Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-06
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

before.
Jean Moncasi, who attempted to kill
the King of Spain, has been condemned
to death.
The New York East River bridge has
cost $1,000, lS9, and S3,O27,755 more
is required to finish it.
The largest cotton mill in the United
States is the Harmony mill at Cohoes.
1t has 275,000 spindles.
The guage of the Erie Railway has
been reconstructed, and it now CORES
ponds to that of other roads through
out the country.
NEW YORK, Dec. BID. P. Dietrich,
who confesses to the forgery of $685.
900 while custom officer at New York
was arrested at Montreal on Monday.
Reuben R. Thrall. ESQ.,, of Rutland
is the oldest practicing lawyer in the
state. He is now 50 years old and
transacts business at his Office every day.
A dispatch from Hong Kong reports
very destructive conhagration in that
city. Another dispatch reports the de-
struction by fire of the winter palace of
the Khedive of Egypt.
Out of two hundred and thirty-nine
towns in Kentucky which have voted
under local option law two hundred
and five have voted "no license" that
is, theoretically for prohibition.
PORTLAND, Me-, Dec. 31.-Leonard
D. Shepley, clerk of the Portland water
company and younger brother of the
late Judge Shepley, died suddenly of
apoplexy this morning. aged about fifty
five years.
The naval cadets at Annapolis Md,
are highly pleased that they are to have
the privilege of smoking, Commodore
Parker, to whom Secretary Thompson
left the question, having decided to let
them puff.
The crop of precious metals gathered
on the Pacific slope last year is given
as follows Gold, S39, 956,231; silver,
S3O,746,O39; lead, $3,452.OOO the
total being less by sl7,267,132 than
for 1877.
The MASSACHUSETTS Legislature for
1879 met Wednesday and organized
Levi G. Wade was chosen speaker of the
House and Hon. J. B. d. Cogswell
President of the Senate. Other officers
of last year were reelected.
A West Chester penny woman
Lightweight years old, went to the den.
fist to get what she thought was the
stump of an old tooth dug out, and
was surprised to find that she was cut
ting her wisdom teeth.
A bold highway robbery was commit
ted at East Boston. Mass, Wednesday
night of last week. Edward Rivett, &
pawnbroker, being knocked senseless by
two men, and robbed of $3.50 in money
$3.50 watch and chain, $3.50 dia
mond pin and other articles.
: The Boston and Albany, Lowell
Eastern and Boston and Maine Rail
ways have agreed to discontinue tn,
custom of furnishing free passes t,
members of the Legislature, but vii
not charge full fare.
The students of the University o
, Keef, Russia, have stirred up a riot, il
: which eighty persons are said to hav
q killed. Similar disturbances on a SINH
lar scale have also occurred in othe
university towns.
!. NEW YORK, Dec. 3l.-The Tribua
prints affidavit from Louisiana shown,
: an extent of violence .~4 terrorism
v toward the blacks almost increur~, y,
u Hundreds are reported killed, whippe
It and driven from their homes.
# Twenty persons were killed the othe
!. day by the falling of a train over a
embankment on the Vladi Kavkee raj
way, Russia. General Hentz and Sc,
eral other functionaries and officers {
r the Caucasus were among the killed.
e NEwBURYPoRT. Mass, Dec. 81.
: terrible murder was committed at B.
) field parish (Newbury), about six mile
e from this place, last night. John f
Caldwell, married man about forty
{ five years old, being murdered by h
e wife with his axe.
: The American steamship. Emily |
If Souder, which left New York Dec.
a for Turks Island and San Doming
n foundered when two days out. and, q
far as is know, only two persons wei
saved. She carried crew of thlrty-or
men and nine passengers.
Littleton. which at the fall electic
r voted to adopt the lager beer and cid,
laws, at special meeting last weel
- voted by about fifty majority. to recol
: slider its action in November, so TIL
,, the town will hereafter have free be-
q 9. and cider.
A telephone connects the station
Fabyan's with the station on the sun
q NIT of Mount Washington. 1t is pc
l. feet success, and ordinary conversatic
can be heard quite distinctly. A me
re sage sent through it few days ago W
Of to the effect that the snow was ten fe
deep on the summit and the wind bloy
e. ing 100 miles an hour.
rs At an inquest on the body of Jot
Henry Schultz, who was murdered
n South Norwalk, Conn.,, last week Thur
lie day night. it transpired that Schul
had in his possession at the time ST.
900 iu money. His servant, Villa
10 Breckhole. who was with him when
was murdered, denied all knowledge
&c the money.
~ During the recent freshet. you
man of Warren. N. H., started to
- home in the evening. Safely crossi
% . the first of two bridges which he b
. to pass, he went on to find the seco
" swept away retracing his step he fou
the first also gone. He took refuge
no sugar house but when the "