Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-01
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS,

The President has resolved to hold |
the fort, and will make no change in
his Cabinet for the sake of Cancellation.
The revenue officers in Tennessee re-
port having broken up eleven illicit dis
tilleries in Putnam and White counties
since the 18th instant.
Philadelphia and New York had
heavy fires on Monday, the loss in the
former city being one million dollars.
and in the latter half that sum.
Three more of the desperate Molly
Maguires were hung at Bloomsbury
Penn on Monday. This makes fourteen
already hung, and several more are
under sentence.
The Minnesota legislature is taking
steps to alleviate distress caused by the
grasshopper pest, which embrace plan
for furnishing seed to those who lost
their all. An aggregate of 1925
bushels is needed.
Boynton, inventor of the life-saving
dress, has made a trip across the straits
from Gibraltar to Tangier and back.
He was seventeen hours crossing, and
was nearly swept out to sea by the high
waves and spring tides.
A destructive fire occurred in Panama,
on the 9th inst. which destroyed about
one-half of the principal Plaza and ad-
joining neighborhood, with loss of
over half million dollars. Owing to
the unusually dry season.
Wade Hampton made speech at
political gathering IN Anderson, S. c.,
recently, in which he urged equal
rights. for all citizens. black or white.
and paid a high tribute to the official
conduct of President Hayes.
The permanent exhibition at Phila-
delphia promises to pull through its
troubles. Settlements have been made
with lot of the creditors, arrangements
are making with the rest, and the show
is announced to open in May with new
life.
Gen. W. S. Rosecrans, Gen. Gilmore,
Judge Fullerton and others have organ
lied a company with $1,000 900 cap
ital, to settle lands in the South west,
with Northern people. A large tract of
timberland in Missouri has already been
secured.
The Hon. J. E. Lyon, President of
the Boston, Concord and Montreal rail
road, has purchased of Sylvester Marsh
and others controlling interest in the
Fabyan House, White Mountains. II
is not decided yet who will run the
house the coming season.
Five suspicious parties arrived in
Petersburg, Va, last week, and were ar.
rested on Saturday. They proved to be
the parties who stole 100000 in bonds
in New York last January, belonging tc
James H. Young. They also had othel
stolen bonds in their possession.
The estate the late Thomas Hunt
of Brooklyn left has shrunk from So
100000 to $1,O00.OOO in consequence,
of the "hard times" and fall in real es
cate values. But it would have shrunl
a good deal more if he had taken it will
him, so there is no cause of complaint
! Boston Herald.
In the United States District Court a
New York Tuesday Judge Blathfort
: overruled the demurrer of Samuel
Tilden in the income tax suit for $3.50,
900, and the case will have to go to
jury for trial unless an appeal is takel
to the United States Supreme Court
which is likely to be done.
The story of large confederation 0
e hostile Indians near Fort Walsh ha
been corroborated. The Indians ar
1 very uneasy. From 5000 to 1000 war
D riors are within 100 miles of the fort
!. and it is expected that this number will
s soon be increased to 10000. They ar
!. splendidly armed and equipped and az
l parently mean mischief.
e A terrible tornado swept over pal
: of Kentucky Monday, killing eight pei
# sons instantly, severely wounding sever
al others, killing all the live stock i
t its course, and entirely demolishing a
r the trees, fences and houses, in som
It cases even the foundation stones of til
It latter being blown away. The pecuniar
t damage is estimated at least $4,000.
l. O'Leary, the American, has beaten hi
English competitors in the great pedes
p trian contest held last week at Islingto
J. Hall, London. His time is the best o
it record. His success is the more remark
IS able from the fact that the English al
J.. supposed to excel in field sports an
Il are generally expected to carry ava
the honors in athletic contests of tn
kind.
There were published in 1877
. England 5,095 new books or new ed
q ton, as against 4.9SS in 1876. Novel
: as usual, take the lead, summing up
4 the frightful number of S54 new worl
+ of fiction. Theology comes next, wit
1877 book; educational. 529; juveHil
522; history, biography, &c., 37s
~ poetry, and drama, 358; voyages ar
&c travels, 200; commerce and polite
. economy. 1879 ; arts and sciences. l9e
~ law, 1l9; medicine, 2l5, and miscell
~ neous, 500.
- An official report in Russian mil
tary paper states that the Cars tr
. phies during the late campaign consis
70 of 81 Pashas and $4,000 men
+ whom Is Pashas and III, 900 men we
* taken in Europe-over $4,000 horse
,e 1868 guns. 10000 tents, $4,000 riff
i, ~ of various makes. 100000 yataghan
III small arms and pistolets belonging
: y the irregular cavalry, $4,000 silve
VI mounted daggers and sabres used by Il
Circassians and LARGE stores of rnnnnV