Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-05-01
General Ne,cs Items.

stock in Oregon during the past winter
is reported.
There arc ten thousand three hundred
and thirty-six American exhibitors en-
rolled for the Centennial.
Moody's trip SoOth is not to be wholly
a recreation. He begins week of re-
vival services at Augusta, Ga, to-day
The collections at the Moody and
Sankey meetings in New York week be-
fore last amounted to one hundred and
sixty thousand dollars.
LONDON, April 26.-In the House of
Commons to-day, the bill removing the
political disabilities of women was de-
feated by vote of 239 against l52.
Seventeen persons implicated in the
murder of Mr.. Margery, of the English
Expedition, will be executed at Bhamo,
Burmah, May 5, in the presence of the
British Escort.
1t is believed that Don Carlos, the
Spanish prince who made such fight
for the throne in Spain, is travelling in
the United States under an assumed
name.
A bullion yield of twenty-one million
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
is promised from the Utah mines this
year, more than half of which will be
silver.
Fat men, and people with tight boots,
will be gratiied to learn that there are
only thirty eight miles of walking re-
quired to obtain full view of the Cen
tennial.
One of the ladies in waiting on the
Queen of Greece Is to be married, and
her trousseau, which has been ordered
in Paris, is to cost two hundred thou
sand dollars.
On Good Friday some young rascal
put ink in the receptacles for holy water
in the Cathedral, Montreal. with the
most startling effect SO far as the pious
worshippers were concerned.
John Dolau, the murderer of James
H. Noe, was hanged in the Tombs at
New York city on the 2lst ult. He
made no confession, and died without
showing any fear or weakness.
RoUEN, April 26.-The total damage
by the destruction by fire of the Theatre
das Arts and other buildings is over
S2,OOO,O0O francs. Twenty-Five per-
sons were killed and many others in.
jured.
Five men were hanged at Fort Smith
Ark, Friday, April 81. Their names
were Aaron Wilson, negro, Sam Sealey
Orpheus McIbee, and John Gibson
Choctaws. and William Leach, white
man. All were murders. some of thu
crimes having been particular atrocious
Professor Garland, who shot and Sc
verely wounded his wife last Septembe
in New Brunswick, n. j., and then sho
y himself through the head. cut his throat
I hacked his wrists and fractured his skull
q with hammer, was sentenced to fv
? years in State Prison by Judge Scudde
o last week.
A large party for the Black Hill, VIII
have just arrived at Custer City by wa.
. of Yankton, state that when sixty mile
) out from Yankton they were forced t
/ leave the coach behind by reason of tn
VI bad going, shoulder their packs and foo
TX 4 into the hills, and 1t took them thirty
nee elgh. Gays.
ok Apn. explosion of powder Saturday
his new raj, during the operations in
W. struction nga tunnel in course of COZ
on South Wales, Gath. Glamorgan County
ar burying all the ID the roof to fal
dead bodies and Gpen. Thrice
os- have been recovered. or OF wounde
red Minister E B. Washburne
III from Paris that he should be cograpt
OF to decline, absolutely, the nominae
md for Governor of Illinois, should it
ap- offered him. 1t is expected in Chlcs
1t that should Mr.. Washburne fail of {
all nomination for President at Cincinns
lex he will run for the Senate.
OAs The President has pardoned S.
Tu' Murdoch, who was sentenced in Octob
a. 1874, for sending letter. charging H
in- Fernando Wood, of New York, with
a'y timaey with his wife, and threaten
to kill Mr.. Wood if he did not send b
has a certain sum of money. He has ser,
sh- out eighteen months of his two yea
go, sentence.
-uo William Cooper, hired man on
Ie' place of Mr.. Lowry, in the western 81
Pc urbs of St. Louis, shot Nellie Dean
ou' servant in Mr.. Hudson's family, a
Sss' then shot himself They are both 8,
ath ously wounded, and will probably
nVu 1t is said that Miss Deans refusal
s1n marry Cooper was the cause of
iie' shooting.
hes The following witnesses have b.
nm summoned on behalf of the Managers
ont appear next Thursday and give testir
saIt ny in the Belknap impeachment tri
inc Mr.. and Mrs. Caleb p. Marsh, H.
'.p Vail, cashier of the Bank of CONNIE
= of New York; Z. L. Bartlett, lawyer
New York. and Gen. G. A. Custer, III
ed States Army.
ions H. w. Beecher preached in Cambri
adj Sunday morning, April 23d, and
sne Boston in the evening. 1t require
He large police force to quell the dIstr
,rob ance that was occasioned at the doc
a. the church by the crowd of persons
lad attempted to gain admission. II
At estimated that 5000 went away after
,nce house was completely filled.
His The Chicago City National Ba
the with cash capital of S25O,Oo0, Gle
ssin its doors last Monday morning.
DON. cashier states that the entire liabilit
&C exclusive of the capital stock, are sst
1t 600. mostly deposits. This amour
the secured by assets, making the nomi
at surplus over all liabilities of about
on hundred thousand dollars, nearly