Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-09-04
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


public debt for the month of August, is
about SIG, 100000.
The new dormitory at Williams College |
was damaged by an accident on Thursday
to the extent of $500.
The yellow fever is reported as spread
ing at Brownsville, Texas. There were |
sixty-two new cases on Thursday and |
two deaths.
Judge Richard G. L. Moncure, president |
of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals,
died on Friday at his house in Stafford |
county, Va, aged seventy-seven years.
The Erie Railway elevator at Buffalo
was burned by an explosion late Thurs
day night, causing loss of $225,000. At
least four lives were lost.
Mrs. Martha Doremus, widow of the
late Henry Doremus, died at her home in
Patterson, N. j., on recent Sunday,
aged ninety years-it being her birth
day.
The work of assigning the new three
per cent bonds will begin at the treasury
department to-day. The amount already
offered for exchange is estimated at $780,
O0O, 900.
William Toole, his son, Judge Toole,
and Horace Donnelly, grocer, QUARREL
ed about the word ''inventory" Wednes-
day at st. Joseph, Mo. Donnelly was IA
tally shot.
Mrs. Thomas Chapman of Worthington,
Ind, who has been insane for some time
cut her husbands throat Friday night, as
she learned that it was the intention to
take her to the asylum.
A waterspout on the oath inst. caused
the head of Bosque creek, above Stephen
vile, Tex, to overflow, destroying prop
erty amounting from $4,000 to 600, 900.
A woman was drowned.
A mob at Augusta, Maine, on Saturday
attacked the sheriff while he was carting
off q quantity of seized liquor and injured
several persons, besides making way
with quantity of beer.
The total exports of petroleum and pc
during the the twelve months ending June
Both last, were valued at S51, 232, FOG,
against $40, 3l5, 900 during the previous
fiscal year.
Ex-Governor Sprague has garrisoned
Canonchet with number of armed men,
and on Friday, when the trustee of the
estate sought to deliver this part of it to
Mr.. Moulton, who bought the property at
auction recently, he was not permitted to
take possession.
Railway employees, according to Poors
Manual, number 100000 in this coun,,
| try, with 400 900 at work on railroad con-
struction, or 1,6000,O00 in all, larger and
| better paid army than were ever under
| arms during the war on both sides. This
calculation is, however. at the rate of
! twelve men to the operated mile
| Gov. Porter of Indiana expresses his
conviction that the Republicans will car
! ry that state. He says that the detection
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of German Republicans is not nearly as
| large as represented, and on the other
hand there are considerable accessions
from the democratic and temperance
ranks.
Electricity escaped one day last week
from electric-light wires under Nassau
street, New York and horses were Gu
riously affected in passing the spot.
Some danced, some kicked, some went
down upon their knees, and one steed ran
away. When the current was shut of
the trouble ceased.
A fire which broke out in paint shop
in Main street, Keeseville, N. Y, destroy
| ed the Adirondack Hotel, Nollette House
Association Hall, the Matthews stone
total loss is estimated at 100000. Thu
fire is supposed to have originated from
spontaneous combustion in pile of rags
Letter has been received at the Wa
Department from Major Sumner, com
n,anding at Fort Robinson, Neb.. to tn
effect that Red Cloud has given the Indi
an Department sixty days notice, il
which time he wants an investigation AM
the agent removed, or he will, with hi
followers, put agent off by force, and tn
Department must be responsible if a
outbreak follows. Red Cloud, he says,
cool but determined; has quite a follow
ing, which is daily increasing.
Minister Hunt at st. Petersburg telt
graphs that Lieutenant Berry, of th
Rodgers, and ef-Engineer Melville an
: Noros, of the Jeanette crew left st. Pe
tersburg Thursday for Liverpool via Bel
, lin, where they will be joined by Nindel
man, another one of the survivors of til
, Jeanette Metallic collins are to be ser
via Hull and ST. Petersburg, for the d,
l post of the bodies of Lieut.. De Long an
his companions of the Jeanette who pc
Y ished with him, and the remains win
brought to America.
GALVESTON, Tex, Aug. 81. A speci
dispatch to the Nears from Matamor:
n says: There is no change in the epideI
+ ic here. The cases are more scattering
There are 200 cases of fever in the cit
:, Ten to fifteen new cases are report,
II during the "a hours ending at Il.
q yesterday. There were seven deaths, s
II of fever, yesterday. The Mexican gu
# boat Indepencia has arrived, with &c
Cuella on board, who brings $1,000
the sufferers. Gen. Gonzales has tel
. graphed $500 for the sick.
J. THE NATIONS CHARAcTERIsTIcs.-Shrew a
7 Incredibly the predominant charteistics of
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