Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-12-18
General NelcS Items.

The sugar crop of Louisiana this year
is two hundred thousand hogsheads.
Ten thousand persons draw pay from
the city treasury of New York.
A single spoonful of common molasses
will. it is said, cure the worst case of
hicceugh.
Mr.. John D. Lee. the Mountain MUIR
derer. will be hung in less than six
days.
Alexander H. Stephens SAYS calmly,
Il want peace more than anything else.
shall threaten nobody"
The New Yory Herald admits that
lit is altogether probably that Governor
Hayes will be the next President"
Senator Burnside now wears a gray
chinchilla worsted skull-cap while in the
Senate chamber.
California has twenty-three thousand
farms and forty-seven thousand farm
/ ers.
A terrible gale prevailed in Great
Britain on Saturday ard Sunday of last
week, causing many disasters.
A Catolic Arab. from Bethlehem, is
about to open store in New York for
the sale of religious articles.
1t is estimated that fifty million feet
of lumber more will be got out on the
st. John River and tributaries this win
ter than last.
OF Tilden's one hundred and eighty
four electrical votes. one hundred and
nineteen came from states lately in re-
bellion.
Ben Hill told his associates In the
democratic caucus that the men who are
now talking of bloodshed are those who
were ''invincible in peace and invisible
In war"
James Webster Smith. the coIorec
cadet who was SO severely hazed at th,
West Point military academy. year O
two ago. has just died at Columbia, S
C.
The frightful havoc of the late eye
lone, by which a quarter of million
lives we're lost is not the only aflictiol
5 of unhappy India The cholera is a
{ gain raging with terrible violence, AM
, the crops failing for want of rain. an
other famine Is impending.
Another theatre was burned on Fri
day. At 7:45 a. NJ, fire broke on
in the Adelphi Theatre. Albany, an
: the flames secured such Roadway tia
; the entire interior Of the building wa
. cunsumed. The fire occurring at sue
an hour no one was injured.
The remains of balloon have recen
. ly been found on the coast Of Icelant
:, In the car were human bones-an il
E. complete skeleton-and leather ira
eling-bsg. containing papers 50 mold
as not to be deciphered 1t is cOnjec
e ured that this was the balloon in whic
J. the aeronaut Prince assembled during Il
7, siege of Paris.
= Five times as many persons a. peris
e. ed IN the earthquake at Lisbon. We
9. destroyed by the recent cyclone aud r
sulting food in Bengal About o.
quarter Of a million we're swept ava
H. Distance makes 50 great difference
the weight OF great calamItles, that 9
" loss Of three hundred lives in the the
tire at Brooklyn produces vastly dee
er impression than the loss Of as maj
y hundred thousand 10 the far East
u About five o'clock on sunday aftt
at noon wagon load Of nitro-glycerir
or containing some 500 pounds Of 4
fluid. exploded with terrific force abo
three-quarters Of mile from PETROL
a ! Pa, tearing the wagon and horses
hs shreds. and instantly killing Dan
81 Smith. Of the Roberts Torpedo compa
?" aud Mr Humphreys. The bodies va
hs blown 10 atoms. The men were unlaa
Il ing the wagon, and il il supposed tt
one Of them slipped and dropped cal