Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-27
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Inc steamer Aurora, from OpOrto, |
bound for Southampton, has foundered
at sea. Fifty persons were drowned.
An accident occurred at the Consoli-
dated Imperial mine in Nevada on Thurs |
day night, by which nine men lost their |
lives.
Three British generals have fallen into
disgrace because of recent failures in
Afganistan = Burrows, Primrose and
Phavre.
The three South American powers at
war on the Pacific coast have accepted
the offer of the United States to mediate
between them.
The new tobacco crop will be the small
est for many years in Virginia. Worms
and heavy rains at critical time are
among the causes.
Nearly one-half of the business portion
of the town of East Las Vegas, COL was
destroyed by fire on Saturday afternoon,
the property loss aggregating 100000.
A young lady eighteen years of age,
was shot dead Sunday afternoon at Jones'
vile, Mich, by a fellow whose suit she
rejected the murderer also took his own
life.
A combined attack of the United States
and Mexican troops will be made on
VictOria's band of savages on Friday
next in the Candalario mountains in Mex
leo.
Sixty dwelling houses, thirty barns and
the Presbyterian church at Green Bay,
Wisconsin, were destroyed by fire on
Monday. The loss will aggregate $780,
900.
DIR. Samuel P. Chalfant, a San Francisco
| dentist, who murdered Josiah Bacon of
Boston a good many months ago, has
been sent to the State Prison for ten
years.
The steamer Stonington of the Stoning-
ton line was attached Monday of last
week, in two suits of $1,000 each, for
loss of life by the steamer Narragansett.
The suits are brought by Boston parties.
A fire in the northern freight house of
the Boston and Maine Railroad at Boston
on Tuesday evening destroyed merchan-
disc valued at about 500, 900, and dam
aged the building to the extent of $25, 900.
The epizootic among the horses OF
Boston has extended to nearly every
stable and a good deal of inconvenience
is likely to result from the large number
of horses that are partially or totally dis
abled from work.
The strike of the nail makers of East
Worcestshire and Staffordshire, which
began on the 10th, and in which 29, 00C
persons participated, has collapsed. The
workmen were so destitute as to be
unable to prosecute it.
Five persons were accidentally poison
ed at Pleasant Valley, Pa, by eating cakes
made from corn meal with which arsenic
had been mixed for the parpose of killing
rats. Two of them died soon after and 9
third probably will die.
Mr.. Edison says that he has completely
solved the problem of electric lighting
In the October number of the Nortl
american ReUieU he will state. the advan
tages of electricity over gas, and explain
how the new light is to be introduced.
Maud S. in the second trial agains
time at Chicago, ILL.,, Saturday, trottet
in 2 10 3-4. She made the quarter in 8.
seconds; half mile in l :04 "a; three
quarters in l :36, and one mile in 2 10 ga
carrying 2 Id. overweight and in the fac'
of very strong wind.
Rev. Stephen H. Tying (the elder) o
New York, now in his eighty-frst year
enjoys pension of $4,000 year from
st. Georges church over which he wa;
thirty-fve years the pastor. His tire
sons entered the ministry. The eldes
died, and the others are still in the work