Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-05
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


Yellow fever in New Orleans last week
Russia will negotiate with the Roth
childs for loan of 4OO,0O0,0OO roubles
at five per cent. interest.
The reports from England show that
our magnificent wheat crop will find an
unusually good market there.
General Grant was received every
where in Norway with extraordinary
enthusiasm, crowds following him
about.
Favorable news is now received from
the Indian country. The hostiles are
panic stricken and fleeing in all direc-
tions.
Northern Dakota boasts of wheat
farms comprising six thousand acres,
whose yellow seas of grain astonish the
beholder.
There are $4,000 nailmakers on strike
in several English districts for an ad-
for an advance of thirty per cent. in
their wages.
At Havana, the yellow fever is max
ing its usual havoc at this season, and
large number of cases are reported from
New Orleans.
The trotting mare Lady Dexter, val
ued at $4,000. burst blood vessel the
other day while trotting in Somerville,
N. j., and died.
The King of Belgium has offered to
supply Stanley with the means for fur
Their exploration in Africa, and it is be-
lieved that he will accept.
A dispatch from Iowa says, smen
cannot be got to harvest for S1.50 to
$50 and board" The same dispatch
says, cramps have flooded the state.
The Permanent international Exhibi-
ton at Philadelphia is to be opened on
Sundays hereafter. with extra attrac-
lions in the shape of "sacred concerts"
A young son of Mr.. Ewing of Bell
vile, N. J., was gored to death by a
bull Friday, while blackberrying. Two
brothers of the family were drowned two
weeks ago.
A Boston brewer recently brought on
a man from Cincinnati to superintend
his brewery at an annual salary of more
than twice that of the president of Har-
ward University.
Lieutenant Wallace encountered the
Indians on the north fork of the Clearwa-
ter river, Montana, on the 2lst inst, kill
ling the chef and five others, and wound
ing three savages.
There are two cases of genuine lepro-
sy under treatment in Charity Hospital,
Blackwell's Island, New York. Both
victims were brought from Cuba, but one
is New Yorker by birth.
The British ship "Lachard," from
London to Melbourne, was lost recently,
with sixteen passengers and thirty-one
seamen, and cargo valued at $3.50, 700.
Only two persons were saved.
The reports of the universal spread of
the potato disease through the south of
Ireland lead to painful anticipations of
repetition of the famine which devasta-
ted that unhappy country in lS47.
| The government has bought 100000
ounces of fine silver from the Bank of
California, 100000 from the Angle
California Bank and 70, 900 from Lazard
Freres, all payable in standard dollars.
Sitting Bull wants to return to the
country of his Great Father; but the
willy savage wants to escape punishment
for past offences and to be allowed to
retain his ponies, and his offer is de-
clined.
A riot in Washington, melted by a
lot of lazy vagabonds, who would not
work themselves, and were not willing
other men should, has been effectually
squelched by the prompt action of the
authorities.
Official notice to the commissioners Of
other nations has been given at Paris
that in 1880 another worlds fair will
be held at Melbourne, Aurtralia. The
exhibitors at Paris are requested to ex
hibit there.
A French artist, lately returned from
the Rhodope mountains, tells some hor
rible tales of atrocities inflicted by Bull
garians on insurgent prisoners. He re-
ports that in one case hundred were
massacred in cold blood, several of whom
were cruci6ed.
Gilmore's band has gone to pieces, ani
the members are scattered about in Eu
rope in a very impecunious condition
Their agent ran away with 5000 francs
of their money, the Parisians made fun
of them and the people refused to pat
ronize their concerts.
So disguised was farmer who hat
taken two-horse load of corn to Dallas
Texas, on learning that the buyer
? would pay no more than thirty-fve cents
that he paid forty five cents to drive hi
3 wagon to the middle of the toll.bridge
and there solemnly emptied the grain in
to the river.
A farmer near Fairbault, MIMI. sho
and instantly killed two tramps whor
he caught setting fire to harvestin
0 machine in his wheat field. He CAV
!, himself up but was instantly released
Michigan, and the tramps last wee
: burned the barns and wheat stack of
: farmer near Battle Creek.
Several notorious criminals wer
among the special constables sworn
: keep the peace in Montreal ON July l2tI
e One of them, who had been sent to ja
d on the lst for assault, had his fine pal
J, by his friends to secure his release fe
|. that purpose. Some of the special COZ
e stables have not called for their pa,
d afraid of being arrested by detective
who want them.
e A Wilksbarre PENN dispatch says
d ga leading manufacturer believes that
e communistic strike, which will pillag
q all the banks, rich mems residences, etc