Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-03-18
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


pressed desire to surrender, as his
forces are starving.
The Acton (Mass.) powder mills were
blown up again Wednesday, and two men
were killed.
A white whale sixty five feet long.
worth four thousand dollars, has been
captured in Brunswick harbor. GA.
All the corpses of the miners at work at
the time of the explosion, AZ in number,
have been recovered from the Keasley
colliery.
There was terrible explosion Tues
day in coal mine near Bolton, Eng
land, by which forty men are supposed
to have persisted. Sixteen bodies had
been taken out at last accounts.
1t is stated that an Ohio miller, rela-
tive of the Democratic chairman of a
Congressional committee, was brought
from Ohio to visit the Centennial Exhib-
ition and was paid as an expert on print
ing, the voucher on which he was paid
official stating that fact upon its face.
The owners of Great Eastern is out
with challenge. offering to back his
horse against Colonel RusselPs Smuggler
at each of the meetings of the National
circuit for $1,000 side each race. Fail
ing in this, he offers to trot his horse
against any other In the world to saddle.
1t is said that the southwestern states
are more rapidly filling up with emf
grants than other portions of the coun-
try, and that Texas and Kansas will
surprise the world by their showing in
in the census of 1880. Texas claims
that she will have two million at that
| time
About one hundred and fifty buildings
were destroyed by the Hot Springs con-
fagration, comprising nearly all the
business houses aud residences. 1t is es-
timated that thousand people are made
homeless. and aid is asked for the poor.
The loss is estimated at 100000; in
surance $4,000.
The Grand Lodge Of Free Masons of
England, Lord Carnaryon presiding, has
unanimously passed resolution refusing
to recognize as Free Mason any person
initiated in a lodge where belief in God
is denied or ignored. This refers to the
action of the Grand Orient of France,
which recently eliminated the article ex-
pressing belief in God from its ritual.
The heaviest storm ever experienced
in West Virginia passed over Jefferson
county Monday night. Hail stones lar
ger than eggs fell an hour, unroofng
houses, breaking glass and killing cattle,
hogs and sheep. The heavy rain which
followed washed out the growing wheat,
inficting heavy loss. The damage is
estimated at from SIS, 1000 to 100000.
most shocking tragedy is reported
from Monroe county, Ill. Morltz Kaiser,
a Swiss farmer near Fisk Landing,
aged SO, who has had difficulty in sup
porting his family and was to be soon
turned out of home because he couldn' t
pay the rent, murdered his wife-an
American woman, age 25-and his six
children, ranging from two-months-old
girl to lO-years old boy, recently, and
then burned his house over his head,
himself perishing in the flames.
Elk United States Marshal Howard OF
, Utah says that Lee, the Mountain Mead
ows murderer, never made confession
. that the one published at the time o.
Lees execution was composed by him
self, Marshal Nelson, and newspaper
! correspondent, assisted by Lee, whose
t approval it received. Lee refused t.
{ confess fully, principally because his ia
e vorite wife. who was with him at tn,
t time, was implicated in the murder
: The early settlers in New England
lived almost exclusively on fish. No
: only the waters of the ocean which
washed the coast but our rivers anC
> ponds abounded in fish. Fish was OF
every table at every meal. Fresh o
cured-cooked in great variety of way
! and made not only acceptable to tn
taste but yielding strength, health ant
: energy to people whose intellect ant
physical development has never beef
t excelled.
: At Powell's bend on the Potoma
River near Williamsport. Nd, on tn
9Th inst. the tressel platform used il
d building new iron bridge on the Cum
: berland Valley Railroad gave way Will
thirteen men were at work, throwing tn
men into the river. Three of them wer
IS fatally injured, and the others were seri
e ously hurt The fall from the tresse
1t work to the river was about ffty-fv
e feet, and several of the injured men ha'
l. limbs broken and received other seriou
Z; injuries.
> The Baldwin locomotive works ship
> ped promptly February Goth, forty en-
; gines to Russia according to contrac
made Christmas week. The Germa
e machinists and engineers, who compete
d for this contract and lost it. said it wa
g not possible to build so many locomt
a tives within the brief time allowed, bu
es the American manufacturers prove th
lie contrary, as the capacity of their work
b. is about fifty engines per month. or sa
n. five hundred per annum. The contra,
requires that they shall de delivered /;
ne Konigsburg. on the Baltic. where the
o. will probably arrive before the lst
to April. couple of steamers being cha
v tered expressly for this purpose.
IS despatch from Cheyenne, Wyomir
u Territory, of the 10th, says: "a stor
u % exceeding in violence and duration TIL
VI of any previous season, set in at | p. I
~ on Friday. and continued without abat
10 ment until noon yesterday, the wiz
ranging in velocity from so to GA mil
OF per hour. carrying snow with it. ar
n, drifting it in banks 10 to Is feet hig
ne in this city. 1t extended from Bit
nd Greek, on the west, to Julesburg, ON Il