Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-05-28
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

United States have been far fewer and
smaller in amount than in England or
Canada.
Senator Blaine is reported to have re-
Gently remarked that the best advice he
could give Republicans was to behave
themselves There could be no better
LONDON, May o. 1t is believed Rus
STA and England have agreed upon local
izing the war, also upon the question of
the navigation of the Suez Canal.
LONDON, May %. The Pail Mail
Gazette has Paris dispatch saying that
President MacMahon has requested Don
Carlos to leave France tonight.
Bernard ]. Reilly, a lawyer at st.
Louis, Mo-, who misapplied trust funds.
has been sent to the penitentiary for two
years. The victim was widow, and
the amount $4,000.
William Payne. l3 years old, killed
his teacher. Miss Kingsbury, at Oregon,
Holt county, Mo-, few days ago, by
striking her with his fist when she at
tempted to punish him.
ADELAIDE. South Australia. Thirty
persons have beer drowned by the wreck
of vessel plying between Adelaide and
the Albany Isles, on the north east coast
of Australia.
The RaiL.oay Age says that 395
American locomotives. worth S5,490.-
GAO. have been exported in seven years.
and that 1.-The reputation of American
engines is steadily increasing.
LONDON, May 10. A st. Petersburg
telegram says the Russians have taken
Ardahan. with 60 guns and large guam
titles of stores. The Russians lost 235
men. The Turks fed.
The Worcester Spy says there is more
building in that city at the present time
than has been the case since the spring
of 1873. One of the causes is probably
the cheapness of material and labor.
W. H. Hill, envelope manufacturer of
Worcester. produced on Wednesday, in
ten hours work. one million three hun
bred and thirty thousand four hundred
envelopes, the largest number ever made
by any manufacturer in this country in
a single day.
LONDON, May %. The Times Paris
dispatch has the following: France will
doubtless pronounce overwhelmingly
against President MacMahon at the elec-
tions, even If the Senate gives MAORI
ty in favor of dissolution would inevita-
BILE cause MacMahOn's resignation.
Mrs. Albert Clement of Shelburne
Falls and her seven-months-old babe
were terribly burned Saturday morning
by the breaking of kerosene lamp.
which her husband dropped upon hot
stove near which they were sitting. The
child died during the day.
The skin of the enormous grizzly bear
lately killed in Calaveros county, Cal,
is to be sent to Mr.. Hayes. The ami
mol when. dressed weighed 1853 IL
pounds. His no~1, hack of the ears
was two feet ten and a hair iHahes in
circumference after the skin had beer
removed.
There has been marked decline il
-four, averaging fully half a dollar ;
barrel. Wheat is dull, but corn il
buoyant; rye and barley are dull; oats
have declined, but now rule firm. Porl
has had severe fall, and lard has sym
pathized /; butter has varied, but is
upon the whole, unchanged. cheese il
t down. Groceries have been irregular
In the present Russo-Turkish wa
Krupp meets Krupp for the first time
The combating armies are we'll supplied
with the monster cannon. good speci
mems of which were seen at the Phila
delphia Exhibition of 1875. The Turk
. ish armament, as to cannon. is said t
be quite equal, if not superior, to tn
Russians.
; CoNsTANTINoPLE, May 20. The Shiel
III Islam has proclaimed holy war agaius
Russia. An imperial trade has bee
: published, subjecting Mussulman
to military service. Several mlnisteria
changes are considered probable. Tn
Chamber of Deputies has asked that
u War Minister be sent to the seat of wal
At present. however. he remains in Con
9 stantinople.
. A violent storm passed over Marion
= Ind, on sunday last. Houses we're III
: rooted. trees uprooted. and fences de
J stroyed. A brick church, nine mile
north of Marion, was demolished, an
at the time it was filled with peopl
IL attending divine services. The roc
s. was uplifted, and the walls fell in. bury
s. ing the inmates. The scene that follow
IT ed was terrible. One young man wa
5 killed, and ten or fifteen persons serious
= / ly injured.
i The bids received under the last al
y vertisement for furnishing postal care
= to the Government during a contra
term of four years from the lst of nel
Oh July, were opened by the Postmaste
General on the 10th. Alternative pr
r. posals were invited for either ''plaiu
lie cards or "tinted" cards, or for both. III
10 American Prototype Company of Ne
a York submitted the lowest bid, namel
III So $4,000 cents per thousand for pla
ST cards and 70 43-1OO cents per thousar
III for tinted cards. Other bids we're ma,
OF going up to 115 ga. The next day
bid from Canada was received for abo
lg three times the rate of the lowest bid.
=. Seven men were killed and numb
- were wounded at the launching of t
- iron steamship Saratoga in Roach's shi
r. yard at Chester, Pa, Tuesday. I
~ vessel was all ready to be let go into t
h water, and there were about 40 m,
90 under her knocking out the blocl
10 but they did not hear the war
~ ing to come out Several were horrit
IF mangled, one being cut entirely in tV
The scene during the time the ship "
going off was terrible. men being Sc