Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-05-14
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Major Reno has been suspended from
rank and pay in the regular army for
two years. for improper conduct toward
the wife Of Captain Bell at Fort Aber-
crombie.
Three men were horribly burned with
molten iron that ran through an unsus-
pected vent in the blast furnace at Bra
zil, Ind, Saturday night, but they will
probably recover.
The boiler of a steamer exploded at
Delacroix. few miles below New Or
leans. La, last Monday. killing the en-
gineer and the fireman. Two others
were wounded and six are missing.
A Salt Lake City despatch reports
that the Mormons are secretly drilling
at night, preparatory to resisting any
attempt to arrest the Mormon leaders
for completely in the Mountain Meadow
massacre.
The boilers of the ocean steamship
Sidonian. on the voyage from New York
to Bristol. England. exploded April 20,
killing the captain. three engineers, two
fremen and one trimmer, and injuring
the cook.
A heavy snow storm passed week
before last, over the entire line of the
Union Pacific Railroad. The cars at
one point were snow-bound At Omaha
the thermometer ranged remarkably low
for this season, and hopes are INDUCED
that this cold term will have the effect
to destroy the grass-hoppers.
The advance.ln -four has received
check. and prices have given way little.
The decline was at first rapid from so to
Is cents barrel. Wheat has also fallen
off about 8 cents a bushel. Corn was
higher upon the report that the Danube
was closed, but went down again at later
advices. Rye has yielded, and barley
and oats buoyant.
Mrs. Sarah A. Thompson, of Tennes-
! see. has received an appointment as Clerk
in the Treasury. The appointment is
based on the ground of substantial
service by this woman and her husband
to the government during the late war.
She was spy and hospital nurse Her
application is regarded in the depart
ment as the strongest Tennessee case on
the files,
A little boy was frightened to death
at Astoria, H.. few days ago Another
boy. dressed in a hideous costume and
playing in the yard at home, seeing the
little fellow passing, played the part of
the ghost, and. jumping out suddenly
upon him. so frightened the lad that he
fell PROSTATE. He jumped up quickly
: and ran few rods, when he again fell,
: this time corpse. He was six years
, old.
: hsi-- year old daughter of Albert
I Smith. of Gill, Maos.,- VAS drowned ir
t the river at Riverside last oas.rdav
She was returning home alone from tn,
( lumber conpany's mill, where she haC
/ been with her father. and is supposed t,
have fallen from some logs in the boon
! above the mill, while attempting to wall
: upon them. Mr.. Smith had previousl,
e lost FIVE little girls. which makes tn
e loss of the sixth especially sad.
1t is reported that Russian emissarie
are in every port on the Atlantic coas
= In constant communication with the com
mander of the Russian tieet In this har
: Dor, that if any vessels now loading arm
= = and ammunition for Turkey should sail
:. one of the Russian men-of-war will pur
= sue and capture it In this connection
! it is stated that should such an even
= take place the Turkish government
" could claim exemplary damages. as tina
government has formally notified til
IS United States of the war agains Russis
" Two more of those injured at the fir
y week before last have died. making tn
e total loss of life, so far, eleven. Tn
IS inquest is going on from day to da,
:. The origin of the FIRE remains mystery
- The Waterman found the fire, and trie
to extinguish it with water in the builG
:, :, ing. but unsuccessfully, and very sill
:, ~ gularly neglected to give any alarm
~ which was given from the outside som
~ =, two hours after the Waterman detecte
" smoke. 1t is quite evident that he wa
too stupid for any position of respons
OF bility.
IL TRoY,N.Y., May 6.-Reports from son
81 parts of Rensselaer, County state that tt
OF seventeen-year locusts have appeared
al vast numbers thus early in the seaso
as In 1860 they did not come until Jun
u, but they remained until Autumn.
ro the vicinity of Greenbush they are il
p' creasing in number. daily. and the wei
m' remembered din made by the wings
u, vocal organs of the insects in 1869
no heard on every side. The locust fir
lm makes its appearance in large CRU
'oe coming out of the ground backwar
Its wings soon unfold. when it at on
on attacks the nearest tree.
zee The st. Louis Republican of April %
ng says: Passengers and trainmen arrivir
n by the Rockford and Rock Island ira
III last evening report tremendous stor
60 of hail as passing across the count
~ about Winchester, distant eighty-tv
ng miles from the city. The storm Car
~, about four o'clock. hailstones an inch
IcK diameter falling thickly and driven
IS strong wind. Windows in nearly +;
,as the houses in the town and in the Ca
~ even were shivered to atoms, and t
damage to crops amounted to almC
ul- destruction. At Alsay station, ouly 6
ess miles from Winchester, no hail fell
the all.
In Elk Governor Henderson of Tex;
the who is an old man and paralytic. VIII
Z. riding with his daughter recently ne
me Galveston, lost his route, and they flo
led ly found themselves in a wilderness
on. night. their horse tired ont and the &
en- Governor scarcely able to walk. Th
ing passed one in the carriage and anott
ats. under tree, the daughter in the d;
I'M time searching for some way out of