Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-01
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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and forty wounded. Nearly ninety Of
the Indians were killed.
There was $4,000 robbery, Sept.
Is, on the steamer Beauhornois, from
Montreal city to Beauhornois. Ten
thousand dollars was in small bills on
the Merchants banks.
A gang of scoundrels, whose object is
supposed to be plumber, wrecked pas.
senger train on the Illinois Central Rail-
way early Tuesday morning. Seven
passengers were killed, and others were |
injured.
In the New York market for the past
week flour has been buoyant, wheat has
also been advancing, and corn has tend
ed upward. Mess pork continues low,
butter is steady, cheese has declined.
Groceries are unchanged.
Almost the entire business part of |
the village of Keyport. N. j., in Rari-
tan Bay, was destroyed by fire on Fri
day night. The fire was caused, it is
stated, by the upsetting or explosion of
kerosene lamp. Loss about 100000.
Another evidence of the marked i'm
provement in business is found in the
fact that the leading railroads between
the West and seaboard report large gains
in receipts thus far this month over
those of the same period of last year.
In Potion, P. O., recently, G. H. Cor
don kicked R. W. Billiard out of his
store, knocked him with bar of iron,
jumped upon him and kicked him in
the face, all because Mr.. Billiard ac-
cused him of having broken into his
lime-house.
A farmer named Reuben White, while
cutting oats in field near Washington
Courthouse. Ohio, cut through q nest of
bees. His horses, madened by the
stings of the insects, threw him from
his seat before the sickle. He was so
badly mangled that he died in a few
minutes.
Two hundred and fifty sets of dia-
mond jewelry, twenty-five sets church
vestments, and other goods, worth many
thousand dollars, were seized by the
custom house detectives at New York,
last week. The goods had all been pass
ed by the inspectors as passengers per-
sonal effects in use.
Negligence sometimes becomes a
crime. At Pottsville, Pa, last week, a
mine superintendent, who had been con
; victed of failing to examine coal mine
before the men entered for the day to
see if it was safe, was sentenced to pay
a fine of $50 and be imprisoned thirty
days. This is said to be the first SEN
tence of the kind under the law.
Wednesday evening of last week
Michael Murphy, of Boston, Mass,
: killed William Appleton, and shot AL.
: bert Lincoln, following up his career by
/ visiting the Quincy sailors home the
following day, and numbering an inofen
$ sive inmate. He claims to have sho
Lincoln in mistake for another person
IS against whom he had a grudge.
u New York, having got under way he
: suspension bridge connecting with Brook
; Ign, for the convenience of passenge
Il transit, is now discussing in earnest ;
% tunnel under the Hudson river iron
i Jersey City, coming out near Washin
ton square 1t will be two miles long
k is estimated to cost $1O,OO0,OOO, AM
IS will be used chiefly for freight trans
t. mission.
If The entire abundant crops of cotton
4 corn and fodder in the valley of tn
.. Rlonlz Warpior. Ala have boon owop
re away by the rivers sudden rise of g.
ooN ah = &c !
II terrible freshet of 1862. The cotto
re- destroyed is estimated at 10000 bales
10 Most of the planters are ruined, and
T. is doubtful if the actual necessaries c
IN life can now be secured.
or The steamer Grand Republic. tn
u largest and finest steamboat on tn
or Western waters, took fire about
o'clock on the night of the 10Th inst
at st. Louis, and burned to the water
a edge. The flames communicated to th
Is steamers CarOndelet, lying alongside
- and all her upper works were destroyed
- Loss estimated at 100000. The Gran
- Republic was insured for 100000.
nj A package containing Governmer
ia and railroad bonds, certificates of stool
n mortgages, and promissory notes, est
mated at 100000, was stolen from th
First National Bank, at Cortland, N. Y
e. on Saturday last. The loss was nc
ng discovered until Monday morning. Th
vs. securities were in a large pocket-bool
IN which was kept in the safe Of the banl
u The securities belong to private indivit
ne uals.
IS The number of pilgrims who Wis
"A Mecca annually is estimated at not le
e. than 100000 to 100000. The day
the "Courban Bairam," or Great Feas
d. on which the pilgrims must be presel
n in Mecca, is the 9th of Dhullhajj
is which corresponds with our l4th
Id December, and as it falls this year {
nd Friday, the Mohammedan Sabbath, Il
for coincidence is regarded as an omen
ey so much good that the approaching a
EN- semblage is expected to be one of gre
nd magnitude and splendor.
The Secret service agents at Was
H. ington, are excited over an alleged coul
~ terfeit $50 legal tender note sent fro
so Chicago. The chief of the Secret Sc
10 vice declares that the note is genuin
. ~ as it is printed on fibre paper. 9th
In In officers think that it is not genuine tn
w.. n,s claiming that there is an irregularity
II the serial numbers, and the suggesti
u is made that fibre notes of the small
~ denomination may have been wash
and the forged notes printed upon thel
,w' A special to the Daily NeaOs, dat
oer Bucharest, Monday, says: "The weat
0' er for the past two days has been e
me tremely bad. At Frateshti. which
en- now sea of mud, hospital accommod