Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-07-17
General News Items.

A O06-driueu DeSgdI, ou OSlnS oOdlOH-
ed at the station house in Jersey City was
provided with another arm, which was
found doubled up under his coat.
The Congressional investigation in
Mr.. Blaine's case has been postponed un-
til fall on account of the continued i'll
ness of Mr.. Blaine.
James G. Blame has been appointed
Senator to take the place made vacant
by the appointment of Hon. Lot NJ.
Morrill, as Secretary of the Treasury.
Mr.. Blane's health is still much impair
ed and he Is confined to his room and
his bed.
The last return of the Bank of Eng
land shows the largest accumulation of
gold on record. The total amount in
the vaults is about G29, 100000, or
nearly Sl46, 100000.
Several cases of yellow fever have
recently occurred at Quarantine, in New
York Harbor, on vessels from Havana,
where the disease is raging with unusu-
al Yirulence.
A dispatch from Metz says that an
explosion of fre-damp has occurred at
L Hospital Colliery near Saint Avoid.
Forty-two persons were killed and forty
seven seriously injured.
Two young girls, aged thirteen and
fifteen, daughters of Samuel Hoare,
farmer living near Walkerton, Ontario,
went into the river to battle Sunday,
and venturing beyond their depth were
both drowned.
Two sisters, aged respectively eight
and four years, daughters of j. Wiley,
were drowned at Ashburnham on Friday
afternoon. The younger girl fell off a
mill dam into the water, when her sister
jumped in and attempted to save her.
Subscriptions to the fund for the pur-
chase of the Old South Church, Boston,
have accumulated so rapidly that the
committee propose to raise $4,000 by
the 18th inst, in expectation that far
Their time may be given in which the
property may be purchased either by the
city or by subscription.
A party of masked men entered the
; jail at Nebraska City Monday morning
= and assassinated Hank Dodge, who was
, to have been executed on the .2lst of
July. Dodge was confined in an iron
cage and chained. Considerable excite
y ment prevails, the people looking upon
i the deed as foul, cowardly murder
As eastward bound train on the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railroad was attacked by
Il nfkowerr,Do r
Friday night, and the baggage and ex-
S press cars. were rifed of their valuable
# contents. The safes of the express car
were opened and about $4,000 belong
= ing to the United States Express Com
: pany and $4,000 belonging to the Adams
j Express Company was taken, Well
- armed bodies of scouts are in pursuit Of
the robbers, and at the latest accounts
IN express a general confidence that they
:, will be captured.
l. Crop reports from 238 points in Ohio
Indiana. Illinois, Kentucky, and Ten
err nessee state that the season thus far hal
Id been very propitious for growing mos
ye kinds of grain, but just as harvest appro
aches there is threatened disaster from
continued rains From all points. ex
~ cept Tennessee and Southern Kentucky
V fears of the destruction of a portion O
= the crops from this cause are entertained
Nc AS the crops now stand, wheat promise
a yield of two-thirds oats, less than a
no average crop ; corn, an unusually larg
VS. crop hay in abundance, but rank an
re- weedy. Wheat is suffering considerable
as from the ravages of the weevil.
he Jacob Rehm, the head and front
eh the Chicago whisky Ring revenue d.
frauders. was on Thursday sentenced /
nv six months in the County Jail and to pa
ms fine of $4,000. In passing sentenc
-. the court remarked that the full exter
an Of the law would be given to the offenC
IN er were it not for the fact that he had
IN legal right to demand mitigation upc
AZ the faith of promise made him by Il
officers off the Government, bound
the limit which the promise of the Di
Ok trict Attorney had fixed as to the ter
pl- and place Of Imprisonment. Rehm 5
ear cured this mitigation by giving eviden
I'M against other implicated with him.
in The Turkish General Mehemet A
the Pasha has gained an important victor
over the Servians. The engageme
was fought on the 9Th inst. near Senilz
let. Mehemet Ali Pasha sent only eight ba
ana talions against the Servians, who nur
rom bered u. 700. The latter fell back
We to their entertainments, pursued BY 4
ice' Turkish troops. leaving 100 killed,
ge' equal number Of wounded, and consi
per cradle quantity Of rifles and ammur
ing ton on the battlefield. A dispatch
the London Daily Ne1s from Belgrad
in summing up the operations of the Ia
tch. eight days. says the Servians have foug
ell. ten actions and lost 5000 men. Dl
IN a ing the attack of Gen. 0lympics on B,
was ina the Turks massacred all the Chr
liter tian inhabitants. Except one success
hell only relative importance. gained by &c
bis Ichernayeft, the Seryians have ever
the where been defeated. 1t is no lone
the believed that the war can result fav,
the ably to the Servians. If the Seryia
ing. are again defeated in an important b;
run, tie, It Is thought probable they will
ack. ganize guerrilla warfare In order
into exhaust the Turks and procure favol
him bic European Intervention by demonsn
ting the impotence Of Turkey.