Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-11-03
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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The Porte has prohibited the exporta-
ton of cereals.
The Municipal Council of Berlin |
recommends cremation.
The loss of life bv the Snanish floods |
is put as high as 1000.
Cotton in Alabama has been much |
damaged by the recent rains.
Gen. Grant will attend the unwilling
of the Thomas statute at Washington,
Nov. 10.
The cable between Aspinwall and
Kingston has been interrupted since the
18th inst.
The amount of American securities
held in Holland has greatly increased
during the year.
There is more gold in the United
States Treasury than there is in the
Bank of England.
Increased activity in the manufacture
ed iron trade of marlborough and
other English towns is reported.
Russian troops had an encounter with
the students and people at Kansas last
week. After prolonged fire the rioters
dispersed.
Last year the Greenback vote in Ohio
was over $4,000. This year it foots up
9,l29 in a total of 668,667 votes cast
for governor.
The Gate City Guards from Atlanta,
were received at Vassar College by Pres
ident Caldwell and Matthew Vassar,
jr., on the 22nd
The box factory and planning mill of
A. G. Wallace, of Manchester. N. H.,
was burned last week Wednesday. Loss
$4,000 partly insured.
The yellow fever is under control at
Memphis. and if the weather continues
favorable, the Board of Health will
raise the quarantiner.
There have been coined to date A.
453. $50 silver dollars. Of this number
12,22l. 0l0 are in circulation, and 49,
232, $40 are in the Treasury.
A number of factory operatives from
the Bradford, Eng, district, and a num-
Der of silk weavers from Macclesfeld,
sailed for America last week.
Lieut.. W. B. Weir, son of Prof. R.
W. Weir, of West Point, was killed by
Indians near the White River Agency,
last week, while he was hunting.
At Strongville, Ohio, on Wednesday,
man by the name of Lewis Miller shot
dead his father, mother, and brother.
The murderer and the murdered were
not on good terms.
The preliminary celebration of York
towns celebration took place on the Esd,
many thousands being present, and Gov
ernor Holiday and Gen. Taliaferro
making addresses.
Russian newspapers are greatly en-
ragged over Lord Salisbury's speech at
Manchester, in which he rejoiced at the
Prusso- Austrian alliance as guarantee
of continued peace in Europe.
Several Mormons at Salt Lake City,
having been indicted for polygamy,
openly defy the government, and VOW a
determination to do as they please. re-
CARELESS of any government official.
Over $50 vessels during the week
ending Saturday arrived at Buffalo, the
largest feet there at one time in ten
years. The freights by lake have drop
ped. coal being taken at So cents per
ton.
The N. Y. San says that the real
issue in Massachusetts this fall is 81
years old, weighs something like 200
pounds, has defect in one eye, and is
supposed to be worth several million
dollars.
The mania for speculation at present
raging was shown by the sale in this
city alone last week of 2,672,43 shares
of stocks. and 100000 bushels of
wheat, the total exchanges amounting to
S761, 277.728.-M Y. Times
The dead body of Mr.. Burr, the jour-
nalist who made the balloon ascension
with Prof. Wise, was found on the shore
of Lake Michigan on Friday. There is
no doubt that both men were drowned
in the lake.
| The second trial of the Goodell wo.
man and DIR. Kimball for causing the
death of Jennie Clark, the Lynn mys-
terry" ended in Boston on Friday with a
verdict of guilty. The prisoners have
not been sentenced.
The steamer, Nue7o Pajaro de Oceana.
from Havana to Nuevitas, was burned
Oct. 18th, off old Bahama channel, and
over forty lives lost Most of the sur
vivors suffered terribly from burning
and exposure in the open sea before be.
ing picked up.
| Gen. Sheridan has been directed to
withdraw the troops from the White
River Agency, leaving only enough to
protect government property. Public
opinion in Colorado is in favor of re-
moving the Indians from the State OF
determination.
1t is estimated that the amount col.
lected in aid of Archbishop Purcell, Of
Cincinnati, will not exceed $74, 900, moi
enough to pay the interest on the debt
since the assignment. 1t has been de-
cided that the Archblshop's assignee
shall bring suit to test the question Of
the liability of the church property
generally throughout the diocese for the
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