Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-09-30
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Mount Hecla is erupting.
Gilmore's band has sailed for Amer
lea.
B. Funnie is the name of San Fran
cisco undertaken.
The Duchess of Edinburgh's girl-baby
is Queen Victoria's twenty-sixth grand.
child.
Dean Stanley and Mr.. Grove, editor
of Macmilloae's Magazine are visiting
this country.
Our Lake Champlain sea-serpent has
travelled abroad and is now frightening
marines on the coast of Norway.
The total mortality in the South from
yellow fever has now reached nearly six
thousand.
Mrs. Chas. Moore. of Chardon, Ohio,
while insane, killed her own daughter,
aged seven, and then cut her own throat.
'Lord Brag" is the expressive title
by which Gambetta and his followers
in France distinguished Lord Beacons-
| field.
Cleveland is excited over a case of
body-snatching, the corpse of an old and
respected citizen being taken from the
grave.
The Memphis Avalanche says: Spar
ents have deserted children and children
parents, husbands their wives. but not
one wife husband"
Emperor William, of Germany, APP
peared on horseback at Cossel last week
for the first time since he was wounded
by Nobiling.
st. John, N, B., so recently devasta-
ted by great fire and itself recipient of
help, has contributed $4,000 to the yell
low fever sufferers.
Among the sixteen hundred persons
at Auburn IN. " state prison. there
are forty-two lawyers, thirteen doctors,
twenty seven ministers and nary an ed
itor
+ Winoone;n's bounty of Gvo dollars for
every wolf scalp cost the state $4,000
last year. AS the wolves are increasing
it is suspected wolves are raised for their
scalps.
A terrible tornado and tidal wave oc.
CURED at Hayti on the Sd, 4th and 5tf
of September. Hundreds of houses were
demolished, wharves and shipping de
stroyed, and many lives lost. Valuable
crops were destroyed also and the suffer
ing among the people is very great.
7 A party of rs to 100 men rode int
the town of Athens. Ala, Saturday nigh
: and, forcing the jailer to deliver the key
of the Jail, took therefrom Daniel Nc
Bride, a negro, who murdered whit
s man near Athens on the night of the I'll
and hanged him to tree on the spo
where the murder was committed.
Many of those rescued from the Prin
cess Alice disaster on the Thames foun,
that all those nearest and dearest to ther
; were gone. One poor little fellow wep
# bitterly, and continuously called ont
- bring me nanny and my little bah
y brother" alternating this with, "lt
W my birthday to-day"
When you see strong ''hat money
man, you see man who used to hav
s. money but lost it; a man who never ha
. money, but wants it; an ambitious pc
itician, who is an the rampage for vote
IS or sore headed ofice-seeker, who wan
in to find more accommodating party tina
ID the one he has belonged to.-Loact
no Courier
ID The Havana custom-house office
as have seized forty -six tins Of opium col
T. cealed inside of twelve barrels of bean
. and forty-six tins more inside of twent
T. three boxes purporting to contain toma
n. to sauce, all struggled from New Yol
in the steamer Santiago de Cuba. Ea'
&c tin weighed twenty five pounds. and t
~ total value of the opium is eighte'
thousand dollars in gold.