Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-29
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


The late Gen. Hooker left an estate
valued at 100000
There are thirteen colored men in the
Virginia Legislature.
A regiment will accompany the Prin
cess Louise to Canada. They will be
stationed at Ottawa.
An Alexandria Egypt despatch says
the embarkation of the obelisk for
America is expected in few days.
Gen. Baker of the British army attack
ed the Afghans in his front in force last
week, the enemy fed at first assult.
1t is proposed to establish local dead
letter offices at Boston, New York and
other large cities to facilitate business.
A Kansas man, name not given, has
accomplished the task of writing 1850
perfectly lsgible words on postal card.
Rev. DR.. John Hall of New York is
credited With having received over S1O,-
900 in wedding fees during the past year.
The Rothschilds have lately paid in
England $4,000 probate and $780,
600 legacy duty. 1t is pity to die so
rich.
Stesling $40 horse cost Colorado
man his life, although he had been tried
and acquitted five different times for
murder.
The situation of the British forces in
Afghanistan is still more critical and
has awakened the gravest apprehensions
nEngland.
| Gen. Grant is still stopping in Phila-
dslphia where, on Saturday, he was
gwen a reception by the children of the
Z public schools.
D. C. Potter, charged with seven MUIR
ders, was captured on Monday in the
mountains of North Carolina by the
Sheriff of Cooke county.
Mr.. George W. Cannon of Columbus,
Ca, 81 years of age, while en- route home
Friday night, had his throat cut from
ear to ear and his pockets rihed.
The explosion of a saw-mill boiler at
Collins. ILL.,, caused the death of the
proprietor of the mill, his two sons, and
two other persons employed By him.
Moukhtar Pasha, the Turkishgeneral
who was so CONSPICUOUS in the war with
Russia, and his body guard of 70 men
have been massacred by the Arnauts.
Thirty-fve thousand dollars were sent
to Ireland during November through the
Irish emigrant society, and the remittan-
ces thus far have reached $4,000 daily.
An ex-governor of Oregon says quarter
of million colored immigrants are want
ed in Oregon. The people there, he says,
prefer them to Cinnamon, of whom they
already have too many.
The wife of William Noble, who re-
sides at Long Island city, was murdered
last week by Max Hess, in order that he
might secure $48, which he took from
the house and carried away.
Thomas Wall, alias Robert Smith, who
robbed the Southern Express Office in
New Orleans of $1,000 in December
1868, was arrested in Chicago a few
days ago and made a confession of the
robbery.
Ex-Secretary Bristow, having firmly
established himself in his law practice IL
New York city, is now to become per
manent resident. He is putting up his
household goods in handsome house IL
Forty-ninth street.
The depots on the Hudson River road
from Albany to New York, are being
t fitted with clocks, all connected with
electricity, and all. by that electric con
nectivu, madr 10 be Exactly uniform will
the standard time in the Albany depot.
On one day last week steamers from
New York for Europe carried $4,000
letters. Postal orders for foreign countries
to the amount of IS, 900 were sent out tn,
> same day. The number in each case wa
far in excess of any previous day
/, figures.
0 The Government has decided to gran
the Utes implicated in the recent massa
ere trial by military commission outsid
the limits of Colorado and New Mexico
: This was the principal condition imposed
e by Ouray and the other chiefs before tn
i surrender of the implicated person
G would be made.
A coal deposit has deem discovered o.
the land of John Deliver, in Lyndeboro
N. II. 1t burns freely, and specimen
It have beed sent to experts in Boston.
IS spring near by is SO impregnated wit
: oil as to lead to the belief that petroleum
also exists. Quite mining fever ha
l. been created.
J. The vote by which Chicago was ST
is cured for the next Republican Nations
,e Convention shows the relative strengt
IT of candidates, we apprehend. better tina
E the vote for chairmen. The Blaine mel
=. "a strong, all voted for Chicago ; th
!. Grant, men IA, for Saratoga, and th
% Sherman men, 2, for Cincinnati.
N Biologists and mining experts hay
d found a gold field in Canada, in th
id valley of the Chaudiere. just west of tt
y. Maine line. The field is said to be
N miles wide and to extend from the hea
Y waters of st. John river in q southwes
'r erly direction to the Vermont boundar
Ex-Judge Dittenhoeffer of New York h;
,e bought 100000 mining right there
Id In connection with the Glouceste
s. Mass. fisheries, thirty vessels and ty
s, hundred and forty lives have been 10
ey during the past year. Thirteen of &
We vessels and one hundred and forty-thr
En of the lives were lost in February la
n in one gale. Lightweight wives we
IL left widows and two hundred and mir
as teen children fatherless by these casu;
%, ties.
n The British army in Afghanistian,