Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-10-19
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


border war with Mexican bandits is inn
mincnt
The total amount Of national bank
circulation outstanding to date is SS5i,-
0o0.o coo,
A Ere originating in rubber works in
New York. week ago Friday, caused
loss of about $4,000. and probably
two fatalities,
News is received Of fight with the
Indians hy Gen. Mackenzie. in Texas.
resulting in the surrender Of Big Tree
and three other chiefs. with twenty,four
lodges Of kiowas,
Gen, sherman has been notified by
the Mar department TO send regiment
of infantry for service in the South. If
the troops can be spared. The thirteenth
infantry has been ordered South.
Governor Dix of New York is seven
ty-3ve years old. He was in Exeter
Academy in the class with Jared Sparks
and ], W. q, ralfrey. He is hale,
hearty and vigorous as a man of fifty.
The Rev. ". IL. II, Murray read
letter to the congregation at Park-street
church Boston, Sunday morning. Oct IL.
resigning his pastorate. to take effect on
November II. at the close of his sixth
year,
Leonard da Viuci had been buried
500 years. and when they uncovered his
face the other day they could recognize it
from its portraits. and he was not en-
balmed either-only shut in stone
coffin.
A day or SO ago the daughter of a
German grocer in Rochester was mar
ried, Her father placed play card in
the window. bearing this device This
store is closed on account of some fun in
the family"
General Sheridau's head is level.
Somebody has been sounding him on the
subject of the Presidency. and Little
Phil'' replied: 81 do not allow thought
on that subject to occupy my mind.
think many men have been ruined by
thinking they ought to be President of
the United States"
The government of Spain has present
ed long note to the French govern
ment in regard to immunity from inter
ference enjoyed by the Carlists in the
reception of supplies and munitions of
war across the border and other viola
tons of the frontier by the royalists.
A battle lasting ten hours was fought at
Arloja di Navarro, at the end of which
the Carlists withdrew to Estella.
QUEBEC. Oct. 1.-THE Board of Trade
At Its meeting to-day passed a resolution
unfavorable to the proposed reciprocity
treaty with the United States, especially
to the sliding scale of duties in the
American eoasting trade, the numerous
canal obligations. and no adequate eqiv.
alent for our valuable fisheries. The
Board was also of the opinion that man
ufactured articles should be excluded
from the treaty.
News came Monday Oct. 18th. of a
renewal of the disturbances in Louisiana.
A fight occurred in the st. James par
lsh, between the Bovee and Hogan re-
publican factions. One party had as.
sembled to ratify the compromise with
the conservatives. when the other inter
fered. The result was free fight. in
which several were wounded but none
Killed The White Leaguers are rep-
resented as very defiant, and as fully
armed and prepared to meet the Federal
forces.
The plain advice given by a colored
preacher IN Richmond. to his congrega-
ton. may not be needful in our religious
meetings. but we have been in gather
lngs where some such direction was de.
eldedly called for: DE fore part OBJ de
church will please sit down. so de hind
part ob de church can see de fore part.
for de hind part can't see de fore part
Ell dc fore part persist In standin before
de hind part. to de utter exclusion OBJ
de hind part by de fore part
Excavations IN the Coliseum at Rome
show that the original floor is twenty
feet below the modern level. The ex.
cavations have laid bare the immense
corridors whence the wild beasts rushed
to deadly combat, or human victims
were led to slaughter Even the mouth
OF the great drain, with part of Its orig
mai grating intact, has been found. and
there IS no longer any difficulty in un.
Outstanding how the water could be
drawn of which flooded the ring. and
enabled it to be used for the exhibition
of sea fights.
A singular death has just occurred in
frestWlch Lunatic Asylum, near Man.
CHESTER An inmate named Donovan.
who was employed in the shoemaker's
shop of the institution, having died =
poS1nortem examination revealed some
strange facts. Death had resulted from
perItonIts. In the deceased's stomach
were found one pound ten ounces of iron
mails, seven pieces of iron half inch
square, and cobbler's awl. minus tba
handle At the inquest verdict in ac-
cordance with the above facts was re-
turned.
he investigations contemplated bv
the President and several member -
his Cabinet into the abuses growing ont
OF the custom Of giving senators tbe
monopoly of the political patronage for
the respective States, have been beoun
Inc state Of Texas was the first r. he
considered G. and surprising amount Of
tnieVlng and rascality in the public SER
wee IN that State has been uneartbad
me investigation into the condition Of
other southern States is to be yiporonslv
pushed forward, and the unfit of;ce
hoioers are to be removed and prosecut.