Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-02
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Allegheny county, Pa, has paid the
Reading Railroad Co. Sl,OOO,OOO, for
damages by the riots.
A recent flood at st. kits, West In
dia Islands, destroyed two hundred lives
and did great damage to property.
Vice President Wheeler has sent the
Presbyterian Church at Malone, N. Y,
of which he is member, a check for
$1,000.
A party of boys at Providence on
Monday went playing on the ice on Ran
dall's pond, where three broke through
the ice and two were drowned, one be-
ing saved.
Mr.. J. G. Flood, the California min
ing king. has just bestowed $2,5OO000
in United States registered bonds on his
daughter Miss Jennie Flood. This gift
provides for her an income of 100000
year.
The house of Chas. Brown, at Wind
sor, Conn.,, was burned early Saturday
morning Brown, aged 70, was burned
to death. 1t is supposed he set fire to
the house while intoxicated.
Over 600 paintings, the works of dis
tinguished artists of the sixteeth CEN
fury, have been discovered in govern
ment buildings in Florence, and are to
he placed in the Ufizi gallery.
Preston Wood, editor of the Claren-
don Press, Columbia, S. c., and the son
of a distinguished Methodist preacher,
blew out his brains on Thursday, be-
cause beautiful Jewess refused to mar
ry him.
The charges against the Indian bu-
reau management. which have created
SO much talk lately, have at last been
brought to the attention of Congress,
and the Senate has ordered an investi-
cation.
Club and society circles in London
are greatly shocked by report that the
Prince of Wales's two sons, Prime George
and Prince Albert Victor. who are serv-
ing on board a man-of-war, have been
tattooed on the nose with India ink.
A special despatch from Trinidad,
Colorado. says that several hundred cow
boys from Panhandle, Texas, are said
to be camped between there and Los
Vegas Fifteen entered Los Vegas
Thursday night, killed the city Marshal
and two citizens, and wounded FIVE 9TH
ers.
The mild winter has caused the peo-
pie all though the interior of Mississippi
to lose much of their sailed pork. They
have had no such winter for many years.
The loss from spoiled bacon will be a
large one. Reports came of the same
disaster having overtaken the planters
in portions of Alabama and Georgia.
Almost unprecedented foods in theCau-
ca valley, New Grenada, have destroyed
seueral small villages, some lives. and
about $l,000,000 worth of property.
The cocoa farmers had to gather their
crops in boats, carrying arms to defend
themselves against immense snakes
which, swept down the valley, had taken
refuge in the cocoa trees.
On Thursday night at Los Vegas
New Mexico, James West, William Ran.
E dali and others roughs rode.into town t1
kill Marshal Carson. They found hin
at saloon and fired at him, hitting hin
, FIVE times. He emptied his revolver al
them. firing until he died. killing both
West and Randall. Several persons
were wounded by stray shots, some o.
whom will probably die. The rest o.
:, the gang fed.
. For the purpose of completing The
. statistical records of the Western An
Jacksonville Survivors ASSOCIATION, al
,, who during the war of the rebellion were
!, prisoners of war in any rebel prison ar,
, requested to report their postcffice ad
= dress. company, regiment, date of cap
ture and release, to the secretary of thu
Andersonville Survivors Association
: No. 100 East Randolph street, Chicago
r Ill.
The Claremont Manufacturing Com
pany's paper mill, the main building o
} which was burned down last Wednes
: day morning, will be rebuilt. The los
I figures up to about $4,000, with al
! insurance of $4,000. They also sustain
ed loss by fire last year of about S. O.,
900. Just at this time the loss to thei
I, business is heavy, as they were unabl
y to manufacture paper enough to fill or
: ders. One order for 100 tons was re
ceived the day before the fire.
( G. f. Glynn. whose sudden disappear
a ance and seeming financial crookednes
. created a scandal at Saxton's River ear
!, ~ last summer, is now located at Der
yer. Colorado. whence he has just writ
ten to his creditors inclosing dividen
: of ten per cent. of their claims, and il
5 dicating that he will pay the balance a
: soon as possible. He also states tina
~ he has paid IN full some of his debts
! and says: IL feel it no less a duty t.
pay those who have signed off in full
than others.
$ A St. Louis despatch says: Negro en-
"a igration from the South has set in agar
The emigrants have all some money
and come chiefly from East Baton Rouge
: La, Washington county and Grenada
- Miss. Those who have arrived say ther
are hordes to come. A colored man
= acting as agent, has sent to the relic
= committee list of 900 families whol
= he says he wishes to come North With
! a few days. Some seven hundred in
~ migrants have reached St. Louis an
= about three hundred are now in the cit
: waiting to go on.
& Dispatches from St. Petersburgh civ
details of the recent arrests in Moscoy
:. The secret police first discovered d
~ =. pository of the revolutionary proclaim;
- :. ton, a large quantity of dynamite an
= some electric batteries. From the pr