Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-09
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

VI the 81, OOO voters registered IN
forty. three parishes in Louisiana, 3d.
900 are unable to write
Simon Cameron is a remarkably
sanguine individual. He predicts that
Grant will Ego in with sweep in 1880
carrying every northern state.
There was very heavy snow storm
Saturday night, Nov. 80, on the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railway. Several miles
of telegraph wire were leveled.
Ovid Pinney's will, just filled at st.
Paul, Mimi, leaves most of his estate
of $780, 900 to clothe and educate the
orphans of Beaver county, Pa, where
he lived for some time.
By boiler explosion at Dunbar coal
mine. near Uniontown, Pa, on Thurs
day AFTERNOON last. three men
stantly killed and several others seri-
ously injured.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
issued another call for 5-2Os. Five
millions are called for, on which inter-
est will cease after the 9th of Febru-
airy.
Mrs. J. H. Bryant of Benton, Ala !,
during the prevalence of yellow fever,
cut her hair, forty-two inches long.
from her head and sent it to New York
to be sold for the benefit Of the suffer-
ers.
All the shoes for the use of our army
are now made at the military prison at
Fort Leavenworth, Kan, by military
convicts, with the aid of modern ma
chimes. Last year $3.50 pairs were
made.
The debt statement shows the debt
to be, Dec. l, $2,O27, 414.325.79 show
ing an increase of S3,214,l42.6l.
This increase during the month is due
to the payment of $5,5O0,00O Halifax
award, otherwise the ordinary decrease
would have been $2,285, 1919.
A Glasgow paper gives list of up
wards of $50 failures in Glasgow anG
the west of Scotland directly and indi
rectly tracable to the stoppage of The
City of Glasgow Bank. The total liza
bilities Of the Scotch firms who hav,
been dragged down are Sl25, 100000
| On the day of Miss Helen Astor's
wedding to Mr.. James Roosevelt sh'
provided feast for the patients il
Bellevue Hospital. The fare comprise
nine hundred pounds of chicken, te
barrels of vegetables, twenty bushels Q
fruit, and great variety of cake an
confectionery.
Three young men were drowned i
Ipswich River on Monday night, No
: %, while after herring for bait. The
names are Moses Adams, of Grape L
land, Rowley: Charles Perkins and Wi
liam Collins. Newburyport. Their boa
was picked up in the river yesterda
A t q hotel in Blackstone. Mass, Q
Friday night, two countrymen, fatht
| and son. from Maine, retired aft,
blowing out the gas. A strong SINE
of gas near the room having been d.
J tected and the occupants failing to al
| swer repeated calls, the room was er
tered when the father was found dea
and his son died soon after.
{ Society at Washington is said to
. seriously agitated from centre to Gil
conference, because Mr.. Blahche K
Bruce, the colored Senator from Missis
sippi. has taken his bride to the cap
tai. fresh from tour in Europe, e,
pecting that she will be received wi,
the civility which is uniformly exten.
ed to the wives of all Senators.
The New York and Chicago expre
trains came into collision early Sunda
morning at Winona Station on Il
Canada Great Western Railway. Or
engine and two cars were wrecke
The driver, fireman. and seven Germs
emigrants on the West bound train we
: injured, and were taken to the hospit
q at Hamilton.
l. Hezekiah B. Smith, a Greenbacke
recently elected to Congress from Ne
e Jersey by the help of Democratic vot
y is reported to be bigamist. His fir
g wife, with whom he lived dozen year
aud four children now reside at Woo
d stock, Vermont, while he and his al
;, second affinity reside at Smithville
r J.
The Memphis appeal lost during t
,e epidemic, book-keeper, eight compo'
Y tors and ten men from the press-roor
e while sixteen members of the famili
IS of its workmen died. The Avalanc
lost it business manager, two editor
N five compositors, two pressmen. port
= and two carriers, and the Ledger 70
N compositors.
s. A sham battle took place on Thanl
re giving day, on the Fair grounds at A
Gilead, Ohio, in the presence of a lar
IT concourse of citizens of that place, a
At of visitors from the surrounding countl
10 During the battle several serious
% juries were inflicted and much ill-fe
" ing was engendered. Bush Fry. of
lowering Guards, was shot in the IA
= The wound is considered quite dang
- Gus.
9 Lyman Tremain, one of the abl
ne and most brilliant lawyers of the cot
m try. died in New York city Saturd;
n. He was native of Durham, N.
where he was born in 1919. His no
&c is in Albany. but while going thitl
- last September he was taken sick, a
= has remained in the city for medic
:, treatment since. He has filed ma
e. % official positions, including a seat
- Congress, but his reputation was "
= as lawyer, and in some respects
stood at the very head of the N
r. York bar.
% At noon on Saturday. near Upl
- Lehigh. Pa, Charles Wenner, bral
~ man. attempted to step from one car
i ! another of a train on the Nescophi
y railroad, when the coupling broke a
he fell beneath the wheels He I,