Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-10-14
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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forms in Asia Minor.
Two men have been convicted. at |
Waco, Texas, of murder in the second
degree and sentenced to Is years in the
penitentiary.
Kansas and California stand side by
side in grain crops the present year.
From the eighth place as wheat state
in 1875, Kansas jumps to the first
place. Her crop of wheat will be over
30,000.0OO bushels, and of corn 1OO.-
100000 bushels.
Reports have been received, by way
of Jamaica, that the Island Of Santa
Cruz is the scene of fierce negro revolt.
The insurgents have been burning es-
tates. Frederikstadt has been reduced
to ashes, and several leading planters
have been murdered.
The public debt was reduced $780,
534 last month. The public treasury
now holds double the amount of gold
that it held year ago. The entire
amount is $232,659,646. Above all
coin liabilities the treasury now holds
SIG, 338,666. The treasury could
now safely resume.
Collector Smith of New Orleans tele-
graphs to Secretary Sherman that there
is more need of aid than ever. Sixty
thousand rations are needed at once
and even that will not suffice. He en-
dorses the appeal of the subcommittee
which represents over thirty benevolent
organizations.
The receipts from the New York canal
tolls to the first of October amounted
to S712.473, an increrse of S122,554
over last year. If the increase holds
during the next two months of naviga-
ton, the receipts will easily reach ST.
100000 for the year, and taxation on
canal expenditures may be materially
reduced
Bears are said to be very abundant
in the Northern part of New York.
They are said to come nearer the settle.
ments and houses than for years. In
the neighborhood of Norwood they are
more numerous than ever before. One
followed farmer who had honey in his
buggy some distance and even approach
ed the door of the house.
The latest swidle in the rural district
is for two oily-tongued fellows to cal
upon a farmer ostensibly to obtain sta
tistics for the agricultural bureau
They remained to dinner or over night
and insist upon paying for the accom-
modations furnished them, when they
passed a counterfeit bill upon their hos
: and receive good money in exchange.
A Logan county Oily farmer ha
sent to the White House for the Presi
9 dent what he calls .'a sample apple" tina
| was grown in this county. The appl
is seventeen and half inches in circum
, ference. It's of the "Clapp's mammoth
variety. The farmer adds in lette
: accompanying the apple that ''fruit
f plentiful in Illinois. and the crops beau
I tiful )" also, that sswe are blessed pee
pie, living in land of abundance an
plenty, if We could only realize it,
At Akron, Ohio, last week, two police
men, while in pursuit of thievin
: tramp, came across camp of 40 despel
ate tramps armed with revolvers, VIII
resisted the officers, and after tearin;
+ the clothes off their backs, chased ther
:, to the city. The officers barely escape
. with their lives. Great excitemer
q prevailed, and Mayor J. T. M. SEQ
called out Company B. of the Eight
a Regiment Ohio National Guards, whic
t, Proceeo90 = the scene of action, an
j. captured ~ OF W. aesperadoes..
: Ohio election shows THAI no Gree,
:, back craze has run itself about =,
a. :, where it first became epidemic. II
10 Republicans stood squarely to their CO
he ors and, in spite of the combined fore
le of imitation, reputation, dissatisfactio
al Democracy and fraud, they have wipt
= out the Democratic majority of over &c
- 900 in Ohio, last year, and restored t
to Republican majority in the State, al
il increased it even over what it was in t
le presidential year. The fight and i
"a result are full of encouragement al
instruction for honest-money Republical
!. everywhere.
Brain work, and that of the cleare
X kind comes into profitable play quite
DR. we'll on the farm as any where els
Look ahead-get fair view Of the pos
ton: have ploughing, sowing. harves
ing. and selling. all done at the prop
!, time; never bury but always dri
81 work ahead. Know in the evening VIII
- you intend to do next day. Have 20
rainy day and your clear day work d
re singed beforehand. Always bring il
re requisition the full means for compa
ng ing the desired end. In short, stu,
aud understand your business, and y
in will enjoy it and thrive on it.-Cinci
&c natl Gazette.
~ The news from various parts of b
% MIA shows that the Turks and insurgel
have abandoned further open resistar
be having become convinced that Meth
st. moral nor material assistance can a
US US longer be hoped for from the Porte, i
Ill less other political complications ari
'er Upward of 1000 insurgents have f
to Servia, where they have become d
ed armed and interned. Among them ;
ne 2 pachas. 200 beys, and a VIII
he battalion of nizams. They broue
on three Krupp guns, 1000 breech- loadi
Of rifles, horses and stores. Small bal
on cross the frontier daily with their wi
children and property.
4.
ed There have been several encount
an with the Indians, who have been &C
ato hitting depredations on the Plat
ee within the last few weeks. A despa
inc from Wallace. Kan, says that the
ms dams crossed the Kansas Pacific Ra;lv
u.s. on Sunday morning, the 30th ult.. go