Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-09-04
General Nescs Items.
7 anderbilt is Just the same.

LOnQ00 mas I'VE 0nOuodHO uiiASo VI 60 /
mains and upwards of ffty-four thousand
lamps.
Horatio Seymour has been nomlna-
ted for governor by the Democrats.
The New York merchants anticipate
a good fall trade. Buyers are numerous
and prices firm.
Boston Corbett, the soldier who shot
Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Lincoln,
is now halter in Cleveland, Ohio
The Atlantic mills at Lawrence, Mass,
will start up September 18th, giving en-
ployment to two hundred operatives.
San francisco is thoroughly scared
by small pox. Thirteen cases developed
themselves in an orphan asylum in one
day.
The $500 breweries in the United
States produce yearly 2S5,000,00o
gallons Of malt liquor. Most of them
have been built within the twenty-five
years.
The total value of the Centennial
buildings and their contents is estima-
ted at the nice little sum OF one hundred
and four million dollars.
"WiId Bill" who was lately killed
IN Western saloon, is said to have
caused the violent death of at least two
hundred human beings.
The Washington monument will stand
four hundred and eighty-fve feet in the
air, FIVE feet higher than the boasted
pyramid of Cheops in Egypt.
Advices from Cape Coast Castle say
that the King of Dohomey has confined
all the Europeans at Whydah in their
houses and threatens to massacre them.
The San Francisco grangers, who have
taken hand in the attempt to control
the grain market, estimate the surplus
of wheat, this season, at six hundred
thousand tons.
A physician advertises in the Meri-
den, Conn.,, newspapers that he has no
power over his appetite for alcohol, and
that he will prosecute anybody who
sells him any.
In the White Mountains, on the 22d,
the family of Robert Backup, Postmas-
ter at Boston Highlands, were thrown
from carriage and all badly injured,
Mr.. Backup seriously.
A late despatch from Japan states
that the new railroad between Osaka and
Kioto, thirty miles long, was opened
this month and is now in regular oper-
alton
The commissioner of pensions is now
paying the Communication price for artl-
fetal limbs, and those soldiers who lost
legs or arms are receiving $24 per
month pension.
Work is being gradually suspended
on all the public buildings in the coun.
try now partially completed, and hun
dreds of mechanics have been dischar
ged, owing to the reduced appropriation
Delegates of the Methodist church
North and South have been in confer.
ence at Cape May during the last few
days, and have agreed on basis OF
union.
The large saw and planing-mill o.
Daniel Mason, at Portsmouth, N. II.
one of the best furnished In the State
was burned by an incendiary, las
, Tuesday morning. Loss $4,000, IN
surance small.
Colonel NJ. Eugene Thornton, of Geor
gia, who passed through the ordeal o
eating thirty quails in as many consecu
tive days, is announced as candidat
for Congress in the Fifth district o
Georgia.
On Monday sentence of death wa
: passed at Pottsville, upon James Carol
: James Boyle Rorrity and Hugh McGeha
: the assasins of Policeman B. T. Yost, Q
!, Tamaqua. They all protested their in
. nocence of the crime for which the
y were condemned.
Tuesday morning of last week til
house of William Laws, of Westforo
3 Mass, was robbed of box containin
L $500 in money, three bank books,
u file of legal papers, gold chain an
: silver watch, belonging to Josephin
Z I Laws, and an overcoat belonging to M
III Laws.
The family of the jewellers, Mellor, wi
- recently absconded from Montreal, wei
= arrested Prescott, Canada West, G
- route to the States and they had ST.
s ! 900 worth of jewelry and valuable ston,
D. concealed in flower pots, cocoa-nut shell
= children's toys and bars of soap.
! A respectable-looking woman name
Jones of Greenfield, N. H., was four
insensible in the woods at Wilmington
Sunday evening, having, she said, be,
:. robbed and outraged in the mornin
w while on her way to visit friends
% Somerville.
os Abner Lowell, of Raymond, N. I
f. who has been imprisoned many time
4 mostly for brutal assaults upon wome
is in Jail again. charged with thrsate
at ing to kill his daughter, assaulting t
Is officer who arrested him, and burnil
o. the buildings of a Mr.. Spencer.
nd One of the most. sensible changes
nd the new postal law, which everybo,
ed will appreciate, is that which allows
,as person to write his or her name on
ny newspaper wrapper, and also the wo
ms from" to let the party receiving
M know who it is from, without violati
| the law. 1t allows the sender to wr
-bo on package the number and kind
-. articles it contains.
led The result of the expedition agar
or. the Indians has been nothing. AT
m. the forces of Gems. Tory and Crook b
ur- united, they continued the pursuit, I
IN. no Indians we're to be found. Sitti
lev Bull and his entire force had cross
Sc the Yellowstone and gone north. I
oa regiments, it is SAID. will be left In