Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-07-09
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Two men were carried over Niagara
Falls and drowned Sunday evening.
The public debt decrease for June was
$3,2l6,119.
A helpless, inoffensive infant in Mis-
souri, has been loaded with the name of
Tilden Hendricks.
Gen. Grant continues to be over
whelmed with honors rendered to him
by the English people.
ROME, July 2. The Pope was so ill
yesterday and to-day that many Bishops
about to leave Rome postponed their de-
parture.
ST. JOHN, N. B., July 3. The work
of demolishing the standing walls and
excavating for foundations is being rap
idly proceeded with.
LAooNIoA, N. H., July l. Lightning
struck the Roman Catholic church here
to-day, burning it to the ground. Loss,
$4,000; fully insured.
Southern Democrats, it is said. are
endeavoring to unite on some Southerner
for a speaker who is friendly to the pol
ICY VI IreSlueHG hayes.
Beecher declines his $50, 900 offers to
lecture in California this summer for
fear of hay fever, and will go to the
White Mountains, as usual.
Gen. Sheridan left Chicago Monday
to visit the Custer battlefield and other
points, and to decide upon the number
of troops needed to garrison the posts.
A lynching mob at Mt. Vernon, KY,
hung four prisoners awaiting trial for
robbery, and unsuccessfully attempted
to kill man of bad repute, losing one
of their own party.
A great tooth of mastodon has been
dug up near the Ashley River in South
Carolina. 1t is eleven and one-half inch
es long, six inches in diameter, and
weighs more than five pounds.
A deputation of English workingmen,
representing forty different trades, called
upon General Grant in London yester-
day, and presented him with cempli
mentary address, to which the Genera
replied at considerable length.
The champion murderer, SO far az
heard from. is William Lungley, arrest
ed in De Soto parish, La, the other day
Lungley confessed that he had beef
| guilty of 80 murders in Texas, and onl,
; regretted that he had not added anothe
to the list
PHILLIPsBURG, N. j., June 81. Yes
S terday seven miners while drawing
t bucket filled with zinc ore from tn
' mine, accidentally caught the rope on
sharp stone and cut it in two. Five q
!, the men were precipitated into th
n washed out mine, and four were so bat
o ly injured that they died.
The World announces that Mr.. Ii
$ deus friends have decided to make I
It effort to dispossess President Hayes
l. the White House, and Lieut.. Gov. Do
d sheimer announces that it is not poss
lie Bile for Mr.. Tfldon TO be the Democrat
candidate for the Presidency IN 1890
r While a carriage containing M
lie Falkenburg, widow of the late Bar
ye Falkenburg, and two friends, was eros
e. ing bridge over Montmorency river,
at Friday, 100 miles from Quebec, t
bridge gave way, precipitating the par
er to the bed of the stream, killing Nj
er Falkenburg. Her companions escap
It with slight injuries.
to Near Williamsburg, Grant count
of KY, on Tuesday evening of last wee
during an alteration between Thorn
Redd and William Little, brothers
N. er shot the latter, lnaicting a NOR nor
in wound. Little returned the shot, ki
d. ing Redd. A feud had existed for ma
ng years between their families.
i'll At Prof. Wagner's private school
ng boys, near Lancaster, Pa, one of t
boys exhibited small revolver to
of companion, who fourished it and point
k, it at boy named Mccullough, age
lis whose parents live at Pittsburgh. I
ST. pistol went of, instantly killing you
d. Mccullough. Another fatal case of I
its careless handling of firearms.
do The British Government, in view
supply of rubber falling short in Sor
ks America, is sending young trees to Ind
IS, The native way of supplying the ira
n with rubber is wasteful, and the dema
ng is increasing at an enormous rate.
re has been the practise to cut down tr,
ed l50 or 200 feet high to secure one hi
Or. dred weight of rubber. Thousands
Q. trees in Brazil are being destroyed.
or UTICA, N. Y, July l. At interv
At. since Saturday night we have had
at heaviest fall of rain which has occurl
he here for years. The canal has ov
M. flowed all along the line. Lightni
,Iv struck William F. Owens dry goo
to store and the Western Union Telegra
k Office at two o'clock this morning I
Mohawk River overhowed the flats mi
~ rapidly than ever before, and hea
- damage to crops is anticipated.
vn The Hon. Marshall Jewell says
wo discovered during his recent visit
81. Washington that the drummer a
ed dead-beat elements were conspicuous
he their absence the atmosphere abb
id President Hayes not being congenial
bv them. Mr.. Jewell thinks the fnanc
outlook very hopeful, and he expires
- that opinion as business man actua
w. engaged in business AS for the Sou
~ ern policy, sit may be said that it
rs rs not policy-it is necessity. Bayou
;nSs will do to stand on little while,
"a you can't sit on them as permant
~ of thing"
- At Dover, N. J., during thun,
H. storm last week, several persons W
~ seated in room. One of them, an
lady, was sitting between two windc
'n' through which the wind was blow
III, freely. There was sudden crash a
RAJ a binding light. and the lady was fou
nt- insensible in her chair. In about
Ter hour she recovered sufficiently to M