Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-09-25

TREAT Britain Will need large guam |
tity of wheat the coming year. and look
es to America for the supply.
Jesse Pomeroy was committed to the
Massachusetts, state prison, Thursday
evening. to serve his life sentence.
Mrs. Governor Hayes sent boquet
to the Ohio state fair, last week. which
was awarded a special prize Of fifty
dollars
The yellow fever is raging in Savan-
nah, GA. and nearly one half of the people
are sick with the terrible disease.
Nearly 80 die daily with the disease.
Negroes, who have heretofore been
considered exempt from the attacks of
yellow fever. form large proportion of
fatal cases in the epidemic in Savannah.
A tramp by the name of Wood muir
dered woman in Otis, Mass, last week
He knocked down her husband with a
club and beat out her brains with an
ak.
The apple crop in Connecticut this
year is said to be immense. Trees al
together neglected, in pastures and along
the roadside, are heavily laden with the
| fruit.
Up to Sept. 10th only sl,534,57S.
had been received for admission fees at
the Centennial exhibition. Since that
time about $4,000 day has been the
average.
| Dr. Winship, noted as the little man
who could lift dead weight of 270O
pounds. died lately in Boston from dis
ease supposed to have been caused by
over lifting.
The Massachusetts state building on
the Centennial ground has been offered
for religious services on Sunday, and
invitations have been given to all resi-
dents on the ground to attend.
The tabernacle for Moody and Sankey,
in Chicago, will hold ten thousand per-
sons. and be ready for use within a few
weeks. After the revival season, the
structure will be converted into stores
General Clusters Remington rife, and
black horse he used to ride at Lincoln,
have been captured By some Black Hill
ers. A young warrior killed on the
route to the Black Hills had possession
of them.
Some of the smaller bands of Indians
have been caught and punished by
Crooks and Terrys troops, but the most
of them have escaped, disbanded and are
preparing to return to the agency for
the winter.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin says
that within the last eight years it has
recorded the result of nearly seventy
five heavy losses which occurred from
the presence of loose matches about
; workmen's clothes.
1t is reported that Theodore Tilton by
accident, or otherwise, got into the
berth in a sleeping car with somebody;
wife during recent trip on the cars
: The wife's husband objected, and knock
ed Tilton down and reported the fact
: Theodore denies.
: Caleb Gushing says that he knew
Tweed was bound to Spain that he pos
ted the Spanish authorities that they
: agreed to arrest him at the request O
e the United States government, and TweeC
d will be handed over to the United State
u officers on arrival.
: A great storm of wind and rain pass
- ed over the Southern and Middle State
last Saturday and Sunday. Great dam
/, age was done all along the eastern eoas
n to shipping. with the loss of many lives
st Inland, buildings were blown down an,
-e much damage done.
d A dispatch from Salt Lake City, Q
s. the 18th, says: About o'clock thi
evening. two masked men boarded
a train on the Utah Central Railroad
IF eight miles north of this city, gage
" Wells, Fargo & Co.'S messenger. open
le ed the safe, took $4,000, and mad
70 their eacape.
i. There is growing tendency in Ca
D. ifornia toward division Of the rancho
into small farms. 1t is a good sigr
rs The cutting up Of immense tracts nc
Ii only stimulates immigration and color
IN ization, but leads to Investigation {
A.: crops. and the adoption of improved syi
e. TENS of immigration.
lit In Rochester. the birthplace Of spiri
d. ualism. c. L. Jennings makes public tt
means through which he deluded belize
or ers in NATURALIZATION. He confesst
r. that he used cabinet with seer
ed panel, and was aided by confederat
I'M masks and wigs. He says that Il
of fimsiest tricks were seldom suspected.
sr- The captured Of Tweed in Spain
Oh confirmed by additional dispatches I
is to be seut to this country by way
lie Cuba, embarking at Corunna on the 2ls
mt aud is expected to reach here about tt
X 21st Of October. He is to be sent HON
IN. ward in Spanish mail steamer, in O
OF. der that ne may be under Spanish co
,ty troll until he is surrendered to the Anne
Of lean authorities.
A despatch from Los Angeles narrat
=, terrible tale of of suffering on the c.
- oradO desert Henry Smith, from
=. Louis, with one companion and a pa
~ train, left Yuma for Los Angeles al
IN wandered four days on the desert wit
noe out water. Smith opened veins of
he arm and drank the blood, which clott
in his throat. He then cut his win
pipe to remove it and died in a f,
red hours after His companion reach
zen the station in the last stage Of exhar
1t ton.
e.' The American rife team won at t
~, National shooting match held at Cree
- moor week before last. They contest
- with teams from Ireland. Scotlar
% Australian and Canada and won by
ing points over the best rivals. The M
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