Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-07-08
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS,


ton for England during the month of
July.
Brigham Young's many heirs are be-
ing settled with on the basis of S21, 900 |
apiece.
A portion of the tunnel near Schwelm,
Germany, fell last Friday night, bury
ing 81 people.
The whipping post will be re-estab-
lished all over Virginia under new
criminal CODE
The Fall River print works at Fall
River have suspended. The liabilities
are less than $4,000.
The striking extra-hour men all re-
sumed work at Buffalo Tuesday at the
old rates. Is cents per hour.
Satisfactory progress is reported in
the condition of the Emperor William
The bandages have been removed from
his head.
1t costs but fifty three cents now to
carry barrel of -four by rail from Min
neapolis to New York-a distance of fif-
teen hundred miles.
The principal part of the city of Fair
bault, Mimi, was burned Tuesday night,
including two banks and seven stores.
Loss over 100000.
A fire at Springvale,. Me-, Monday,
destroyed the Baptist and Congregation
al churches, a business block and other
buildings. Loss $4,000.
Diphtheria is prevailing to an alarm
ing extent at East Bridgewater, Conn,
where in one school thirteen pupils are
suffering from the disease.
Of one hundred and seven applicants
for admission to the Military Academy
at West Point, only twenty-seven were
rejected, which is unusual.
An engine on the New York Central
railroad exploded at Buffalo, NY, Sum-
day. The engineer was blown 80 feet,
but he and the fireman escaped injury.
Orders are reported to have been is
sued, in view of possible Indian and
Mexican troubles, to recruit the army at
once to the maximum of twenty five
thousand men.
The Illinois Central road has refrig-
orator car which carries butter every
Monday to the New Orleans market.
Its return freight is made up Of vegeta-
bles and fruits.
Fifty thousand persons, on an aver
age, visit the Paris Exposition every
day. The beer gardens, outside the Ex-
position grounds, cover as much space
as the Exposition buildings.
1t is believed by old residents in
eastern Oregon that all the Indians in
that section arc aroused, and they will
be ready on the slightest provocation to
take up arms against the whites.
On account of the unusual drafts OF
the Treasury, due to the payment of Ma
val contracts and other unusual calls
the public debt was increased during
the month of June So, las. 360.36.
In Philadelphia on Thursday, jeal
Gus husband shot his wife and cut the
throat of his child, five years of age
duQ euGl Ills OWus u0 CullU UIeU, Uu
the husband and wife will recover.
A large colony of Germans have set
tied in Tyler county, Texas, where the,
are putting farm of 10000 acres un
der one fence. The residences of tn
colonists are built together in tow
plat, as in Germany.
Georgians complain that the mock
ing-blrd will be driven from the forest
by the northern hunters, who rob tn
nests of fedglings every spring. Tw
Pennsylvanians passed through August
the other day with one hundred an
thirty young birds caught in Bulloc
county.
A Canada cheese factory has turne
out what is claimed to be the larges
cheese ever produced. Itweighs 700
pounds, is six feet ten inches in diam
eter and twenty-one feet in circumfel
ence, and required the milk of 700
cows, weighing thirty-fve tons, to pre-
J duce it.
The Potter Committee has been hole
Q ing sessions four weeks, and in tia
time the only testimony which stand
0 uncontradicted and is corroborated
: two witnesses is that Mr. Tilden's agent
: in Louisiana offered 100000 to Elet
J tor Levisee to vote for that jealous Pres
e idential claimant.
e The colleges feel the hard times. Th
president of Wesleyan university {
e Middletewn, Conn.,, has resigned o
n account of the financial difficulties
s. could not conquer, and one of the Officer
l. of Yale Is quoted as saying: sit hi
t. been year of retrenchment and curtai
|; ing instead of improvement Never hay
$ the demands for charity from indigel
t. students been so great. Never of la
= years have the opportunities for growt
= been so limited
n A new trouble threatens the Westel
D. farmer. In Ohio and Indiana motto
have been served on some farmers not
s use agricultural machinery. In son
IS sections scores of machines have BEE
d destroyed and new depredations occl
), daily. Many of the wheat fields al
j. being cut by hand. and the demand Fl
1t labor cannot be supplied. If this is n
al a scare or an exageration, it presents
is serious aspect for the Western farme
t. which can only be overcome by seve
If reactory measures
Is 1t was forty years last Friday sin
s. the coronation of Queen Victoria, thous
to she actually came to the throne as t
successor of William w. the year befol
h Only three sovereigns ever sat on t
u throne of England as long. as the Queer
l. reign has been as notable as it has be-
l. long. Wonderful changes and improy
y ments have taken place in the world du
a. ing this period. and England has grow