Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-11-05
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

dred and eighty thousand dollars.
The show business generally through
out the country is worse this season
than at any previous time within ten
years.
Texas bids fair to be the greatest
among the grain growing states, the |
yield to the acre in wheat being much
larger than in California.
Representatives of about fifty church
es met in Providence, Monday. and
formally invited Messrs Moody and
Sankey to labor there in December.
Mr.. Moody, when he was resting from
his winters work at Mortified, rested
thus: he preached three times on SUM-
day, and took place in the Bible class
at noon.
On all the rivers in Maine larger
logging business will be done this sea-
son than for many years. On the Pen
obscot and Kennebec twice as many
men will enter the woods as last year.
The latest from London is that COM
plete access has been obtained to both
pits of the High Blantyre colliery, and
it has been ascertained that two
hundred and fifty persons persisted in
fire damp explosion.
Last week fifty carcasses of beef.
fifty of sheep, eight-one hogs and two
hogsheads of oysters were shipped from
this country to France. It is believed
that this is the opening of trade fully
as large as that built up with England.
The Philadelphia Record says that
the exhibitors at the Permanent Exhib-
ition are Respondent. have all lost mon
ey, and large number of them have
expressed an intention of removing their
exhibits before the commencement of
winter.
! Monday of last week Mrs. Josiah
Hall. of Exeter, N. H., felt something
pricking her in her side, which proved
to be the point of a needle, which a
neighbor succeeded in extracting. 1t was
black with rust, and had evidently been
there long time.
, The Massachusetts, Convention of
Women's Christian Temperance Unions.
just closed in Worcester, protested
against the use of alcoholic liquor in
cooking or in the communion service,
and recommended more work in Sunday
schools in behalf of total abstinence
Gen. Bedford Forrest, the well-known
confederate cavalry officer, who has been
i'll at Memphis, Tenn, for some weeks
: past, died Monday evening He will
be chiefly remembered as the man who
is responsible for the massacre of ne
! groes at Fort Pillow in Tennessee in
: 1864.
General Pope. of the United State:
= Army, was judge at horse race il
: Leavepworth, Kansas, a few days ago
\ An Irishman named Cerrigan, who own
6 ed one of the horses, became dissatisfied
with one of the decisions and attacked
the General, giving him severe beat
: ing.
y In the list of the House committee
/ in Congress. so far as announced, W
notice that Mr.. Hendee is eighth on tn
committee on the District of Columbia
IT. and Mr.. Denison is eighth on the com
s. mittee on private land claims, Will
ID Colonel Joyce serves on the committe
/ on invalid pensions.
A despatch from Pittsburg, Pa, Oct
az ober "a, says: The first of the rio
e. cases was tried in the Criminal Cour
US to-day. A. Murray, aged seventies
W yoars, convicted OF having stolen prop
erty, firearms and ammunition, in hi
1g possession, was sentenced to the Peniten
he tiary for three years.
eS Toll. Gallagher, another of the riot
We ers. was convicted of receiving stole
goods and also plead guilty to
d. charge of larceny. He was sentence
1t, to pay fine of 81. 900 and to six year
ed in the Penltentiary. Gallagher wa
y among those who sacked the gun stor
ed of James Bonn on the night of the riot.
Seven masked men knocked in tn
u door and robbed agent Wilson of tn
~ Northern Pennsylvania railroad, nea
nc Hellentown, Pa, last Friday night
~ They secured money and valuables ant
~ wholesale robberies have been commit
~ ted in Buck county, supposed to be tn
work of this same gang. Women hav
IT. been maltreated, and number of val
ect uables stolen.
no At the jackson, Tenn, Fair o
Gu Thursday last during horse race, tw
'u' young ladies attempted to cross til
~ track, and one of them, named Ami
. Sherlock. was struck by horse an
ast probably fatally injured. The hors
W. fell and threw his rider, severely injul
we ing him. Another horse became entar
om gled in the melee, throwing his ride
&C. and fatally injuring him.
I'd, A marvellous escape from death b
ew lightning Was that of Mr.. Vest,
Suisun Valley, Cal. the other day, whe
AL a bolt struck the buggy in which h
CO. was riding, tore the top completely Of
on twisted up the iron work of the vehicl
RS, killed both his horses, and tore off tW
al panels from the fence in front of then
nal Mr.. Vest himself was stunned for tt
al moment, but entirely uninjured
led The entire country in the BIRTHS
Possessions west of the one hundredt
at and tenth meridian of Greenwich to til
,st. Rocky Mountains, bounded north /
ere the fifty -second parallel, and south
ON the forty ninth, has been coded to IL
ay, Dominion of Canada by the Blackfe
VS. and kindred Indians. The area is oil
nd of the finest of the Canadian Northwes
on. and the treaty, it is supposed, will 70
in ever prevent any Indian outbreak.
The London Times, reviewing r
Ill, cent speech of Professor Tyndall, repea
Ime the remark, 80 often made, that he sto
oil just where he ought to begin with b
his scientific proof of the oripin of life.