Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-10-23

building for its fro department
General Braxton Bragg had life ~
suranoe of forty-three thousand dollars.
Two nieoes Of General jackson are
eopyists in the Treasury Department at 1
Washington.
The entire business portion Of Sandy |
/ Hill. y. Y. was burned lately. Losses
over 100000,
Rlauehett. accused Of causing the ne
cent great IRE at ST Hyacinthe, Canada,
has escaped from Jail.
There are. in Europe and America,
fifty thousand women who belong 70 the
order Of the Sisters of Charity.
The steamboat. southern Belle, was
burned on the Missippi. near Plaquemine,
La. lately. and several lives were lost.
The one million dollar suit against
Tweed. and the seven million dollar one
against Sweeny, have been postponed to
/ November IS.
1t is now said that eighteen persons
were killed by the Pittsburg explosion
and fifty others injured. of whom six
have since died.
John D. Lee, convicted for the partie-
ipation in the Mountain Meadow massa-
ere IN Utah, has been sentenced to be
shot January %, 1917.
Private advices from London say the
outbreak Of q general European war is
only question Of time. whether within
q month or not till the spring Of 1877.
The salmon product of the Columbia
river. Oregon. viii this year reach the
enormous total of 10000. 900 pounds.
and the amount canned for shipment
will yield SS.000,000.
Three Egyptian armies have been de-
stroyed in succession during the past
twelve months by the Abyssianians. who
have lured them into de6les and then
, shown them no quarter.
Since the passage Of the ordinance
: making opium-smoking. in Virginia City,
! Nevada, a misdemeanor, the smokers
emigrate to Gold Hill nightly, and return
to the city at all hours of the day.
: In the city of New York alone. the
r manufacture Of cigars gives employment
to at least 10000 persons. Many of
, these are girls and women, who make on
: an average $40 week Men average
SI4 a week.
, New Hampshire has the largest crop
5 Of apples ever grown. A farmer IN
Merrimaek county has sold two hundred
bushels Of apples unpieked. for FIVE cents
bushel. and has about as many more
. to sell at the same price
4 The Maharajah Partah Singh. accom-
: panied by over dozen personal attend
b ants,i is going over to England as the guess
of the Prince Of Wales. Talking Of
r Indian visitors to England. Sir Salal
! lungs visit to that country costs hin
s3,750.OO0.
d The Gar Alexander receives, IN round
IF numbers. $4,000 day income; the
Is Turkish Sultan, SIS, 600: the Emperor
Of Austria, $4,000: the Emperor O
. Germany. $500; the King Of Italy
\ S6.44O: the Queen Of England, S6.270
: the King Of the Belgians, SI,643; anC
: the President Of the French republic
Of $500
D The Judges have all made their report
Or and the medals are ready for distribution
Nearly every exhi bitor in MACHINERY
Hall receives q medal. If these medal
: 7 were fzIu JTUTu rvw, SO as 70 touch
- each other, they would make strin:
= about a mile long; or if piled one OF
f. top Of the other, they would make
> column abo7t 500 feet hiCh
be Considerable gold dust has beef
brought out Of the Black Hills. Tn
Placer mines near DeadWood would seen
now to be the most profitable. a Western
! despatch stating that three men had jus
ii arrived from that place at Cheyenne
= bringing with them three hundred am
a sixty thousand dollars in gold dust
! obtained since April last
One Of the wildcats in Barnum's grea
show got loose the other day. and trie
- his claws on the face Of the gentle hip
- popotamus- The beast, not insensibl
a Of the attack Of his small enemy. open
= ed his huge mouth and took him in
- But the keeper saw the movement Jus
IN time to catch the cat by the hind le
an aud save him from worse fate tia
a. Jonah's-
The total value Of gold produced /
the United States from It's first discover
2K' IL California. to 1875, was one billio
ny three hundred and thirty-two miIIio
III and seven hundred thousand dollars
;, and Of silver, two hundred sixty-or
million four hundred and fifty thousan
s9d dollars. making one billion FIVE hundre
g and niDety-four million one hundred an
IL fifty thousand dollars.
Edward S. Stokes, the murderer
James Fisk. Jr-. comes out Of the Sta
e. Prison On the 18th instant. broken
: Ior health, but rich man. His moth
Lee has prosperously cared for his oil ref
10 err, and I'D" himself has continus
az his specuIations while In prison. and
zP- now the oEEer Of . very valuable paten
ere which be purchased while in Sing Sir
en- en- from convict, for paving streets.
"a Another Of Commodore Vanderbilt
physicians has died This Is the sec9r
!, of his medical advisers who has ii
4isf since the Commodore illness commence
'9as He i said 70 have died from swalloEii
1ge plum stone singular thing for
-lm tionzl man to do. The remainder of I
% Comnodore's staff Of physicians "
l,la probably die Of old age before there
-lng any -'ckabge" IN their tenacious patier
TAI who seems 10 be that rsrest Of hum
@ns beings, person who cannot be kill
yea BY doctors.