Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-20
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A BROOKLYN funeral procession Mon
dav halted before a saloon, and lager
beer was served to all the mourners IN
the carriages.
The grasshopper pest Is so bad IN
Upper Canada that many farmers, es-
pecially near Ottawa, are cutting their
oats to feed the cattle.
A man in Nelson county, KY, has
actually lately married his step-grand-
mother. This is said to be the first
case on record in the country.
We take annually thirty-fce million
dollars worth of coffee from Brazil. We
pay for it in -four, lard, coal oil, lumber,
machinery and other things. and-gold.
A fatal case of genuine cholera is re-
ported. by physician, at police quar-
tiers, Lowell. Precautionary measures
will at once be taken by the authorities.
In the convention of iron and steel
workers at Baltimore last week, resolu-
lions were adopted to the effect that
railroads can and ought to pay higher
wages.
The proposed exodus of South Caro-
lima negroes to Liberia is said to more
and more enlist the attention of people
in that state. The negroes are gener-
ally infatuated with the project
A Michigan father writes to the fac.
ulty of Yale: "What are your terms
for year? And does it cost anything
extra if my son wants to learn to read
and write as well as to row boat q
MONTREAL, Aug. Is. The Directors
of the Montreal. Portland and Boston
Railway Company discharged Lucius
Robinson as General Manager to-day.
The road will be run by the company
instead Of the Passumpsic Railroad, as
has been reported.
A painful accident occurred at South
field, in New Marlboro, last week, Two
brothers named Ellis were driving cat
tie, when the elder brother threw club
at one of the beasts, but struck his
brother near the temple, the wound
causing his death on Saturday evening.
Hon. George Grennel of Greenfield,
now 80 years old. the first President Of
the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Com
pany, and who struck the first spade
into Hoosac Mountain. made his first
trip through the tunnel on Friday, by
an invitation of Superintendent Pres.
colt.
A train ran into COW near vii.
mington, Del, and by some means the
animal got entangled between the sec
ond and third cars, overthrowing and
completely wrecking them. The pas
sengers were wedged in among the debris
and had to be cut out. Sixteen persons
were hurt more or less badly.
SAN ANTONIO. Texas, Aug. Capt
Nolan, lost on the Staked Plains, reach.
ed Darble Lake with loss of mer
and 20 horses. The party was sc hours
without water. Three men who ar,
missing also probably persisted. Tn,
three men who first came have been ar
rested for failing to return to Nolal
after finding water.
A dispatch from Keokuk, Iowa, Aug
ust 3, says; An entire family, consist
ing of Lewis Spencer and his fou
children, two boys and two girls, Twin,
: in Clark County. No.. were murderer
last Thursday. The crime was no doub
committed for money. as spencer had il
possession 500 belonging to the town
ship, of which he was Trustee. n
trace of the murderers has been discoy
cred
The President has issued proclama
ton forbidding. under heavy penalties
J the sale of arms and ammunition +
Indians within the limits of the Unite,
States. President Grant was oblige,
to issue similar proclamation of warn
ing, and this latest message is mad
necessary by the discovery that Unite,
States troops in the Northwest are fight
| ing Indians armed by mercenary whit
, men.
President Hayes. modestly and sensi
| bly, expresses the wish that while o.
| his trip to Vermont and New Hampshire
, there shall be no extravagant display
While the laboring class are feelin,
r keenly the depression in business b
t does not think it wise or just for th
magistrate of the nation to have extray
) agant OUTLAWS made to crafty pride o
, convenience. and he wishes to travel a
modcstly and inexpensively as may be.
Few persons know that there is sue
church as the Congregational Metho
Q dist church in this country. There i
( such an organization, however. and it i
; said to have ten thousand members.
newspaper is published in its interes
a at Cave Spring, Georgia. The doctrine
5 and usages of this church are Methc
y dist; its policy is Congregational, unde
J, q general conference, which prescribe
: uniform rules for the whole body.
: 1t is said that there will be q mag
nifcent wheat crop in Minnesota thi
It year. 1t will be ready for reaping i
r ten days, and will be the largest an
s finest crop ever known in that state. ]
@ is estimated at thirty million bushels
y Potatoes are so plenty in Kansas as t
hardly worth marketing, and the peac
r crop in southwest Missouri is so larg
e that the farmers do not know what the
lr are to do with it. Some reports sa
Is that the peach crop is large in quantit
y and poor in quality.
5 WASHINGTON, Aug. Consul Taylo
e at Winnipeg, says that Sitting Bull an
/ his hostile Sioux are near Wood MouI
T. tain, numbering 5000, of whom loo
T. are warriors. Others estimate them 1
E. 5000. with 1900 warriors. They opel
n ly avow their intention to renew tt
q campaign in the Yellowstone Vale,
and seem determined to get ammunition
i. even resorting to threats to obtain
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