Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-08-28
General Nescs Items.

Henry A. wise is very Ill at hlch-
mond.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is now staying |
among the mountains of Colorado.
The South Carolina Republican State
Convention is called to be held in Co.
lumbia on Tuesday, September II.
General William F. Lee. eldest son
of Robert E. Lee, turned his sword into
a ploughshare after the war, and is a
substantial farmer in Fairfax county.
Ex-Governor Sprague is working hard
in his Providence mills to redeem his
fortunes and pay the firms debts, due
next February.
On Sunday and Monday of last week,
Tallahatchie county, Mississippi. was
visited by terrible rain storm, destroy
ing crops along creeks and bottoms, and
sweeping away levees and bridges.
Connecticut produced seven hundred
and SIX new inventions last year, or one
to seven hundred and sixty-four inhab-
itants Massachusetts stood next in
the number of patents. Arkansas is at
the foot of the list
Last Saturday night the valuable
mills and lumber of D. H. & T. G.
Beattie, at Maidstone, Vt, were destroy
ed by fire. The loss is estimated at
$4,000, with partial insurance. About
month ago they lost two small mills
in neighboring town.
Colorado potato bugs have been wash
ed ashore at Milestone and other places
in Connecticut in such numbers of late
as to poison the air. The captain of
New London vessel says that they came
on board in such swarms while at sea
that they had to close the matches.
We have no important news from the
army in pussuit of the Indians. The
commands of Gems. Terry and Crook
are united, having met on the 10th inst.
The movements are made with great
caution, and it is hoped that no such
disaster may occur, as in the cutting off
of the army of Gen. Custer.
A correspondent of the Huron Expo
SitOr declares that in his opinion the
chief cause why the streams of Canada
are depleted of speckled trout is the
warmth of the water. He says: The
woods having been cut away, the sun
is allowed to shine on the water from
morning till night, making it too hot
for the trout to live in. Trout, it is
we'll known, will not thrive or live ex-
cepting in cool water.
The Chicago Tribune presents its rea-
ders with the following picture: "Til-
den is a slightly built little, frail old
man. He weighs scarcely one hundred
and twenty pounds, and is Grabbed, sour
and petulent: speaks with a nasal twang
is childless and unmarried; never re-
spected man nor loved woman, and de-
voted his whole life to money gambling
and selfish ambition. He is now sixty
three years old, and lettering towards
his end
CHICAGO, August 13.-The Chicago
and Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
reports that the grasshoppers settled
down SO thickly on its tracks near Avoca
Iowa, on Monday, that it was next tC
; impossible for the freight train to gel
along. The tracts became as if soapet
on account of the wheels crushing them
and the train men were actually obliged
to 90 forward and shovel them off tn,
} rails. Trains were delayed eight hour
ON account of the pests.
Y An exchange is assured by Mr.. Brig
ham, president of the Lamoille Vale,
| railroad, that the company have jus
completed contract with the Portland
= Rolling Mills, for four thousand 6v
| hundred tons of rails, sufficient to com
\ plete their road from johnson to Swan
ton. The rails are to be delivered soon
and the work of laying them will be GU
' at both ends and pressed forward unit
:. the road is completed. 1t is cxpectec
: now that the road will be open throug
: to Swanton this fall.
JACKSON, Miss, August 23-An acci
- dent to the south bound passenger trai
= :. on the New Orleans and jackson Raj
E road, occurred near Tugaloo, eight mile
: south of here, at l o'clock yesterda
:. morning. A bridge gave way. wreckin
:, the train. Four persons were kille
" and sixteen wounded, five or six serious
ly. Very heavy rains yesterday aftel
3 noon and last night raised the creek III
r usually high, and suddenly, and no dout
81 weakened the foundation of the bridg,
IL Some of the passengers lost their bag
&c gage.
From present indications the whole
OF sale dry goods merchants predict yer
p brisk fall trade. Already merchant
a. from the far West and Southern Statt
as have arrived in the city and purchase
t their fall supply of goods. The activ
ty noticeable in the wholesale centres
a. the city confirms the anticipations of
st good business during the season. III
y sidewalks opposite the large houses a
re blocked all day with cases of goods r
Is ceived or in preparation for Shipment
IS. NJ Z. Tribune.
An advertisement having appeare
ms for several days, in the morning paper
nd called for 100 stonecutters and masoI
IS. to 90 to Scotland several hundred me-
Is appeared, and the requisite number we
% engaged. 1t was stated that they we
its wanted by John Coghill & Son, of Smit
id ston, near Greenock. Scotland. who BIZ
the contract for erecting the city par
I'M chial buildings, and turned his eyes
a America for the $50 men necessary
oh complete the work in two years.
he SIXTY years ago occurred 'the ye
/
Il, every month of the year 1918. Ice 70
&c med half an inch thick in May sno
cd feel to the depth of ten inches in We
mont, seven IN Maine. three in Ne
of York and-also in Massachusetts,. In Jun