Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-07-28
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

DIoVhiyu IePoEts IaCal case OF yell
low fever.
The drouth in Virginia is seriously
affecting the crops.
Twenty-three lives were lost by the
gale in and around Boston.
General Chalmers of Mississippi says
that Tilden IS unpopular in the South.
The latest from Zululand is to the
effect that the Cetewayo sues for
peace.
A pleasure boat was capsized near
Quebec on Friday and eight persons
drowned.
Two horses were attacked and stung
to death by swarm of enraged bees at
Wellsville, N. Y, last week.
A telephone is working successfully
between Petersburg, Va, and Whining
ton, N. c., distance of 226 miles.
The Republicans carried the city
election at Jacksonville. Fla, last Thurs
day by over hundred majority.
The will of the late Mrs. Dorsey of
Mississippi, who bequeathed all her prop
erty to JEFF. Davis, is to be contested.
An opinion is said to be springing up
in England that the secession of the
Australian colonists from the imperial
control is simply matter Of few years.
Col. Buford at Ownenton, KY. has
been convicted of murder in the first de-
gree, in the assassination of Judge Ell
liot, and sentenced to Imprisonment for
! life
The Centennial of MAD Anthony
Wayne's capture of Stony Point, on the
Hudson, was celebrated on the 10th
inst, Gen. J. R. Hawley delivering the
grafton.
Iceland is losing its people at last.
Two hundred and fifty emigrants from
that desolate island are on their way to
Minnesota, by way of England, and
more are coming.
Rev. Charles A. Curtis, pastor of the
Unitarian Church in Augusta, Me-, was
drowned in Moosehead Lake, July 10,
while fishing in birch canoe. His
body was recovered.
Vanderbilt purchased last week ST..
100000 United States per cents, each
) bond of the value of $4,000. The bonds
are said to have been bought as an in
vestment for his family.
Small silver coins are now legal ten
ders for $40 instead of S.. The coins
may be forwarded to the treasury in
sums of $40 and multiples thereof, and
:. greenbacks received in exchange.
The deluded fanatics, Freeman ant
wife of Pocasset murder fame, remain il
, Barnstable jail still firm in the faitl
that they did Gods will in offering thei
little daughter upon the sacrifcial altar
A steamer reached New York Satur
\ day, bringing 600 Russian emigrant
- who had with them 100000. Sixt
families in the company have 213 chill
dren. They are said to be a remarkabl
u fine-looking set of men.
- The receipts of the post-office depart
4 ment during the quarter just closed wer
$1,000, or within 100000 of tn
expenses. This is one of the infallibl
% signs that business is improving, and
e e at the same time proof that the depart
!, = ment is excellently managed.
The negro exodus from the South doe
not appear to be dying out. Ex-Cor
II gresham HARRISON of Alabama report
u that no less than $4,000 colored peopl
&c in his district are determined to g
l. North this year, and, in spite of his &C
vice to the contrary, will do SO as 500
q as they can obtain the means.
!, Dispatches give additional accounts
y the recent outbreak at Port au Prime,
l. where three hundred lives were lost an
one hundred and thirty houses burned
s. The fires were set by the shells throw
h. by President Canales to dislodge the rel
e els. The President has since abdicate
t. and has gone to Kingston, Jamaica, an
order is restored.
le The Southern States received in col
Il. tribution of money during the epidem
OF of last year S4,54S,7O3. The city
st Memphis received S409, 415.54. Fort,
l. seven States and Territories contribute
to the fund. Besides this, large quar-
ne titles of Injuries and comforts were fo
Is warded by individuals not counted
D. the general fund.
e. The striking spinners at Fall Rive
Ks Mass, made disgraceful exhibition
themselves Monday evening by surrount
g ing the houses in which operatives WI
ry had gone to that city to take the place
Id of the strikers boarded. smashing IL
to windows and uttering loud threa
IN against the occupants. until the mo
IN which numbered about thousand, W;
rs dispersed by the police.
1t has been determined by the PEN
ed sylvania courts that Allegheny count
Oh in which Pittsburg is situated, is lab
en- for the damage done during the gre
en- strike in that city in 1877 The amour
ed for which the comfy is held liable
tn $2.700,00, which it will bankrupt tt
y treasury to pay. A little shooting |
er the local authorities at the beginning
b. the riot, would have saved that bill.
Elizabeth and Anna Trowbridge, ag,
tn 43 and 40 years, hung themselves
TX their residence in Hyde Park, near Oh
gn cage. on Monday. on account of fe
en- that their father had squandered the
as property. leaving them penniless
ne younger sister, dwarf. has been re
is. dered insane by the double suicid
al They had monthly income of S12
lis and had also their own house, so the
sh fear of starvation or beggary was not We
~ grounded.
A man who had been blind for Fl
n years went to bed one night last we,
lst in New Orleans, slept the sleep of Il