Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-15
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The stallion Young Seminal, eight
years old, with a record of 226, was sold
at Newburg. N. Y. on Monday, at a
mortgage sale for $4,000.
Two barns. owned by S. P. Billings,
at Ware, Mass, were burned on Satur-
day night, by an incendiary. with %
head of cattle, one horse. thirty tons of
hay, tools, etc.
An intoxicated man. named Edward |
Williams, was decapitated by train
the other night, on the bridge near Pots
dam. N. Y. The body and head drop
ped into the river.
Michigan religious item: "The Rev.
William Baker, the pastor, being i'll.
the people were determined not to be
wholly disappointed, and organized a
greenback club
The milling capacity of Minneapolis,
Mimi. is to be increased this season to
two hundred and sixty-three run of
stone, making it the greatest -four man
ufacturing city in the United States.
Silver was first coined by Phidon,
King of Argos. about $50 B. c.. the ep-
och of the building of Carthage, and
about one hundred and forty years after
the construction of Solomon's temple.
There are 46,OOO,OOO acres in Great
Britain, and over 100000 inhabit-
ants. Only forty per cent of these can
be fed with British food. The remain
der of the food-supply must be imported.
The city of Para. of the Brazilian
steamship line, was successfully launched
at Chester. Pa, on Saturday, April 6,
the president and cabinet and large
delegation of congressman being in at
tendance.
The dam in the Rice Pond Reservoir.
which supplies Fitchburg, Mass, with
water, and which caused great damage
in 1850, is considered unsafe, and the
water will be drawn off to permit an in
vestigation.
There are great crowds in New Haven,
Conn.,, attending the revival meetings of
Messrs. Moody and Sankey. The build
ing in which the services are held holds
some five thousand people, and Sunday
night it was filled three minutes after
the doors were opened.
At Westfeld, Mass, in the heart of
the tobacco growing interest, the New
England Methodist Conference has voted
not to admit ministers in future who
use tobacco. 1t is not reported whether
those who now smoke and chew will be
allowed to stay in the Conference.
One effect of the silver bill has been
to stop the sale of United States bonds
in Europe. The Treasury clerks who
returned last week from London brought
back about 100000 in bonds fol
which there was no market, and it l:
estimated that about $6,000,000 PEI
week will be returned hereafter.
The Earl of Leitrim, of ireland, hi
clerk and his driver, were all shot deat
opposite a cottage from which he hat
recently elected a widow, one day las
week. Eighty-nine of his tenants Were
, under notice to quit, and it is said tina
, the Earl was very particular and exact
, in his dealings with the tenantry, visit
, ing with unsparing severity the slight
est infraction of the rules of the estate
About FIVE o'clock on Saturday eve
ming fifty. horse power boiler burst i
the engine-room of the Boston Stampin
Mandatory of Lealey & Co., Thir
: street, Cambridge. Massachusetts,
]. Three men were killed, another fatal
q injured, and SIX others were more or les
S severely wounded. The boiler wa
q hurled through the brick walls of til
9 engine-room. and the wooden walls {
the building enclosing it. 100 feet acros
:. the canal. The cause of the explosio
: in not known.
: Rev. B. S. Taylor, pastor of tn
j: Methodist Episcopal church at Sane
: lake. N. Y, instead of preaching SCI
. mon on Sunday of last week, made tn
]; announcement: "The board of tru'
tees have not paid my salary, have take
a no notice of my demands, circulated L
: subscription paper nor made any otht
/ effort to fulfill their obligatians to M
: am badly involved IN debt, and do NJ
s propose to continue preaching for notl
8 ing. | therefore declare this pulpit v;
cant until God in his mercy can sen
you minister who can live on air an
. wear buckskin breeches of his ow
: make.
!. Blasius Pistorius. German priest
d the Catholic Church, was convicted {
;. murder in the first degree, at Pmlade
phia, on the 2lst. Isaac Jacquette W;
4 shot at Morristown, July "a, 1875, /
. Pistorius. quarrel having arisen b
tween them over certain creek whel
i Jacduette's cows were then watere,
!. This was the second time Pistorious b;
been convicted of the crime, his fir
j trial being in Montgomery county III
case was taken to the Su preme Court c
the ground that the defendant, being
Catholic priest, was not granted ia
: trial, owing to the religious prejudic
e in that country The case was, Their
Is fore, transferred to Philadelphia count
. The condemned man is described as
= ing a scholar of no mean attachments.
= A despatch from Corning, N. Y
states that about | o'clock on Sunds
e morning the insane asylum connectt
, with the Steuben County poor hous
! situated two miles north of Bath, w
. set an fire by L. G. Ford. of Hornell
u vile, an inmate confined in the instit
- ton on account of fits. He had be,
y y considered trustworthy, and was allow
y liberties which enabled him to destrt