Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-11-29
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

insane asylum fire numbers 49,
A heavy snow storm prevailed Nov. II,
in Little Rock, Ark, and in st. Louis.
1t is said that the gale on Lake Ontario !
Sunday, Nov. 81, was the most severe
ever experienced there.
The number of the lost by the Foord
Pit disaster at Stedarton, N. S., is now
definitely placed at forty-one.
Four men were killed and four wounded
seriously by boiler explosion in saw
and grist mill, Nov. 10, near Stevenson,
Alabama.
The Hudson river is closed by ice from
Albany to Hudson. The river steamers
are mainly laid up or have been stopped
by the ice.
Hart (Rep.) was elected mayor of Chat
tanooga, Tenn, Nov. Is, by 1T majority,
and two republican aldermen out of five
were elected.
At Napa, CAL, Nov. %, two children of
Chas. Bochringer were burned to death
while locked in the house during their
parents absence.
The conviction of Moet, the Taghka-
nick, N. Y, wife murderer, has been
affirmed, and he will be re-sentenced at
the January term to be hanged.
Vitriol exploded on Saturday, Nov. 20,
in the drug warehouse of Lord Stouten-
burgh & Co., Chicago, and set the estab-
lishment on fire; loss, $4,000.
|. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, Colonel of the
Fifth United States Infantry, has been
appointed to succeed the late Gen Myer
as Chief Signal Officer of the Army
| Secretary Evarts says the provisions Of
| the Chinese treaty are perfectly satisfac-
tory, and thoroughly control the subject
Of Chinese immigration into this country.
Two hundred and twenty-six street
lamps at Providence, R. l., which extend
over distance of nine miles, are now
extinguished by electricity by one man.
Arsenic was used by mistake for soda
in making cake for wedding party near
Kingston, Tenn, recently. Five persons
have since died and thirty are seriously
ill.
John c. Calhoun, nephew of the late
South Carolina senator, is insane and i'm
AGNES himself Jesus Christ. A wound
received in the war is the cause of his
insanity.
Good waterproof varnish may be made
by dissolving one ounce of India rubber
to jelly in one pint of turpentine; then
add one pint of linseed oil and mix over
a slow fire.
Bedford and Queenan, two colored men
were executed at Washington, Nov 10,
for murder. Both protested their inno-
cence to the last and doubt is expressed
as to their guilt.
Frederick Hunt and Stillman Williams
were sentenced at Chicago, by Judge
Blodgett, to two years each in the peni
Tertiary for forging army discharges will
, the intent to draw soldiers pay.
: On November l, 1880, the estimated
amount of gold and silver coin and bull
lion in the United States was as follows
Gold, $454, 012,0 silver, $139, 271, 1927
total gold and silver, $6l2, 283,357.
The first Church of Boston on the after
noon and evening of Nov. Is celebrate,
e its 25oth anniversary. Addresses wer
| nv nr
Long, the Presidents of Harvard AM
Yale and others.
The Canada Pacific Railroad syndicat
are about to establish at Montreal a.
immigration bureau similar to that i
e New York, for Canada, in view of tn
e large immigration expected next year t
/ the Northwest.
James O'Brien, alias Robert Lindsay
e one of the witnesses furnished by til
n Democratic National Committee to prov
e the authenticity of the Morey letter, 0
+ Wednesday confessed to perjury and wa
remanded for sentence.
, Indian Commissioner Meacham wa
e arrested at Denver, Col, Saturday ever
n ing, Nov. 90, charged with being acce.
e. sorry to the murder of young Jackson, I'll
ic teamster who several weeks ago shot
Ute and was mysteriously killed 500
after.
t. Gen. Francis A. Walker, Superintendent
r. of the Census Bureau, has published h
t. report on the alleged census frauds
&c South Carolina, in which he decides tn
v, no wide attempt to report fraudulent T
turns is evident, and that the returns a
in the main correct.
N A statement is made showing the e
- penditureS on account of the war of Il
. rebellion chargeable to appropriations
!; the books of the office of the Second
r. ditor of the Treasury. The amount di
~ bursed on account of said war up to Jul
\ 20, 1879, was $1,558, 1873, 343.sS
The Dominion line steamer Montre;
u for Liverpool, went to sea on the 16
'e' through the jetties with the largest car
III ever taken from New Orleans, consisti
~ of $500 bales of cotton, 1868 bushels
" corn and 1000 packages of miscellaneo
~ cargo, the total being equivalent in br
'"' to 1865 bales of cotton.
to
he A man employed as Waterman
on Cleveland, o., returned home on
morning of Nov. II, and found one
his children dead, and his wife and thu
III other children and two visitors in co
ny atose condition from the effects of CT
ao gas, which had escaped from base bul
eo er stove. 1t is believed that all but Q
~ will die.
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Lanier of the upper passes of the Lou