Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-06-16
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

May, in Pennsylvania.
The Gar of Russia renounces his visit
to Germany. He fears that some lunatic
person will take his life.
Oil from the Bradford district is now
taken through a pipe one hundred miles
long to Williamsport, Penn.
News from Rio Janeiro is to the effect
that the coffee crop has been seriously
damaged by rain and hail storms.
Hunters factory, grist mill and dye
house, near Frelighsburg Que, were
burned last Friday. Loss $4,000; in
sured.
At Cincinnati, Ohio, on Thursday, the
wall of an old building fell upon some
workmen and four were killed and five
wounded.
German papers say that the sting of
the bee cures govt. A correspondent of
the Augsburg Gazette was cured by
three bees.
Seventeen out of forty carrier pigeons
released at Cresson, Pa. on Friday, few
to New York, distance of $50 miles,
in six hours.
The director of the mint thinks the
production of the gold and silver mines
for the current fiscal year will be $780,
100000 less than last year.
Governor General Lorne helped lay
the corner stone of the Queens Univer-
sity at Kingston, Ont, last week, and
received in exchange the degree of LII. D.
A torpedo factory near West Farms,
N. Y, was destroyed by an explosion on
the 3lst ult., and a man and a girl who
were at work there were blown to pieces.
Mrs. Smith and Covert Bennett were
sentenced to be hanged on the 25th of
July, for the murder of policeman Smith
the husband of the former, in Jersey
City.
Serious disaster threatens the collier
5 les in South Strafordshire, England, by
f the flooding of hundreds of mines, owing
to the lack of funds to keep the pumps
, at work.
A tramp attacked Mrs. Vinegar, an
! old lady living Oh farm near Millerton.
r in Duchess County, N. Y, June 4, and
j she became so frightened that she drop.
t ped dead
:. The Senate and House have beer
Q unanimous in one thing, and that is il
: appropriating $4,000 for monument t.
G mark the birthplace IN Virginia o
e George Washington.
e The largest lumber mill in the WORLD
7, is building at Port Ludlow, Washington
e Territory 1t is designed for cuttin!
lumber one hundred and forty feet long
. and its capacity is 100000 feet per day
law passed by the legislature o
Michigan declares Offices vacant in al
cases where the incumbents are convicte
of being intoxicated, and provides 70
the filling of such vacancies withou
delay.
= The bill recently passed by Congress
w providing for the exchange of subsidis
+" ry coins for lawful money, and to max
such coins legal tender in all sums nc
le exceeding SlO," has been signed by tn
io President.
- Monday the receipts Of butter in Boz
ton were the largest known in IA year
" Nine carloads were Western butte
$ shipped direct to Liverpool, making
IL carloads shipped in the past week, abO'
y 1900 packages.
William Clare. young lawyer, r.
aS Gently from Liverpool, England. W;
4 urUwnou III Luke T"iunupiseugvo 6atu
~ day afternoon, by the capsizing of
nv boat. He had made arrangements
return to England on Monday.
~ While woman was driving towal
" her home in Chester county, Pa, Satu
-, day night, the contents of her wagon
cotton aud straw-caught fire, her hor
= ran away, and the poor woman W;
w. roasted to death in the vehicle.
W The number of cattle driven fro
NJ Texas during the past ten years for shil
u ment to western markets is estimated
~ over 100000, worth some $4,000
:, 900 to the stock-raisers. The bigge
IL, drive was in l87O-9OO.OOO tn
ed years will not be more than 100000.
10. The legislature of Texas having pas
es ed Moffett liquor law similar to tt
I'd one in operation in Virginia, Mr.. F.
a johnson of Culpepper, Va, has contrac
ed with the Texas authorities to NAL
nc and deliver eight thousand Moffett re,
ce listers by September ! at ten dolla
III each.
X. General Butler and S.. B. Chittendt
en- agreed some months ago to test the va
ITS idity of the reissue of the United Stat
a legal tender notes in time of peace, ar
genuine transaction, involving Il
. payment $4,000 was referred to Jud,
Nv Blatchford of New York, who has
m. cided the reissue was valid. The ca
,st now goes to the Supreme Court.
lrs A lot of Georgia negroes. while retur
I'm ing from a picnic, got into a fight
lat Mcintosh. A militia company charge
bayonets on the crowd, wounding man
3D. while the captain ran one man throus
elk with his sword. The other side rallit
nd and drove the soldiers into the cars, al
70, firing on them killed four and woundt
ng many more. All were colored people,
ne At Littleton, on Wednesday, an ell
ny vator heavily loaded with iron. and CO
'm tanning four men. fell about fifty feet
Ira Parker & Co.'s glove factory. Charl
ng E. Osgood, agent for jeremiah Clark
Lowell, had his leg broken and injure
TX and Jerry Colyea, Joseph Homie we
is more or less hurt. The accident was eau
ell ed by overlooking the elevator, causil
ars the hange on the driving pully to brea
ny Mr. 0sgood and three men were engage
in in removino Woolen machinery from n