Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-06
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

604 in July.
The New England Conference of !
Christian Association to be held at Con- I
cord, N. H., has been postponed to Sep t
TENDER 18th. Leading workers are
expected from all the New England :
states.
The Chicago journal says that the
Rev. Adirondack Murray, of Boston,
will not take vacation this year, but
will remain patiently at his work of
trying to make a pacing mare trot a
mile in two minutes.
On California ranch recently wheat
which was standing in the ear at
quarter before five in the morning was
eaten as biscuit at quarter before sew
en-, having been cut, threshed, ground
and baked In two hours.
Richard H. Shuck was executed at
Owenton, KY, last Friday, in the pres
ence of over 5000 persons. He was
convicted of the murder of Nelson Par
ish, but died, saying, "Don't hang me,
gentlemen. | am an innocent man"
The Postmaster General will ask
Congress, early in the coming session,
for legislation which will enable him to
break up the associations of professional
bidders for mail contracts, who never
perform them, but sub-let them to bona
tide bidders whom they have underhid.
A Grain on the Prospect Park and
Corey Island railroad collided with
tain on the Manhattan Beach road at
1arkerville, N. Y, last Saturday. Four
ears and one engine were badly wrecked,
hut out of $50 passengers, only eight |
we're injured, and but one seriously.
Sioux CITY, Iowa, July %. I'M
mense swarms of grasshoppers have been
flying over in an easterly direction
since Monday, but few came down. Re-
ports from the country are anxiously
looked for, as but little wheat has been
cut, and great damage to crops may yet
be done.
The hard times have been severely
felt by the liquor dealers of Philadel-
phia. A careful survey of the field by
the licensing authorities has made known
the cheering fact that in some wards
nearly one third of last years retail
dealers have quit the business because
it failed to pay.
Work is being pushed on the new
capitol building at Hartford. Most of
the marble work Is done, except the
dome, and the plasterers arc at work in
side. The Senate chamber will be fin
ished by January l, 1878, and it is
hoped that the Representatives room
will be also ready for the next session.
At Bethlehem, N. H., July "a,
livery team ran away and the two Miss
es Cart and their brother of New York,
and Miss Burt of Springfield, were
( thrown from the carriage. One of the
former ladies had her wrist broken, and
sustained serions flesh wounds. Her
brother received internal, and it is fear
ed fatal injuries.
BRATTLEBoRo, Vt, July PA letter
dated July %, from Attorney General
Devens to Col. Hooker, of Brattleboro,
says: president Hayes will probably
go from New York to Bennington direct,
thence to Windsor with Mr.. Evarts,
thence quietly to Wilmington and New
fame, where his uncle Austin Birchard
resides.
Two of the largest silk mills at Pat
erson, N. j., have received orders from
Paris for the manufacture of certain
description of silk goods. This is the
hrst order for silk goods ever received
in America from Europe, and from a
country that has made silk production a
speciality, and which stands at the head
of the manufacture of that fabric.
The Northampton (Mass.) burglars
have been again found guilty, this time
for breaking into Cashier Whittlesey's
house, and they are now likely to be
sentenced to prison for terms which will
consume the remainder of their lives.
This is great triumph for
right and law, in spite of the great
efforts made to induce a compromise,
which would result in securing the
stolen property.
One hundred and twenty-five locomo-
tives, one thousand cars of all grades,
three miles of shops with their valuable
contents, freight-houses, a splendid de-
pot, and many other buildings, aggregat-
ing in value not much, if any, less than
six million dollars, will have to be paid
for out of the pockets of Pittsburg tax
payers on account of the riot and be-
sides all this, the railroad shops will
not be rebuilt in that city.
NEW YORK, Aug. Indian Com.
missioner Smith is fearful lest Sitting
Bull shall form junction with Joseph s
band, in which case it will take over
5000 troops to overcome them. Dis
patches from the camps near Kamiah to
the 30th say it is believed there that
! Joseph is trying to get into British
America, as he is going by the northern
, part of the Bitter Root Mountains
through the Big Horn Valley.
William H. Porter, wealthy resident
brick manufacturer, belonging to one Of
the oldest families in the country, was
arrested at Danvers, Mass, last week
: having. within the past two years, rob-
bed nearly every store and many private
! houses at Danvers. He confessed his
crimes and $4,000 worth of variou:
goods, including $1,000 in jewelry
| taken from Samuel Sawyer's house. was
} found hidden between the floors of his
> house, besides dies, crucibles and met
al for making counterfeit silver money
of which Porter owns that he has made
, good use.
The arrangements on the part of New
= Hampshire for her anticipation in the
, Bennington celebration are being rapid
ly perfected. Governor Prescott will