Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-01-31

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Cephas B. Towne of Littleton was killed
Wednesday at Carol by pulley bursting
in III. e. Richardson's mill.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is an extract of the
best remedies of the vegetable kingdom
known as Alternatives, and Blood Purifiers.
The United States Senate has disposed |
of the Ben Holiday claim by voting him
$4,000 instead of 1926, 76O, the amount
he sought.
After the prosperous season of 1861 the |
tonnage of the Erie Canal gradually de- |
Creased until 1876, when the amount was |
1,745,320 tons. Last year it was $780, |
300 tons.
1t is reported that Sitting Bull, with |
less than three hundred followers, has
crossed the line and is now in Canada.
The estimate of followers includes men.
women, and children.
At Woodruff, N. j., boy was killed
while coasting, through collision. His
sled struck a stump, and he was thrown
over bridge to the ice twenty feet be-
low, dying in few moments.
A child over year old died in Cam
bridge, Mass, recently of starvation, as
was proved by an autopsy. Its mother,
was trying to support herself and two
children by making shirts at fifty cents
dozen.
An order for IA locomotives has been
given to Philadelphia locomotive man.
ufacturing firm by the Denver and Rio
Grande Railway for the equipment Of its
extension. The total cost will be over
one million dollars.
Petitions bearing 10000 signatures
from nearly all the states, are to be pre-
scented to the house, praying for the re-
peal of the two cent stamp act ON bank
checks, also the repeal of the tax of a
half per cent on bank deposits.
The British government has broken
down in its effort to convict Irish agita-
tors for sedition by the disagreement of
the jury, and the Irish party in the Com
mons has broken down in its effort to OBJ
struct legislation. Both sides to the
quarrel are having their limitations.
Mrs. Hayes hunted up an old sleigh in
the loft of the White House stables the
other day and quietly took sleigh-ride
in the shabby old vehicle on the back
streets of Washington. She loaded up
with small boys before she got home, let
ting them ride on the runners and taking
some of them into the sleigh with herself.
Woodward, the defaulting Cashier OF
the Boston city government, left that city
by rail and without disguise, coming to
st. Adams, and then going into northern
New York, where he fished for two weeks.
He is now thought to be hiding in some
town along the line of the Intercolonial
railroad between ST. John, n. B., and
Moncton. He is reported to have plenty
of money.
Collector Ball, at Sitka, Alaska, has
sent to Washington some very rich speci
mems of gold quartz, and says There art
immense lodges of this ore, and the fret
gold runs all through them, with little
variation in amount from the specimen.
sent. There can be no doubt of its i'm
mense value and richness. 1t is situated
near the coast, where the ice blockade be
gins to break up in April. A party is nov
on the ground building huts, etc., ant
several more parties are fitting out
There are also large placer beds, ant
there is little doubt that there will be
great rush ofminers in the spring. Their
r ought to be law for them by that time.
Shortly after midnight ON Sunday tn
u Atlantic Express train coming east o.
the Erie Railway was wrecked few rod
west of the way station, Tioga Centre
: N. Y, and five miles west of Owego: an
# five men-four postal clerks and one ex
e press messenger-were burned to deaf
S in their cars. The baggage-master an
eleven persons were slightly hurt, an
!. the engine-tender and six cars were burr
:, ed. From some cause or other the trai
Il left the track, the cars were turned owe
q and the postal and express cars were Sc
! ON fire and the four occupants Of the on
and the single occupant of the other WEI
burned to death before help could be rel
- dered them.
u The litigations and controversies b.
Il tween the English stockholders of til
% Emma Mining Company and Baron Graz
of England, and Trenor W. Park and Z
;, HI. Baxter have all been amicably adjus
! ed. The latter parties pay in cash, {
cash options, to the English stockholdel
: of the old Emma company about $500
900, and they transfer to these stool
holders $4,000 out Of the 20, 900 shares
the new Emma company to be formed I
8 work the mine. As the shares are no
5 selling in London at f4 per share, tn
e makes about So, 900, 900 more. Mr.. Pan
gets IL 900 of the new shares, GOVERN
70 the original cost to him of the mine TT
er American parties guaranteed the mine
u be true assure vein, and say it is doir
well. An agent of the English parti,
d. and General Burnett, of the law firm
Il Bristow, Peet, Burnett & Opdyke, ha,
y. started to Utah to examine titles al
lg transfers of the property. So says Il
IN ! Rutland Herald