Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-06-04
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The Ohio greenbaekers are to have
on the 9th of June.
tits stated that 100000 copies of
the Moody and Sankey Gospel Hymns
have been sold.
Kossuth wants the Hungarians. to
unite with the Turks and whip the Rus
SLAMS. Suppose they couldn't.
The Illinois legislature has enacted a
law giving police powers to the conduc-
tors of passenger trains.
A red wolf was recently shot In Le-
high county, Pennsylvania, the first kill
ed there in seventy years.
Gen. q. S. Grant has been mustered
IN as a comrade of George G. Meade
Post No. |, of Philadelphia.
A firm in Nashville, Tenn, is talking
about shipping ten thousand bushels of
Strawberries ahis season.
An Iowa man put sixteen thousand
dollars in the rag bag ''for safe keeping"
A peddler came along and his wife sold
the rags.
Rev. Joseph Cook will deliver 80 lect-
ures in Boston next season, from Oct
lst to May lst For these it is necessary
to raise $4,000.
Ex-Rebel Gen. Hood and Ex-Governor
Yarmouth are reported to have made
100000 apiece by speculation in Louis
lana bonds the last few weeks.
Texas has local-option prohibitory.
law, and about one-third of the counties
in the state have decided by popular
vote against the granting of licenses.
The earthquake which visited South
America in the early part of May near
ly destroyed six towns and killed be-
tween six and eight hundred people.
"God knows who was right is an in
scription on tomb in Virginia over the
graves of two brothers who were killed
fighting in the opposing armies Of the
late war.
Parson Brownlow's estate consists Of
his homestead. with about $4,000, a
life insurance policy and an interest in
the Knoxville Wing and Chronicle,
which is in prosperous condition.
At a recent English wedding the
bride walked from the door of the church
to the altar railing over mat composed
of evergreens. and filled in with lilies,
roses and violets.
The month of May in London has
been unusually cold. almost wintry, and
the official report of Botanical garden
announces that this is the most back
, ward spring for twenty-eight years.
A Mrs. Bachelor of Scottsvill, Va,
f married when 13 years old: her daugh.
: ter, born year after. also married al
Is aud few days ago the daughter
bore son. Making Bachelor 9
e grandmother at %.
During the progress of the athletic
! games at Cornwall. Canada, on Thurs
\ day, huge sledge-hammer slipped from
, the hands of an athlete, and struck
q young girl named Ellen Kavanagh. kill
g ing her instantly.
d In the war of 1923 the Russians los
:, $4,000 men by sickness alone in Bull
e garia. In the following year they los
n 10000 between the Pruth and Adrian
opole whilst out of 10000 men no
!. 5000 ever recrossed the Russian frontie
|. alive.
S To secure the enforcement of nev
k liquor law in Nebraska the measure pro
e vides that the justice who tries case
a if he fails to perform his duty, shall pa
!, the whole amount of fine and costs, an
e be committed to the common Jail unit
"A the fine is paid.
rs Lewis Barter, of Concord, N. H., ha
''gone up financially, with about $40
lie 600 liabilities, and but little assets
g Judging from reports, one would be lie
i. to infer that all his deal has not bee
le exactly square. Vermont banks al
lie. among the losers, In the list being thos
S. at Chelsea, Wells River, and Lyndon.
he The permanent exhibition at Phil;
IS delphia is quite success in regard
he the number that attend, and some day
$, fairly rivals the corresponding days
ST last year in this respect. There hay
been not less than $4,000 visitors will
m in single twelve hours on several o.
he casions.
n: On Sunday four boys, aged from l
al to Is years. residing in Gray. Me-, wei
OF precipitated into the pond by the botto
'n falling out of an old fat bottomed BOZ
ut in which they were sailing. One name
In Verril, who could swim, got the othe
or upon the wreck and pushed it ashor
ne but exhausted his strength, so that
Of let go in deep water and was drowned.
Nine men convicted of murder, ar
of known as the "Molly Maguires." are
at be hanged on the 2lst of next month,
1g Schuylkill and Carbon counties-fve
n, the former and four in the latter-aI
oy August 9 will witness the execution
r, three more, making twelve in all belon
I'D ing to that secret organization Will
re has been the terror of the coal regions
al John G. Simpson, of Oregon count
- No., was convicted in the United Stat
,rs Circuit Court at st. Louis. on the %
of illicit distilling-the jury fndi
him guilty on all five counts of the l
ny dictment. Sentence was deferred
9 .m the court. Simpson is fifty years o.
~ W was county judge for two years, and h
+ been Baptist minister for twenty yeal
lg- The condition of things in France
ID mains unchanged A Paris telegram
lst the 23d to the London Times say
ed France will doubtless pronounce owe
en whelmingly against President MacM
es- hon at the elections, even if the Sena
lg- gives majority in favor of dissolutic
7e- which is very doubtful. The refusal
It's. the Senate to authorize a dissoluti
ar would inevitably cause MacMahor