Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-29
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A fierce tornado struck several towns
in Iowa on Sunday and did considera-
BILE damage.
Francis Murphy began crusade in
New York last Sunday. 1t is to be a pro-
tracted seige.
More building is reported under way
in West Lebanon N. H., than in any
year of the last twenty.
Of 100 bills and resolutions presented
in the House Monday, one-third were
for Southern war claims.
1t is expected that the government
will gain nearly ten millions of dollars
by the destruction of fractional curren
cy.
Charleston. S. c.. shipped $4,000
quarts of strawberries last SATURDAY.,
and expects to sell 100000, worth this
season.
Russian papers compute the entire
cost incurred by the war on the part of
Russia at $50, 100000 roubles, or $685.
100000.
Fifty-seven of the principal business
houses in GAINESVILLE. Tenn, were de-
stroyed by fire on Saturday night, loss
100000.
Rev. DR.. Cyrus B. Drake. pastor of
the first Cong. Church at Royalton.
died on Sunday. He had held the pas.
torate forty years.
The shipment of Canadian cattle from
Montreal to England has commenced
for the season, and will be prosecuted on
an extensive scale
General Buffers bill for the issue of
! fractional currency and Treasury notes
of the denominations one, two, three and
five dollars, was defeated yesterday, III
to 1874.
Harry Henry. a notorious Toronto
drunkard, was lately arrested for the
three hundred and fourteenth time.
He has spent more than half his life in
Jail.
A tornado passed over Cottonwood,
Kan, one night last week, blowing for
ty-6ve cars from the track Of the Santa
Fe railroad and destroying number Of
houses.
Over 200 telephones are in use in
private houses in New Haven, and they
are so arranged that ladies can make
their afternoon "calls" without stepping
out of doors.
Twenty cent piecs will soon 60 int
the cabinet of coin collectors. as the
law authorizing the issue has been re
pealed. 1t IS the meanest and most use
less coin ever minted.
The Emperor Alexander of Russi;
has signed a charter comforting upoI
New York capitalists the right to cree
and operate grain elevators Throughout
the Russian empire.
Three of the largest British iron
clads have been provided with electri
lights which brilliantly illuminate tn
sea around them. By this means tn
approach of torpedoes may be detected.
And now George 7. Hathaway
Treasurer of Border City and Sagamor
Mills of Fall River. has turned up de
, faulter to very large amount. TIL
. figures are placed as high as 81, 200
| 900.
: 1t is a fact perhaps not general
. known that seventy per cent. of all th
wheat, corn, oats and rye produced i
the United States is the product of tia
part of the county lying north of til
. Ohio river.
), A saloon-keeper at the verge of deaf
e recently said, eff l had my time
d live over again, I would sweep crossing
n or beg, or even starve to death, before
would again see the misery which l an
) my trade have produced.
d The Erie canal men anticipate vel
n active business this summer, as the
a is an immense quantity of Westel
e grain waiting transportation to tic
/ water, and the coming harvest is e:
pected to be twenty or thirty days ca
% lier than usual
II The lecture room of Plymouth churc
lie was crowded Friday evening. in antic
er patton of something being done or sa
d in relation to the late confession of MI
II Tilton. Nothing of unusual charact
occurred however. Mr.. Beecher appea
is ed in his usual spirits.
J. President Vanderbilt has ordered
ri reduction of force in the shops of t
(, New York Central and Hudson Riv
y. railroads. At West Albany four hu
Of bred men will be discharged; at Syr
cuse one hundred, at Rochester thr
1T hundred. and at Buffalo six hundred.
in Twenty-Five thousand cotton opel
r tives have struck at Blackburn, Englal
4. where the feeling is very bitter, and
a is expected that the strike will be
IT, long one. All the operatives at Lon
re ridge have struck /; only one mill is ru
e. ming at Padiham, and one-tenth of the
at Burnley.
rs Immense roosts of wild pigeons ha
re been found in Warren, Mexican a
er Forest counties, Penn, and hundreds
a METERS are capturing the birds for
to New York market. 1t is estimated tt
IS, more than million pigeons have
n ready been sent to market.
as A single entry of sugar was made
the Boston Custom House on which {
#. duties amounted to 1857, 29O. I
of sugar weighed 2,606,044 pounds, viii
is is the largest amount ever entered OF
he single entry, with the exception of Il
he made on the 23d of May, 1876, when
in was 3, 445, 675 lbs.
OK At Coal Greek. mining town
by Fountain county, Ind, the 18th, |
mt litia company of miners were drill
nd during the day. At night some of tn
ny in saloon became engaged in an alt
cation with a negro and the result '
k the killing of the negro. The viii