Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-01-22
General -NesUs Items.

Five men were imprisoned IN rail-
way tunnel, near New Comerstown. O., |
last Thursday, by the falling IN of earth.
1t is believed that they will die.
This year Maine has good potato
crop, and no apple crop at ALL Yet an
apple can be bought at restaurant
cheaper than a potato of a farmer.
The hard times are not confined to
this country. There have been nearly
four thousand failures in Canada in two
years in total of fifty thousand traders.
W. G. Prime of the New York Obser-
Ger, owns coin dating back to Alexan-
der the Great, said to be the only one
of the kind in the world, for which he
has refused $4,000.
A two-horse wagon was driven across
the Mississippi river at Hickman, KY,
about forty miles below Cairo, Illinois,
week before last. This is the first time
that any person has ever crossed on the
ice at that place.
The many friends of president Smith
of Dartmouth college will be panied to
learn that he is failing rapidly, and the
trustees will be forced to consider imme-
diately the question of a new head of
the college.
James Gordon Bennett has fairly earn
ed the title of the Great American Ignis
Fatuus. A few days ago he was seen to
board steamer bound from New York.
Now the report comes to us that he was
seen in Florida last Wednesday.
Six hundred men and FIVE hundred
carts were at work, Sunday, the l4th,
removing the snow and ice from the
streets of New York-clearing it all off
bodily and dumping it into the rivers.
The work went on nights during the
week.
1t is believed that ten vessels and
ninety-eigh men belonging to the Glou-
cester fishing feet went down in the De-
cember gales. The total losses of the
past year to that interest amounts to 2l2
lives, 81 vessels and $4,000 worth of
property. The insurance aggregates
S116.222.
Sixty-six hens of Captain Hiram Ho-
mer of Bucksport, Maine, were killed on
Sunday night of last week, by wildcats.
The hens were simply bitten in the neck,
but not devoured. Traps were set and a
chase made. One wildcat was caught
in a trap and another was shot. The
largest measured fully four feet in
length.
This has been an unusually hard win
ter for railroad corporations. The New
York Central finds that four track
road is grand thing in summer but an
expensive thing to keep clear in winter.
Besides, week before last it had 100 To-
comotives in the repair shop, and humid
. reds of freight cars that consequently
, could not be moved.
A thaw and freshet on the Ohio riv.
. er and its tributaries has caused great
damages Hundreds of boats, barges anc
steamers have been carried awav and
destroyed by the immense ice gorges
while villages, farms and the country
generally along the low lands have suf
fered from the effects of ice and water
: One estimate puts the loss at $4,000,
900.
The questions at issue between tn
Porte and the European Powers on be
half of the oppressed peoples of Turke
are still undecided. Some of the Power
a-~ L~~~-~:-e, III n----y -: r.
| ticular. and speedy settlement is de
t manded, but delay is the diplomacy c
$ Turkey. We have numerous reports a
to what this and that Power will do, bu
nothing is done.
A bloody battle was fought at Gait,
e Ecuador on the 18th of December. b.
i tween the Constitutional army of Ecu;
+ dor, 1900 strong, under General Apar
e clio, and the Revolutionary forces undt
Generals Crbina and Veintermilla. Til
r conflict lasted about three hours, an
t ended in the complete rout of the go7
n eminent forces and the capture of the
+ Commander in-chief, General Aparicio.
i Two valuable horses were killed Q
South ave-, Poughkeepsie, while tro
q ting. During the season the avenue hs
d beer crowded every afternoon with tt
# fastest horses in the city, and on Satu
Il day of week before last, two came i
@ collision. The breast of each horse VIZ
n penetrated by shaft of the sleigh whic
the other was drawing, and they bot
IS fell dead. One was valued at 81, 800 an
|, the other at $1,000.
: The Government of Indian estimate
n show the famine in Bombay will gradl
|. ally increase, reaching the maximum
d April, when million persons will r,
= quire relief, after which it will gradua
ly decrease. In Madras the prospect
s. proportionately worse. The districts a
h fected in Madras cover $4,000 squal
le miles and contain a population of Is
d 100000. In Bombay the famine stricl
g en- territory covers $4,000 square mile
le and has a population of 100000, 5
100000 of which are in districts MOI
p Immediately affected.
re The Philadelphia Inquirer says
the proposition to assemble Democra
& ic mob at the National Capital the da
as of the counting of the electoral vote tn;
4, "if it is intended as threat there new,
r was more pernicious or more id
g. one ever made-pernicious, because
e. will compel the assembling, not of a R
ID publican mob, but of a Federal army
k, idle, because a hundred thousand Dem,
IL Gratis gathered together at the Capt.
for an improper purpose would be I
tv more feared by Congress than dozt
St Democrats assembled in Fourth Wal
at GROCERY,
IS The fall of snow in many parts of tt
in country has been greater during the la
of month or two than for twenty or thir
no years previous, and great obstruction