Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-01-07
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

ninety three races and earned Sll3, 900. |
General Grant has gained forty eight
pounds in weight since he went abroad.
Two men have recently been fined in !
New Jersey for attempting to commit
suicide
The Vanderbilt will case still drags
its sickening length through the New
York courts.
A new telegraph company, with a
capital Of $4,000. has been form
ed in New York city.
{ They have been selling confederate
bonds in London lately at the rate of
1910 per $loO.0o0.
The hillsides in the vicinity of Oak
land, Md. are covered with violets and
and other wild flowers.
John M. Corliss. of N. H., took a
dose of poison by mistake recently, and
came near losing his life.
Forty five millions is the estimate of
the st. Louis Republican for the popu
lation of the model republic in 1880
Some colored men in Augusta. Ga.
are moving to start cotton factory
there, with capital stock of 100000.
Joseph L. McKenua. of Lowell.
Mass, Is years old. was found drowned
in the Suffolk canal Christmas after
noon.
Five horse thieves-Mexican and ma
tive Californians-were hanged by the
citizens of the town of Bakersfield, CAL,
a few days ago.
Turkish soldiers have recovered from
their wounds in marvellous manner in
many instances. owing to their strictly
temperate lives.
Severe frosts in November solidi6ed
the juice in the standing sugar cane in
portions of Louisiana. and have caused
immense damage.
Five tons of rocks containing impress
ions of bird and insect tracks have been
taken from WethersGeld, Conn, to
Mount HoIyoke Seminary.
By the burning of Thomas Ter
rill's house in Central City, Cal, last
week. four persons lost their lives. The
fire was the work of an incendiary.
James Gormon. of West Troy. N Y.
was fatally injured last Wednesday. by
being drawn under belt. and whirled
around wheel in a planning mill. at
the rate of about sixty revolutions min
ute.
A hundred unemployed laborers wait
ed upon the mayor of Toronto. Ont.
Thursday. and stated that they must
have work or their families would
starve. They were set to work breaking
stones.
MIR. Moody will labor in Hartford
the present month, in Springfield IL
February. work in Boston for two weeks,
and in New Haven for the same length
of time in March and then rest for the
| summer.
A snake possessing two perfect heads
was captured at Los Gatox. in Califor
mia. lately. 1t has complete contro
over both heads. moving either one o.
both at will, and also eats with one O.
both.
At Milwaukee. Wis, last week Tues
day, while Carrie Cramer. IA years old
was playing with her boy cousins. one
of them pointed pistol at her. supposed
it to be empty. when it exploded ant
killed her.
confederate general Tucker, nov
democratic congressman from Virginia
surrendered his sword In 1866 to Uniol
General Keller, now Republican con
gresham from Ohio. and Mr.. Keifer i
going to give it back to him.
William S. Curtis. of Hopkinton. N
H.. was found in his house last Satur
day covered with blood. and severa
gashes on his head. He was unable t
give any account Of the affair and it
thought he was assaulted by tramps.
Anita. Ia, has had sensation in tn
arrest of A. Wayne, an evangelica
preacher. on the testimony ct three me
that he had been trying to hire them
murder his wife. and bis apparent cor
fession of guilt by fleeing the country.
Carl Mass and wife. of Morgan. la
left home to spend Christmas. and lock
ed their three children. aged one. tw
and half. and four years. in the house
During their absence the house wa
burned, and the children persisted i
the flames.
Lowery NJ Wall. of Boston. Mass
was knocked down the other evening b
two men. gagged, bound and dragge
into an alley. where be was robbed an
left helpless. An officer found hi,
bruised and bleeding some time aftel
and released him.
The loss of property on the Wester
rivers the past year is set down at So
100000. including ice and coal-bos
disasters on the Ohio river. amountin
to S4.000.000 The number of live
lost is 70. more than two thirds by e.
plosions and the burning of steamers.
A horrible murder was perpetrate
Christmas evening at the farm of Nose
Wingate. in Menthuen. Mass. Th
victims were Michael Doran, % yea
of age. belonging in Lawrence. and tt
wife of George Slade. an Englishma
: Slade was arrested as the supposed mu
derer.
The friends of Massacre Butler an
, Patterson, the two South Carolina SEN
tors, are very much exercised becau'
of the disposition of the Republica
senators to investigate the arrangemel
|, whereby the carpet Dagger voted
give the butcher the seat which belonge
to another man.
: A telegram from Dubuque. low
December 25. to the Chicago Int
Ocean. says: 1.-The temperature to d.