Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-10-20
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

l. II -
China is preparing for war with
Japan.
1t is rumored that the Emperor of
China is dead
A Russian farmer of Odessa owns
over 100000 Merino sheep.
Sixteen tons of European gold were
landed at New York last week.
Nearly 1000 houses have been burned
at Shanghai. No lives were lost.
Robert Bonner's "Rarus" recently
trotted mile in 2:11 IL at Tarrytown.
W. H. H. Murray has not teen heard
from since the publication of his open
letter.
Two hundred and sixty-sevcn farmers
and their wives left Liverpool for Texas
last week.
There are 100000 voters in the
United States, and probably 100000
Of these are farmers.
The Corliss engine which so many
people saw at the centennial is now used
to run the branch mint at San Fran
cisco.
Thirty-six buildings. comprising the
entire business portion of Shediac, N. B.,
were destroyed by fire on Saturday night,
involving property loss estimated at
100000.
The receipts of the Western Union
Tainpranh Con, ~ y anrino the nast year
amounted to $10,O7S, 1910, and the
expenses $500. ll9.46, leaving a net
profit of s4,269,778,33.
Gen. Grant was given very enthusi.
astic reception at Vancouver. Washington
Territory, Monday night, and told the
people he had no doubt the Territory
would soon be elevated to the rank of a
State.
Ulysses S. Grant, Jr.. is said to be
engaged to Jennie Flood, daughter of
the bonanza king. She is twenty-four
years old. has dark brown hair, blue
eyes, full face, beautiful teeth and a
handsome form.
Ex-Governor Clafin has given thirty.
one acres of land and the buildings
thereon, in all valued at $4,000, al
Orangeburg. South Carolina, to the
Freedmen's Aid Society of the Method.
ist Episcopal Church.
The number of letters, postal cards,
&C., delivered and collected by the letter.
carriers of N. Y. Post Office during Sept.
1879, exceeded by 1863 99 the nnm.
| Der handled by them during the CORES.
ponding month in 1878.
1t is reported that in the recen
engagement of the Mejillones between
the Gillian and Peruvian fleets the
former captured the ram Husacar, con
sidered the strongest war boat in the
service of Peru and Bolivia.
Lew Wallace. Governor of New
Mexico, reports the population of thu
territory at $4,000, although some
persons estimate it at 100000. There
is large immigration following the
Atchlson. Topeka & Santa Fe railroad.
Mr.. J. r. McClintock of New Orlean,
and Mr. E. G. Swain of South Boston
were blown to pieces in Boston Harbol
on Monday afternoon by a torpedo
with which they were experimenting
Not trace of their bodies has beer
found
In Baltimore variety theatre Tuesday
evening, John Nelson, medicsl student
was shot through the brain by the dis
charge, from the stage, of a musket
which was supposed to contain only f;
blank cartridge. Nelson is thought t.
be dying.
Two express trains on the Baltimor,
and Ohio Railway, while running at th,
rate of % and 50 miles an hour, collide(
at Bolton, West Virginia, on Frida,
night. killing four persons and injurins
several others, wrecking both locomo
tives and several cars.
Mrs General Grant at one Of tn
California evening receptions wore blu
silk, trimmed with blue beads, the necl
cut Pompadour with lace in the necl
and sleeves. Her hair was in puffs
she wore solitaire dimond earrings an(
diamond neck ornaments.
An express messengers safe on tn
Chicago and Alton Railroad, at Glendale
Mo-, was robbed by masked men, o.
Wednesday night. of $4,000, tn
thieves escaping. The railroad compan
has offered reward of $4,000 for tn
apprehension of the robbers.
| Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois an
his brother Robert NJ. of North Carolina
sons of the Little Giant. have recent
come into the possession of $500, 900
the court of claims having awarded ther
that amount for cotton belonging t
their father. which the federal troop
confscated in Washington county, Miss
issippi, during the war. Senator Doug
las came into possession Of slaves throug
his first wife and they raised the conf:
Gated cotton on James Hulton's plants
ton in Washington county.