Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-07-21
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS,

and the people were much alarmed.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Five new cases of yellow fever are re-
ported in Memphis.
There were 81 cases of sunstroke in
New York on Thursday.
An unusually large number of Eng
lish emigrants are arriving in this |
country.
A man named Durfee, of East Sher-
brooke, Quebec, was killed by lightning
Saturday.
John Bells 1O-year-old son Frank was
drowned at Bellows Falls, Monday while
bathing.
The population of Nebraska has in
creased 200 per cent since 1870. 400,-
900 are the present figures.
While Vermont is practically out of
debt our neighbor across the Connecticut
New Hampshire, owes s3.530,l9O.
A grand band tournament and horse
trot at the st. Adams Driving Park is
among the events to occur in August.
The Aroostook .Sumrise, paper that
was established in the interest of the
Democratic-G reenback party, has come
out in favor of the Republican party.
At Edenton. ILL.,, recently, a young
man shot and killed his sister to pre-
vent her from marrying a man obnox-
ious to the brother. He then took his
own life
Francis Murphy, the great apostle of
Temperance, has been doing effective
work in California and that. too, at his
own expense, being more than $500 out
of pocket.
The "Flying Dutchman,'' the fastest
train in the world. has recently been &C.
CELEBRATED, and now runs sixty miles per
hour between Paddington and Swindon,
England.
S. D. Austin, parish judge, who was
wounded in difficulty between Lusk
, and the Austins. at Lake Providence,
Mississippi. died Saturday Lusk is in
jail, strongly guarded.
The Rev. Joseph Cook has completed
his Western lecture trip. and will now
60 to his favorite summer resting place,
Cliff Seat, on Lake George, for three
months rest and study.
, The organ of the South Carolina bull
dozers and their Senator. Hampton. calls
Mr. Tilden a "pulpy politician" and
talks about his lack of interest in Estates
which he could not buy or carry"
Jefferson Davis has verbally and IL
t writing declared that he is not candi
: date for the United Slater Senate. He
q is a man of II years. is engaged in pre-.
pairing defense of his administration
as President of the ex- Confederacy. and
: is in far from robust health.
Tuesday evening drunken fellow
y named Leonard WEIGH of Saco Me
J. nearly murdered his little son. year:
: old. He broke the boys left arm II
two places, fractured his skull and broke
: one shoulder blade. besides infictine
e other injuries. The monster is under
It arrest.
a The British troops in Zululand con
>. tinue their advance movement agains
the enemy. General Crealock ha
reached Fort Chelmsford, and genera
i advance was made on the Goth ultimo
l. In consequence of these operations. &c
tywayo has withdrawn some of his force
for the defence af his kraal.
A beheaded Kansas rooster still lives
after four months of decapitation. H
ID is fed at the throat, and is in goo,
health. The head was cut off at tn
Is base of the brain without injuring tn
N spinal column. He appears to be some
N what like the Irishman,s turtle-he
dead. but not sensible of it.
ID The terrible epidemic of diphtheri
D. continues its rayages in Bessarabis
as where rescript of the Governor is pull
lished, ordering a universal fumigatio
la of dwellings and clothing of the peas
If antry. The rescript states that the epi
s, demic has been raging seven years, Cal
ID rying to the grave, in some districts, a
most all of the rising generation.
BIT The yellow fever excitement in Men
H. phis has in no measure subsidized. althoug
bit the exodus from the city continues. III
a authorities, however. do not anticipate
further spread of the disease and no ne
% cases were reported Wednesday. Qua
"a antine has been established on all trair
Is leaving the city, and Precautionary mea
III ures are being adopted in various Sc
tions of the South.
OF The obsequies of the late Prince In
ke perlal of France occurred at Chiselhurs
IS England, on Saturday, and were vel
ey impressive. Queen Victoria and mo
ke of the royal household of Great Brita
attended the funeral, the Prince of Wal
49, the Dukes of Edinburgh, Connaught ar
y Cambridge and the Princes of Mona
~ and Sweden acting as pall-bearer
w Many distinguished Frenchmen were a
,e SO present, Prince Jerome Bonapart al
- his two sons being the chef mourner
:, The floral emblems were profuse al
IL the funeral cortege imposing.
y, Some five carrier pigeons belonging
=, MIR, Welters of Charlestown, Mass. we
~ brought to Exeter, N. H., on the trai
w were let loose at 3 p. m. and havil
- made several circuits in the air, head
50, for Boston. They are young birds
training and this is their fourth tri
iai Monday they went from Newton Juu
IN ton to Boston. 43 miles in % minute
MI and the day before from Haverill to Be
INT ton. 33 miles, in IL minutes. The
first trip they made from Lowell Jur
ms ton, 20 miles. in IA minutes. Tomorrt