Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-07-30
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

1t is announced from Madrid that
$4,000 more soldiers will sail in August
for Cuba.
1t IS not yet known exactly how many
lives were lost by the St.John fire. Eigh-
teen persons at least met their deaths.
The aggregate value of the Jubilee
offerings to the Pope, is estimated on
good authority at nearly 100000.
Mr. Ira D. Sankey's cottage at Cohas.
set, Mass, was entered on the Fourth,
and property to the value of 500 stolen.
A Niagara Falls letter says the sea-
son is dull, and hotel keepers are bank
rupt. Misrepresentation and extortion
are the causes.
A Chelsea farmer and hired man
went grasshopper hunting the other day
and gathered two bushels and three
pecks of the pests in few hours.
A Hazardville, Conn.,, woman, who
has lost five husbands in powder-mill
explosions. is about to marry sixth,
who is also a powder mill operative.
1t is estimated that the peach crop
will exceed this season even that of
1875, and is is probable that this year
the total will reach 100000 baskets.
A bridge on which Is men were at
work near Cincinnati on Tuesday last,
fell into the river, killing and fatally
injuring five men besides wounding
eight.
During 1872 there were A deaths
from starvation in the metropolitan dis
trict of London-the district including
Middlesex and the cities of London and
Westminster
The lumber trade feels the impetus of
low prices, and the shipments for June
from the Saginaw country were 25,0O0,-
900 feet in excess Of those of last year.
Recently about 3O,O0O,OOO feet changed
hands in two days.
The British Parliament has done
more talking than voting this session.
During the five months from February
to Jnly only Is public and II local acts
passed through the two houses and re-
ceived the Royal assent.
CLAREMoNT, N. H., July %. c. H.
Bacon. a wellknown painter of this place,
fell over so feet from staging while
working this morning at the linen mill,
breaking his neck and killing him in
stantly. The deceased was 81 and
leaves wife.
The Pioneer Press gives most cheer
ing accounts of the wheat crop in Min
nesota It's minimum estimate is 3d.
100000 bushels, worth at least $780,
100000 to the farmers of that State,
which is double the return of the crop
of last year.
East Westminster, in this State, out
of total population of 800 persons.
has 60 who have passed the allotted age
of three score years and ten; 3 over
30 IL over so and 81 over Is years.
Their united ages anoa-,t To Aha2 years.
and their average fraction more than
76.
The shoe mandatory of T. A. Cool.
idge, at West Marlboro, Mass, and a
dwelling-house, were burned on July s.
The loss on the building and stock is
estimated at 100000 More than two
hundred hands are thrown out of EN-.
! ployment by the fire. The fire original
ed in the boiler room, it is thought, from
a defective chimney. The insurance on
the building is 81, 1000.
New York city paid S1,748,456.3G
; for private buildings burned or Quilted
and valuables destroyed during the
draft riots in 1868. Pittsburg's bill
. u6 ;i' ulvl1sus WIN have occasion TO regret
that their sympathy with the strikers
} led them to look on without interference
| while millions of dollars of property
l were being burned and plundered by
7 the mob.
Dispatches from the scene Of the In
i. dian war in Idaho state that in an en-
: gagement between a portion of the regu
0 lar cavalry, with some of the voluntee
forces, and the Indians of Joseph's band
on Thursday, the white troops were com
! PEELED to retreat, after a loss of severa
;, men. Groups of the Indians, and thei
= women, are constantly coming into cam
q and giving themselves up, but the mai
, band is still defiant.
!. The Southern gold mines are raisln
l. again to prominence, the product 9
~ North Carolina for the fiscal year 1875
!. 6 amounting to $1O,332,O00, that {
J. George to S7,379.00O, and that c
is South Carolina to 1881, O00.-a tots
of $40, 096,O0O. The product for tn
IF year just closed is supposed to be muc
\ greater. Eleven stamp-mills are no
! running near Dahlonega, Ca, and Bo'
: ton capital is the dominant interes
- Labor is rs cents day, and wood S
~ a cord.
- The gold excitement in the Whit
:. mountain region about Milan seems
:, be at high pitch, and so many pro
:. pectors have rushed in, that the Gran
20 Trunk railway has established a static
- at the point of discovery, about dozt
~ miles from Gerham. The vein is sa
~, ~ to be Is feet wide, running for over
/" mile, and lotion blast the other d;
er assayed $3.50 ton, so per cent. beir
~ copper, 20 per cent. each of gold al
- lead, and 10 per cent. silver, II.
Flagler, Of Boston, has bought the far
ms of Mr.. Fogg, its owner for 20 yeal
IT. and is undecided whether to work Il
k. mine himself or dispose of parts of it.
Elk The latest dispatches from Greg
ee are up to July l9 and represent tn
On the hostile bands of Indians are the
eo oughly demoralized. A special dispat
IN from General. Towards camp says tn
"a, on the 10th Red Heart, Nez Per
nd no chief, with 16 warriors from JOSEPH
TN and Looking Glass bands, and So VOL
en- and children. surrendered themselv
e: to Gen. Howard. They were ma
ier prisoners and were told that they wou
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