Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-07-31


iourned the 2lst sane die.
Over forty thousand people are IN
prison in Turkey, for debts due the
government
Mayor Wickham of New York city
was stricken down with heat Thursday,
but is better.
The town of Everton. Indiana, was
nearly destroyed by an incendiary lire
Tuesday night.
A turkey dropped from balloon at
height of three miles, alighted in New
Bedford unhurt.
A Paris, France, special says the
Government powder magazine at lou
louise has blown up, with great loss OF
life.
Thousands of acres of forest land
were burned over on Cape Cod, July
Goth, and the loss was estimated at halt
a million dollars,
A French Canadian has succeeded,
by means of pair of very large canoe
shaped shoes, in walking about a mile
on the Ottawa river.
Iowa claims the centennial small
woman" Maggie Minot, aged twenty
three years, twenty-seven inches high,
and weighing thirty-one pounds.
They have new religious sect in
Iowa, one of whose principle tenets is
that imam in "a normal condition should
be married to two woman"
Lightning destroyed three barns in and
near Moultonboro, N. H. the goth.
The house of Nelson Crockett was struck
and Mr.. Crockett fatally injured.
The Springfield Union says the Pres
idency of Amherst College was formally
rendered to Prof. Seelye by committee
of Trustees last week, aud he has the
matter under consideration.
The Committee on Banking and Cur
rency held a full meeting Friday, and
again adjourned without reaching any
agreement on the subject of the Specie
Resumption act.
The London Daily Telegraph announ-
ces that letters from Henry M. Stanley,
the famous explorer, have been received,
dated April Oath, fifteen days march
from Ujiji.
Haywood Grant was hung at Rome,
Ga, for arson Friday. He confessed to
having killed four men, one of whom
was General Hindman of the Confeder.
ate army at Helena, Ark.
The mines of Colorado yielded, il
1875, over six million two hundred anG
eighty-four thousand dollars in bullion
the estimated production for 1876 il
more than ten millions.
A very singular coincidence is report
ed from Pulaski, N. Y. James Clark
aged seventy two, and his wife, wer,
born, died, and were buried on the SAM
days, both dying of cancers.
A water spout, near Londonville Ohio
destroyed number of wheat fields, car
ried off 100 head of sheep, and washe,
out several hundred feet of railroa
track, in some places to depth of eigh
feet.
, A well-known banker, of Rome Italy
named Baldini, committed suicide b
+ drowning himself in the Tiber Hi
= books show that his liabilities al
, 100000, and his convertible asset
$4,000.
A woman named Mary Evault, Twin
: in East Saginaw Mich, was LITERAL
> cut to pieces by her husband Frida
night, her left arm being nearly severe
!. from her body, and her back, neck, an
: side frightfully gashed.
o Brigham Young says that he has bee
told by God, in vision, that the invi
ible outlet to Salt Lake is being fill
: with salt deposit, and that within 81
years the lake will overflow its bank
; inundating that part of the country.
e Robert Rosa, aged twenty-fOur year
IS hanged himself on Friday morning
&c the barn of his employer at Blooming
burg n. Y. The cause for the act
IS unknown, but some years ago the d
I. ceased sustained severe injuries from 9
,c accident. and has never fully recovere
o, The College Regatta at Saratog
be July 10th, resulted in Cornell winnlr
oil the three races, Harvard and Columbi
r being respectively second and third
I'd both the University and Freshm'
races the winning time was: Univer:
r. ty race, 1901 1-2; single soul
r Is AZ "a; Freshmen race, IL 23l-
as Other athletic contests took place on t
n two days following.
~ The tendency of summer travel is
4. Philadelphia. The watering places
rs this time have fewer visitors than usu;
NJ and many hotels that last year we
u filled, are nearly empty now. The &c
~ tennial comes only once in mans i
Tvs time, and not always then, and t
most of people are determined to see
Oh that there is to be seen of it while it
X going.
11i' 1t would seem that the Indians ha
=: uo some mysterious means of conveying
Nv Nv news, like the famous grapevine tie
-. - graph of the negroes, in the war. I
a'' st. Paul, (Minn.) PtOneer-Press a
~. ~ Tribune says that, while the first te
w graphic news of Clusters death reach
e. q, them at midnight, the Indians loaf
~, ~ about town were inquiring about it
Wy noon and soon made themselves scar
Tho A hack-driyer named William Port
av took party from Highland Falls
Eet West-Point about two weeks ago, and
.;aI his return the cadet guard at West-Po
,oc challenged him. Porter answered
;cb friend" and was shot without warnil
ner the ball entering the hip and passing
Of the knee-pan where it logged. The qua
nd who has since been locked up clai
ice, ~ oma' 'ne Shoo'ins "ds uniuVen'iol