Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-03-05
General NesCs Items.

The hard times in Russia are growing
harder.
The day Victoria became Empress
fifteen thousand and eighty eight pris-
oners were liberated.
A Californian proposes to sail to Liv-
erpool by the way of Cape Horn, in a
boat only twenty feet long.
Virginia proposes to keep her high
ways in repair by sentencing her crimi-
nails to use the shovel and pick.
Advices received by the Government
from Havana announce that the Cuban
instruction has practically ended.
Queen Victoria is in precarious
state of health and unable to bear the
heated atmosphere of crowded rooms.
Governor Hayes had a most fatering
reception at Columbus few days since.
His little speech was sensible and touch
ing.
Breckeridge's elegant house in Wash
ington was bought by Alfred Lee, a
negro. who deals in feed, and who paid
forty thousand dollars for it.
The acting secetary of the treasury
has issued a call for the redemption of
five-twenty bonds of May and November,
1865, to the amount of ten million DOLL
ars.
John Bemis, who stole three thousand
six hundred dollars from and express
company in Syracuse in November, has
been captured at Santa Fee, New Mex
ico
The Central Railway Company pro-
pose to plant eight hundred thousand
eucalyptus trees by the side of their
tracks, as means of increasing the hu-
nudity of the climate.
Stephen White, Dominion Overseer of
the Changers, delivered an address be-
fore meeting at Hyde Park last night,
in which he stated that the order in
Canada now comprises 600 oranges and
$1,000 members.
The Grand Duke Alexis and Con-
stantine, who have been doing New
York. were on Monday taken into the
Sub Treasury vault. where they had the
pleasure of gazing at Sl6.000,000 IN
gold.
The manufacture of the wire for the
great cable on the East river bridge a
New York is being pushed forward rap
idly. 1t. will require % months t.
draw the 6,800,000 pounds required
for the cable.
The safe of King Brothers, banker
of New York city, has been robbed o
over 100000 in United States bonds
mortgages and other securities, disposit
ed with them by relatives, the safe hav
ing been left open.
, The New York Commercial AdUertis
err says "there is no place in the countr
where there is more rejoicing over tn
action of the Electoral Commission tina
among the old-fashioned Democrats c
T;lden best That's the class who kne'
e Several letters have been reoe..-
: Washington from the North, threaten
r ing the life of Justice Bradley. One
y, = them started: GAS God is good. justi
j. eternal, the mountains firm and Il
., heaven-high, that man Bradley will n,
l. live to see the Sd of March,"
Il Business men representing capital
q the amount of SlO0,OOO,OO0 in Phil
!, delphia. and belonging to both partie
~ were unanimous in their expressions
anxiety for the completion of the cou
ie of the Presidential vote and sharp
l. thelr cri''clsms upon tbA rAunlutioni0tc
-FOUR men Wei Titled by the expl
IL sion of boiler at the clifton Nail F.
Us tory. in Pomeroy, Ohio, hst waek a,
:, several others were severely ipinred !;
~ Guiding A. A. Holland, one Of The ~
prletors; Morgan Barker, bow "
of blown 20 feet, but escaped unL,rt.
as The Ohio temperance crusader. =.
d. again at work. Some forty women
ut Ferrara Heights recently attacked Ii
us uor store and destroyed the furnitu
Oh bottles, glasses and the entire stock
ID liquors. They are the wives and daug
tiers of the most prominent citizens
II OHe NlClHlty.
d. Two steamboats, built in sections
on transportation have been sent by r
~ from Greenpoint to San Francis
lis where they are to be put together. I
n whole mass of freight, including engil
sr- and all machinery, weighs about TIVE
I'm hundred tons, and the cost of its tral
portation is $4,000.
Ter On Thursday night last, in the to
ce of Thomasville N. c., while Willi
ire Thomas and a Miss Forney were Def
th the alter for the purpose of being m
lie. ried, more than half of the ceremc
u, having been performed, the bride DIR
IN, ped dead before the ceremony was c.
&c. cluded, victim of heart disease.
on There are 1888, 900, 900 more of g
in than silver in existence. The amol
cal of precious metal in existence is 81
of. 740,00O,000. The increase of
IN amount of the precious metals in exi
10. ence has been greater within the |
ny, twenty-eight years than during the P
ex- vious one hundred and forty.
Hayes, a Columbus letter says,
of pears not over forty years of age.
he is robust and muscular; quick but
ar nervous. His voice is deep, stro
rs, musical bass. His eyes are blue;
ew sandy beard carefully trimmed;
is teeth are white as ivory. On the VIII
.ed he would make a very ornamental pr,
out dent.
III The Erie Railway has issued sta
Or ment, that during the Centennial seas
me six months closing Nov. 10, 1876
Gu carried almost 100000 passeng'
without single accident to life or lir
Ter, or the loss of piece of baggage; /;
the that for whole year the official reco
but of the United States Post Office Deps