Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-15
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Fast day, April s.

Ian cartridge factory last January, kill
ing twenty-four men.
Hon. E. B. Washburne, when a bow,
worked one year in a printing office.
That explains it.
A new spurious half dollar is in cir
culation, one side of which is genuine
and the other counterfeit.
Six persons were killed and thirty
wounded in Glasgow, Friday, by a
boiler explosion.
A fre-damp explosion Friday in
mine at East Nanticoke. Pa, and it is
supposed nine persons were killed.
The steamer Massachusetts,, from
Boston to Liverpool, lost overheard on
her last trip 70 head of cattle.
Sir G. W.Oakley of Trittenden, Eng
land. takes the prize for cucumbers.
He has raised one five feet in length
and foot in diameter.
A flood on the river Vistula, on the :
Austro Russian frontier, inundated
thirty villages and rendered thousands
Va PSVPAO AOLhOACoos
Gen. Mcdowell, who is in command
in San Francisco, has concentrated two
companies of artillery and infantry
there for the preservation of order.
Mississippi planters, it it said, con-
template introducing Chinese laborers
on the plantations to take the place of
the colored people who have emigrated.
A Montana paper states that the low
er Yellow stone valley is literally black
with large herds Of buffalo, which are
being slaughtered by the wholesale for
their hides.
They clasm to have living man in
San Francisco whose brain has been
removed. He is not much worse off
than some of the residents of the Allan
tic Coast.
The temperance people of Maine find
the club-houses the most difficult drink
ing resorts to break up. and the senate
has just passed bill declaring such
place common nuisance.
Respectable citizens of San Francisco
are organizing vigilance committee,
with the view of dealing promptly and
efectually with the ruffians who infest
that city, should they commit any overt
act.
The President has sent to Congress a
message on the canal question, in which
he takes strong ground against permit
ting any foreign government, directly
or indirectly, to control canal connect
ing the two oceans.
A Boston man claims to have discov-
cred method of making paper boxes
directly from the pulp, whereby he can
turn out 10000 day at one third of
the cost of the usual method.
Maine lumbermen just from the log
ging camps report three feet of snow and
excellent shedding. They say that this
has been the best winter for hauling
logs in Maine for number of years.
Bismarck, Dakota, has received nc
mail since February 9th, the Northern
Pacific having been blockaded by repeat
ed falls of snow. 1t is reported that the
road has lost over 100000 and bust.
ness men 100000 by the blockade.
A gang of burglars broke into Dacy's
block in Woodstock, H., Saturday
blew up the safe with nitro-glycerine
robbed it of its contents, and ther
burned the building and escaped. Thu
loss is $4,000.
H. B. Clafin & Co. of New York
have discovered that two of their EN-
ployes and couple of outsiders hav
been Systematically robbing the store o
valuable goods. The total amount o
their thefts is placed at about $40, 00O.
LONDON. March 9.-The Times say
it is stated that. on the return from
America of Parnell, monster meetings il
favor of his scheme for peasant pro
prietary will be resumed, by series o
county demonstrations in all parts o
Ireland.
BRISTOL, Me-, March 6.-Cumming
Sleeper of Alexandria, N. H., a middl
aged man, noted as quarrelsome fellow
fell down stairs when intoxicated, Will
on visit to Grafton, and broke hi
, neck. from effect of which he died OIL
Thursday.
John Cox. the Pennsylvania abolition
{ list, whose house before the war some
times concealed as many as twenty run
away slaves in one night, and who's
golden wedding was celebrated in vers
by Whittier and Bayard Taylor, ha
just died at the age of ninety-four.
SAN Francisco. March 8.-The ez
: element is increasing here on account o
! the Chinese, but the authorities are tax
ing additional precautionary measures
, The clandestine removal and concentra
r ton of the arms of the militia ha
caused much speculation, especiall
/. among the workingmen.
M. De Lesseps appeared before tn
committee of inter-oceanic canal route
Monday, March 8, and urged the supe
: riority of the Panama route over an
! other, declaring that canal could b
!. constructed at comparatively small COS
: which would be available for steam
!, ships without lift of tide locks of an
n sort.
y At Wheeling, West Virginia, Satul
J day. March 6, about twenty prisoner
: confined in the work-house, mutiniec
and, attaching the guard, escaped frol
:, custody. During the attack several {
o the prisoners we're handling Frank MI
= Sherry, one of the guards, pretty rougl
It ly, and in self-defense he pulled r.
IS volver and fired, the ball missing b
y assailaints and striking Patrick Dale,
p an offensive prisoner, in the abdomen
d killing him instantly.
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