Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-09-24

he present season.
If one half the newspaper reports that
each US from the East are to be relied
upon. the Russians are getting terrible
beating near Plevna. According to the
attest reports their losses are enormous.
Some scoundrel recently entered the
pasture of Daniel P. Mazfeld, of Chest
er, n. H., took one of a valuable pair
Of steer calves into a swamp near by,
slaughtered, and, carried off the
hind quarters.
Jack Wilson, negro of Meriweather
county, Georgia, has bought and paid
for seven hundred acres of land since
the war. He has raised this year some
seventy bales of cotton and two thousand
bushels of corn.
Tweed's daughter, who married Ma
ginis in 1870, and whose wedding pres
ents cost sixty thousand dollars, is now
living in absolute poverty, the bridal
presents and fnery have all been sent
to the pawn-shops.
Irene A. V. House, who murdered her
husband, has been released from the
New Jersey lunatic asylum, completely
restored. 1t is remarkable fact that
murderers are cured of insanity quicker
than any other class.
The venerable John B. Hollenbeck.
Esq, of Burlington, has been a Justice
Of the Peace in that city for thirty-one
years. and in that time has tried over
nine thousand cases-a record unequall-
ed in the State, we believe.
A sleeping infant, five months old,
the child of Arthur Beals, of Peru,
Mass, was left in cabinet bed'' the
other day, when another member of the
family closed the bed without noticing
it. When found it was suffocated.
The greenback party of Massachu-
sets had a convention of about 100 per-
sons last week and nominated Wendell
Phillips for governor B. f. Butler had
Is votes for the nomination. Judge
Kelly of Pennsylvania addressed the
convention.
John Taylor, President of the Twelve
Mormon Apostles, and Acting President
of the Mormon Church, will retain that
position until new President is elect
ed. He was shot at Nauvoo, at the
time Joseph Smith was killed, and is a
bitter Mormon.
A discussion is in progress in the
medical journals respecting indigestible
medicines. The assertion is made that
doses are given often without regard to
whether the patients stomach is in con-
dition to digest them and, if undigest-
ed, they not only fail as remedies, but
do positive harm.
Canada is reaping a harvest from
American tourists this season. The
travel down the st. Lawrence, through
the Thousand Island. to Montreal and
Quebec and the River Saguenay, has
not been so great in three years. 1t is
said that in one day recently over one
thousand Americans arrived in Mont.
real.
Brigham Young left will dividing
all his property equally among his sew
enteen wives and forty odd children
He left property valued at over tive
millions, but portion of it was held BY
him as head of the Mormon church. Hi
heirs, however, will lay claim to thu
whole estate whether he held it as /;
citizen or seer and they are likely K
have lively dance over it.
John Cochran, of Lambs Greek Tiog;
county, N. Y, died at his residence re
Gently, aged one hundred and one years
and seven months. The deceased wa
born in Bennington, in January, 1866
His mother, at the commencement O
the memorable battle of that place, car
ried him away in her arms on horseback
He died upon the farm he had lived Of
for the past sixty-one years.
A cattle plague, thought to be a spec
les of Texas fever, has broken GU
f among the cattle in the country abou
! Cleveland, Texas. The cattle are GOV
] cred with ticks of two varieties, th
! bite of which is poisonous to the blood
and many cattle are dying daily. Sey
eral cases of children having been POI
| soned by drinking the infected mil
r have already come to the notice of tn
! city physicians. The beef is affected b
| the disease, which can. however. be eal
D lily detected by the spots.
y An unknown burglar who tried
J, rob Mr.. and Mrs. Bowling, of Rus
a county, Ind. one night recently. can
S to grief in an unlooked-for way. H
broke in. armed with ak and revolve
= drove the old folks up stairs and dow
v again. plundering as he went, but dro]
ped the ak to open close-shutting b
3 reau drawer, when the old man grabbe
j the ak and chopped the robbers hea
! almost from the body. The couple the
4 went quietly to bed. leaving the bod
where it lay till morning.
lr An elopement took place from We
d Deerfeld, N. H., August 20. The pa
le ties were man 20 years of age, ar
h James M. Willey's wife aged 65. The ds
4 before Mrs. Wiley carried her husbar
,r with team as far as the Parade, {
lie his way to the Epping camp-meetin
ar She then went home and sold yoke
IS oxen, three COWS, one yearling. no
e. some wheat, ETC., purchased horse al
Ig buggy, and on the 29th started
parts unknown.