Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-03-27

of India.
bank book keeper has stolen $780,
600 Of the funds Of the Marine bank of
New York.
1t is sand that the New Hampshire
election settles nothing. 1t has settled
the democrats for a while.
A train Of twenty cars left Montreal
on Tuesday for Philadelphia, loaded
with articles for the great exhibition,
| Gen. Daniel T.. Sickles is said to be
on his way from Paris 20 this country,
He is expected here about the LIST of
April.
A boiler burst in n rolling mill in
Laramie on the morning of March Esd.
killing four men aud doing great
damage.
Representative Joyce from Vermont
has been unable to attend to his Congress
sional duties for some days on account
of sickness
United States Treasurer. j. C. New.
has resigned because his salary was not
sufficient TO maintain him in Washing
ton He was faithful, capable officer.
B. B. Halleck. who has been on trial
for implication in the theft of $4,000
from the United States Treasury last
spring, was recently found guilty by
Washington jury
great fire in Charleston, S. c., on
Monday last destroyed property to the
amount of 100000, burned out several
streets. aud left hundreds of people
homeless and peuniless.
Gen. Robert G. Schenck. late United
States Minister to Great Britain. arrived
IN New York by the Abysslnia on Sun
day. He will shortly appear before the
House committee at Washington in ref
erenee to his connection with the Emma
Mine scandal
The recent decisive battle between the
Egyptians and Abyssinians. resulting in
the defeat of the latter and suing for
peace by the king, was good deal of
Scrimmage. The victors numbered 90
600, and there were 10000 in the
defeated force.
The Montreal night express. north
over the Boston, Concord & Montreal R.
T., collided with some freight cars which
were blown from the side track, at Hav-
erhill. n. H., last Tuesday night, wreck
ing the engine and throwing the baggage
car off the track. No one was hurt.
Princeton. Ind. was recently swept
by a tornado, which, though it lasted
only a minute, destroyed fifty buildings,
and damaged as many more; number
of persons were injured. some of them
fatally. Many horses were killed.
Among the buildings destroyed was
church and also school house. The
storm extended to Kentucky, where it
was very destructive.
: Dispatches from Omaha state the snow
between there and the Pacific slope is
far greater than for many years past,
and that it covers almost the entire
country. In many places the railroad
bed IS from ten to twenty feet below the
top of the snow, and it has required al
most superhuman efforts to keep the
roads open at all. Most of this snow
has fallen within the past month.
During recent fire at Danielsonville,
Conn.,. the telegraph operator, Miss
Shumway. was called to send dispatch
to Norwich. The building in which the
office was situated was on fire, but with
heroic calmness she sent the message,
surrounded By flames and nearly stifed
with smoke. Her hands were nearly
covered with cinders, and the door-knob
was too hot to be handled with comfort.
George H. Pendleton, formerly and
long time democratic candidate for NOM
ination for the Presidency. would seem
to be efectually ''done for" by the re-
cent disclosures of his disgraceful course,
III relation to a railroad of whom he was
President, and in which he was interest.
ed as guardian for two minor children
he having put large sum in his pocket
BY collecting of the Government, thro'
Relknap, a doubtful claim that had been
re)ested by Secretary Stanton. He is
POLITICALLY as dead as Belknap himself
LONDON, March 20.-Nearly all the
railroads Corth of the River Tay remain
more or les blocked by snow. The
oaiedonlan lines are covered with snow
~ feet deep near Aberdeen. Twelve
trains are standing showed in at one
point. More than a dozen trains are
blockaded in on the Great Northern
Line. The telegraph lines are buried at
several points north of Aberdeen. The
mail from Dundee to Perth Yesterday
took fourteen hours instead of the usual
forty minutes. The cold to day is
intense.
A few days since. says the Newark
DAILY, while 300 children were in Pub
lie School, No. 4, Jersey City. portion
Of the ceiling of the largest class room
fell and slightly injured several of the
pupils a panic Immediately occurred,
and both teachers and children rushed
toward the doors. The smaller children
were thrown down and trampled by their
elders. Thinking the building was
about to fall. number Of the children
ran to the windows, but fortunately
could not reach them, the distance to
the street below being more than thirty
feet Order was at length restored.
when it was found that eighty-four were
seriously injured. many others being
more or less bruised
George P. Rowell & Co., the we'll
known New York advertising agents,
have undertaken to make a full and
complete exhibition Of American news.
papers at the Centennial Exposition in
Philadelphia. A building will be erect |
ed expressly for this purpose, in which |
copies Of every publication in the United |
states can be seen and preserved during