Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-06-18
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

to-uay, June 10.
The holders of centennial stock will
get back about thirty per cent. of their
original investment.
The barn of David Dudley Field. of
Stockbridge, Mass, was burned last
Friday night. Loss $1,000.
Connors, Putney & Co., grain mer-
chants at Barnston, P. O., have suspend
ed with liabilities of $4,000.
Although there is nominaly $780,
100000 of legal tenders out, only about
$218,000,000 are in active circulation.
During the Crimean war 4O1,O
men died or were killed on the little
peninsula which was the scene of opera
tons.
1t is stated that three million four
hundred thousand copies of the Moody
and Sankey Gospel Hymns" have been
sold.
Two new oil wells, yielding together
nearly two thousand barrels per day,
have been struck in the Bullion district
of Pennsylvania.
Passenger rates from Chicago to Phil
adelphia have been lowered to fourteen
dollars, and to Baltimore to thirteen
dollars and fifty cents.
The village of Greenwood, Mich, con-
sisting of mill and fifteen houses, was
swept out of existence by forest fire
Thursday of last week.
On July I'd there will be two hundred
and ninety-nine new money order offices
established, and in October about one
hundred and sixty more.
Sixty-two persons were detected in
robbery and other criminal violations of
the postal laws during May, nearly all
officers of the department.
There are now one thousand six hun
dred and sixty-one convicts in the Hi
nois state penitentiary at Joliet, a larg-
er number than ever before.
The remains of thirteen officers who
fell with Custer are to be buried at
Leavenworth, Kansas, with funeral hon.
ers from the whole city, on the 23d.
Five hundred employees in bureau Of
engraving and printing at Washington
have been discharged, and still the work
is said to be done better than before.
Burglars stole from the store Of F. w
Patchman & Co.. of New York City
last Sunday, $4,000 worth of diamonds
$4,000 worth of watches, and $500 il
money.
Several thousand baskets of straw
berries were thrown overheard Saturday
night, in new York, because they couldn'
be sold at any price. They went during
the day at from two to three cents pc
basket. though they were exceedingly,
fine berries.
Seven steamers sailed for Europe Sat
urday with full cargoes of American
breadstufs and provisions, an importan
item being four thousand four hundre,
boxes of butter in one of the new re
frigerators, the first shipment of tn
sort yet made.
The highest point yet attained b
any railroad in this country has bee
reached on the summit of Laveta Pass
in the Sangre de Christie Mountains
Nevada, by the southwestern extentio
of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
The altitude of the summit is 9,340 feet
There are ten members of the firm
Harper & brothers, as now constituted
being made up of brothers and cousins
8 rVo ing business is the largest i
J SE ne nee lie janBpala qsarrs~ N nv
! million dollars, with full thirty-thre
, per cent of profit.
r The President has stated that, as
general principle, he does not intend [
remove Government officers, except fc
cause, unless their commissions have ez
r pred. The general impression that
great many Democrats have been az
pointed to Office is erroneous. The nun
E Der does not exceed six.
q A curious lawsuit is soon to be trie
+ at Rochester, N. H. When Harr
5 Bloodgood's troupe was there the ban
frightended Mr.. Danes team, and tt
wagon was smashed and Mr.. DANES al
. kle broken. He has, accordingly, sue
n the BloOdgood company for 5000. an
has attached their horses and carriage
e Gov. blue Jeans" Williams recent
d attended an old-fashioned log-rollir
# and brush-heap burning at Danvill
" Ind, and took an active hand in IL
% operations, proving that he had lost mol
n of his old-time skill at such work. The
was a large crowd in attendance. al
a speeches were made by the govern
= and others.
s The Philadelphia Times reports tn
d parties supposed to have been concern
d in the abduction of Charlie Ross a
r, negotiating for the $4,000 rewa
it offered by Mr.. Barnum, and If matte
ID can be SO arranged as to secure the
immunity, they promise after the pa
ment of the reward to return the b
re before the first of July next.
re Mrs. Sherman, the poisoner of ma
or victims, who escaped from the prison
lg Hartford, has been recaptured. One
Il our daily journals that is an earnest q
be vocate of the abolition of capital punt:
y. ment says that "this escape from one
lp the best of penal institutions will be g
h, to strengthen the notions of those p
it sons who believe that no punishmt
can be substituted for the hanging
ks murderers, because no other punishmt
nd banishes the hope of ultimate freedom
ed The owl train on the Pennsylval
At railroad was boarded by bandits. /
i'd Sunday morning, who robbed and nea
ed beat to death Thomas Downing. I
i'd. conductor and brakeman, who attemp
ed to rescue Downing were driven av
ill with revolvers They. however, loci
he the car, with the ruffians inside, g
nd telegraphed the police at Jersey Ci