Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-04-24
General NeiCs Items.

The volcanoes in the Sandwich Islands
are reported in state of eruption.
Twelve workmen have been killed so
far in the construction of the Centennial
buildings.
Dolan, the New York murderer, must
hang for it. the governor refusing to
his sentence.
The ST. Lawrence River is free from
ice for 100 miles from its mouth, and
navigation is resumed.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe made one
thousand three hundred dollars from her
orange grove, in Florida, last year.
Six hundred hard drinkers of Keen.
n. H., have signed the pledge, and the
club numbers over thirteen hundred.
A. T. Stewards real estate in New
York city is valued by the assessors at
six millions, and is doubtless worth ten.
Every daily paper IN Montreal but
one has a libel suit on hand one has
three, another two, and the other five
have one each.
The Boston Post has been sold to a
company. consisting of its present man
ayers and some of the leading Democrats
of Massachusetts,
The Sub Treasury at New York has
commenced paying out the silver coin
accumulated there to take the place of
the scrip currency.
Lightning struck some oil tanks at
Bear Greek Station, Pa, on the 18th
instant, and destroyed over one hundred
thousand dollars worth af oil.
The last fish story comes from ancient
Nantucket. where fisherman caught a
seventy five pound Goldfish, which, when
opened, was found to contain two ducks.
The just completed census of Phila-
delphia gives the population of that
great city as eight hundred and seven
teen thousand four hundred and forty
eight.
General Sabert Oglesby, who COM
manded division of General Jackson's
army at the battle of New Orleans, is
still living in Texas, over one hundred
years old.
The Indiana democrats, after a fierce
fight over Holman and Lander, rival
candidates. took Hon. J. d. Williams as
a compromise candidate. Hendricks is
their choice for President.
Paintings worth $4,000, of which
many have been exhibited at the Royal
Academy, have been shipped from Lon
don for Philadelphia to be exhibited at
the Centennial Exhibition.
The trunk line railroads to the West
have fallen out again, and general wal
of passenger and freight rates has begun.
Passenger tickets from Chicago to New
York are put down two dollars to begin
with.
The old Greeley mansion, in the woods
at Chappaqua, n. Y, which was unoc.
cupied and unfinished, and was being
repaired and reftted for Colonel Smith
and wife, was totally destroyed by fire
Friday evening, March IA.
Austria and Russia have notified The
Turkish government that they mus
move cautiously in their attempt to over
throw the rebellion within the European
Turkish countries, or they shall interpost
in behalf of the insurgents.
Dexter & Brother, of Pawtucket, thu
largest manufacturers of cotton anC
knitting yarns in the country, hav'
failed for 100000, and made an assign
ment of their property to George Only
Arnold, of Pawtucket, and H. H. Thorn
as and VIM. M. Bailey, of Providence.
A collection of immense mirrors in
tended for exhibition at the Centennia
Exhibition have been imported on tn
steamers Rotterdam and August Andre
of the Antwerp line. They vary in siz
from 1Ox28 feet to 1892 feet, and ar,
the largest ever received IN this country
While two young ladies were drivin,
over bridge on Stag Creek, few mile
above Ottawa, on the 18th instant, thei
horse took fright and jumped over On
: of the ladies jumped out of the sleigl
and saved herself, but Miss Reid fel
with the horse and sleigh into the strear
| and was drowned.
Ellen NJ Callinan was shot in tn
heart by her lover. named John McNa
mara, at the Arcade Hotel in Corning
recently. She died in ten minutes
Jealousy was the cause of the deco
: Both are about twenty years old. Tn
7 murderer escaped, but special police al
e in pursuit
: The baby-farming business, as carrie
q on in Montreal, is attracting considers
BILE attention. Out of 719 babies r,
: ceived at the Grey Nun Hospital las
i year only SO survived. Four hundre
I and twenty-one of the illegitimate chi
= dren belonged to Montreal. Forty-seve
were sent from the United States.
e The first train passed over the ne
: railroad bridge, across the Oswego Rive
u on Friday, April Ia. and the rails of IL
: Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroa
&c company now extend from Potsdam Jun
/ ton and Ogdensburg. n Y, to the N
) agara River. thus completing the cha
y from Portland, Me-, to Niagara.
:. President Scott, of the Pennsylvan
n Railroad Company, and Senetor Came
on. of Pennsylvania, have invited Il
widow of ex.President Polk to visit I
aS Centennial Exhibition. Should she a
y cept the invitation, sleeping car W
&c be sent to take her to Philadelphia, whe
ef she will be Hospitality entertained.
&c Fifteen tramps were discovered in
- empty grain car of westward bou
- train Of the Erie Railroad at Lackawa
e en-. Penn, on the 18th inst. One
ee them gave the information that tn
be were on the way to the Grand Convt
ton of the Tramp Society, and stat