Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-03
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


New York last week.
a gas explosion in the wholesale drug
store of Weeks g. Potter, Boston, last
week, caused loss of about S25 900.
General Crook says the government
must keep its promises with the Indians
or terrible war will surely ensue.
Careful estimates make the present
population of the United States 49, 000,.
600 gain of 80 per cent. in ten years.
A rich plantation near Charleston,
S. c., which was once valued at $780,
900, was sold at auction the other day
for $4,000.
A young Montreal man named Ben
nett, who was in poor circumstances,
has fallen heir to a $4,000 estate in
England.
Governor Hampton now goes about
comfortably upon his crutches and takes
long drives. He is going to Florida to
recruit.
The Connecticut River Lumber Com
pany, of Hartford, Conn.,, has recently
bought twelve thousand acres of timber
land in Lexington.
Nine of the officials of Warren coun-
| ty N. j., have been convicted on charges
of conspiracy and forgery. Eight are
yet to be tried.
A violent snow storm prevailed in
Eastern Russia three days last week.
and seven thnnsand men rnqni-e1
to clear the Moscow railway.
John G.. Ferguson, well-to-do farm
er, was frozen to death in cutter while
on his way to church at WilliamtownI
Ont, one day recently.
A piece of brush thrown into an oys1
ter bed near New London, Conn.,. eight
teen months ago, was recently taken GU
with about thirty bushels of bivalved
clinging to it.
Great fears are entertained that tho
plague that was engendered by the late
European war, which is now confined I'd
small district. may spread during the
coming season.
Memphis had $4l7, 536 of the world
charity poured into its lap during thd
plague of last summer, and the oficia
report of the Howard Association show
that $1,749 is still on hand.
The German Emperor is wonderfully
we'll and vigorous, though still obliged
to carry his right arm in sling, and
drives out daily, accompanied only b
the Grown Prince or an equerry.
Within fortnight five children hav'
been killed at Pittsburg and Allegheny
Penn, by accidents from coasting, AM
six MANNED for life. An effort is bein
made to stop the sport.
: One hundred new buildings, mostl
} residences, were erected in Salt LAX
City, Utah. last year. and more stree
, improvement were made in the sam
time than during the ten years previous
A passenger train on the Souther
Pacific road ran into flock of shee
asleep on the track near Upton, Cal
and in the wholesale slaughter one hur
/ bred and fifteen were killed and fft
, injured.
I In the district court, at Concord
. Mass, last week Thursday, Isaac Medi {
of Lexington was convicted Of beatin
y his horse to death, and was fined $50
S and was sentenced to Jail for ninet
e days.
Y The Baldwin Locomotive Works hav
/ an order for several locomotives of th
/. heaviest draft from a railway in NorwaI
which is the first ever received in TIL
d United States from either Sweden d
Norway.
% Freight traffic from the West hal
it been very heavy of late-so much s.
n that for few days last week it wa
with difficulty that the Central Vernon
could get their engines back to st. John
= fast enough to keep cars from accumq
|, lating there.
e The transaction in stocks and bond
d in New York city, during the week end
,s ing Jan. 25th, amounted to the unprecd
dent sum of S5O7, 100000 This indI
: Gates an improvement in business and
d disposition on the part of capitalists Il
y put the wheels of trade in motion.
e A despatch from Luling. Texas, I
: the Galveston Neaos, states that tod
n nado struck the town of Lockport Of
= Sunday evening, demolishing so houses
e including churches, the Court Hous|
: and Masonic Hall. A child was killed
|. and several persons were badly hurt.
% Over $500 freight cars arrived a
, Port Jarvis one day week last for the Fri
- Railroad. This would make more thai
u twelve miles of cars. if they had beeI
N connected, and shows something of TIL
~ vast amount of grain, coal and othe|
+ freight that is moving toward the sea
h board.
Il Jersey justice" which is about al
D. unadulterated article of the kind as
il found in this country, has sent the couu
TT ty officials who formed ring to plunde
le Warren county, New Jersey, to prison
1T The county clerk has been sentenced q
n four years in the state-prison. and eigh
le other officials to two years each.
n The attention of cigar dealers through
u out the country is being directed by id
ternal revenue officers to the require
IN ments of the revenue law, which make
10 it the duty of every person in who's
'e hands box containing cigars is emptie
y to deStr0y the stamp thereon. For fail
'e ure to do SO the law imposes penalty
J. and on account of frauds committed b
er reflling old cigar boxes, on which tn
10 stamp had not been destroyed, this la
s. will be strictly enforced hereafter.
Il It has been found that ranchmen VIII
had hay to sell recently formed a pic
IT to set fire to four thousand tons of gov
st eminent hay at Fort Buford, Nebras
II ka. They hired several men to do tn
- | work EMMY cans Wese cut omen an