Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-06-11
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


Montreal, P. O., was visited by dis
astrous fire last Thursday, which in
volved loss of about $4,000.
Fred Grant has been detailed to Sc
lect government mail route from the
Missouri river to the Black Hills, in
place of General Buffers nephew re-
moved.
LONDON, June 4. The body of the
late John Eothrop Motley was buried
to-day in . grave beside that of his wife,
who was buried in Kensal Green Gene
terry. London. in 1875. Dean Stanley
read the burial service.
The President and Mrs. Hayes attend
ed the decoration ceremonies at Airing
ton Wednesday in person, and with
flowers brought by themselves strewed
the graves of the dead soldiers, and es-
pecially decorated with their own hands
the monument to the unknown
This is the most prolific strawberry
season ever known around Norfolk, Va.
Two million quarts were shipped in one
day, and the season has just opened up
fully. From $4,000 to $4,000 a
day are distributed to berry pickers,
and about $4,000 pickers are employed.
Quite number of the men who went
to Manitoba from Nashua, N. H., some
time ago, have had enough of it and
are anxious to return. But as the rail-
roads, which took them out for $13.
charge 5000 to bring them back. most
of them have been efectually exiled.
Some, however. by dint of walking 200
miles, and paying $50 after that, have
succeeded in getting back home.
Mrs. Lydia Sherman of Derby, Conn.,,
who confessed to poisoning two husbands
and six children after she had been SEN
fenced to state prison for life. escaped
from the prison at Weathers6eld Tues
day night. She has been in i'll health,
and was allowed some liberties, of which
she took advantage She had been in
prison four years and five months. She
was found and arrested in Providence.
The engine and baggage-car attached
to the express train on the St. Louis
and San Francisco Railroad were thrown
down an embankment at Woodend sta
ton, l55 miles from st Louis, on Sum-
day evening. and the engineer, fireman
and passenger. who was riding on the
locomotive, killed. DISTINCTIONS were
placed on the track by robbers with the
evident design of wrecking the whole
train.
There is at Concord, N. H., a cannon
which was captured at the Battle Of
Bennington, which is under the charge
of the State, and ought to have place
in the coming celebration. Unlike oul
cannon at the State House, it has still
the original carriage, which is the mos
curious part OF uno -anehanlsm. Thu
tires of the wheels consist Of unconns.4
ed bars of iron spiked or bolted to tn
felloes, as the oldest men remembe
, cart-wheels to have been made.
Messrs. Hook and Hastings of Boston
are building an organ for the Cincinnati
g Music Hall which will rank among tn
P largest organs of the world, the onl
d larger ones being those at the ALDER
2 Music Hall, London the Cathedral a
Ulm, Germany; the Church of st. Sui
pice, Paris and st. Georges Hall. Liy
erpool 1t will have four manuals an
( a pedal of two and one half octave'
total stops, "a; pipes, 6,lS9: and l
pedal movements. The total cost of th
a organ will be about $4,000. The cor
S tract calls for It's completion by th
/ 10Th of May, 1873.
e SALT LAKE, June 4.-Gen. Crook e2
e presses the opinion this morning thu
no more troops are needed in Utah
y that, perhaps, so far as be can see, Uta
G is as peaceful as ever before The a
U legged assassination Of correspondeI
:. of New York journal seems to be gel
1t orally discredited. l am now at Il
IS same hotel, and [ do not see how
could have been possible. Even the a
D, legged assassination. which was bloodles
n is not laid to Mormon agents. III
t. Territory is as quiet as Massachuset
s. or Connecticut, and as far from war {
1T bloodshed.
Id Some time ago Prof Victor Alvergal
Is a promising citizen of Hartford, Conr
le was bitten by vicious dog NothiI
$, serious was thought of the affair at Il
ID time. but it becoming bruited about, t
er Professor received letters from vario
70 sources advising him what to do in ca
u of bydrophobia. The matter wore up
his mind so much that last week Tue
es day he imagined that he was attack
n, with the dread disease, and died aft
ay two days terrible suffering His ply
ho clans, however, say that he did not ha
off the disease, but was literally brighten
h. to death by the letters of hts friends.
ng Gen. Grant and Minister Pierrepo
lie. attended services at Westminster abb
he on Sunday, and listened to sermon
SO Dean Stanley on the late American b
ne torian. John Lothrop Motley. Aft
TX speaking of the great and irreparai
ID. loss the TIVE kindred nations had 81
IT, tanned in the decease of Motley,
le- preacher said: General Grant has j.
LII. laid down the scepter of the Americ
on commonwealth. after having, by militia
lis powers and still more by generous tie
ment of comrades in victory and enem
!. in defeat. restored unity to a great a
az divided people. England welcomes b
10 as a sign and pledge that the two !
." lions of the Anglo-Saxon race are s
one in heart and spirit"
me A special despatch from Mount G
III, | ,ool I'll &c MooJou kha A n sDut 90,