Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-08-28
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The New York San dominates Roscoe |
Conkling for governor of New York, on
the platform: "Square dealing in pol
tics
The liquor dealers of Chicago, are get
ting into line of battle, for the approach
ing conflict with prohibition. Three
thousand liquor dealers have taken out
licenses this year, 600 more than last
year. When it comes to voting for tenn
perance, 5000 dispensaries of free drinks
will WELD good deal Of political infu
ence.
s-.iIs- ----:r.~ >f tho rJnitnd states
treasury now average about 81 100000,
and the receipts for August will reach an
aggregate Of nearly $50,000,000. The
treasury is now paying out large amounts
on special appropriations, and if it were
not for this, the debt reduction for this
month would be the largest for twenty
years.
Senator Hill, of Atlanta, Ga, died ear
ly on the morning of the 10th inst. from
exhaustion, caused by a cancer from
which he has long suffered severely. His
cheerfulness, even when his suffering was
at its highest, and his resignation, when
he found that death was inevitable, have
been something more than human nature
is accustomed to display.
In the superior court, criminal term, at
Fitchburg, this morning, Michael J.
Whelley of Worcester pleaded guilty of
| rape and was sentenced to state prison
for life. August 10, 1881, he was dis
| charged having served a seven years SEN
tence for the same offense. Joseph ST.
| John of Sutton, was notified that an in
| dictment for the murder of Dollar Varney
of Sutton, had been found and would be
sent to the supreme court.
The White Mountain train from Boston
for Fabyan's with some thirty passengers
on board, was thrown from the track on
Monday afternoon near North Haverhill,
| n. H., by an iron ''chair" which had been
fastened on the track. The engine and
two cars plunged down an embankment,
but without injury to the passengers.
| The engineer saw the obstruction but
thought it was so slight that the engine
would throw it from the track. No
clue to the wreckers has been obtained.
A large number of cases of yellow fe-
yer have occurred in Brownsville, Texas,
but the deaths have not been as numerous
as is usually the case from that disease.
The majority of those stricken by the
fever thus far are Mexicans. On Friday
there were thirty gbt new cases and one
death from the fever, which is said to be
increasing among the Americans. The
disease seems to be on the increase in
Matamoras, though the death rate is more
favorable. There were only three deaths
threre Friday.
In Brazil, larger than the United States
and having a coast line of about 400(
miles, the Presbyterian church is thu
most active Protestant force, having g.
churches and 1929 church members. Thu
Southern Methodists have church il
Rio de Janerio and there are, also, tw'
Baptist churches; but IA of the 90 larg
provinces Of Brazil are entirely destitut
of evangelical teaching. French is spok
en- quite as generally as Portuguese, AM
; the worst class of French literature
: read by the people, 'sThere is more tina
ever" says the San Paulo Report, sob
servable widening of the breach betwee
: Romanism and the reading people, but
tendency to license and unbelief."
! crusade against the lottery agencie
: has been started by the Citizens Associf
i ton. body made up of the leading bus
). ness and professional men of Chicago
+ and having for its object the correction {
l. municipal abuses. A raid was made Fir
e day night on the office of B. T. Moor
S agent of the Louisiana State Lottery, an
e in the safe, which was opened by Moor
d under protest, several thousand lotteI
n tickets were found, and chart shown
d the cipher code in which telegraphic co
le respondence is carried on between Moo
It and the home office. Shapley Brothe
le and J. A. Parks, two separate establis
D. ments, where tickets for the Little Hav
te ma Lottery are sold, were also raided al
arrests were made. Five of the lottel
men were arraigned in the police coul
1t is asserted that the Little Havana Lo
he terry robs the poor of Chicago at the IA
of 81, 200 per week.