Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-07-26
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS,

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It is now believed that the South will |
escape the yellow fever scourge this sum-
mer. 1t broke out in Memphis last year
July 8.
Three men were injured by the explo-
sion of the boilers in the mill of the Can
ada Paper Company, at Windsor, P. O.,
July II.
The President has recently stated to a
number of persons that he shall use every
possible effort to secure the election of
Garfield.
The bodies of two more victims of the
Narragansett disaster have been recov-
cred. They were found in the after cabin
of the boat.
A Mrs. Brown who has been on trial
at Indianapolis, Ind, for the murder of
her husband, has been found guilty Of
murder in the first degree, and sentenced
to death.
The railroad earnings for June, thus
far received, and for the first half of the
year, shows large gains and the totals are
beyond all precedents in the history Of
the roads.
1t is estimated that 100000 barrels of
oil were burned in the Pennsylvania oil
region as the result of the firing of tanks
and wells during the recent storm. The
total damage is 100000.
A gang of dangerous counterfeiters
was recently broken up by the arrest of
two Of the principals in St. John, N. B.,
and the other at Hanson, Mass, and now
the plates from which a portion of the
bills were struck have been dug up in
Hanson, Mass.
John Kelley, a workman in Spring
field, Massachusetts, brewery, has been
arrested for the murder of his wife. They
were both of Incorporate habits and have
not lived together Of late. Mrs. Kelley
was found dead on the morning of the
10th inst, and her husband was taken
| into custody on suspicion.
The meteor which astonished Macon,
| Georgia, few nights ago was found i'm
| bedded in the forks of a tree several miles
great force, burying itself so deep in the
tree that it had to be cut out with an axe.
| The meteor is about the size of man,
head and is an amalgamation of iron and
stone.
By the failure of congress to make the
necessary appropriations, a large number
of soldiers or their heirs are kept waiting
for small sums due at the close of the
war, for bounties, back pay, etc. These
claims are coming in at the rate of $50,
900 to $40, 900 per annum. Those audited
prior to the adjournment of congress
aggregated $111, 200.
1t is stated that Gen. Grant will return
to Galena before the first of August, settl
his affairs and go to New York, where
position is open for his acceptance. TIL
General has been rendered the presidenc,
of the American branch of the De Lessep
canal company at a salary of $25, 600
this he refused ON the ground that tn
enterprise would not prove a fnancia
success during the lives of those nov
interested in the scheme.
On Wednesday afternoon of last wee
three students who had walked up MI
Washington from the Glen House throug
Tuckerman's ravine, discovered the re
mains of man behind a rock, within
mile of the summit, near the old pat
from Crawford's. They reported tn
fact ON their arrival at the Summit House
and large party went down and mad
an examination. They found skeleto
and part of a suit of wooden clothes, i
the pockets of which was found a poke
book marked sHarry w. HUNTER
printers rule, and printers union ce
tificate of membership, dated Septembe
II, 1874, bearing the same name. Hunte
left the Wiley House, September 8, t
I. ascend the mountain, and nothing we
heard from him after he passed the GRAY
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! reward Of $500 for the recovery of h
! remains.
, Gen. Neal Dow has written lettt
' accepting the nomination for the pres
! dency by the National Prohibitory part,
After commenting at some length on tt
evils of the liquor traffic, and the strengt
| ,acnaofohi1itu of tho 1lrnhihitn1
= movement he concludes as follows:
> consider the object of the Prohibitions
: of this country to be of supreme impo
> lance to the interests of the nation al
people. Aside from its bearing upon tt
, moral and religious welfare Of the peopl
1 consider the suppression of the iqut
/ traffic to be an object of far greater il
n portance than any other now claimir
d the attention of the country. My life h;
d been largely devoted to the accomplis
y ment of that purpose. Perhaps I m;
IL live to see my dearest hopes in relate
l. to it realized, at least in this, my ov
d State. But however this may be, in Il
future as in the past I shall keep tn
object in view. While 1 sincerely wi.
that the choice of a candidate by Il
y Cleveland convention had fallen upt
some other than myself, 1 accept Il
=; = nomination willingly, being sure that
= will prove to be the humble beginnil
of triumphant end.''
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Good Introduction.
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