Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-03
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Three men were killed by boiler ex-
plosion at Hillsboro, Ohio, on Friday
| last
A Chicago elevator holds the crop
gathered from $4,000 to 75.OOO.acres of
wheat.
1t is estimated that the wheat yield in
northern Texas the present year will be
100000 bushels
The general conference of the Metho-
dist church, South, has resolved in favor
ofeducating the colored people.
Every workman On the Paris EXPOSE
ton building has received a present of a
Bible in the French language.
1t is estimated that 100000 acres of
new ground in northern Minnesota will
be put under cultivation this season.
Among Mr.. Moody's converts at Hart
ford was japanese Prince, who has
been but short time in this country;
Another foolhardy man is to attempt
to cross the Atlantic ocean in dory.
He is Asa W. Andrews, of Beverly,
Mass.
In the Gasconade river, Missouri, the
fish are dying by thousands, from eating
the worms that drop from the overhang
ing maple trees.
Mrs. Folds and two children were
burned to death Saturday, in Merri-
weather county, Ga, by the explosion
of a kerosene lamp.
Thomas Nelson has recovered a YER
dict if Sill 800 against the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad inju-
ries received in sleeping-car.
Colonel Whiteneck, of Mercer County
Kentucky, has eve that has raised six
lambs in three years that sold for $25.
Her wool was worth her keeping
The first new wheat of the season ar.
rived at St. Louis on Monday of last
week, from Dallas. Texas. 1t is graded
No. 4, and sold at auction for $l.25.
|, Two German iron clad vessels eollided
in the British channel on Friday, caus
ing the loss of more than three hundred
lives. The cause of the accident il
not given.
Edward King in one of his interest
, ing letters from Paris says it is uni
, verslly admitted that the agricultural ex
hibit of the United States will be tn,
finest in the whole exhibition.
To make and sell Intoxicating liquor
as beverage is declared Masonic of
: fence by the grand lodge of Michigan
s worthy of suspension or expulsion
/: persisted in after due edmonton.
|. Close limitations of silver dollars ar
made of block tin, bismuth, and pulveI
lied glass. An immense number of thes
Ii bogus coins are in circulation in tn
r West. They initiate exactly the tru
S color and ring, and are about right il
Il weight.
The Texas cattle drive this year
expected to reach 100000 head. The
: will be put through much earlier tina
q usual many droves having already passe
he Forts Worth and Griffin ON the wa
" north. There are also 1000 head (
v cattle in southern Kansas nearly read
:. for market.
/, In Pamela county, Texas, few dal
ago,tw negro children, one an infant al
s the other about two years old, were xii
rs ed and partially eaten by sow.
.ir young girl left in charge of them went
he playing in the yard, when the hog e.
tered the house and attacked the chi
dren.
W We see it statad that Hnrr, Warnor,
~ Co.. of Wellington, Ohio, are the mo
ey extensive butter-makers in the worl
be usuing the milk of 5000 COWS the pre-
nd ent year. During the season of 49,
80 they used seventeen No. Blacha
churns in their creameries, and churn,
y over 100000 pounds of butter. and
let one churn over 10000 pounds.
de James Williams, the venerable janit
a of Trinity College, at Hartford. Com
known to all graduates for fifty yea
as professor Jim," died ON the 20
inst. in his ninetieth year. He
Sc been great favorite with students. a
1.-THE presentation to Prof Jim" b
been one of the features of Glass d
er- exercises for many years.
ln' One of the salmon recently taken
ire the mouth of the Connecticut. weigh
DO. Is pounds. These salmon sell at Ha
itb ford for Is cents per pound I
49, salmon are said to remain IN the riy
- until three years old. when they put
'nc sea. returning in about two years. T
the Connecticut used to swarm with the
fich = ,o& 60. h. Oh
We there would be a reasonable hope of
fer stocking the river. A salmon v
er- caught at Saybrook, 20 years ago, tt
IN weighed % pounds.
IN Ga Sunday evening. the 10Th ins
rty Melissa Smith, the daughter of Zig
house keeper at Hatteras Island as
cy- was going to bed, threw open the d.
ole of her room in the lighthouse to get
ion sea breeze. AS she lifted the pill
eo from her bed it fell from her hand q
red rolled into the stairway. the slide be-
ess, drawn, and in attempting to pick it
ext she slipped and fell, her head strik
OF the iron steps. She sank into the wat
ex- gave three piercing screams, and ,
hat carried out by the surf just as
ain- father appeared in the doorway.
was to have been married on Wedr
day. and had parted with her lover o
half an hour before her death.
Of The hardest hail storm ever known
the oldest inhabitants of Exter, N.
,tly with thunder and lightning, of alb
,cks half an hours duration, visited t
place Saturday afternoon. Hail sto
lost the size of robins egg and larger
ron, in drifts four inches to foot deep aro1
an the buildings sometime after the sto
The leaves of trees are badly cut. Il
thonpht that a GREAT deal of damage