Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-20
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Bayard Taylor's life was insured for

lU.UUU.
Two thousand hogs were frozen to
leath on trains blockaded by the recent
now storm in Northern n Y.
Several buildings in the business por-
ion of Birmingham. Conn.,, were de-
stroyed by fire on Sunday. Loss, $780,
900.
Henry Dirk, a performing .aeronaut,
fell one thousand feet from balloon at
Jonesboro, Arkansas, recently and was
killed.
Madame Anderson completed in
Brooklyn Monday night the remarkable
feat of walking 200 quarter miles in
200 quarter hours.
Rain prevailed all over the northern
and central portions of California on
Saturday, with heavy snow in the noun
tains and foot hills. Crops prospects
are good.
Francis Murphy has concluded his
course of temperance lectures at New
York, and proposes tour through
Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Vir-
ginia.
Gen. Grant received a tremendous
reception at Belfast, Ireland. The mills
were stopped and the men stood out in
the rain by thousands. Their enthusi- !
asm would not be Corked up.
The experiment of holding the Amer
lean Institute at the White Mountains
last summer proved SO great success,
that, at the request Of very many teach
ers, this years session will also be held
| there.
A fve-story building on Grand street
and Broadway, New York was burned
Tuesday night The total loss is esti-
mated at about three million dollars.
One fireman was killed and three others
were missing.
Senator Eaton, few days since. at
ter listening to Voorhees, greenback
speech, SAID that in his opinion the
Democrats had reached the forks of the
road, and if the Voorhees, way was Dem
ocracy, he for one would take the other
road.
The King of Sweden recently stop.
ped a run on the Stockholm Bank. and
: perhaps averted a serious panic, by
opening heavy private account with
the institution whose solvency was ques-
toned.
DIR. Garcelon, the Democratic COVER
b. nor or of Maine, was inaugurated JAN
q s. In his inaugural he declared gold
: and silver to be the only constitutional
: money, whereupon the Greenback mem
bers of the legislature Kissed him. The
il fat-money victory down East dom
(, seem to have been much of triumph
k after all.
e The largest amount of mail ever car
y ried on one train in this country cam
into Cleveland from Rochester, N. I.
n after the recent snow blockade was brok
x en-. Nine of the fifteen cars on the train
E. all of them heavy with snow and ice
lie were postal cars, and they carried g.
Or tons of matter, represented by 100
packages of letters and $40 sacks G
a papers.
We Joseph Ennis, of Somerville, N. J. wa
es walking along the street Friday mornin
#, apparently in good health, when he sue
IT, denly stopped and looked confused. g
st am going to die" he said to man WI
was passing, and then he fell at ono
in like dead body. The man stopped owe
ba him, but he was dead. and bright re
q bBs}ssafa a OGfaa!m came from his lips he was
1T. Thomas Dillon. aged forty years.
II loborer engaged on the repairs at st
warts retail store, while going up {
ice the freight elevator on the Tenth sire
K. side of the building, incautiously thru
nd his head out of the elevator. His he;
I'm coming in contact with the floor abov
no was frightfully crushed. his neck W
SO broken and the elevator was brouget
he standstill
to The first cargo of American whe
was landed at Barcelona, Spain, in N
,rd vember last. 1t marked an epoch the
The since samples freely distributed show
lst experts that they had something full
are equal to that sent from the Black S
zen or Hungary. 1t was taken to Barcelo
are in an English steamer, and excited
eep much attention that the same steam
ers was Immediately dispatched to New 70
md city for another cargo of wheat. L
cargo mentioned consisted of 1870
oes bushels, and sold at price equal
led $3.50 per bushel of 60 pounds.
DOT Governor Van Zandt of Rhode
lck land IN the course of his address to t
lit legislature, pronounces the license 81
ar tenn of that State failure. He
der clares that the law is not enforced Wi
lrd vigor, and little or no care is exercis
up in the issuing of licenses. He expires;
is the opinion that if tax payers wou
the consult their interests they would CT
ten their votes to prohibit the almost ind
ex- criminate sale of ardent spirits. II
is important testimony, coming as
70 does from the executive of licel
roc State.
itu- On December 18th mail drlv
in named Casey, left Sun River in m
emit. cart for Fort Benton, Montana. \
ellis reaching Twenty eight Mile Spri1
rom Station, half way to Benton, and bill
the ing snow storm prevailing at the til
ling it was supposed that he was lost and
rick search was made On the 9Th in
foot Casey was found seated in the C;
e of which the horse was drawing slo1
con- along, about twenty miles north
heir Springs Station. During all this tt
ape, he had wandered on the prairie in ne
"a ly circle. picketipg his horse
ry), camping out at nights. His feet "
and frozen, but it is believed not serious
ard, and that he will not lose his limbs.
,om- only things that passed his lips "
GEN. tobacco and snow. The thermomt
used during the time was below zero.