Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-05-27
General Meas Items s.

leading Democratic candidate for presl-
dent. so far as the preference of the con-
ventions held up to date indicate.
A terrible explosion occurred on Sun
day before last at the old Midlothian
coal pit in Chesterfield county, Va, re-
sulting in the loss of eight lives and the
injury of several men.
The Republican conventions lately
held have manifested a decided prefer
ence for Blaine; these include the states
of New Hampshire, California, Illinois,
Iowa. Minnesota, Kansas and Nebraska.
Beriah B. Rogers. the cashier of the
Fulton Bank, Brooklyn, N. Y, who
started off with $4,000 of the banks
money to establish stock farm in Ten
nessee, recently withdrew his plea of not
guilty, and pleaded guilty.
A copy of the painting of the battle
of Bunker Hill, six feet by nine, worked |
in silk thread on broadcloth, containing
100000 stitches, the work of forty
nine weeks, is to be exhibited at Phila
delphia by the Wee& Sewing Machine
Company of Hartford.
At San Francisco, last week, the rev.
enue officials discovered an underground
pipe leading from Bay View distillery,
South San Francisco, to an outlet under
the wharf of the establishment some
hundred yards distant, whence evidently
large amounts of crooked whiskey have
been shipped.
The house of Daniel Mingo. near
Dresden, Yates county, N. Y, was
burned on Tuesday evening. the 9th,
and three children, aged respectively
fourteen, eight and FIVE years, persisted
in the flames. Mr.. Minge, who is
widower, left the children alone in the
house. Their bodies were found close
together, the arms of the elder about
the two younger ones.
Alvin c. Foster of Keene. N. H., was
murdered on the night of May 23d in
that city. He was found early in the
morning in school-house yard with a
towel tied tightly over his mouth, and
had received a wound over one eye. 1t
is supposed that his death resulted from
the effects of chloroform which was ad-
ministered to him while he was being
robbed of his money. The murderers
have not been discovered.
The House committee on foreign af-
fairs have not finally acted on the report
of the sub committee affecting General
Schenck, but the members are agreed
that while he was not himself guilty of
intentional wrong he was party with
others in a speculative enterprise which
resulted in great loss to British subjects,
and that his becoming a director in
Emma mine company was altogether
improper and incompatible with his po-
sition as an American minister.
New Jersey is becoming very explos-
i've. Early or Friday morning, week
before last, an explosion occurred in the
engine room of Titus & Conrad's carpen-
ter shop in Montgomery street, Trenton,
shaking buildings and smashing panes
of glass in Montgomery, Academy.
Stockton, Hanover, and Perry streets,
and damaging buildings for blocks away
: The explosion was made by ''fre-damp, y
e that had been left in the furnace of the
I engine, and which was ignited when q
l fire was started.
Special dispatches report heavy storms
in various localities in the Northwest OF
Sunday night, which did much damage
y to crops and to property. In Clay coun
n ty, Iowa, the storm was most destructive
n and in Gayville, in the same county
: many houses were torn down or wrecked
It Hailstones from two to three inches IL
b diameter fell in such quantities as tC
:. cover the ground to the depth of foul
IS inches. A terrific wind accompanied
the storm. In Lansing, Michigan, tn
! storm was severe and destructive. Ii
e Sparta, Wisconsin, and Mendoza ant
Rockford, H., the fields were delugeC
and much damage inflicted. A heav,
:, snow-storm was reported on Monda,
! last west of Laramie City, Wyoming.
J. The steamer Pat Cleburne explode,
ii her boiler six miles below Swaneetowr
a. while lying alongside of the Arkansa
Belle, at IL o'clock on Wednesday nigh
- week before last, and taking fire, foate,
% down about mile and burned. Captai
=. :. Fowler was caught in the timbers an
- burned to death Dick Partridge, expires
= agent, was lost; Walter McElhenny, Ell
- gineer, was blown into the river an
y y badly hurt, and number of the dec
=, hands are missing Several more weI
-, - sealded and injured in other ways. A
unknown passenger was blown to ii
roof of the steamer Belle, which Wa
to lying alongside, and was killed. II
n belle was badly wreacked, her chimney
it blown overheard, her staterooms shatte
TT ed, and she was on fire in many places.
- Another terrible explosion of powd
- About 2 o'clock in the afternoon I'll
u - Giant Powder Works at Drakesville, {
q the Delaware, Lackawanna and Westel
~ Railway, blew up. The shock was di
tinctly felt eight miles distant. II
ht- accident took place in the mixing ROOF
W. where Frederick Johnson, superintende
Ike of the chemical department, and Patri,
W. Gallagher were working. Both we
H., blown to atoms. A few fragments
err their bodies only were recovered. T.
OF, mixing room was utterly destroyed, al
he there is hole fifty feet square al
ht- eight feet deep where it stood 7
sly storage house, in which is kept from 81
900 to $4,000 pounds of the giant pc
rbt der, did not explode. 1t is located
So the other side of knoll, about t.
;er hundred feet away. The cause of t
vel explosion can only be cOnjectured. I
nm fall of pail of nitroglycerine won
go have been sufficient. Dir. johnson "
the recently married and was greatly estce