Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-07-22
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The crops in Nebraska are looking so
we'll that the largest harvest ever reap
ed in the State is anticipated.
Yellow fever has made its appearance
at the Naval Hospital, Flushing avenue,
Brooklin; three deaths have thus far oc-
cured.
A sailor was whipped at the whipping
post at Hampton. Va, on Saturday by a
negro constable: under the new law for
stealing.
Among the mechanical toys at the
Paris Exposition, are dolls that swim,
dive, and tread water, after the most
approved human style.
The indications at the Treasury De-
partment continue to show that the gov
eminent is making every possible effort
to prepare for resumption.
Tea raised in South Carolina and pre-
pared in Baltimore was lately exhibited
III dsuIuSUUu W ueaIers, VINO were un-
able to distinguish it from similar vari-
cites of Chinese and japanese growth.
Francis Hannin, of Starksboro, has
lost three children by diphtheria, the
Oldest a girl over 20 years old. and now
has two children sick with it. Several
other cases have occurred in that town.
The Rev. J. H. Vincent so prominent
| ly associated with the Sunday school
work in this country, is now abroad, and
will hold a Sundy school congress at
Rome, the first ever held on the CONT
nent.
| WASHINGTON. July Is. A dispatch
from the Superintendent of the mint at
San Francisco states that since the LIST
inst. 555, 1000 silver dollars have been
exchanged at that mint at part for gold
coin.
Emigration to Texas is on the decline,
the dupes of railroad agents and land
companies finding that it is not quite the
paradise which has been described, and
that is is necessary to work for living
there as we'll as elsewhere.
Several cases of yellow fever are re-
ported at the quarantine hospital in the
New York lower harbor from vessels ar
irving from Havana. Yellow fever is
reported very virulent at Havana this
summer, as we'll as small pox.
Gems. Howard and Miles have gained
important victories over the Indians the
past week, and with the news come the
revelations of enormous frauds on the
part of government agents in their deal
ings with the tribes. When these things
stop there will be less trouble with the
red man.
( Jesse Pomeroy, the boy murderer, il
e in bad odor at the Concord prison. III
was lately allowed to work, but wilfully
: spoiled seventy-fve dollars worth o.
stock, and now none of the officers are
allowed to speak to him, his reading per
NIT is taken from him, and he has to en-
dure solitary confinement with nothing
to do.
1t is set down as ssstraw" of consid
: cradle significance that at the dry good
trade sale in New York city last week
the buyers were from all parts of tn
$ country, prices were we'll sustained. an,
G large quantities were sold. It's argue,
that the goods are needed by the peopl
$ and that they will find means to pur
= chase them.
u Mayor Henry G.. Eastman of POUCH
keepsie. N. Y, died Saturday in Colora
st do, where he had gone for his health
|. Mayor Eastman was for many years tn
n head of the well-known Commercial
y school at Poughkeepsie which bore hi
name, and which had branches III sever
1T al other cities. He was one of the mos
r public spirited citizens of Poughkeepsit
m He was energetic, enthusiastic, and al
r. ways alive to the public interest, and i
D. his death Poughkeepsie loses one of il
ID most useful citizens.
Id There was such demand for faci
ties of transportation to Europe frol
t, New York last Saturday that severa
,g steamers were obliged to refuse freigh
of The cargoes consisted of horses, ca
It, tie, grain, cheese. tobacco, bacon, bu
n. ter, fresh meat, -four, canned meats an
a vegetables. cotton and domestic dr
be goods. To have surplus of freight
at something unusual these times, and
Oh this quickening of export also com,
in when the war cloud in Europe has blow
n over, the inference seems to be legit
II, mate that it is due to natural and healtl
ly causes.