Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-07-16
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


Mass, has received an order from China
for their new battery gun.
1t is reported that General Towards
troops have been beaten by the savages
in Idaho, with loss of twelve men and |
one officer.
Over 1000 miles of railroad, at
cost of about $l5,00O,OOO, have been
completed in the United States in the
year just elapsed.
Financial troubles caused Rowell
Whitney, of Westminster. to hang
himself last Saturday. He was farmer
and about sixty years old.
The First National Bank of Keesville
was robbed of its entire contents last
Friday night by seven or eight masked
robbers, who carried off 100000.
The Paterson Press says the prospects
of the silk business in that city now are
better than at any time before since the
hard times came upon US in 1878.
About 100000 tons of Bessemer
steel were made in England last year,
and about 525, 1000 tons were made in
the United States in the same period
TEHERAN, July 9. There is gener-
exodus from Pesth, Persia, in conse-
quence of plague. Deaths are reported
to the number of twenty to thirty daily.
Reports from the Newfoundland cod
fishery are of very encouraging nature.
The caplin upon which the cod feeds
have appeared in large numbers in most
localities.
Alphabetically New Hampshire
paper says that if it devotes more space
to the potato bugs than to the legisla-
ture, it is because the bugs are doing
the most work.
A terrible gale struck the town of
Pensaukee, Wis. on Sunday night and
, left only three houses standing. Six
d persons were killed and twenty wounded,
, while six are missing.
/ The work on the new Post-ofice build
: ing in Philadelphia is at stand. The
Government has spent So, 100000 on it,
and S6,OOO,00O more will be required
t to complete it.
Twenty of the best shots in Colonel
L Berdan's corps of sharpshooters were en-
o listed in the Russian service, while the
T. Russian feet was at New York, an6
!; are now with the army of the Danube
= New ORLEANS, July IL. A bale o
e cotton, the first this season, was received
= to-day from Brownsville, Texas. 1t
weight was 475 pounds. 1t was raiset
" on the plantation of Marion & Fallon il
~ Cameron county.
"A The United States produced last yea
in a cotton crop worth about $250,000,
an 900, and corn crop worth about 1888,
Nv 100000 OF total agricultural pre-
~ duct of $4,OOO.OOO,O the corn Gro
at forms the largest item.
ed Alonzo Ballou, of Swansey, N. H
who left his home recently, has bee
lv found hanging from tree in theswood
MT near South Keene depot. He receive
,st a severe blow on the head last winte
ror which affected his mind.
ut The silk smuggling frauds on Il
on Treasury lately unearthed in New Yol
lg- have covered period of several yea
,he and amounted to over million dollar
ide Already IA of the gang engaged in Il
is business have been arrested.
! a A young man named Mills, who XII
out ed young Smith near Locust Grove,
of Franklin county, Va, few days az
killed three out of the five men WI
has were trying to capture him, and W
ap- himself killed by the two survivors.
ShV OvA.nv41, -sA----l
of O'Connell, with her child, and NJ
ar Mary M. O'Connor, wife of Thomas
ID F; O'Connor and her two children, we
ert drowned recently at Baton Rouge VIII
T. attempting to cross the river in skif
ut COLOGNE, July 10. Ex-Preside
ill., Grant left to-day, proceeding up t
re; Rhine. He will be received in Fran
no - fort tomorrow night by a commit
de- headed by the American Consul, and
~. Thursday dinner will be given in l
the honor.
at The monument erected at Rome, P
hui to the memory of P. P. Bliss, the sacr
ILL song writer, who was killed at Asht
an bula, was dedicated Tuesday in
It's presence of over ten thousand poop
md Addresses were made by Moody a
in Sankey and others.
the From the date of the first discove
Ind of gold in California down to the Gle
ere of the year 1876, the total amount
of gold and silver produced in the Unit
rus States was as follows: Gold $1,33.
by 100000; silver, 1851 ,450, OOO;-to
mic value, 81, 594,15O,0O0.
am The barbarism of both Russia a
'ne' Turkey is indicated by the fact tt
ing there has never been census taken
MP. either. The Russian empire is said
Jar cover about eight million four hundr
two thousand square miles, or about oil
one seventh the land surface of the globe.
'th- The Black Hills excitement has be
low SO great that Deadwood City, the Oh
all town, already has $4,000 people, /
the 5000 of those would be out any d
etc. they could get money enough to lea
-ere Many arc in starving condition. The
red is no worse place for man to go W
ERE has no capital.
tne America annually imports $4,000
me- 900 of fax, hemp, jute and ramie-
loSe being products that may be raised
oc- our own SOIL This is an actual fact,
mp in 1870 America raised 100000 |
'lue of fax. and, from successful experimel
VINO that have been made, jute and hel
she may be produced in like quantities a
've, of equally good quality.-Carpet Ira
inc The 100000 diamond necklace tt
am. the Khedive gave Minnie Sherman, n
Mrs. Fitch, is in the vaults of the I
,;ts tional treasury department, because G.
nc Sherman says he saint got money