Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-09-09
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

tober 3lst.
Horatio Seymour. has succeeded in
getting cheese adoped as an army ration.
The number Of commercial travellers
in the United States is estimated at six
ty thousand.
The fight in Ohio is being conducted
almost wholly upon the money issue, the
Democrats having surrendered uncondi-
tionally to the Greenbackers.
Twenty-f five new presses were put up
last week to meet the demand for new
per cents. A single order on Satur-
day called for 100000 bonds.
Prof. Collier of the Agricultural De-
partment at Washington is successfully
experimenting with corn stalks and
sorghum in the manufacture of sugar
Destroy the reapers, burn the sewing
machines, tear up railroads, go back to
hand printing presses then spool your
receipts and be happy.-.St. Louis
Times.
A boy seven years old was found 60
miles below st. Louis floating on the
trunk of huge tree, and from the evi.
dence attainable itappears that he had
been in this position five or six days with
out food.
The whole population of Steubenville.
Ohio, were out Thursday night of last
week, searching for tramps, who had
outraged woman eighty years old and
then cut her head partly off with a
| Ratchet.
The campaign in Maine grows hotter
every day. The Boston Herald predicts
that the Republicans will lose a Con-
| gresham in the district where the DEM
ocrats and Greenbackers have united
upon candidate.
A Minnesota paper says that the rush
for land this fall promises to equal if
not exceed that of last year. Every
train brings fresh lot, and the hotel
registers show arrivals from all parts of
the Union and the Canadas,
Another frightful nitro-glycerine ex-
plosion, the second within eight days
occurred at Negaunees Mich, on Thur.
day, by which three men were blown to
pieces, while fourth was landed on a
shelving rock, almost uninjured.
The Cleveland Leader says of Robert
Lincoln who has just refused a nomina.
ton for Congress, that " one of these
days, however, the people of Illinois
will nominate him for Governor in such
way that he will have to accept"
/ Even California is shocked over the
recent murder of a wealthy farmer named
Tillis at the instigation of Troy Dye
public administrator of Sacramento
county, in order that he might fatten of
the fees and possible stealings incident
to his administration of the dead mans
estate.
LONDON, Sept. 8. The excursion
steamer Princess, Alice, in returning
from Gravesend to- London this evening
with about 500 passengers, was rul
down off Dorking, about s o'clock, b.
screw steamer. The number of persons
drowned is variously estimated from
500 to $50.
The Mormons declare that the deatl
of Brigham Young did not discourage
any in the Mormon faith. Their mum
bers are augmented by almost weekly
arrivals from Europe. and an miners,
Mormon settlement is going on south o
Salt Lake. They have no intention o
quitting Utah.
Philadelphia has kept right on build
, ing houses without regard to the demand
for them. Within year about tel
millions of dollars have been investe,
in this way, and the result is likely t
be disastrous to the building interest,"
of the city, as the houses are tenantles
and cannot be sold at prices anywher
near their cost.
New YORK. Sept. 9Th. Late spec
ials from Omaha show that several fire
men lost their lives at the great fir,
there last night; that the new Gran
! Central Hotel is complete wreck; tina
the whole of the best business portion o
the town is likely to be destroyed; tina
7 the property burned represented $3.50,
900, with the fire still spreading.
GRENADA. MISS, Sept. 5. The situa
ton is heartrending. Eight deaths to
day. DIR. Ringgold and D. w. Coor
t manager of the Towards, have been al
r tackled. About II new cases have bee
e developed. The widow of Col. Andel
: son has been stricken at fernando
n There no longer remains house i
Grenada not visited by the destroyer.
d The ravages of yellow fever in Ne
: Orleans are so great that expectation
e are now entered that the city will b
/. thoughly swept by the epidemic.
i strange feature of the disease, both 6
New Orleans and Memphis, is the grea
! morality among the negroes. nearly 6
! per cent. of the cases in the former cit
= occurring among this class. The ep
!, demic shows no indication of abatin,
! and unfavorable weather ACIDS to i
horrors.
A young girl at Lanslngburg. N. Y
. last Saturday night, while carrying
e lighted lamp, fell headlong down ligl
= of stairs. Finding she was losing hi
: balance. she threw the lamp from HI
g with all her strength. The lamp lande
81 at the foot of the stairs. where it WI
!. shivered to atoms, and the girl fell u
IS on her face directly upon the burnir
to wick. She had long flowing hair, whic
< was set in blase, and she was bad
t. burned. Strange to say, the oil did n
t. take fire.
= Among curiosities that are works
- art at Stewards is shawl that vi
made for the Empress Eugene. 1t
n the most exquisitely fine embroidery