Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-07-20
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A safe belonging to E. A. Jones, of
NARROW, N. H., was blown open re-
Gently and robbed of $500.
The number of new cases of cholera in
the whole of Spain the 14th inst. was
1869. The number of deaths from the
disease was 673.
The Worlds Exposition's plant, build
ings and machinery at New Orleans were
sold at auction Monday for $275,OOO.
They were bid in by Mr.. Newman, but
were probably purchased for the new ex-
position company.
In the United States Court cases of
Daniel Roberts, Receiver, against Albert
and E. A. Sowles, the report of the Clerk
was accepted, and judgment was entered
against the former for $9,79O.1O and
against the latter for 1874, 7S6.1O.
A mysterious epidemic has broken out
in various parts of Portugal. The victims
are attacked without warning, and die
within a few minutes of seizure. The
disease is mystery to doctors, who as
yet have found no effective way of COM
batting it.
Mrs. Ole Bull will be at Lancaster this
summer; Virginia Townsend will spend
the summer at Jefferson; John G. Whit
tier will return to his old haunts at Hold
erness, and Joseph Pulitzer, editor of the
New Yorn World, will occupy cottage
at Jackson.
Luther X. Bruce, druggist, shot and
killed j. G. Lentz, a justice of the peace,
at Douglas, Illinois, on Thursday. The
trouble grew out of an attempt to sup
press the liquor traffic, Lentz being a
strong temperance man and Bruce an ac-
tive supporter of the whiskey cause
The Burch stables, with twenty-three
horses and number Of carriages and the
Gray piano factory, at Albany, N. Y,
were burned on the night of the 18th inst.
During the fire four firemen were buried
under falling wall of the factory. Two
were killed and the other two seriously
| injured.
Dynamite to the amount of 800, 900 lbs.
is to be exploded in October, but its task
is the comparatively peaceful one of break
| ing up the nine acres of rock which form a
troublesome reef at He'll Gate. The ex-
| plosive is to be deposited in nearly IA, 900
charges, along galleries more than four
| miles in length.
A fire on the 9Th inst, at Stoughton
| Wis, burned ten out of thirteen large to-
bacco warehouses there, the st. Paul de-
pot and twenty freight cars laden with
timated at 100000. The warehouses
were owned by New York and Philadel-
pbia tobacco houses.
One hundred fifty carpenters, painters
| and upholstererS are now at work finish
| ing the new Glen House at the base of Mt.
| Washington, on the site of the hotel de-
stroyed by fire last fall. 1t is i'm the
| Queen Anne style, provided with elevator,
very deliberately furnished, and will be
open to the public July Goth.
Louis Rel was formally handed over
by the military authorities at Regina, N.
w. t., last Monday evening. Stipendia-
| ry Magistrate Richardson read the in
dictment, consisting of six counts, to
Riel, who was remanded till the 20 inst.
for trial. Only the escort of officials and
counsel for the crown were present. Riel
looked healthy and quiet self-posed.
A man named Chaplin from New Jersey
| with u partner from Brandon, has been
searching for a cannon, which tradition
says the British army, fearful of sur
prise from the enemy, filled with gold
and sunk in the creek near Comstocks,
Washington county, N. Y, in 1777. A
professional diver from BOSTON has been
at work since last week. There seem to
be about three feet of dirt over the can
non, which lies in water Is feet deep, and
is covered with old logs and other debris.
War rumors are again beginning to pre-
vail in Europe. Russia is said to he be.
coming more and more beligerent. These
rumors haVe probably as much of polit-
ical as of military origin. The Sails
bury ministry will not dare to commit
England to a war with Russia, and Bis
marck is unlikely to permit a struggle,
if he can prevent it, which might bring
on a general European contest. There
! may be a little Tory bluff and braggado.
clio for effect on the English hustings, but
nothing of really sanguinary nature will
emanate from the new Tory ministers.
Twelve hundred strikers from the iror
mills at Newburgh, O., last week Tues
day marched into Cleveland, and visited
the Chisholm shovel works. The striker.
forced the workmen out, and closed tn,
factory. They then proceeded to TIL.
Union screw works, but were refused ad
mittance, whereupon they broke in tn,
windows, and forcibly took possession o
the place. The workmen quit, rattle
than have a riot, and the establishment
was closed. Several men were badl,
hurt by STONES. The screw works ar
partly owned by Ghisholms, and the mol
carried everything before them. Tn
doors were battered down by heavy piec
es Of timber, and car pins were dashe,
through the windows. Fayette Brown
President of the company, was struck o.
the bead with club, apd quite seriousl,
injured. Girls employed in the gackip.
rooms tainted, and orders were given +,
stop the engines and quit work,