Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-05-17
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

John Anderson of Falmouth, Me-, gets
Is years in state-prison for rape.
Destructive forest fires are again
sweeping over portions of Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and Long Island.
Prince Leopold. the Queens youngest
son. sailed from Liverpool Thursday in
the steamer Sandman for Montreal
gentleman 10" Rev. Mr.. Dix's New
York prosecutor gets three and a-half
years in state prison for Matchmaking,
The town of Baumholder. in Rhenish
Prussia, has been almost destroyed by
fire. Over 1000 persons are destitute.
An unsuccessful attempt has been
made by cowardly assassin to kill the
Spanish Consul in New York by means
of an Internal machine.
At the London wool sales yesterday
10000 bales were disposed of. princi-
pally Port Philip, Sydney and Queens
land. Prices were firm.
The post office department has about
100000 persons in its employment, d.
rectly or indirectly. or as much as all
the rest Of the government.
A new and dangerous So treasury
note. series of 1875, letter d, is in cir
culation also 500 counterfeits on the
National Eagle Bank of Boston.
Bismarck is about to 90 into the coun-
try. He will return. however, before
the new ecclesiastical measures come up
for discussion in the Prussian Diet.
The Franklin county court has sem
fenced Peter Sherman to two years, for
obstructing the track of the Portland
& Ogdensburg railroad, and Lewis from
bly, for horse stealing, to three years in
the state prison.
The steamship City of Montreal,
of the Inman Line, which arrived from
Liverpool Saturday evening, landed
1918 immigrants at Castle Garden.
This is the largest number brought
over by any one ship since the beginning
of the present rush.
The transactions of the Chicago Call
Board to May show total sales of grain
and provisions during the year amount
ing to $3.50, 1856, 1877, against $l53, $780,
$50 during the previous year; total
grain transactions, Sl99, 403.l total
transactions in provisions, SSl, 452, 966
an increase in the former over the
previous year of $112,2l6,487, and in
| the latter of so SOS h7o
The M. E. General Conference at
Cincinnati Wednesday elected the fol-
lowing Bishops: Rev. Cyrus D. Foss,
d. d., Lii. d. President of Wesleyan
University, Middletown. Conn. Rev.
John T. Hurst. President of the Drew
Theological Seminary, Madison, n j.;
DIR. E. o. Haven. Chancellor of Syracuse
University; and Rev. Henry W. Warren,
d. D. of Philadelphia.
A thorough investigation into the af-
fairs of the First national bank of Au-
gusta, Me-, has revealed the fact that
the late cashier, Israel Boothby, who
committed suicide February 8, was a
defaulter for over $4,000, and his en-
bezzlements extend over period of
eight years. Mr. Boothby's bond was
for $4,000. The bank has a large
reserve fund and is financially all right.
The reuenue-cutter Thomas Corwin is
anchored in the stream at San Francisco
ready to sail for the Arctic regions in
search of Benefits vessel, the Jeanette,
and the missing whalers. The cutter
has been thoroughly overhauled and
fitted with every appliance experience
suggests for the voyage. The captain
expects to be gone some four months,
and will search the sea in the vicinity
of Wrangleslaand, and, if possible ex-
plore the unknown country also.
Extravaganza in dress is very marked
in New York this season. 1t exceeds
the flush days of the war. "l've beer
dressmaking for twenty years, but never
did put scissors into SO much rich ma
terial or lay eyes on such magnificent
trimmings" said fashionable modiste
few days ago, and others IN the same
business report like experience. In
fact, such goods were never before i'm.
ported. Some of the passementerie
trimmings of cashmere and rainbow
beads range in prices as high as S35
ami $40 yard, with fringes to match
in richness.