Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-07-15
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Mary L. Booth edits Harper's Bazaar
and gets $4,000 year.
Volunteer companies are organizing in
Portland, Oregon, to fight the Indians.
Vice. President Wheeler is to spend a
part of the summer at the Twin Noun
tain House.
Miss Morrison of Ossipee, N. Fl. has
fallen heir to over million dollars. Go
in, boys, there's millions in it.
The Oleomargarine Works at Cam
bridge Mass. were burned early We'd
nesday morning loss $4,000.
E. H. Town. merchant tailor of Mont
pelier, has failed. Liabilities quite
heavy, mostly with New York and home
creditors
A force of fifty Oregon volunteers,
sent out. to fight the Indians, has been
nearly wiped out, only seven survivors
having been heard from.
Jimmy Blanchard. alias Charley Ross,
who beguiled the people of st. Adams,
three years ago, is now in Jail at Nash
ua, N. H., awaiting trial for burglary.
DR.. Hunt of Worcester, VT, sues the
Montpelier Argus for libel to the effect
the body of young woman had been
found in the doctors hog-pen in Wor-
cester.
Samuel Craig, a cool-headed man,
climbed to the top of Bunker Hill monu-
ment by means of knotted ropes on the
Fourth, and fastened small flag to the
lightning rod.
One of the most powerful ironclads in
the world was launched recently at Las
pezzia, Italy. She is $40 feet long and
60 broad, and her armor is % inches
thick. She will be armed with 1OO-ton
Armstrong guns.
London. July 6.-The Americans in
Geneva had Dinner and ball at the Ho-
tel de la Paix on the Fourth of July. A
party from Chamcunix hoisted the Amer
lean flag on the summit of Mont Blanc
on the same day.
Shocking atrocities have recently been
perpetrated south of the Rhodope noun
tains by the Bulgarlans and Cossacks.
Ninety villages are said to have been
destroyed, and the people murdered and
maltreated in the most horrible manner.
Norway has some curious exhibits at
the Paris Exhibition. She has fish skins
tanned for gloves eel-skins prepared
for harness shark-skins, 10 feet long and
feet wide, for vasious purposes and
whale-skins, 60 feet long. for driving
bands for machinery.
q. S. Treasurer Gilfllin thinks that
by next January there will be at least
100000 of silver dollars locked up
in the Treasury and Sub Treasures of
the United States. He thinks this
would result in paper currency dropping
to the level of silver, and that the pre-
MUM on gold would rise.
LONDON, July 9. An order has been
received at the Royal Arsenal to cancel
the demand for 100000 cartridges
rmaining on the books of the depart
ment. There are various other evidenc-
er that the extraordinary activity in gov
eminent establishments during the last
three months is about to decline.
While working upon Samuel Walton's
new block, State street, Montpelier,
Frank and George Butterfly narrowly
escaped death. The staging gave way
pricipitating both some 20 feet. George
escaped serious injury. Frank saved
himself from falling into the cellar by
catching hold of a projecting beam, but
was very badly bruised.
AT Ithaca, N. Y, few days ago, al
Mrs. Charles King was sitting at sec
ond story window with her thirteen
months Old baby in her lap. the little
) one sprang, and fell headlong to tn
ground, distance of fourteen feet
The terrified mother expected that he
child was killed, but strange to say, OIL
hurrying to the yard picked it mp ap
} parently unhurt, and a physician VIII
: subsequently examined it could find n
trace of injury.
g The CoINAGE.-The amount of mon
2 ey coined in the minis during June wa
. $1,000, 40, S4,765, 290 being in~gol
t pieces. The amount coined during tn
). year ending June 80 was SSl, 1I9,721,
: so. AS soon as the annual settlemen
e at the respective minis and the ASA
] Office at New York shall have been com
pleted, the purchase of silver bullion fo
coinage into dollars will be resumed ur
q der the regulations heretofore in force
:. but no offer at price above the equivs
y lent of the London rate, computed at tn
current rate of sterling exchange on th
! day of purchase, will be considered {
accepted, and all purchases will be pal
: for in standard silver dollars.
/ A severe thunder and lightning storl
J. passed over Toronto, Canada, on th
It morning of July 4, accompanied by to-
e rents of rain. Cellars were flooded an
one house was struck by lightning an
wrecked. In the afternoon of the SAN
9 day, about three o'clock, the storm bur
u in several places in the Northern State
J At New london, Conn, while st. Mary
Temperance Tociety were plcnicking 6
{. Thames Grove, what seemed to be ba
y of fire burst with loud report, SEVERN
q large tree, under which stood Bridge
: Maxwell an elderly woman. was instan
4 ly killed. The lightning made larg
Il Z hole at the root of the tree, into whic
u the remains of Mrs. Maxwell, whic
. were horribly mutilated and disfgure'
' fell. People who were standing with
g 200 yards of the tree that was strue
/ were Frustrated by the shock. Two /
dies were paralyzed in their lower liml
e, and a lad had his shoes torn from b
4 his feet. The widest conf
If sion ensued, and the people were pan
n stricken.
L Joseph W.B. Buzzell has been CO