Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-17
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

fact.
The Utica Herald says that there has
been no time since the war when the Re- !
publican party showed greater vitality |
throughout interior New York. Let us
not throw our opportunity away.
James H. Batchelder has secured bail,
and was released from Middlebury Jail,
last Friday afternoon. A $1,000 mort
gage he gave Hon. E. P. Hard as re-
tainer. and for legal services, has been
held void
The town meetings in York county,
Me, Monday, showed a decided falling
off in the Greenback vote since last Sep
TENDER. In number of towns in the
State there were three parties and no
choice of officers effected.
1t is said that very few Republicans
in Congress care for the jurors test oath.
and will not oppose the repeal of the act
requiring it. They are also indifferent
about Hewitt's amendment prohibiting
the use of troops at the polls.
The Pail Nall Gazette says a private
letter from a high Indian official states
that the people of Cashmere are dying of
famine like flies, and that at the present
rate of mortality the province will be
nearly depopulated by the end of the
year.
A confederate paper in central Mis-
souri,, exclaims exultantly that while
Senator Logan will be the only man of
any prominence who served in the Union
army during the war in the next Senate,
there will be seventeen confederate brig
adiers.
Mr.. Edison is quoted by correspond
ent of the indianapolis Journal as say
ing that the electic light sis just as
certain as sunrise" "They must give
me time for it, he added, ''and if they
don't, l shall take time. | have never
said | would have it done in week"
The New York Post says: The pres
ent year will doubtless be a memorable
one in the history of New York city's
growth. The probability is that more
dwelling-houses will be built in New
York during 1879 than have been erected
during any previous year.
A fire at Silver City, New, on the 4th.
destroyed eighteen buildings on both
sides of Main Street, including the sta
tion-house. few small business houses,
and a number of residences and lodging
houses. The loss is estimated at $780,
900. Tn fire broke out in a Chinese
washing house.
Saturday evening March 18th, during
Samuel Vickers was killed by lightning
on Maple Ridge, Tioga County, Penn.
His team was also killed. The only
mark on the young man was a dent
about the size of bean on his forehead
His boots were torn.
Wendell Phillips addressed crowded
house on Sunday evening at Lisbon, N.
ii. on the temperance question, and Sem
ator Patterson spoke on the same subject
on Thursday of last week. Much inter-
est is manifested, and over four hundred
names have been added to the pledge
recently.
Dakota would like to be admitted as
State. 1t claims 10000 population,
and includes the Black Hills gold region.
1t will have to wait, probably, until a
Republican Congress assemblies. But that
will not be long, neither will it be long
before Dakota makes the thirty ninth
star in the armament of the Union.
Under the instructions of the Treasury
Department, hereafter, until otherwise
ordered no vessels from ports in South
ern Russia contiguous to the plague dis
tricts, containing articles likely to convey
infection, are to be permitted to enter
United States ports without first being
submitted to thorough fumigation.
H. II. Vickery. Sheriff of Douglass
County, Mo-, went on Saturday, March
l 18th. with posse to the house of Shelf
Alsope to arrest him. Alsope resisted,
and fired several shots, one of them kill
ing the Sheriff. Alopse and his little
girl, five years old, were then killed, the
latter accidently, by the Sheriff's posse.
R. V. Pierce, the patent medicine man,
of Buffalo. N. T., is succeeding better
in his political ambitions than Aver did
before him. Pierce Is now member of
the New York Senate. but will resign
his seat the day before Congress meets
in extra session, to 60 on to Washington,
and take his place in the House of Rep.
resentatives.
Alec Stephens of Georgia seems to be
ashamed of the company he had in the
last Congress. "When we met, ;" he says
lit was heralded abroad that we would
find relief for the people, but instead o.
that we have been burden, and the
; 45th. Congress adjourned in deeper dis
grace than any Congress in the history
of the government.
E. V. Smalley, the newspaper CORE
spondent, thinks that if yellow fever
does not break out at New Orleans again
next summer. it will be due to an inter
: position of Providence. He has founc
the city in horribly filthy condition
and could scarcely 60 out at night. be
cause of the intolerable stencil that aros'
from the streets and cutters.
, The floor of Mechanics Hall in Nortf
e Berwick, Me-. gave way while the cit.
: election was being held on Monday, ant
0 number of persons were injured, fou
p of whom will probably die. There wer
about 500 people in the hall at the time
and of these $50 were thrown fourteen
. feet to the basement. There is grea
indignation against the builders of th
: hall, which was new three years ago.
) John P M. Richards, of the firm Q
: John P. Moores & Sons, dealers in fire
arms. New York city, heard a suspicion