Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-18
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


1t is estimated that at least 1000 peo-
pie in Dakota have been driven from
their home by the flood.
Mrs. Fletcher, the spiritualistic hum
bug who defrauded London lady, was
Tuesday sentenced to one years impris-
onment.
Mrs. Charles Ballou of Saranac, Mich,
known as the Mammoth Queen, is dead
Her weight was $40 pounds when on ex-
hibition.
The long-contested fight among -four
dealers of Ottawa has ended in a peace |
policy, and -four has advanced twenty
cents on all grades.
Mrs. Oswald Ottendorfer, the wife of
the editor of the State Zeitung, has do
mated $685. 900 to the promotion of the
German school system.
The will of Thomas Carlyle gives the
books he used in writing the lives of
Frederick the Great and Oliver Cromwell
to Harvard University.
Edward O'Donnell, Fenian, recently
arrived at New York, confesses that he
was the originator of the plot to blow up
the Mansion House in London.
The young lady of Iowa City who has
been trying to end her life by starvation
her succeeded, dying Monday night. She
abstained from food forty-seven days.
The decrease in the amount of pork
and beef packed at the West the past
year is 81 100000 pounds over the pre-
vious year; the falling off in lard is 49,
800, 900 pounds.
President Garfield has been formally
invited to be present at the National
| Teachers Institute to be held at st. AL
bans in July, and it is thought he will ac-
| cept though no definite answer has yet
been given.
A woman giving the name of Mrs. Will
son, hailing from Galveston, Texas, re-
covered her child at North Adams, Tues
day, for whom she had been searching
three years. The child was carried off
by her father.
The secretary of the treasury has is
sued a circular announcing his refund
ing policy. He called in all the 6per cents,
and proposes to holders on their option
to extend them at 3 - per cent interest
or to extinguiSh the debt by full payment
A. w. Cheever, editor of the Ne11 En-
gland Farmer, has herd of ''James
towns" the name of a new breed of cattle
: coming from a union of the Suffolk anC
Jersey breeds, whose annual production
: of butter for the last six years has beer
t 21O, 255, 266, 261, 256 and 265 pounds pc
cow
An electric shock is the punishment in
fiicted upon those who commit infraction
: of the rules in the Ohio State Prison.
is not heavy enough to endanger life, We
i it is pretty severe. Some of the me
o rather like it, and frequently break tn
rules to obtain good shock. 1t answer
g the purpose of drunken spree.
: SEQ, April 13.-The latest return
state that 5000 persons were killed an
= 1000 injured by the recent earthquake:
: The locality which suffered the most wa
30 Nevita, where 1920 were killed. TIL
violent shock which occurred on Monda
L. caused the surface OF the ground to sui
d side thirty-nine inches. Great number
" of the inhabitants are emigrating.
~ Heretofore the weather bureau
+ Washington has been sending out dali
nc reports giving the indications for tt
succeeding twenty-four hours. The of
GERS have been constantly in the receil
of requests that reports should be SCI
- out with indications covering a larg'
- period, and it has now been decided
- give, with the daily reports, the indie
~ tions for the next two or three days. TIL
experimentation it is really that-will
- watched with interest, and, if successf
will prove of great advantage to the col
y munity.
y Methodist Episcopal denomination, al
:" missions outside of conferences; itinera
~ preachers, 1906; local preachers, l:
'o sos; lay members in full conectio
IL 1854, los; practitioners, 1857. If t.
deaths are added, which were 81, 294, al
Oh other net losses-from removals, decle
nd sion, Withdrawals, transfers to 9th
at churches, etc., amounting to twice
g, many more, perhaps, the total increase
he membership would be about 100000 pr
es- sons who have been brought into t
". church connection during 1880.
The floods at Seville, Spain, have do
ed a great deal of damage. Three subur
st, and about sixty streets have from one
ed twenty-seven feet of water in them. T
eet people are living in the upper stori'
lse All the valley and country beyond seel
on an immense lake. The tops of tre'
De churches and roofs appear above the v
ed tiers, which sweep along cattle and crol
and the river is five miles broad before
&C. enters Seville. The authorities alrea
ots estimate the loss at Seville to be oN
red 81, 900, 900, and in the country districts
ng is impossible to make any estimates
26 present.
zes A terrible state of affairs exists in Pc
st, A war of races has broken out in the V
for ley of the Canete, where more than t
ar. thousand Cinnamon have been barbara
ly murdered by the negroes and Chol
- On one plantation six hundred inoffens
men have been murdered in cold blo
49, All Canfeld's sugar-houses, machine
a., etc., have been burned and destroyed, "a
- property to the value of millions has bt
- wrecked by these miscreants. All f
e eigners have fled from the valley, VIII