Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-01
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

It is rumored that the English Par
Lament is very likely to be dissolved
ere long.
1t is reported that 1900 houses have
been destroyed in Tripoli, Spain, by
the floods.
1t is said that diptheria has carried
off 10000 persons in Central Russia
since last November.
It is said that from eight to ten per-
sons are dying daily from yellow fever
in Rio Janeiro.
Gilman & Co.'S grain elevator at AT
lantic. Iowa, was burned Feb 20, with
10000 bushels of grain.
Edmund Lavoiye. notorious house
breaker, was found dead in his room
on Florence street, Boston. Saturday.
A third of the business portion of
Brewster, N. Y, was destroyed by fire
Tuesday night. The loss is over hun
bred thousand dollars.
A grandson of John G. Calhoun is
bartender at st. Louis. He says he
dosen't like the business, but it is the
best he can do at present
Governor Cornell Thursday signed
bill admitting women to vote for school
officers. New York makes the twelfth
state which has extended this suffrage
! to women.
ST PAUL, MINI, Feb. ga special
dispatch from Fort Buford says: 1.-TWO
men, W. D. Marshall and John O.
Brien, have been killed on the Red
Water by Black Cat Fish's band of
Indians"
Mayor Kalloch spoke to a large au-
dience of workingmen in San Francisco.
Sunday, counselling the use of lawful
means in endevoring to secure the re-
moval of the Chinese.
A little daughter of Mr.. Joseph R
Curtis of Portsmouth. n fl. eight years
old. died on Thursday from the effects
of a fall on the sidewalk some time ago,
when she struck her head on the curb
stone.
HALIFAX, N. s., Feb. 26.-Two hun
dred and eighty ounces of gold were
brought here this week from Montague,
the result of three weeks work. Other
mines in the neighborhood are reported
as doing equally we'll.
President Hayes has issued proclama-
ton in regard to the threatened raid
of white men on Indian Territory, and
warns such adventures that they will
be promptly removed if they attempt to
make such invasion.
The Supreme court Of the District Of
: Columbia has sustained the course Of
| Postmaster-general Key in refusing tc
deliver letters addressed to lottery man.
ayers. The case now goes to the U. S
supreme court
women was brutality murdered or
Sunday near Linden. Texas. The muir
$ derer was captured and confessed his
E crime. His Infatuated captors satura
ted his clothing with kerosene anc
burned him to death.
e The Rev" Mr.. Cowley, convicted o
o brutality treating and starving children
at the shepherds Fold'' in New York
was yesterday sentenced to one year
I imprisonment in the penitentiary and
b fine of S250,-the extreme penalty o
9 the law.
. J. Grant Mitchell, a lawyer of POUCH
. keepsie. N. Y. disappeared some tim
ago under cloud, and was arrested
I day or two ago at Minneapolis. MINI.
II and charged with passing counterfeit
:, $50 gold piece. and taken to St. Paul
y He has wife in Poughkeepsie. and wa
= about to marry another in ST. Paul.
It great fire occurred on Broadway i
~ New York the evening of the 2ls
The building having iron doors an
windows, was accessible only by way {
the roof While party of firema
were cutting hole through the roof
u began to give way. The men retreate
except two who, remaining too long an
ii the roof suddenly giving way. fell int
a. the blazing abyss to be consumed.
The Russian reign of terror shows n
g, change for the better. Supicion is ger
0, eral. and the Government seems |
D. place all its trust in courts-martial an
jails. This was seen on Saturday whe
in at the burning of the Moscow Academ
#, of Forest Culture several students wei
or arrested, apparently as a matter (
course.
It, In consequence of the reports of pr
s. parations for an organized and forcibl
DO possession of lands, known as the India
ng Territory. the President on Friday i
sued proclamation admonishing an
Id warning all such persons against ar
al such attempt. and that any such pc
to sons offending will be speedily and il
re- mediately removed. and if necessal
the aid and assistance of the milital
80 of the United States will be invoked.
at General Grant reached the City
M Mexico Saturday, and was received wi
r. military honors. Among the old
officers of the force which escorted hi
nd to his lodgings there may have be-
err men who fought against him at Cher
NO busco and Moline del Rey, unless.
Ks deed, all such veterans have been kill
to off in the numerous revolutions the cou
try has gone through since Gener
~ Scott conquered it. 1t is pleasant
roc notice with what hearty enthusiast
IF Mexicans are everywhere welcoming t
~ ex-President.