Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-06-25
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS,

Cincinnati disposed ofover eight thou.
sand bushels of strawberries Tuesday.
prices ranging from three to eight cents
quart.
The estate of the late Augustus Hem
menway of Boston proves to be larger
than the estate of any one who has died
in Massachusetts, for many years, 1t
amounts to S8,89l,178.
The time made by the first fast train
of the season between Chicago and New
York was twenty-four hours and fifty
eight minutes, including stops, or about
thirty-eight miles per hour.
A horse was killed by lightning in
Danville IN. " field the other day,
and remained standing erect, with one
foot lifted little way from the earth,
in the same attitude as when the bolt
struck him.
While a canvas tube fre-escape was
undergoing tests at the Lindell Hotel,
St. Louis, on Thursday, Michael Cary,
fireman, who had before passed down
number of times, ripped open the can
vas with projecting nail in his boot,
fell through the aperture to the pave
ment and was killed.
From returns received by the Bureau
of Statistics. it appears that during the
month of May 7,291,765 pounds of
fresh beef, of the value of $699,O76,
were exported to the United Kingdom,
of which 5,O69,70 pounds were ship
ped from New York and 2,217,50O
pounds from Philadelphia.
st. Petersburg. June 20. The Ga
eette states that the Russian Government
has purchased the monster Krupp gun
made for the Philadelphia exhibition
The destination of the weapon is un-
known, but there is talk Of placing it
upon some vessels at Nikolaieff and
using it against the Turkish ironclads
in the Black Sea.
Two hundred men in person and 300
by written protest. among whom were
seven leading physicians, demonstrated
with the Mayor and Alderman of Law
renee, Mass, last week, against the en-
forcement of the ordinance for muzzling
dogs. The Aldermen decided to sus-
pend the enforcement for week to de-
bate the subject.
Sitting Bull is now between the Wood
mountains and Fort Walsh, British ter
ritory, with three hundred and fifty
lodges. and intends to settle quietly in
Canada. He shows many trophies, in
Guiding arms, wagons. etc., belonging
to Clusters party. He justi6es hostili-
ties with the whites on the ground of a
violation of the treaty respecting the
Black Hills.
California papers have for some time
been earnestly advising laborers and ad-
venturers not to come West. Arizona
journals give similar counsel, and say
that immigration to that territory is
overdone. Scores of penniless men are
rsshIng into the territory. hoping to real
lze fortunes by pAining discoveries, or.
in the event of failure, to earn o-.-.h
sistence by their labor, and are disap-
pointed.
WASHINGTON, June ! g.. The State De-
partment has information that the treas.
ure of Islam, or offerings by the pilgrims
at the prophets tomb at Mecca, from
which funds have been demanded by
the Turks for the defence of the faith
now exceeds 6OO,OOO,O0O francs. One
chest was opened during the Russo
Turkish war of 1928, and another is
1854, but the third has not been opened
for 1852 years.
Captain Lee, of the 10th Cavalry
has forwarded to Gen. Sheridan, from
Fort Griffin, Texas, an account of hi
engagement with band of Comanch,
Indians near Lake Quenado. The skirm
ish occurred on the 4th of May. Fou
Indians were killed, and six squaw
and Sc heads of mules and horses wer
J captured, and Is lodges, with a larg
: supply of powder, lead, dried meats, &c.
: destroyed. First Sergeant Charles But
Ter was killed.
YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, June 20. A terri
5 BILE accident occurred in the old disuse,
lime kilns near Bridgeport, early thi
morning. Five tramps were sleepin
D upon the top of the broken furnaces
when the walls suddenly gave way
f burying the men. Four were crushe
. to death, and the fifth, who gives tn
I. name of Charles Blake of Worcester
/ Mass, will probably die. Blake doe
: not know the names of those killed, bu
4 thinks they were from New York an
y Massachusetts,.
= On Thursday last the coach fror
i. Deadwood, in the Black Hills, was stol
ped by two men about twenty-five mile
north of Hat Greek, Wyoming Territor,
One of them pointed his gun at Il
= driver and ordered him to halt. I'll
!. other aimed at the messenger and 0
=, dered him to throw out the treasure DO,
~ The messenger complied, and they in
= mediately told the driver to 60 ahea
:. There was no attempt made to rob
- modest the passengers, three men al
!. one lady. Both men had their fac
:. blackened and were otherwise disguise
N A despatch from Belvidere, N.
- June 10, says Yesterday afternoon
mill dam just above the Delaware, Lac
awanna and Western Railroad, viii
a. had become considerably washed al
= weakened by late rain storms, sudden
n broke and precipitated fishing part
n consisting of ten persons, through
ek sluice-way. Mrs. Reemers, Miss Gre
e- ley, and Thomas Pressler were browne
ng The owner of the boat in which t
It's party were, Mark Fisher and James {
IL felt. were fatally injured by falling il
10 the grinder of mill, which was lyi
w below the sluice-way."
90 A California paper says: "On
nd nights of Monday and Tuesday. May
a; and Is, during the big storm. it is st
Tor ed that about ten thousand sheep p