Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-05-07
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


About million pounds of beef were
shipped to Europe Saturday, from New
York.
A Pennsylvania company has built
a bullet proof passenger car for use
on Cuban railroad.
A Union Pacific train was snow-bound |
at Granite canon for twenty-four hours.
on Wednesday of last week.
Eighty lodges of Cheyennes, under
Dull Knife and Standing Elk. surrender
ed to Gen. Crook on Saturday.
Leather in New York market has adj
vanced eight to ten cents within week.
under foreign shipments.
johnson G. Kimball. of Dalton, N. H.
has been sentenced to thirty years i'm
prisonment for the murder of his wife.
The Globe Hotel near the Centennial
grounds. Philadelphia. has been sold
for S3475. The original cost was over
100000.
Seven million dollars were dug out of
the bowels of the earth in Colorado last
year, and it is thought that the yield
this year will be thirty-fve million.
A London dispatch states that boil
er in the Alexandria -four mills exploded.
killing sixteen persons and injuring
many others.
The company that published the cata-
logues of the Centennial Exhibition lost
one hundred and thirty thousand dollars
in the enterprise.
A grapevine on W. G. Philips prem
Uses, near Stockton. CAL, measures. at
distance of one foot from the ground,
twenty-six inches in circumference.
1t is rumored that Spotted Tail, the
Sioux chief. is to be raised to the digni-
ty of a Colonel in the army. and placed
at the head of a regiment of Indians.
The advance of two dollars barrel
on -four shows that the bread-eaters of
America will have to pay roundly for
the fun of seeing the Russian bear fight.
We heard on Tuesday of case in
which the restitution of $4,000 had
been made by party who has been con-
verted at the tabernacle meetings.-Bos-
ton Journal.
The wife of James Hurd, of North
Weare, n. H., who has been slightly in
sane for some time. killed her ten years
old son last Sunday, by chopping his
head from the body, and then hung her.
self.
Judge Spofford, the new Senator-elect
from Louisiana, is native of New
Hampshire, it is said. He has been in
New Orleans thirty years-long enough
to get rid of his carpet bag
A widow IN Iowa. whose husband was
burned to death while under imprison-
ment for drunkenness, has obtained a
judgment of $4,000 against the man
who sold him liquor. He was we'll sold
The largest amount made to the tree
SO Tar as we O."~ learn, was by Edmund
Pettengill, who from QUO t-Aes made
2700 pounds. Next comes Capt Moso.
Batchelder, of North Danville, with 10;
trees and 400 pounds.-Star.
Last Thursday, the driver of the New
York transfer company of New Yorl
city, received trunk for delivery. H,
left the trunk for shost time, and OF
his return found that it had been tam
pered with. and $53, 900 worth of dia
monds stolen.
Wonderful discoveries of pre-. historic
remains have been made at Arkadelphia
Arkansas, 20 miles south of the Ho
Springs. consisting of a road from 80t
to 1000 years old, skeletons of primitiv
giants seven feet high, etc.. all consti
tuting an archaeological bonanza whicl
: is to be Immediately and thoroughly
worked.
A boy named Charles Cork. who wa
; arrested at Pennington, N. H., Sunda.
for setting fires, has confessed that b
killed Susan Hanson at Brookfeld abou
) two years ago. and was hired to do i
: by one Buzzel for $500. Buzzel himsel
: was tried for the murder at the time
and was acquitted. He will be arrestet
at once.
At mass meeting of the people of tn
Black Hills at Deadwood, D. T.. on Sat
urday, a memorial to Congress wa
adopted, urging the formation of a ne,
Territory. embracing the Black Hill
: region, to be called Lincoln. A resolu
ton was adopted accrediting J. B
= Chaffee, Senator from Colorado, as th
i representative to urge. the claims i
8 Senate.
President Hayes has received man
e personal calls of congratulation on tn
!, the success of his peace policy thus fal
and numerous letters and kilograms
. the same effect from both republican
= and democrats in all parts of the cour
: try. The Presidency is stated to hay
i decided on the strictest neutrality i
case of war in Europe.
i The New York World says that Nj
# w. H. Vanderbilt on Monday drew q
;e his quaterly dividend on Hudson Rive
d Railroad stock one million dollars. TIL
l. whole two per cent. dividend was abor
e one million eight hundred thousand do
lie lars, which shows Mr.. Vanderbilt own
e more than half the road. It's profits
e him are consequently about four millio
= dollars year.
). The roof of the post Office at Ne
'f York city fell in Tuesday, owing to th
removal of supports placed under
t. while making repairs, and fourteen me
y we're buried with the falling mass I
ID concrete, iron, tin, etc, composing tt
s. roof. Three were taken out dead, OIL
s. with both arms broken. and one injure
t. internally. Two others received sligl
is injuries. 1t is supposed that there wa
8. a flaw in the iron truss which had bee
pc placed under the roof to replace the wa
he which had been removed.
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