Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-06-19
General Ne,cs Items.

Commodore Vanderbilt is reported re-
covering, and is himself very hopeful of
The grasshoppers have gone to Spain.
They are devouring the fields on the
banks of the Guadiana.
During the recent drought in Jamaica,
water was so scarce that 1t brought eight
cen shillings puncheon.
Ex-Mayor Eastman, of Poughkeepsie,
N Y. presented 500 hats to the street
boys of that city Saturday.
George Williams, the founder of the
Young Mems Christian Association IN
London, is on visit to Boston.
Donald McLane was drowned at Bur
banks Mill, Carroll, n. H., Saturday
before last, while drawing out logs.
Dom Pedro passed Saturday before
last at Harvard College, and dined with
Prof. Longfellow in the evening.
The lawyers of the United States cost
six times as much as the ministers and
the dogs twelve times as much as the
ministers.
The foot and mouth disease has broken
out with great virulence among the hogs
at Outremont, Canada. Hundreds are
dead and dying.
Mrs. Julia Sumner Hastings, sister
of the late Charles Sumner, died at the
White Ranch, Marin County, California,
on Monday, May 20.
One of the largest drives of logs on
the Connecticut River for years has been
passing Hanover, N. H., for two days in
charge of seventy-tive lumbermen.
There was a violent thunder shower
in portions of Wisconsin Sunday, June
i II, and two Sunday school children
were killed near Two Rivers.
Senator Twitchell, of Louisiana, who
has been shot at half dozen times by
disguised assassin of the Ku-Klux, may
recover, with the loss of both arms.
There are six murderers lying under
sentence of death at New Orleans. wait
ing the action of the Governor. One
has been condemned to death for two
years.
A Miss Stewart, of Hamilton, Ontario,
has recovered seven hundred dollars
damages from lover, who forsook her
after an engagement of twenty-seven
: years.
: The Exposition Jury on agricultural
machinery have decided to abandon the
old practice of field trials, and will
! merely examine the machines as they
E stand in Agricultural Hall. There will
be no first premium.
The Quebec fire consumed four humid
+. red and eleven houses, no account OF
: double dwellings and eutbuildings being
: made. The total loss was, as nearly as
/. can be ascertained, one million dollars
insurance. two hundred and fifty thous
}, and dollars.
Y The Hamilton PRINT Works at Lowell
J Mass, suspended operations Monday
y seven of the calico printers having refus
J ed to accept the reduction of wages pro
: posed. The company will resume a
u soon as the condition of the market vii
&c warrant it.
y The liabilities of the mill owners whC
failed recently at North Adams, Mass.
foot up to almost S2,000,000, and tn
10 assets, not allowing for further shrinkag
e and leaving cut the real estate, ar
20 about twenty-five per centum of tina
le amount
q During the excitement attendant o.
r the parade of circus company at Fal
1T River, on Friday, four men entered tn
r. CITY Treasurer's Office and asked for
he license 1t was subsequently discovere
that a tin box containing S4,3l7 wa
missing and no clue to it has been dis
81 covered.
or Among the persons who gathered
en- Omaha, Neb., to see the trans-eontinent;
lit train, was an old man who had nevt
IT'D before seen a locomotive. He went fro
No Rhode Island twenty-five years ago, an
Is, settled in Nebraska, where he has ev,
la since resided. During the twenty-6'
7as years he has never been twenty five mil
away from his country home.
1es On Saturday before last, lightnrI
de- struck a tank belonging to o. H. Ha
1ly rington, one mile south Of Oil City, p
rty containing twenty-one thousand barre
md of crude oil. 1t Immediately explod
me and set fire to tank owned by McGra
ISL Brothers, containing twenty three thou
avs and barrels of oil. The loss is estimat
is at one hundred thousand dollars.
70 Augustus Stowell, at one time cane
Tor date for Mayor of Newburyport, Mas
ave was arrested Sunday before last, charg
ali with extreme cruelty to his wife
the Wednesday before he brutally b
ock her about the head, and has kept
| of locked in her room since then. VIII
1 a liberated erysipelas had supervened ur
had the wounds, and her case is quite critic
81 The story having been extensiv,
tne circulated that unkind feelings exist
anK between Messrs. Blaine and Bristow,
'oao Gov. Dennison, Of Ohio, makes sta
lnen ment that he was present at an intervi
lde' between these two gentlemen on Sat
per- day night, and that their sentime
de- towards each other. as manifested
I d that meeting, were most cordial q
last kindly.
side
cul- AtFleetwood Park, New York, Thu
ush- day. June s, Parker. the mustang nd
made second attempt to ride thi
ponies three hundred and five miles
lerer fifteen hours. The first attempt resul
the In failure at the end of two hund
one; and twenty-six miles; the second at
Oh end of two hundred and sixteen mi
had In both cases the failure was dut
e q blindness coming upon the rider.