Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-08-30
General Nefrs Items.

arms, mOTElSNllles sOlu Bio hveSN
of cattle as follows: Four bulls for
SIS. $50, and thirty females for $50, 600,
total for the herd. $4,000. They are
principally of the Princes" family
Four of the animals, registered as pure
bloods, sold for about $4,000.
HAVANA, August 24.-Under the
emancipation law of July, 1870, 32.8l3
persons have been born free. and $40 |
slaves have acquired their freedom by /
passing their sixtieth year. Three hun
bred and one slaves were declared free |
for services to the Spanish flag, and
2I92 captured Africans were liberated.
1t is estimated that since 1868 over TO-
900 slaves have become free in Cuba.
William s. Morgan, whom the Ma
sons are supposed to have killed some
years since, for divulging the secret of
the order, is now claiming considerable
attention. A Minnesota man thinks he
discovered him In the wilds of Maine
some years since, living hermit life ;
another man thinks he saw him in Asia
Minor, years after his whereabouts was
unknown. Pass him round.
The Amoskeag Company at Manches-
ter, N. H., employs about 1000 persons,
and last month their pay roll amounted
to over Sl27, 900, the largest in its his
tory. Nearly 800 men are employed on
the river improvements, by which about
eight acres of marsh land will become
available for manufacturing purposes
All the corporations are running on full
time, and there is no prospect Of an
abatement.
The greatest swimming feat ever re-
corded was that of Captain Webb, an
| Englishman, who sailed across the
British Channel, from Dover to Calais,
a distance of twenty-one miles, in TWEEN
| ty.one and three-quarters hours. The
swimmer made much longer distance
On account of tides and currents but
succeeded in reaching Calais in COM
Portable though somewhat exhausted
condition.
Advices from thirteen counties in diff
erent parts of Wisconsin show that there
was frost on Sunday morning and a
heavy frost on Monday morning. Corn
suffered great damage tobacco is total
ly destroyed and hops, buckwheat po-
tatoes, and all vines on low lands are
badly injured. There was quite heavy
frost in various localities in Illinois and
Iowa ON Sunday night. Most of the
small vines were killed. Potatoes and
corn were more or less injured.
/ Elections occur in twenty States dur
ing the next five months. California,
Iowa, Kentucky. Maine, Maryland, Mas
sachusetts, Wisconsin are to elect Gov
ernors, minor State officers and Legis-
latures elect United States Senators
California and Mississippi, full Congress
sional delegations, four members in the
former and six in the latter Alabama,
Kentucky, and North Carolina vote on
holding a State constitutional conven-
ton, and Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas,
New York, New Jersey, and Virgins
vote for minor State aud local officers
including the Legislature.
A daring crime was perpetrated il
Greenwich street, New York, on Sunday
morning. MIR. Noe. of the firm of James
Noe & Sons, brush manufacturers, visit
ed his store at eight o'clock on SUNDAY
morning to see if some valuable proper
ty was safe. He was uneasy about thi.
, property because access to the premises
was then comparatively easy, owing t,
, some building operations adjacent to hi
store. Hearing strange noise, Mr.
Noe went up stairs and saw man pry
ing open the scuttle of the roof. In
t cautiously Mr.. Noe sprang at the stran-
ger and a desperate struggle ensued
ending in the burglar battering in Mr.
Noes head with an iron tool, bindin,
, his limbs with a stout cord robbing HIN
of a valuable watch and chain and som
money, and making good his escap
through the scuttle. Mr.. Noe was foun,
e in this condition by an elderly lady liv
9 ing in an adjoining tenement house, VIII
e heard cries of murder and followed tn
e sounds. Mr.. Noe was able to give al
accurate description of the burglar, ant
h is likely to recover from his wounds
0 though his skull is fractured in two o
I three places.
The Crops AT THE WEsT.-The Chi
cago Times prints comprehensive re
: !. port of the condition of the spring whea
Z crop in the Northwest. In Wisconsin
{ Minnesota, and Nebraska, nearly all tn
: reports agree that this will be a year @
: plenty. Wheat has mostly been cut an
4 stocked. The quantity is far above tn
average, and the quality was never ex
celled- There will be at least one q uai
ter more wheat reported from thes
! states than any previous year. Fror
Iowa reports are not as encouraging
In the main, the yield is fully up to til
: average, but some sections have suffer
ed from the ravages of grasshopper,
army worms, and chinsh bugs. Kansa
is happy, especially in the northern Dol
d ton. The departure of the grasshor
/ pers has permitted nature to recompens
d In part last years losses. All report
u agree that more bountiful harvest ha
r never been gathered in that state. /
II Illinois but little spring wheat is grow
5, Winter wheat and corn are the stapl
y products. The crop will be fully up /
IS the average of former years. Not onl
Re will there be wheat enough for home d,
le mand' but the West can supply the Ell
IS ropean market
DANGEROUS CLAssEs.-An incider
= happened in the vicinity Of New Yorl
). on Saturday last, which confirms our r,
= :, cent remarks on the police force as b,
:, : ing one of the dangerous classes. A r,
!, spectacle citizen of Union, Hudson cour
- ty, N. j.. Mr.. Koch. fifty years of ag,
= took the liberty of demonstrating wit
ono L updu