Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-02-04
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

ports.
Alabama papers announce that mig
nonette is in blossom and strawberries
are ripe.
Liverpool has now decided upon get
ting water from Wales, at cost of S.
100000.
A single orange tree in the Azores
produced in one year 10000 merchauta-
BILE oranges.
The Georgia legislature is consider
ing a law prohibiting the selling of to-
bacco to minors.
A Russian cruiser sank a Turkish
steamer near Batoum on the 26th,
drowning all OF board.
Gladstone says he considers the send
| ing of a feet to the Dardanelles was an
act of war, breach of neutrality.
Typhus prevails among the Russian
troops in Caucasus and Armenia to such
an extent that it might be called a
plague.
After the Selectmen of New Haven,
Conn, had paid a ''poor' woman $54S
in town orders they discovered that she
had 81 900 in the bank.
The temperance movement has made
almost clean sweep at Urbana, H.,
where over 2200 names have been Sc
cured to the pledge within three months.
A moose z feet high and weighing
800 pounds, was shot near Oxford, N.
S., several days ago The hide of the
animal when stretched out measured Ia
feet
Eddie Swalley, boy aged seventeen.
was accidentally shot IN the head and
killed, on the 22d. at Erie, Pa, by the
careless use of pistol in the hands of
a playmate.
1t was asserted in Congress. the other
day, that these are hard times for the
distillers, and member from Michigan
jumped up and said their ruin would be
the salvation of the country.
The three denominations in the State
of New York which pay the largest min
isterial salaries are Methodists, 81, 49,
882; Presbyterians, 95O,77O, and Prot.
estant Episcopalians. S81O,S72.
A young chopper named Pratt, was
killed by a falling tree in the woods
near Jefferson, N. H.. not long ago, and
Don Rickerby, who took his place, me-
) death IN the same way last week.
! The whisky spectators have been de-
feated in Congress and Fernando Woo
finds himself in the minority. The ta1
on whisky Is unchanged, and the tobac
co men will be likely to receive th'
same vote.
There have been introduced in thu
present Congress thus far $500 bills, o
which about 1900 are private bills 70
: the relief or indemnifcation of person
:. in the South. The aggregate of thes
: claims is about 81 100000.
The widow of Frank E. Chamberlain
y young lawyer of Storm Lake, Iowa
t who committed suicide year ago Will
$ intoxicated, has obtained verdict Q
: $4,000 damages against DIR. H. F
e Parks, who sold the liquor to him.
q Owing to the sudden shrinkage in de
posits and other disturbing causes tn
First National Bank of Kansas City Mo
!, ! closed its doors on Tuesday, and yester
= dag there was quite panic heavy run
I being made on other banks. The OK
! ! element is dying out.
k A murderer was guillotined in Pari
s. on New-year's day. AS he walked
It the scaffold he had to pass through
double line of the other prisoners anon
- whom was the man in whose intere'
= the murder had been committed. A
the knife cleaned in the sunlight, th
= mans face was CHASTITY white, and
- moment afterward he shrieked and fe
. to the ground unconscious.
i'd Matilda Stanley, the Queen of lars
u and wealthy community of Gypsies thi
lg owns large tract of land near Dayto
st o., has just died at the South, whe
D. the tribe has been accustomed to
during the winter months. She W;
RI one of the oldest Gypsies in the countl
* and was recognized as head in authorit
m by all the Gypsies in the United State
i The body will be entombed at Dayte
he until next June, and then will be blu
Is led with ceremonies peculiar to Il
te tribe.
x A school teacher at Port Jarvis CO
tn 6scated and put in the stove ball, wi
a which one of his scholors was playing
IL school hours The next day anoth
ball was used in the same improper wa,
to but, on Selling it, the teacher was i
of duced, by something in the boys ma
er ner, to change his intention of putti1
e. it in the stove, and put it in his de
10 for future examination. 1t proved
We contain gunpowder enough to blow
a. the stove, and probably the school-hou
of too.
n DR.. A. Miller, formerly editor of t
he Burlington, Ia, Haa0heye, was shot al
It's instantly killed by DR.. H. S. Broiles
he Breckenridge, Tex. few days ae
|. Both men were prominent Odd Fellow
Of and the quarrel arose over charges
IT, dishonesty against DR.. Miller made
- DIR. Broiles as vice-commander. Th
- met in DR.. Broile's office. and threate
~ ~ ing words were exchanged, when DO
he o parties drew their pistols and fired
- ~ the same instant, DR.. Broile's bull
.be lodging just above DR.. Miller's heart.
lat The account of lawlessness in Ke
at lucky is confirmed by dispatch FRI
es, Cincinnati, which is as follows: L
ere weeks ago the notorious Grove Kenne
vas who is known to have killed half a d.
'he en- men in K Kentucky, was after a 10
1er and expensive trial, set loose to resu1
tut his lawless operations. Last night thu
colored men, who were merely suspect
orc | of ha uirn lxnnmlnd no Of tho mnrdnr Of