Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-04-16
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Hon. Caleb Cushing has resigned the
Spanish mission.
The Legislature of Minnesota has re-
stored capital punishment. 1t was abcl-
ished by the Legislature of 1876.
At H. c. Libby's mill in Bethlehem,
Monday, James M. Cummings head was
cut open and his left haud cut off at the
wrist by machine saw.
The President of the Ohio Fat Mems
Association has just died. His name
was John Templeton, and he is asserted
to have weighed 500 pounds.
South Carolina State bonds, which
were offered at As month ago without
finding purchasers, are now in demand
at 20, and business generally is revived.
Captain Lee, who was President
Hayes private secretary while he was
governor of Ohio, has been appointed
consul general at Frankfort-on-the- Main.
President and Mrs. Hayes have de-
termined that at their public receptions
and private entertainments, neither wines
nor liquors of any kind shall be dis
pensed.
The Sun says the attorney general
has accepted Tweed's proposition. and
the evidence of the prisoner is now be-
ing put in form. Tweed will be free
within ten days.
The Secretary of the Navy announce
that there are not sufficient funds now
available in that department to pay the
officers in full for the months of April,
May and June.
General Sheridan telegraphs General
Sherman that fifteen hundred hostile
Indians let by Spotted Tail and Crazy
Horse, are reported to be on their way
to Cheyenne, where they will surrender.
The tragedy in Front street. New
York. is still unexplained. Five pistol
bullets were found in the body of Orville
D. Jewett, and it is supposed that he
was shot in self defence by Mr.. Dean,
one of his partners.
Chicago. which was carried by the
democrats in November by nearly 5000
majority, now elects republican Mayor
by l. 900 majority over straight out
democratic competitor. a result unparal-
leled in the politics of the city.
The city councils of Portsmouth, N.
H., see new epoch, and have voted to
exempt from taxation for ten years any
mandatory of any material whatever
which may be located in that city, pro-
vided the capital invested exceeds $4,000.
Gov. Hampton is reported as saying
that he carried good supply of South
ern Democratic prejudice to Washington.
but the President picked his pocket of
every one of them, and he had to get
back as best he could on Republican
principles.
Prominent European capitalists have
been negotiating for some time, and at
last successfully, with the land commits
: sioners of Florida for 100000 worth
into the State 2ooB6 6sy intend to bring
ers from England, Germany, FraHOs~
. Italy.
1t is reported very positively in Kan
sas that Bender, his wife, son and daugh
I, ter, the Kansas murderers while attempt
: ing to escape from the State, after theil
: crimes were discovered, were lynched by
= a band of Vigilantes. The report i
|. based on the confession of one of th,
: lynching party
a There ale now over 5000 oranges o
4 the Patrons of Husbandry in the coun
try less than year ago, while the mem
bership has fallen off over 10000. TIL
4 decrease in Illinois has been nearly 20,
= 000 The order began to fail when tn,
= headquarters were removed from Wash
e ington to Louisville.
. There is another great reduction i
4 Geographic rates over the Internationa
~ and Atlantic and Pacific lines. 1t no1
a costs only twenty FIVE cents to send
:. message to any point in this countr
\ east of the Missouri river AS rate
. were formerly from 75 cents to So to s.
" Louis. the great reduction made is ap
pareut to every one.
o. A natural bridge, far more wonderful
% than that in Virginia, has recently bee
L discovered in Elliott county, Kentucky
: 1t is solid stone and forms magnifcen
$. arch 1872 feet long and Is feet wide q
n the top, the river, the little CLANCY
in rolling over 100 feet below. Fifty yard
~ above the bridge is a waterfall, sixt
ar feet high, and the view from the bridg
az is said to be extremely beautiful.
be There is a newsboy in San Francisc,
al James Handley by name who is rapid
It, acquiring fortune by the sale of paper
n He is but fourteen years. old yet own
no two houses and several building lots o
Telegraph Hill He recently built
bo third house there for 800 and sold
- to his brother for 50, 200. The brothe
To also newsboy sold it again for $751;
90 James aspires to a profession, and a
~ tends the Lincoln school, where he stant
N. high in his class.
ed Four European exploring expedition
so will sail this Summer for the Polar 81
TO- respectively from Russia, England. &c
to many and Holland, and each going by
lr- different route. The Russians will sa
he from the mouth of the river Obi in Sib
ON ria. The English will go up the ca
ID. coast of Greenland, seeking the pole. I'll
las Dutch will try to find if there be not
tn. navigable northeast passage arour
at Norway. Spitzbergen, and through Be
es- rings straits to the Pacific. The Swed
led have also plan for an expedition
as 1878, and Capt. Howgate's plan for /;
do American expedition will probably
rvs carried out this year or next,
es- The police in Washington, raided
ing celebrated club house and arrested
IN large number of persons engaged
or gambling. Among the number was
he ex-Assistant Secretary of the Treasury