Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-08
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

scrip broker, has been discovered to be
a forger to the amount of $4,000. .
General Pearson. who commanded the
Pennsylvania troops during the Pitts
burg riot has been arrested on a charge
of murder.
Silver has been discovered on an ISL
and in the river near St. George. N. B.,
and seven United States citizens have
secured the property.
A ifteen-year old boy, while playing
on the trapeze at the Bristol County
Fair in Taunton, Mass, on Wednesday,
fell and broke his neck.
WILKEsBARRE, Penn, Oct. l. There
was general resumption of operations
this morning at the mines of the Lehigh
and Wilkesbarre Company.
Nebraska has had a year of great
plenty, both of cereals and fruit. APP
Piles are so cents bushel, and the re-
cent State fair at Lincoln a paradise of
plenty.
Cassius M. Clay, the well-known pol
itician, killed a negro desperate named |
Henry White. at Whitehall, KY, last |
Saturday. Clay give himself up to the
officers.
The Raleigh Observer claims to have
information that there are now IN oper-
alton eighty-one gold mines in North
Carolina. some of which are operated on
very extensive scale.
Providence, R. L., had fire in its
business center last week, which de-
stroYed over 100000 worth Of proper
ty, on which there was an insurance of
about 100000. A fireman was badly
hurt by hose pipe falling on him from
the top of a building.
As Harrison Morrill,, of Moultonboro,
N. H., was fastening the fore leg of an
| OK, preparatory to shoeing him, the OK
put his hind leg forward and over Nor
rill's neck, bringing his head and face
in contact with the sling, tearing the
flesh from one-ha1f of his face and fore
head to the bone.
The large and thriving village of
Putnam, in eastern Connecticut, was
nearly destroyed by fire early Sunday
morning. The business portion is all
gone except the National bank and new
hotel. The fire broke out at 1.30 a. m.
, and was got under control at z o'clock.
The loss is about 100000.
/ Harper's Weekly says: "Senator Ed
munds, of Vermont, looks like an old
man, though he is only forty nine. He
has been eleven years in the Senate, and
: is one of its ablest members. He looks
: like st. jerome, and when in repose
: folds his hands across his breast as il
- he was accustomed to hold skull IN
> der them"
Sydney Myers, President of the Mer
chants, Farmers and Mechanics savings
t. bank. of Chicago has been indicted By
!, the grand jury for the embezzlement o
e 100000, and lodged in Jail, in defaul
n of 100000 bail. The grand jury ais
o indicted the officers of the defunct Pro
l. lection Life Insurance company, OF
5. charge of defrauding the policy holders
WASHINGTON, Sept. 80. The Score
tary of War in his annual report t
Is Congress will recommend that authorit
'e be given the President to increase tn
N numerical strength of the Army at hi
~ discretion to a maximum of 10000
10 The English battalion system will b
We recommended, which would leave tn
10 regimental organizations as they nov
exiet
At Rockville, Conn, on Thursda
last. as carriage containing John Il
ns White, his neither, and man name
II McVey. was leaving the cattle shoy
H. races. Young White, who was driving
% fell from the carriage, and the horse
ls started at furious pace, throwing Mrs
~ White out and killing her instantly
CT McVey was also thrown out and fatal
o injured. Both men were intoxicated.
MONTREAL, Sept, %. A fire occur
NJ red at farmhouse at ST. Georgia, ST
"A miles from st. Johns, last night
m which a family of French Canadian;
bo consisting of eight children, lost thei
ar lives, FIVE being burned to death an
Ia three suffocated. The mother, who wa
= the only adult in the house, escaped
IN The name of the family is Gowzie. Th
- father is in California.
MT ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Sept. 20. Col Day
id H. Armstrong, an old citizen of S
Louis, and the sswheel horse" of th
- Democracy of this State for the past
~ years, was appointed United States Ser
! q ator this evening by Gov. Phelps, to fl
:. the vacancy caused by the death
-, ~ Louis V. Bogy. Col. Armstrong is ;
20 present Vice President of the Board
N Police Commissioners of this city.
IS. LAWRENCE, Mass, Oct 2. Geore
no R. Waterman, clerk in the Pacif
oe Mills here, and connected with the CO..
rs poration for 20 years. is alleged to be
re defaulter for a large amount, whic
street rumor places at $4,000. I'll
facts, as far as disclosed by the Officer
IT. of the mills, are that Waterman hs
= been guilty of gross Irregularities, bl
lst to what extent IS not yet known. III
IN matter is undergoing full investigation
he and although the defalcation may NJ
ro be SO great as represented by the rune
lot yet the officers have levied an attacl
OF ment upon his property to that amour
ng 1t is said that Waterman has given a
n his available property on the demand
IN the officers of the Pacific Mills.
en Dispatches from Montana indica
nc e that Joseph and his entire band Of NJ
~. " Perces are probably aiming for the Cal
IN ~ ada border, where they may join Sittlr
ns Bull. On the 23rd inst, this chief a
"a tackled a sergeant and fifteen men
-. rife pits, near Cow Island, Montan
s'S but he was driven off after brave r
in- sistance. Gen. Howard and Col. Stur