Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-03-26
General Netcs Items.


ment has thirteen little Keys.
The New Workers propose to erect
Soldiers Home at Bath, in that State.
One hundred pilgrims from Canada to
Rome will leave Montreal on the 10th
for New York and will sail from
there.
The official count of votes in the first
district of New Hampshire. elects
Frank Jones, democrat, by forty-fve
majority
Oakley Hall of New York has mysteri-
ously DISAPPEARED. and rumors of suicide
or sudden trip to Europe are floating
about Gotham.
An Iowa Congressman says if General
Banks can secure the support of New
England, the Northwest will support
him for Speaker.
A private polar expedition will leave
New York in the early summer, ostensi-
bly, for trading purposes. but in reality
to search for records of the Franklin
expedition.
President Hayes is proving that the
Democrats were right during the cam
paign in calling him a negative man.
He says mo" with more frequency and
frmness than any man in America
In the case of Margaret Cosgrove,
who sued the Hudson River Railroad
Company for damages for the killing of
her husband by locomotive at Barry
town. the jury last week awarded the
plaintiff $4,000.
The appropriations of the British Par
lament this session amount to about
S75,O00,OO0 for the army, s9O,O00,0O0
for the navy and SlO0,OO0,000 for the
civil-service, about double the current
expenses of the United States govern
ment.
1t is said that President Hayes has
under consideration the appointment of
George William Curtis as Minister to
England. 1t would be most admirable
appointment. although journalism and
the Republican party would lose an in
valuable leader.
At Worthington, Ind, boiler in
Hunter Brothers saw-mill exploded on
Friday afternoon. Two of the Hunter
brothers. two brothers named Bender,
and eight other men were instantly
killed, and several others are reported
dangerously wounded.
John d Lee, the leader in the Noun
tain Meadow massacre, and who was
shot at Beaver City last Friday, made a
confession of the shocking butchery OF
about seventy immigrants in 1853. He
duplicates Brigham Young and the other
Mormon leaders in the horrible affair.
The President and his wife showed
their modesty and good sense in walk
ing quietly to the Methodist church
nearest to the White House, instead o.
riding ostentationsly to Parson Newman
Metropolitan tabernacle, where grea
rrenarations had been made for his re
ceptlon' anc sermon got ready to b,
preached at him. 49, e
The state of Maine takes no backward
step in the cause of temperance. A ne,
statute has just been enacted. which i
| is thought will more effectually oppres
tipping. The law provides, amon
other things, that any person who sell
any intoxicating liquor. except cider, i
, thereby made liable to Imprisonment 70
r two months in the county Jail, with
fine of one thousand dollars.
l The mighty are indeed fallen whe
the ex President cannot smoke his ciga
: whenever he pleases. Yet Mrs. Fish, a
whose house he is stopping, will allo'
A no smoking indoors, and Gen. Gran
: has to take a walk when he is desirou
, of enjoying his weed. Mrs. Fish say
that Mr.. Fish never would think of sue
a thing as smoking indoors; it damage
D the lace curtains and gives the house a
unaired odor.
Lake City, Colorado. in the San Jua
! silver mining region, is growing like
B mushroom. In the summer of 1875
5 consisted of thirteen log cabins. A IT
n cent census shows that it now has abor
!. fifteen hundred inhabitants and thrt
e hundred and fifty buildings, while
|. town lot has brought as much as ST, 0Ol
1t boasts of ten assayers, two bank
two brick yards. two breweries, two c
gar factories, four inns, fourteen dr.
: goods shops and fifteen lawyers.
}. A despicable mean swindler, Thoma
: w. Thompson, of West6eld. N. Y. We
r held for trial before the United State
v Court at Buffalo. on the 10th, on tt
i charge of using the mails to fraudulen
ly obtain money from relatives of VII
= Tins of the late Ashtabula disaste
\ His method was to write to relatives
- deceased friends stating that he had
: his possession certain articles belongin
: to the deceased, snd upon receipt
:. stipulated sums would forward the a
! ticles named, signing his name as vi
: tor Bennett.
d The Republican majority in the Sci
ate is cut down to very slender propo
tons. There are at present thirty
J. Republican Senators, thirty three dem
IS cratic Senators, and one independel
D. Judge Davis. There are three vacal
&c cies-two from Louisiana and one fro
/ South Carolina. Should the democra
. succeed in putting their men in the
y places, the Republican majority woul
u be only three. This is the lowest pc
&c sible figure to which it can fall durlr
~ the present Congress. unless death max
D. changes and it cannot rise beyor
/ eight if all the vacancies are filled |
Republicans.
re DR.. Pike. of Chicago, shot dead NJ
1t Jones, the editor of Spiritualist jou
IS nal. DR.. Pike accuses his victim
s. having wronged him in his domest
g relations. The report says that Il
y affair has occasioned considerable excit