Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-08-16
General NeaCs Items.


The reports from the Black Hills are
very discouraging to gold-seekers.
A mysterious epidemic is killing off
Indiana hogs by the hundred.
Fighting is still going on in Spain,
but the Carlists appear to be getting the
worst of it.
Two hundred and eighteen sacks of
Australian mail passed through Omaha,
Neb., Saturday. on their way'to Lon
don.
The SAT 900 which was stolen from
the Treasury at Washington has been
heard from and the parties who stole
it have been arrested. Considerable of
the money has been recovered.
Government officials are at length
discovering. what the people already
knew, that large amount of pension
money is being paid to persons who are
not entitled to pensions. The matter
will be looked into.
The worst of the western food is over.
Both the Ohio and Mississippi are now
falling, the former reached its highest
point on Friday, So feet and six inches,
and has been falling ever since.
The Portland and Ogdensburg rail-
road was completed through the White
Mountain notch to its connection with
the Boston, Concord and Montreal rail
road at Fabyan's, Saturday afternoon.
W. Wilder, H. Leighton and Evan
Hall, three murderers who recently broke
Jail at Denver, Col, and were decoyed
to corral, we're fired on by ranchmen,
Friday, and the first two were killed and
Hall wounded, though he escaped.
The crops in Wisconsin are reported
very good. The food has subsidized in
other parts of the west, and prospects
are more cheerful. Drought prevails in
some parts of the south and southwest
and great damage is done to corn and
cotton.
There were 1929, 900 postal-cards
issued in July, the largest number in
any month yet. About an eighth of
the years supply is issued in the first
month of the fiscal year, and, at this
rate, some 1l5,O0O,O0O cards will be
used this year, so popular have they be-
come.
From all parts of the Eastern town
ships the crop reports are favorable.
While it was thought the hay crop would
be scant farmers have generally been
agreeably surprised with at least an av-
erage yield. The growing crops are all
promising well. Wheat, oats and bar
ley are good, and the yield of potatoes
will be immense.
A train of cars containing fifty per-
sons on the Santiago and Valparaiso
railroad broke through bridge at Linn
ache, Peru, on the night of July 6, and
catching fire, II persons were burned to
death. The bridge had been condemned
by an engineer, some months before,
but no measures had been taken to make
it more secure.
The checker match for $10O and the
American companionship, which has
been going on here, for the past week,
between William r. Barker of Boston
and L. d. Yates, champion of New York,
has resulted in victory for Barker,
who won five games to Yates's one, Al
being drawn.
They have successor to Sam Patch
In Shelbyville, Ind. John Berry by
name. A few days ago, he jumped from
the top of the Shelbyville railroad bridge
into the river, distance of rs feet, for
a $40 purse made up among the admir-
ing spectators, and he offered for $40 to
make the same leap with double back
somersault. but the money was not forth
coming.
According to accounts from Damascus,
cholera is raging there. Four humid
red cases were reported daily, but the
real number was concealed. The Chris
tian quarters of the place is deserted
Sudden deaths occur in the streets of
the city. There are no physicians, med
lelnes. or supplies for the treatment of
the sufferers. The disease is also bad
at Antioch, DER Hens, Hannah, Hauran,
and among the Druses. The mission
schools are closed, and the children have
dispersed.
Fifty of the assassins engaged in the
recent Catholic riot at San Miguel, San
Salvador, have been executed, six of
whom confessed to killing Gen. Espino-
"a for $40 each, paid by the priest, and
nearly all the others declare that they
were put up to the crimes by him. 9th
er criminals were told to rob the rich.
provided they gave part of their plum
der to the church. Other Central Amer
lean states are taking precautionary
measures against threatened horrors like
those at San Miguel.
Beecher gave the first of his vacation
sermons at the Twin Mountain house,
yesterday morning. to crowd of about
1900, who came by special train and
vehicles from the summer resorts in this
vicinity, his text being Jesus's answer
TO Nlcodemus, John III: 5-6-"That
which is born of the flesh is flesh" etc
and the sermon no way notable. Mr..
Beecher also conducts prayers in the no.
tel parlor. every morning. 1t is rumor.
ed that Moulton is going to bring an
action against Beecher for perjury ia
Stafford county, where he swore out his
reply to the Tilton suit last year
The jury in the Mountain Meadow
massacre case have been discharged I'm
able to agree. Upon this the Times re-
marks: A large proportion of the iu.
rors, some say eight of the twelve, were
Mormons. 1t is reported that they
stood nine for acquittal and three for
conviction. A verdict outside of court
has Its unsatisfactory aspects; but il
does not seem possible that any one who
has paid attention to the evidence can
have any doubt that the prosecution have
convicted the Mormon hierarchy of be.