Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-03-11
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS,

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Poland contributes one hundred and
twenty thousand men to the Russian
army.
The Maine Senate has passed bill |
that selectmen and assessors
of towns shall be able to read and
write.
The Relief Society of st. John. N. B.,
had ninety-two applications per day
during February from victims of the
great fire.
The estimated amount of distilled
spirits in the country January lst was
45,O0o.0O0 gallons large amount as
compared with previous years.
Ex-Mayor William Workman. of Mon
treal, leaves property valued at $780,
900. About two-thirds are bequeathed
to public charities.
Captain Boynton is to attempt to
swim from Toledo to Lisbon distance
of 700 miles; then he will try to cross
the Straits of Gibraltar.
The Iowa Senate. after vote of Al
to against the deception of criminals.
passed the bill restoring capital punish
ment, the vote being,-ayes %. nays l9.
A pocket book and thirty-fve dollars,
which lady of New Britain. Conn,
had lost over year ago, were recently
returned to her by Moody and Sankey
convert
Rev. Stephen H. Tying, Jr., of New
York, was made very happy on Sunday
of last week by the completion of the
subscription Of 100000 to pay off the
debt on his church.
A huge gray wolf, which has destroy
ed over $1,000 worth of sheep near
South Bend, Ind, during the past three
years. was killed recently, after six
days pursuit with dogs.
1t is said that there was never before
so much lumber put into the Aroostook
waters in Maine in the same time as
within the past two weeks. The woods
are full of men and teams.
A. J. Baldwin of Berlin, Conn, was
bitten five weeks ago by dog, and died
on the 9th ult., in great agony. The
doctors pronounce it a case Of hydro
phobia. Seven other persons were Bit
ten by the same dog.
A Washington special to the Boston
Journal states that government officials
say that the Secretary of the Treasury
will not use silver to pay the interest on
the public debt This statement is
made by high authority.
The county judge, sheriff. district at
torney and supervisor of Elizabethtown,
N. Y, have given the Murphy temper
ance movement an impetus by endorsing
the pledge and publicly avowing their
sympathy with the cause.
There is family in Madison county,
Florida. of remarkable stature. The
father is seven feet four inches high,
the mother is six feet eight inches.
two sons are seven feet three inches, and
one daughter is seven feet nine inches.
A Massachusetts, corporation, which
paid off its hands in trade dollars, is
said to have refused day or two later
to receive some of them from one of its
employees in payment of debt, on the
ground that they were not legal tender.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
made arrangements for the immediate
execution of the silver coinage law, SC
that there will be no delay. He has
prepared form of silver certificate and
approved the device for the new silver
dollar.
An oil we'll, which in couple of hours
yielded five barrels of petroleum, has
been discovered in the city of Whining.
ton, Del. The discovery was made by
Alexander Gillespie while at work il
his cellar digging well to take off sur.
face water. The flow of the oil is
watched with great interest.
1.-The most unfortunate incident of the
late Presidential election" says the
Mobile, Alabama, Register, twas the
letter written by Mr.. Tilden short
time before the election, saying ht
would veto any bill proposed to pay
Southern war claims There is gooc
deal of milk in that little cocoanut.
1t is said that Hon. Edward Everett
housekeeper, who for many years careC
for his interests faithfully at his resi-
dence in Cambridge, Mass. and aftel
his death extended the same good Offices
to his son, William Everett, has lately
died, bequeathing to the latter the saw
ings of her frugal life, With the excep
tion of a few small gifts to other friends
The property is estimated at $4,000.
For some time accounts have beer
sent us of the unprecented number o
emigrants on their way to Kansas. Th'
following despatch would indicate tina
the end is not yet. Topeka, Feb. %
twenty-seven carloads of passenger
came to-day from Atchison and Kansa
City, on the Santa Fe road, mostly 70
settlement in the Arkansas Valley be
sides these, large numbers came in Of
the Kansas Pacific road. 1t is estimate,
that the State will receive 100000 ad
ditional to its population this year.
A despatch from Louisville. Mar.
says A terrible tornado, 400 yards i
width, swept through Casey County be
: tween and o'clock Saturday after
noon, doing great damage in the neigh
: borhood of Rich Hill and Mount Olive
! Vincent Wesley, his wife, two grow
/, daughters, a nephew, named Sloan. an
William Taylor, a neighbor who was &
his house near Rich Hill, were kille
outright. Mrs. Wesley's body was blow
n 400 yards, and entirely stripped {
b clothing. Her two daughters were ca
: ried fifty yards, and were found locke
$ in each others arms. The father an
i nephew were mangled, and all mu
e have suffered instant death. The dwell
ings stables and ont houses were entir