Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-01-01
General NelUs Items.


of Calais. Ne. were last week badly
frozen while on hunting expedition.
Their recovery is doubtful.
ANOTHER HORRIBLE DISASTER By
the burning of the Convent of St. Eliza
beth, Province of Quebec, on Sunday
evening, thirteen persons we're burned |
to death They were mostly young
children.
Two men. named PettengiIl and Bean
had been to the Twin Mountain House,
n H.. on pleasure excursion on Mon
day night. when wheel of the handcar
broke and the men thrown out, Petten-
gill being instantly killed and Bean Sc
riously wounded. !
The White Star steamship Britannia.
Capt. Thompson, which left New York
December Is, arrived at Queenstown
on Sunday morning at 1880, having
made the passage in seven days and
thirteen hours, the quickest Eastern
trip on record,
Another important railroad decision
that passengers need not pay extra for
palace-ear accommodations when there
are no unoccupied seats in the coaches.
Henry Peck. of Norwich, n T.. was
put off of the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western railroad for refusing to pay
extra for three palace-car seats. but now
gets three thousand dollars damages
because of it in the court of appeals,
Train wreckers, thus far unsuccessful,
are said to have been very numerous of
late on the roads leading out of Boston.
Two or three weeks since plan was
matured to wreck the midnight express
from New York. and plan to wreck
the Atlantic and Pacific express on the
Albany road was discovered ar lanu
last Thursday Evening ana although
The obstr,ot:gus were removed and the
train saved the wreckers managed to
escape.
An invoice of silk worm eggs recently
arrived in New York worth $200O.O0O.
1t reached San Francisco from Japan
on Dec. II. The egge were packed
: very carefully in the steerage deck
amidships-.the warmest spot on the
vessel. A bamboo partition surrounded
e them. and current of air played over
a then. The eggs were Immediately
5 shipped by rail to New York, and are
: t. be carried across the Atlantic to
France, Italy, aud England.
!. A serious accident took place on the
h Boston, Barre and Gardner Railroad,
I about mile north of the Princeton sta
$ ton, on the 10th. A passenger train
: ran into a mixed train, completely de-
molshing both engines, one passenger.
l. one baggage and three freight cars. and
+ fatally injuring three persons. The
: passengers, about 20 in number. were
n all more or less bruised. Charles O.
i Lamb had his head crushed so that he
died.
. FLoRIDA.-Fhe Supreme Court Of
l. Florida has ordered new canvass OF
;, votes, which can probably only apply
q to the state ticket. as the court has moth.
e ing TO do with electoral vote This will
probably result in the election of the
D. democratic state ticket, the Republican
sc candidates running several hundred be
ID hind the national ticket The cour
le orders the canvas TO be made according
re to the face of the returns. which gave
Hayes majority of forty.
>" Inc washington, MO, OoSerUer, O
, Nov. goth, says: Last Sunday night
l. about 10 o'clock, there was an immens,
l. number of grasshoppers passed over an,
s. through this town. The night was yer,
y dark but the choppers" came buttin,
ie against the buildings, rafting agains
u the windows. entering the houses at tn
s. open windows and DOORS As far a
d. could be judged from the noise the,
I'd made, they were in great force, ant
I'd came from the North going in south
t. ern direction
ia The Black Hills Pioneer says: From
lie the time the first log was cut for tn,
s. first house. the growth of Deadwood ha
in been almost marvellous. Only fv
months ago the town site was perfec
st wilderness of pine trees. To-day GU
tn city contains over 5000 people. stretch
We ing along Deadwood and Whitewood 70
b. more than mile. We have nearly tw
" hundred business houses, a municlpa
n government, a mayor, board of alder
ty men, police and other officers necessar
or for the administration of justice"
The refusal of the Senate to pass tn
at bill reducing the Presidents salary owe
Ill the veto of Gen. Grant is generally com
nd mended. The salary of our Chief Ma
in gistrate is now less than $3.50 day
te- while the Gar Alexander receives i
lie round numbers $25.0 day income
is the Turkish Sultan $4,000; the En-
ed peror of Austria. $4,000; the Empero
ut of Germany, $4,000; the King {
Italy. s9,44U: the Queen of England
al $3.50; the King of the Belgians. 81
is 533; and the President of the Frenc
to Republic. $500.
he The INDIANs.-General Sherman ha
he received information from General Mile
err that after his last council with Sittin
full Bull he had fight, in which the Ii
lid dians were driven from the field an
,bt scattered over the Yellowstone in Il
direction of Fort Peck. At the latt,
"A post large number of Indians took re
g uge. and are now under charge of Gel
=, eral Hazen. General Miles says th;
~ the Sioux war is over for at least sou
II years to come, and that all the hosti
w. Indians will come in and surrender b
-, fore the winter is over.
ba- President Grant, in an interview wit
he the Rev. Sheldon Jackson, who has pas
the ed much time among the Western Il
,te dians in the interest of the Board
Presbyterian Missions, said it is bett
cen for the Indians. better for the peopl
hu- and certainly more economical for I'll
i'e' government. to gather all the India
De- De- nations and tribes as rapidly as possib
Che within the limits of one designated te