Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-19
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Twenty-Five of the victims of the tor
nado in Wallingford, Conn.,, were bur-
led Sunday in the presence of ten thous-
and spectators.
The paper mill of Vernon Brothers,
at Northampton, Mass, was destroyed
by fire on the Sth, involving loss of
about $4,000.
Still another call has been made by
the Treasurey department for the re-
emption of 100000 $40 bonds of
1865, consols of 1865.
Mr.. Sankey sails for Great Britain the
latter part of next month, to revisit old
scenes, while Moody will spend the fall
and winter in Baltimore.
A boy IA years old. while bathing in
East river at New York, last Friday,
was horribly and fatally mutilated by an
eight foot man-eating shark.
Accounts from Turkish sources of the
resistance to the Aurtrian army occupa-
ton place the Austrian loss in Bosnia,
thus far, at 1000 killed and wounded.
The money drawer in the ticket office
of the Lancaster, N. H., depot was rob-
bed of about $50 Saturday night, and
G. w. Booma is under arrest, upon sus-
picion of being the thief.
At mass political meeting at Mount
Carmel, H., Thursday, 10000 people
were present. Banners were stretched
across the street inscribed, "Grant for
President in $780," Robert Bell was
nominated for Congress.
In the United States circuit court at
Charleston. S. Con Thursday, 1913 illicit
distillers pleaded guilty with the under
standing that judgment be suspended,
they to return home unmolested, provid-
ed they offend the law no more.
The ravages of the yellow fever on
the Mississippi at New Orleans, Grenada,
Memphis and other places is frigktful.
and still on the increase. The whole
population is fleeing from these cities
and business in some places is suspended.
The South Carolina Republican Con-
vention refrained from nominating State
ticket for reason that owing to the exist.
ence of a bitterly hostile feeling toward
them it would not be safe to vote q
ticket opposed to the Democracy of the
State.
A drunken fellow stole locomotive
on Monday at cambridge, o., while the
engineer was at dinner, pulled open the
throttle and sent her off at rafting
pace. She jumped the track while round
ing curve. killing the drunken man ano
smashing the machine.
George S. Winslow, of Augusta, Me.
J was killed in Iowa, few days since. b.
being knocked off railway train by {
hog. The engine he was on ran into ;
drove of hogs, and one of them wa
thrown against Mr.. Winslow, knocking
him off the engine.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Aug. 15.-Special
{ from st. Louis reiterate the fact tina
| the Treasurer of the State of Missouri i
defaulter to the amount of at leas
, 100000, and the demand is made upol
{ the Governor to call the legislature in ex
ira session Immediately, to meet tn
grave crisis.
A reckless negro driver of afour-hors
wagon filled with musicians. attempte'
Y to drive over crossing in Maryland o.
/ the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Tn
engine struck the team, killing one man
wounding several others, killing tn
horses. smashing the wagon to splinter
and throwing ten cars from the track.
< NEW YORK, Aug. ia telegram t
: the Mayor of Wilmington, N. c., yes
: terday, signed by E. A. Melton. Cit
}, Marshal and Acting Mayor of Grenada
d Miss, was as follows Help us to pa
# nurses and bury the dead. Our tow
a is graveyard. We need help. TIL
) Mayor is dying and | am the only Office
left.
e James Yates and James Long, tw
: Wilmington, Del, young fellows, wer
l. stealing ride on the bumpers of a Phi
e adelphia, Wilmington and Baltimor
g freight car, when it uncoupled nea
It Delaware Junction, breaking Yates nee
l. between two cross-ties, and draggin
If Long, who held on to the car. along tn
l. track until his face and head were bac
ly bruised.
4. The great camp-meeting of the M
TT tional Christian Temperance Association
Is under the lead of Francis Murphy, opeI
rs ed at Round Lake, N. Y, last weel
!. Tuesday evening Judge Grifiths,
D. Troy, signed the pledge and donned
N blue ribbon amid great excitement.
t. perfect rush ensued, and the secretarit
k were unable to record one-tenth of IL
a. s!gners.
There is more government none,
lie paper and coin together, in circulatio
ID in the United States now than there W;
m in 1873 before the panic; more tina
is three times as much paper money
o. there ever was at any time before IL
fe war, and the amount per capita to Il
le population of the county is considerab
to more than twice as great as it was at Il
o. beginning of the war.-Indianapol
to ! Journal Republican,.