Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-13
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Thirty-six horses were burned to
death, at the Morton House stables, in
Greenwich, Conn Monday. The prop
erty loss was $4,000.
Out of every hundred young men
who enter Boston or New York, in
spired with the dream of amassing
fortune by brain work. ninety-fve make
total failures. This. at least, is the es-
innate of DIR. John Hall.
The War Department authorities say
that the United States troops recently
moved from the South to Pennsylvania
and Northern cities where there have
been troubles from the strikes will not
be sent back South.
The destruction of sheep. in California
by the recent drought is estimated at |
100000 head, or two-thirds of the
sheep in the State. Many of the great
sheep herders abandoned 1000 to TO-
900 head in the mountains.
The forty Baltimore roughs who went
to Pittsburg to "help the cause of la
Dor" by burning and plundering, are
now engaged in the penitentiary max
ing oil barrels with the view of pouring
oil upon the troubled waters.
Western people who made heavy
draughts upon their cisterns in anticipa-
ton of heavy rains in July and August,
predicted By Prof. Tice, are disguised
at the dryness of the cisterns and the
uncertainty of weather predictions.
There was sad domestic tragedy at
| Springfield, ILL.,, on Monday. The
guilty wife and an innocent milkman
were shot dead by the husband, who
afterward blew out his own brains. The
scamp who caused the trouble escaped.
The coinage of the minis of the
United States during the month of
March was: Gold, S5,873,0O0; trade
dollars. S896,0OO, silver change, ST.
$4,000. The total number of pieces
struck was 8,5l5,65O. The total value
of gold and silver was S8,443,000.
The remains of General Custer arrived
in Chicago on Tuesday from Fort Lin
coin, and were forwarded to West Point,
where they will be inferred in receiv-
ing vault until October. The remains
of Colonel Cook, Lieutenant REILLY and
DR.. Dewolf arrived on the same train.
Oscar D. Patterson, alias Jim Brady,
who was arrested in New York on
Thursday for grand larceny, has been
recognized as desperate burglar and
bank robber. who was implicated in the
Northampton, Keesville and other bank
robberies, and is wanted to finish out a
five years sentence in Sing Sing and a
ten years sentence in Delaware.
1t is curious fact that while the
Baltimore and Ohio strikers say that
they are starving on the wages they are
paid, and cannot buy bread for their
families, they are reported to be patron
izing the rum shops of the places they
hold in a very liberal manner. Per.
haps they would explain this on the
S ground that whisky is a necessity and
bread a luxury.
: SAN FRANoIsco, Aug. s. The Cali
l fornia Mine has declared dividend Of
2 per cent; Consolidated Virginia &
+ dividend of 2 per cent. The bullion
produced by the California and Consoli
q dated Virginia Mines for the past thirty
days is nearly 100000. The receipts
of bullion yesterday from the Bonanz;
Mines were $4,000. Treasures ex
ports since January l, S2I, 100000.
! The Cincinnati Enquirer thinks tina
: the next strike will be among the stock
!. holders OF the various railroads. The,
;. have been working at reduced rates TO
long time. The earnings of the roads
which should have been dividends, hav
= been taken from the roads by the out
I side lines, such as the Arrow Line, AM
I the Red Line, the Blue Line, and 9th
: ers, which are the bloodsuckers to tn
], railroad proper.
Judge Hughes, of the United State
Circuit Court at Richmond, Va, ha
= decided that the gold from the Virgini
= Treasury which the State officers dis
y t:ibuted among themselves on the eve O
the evacuation of Richmond was tn
:, property of the United States govern
u ment, and that the action brough
against those officers by the Unite
p States government can be maintaine
te in his court. The amount involved j
he about $4,000.
: Several immense horse mackerel hav
= recently been caught near Newburyport
10 Mass. The Boston Journal says tw
of them were captured on Monday b
r. Messrs. Edwin F. Hunt and Jabez N
Sc Eaton. Mr.. Hunt struck one in tn
N back and worked two hours in gettin
e. him, and he was alive when the shor
p was reached He was ten feet Ions
seven feet girth, and weighed abor
l. eight hundred pounds. He had sever;
fins, varying from foot to eightee
to inches long; large head, which resen
IN bled that of a mackerel. and his ski
lie was very hard and of a silvery color.
le Gov. Robinson, of New York, La
u week pardoned Frank H. Walwertl
~ who murdered his father, Mansfel
'e Walworth, in 1878. Young Walwort
was convicted of murder in the secon
y. degree. On his trial one of the pie;
l. of the defence was insanity and report
D. from the prison indicate that he h;
ut been insane since his Imprisonment
re even if not at the time of shooting. E
Is was sent first to the prison at Sir
10 Sing, and was afterwards transferred
Auburn, where he has been undo
be medical treatment. The pardon
OF based on these grounds.
o. Martinez Campos has sent despatch
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