were three hundred and seven
deaths in Chicago last week, being ff-
teen less than the previous week.
Ex-Gov Curtin of Pennsylvania, re-
Gently our Minister to Russia, has just
completed tour through Lakes George
and Champlain.
A defalcation to the amount of $4,000 |
has been discovered in the National Ex-
change Bank at Albany. The teller
and assistant-teller are the culprits.
Gen. Underwood said in speech at
Lawrence that he thought the late war
had shortened the life of each participant
IN active campaigns from five to fifteen
years.
Grand diplomas of honor have been
awarded to the United States Bureau of
Education, the State of Massachusetts,,
the city of Boston and the Smithsonian
Institute for education and instruction.
The colored voters of the District of
Columbia are forming secret organiza-
ton known as 1.-The Equal Rights
League, the object of which is to secure
local offices for citizens of African de-
scent.
The value ofexports from Boston dur
ing the week ended August % was
$685. 96; and the total for the year to
the same date was $2l.44l,214; being
an increase of Sc, 327,748 over the cor
responding period last year.
An old man named Cornelius Connors
was found by the police in a dying con-
dition IN an attic entirely bare of furni-
ture on Pine street, Chelsea, on Saturday
night. He died within fifteen minutes
after being taken to more comfortable
| quarters.
Thomas O'Neil, of Bridgeport, Conn.,,
returned home late a week ago last SUM-
day night, rather the worse for liquor,
sat down on the window-sill to smoke,
got drowsy and-was picked up the
next morning on the ground, four stor-
les below, dead.
Some men have no sense of the fitness
of things. A sordid trader brought in
bill Of $3.50 for groceries and liquors
against West, the negro murderer, who
was executed at Baltamore last Friday
less than twenty minutes before the poor
fellow was hung. West was unfortu
nately dead broke. just then, but the
EJailer paid it.
Two attempts have recently been made
; to throw train off the track on the
{ Hannibal and st. Joseph Railroad nea
Kansas City, Mo. The purpose, proba
| bly,, was to rob the paymaster's car, anc
; the persons who placed the obstruction
. are supposed to be the same who robbed
the Rock Island Railroad train shor
= time ago.
S Secretary Belknap will decide in !;
. udy VI uwo what ufopustUfuu IS TO be made
q of the remainder of the Modocs not con
: victed by court-martial. No pardon
: has been issued to the Kiowa chiefs San
4 tanea and Big Tree, and the authoritie
: of the Indian bureau say they are no
d to be liberated on their arrival at For
Sill until further orders.
A fire at Quebec, P. O., Tuesday Q
:, last week, destroyed property to tn
4 amount of 100000. The principa
!, loser is ". Dunn, whose extensive mil
l. and cabinet factory were burned, entail
e ing loss of S75, 900. Two schooners
! Clerk & Becker's lumber wharves, an
Il McCullum's immense brewery were de
9 stroyed. Two hundred men are throw
: out of employment.
o A terrible affair occurred near Scran
ton. Penn, on Tuesday. A large part
!, of women and children were ON the hill
y near that city when a thunderstorm
;. came up. They took refuge in an oil
house which soon after was struck b
: lightning. Two of the party were kille
, and several of them seriously injured.
s. A "heathen Chinee," employed i
l. the family of Orion Dubois, of San JOSE
: California, became enamored of his en-
;e ployer's daughter. His passion bein
b unreciprocated, he stole the lady's phC
tograph the latter demanded its return
i, when the Chinaman gave it up, at th
If same time drawing revolver and firm
l. three shots at her, and then blew his ow
1t brains out The balls fired at the lad
lie glanced on the steel ribs of her corst
k and she escaped unframed.
= Keller, who murdered his wife an
= = two children and his wife's sister {
- LesCygnes. Kansas, week before las
. was hung by mob last week. Despel
: ate attmpts were made by the sheri
and citizens to save Keller but in vail
The mob numbered nearly 500 men an
e had the town and the officers under the
Of control. General Blair, of Fort Scot
II went to the woods with the mob and az
dressed them, but without avail, an
re after clergyman had offered prayer ;
s their request, II men took the unfortl
81 81 nate man and hung him.
r The political elements of Massach1
ID sets are beginning to be stirred. III
of republican state convention is to be he
ne at Worcester Sept. 10. The contest f
governor is apparently between Butl
>, and the reelection of Washburn, or mo
!, properly Butler and anti-Butler, and ;
~ it is an "off year. some boiling may
> expected, especially if Butler is nomin
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