Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-01-26
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
The National Rowing Association c

to accept the mission to that country.
Minister Washburne has presented tC
NJ. Theirs. on behalf of French residents
of Philadelphia, a gold medal.
Don't come in Sunday night I've got
boil" said postal card received IN
Chicago the other day, and signed, An
gle.
John 4. Gordon. the Maine murderer,
was found guilty of murder by a jury
last Tuesday and Will be hung at the
| jail at Thomaston.
Edmund Miller. aged 81, was found
frozen to death last Sunday morning, at
Paterson. \. j., sitting against the door
of the Market street Methodist church.
A California paper. having obtained
new subscriber, records the startling
fact in half column article, headed
Still Another Our Course Endorsed
by the People"
1t is reported that skating party of
2S persons broke through the Ice on the
river at Burr Oak. on the line of the
Michigan Southern railroad. last Sat
urday. and were ali drowned.
The Union Central depot building
occupied by the Michigan Central and
the Illinois Central railroads on Lake
Street. Chicago. was burned on the Goth
involving loss of 100000.
Eight of the railroad strikers who
were implicated IN the attempt to explode
engines and throw Little Miami trains
from the track, near Cincinnati, Dec. p
and IS, were arrested on the 10TH
Business is looking up in Portland.
The Grand Trunk railway is rebuilding
their burnt wharves and Sir Hugh Allen
will send two steamers week to trans
port the large amount of freight accu-
mulated there.
Capt. Packard, of the American bark
Mary VI. Bird. just arrived in New York,
states that his vessel collided with an
unknown vessel on the Sd of November
at Midnight, and that the latter sunk,
with all on board.
1t looks as if coal operators were 60
ing to succeed in their scheme for anoth-
er rise in coal. They refuse any COM
promise with the miners and in all
their dealings with the plundered public
it is heads win, tails you lose"
The entire business center of Natick,
Mass, was burned Tuesday morning of
last week. The burned district embraces
two and one-half acres, on which stood
the most costly buildings in town, many
of them being filled with goods The
loss Is estimated at 100000.
The Springfield Republican says that
Gen. Cushing's letter was of great SER
vice to young Mr.. Roane 1t got him
the berth of chief of the Confederate
produce loan bureau, which he held till
the bottom fell out. He is now Wash
lngton claim agent.
NEW YORK, Jan. 20. Advices from
Corsica are that as the steamer Zouave
was entering the port of Bastia, from
Leghorn, she was driven against the
wharf and sank so rapidly that nineteen
persons were drowned, including the
captain and chief engineer.
\ Cayuga county n. Y. man sends
the following advertisement to the SYRIA
cuse J0eraat:-''Mr. Editor please pub
l-sh that Wanted a young lady from the
age OF Is to % who would like to younite
her selfe in the locs of matrimonial | the
writer of this am % years of age five
feet IN height in weight l35 of occupa.
ton farmer"
Gerald Massey, the poet, is featuring
on these two subjects: Jesus Christ the
Great Inexperienced Spiritualist, and
Why God Don't Kill the Devil If he
knows why the Lord doesn't do it; he
ought to communicate the information
to the public, as many would like to
know why this troublesome feeling is
not put out of the way.
Eva Woodward, IL years old. and
her sister, have been arrested at Raw
ham. Mass, charged with breaking
and entering" their grandmother house.
The children were forsaken by their
father in Bridgewater, two weeks ago.
and going ever to Raynham, where their
grandmother lived, for food and shelter,
they found her away, and opened the
house and lived there till arrested.
Hon. Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio. who
has been reelected to the United States
Senate, Is sixty years of age. His re.
turn to the Senate has baen a foregone
conclusion since the October election.
which made both branches of the Leeis-
iature Democratic, the majority on Joint
ballot being twenty-one Mr.. Thurman
Is a lawyer by profession, and is confess
ediy the ablest Democrat in the Senate.
Judge Upton, of Manchester. N. H..
was sWlndled out Of $50 day or two
since, by a New Orleans rogue. A
brother of the Judge recently visited
New Orleans, and while be was there
Judge Upton received a letter purport-
ing to come from him, asking the i:nme.
date loan Of 500 by teIegraphie mon
ey order. The order was sent. and II
now turns out that the letter was a foro-
cry.
The body of an infant child was found
In box floating in the river at Ports.
mouth \ H., last Friday The box
was marked with stencil plate. j. How
HaVerhIll, Mass, and in it was visit.
ing card with the name "Miss Mary q
Manning. Hayerhill, Mass. ard on the
back of the card was written -. G. How"
II the box came from Haycrhill it prob.
ably hoated down the Aerrimack river 4,
out 70 sea, and was driven into Ports
mouth harbor by the tide.
Frank cribby. boy employed bv
Adams express company at Boston. off
cred tray containing diamond min
and two diamond studs, worth akon,
600, to pawnbroker on Friday lat
for q trL.nL 800 49,,