Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-09-11
General NeaUs items.

IrlceS VI sugar, WOOl' OOt0Vn, AiSC anu
grain are rising.
Twenty-one of the thirty-eight states
elect Governors this fall.
The retail coal dealers in New York
have reduced their prices one dollar per
ton.
Steps are being taken to build a mar
row gauge railroad from Lowell to
Boston.
Pauline Wright Davis, well known
woman suffragist, died in Providence,
R. l., Thursday night of week before
last.
The August statement of the public
debt shows decrease of SO, 1863
during the month. The total debt is
S2.098. 30I,311.
A Milwaukean moves that the hickory
tree be made an emblem of the United
States, as the oak is of England and the
laurel of Greece.
Despite the times, the official returns
show decrease of pauperism in Eng
land and Wales the present year, as
compared with 1875.
A Cambridge, Mass, girl kept the
company waiting for the wedding till she
made the groom sign a written agree
ment tie take her to the Centennial.
A large number of buildings in San
Francisco were burned on Monday night,
involving loss of eighty eight buildings
and seven hundred and eighty thousand
dollars.
The number of visitors at the Centen7
NAL exhibition at Philadelphia is stead
lily increasing. The average per day,
week before last, was about fifty thou
sand.
The price of kerosene has doubled
within the last few months. Its cheap
ness has caused it to be used much more
extensively during the last year, and the
demand now exceeds the supply.
The market for print goods has i'm
proved so much in the last few days that
the Sprague mills in Rhode Island,
Maine and Connecticut, and the print
works, which have been idle for several
weeks, are to start up at once.
Since the beginning of the year one
thousand two hundred and twenty miles
of railroad have been constructed in the
United States. This is more than twice
the milage reported in 1875, and third
more than in the corresponding portion
of 1874.
A prominent citizen of Sherburnt
Mass, was drowned in Farm Pond, {
few days since, while attempting to res
cue two young ladies who got overheard
through the capsizing of sailboat
One of the ladies, Eta L. Bickford was
also drowned.
The largest lantern ever made viii
soon be erected at Galleyhead, on tn,
coast of Cork. 1t will consume on
thousand six hundred feet of gas pc
hour, and the flashing light will be Wis
ible through the fogs. The power o
the light will be equal to million candles
A despatch from Constantinople, o
Aug. 3lst, says: ga council of tn
Ministers and great dignitaries of tn
J Empire have proclaimed Abdul Hami
Sultan, vice Murad, depOsed. The ne'
Sultan was received by the Minister
and functionaries at the Topcapou Pa
ace, where he was proclaimed Abdu
Hamid H.
A despatch from Texas, states thu
: the Rev. w. G. England. Methods
= minister, his wife, step-daughter an
a four step-sOns were murdered at the
home, six miles from Montague, on Sa
= urday night, the 29th ult., by par
o of disguised men. 1t is supposed Il
/ butchery was committed for money,
(. the family was rich.
On Thursday morning week befo
last, between two and three o'clock, 70
masked men attacked the Waterman
M. the Rhinebeck station of the Hubs
IA River Railroad, ''bucked and gage,
% him and threw him into freight C;
81 and then broke into the ticket off
So blew open the safe with gunpowder a
"a robbed it of about $500. Two m
70 were arrested on suspicion of being &C
% cerned in the robbery.
- A large number of operatives a
their families left Fall River, Mass,
20 England, week ago last Saturday.
y one steamer from Europe has ever C
Ii ried so many from that city. TIL
were families in which there were fl
SO SO eight-loom weavers, and others in VIII
POI there were three eight-loom weave
% % Some of the best hands have gone 9
2s7 others are going The reduction
90 wages causes the movement.
LAG The mails continue to bring news
90 terrible atrocities in Bulgaria by
50 Turks. At one place three thous;
80 people were killed, children of
So sexes were carried about the streets
bayonets, and people were burned ali
iG 70 At another place one thousand pers
8 who offered no resistance were Kill
50 and a bag full of human heads v
opened in the streets before the hous
the Italian Consul, and eaten by dog
nam The month which has just closed
de. been notable chiefly in finance and C
an Ii merce for the successful negotiation
forty millions of United States bond
Lc' IL per cent. authorized by the Fl
ca,s ing act of 1870; and for the overth
!. L. of the coal combination by which
w price of anthracite coal is reduced
W. 81 to So per ton. The stock market
u, =. been depressed, and gold has decl
'Hs'' while the foreign market has been
A, P orally steady with symptoms of dec
Lind of late.
Hun St. HYAcINTHE, Sept. 3d.-A
i, broke out in the western end of this
D. H. at l:30 P. NJ. to-day, and, famed
high wind, soon totally swept the |,