Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The Pioneer Land and Loan Bank of |
San Francisco has suspended liabilities,
100000; assets, Sl,Oo0,0OO.
Four thousand bushels of apples have
been shipped from Rouses Point to Mon
treal and other places in Canada this
season. They bring seventy-6ve cents
per bushel.
Mast had falling out with George
VIM. Curtis, of Harper's Weekly. and
his pictures were missed for few weeks.
They have now settled the difficulty and
Mast is at his old tricks again.
A handsome granite shaft is now be-
ing put up by the people of Pembroke,
New Hampshire, on the spot where Jo-
sic Langmaid was murdered, and on it
is an inscription relating the manner of
her death.
A newsboy on a Pennsylvania railroad
is likely soon to receive twenty two thou
sand dollars, the amount of insurance
upon the life of his father, the payment
Of which had been resisted by the insur-
ance company.
A man in Sunderland, England, walk
ed one hundred and sixty eight miles
within forty-eight hours, on the 9th
and 20th of September. A day or two
after he died of heart disease, caused by
over exertion and excitement.
The Indian commission held a confer
ence with Sitting Bull at Fort Walsh,
Canada, on the 18th instant. the propo-
sition Of the President being disdainful-
ly rejected by the savages. who decline
to give up their arms and horses and
live peaceably on their reservations.
A Swedish Moody, a young man of
twenty four, E. A. Skhosberg by name,
has been conducting a series of most
successful revival meetings in Minneso-
ia. He is said to be a speaker much
like Moody, simple, earnest and elo-
quent, of fine personal appearance, and
gifted singer as well.
A terrible railway accident has occur
red on Russian railway in the valley
of the Don. Seven cars. containing near
ly four hundred Abchasian prisoners on
their way to Siberia we're completely de-
stroyed, and not single man of the Alb
chasians survived. They were as usual
chained together.
General Sherman. who has returned
from the West, says he is convinced that
the regular army is not large enough
but there should be an increase of about
five per cent. in the number of enlisted
men. This will not necessitate any in
crease in the number of officers, and ado
but little to the cost of the army.
Mr.. G. Gilbert, after passing a salts.
factory examination in theological stud
les, has been refused admittance by tn,
Tennessee Conference of the Methods
Episcopal church because he used tobac
co, and the Conference also passed
resolution that it will in future refuse t
: admit any ministers who use tobacco.
Wendell Phillips will only lectur
this winter within short distances 0
Boston. He says he begins to feel tn
weight of years, Che is sixty-six) tia
he has enough of this worlds goods, an
is now glad to leave the lecture field t.
, younger aspirants. He pays taxes thi
year on two hundred and fifty thousan
: dollars.
e The harbor of Buffalo presented a
e unusually lively appearance, last Wed
S nesday, the largest feet Goo vessels
q ever received at that port in "a hours
arriving last Tuesday and Wednesday
! Th0 rocelpVs "vre over a,ooo,uuo baaii
q els of grain, 10000 barrels of -four an
: about 100000 feet of lumber, beside
n heavy receipts of other produce.
n A week ago last Monday morning,
r diabolical attempt was made to wreck
e train on the Ohio and Mississippi raj
b road near Noble, Illinois, but luckily L
lives were lost. The cars were all throw
e from the track, and all more or less il
: Jured, but not a passenger was scratch
3 ed. The act is thought to have bee
# committed by one or more of six sectio
Y men recently discharged.
d Miss Alice, eldest daughter of Senate
It Blaine, aged about eighteen years, wa
n seriously injured, week ago last Satul
e day evening. at Augusta, Maine. by tn
: premature discharge of toy pistol b.
s longing to a younger brother, with whlc
she was playing. The ball entered he
e forehead. inficting an ugly wound, the
n the physicians say if Inflammation doe
! not set in her recovery will be speedy.
} Secretary Schurz wishes it to be vi
n derstood that the Sitting Bull Commi
e sion was in no respect failure, an
d that the result attained was the exat
IS result desired. The United States
r perfectly willing to have the chief sta
e in Canada, and sent the Commission, n,
d to get him back, but to satisfy the Cal
e adian authorities. The latter have tol
Il Sitting Bull that he must remain peac
y full and not make hostile inroads I'M
e the United States.
/ A terrible explosion of fire damp o,
/ CURED in coal mine at Pottsville, Pa
on the 18th instant, by which two me
|, were instantly killed and their bodit
;, horribly mangled Cars, portable fam
l. mining implements, and. in fact, every
l. thing lying around loose, were hurle
n with terrific force in all directions. Th
G body of one of the men was burned a
/ most to crisp and horribly dis6gure
}, by coming in contact with the fyir
,e missiles and being blown about by th
r force of the explosion. The other mil
d ers boots we're burned off his feet an
a his body terribly cut and bruised an
it shockingly burned.
'e Gen. John M. Harlan of Louisvill,
d KY, whom the president has nominate
n to fill the vacancy on the bench Of th
d supreme court occasioned by the resiI
nation of Judge Davis, is about fort
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