Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-05-06
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Inc Erie railroad has been bought by
E. D. Morgan for $4,000. 900.
Beecher drew three thousand people
in Hartford, Tuesday night of last
week.
The railroad depot at Sheboygan
Falls, Wis, was struck by lightning and
destroyed.
Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton has been sick
since she made her confession, and has
been under the care of a physician.
Of the 968 Cinnamon who arrived at
San Francisco recently, 400 are destined
for Peru and 100 for the Hawaiian ISL
ands.
A boiler in a foundry in Dublin, Ire
land, exploded on Saturday, killing
fifteen persons and injuring twelve
others.
The United States Senate last week
passed bill to prevent the introduction
of contagious diseases into the United
States.
Wheat in central New York already
measures eighteen inches above ground,
and the season is considered three weeks
ahead of the average.
o. G. Zeller, cashier of the National
Exchange Bank of Tifin, Ohio. after
banking hours on Saturday absconded,
taking with him $4,000.
Out of 5000 Russians at Rustchuk
40 or so die daily of ordinary and spot
ted typhus. At Ardianople. Sistova
and Tirnova hundreds die daily.
There is case Of true leprosy in the
Baltimore City Hospital. in the person
of Abraham Brown, New Yorker, who
contracted the disease in Cuba or South
America.
A Texas paper has an estimate that
the number of immigrants into Kansas
this season will reach 100000, and it is
worried about it, thinking its own state
is to suffer-
All the United States minis are now
coming the new silver dollar as fast as
possible. The Philadelphia mint has
just received one hundred tons of silver,
worth S3,30O,OO0.
A dispatch from Troy. N. Y. states
that Senator Morrissey was stricken
with paralysis on Sunday. His right
arm is helpless, and he cannot speak
but still eats and drinks
Ex-Judge Gleason and his son, aged
Is years, were found insensible in bed
at Baltimore, Monday. 1t is supposed
they blew out the gas instead of turning
it off. The young man died and tn,
judge is said to be dying.
A Washington despatch says mucl
comment is created by the fact that
prominent democratic member of th,
House Judiciary committee spent Mon
day evening at the White House upol
President Hayes's invitation.
/ In the Ohio Senate an interestin,
feature was the assault made upon Sen
, ator Forrest by Railroad COMMISSIONS
Bell. The trouble grew out of word
spoken in debate by Mr.. Forrest. The,
were separated without damage.
William Evarts, who died in Wash
ington Friday, is not, as some paper
have stated, the eldest son of Secretar
Evarts. but his third son. and is one {
, family of twelve children. One die
e in infancy ten are still living.
Among the five hundred converts I
be added to the Springfield churches 8
:, the May communion season, as resu
of the Moody revival, are seventy VIII
are to join the memorial church-D
: Hollands ideal of religious society.
: There is little doubt that the pres
/ dent will nominate George L. Smit
r who has been agreed upon by the return
4 ing board as compromise candidate, f
collector of New Orleans. Packard
friends say Smith will not be confrme
d William Orton's estate, it appears,
% worth about $4,000. He had polici
r on his life for $4,000. He own,
d nearly $50 shares of Western Uni,
y stock. His salary as president of Il
Western Union, until nearly year ag
is when he voluntarily relinquished 5000
q, was SAo,OOu Pei onnum'
ii At Salem, Mass, in the supreme j
a dicial court the jury in the case
D. William f. Weld VS.. the city of Bosto
ar to recover the sum of $31.752 tax pa
D. May |, 1876, under protest, gave We
dict in faver of the city. Weld went
6 Nahant to live few months, with t
y. intent to escape taxation in Boston.
is A man so years of age, named Ne
Id who died in Buckingham county, Ont
e. rio, last Friday, confessed few n
d. ments before his death that he b
ID murdered three persons on the UpI
In Ottawa river, for which he had new
IS been suspected. In addition to the
r he committed two other murders,
which he was tried and sentenced
ct long terms of Imprisonment.
k, The Massachusetts legislature h
be passed an act providing, that any p
ee son who suffers his fowls to enter {
r. pass over, after being forbidden so to
Z. in writing, shall be guilty of trespa
as and liable to a fine. of ten dolla
of This is intended to do away with
sr, old shotgun policy, which has been
N: vogue in dealing with stray hens.
of through New England for the last fl
years.
M A band of robbers, on Saturday mig
at broke into farmhouse near the villa
ID, of Norris, Mich. 8 miles north of
CT. troit, occupied by Anthony Miller a
mt Matthew Hillard, Germans. Hill;
III, was knocked down, and feigned insen
nd bility. They shot Miller dead; a
ne ransacked the house for money, but
In little. After they had left, Hill;
ire aroused the neighbors. but no trace
IL the murderers was found.
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