Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-10-02

their age and weight. and bearing /
placard of the man who prepared them /
for exhibition. followed by the word
''taxidsrmist. A man and his wife /
were looking at these with great inter.
est. After reading the placards the |
woman said: why, these are taxider-
mistsl | thought they were hogs"
Her husband looked at the creatures
with a puzzled expression. and then
went carefully over the placard, as if |
to satisfy himself fully on the point.
Finally be replyed: They are hogs.
Taxidermist is the name Of the place
they came from"
DROWNING OF SIXTEEN PERSONS BY
FLo0D.-A terrible disaster occurred in
Forrest county, Pa, on Thursday. A
heavy rain storm prevailed in that part
of the State on Tuesday and Wednesday,
not abating until Thursday morning.
The waters flooded the party-settled val
leys. Near Ralston. newly opened
numbering hamlet. two cabins. occupied
by George Parks and Daniel Cooper
wood-choppers, were washed down the
mountain side into the streams below
before the families were aroused from
their slumbers. The Parks family con-
sisted Of seven persons-the father,
mother and FIVE children. There were
nine members of the Cooper family
Cooper, his wife, their six children and
Mrs. Adams. the mother of Mrs. Cooper.
The sixteen persons were all drowned.
THE NEW TERRIToRY.-The new Ter
ritOry of Pembina, which is to be erected
out Of portion Of Dakota, covers 49,
$50 square miles, and is on the northern
boundary of the United States. There
are within its limits 1000 miles of nav
igable waters. including the Missouri,
Yellowstone and Red River The latter
/ furnished communication northward with
Manitoba. Bismark is the railway ter
minus. Excepting on the Red and Chey-
enne rivers there is very little timber,
while a large district is composed of
sand aud gravel, and is known as the
bad lands" Notwithstanding the long
and intensely cold winters, this region
Is said to be good one fos stock rais-
ing. There are about $4,000 people
in the Territory, half of them white
settlers. Bismarck will probably be
made the capital.
| CHICAGO, H., September 26.-The
Standing Rock Indians have surrendered
six mules and number of American
horses in addition to those surrendered
Kill Eagle says son of Ink Paduty
killed General Custer. He rushed upon
him, threw Clusters gun up and stabbed
him in the breast and passed on, and
returning shot him through the head
Lieutenant Harrinton, with twenty men
escaped some six miles, but they wer,
finally chased into an alkali bed anC
shot down; none were captured. On,
man, soldier who spake Sioux, surren
dered and passed the Indians his gun
and revolver, but they shot him witt
his own gun. Sitting Bull reprovec
them severely for this: he wanted hin
brought to camp. The Indians at Stand
ing Rock have been informed that the
: must bring in their young men or thei
: annuities will be held, but they laugl
at the idea.
Charles W. Bailey the well-know
cattle driver and specuIator OF MontpeIie
was instantly killed at Essex Junction
y. at 5.15 P. NJ. Saturday. He had arriJ
ed from St. Adams on the mixed traiI
ard stepped on the hunters between tw
cattle cars to look into a car aud pol
away some sheep from a horse which W;
I there. Suddenly the train started an
|, the two cars came together MASKING b
s head between the two foot boards ne;
. the top of the cars. He dropped upc
the track and the train passed over hin
! breaking shoulder and a leg. His r
mains were taken to Montpelier on ii
e evening train. The deceased was me-
: of considerable property and infuenc
He was widely known and his loss wi
: be deeply felt, not only IN Montpelie
5 but along the whole line of the Centr
t. Vermont. He was the son of the Ho
e George W. Barley of Middlesex, al
: brother of the late George W. Bale
Secretary of State. and Theron o. Bail
u proprietor Of the Pavilion Hotel H
IS age was about forty-fve years.
of JERSEY CITY. n. J.. September 25.-
T. During four nights of last week the f;
+ mers in the neighborhood of Hallspo
A Burlington County, n. j., were engag
in hunting what they supposed was
Dc sheepkilling dog, and did not discO'
he until Thursday that the animal at viii
Y. they had been shooting was mons
40 tiger, probably the one which some wee
: ago escaped from Van Amburgs me-
- agerie while exhibiting in South Jers'
l. After committing various depredatiC
or upon the farm of John Smith, n,
Mount Holly. Smith. man named g
II bons, with another farmer, Henry Parl
determined to watch. On Wednesd
- night all three of them were on the lo'
I'd out, provided with army rifles. GibbC
Is fred, striking him in the groin.
n wound being plainly seen by Park
:. near whom he passed as he turned q
limped toward the swamp. So rapic
IT. did he 90 that they were only able
TX pursue him short distance On
Z" following morning he was traced by
ba blood marks for half mile into
= swamp. where the pursuit ended
~ affair has caused great alarm among
farmers Of the surrounding country.
CT DREADFUL ACCIDENT TO AN AERoSA
ry. As an aeronaut named George W
as throp was making an ascent at Paxt
int Ill, on Saturday the balloon burst vi
about 500 feet from the ground, and
On gan to decend rapidly. The atmOsphs
Ien resistance formed the canvas into
ID shape Of parachute. which party che
, a ed the downward fight. bur when ab
300 feet from the earth the canvas rol