Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-16
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

S. R. Claxton, wool merchant, of
Troy. N. Y, has been robbed of $780,
900 in bonds aud securities.
William H. Devlin. of Lowell, Mass,
has been convicted of murder in the
first degree, in killing his wife.
H Wiegle, proprietor of a Hamilton
o., beer garden. shot his wife, and then
shot himself Both died instantly.
Fifty buildings in the business part
of Macon, Miss, were burned last Sat
urday. Loss $20O.000: insurance
100000.
Lille Holden, Raymond, N. H.,
girl of Is, has just died from abortion,
supposed to have been performed by
Haverhill woman.
In the municipal election in Boston
Tuesday. F. o. Piuce, Democrat, was
elected mayor, and the Democrats. have
a majority of six in the city council.
Thomas Dillon, a lad, was drowned
in pond in Providence. Sunday, in an
endeavor to rescue his brother, who fell
through the ice. The brother was re-
suscitated.
John Mullen, formerly owner of
rolling mill at Pittsburgh, Pa, has
been arrested at st. Louis. on charge of
concealing his assets from his assignee
in bankruptcy.
George Bishop, of Leominster, Mass,
was killed last week Wednesday night,
by inhaling the sulphur of friction
matches, to relieve himself from an at
tack of diphtheria.
A misplaced fsh-plate on the Air
Line railway caused the train to jump
the track eight miles west of Romeo,
Mich, on Monday. Dec, 8. One man
was killed and several others seriously
injured.
Joseph latham tried to scare his
sisters at Hillside station on the Penn
sylvania railroad, 80 miles from Pitts
burgh, Friday night. by passing himself
off as a tramp, and was shot dead by
one of them.
A Louisiana sugar planter, whose
business was interfered with by Gen.
Sheriden's troops when he was in COM
mand there, has sued the general for
heavy damages. and the case is now on
trial in New York.
The revival meetings held by Pente-
cost and Stebbins at Fall River have
already resulted in over three hundred
conversions, and, as they are to remain
there two weeks longer, the churches
expect much larger harvest.
Over thirty United States officers
have been murdered by Southern moon
shines within the last two years. Not
one of the assassins have been punished.
This is the way the Southern people
obey the law in the non political mat
tiers.
Thanksgiving day was not observed
generally in the sullen South. A lead
ing democratic journal in Virginia says
the day was not observed because Mr..
Hayes had no right to issue proclama-
ton acking the people to take holt
day.
Senator Bruce of Mississippi consid-
ers Grant both an available and a de-
sirable candidate for the Republicans
in $780, He thinks that the General
would be the first choice for the Presi-
dency of nine teuths of the colored
voters of the South.
Ida Parker. girl aged IA years, was
drowned at Upper Bartlett, N. H., Dec.
II. She and another girl were cross
ing foot bridge across a stream, where
the main bridge has been carried off by
the food, and both fell in. The Parker
girl was carried into the river. Her
body has not been found.
Two burglars were caught at Middle
town, Conn.,, between twelve and one
o'clock on Friday morning. attempting
to enter store. They had full set
of burglars tools. They were tried in
the afternoon, and before night were
sentenced to two years Imprisonment in
the State Prison at Wethers6eld.
The English steamship John Bran
hall, which ran on the Little Gull Is
land Rocks, Long Island Sound, on o.
tober Is, with a cargo of arms and am
munition, valued at S1,l25.OOO, for
the Turkish Government went to pieces
In the gate on the End inst. The cargo
had been chiefly removed in damaged
condition.
A shocking occurrence at Toxteth
Park, England, was the sufocation OF
the Widow Cameron and her six chill.
dren, the eldest eighteen years old by
a pail of coke left burning in their
small chamber. The family was very
poor, and all were found lying calmly in
death on the bare boards, crowded into
a chamber only twelve by six feet
In South Carolina Legislature OF
Tuesday, Governor Wade Hampton was
almost UNANIMOUSLY elected to the United
States Senate. During the passage Of
this event the Governor was submitting
to the amputation of his leg, made nee
essary on account of the wound received
in falling from his mule some days ago
The operation was safely and. it is be-
lieved, successfully performed.
| Two years ago the United States
sued H. B. Clafiin & Co. to recover
| S2.000,000 penalties, being the double
value of twenty invoices of silks tina
they had purchased and had come int,
the market through what is known al
the Lawrence silk-smuggling frauds
Last week the United States Suprem,
Court, Judge Strong delivering the opin
ion, decided the suit in favor of Clafilr
& Co.
Felix Mccain, about sixty years o
age, shot and killed j. Morris Hatch,
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