Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-06-09
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

several thousand tallors are on a
strike in Cincinnati. Why sew?
President Hayes. it is said, will re-
main through August and September at
his home in Fremont, Ohio.
Strawberries are SO abundant in Mont
gomery, Ala, that they are selling at
two crates for twenty five cents.
The N. H. legislature met Wednesday
electing Henry H. Huse. speaker, and
j. IL. Gallinger, president of the Senate.
The new railroad from Bethlehem to
the Profile House will be opened the
last of the month. Fare q cents mile.
An elevator fell in Parker's glove
factory at Littleton Wednesday. severely
iujuring four workmen. 1t was caused
by overlooking.
The Vicksburg Herald deplores the
prevalence of crime in Mississippi, and
says there is an average of one murder
per day in that State.
The excess of exports over imports
of merchandise for April was Sl,2l71,-
999. The excess Of exports of gold and
silver for April was S2,450,631.
Charles Williams, Jr., of Boston has
contracted to build a telephone line be-
tween Lowell and Boston for $4,000.
The work will be completed by July lst.
Gov. Drew of Florida, New Hamp-
shire man, owns sixty thousand acres
of land. He employs four hundred men
cutting logs and saving them into lum-
Der. All his men live in neat cottages
built by him, for which he charges no
rent.
A Delaware woman, hard worker all
her life, being about to die few days
ago, called her husband and children
about her and told them where she had
buried $4,000 of her earnings in the
cellar. and they dug it up before the
funeral.
The Rev. W. H. H. Murray has sold
the Golden Rule to company of Boston
men, of which Mr.. Charles w. Baldwin
is treasurer. The paper will be changed
to weekly. Mr.. Murray will contrib
ute religious and secular articles, and
the editorial management will not be
changed.
A writer in the New Orleans Times
who has talked of late with many negroes
in the disaffected districts of Louisiana
says that the mania for emigration is
rapidly increasing, and threatens IN
timely to result in half of the colored
men in the state going to Kansas.
General Shields died suddenly Sum-
day evening at Ottumwa, Iowa. He
fought with great bravery in the Next
can war and the war of the rebellion,
and during his life represented three
States-Minnesota, Illinois and Mis-
souri-in the United States Senate.
An exchange states that the longest
train ever hauled in America recently
passed over the Lake Shore and Mich.
gan Southern from Cleveland to Toledo
1t consisted of sixteen hundred and
twenty empty freight cars in twenty.
seven sections of sixty cars each, its
whole length being a little more thar
ten miles.
Secretary Sherman has issued an order
stopping all sales of the ten-dollar re
funding certificates in the large cities
in order to prevent them from falling Sc
much into the hands of banks and spec
ulators. The sales will be continued il
the rural districts. S3,229,59O worth
of the certificates have been sold in New
York city alone.
MEssINA, May 29.-The volcano o
Mount Etna is in full eruption. Thre'
new craters have opened near the tow
of Randazzo, at the north west foot o
the mountain. Streams of lava are flow
ing down the western slope. Severa
villages are threatened with destruction
and there is great alarm among the in
habitants.
A big meteor flashed across north
western Iowa two weeks ago and brok
to pieces, with an explosion like tn
discharge of cannon, above the tow
of Estherville. Fragments of the meteo
have been found scattered all about. an
one piece as large as bushel baske
: and weighing $50 pounds has been du
from the hole it bored l6 feet below tn
; surface of the ground.
1t is stated that the legal tender ties
case which has been submitted by Messrs
Chittenden and Butler to United State
: District Judge Blatchford, has decide
pro forma, in favor of the validity G
r the legal tender law. This will take til
case before the United States suprem
j court, in the October term, and a fns
decision may be expected by Januar
or February next.
< Wesley Bishop of Norwich, Conn
: who poisoned his wife, and induced Mr.
: Cobb to poison her husband, that |
), might marry her, gaining the merite
) contempt of the press of the country /
J, turning states evidence against the vel
woman whose strange love for him lie
S her into sin, has pleaded guilty of mu
n der in the second degree, and gone
n the penitentiary for life.
;, A despatch from Salt Lake, Uta
), states that Judge Emerson has sentence
n John Miles, the polygamist, to pay
fine of 500, and be imprisoned for fl
IS years. During the proceedings Mil
d impertinently requested not to be lie
e tured, and asked no mercy of the Coul
h An appeal has been taken to the S
r preme Court of the Territory, and bs
10 has been fixed at $4,000.
rs A Western bound emigrant train W
recently delayed two hours and h;
in near Clarke's Station. Nevada, by
II army of crickets that had taken posse
of sion of three miles of the railroad. L
at driving wheels of the engine. on striki
re the insects, would whirl around witho