Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-22
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

IT Sunday-schools Q,66O) among the
states.
Forty-seven persons died of hydro
phobIa in England during the year
1875.
Three rattlesnakes were sold at auction
in Charlotte, N. c., last week, for twen-
ty-five dollars.
1t is claimed that there are now
eighty-one gold mines IN operation in
North Carolina.
An explosion occurred in coal mine
in England on Thursday of last week,
by which forty miners lost their lives.
Sixteen hundred sheep were sold in
San Bernardino, California, for four
hundred dollars, or twenty-five cents a
head.
Excavations for the tunnel under the
channel between France and England |
have already been begun on the French |
side.
Gilman, the New York forger, having
been indicted, has sent a letter to the
court promising to appear and face the
music.
Four little girls in Robson county
IN. Co. died lately of diphtheria so near
together that they were all buried at
the same time.
The salary of Marshal Mcmahon as
President of the French republic is
100000 francs. He receives. in addi-
ton his pay and perquisites as Marshal
of France.
Michigan ended her fiscal year Octob-
er lst, with six hundred and nine
thousand seven hundred and seventy-one
dollars in the treasury, after paying all
the state expenses of the year.
Last week an old man in Cleveland
(Tenn.) named John Carpenter killed
his sleeping daughter and granddaugh-
ter. aged eight years, and then shot
himself. He was seventy three years
age
Samuel g. Robinson, who has just
died at Augusta, Me-, at the age of
seventy, was the champion player on
the fife, piccolo and clarionet in that
region, and could play 1000 tunes from
memory.
Among the novelties of the coming
Paris Exhibition will be youth of four
teen, with feet shaped precisely like his
hands. He can use them for the same
purpose, and plays upon the piano with
both hands and feet
Mr.. Daniel Ward. of Stickleyville
(Va.) has just died at the age of one
hundred and ten. He was wealthy
farmer, and he himself superintended
his business during part of every day
up to the time of his death.
A strange phenomenon recently oc
Cured on farm in Port Jervis, N. j
A plot of ground about thirty feet il
diameter suddenly disappeared from the
surface of a field, leaving a hole in thu
ground upward of fifty feet deep.
There are twenty-seven cases of vel
low fever at Port Royal, S. c., twenty
one whites and SIX blacks. There wer
five new cases Thursday. The popula
; ton of the town is 29l, includin.
ninety-four white and 1877 blacks.
7. Mr.. B. F. Stokes, the ex-secretary o
= the Philadelphia railway company, 0
which Morton, the defaulter, was presi
dent, has been removed to lunati
asylum, having become insane since tn
= disclosures about Morton were made.
4 A negro preacher in Houston county
=, n. Io.4 L. l;4kla ,,rl - JooAb NTH
n horse-whip, because she could not find
II Aey' anu v'st1 I'D, 4ha body off into th
woods and buried it. He was arreste
in the pulpit, and will probably be huns
J Miss BERTHE Bittner, aged sixteen,
/ beautiful and accomplished girl. disar
d peared from her home at Canton, Nd
k Monday night. Tuesday evening he
|. corpse was recovered from the river.
It coroner's jury returned a verdict Of SUI
eide.
d Lord Falmouth is the successful ma
:, on the English turf this year, havln
:, won the gold vase at the Ascot race
/. races and cash prizes amounting to ur
/ ward of 92S,OOO, with eight horses
n who may increase the amount at the fal
o meetings.
A Springfield. Mass, dispatch say
e the freight locomotive Indiana, on tn
e Boston and Albany railroad blew u
e Wednesday, instantly killing Edwar
# Keenan,. the fireman, and seriously,
d not fatally, injuring Harry Goodwi
/, the engineer.
l. The Yale College faculty have votes
n not to permit the Thanksgiving jubile
of the students, which has of late year
e grown to be an entertainment of consiG
A cradle magnitude. The immoral ton
It of the last years festival is given a
n the cause of the decision.
e 1t is stated that the pensioners of til
e late civil war deprived of pensions fror
h March 2, 1866 to June 6, 1866, hav
re appointed committee to enforce thei
20 claims upon Congress. We believe tina
the period named is not covered by an
S. of the several laws passed by Congress
d since the war.
3 There is little daily newspaper pull
= lished in Monroe, La. in the handwrit
e ing of the editor by an electric pen, tn
l. whole edition being duplicated from th
IL first manuscript News, telegram,
,e editorials and advertisements are all
t. writing 1t is called the Daily Electra
Letter, and it is the first of the kind.
1T The women connected with the varior
tie Christian Temperance Unions of til
e. country are to hold a National CONVEX
N ton at Chicago, October Oath to 27tt
re to deliberate in regard to this giganti
ii evil, the mother of crime and MISERY
v. and to take measures for carrying 0
IN the temperance crusade. May the
he have multitude of the workers presen