Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-07-24
General -Neacs Items.

The range of the thermometer in some |
of the New England towns, during last
week, was from 90 to III degrees.
The Philadelphia Times his been
looking up old weather records. and
finds the late month the hottest June in
eighty-six years.
Twenty-f persons were killed and
twenty wounded by the explosion of
one of the boilers of the English iron
clad turret-ship Tn underer, Friday.
Gen. Santa Anna, the Mexican, is
dead. He lived to be an aged man and
founded more mischief in his country
than a thousand ordinary men, could have
| done.
The number of paying visitors to the
Centennial Exposition, from its opening
to July 8, ffty-two days, was .349,S77
non- paying visitors, 6S9,O4s; total, ?,
| O47,924.
Haywood Grant, convicted Of arson,
was hanged at Rome, Ca, on Friday.
He confessed to having killed fonr men,
one of whom was Gen. Hindman, of
the Confederate Army, at Helena, Ark.
Miss Lszzie NJ. Clapp. the telegraph
operator who was killed by lightning at
Readville during the storm of Tuesday,
was buried at Hyde Park. on the 10th.
An immersed concourse of people atten-
ded the service.
Mr.. Moody will begin his revival
work in Chicago early in October, and
will 90 from there to Boston in January,
1877. Meanwhile, he proposes to study
and prepare for this fall and winter
work.
Among the articles exhibited at the
Centennial by Canada is lead pencil
ID feet long, l-2 feet thick, and
weighing 1870 pounds. 1t Is long
piece of plumbago. and was taken from
mine eighteen miles from Ottawa.
Dolly Sexton one of the members of
the Shaker community at Mount Leb-
anon, New York, whose one hundredth
anniversary of her birthday occurred on
the 9Th of last May, took her first ride
in the railroad cars last week.
Edward S. Stokes, who shot and kill
ed James Fisk, Jr., in 1873, has arrived
at Auburn Prison. His sentence was
for four years, and with the legal de-
5 auctions for good behavior he will be
t discharged IN October next.
| Gov. Tilden received the committee Of
: notification of the St. Louis Convention
, at his house in Albany last Wednesday
and was duly informed of his nomination
t He accepted informally in a brief speech
and said he would prepare the formal let
n ter at his earliest opportunity.
J The gait Mohawk, owned by Maliar
: T. Gamer, a wealthy manufacturer anC
S merchant of New York, was capsised il
the bay July 20, by squall, and Mr.
/, Gamer, his wife. and several other person
IT were drowned. Mr. Gamer was estimated
is to be worth SI5, 100000.
y President Grant IN an open letter t
y ex-Seeretary Bristow authorizes and re
lie quests him to answer all questions re
lating to the Cabinet action on tn
W whisky frauds. He is willing, also
RS that all members and past members @
10 his Cabinet be called upon to testify.
Iy BELGrADE, July ia terrible bal
ly tie was fought yesterday near Saitschal
l. The Servian forces, numbering 1000
d men, attacked the Turkish army u 90
strong, who were entrenched near Sal
n. schat, and gained three position
.. The Turks. being reinforced, renew tt
n battle and retook the position. III
10 loss on both sides was very heavy.
n In the United States Senate Wedne
"a day, the report of the conference con
1T mittee on the Sunday civil appropri
ton bill was agreed to. The testimor
on of Evans, the post-trader at Fort Still
on was taken in the Belknap impeachmel
6a trial, and the case closed on the part
10 the defence. The House agreed to Il
90 conference committees report on Il
an army appropriation bill for the prote
mo- ton of the Texas frontier.
ev- General Custer, with five of his off
led ers, were insured in the New York Insu
ance Company of this city. as follow
- General Custer. $4,000 Captain Yatt
oar $4,000 Captain Keogh, $4,000 Lie
roe tenant Calhoun, $4,000; Lieutena
,@ Crittenden, $4,000, and Iieutena
;tb Carter, So. 900. These assurances we
nf effected under special provision ma
,ot by the company for the benefit of arr
nor officers.
wa A special from fort Lincoln gives fl
in ther details of the Little Horn fight,
which it says Sitting Bull was killt
wa also whlteman named Wilbuan, Sitti
..ou Bulls chief adviser. Four compan
No. of the 22d Infantry, consisting of
80; officers and l40 men, have arrived
80 ~; Fort Lincoln and will leave the TER
III command Sunday 1t is thought Il
n~a Sitting Bulls band obtained nearly S:
600; the soldiers having just b.
tor paid.
,;m. Ex-Postmaster General Jewell v
received with every mark of regard a
an enthusiastic demonstration by
sim fellow-citizens of Hartford on his retl
It'er there Monday night. There was a
was play of fireworks, cannon were fir
ana speeches made. and the many thousal
sus- of people in the crowd manifested I'll
Teen esteem for their distinguished fellow C
-ohe zen by repeated cheering. No furt
MY facts concerning Gov. JEWELS dismi:
ally from the Cabinet have been made pub
Inc He says that no charges we're IN
poor against him. The President reques
his resignation, which be immediat
was rendered. Second Assistant Postmas
the General James II. Tyner, of India
reak has been appointed TO succeed him.
ont; Newark, NJ, was convulsed with
eton citement and horror on the 18th. by
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