Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-01-14
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A dispatch from Rome says it is re- q
ported that gangrene threatens the Pope's
eg.
Sixteen starch factories in Aroostook
county. Maine, used from 10000 to
100000 bushels of potatoes each last
fall.
Special cable dispatches say that
Austria intimates that she will only
permit peace on the basis of the treaty
Of Paris.
England has sent warning note to
Russia touching her approach to Con-
atantineple.
The Northampton bank robbers have
each been sentenced to 20 years in the
state prison.
Eastern Indiana is flooded with coun-
terfeit silver. Three of the counterfeit
ers have been arrested.
Nashua, n H., had a $4,000 fire
last Sunday. Berry's block. opposite the
post-office being destroyed, with two
buildings adjoining.
Samuel BoWles, OF the Springfield
Republican, has been worse during the
past week, and the hopes inspired that
he might get out again have nearly all
vanished.
A cab broke through the ice in the
outskirts of Halifax, N. S.. Sunday
night. and two young women. Flora Nc
Donald and Ida Bautilier, and John
Wilson. the driver. were drowned.
Moody and Sankey entered upon their
months work at Hartford, Conn, Sun
day. The meetings are held in the
rink, which seats 5000 people. The
opening meetings were densely crowded.
A frightened team backed wagon
containing Mrs. Morris Goodloe and
four children off bridge over the Obion
River, near Nashville, Tenn, OH Mon
day of last week, and the four children
were drowned.
A fire broke out in the building of
the Riverside Press at Cambridge. Mass
and did 81 900 worth of damage before
it was extinguished. A large portion
VI VIC AOUi odA uuHOCi u thO NWdhtAS
Monthly, was destroyed.
The national debt statement shows
present accumulation of $l06, 100000
of coin. over and above the liability for
coin certificates. to meet the resumption
of specie payments, an increase in the
year of S57, 100000. The greenback
currency has shrunken Sic, 100000
during the year, and has at length fallen
below S350.000.0 The net debt has
been reduced SIT, 100000 during the
last twelve months.
1t costs but little more than half
cent day to take a weekly paper; less
than diligent hen would earn in
month at the market price of eggs; less
than a cigar a fortnight. and very
cheap one at that; less than the barber
would charge by the year to keep ones
hair trimmed less than good sized
Christmas turkey less than an energet-
ic kitchen girl will waste in week. A
penny day can be saved in many a
better way than stopping your paper.
BosToN. Jan. z. Reports of intense
cold weather are received from many
localities in New England and in this
vicinity. The mercury this morning
ranged from zero to SIX degrees below.
At Littleton twenty one degrees below !:
Dover twelve below; Lewiston, Me,
twenty-five below: West Randolph, VT,
thirty six below; Nashua twenty-four
below Hartford, Conn. fourteen below
in the Hudson River valley the mercury
ranged from three to ten below.
Last weeks snow storm and gale were
!, unusually severe along the Massachus-
etts coast. and the always dangerous
shore of Cape Cod was the scene OF
many disasters. So far as can be ascer-
, tanned, about 10 vessels, mainly coast
, ing Schooners. were wrecked or founder.
ed, while the number of lives lost foo,
! up II. The suffering of wrecked mar.
liners from the cold were intense Mate
| Davis. from the Frederick Fisk, died o.
, exposure as he was leaving his vessel il
t boat. James lowering. of the. Pow
S Wow, mere boy. was frozen to death OF
$ the schooner's deck. and three more O
: this vessels crew dropped from the rig
f glng one after another, as the cold loos
t ened their grasp.
The steamship Atacoma, belonging tt
/ the Pacific Navigation Company, wen
j. to pieces on rock known as "Romp
|. Clas." a short distance south of Calder
Q on the CHILEAN coast, on the night of tn
J, 3Oth of November. The captain, all o
l. the officers and many of the crew an
a passengers we're lost. 1t is estimates
If that upward Of one hundred person
we're drowned. The ship was on voy
d age from Valparaiso to Callao. Tn
!. disaster occurred shortly after eigh
:. o'clock at night when the passenger
n were below, and so instantaneous was th
20 breaking up of the ship that no tim
7. was given to gain the deck. The carg
lost was not of great value, and tn
d passengers, mostly Chllians, were joul
e. neying between the ports.
0. While a Chicago and Northwestern
es railroad box car was loading with nitr,
D. glycerine at the jackson mine, ne;
C. Negaunee. Michigan, at 10 o'clock r
D. Gently. the mass exploded, Instant
g. killing seven men and demolishing Il
ut car The locomotive was lifted into tt
air and thrown fifty feet, where it res
lie ed confused heap of wood and iro
be OF the killed. S. A. Wheeler and h
la son Walter, and Ira Henckley were Ell
'ss ployed at the nitro-glycerine work
n Henckley being Superintendent. The
he three were blown to atoms. no piece
ed flesh larger than two pounds in weig
.e- being discoverable. The other four we
M railroad workmen. and were in the c;
re of the engine when the explosion can