Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-07-27
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS,

towns for fortnight past.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
The Canadian Parliament has given
General Middleton $4,000 for suppress
ing the Northwest rebellion.
A widespread conspiracy prevails in
Spain. Several of the revolutionists
have recently been captured and condemn
ed to DEATH
The gold fever has struck the town of
Reading, and already fortune hunters are
at work. The rock is said to yield $1s
ton at five feet depth, $40 at seven feet,
and $50 at ten feet.
The first river ctaft ever run by kero-
sene on the Hudson, arrived in Albany re-
Gently. She is capable of making ten to
twelve miles an hour at a cost of thirty
to fifty cents day for fuel.
Mrs. Susie Williams of Atlanta, Ga,
widow, locked her three children up
while she went to a field to work. On
her return she found her house burned to
the ground and nothing left of her chill
dren but their charred remains. In Georg-
ia, within the past six months, forty little
ones have lost their lives in the same
manner.
An attempt was made to blow up a
railroad bridge four miles south ofPlatts-
burg, N. Y, recently. A box was dis
covered on the bridge over the Salmon
| powder and a pistol, to the trigger of
| which was attached a string, so arranged
that the train passing over it, would
cause the pistol to explode. The train
was tagged few minutes after the box
was found.
A few days ago the wife of convict,
who is in penal servitude at Portsmouth,
appeared at the prison to see her husband,
it being the day appointed for him to re-
| ceive visitor. She saw him for half an
hour, and subsequently it transpired that,
being without means, she had walked all
the way from Birmingham expressly for
this interview, had conveyed her child
| Ga cripple of eleven) in perambulator.
The journey occupied 81 days.-Londom
Truth.
All employees on the Baltimore & Ohio
rail road are compelled to join relief as
ISOLATION, which was endowed by the
company with 81 900, 900, and receives an
nually $25, 900 from that source. The
men are assessed, according to their wag
es, from one to five dollars a month, and
they receive in case Of death or accident
from fifty cents day to So cash down.
/ There is also a savings and loan feature,
under which members may acquire homes
of their own.
Asa J. King of Lancaster,a brother-in-
law of Oscar Stanley of Jefferson, N. H.,
the principal sufferer by the recent noun
tain slide, has become a raving maniac.
and was July 22d conveyed to the in
sane asylum at Concord. He first exhib-
tied symptoms of insanity about two
weeks ago, and was being cared for at
his fathers home, one-half mile fIom
Stanley's when the slide occurred, and il
casion, followed as it was by the sad
death of young Walker, who was fatally
injured by the falling timbers of Stan
ley's barn, tended to aggravate the mala.
dy.
| At Nashua, N. H., James Sweeney OF
Manchester, injured by one of Barnum's
elephants, died on the train Sunday morn.
ing, en- route for Keene. The elephant
was shot Monday. The beast was &c
years old, and had lately become vicious
He was chained to four large trees and
the location of his heart and brain mark.
ed with chalk. Thirty-three members OF
the Keene Light Guard marshaled in line
at fifteen PAGES and at the word ''fire'
the same number of bullets penetrated
! the vital spots. The huge beast fell dead
without a struggle. He was valued al
T about $4,000. His remains have beer
|. donated to the Smithsonian Institute
Washington, d. c.
The enrolment of Indians began Tues
day morning last, as appointed. The Ar
J aphoes number 1900 instead of 250O, anC
the Cheyennes will not show over 5000
, people. The Indians offered to give ur
, all their arms and horses to the Commits
, sioner, who refused them because as they
received money they could go to Cald
we'll and buy more. Agent Dyer has ten
dered his resignation, claiming that HI
has not had proper support from the De
partment in enforcing law and order
among refractory Indians. Should his
resignation be accepted and new agent
appointed. it is uncertain whether the In
dians would be obedient to his orders Of
not. The troops are being gradually
withdrawn from here to their proper sta
tions. Troop of Fifth Cavalry has gone
to Fort Supply and A of Twenty-fourtl
Infantry to temporary duty at Canton
, ment. Others will start in day or two
General Howard, commanding the de
partment of the Platte, has returned tt
Omaha from Salt Lake City, in which
place he spent the Fourth of July. II,
says there is great apprehension Their.
over the bad feeling existing between
} Gentiles and Mormons. The situation
] has assumed graver proportions and ha
l been greatly intensified by the insult of
e fered by the Mormons to our flag. Th
e end is not yet, and serious trouble ma,
occur at any hour on the slightest pre-
text. The Gentiles and United State
e soldiers are very indignant. The bitter
h ness of feeling is much greater than tn
public is aware of, as the half has not We
> been told in the published accounts. Ii
anticipation of an outbreak occurring a
S any day the war dedartment has mad
preparations for it. The Mormons il
Salt Lake City are all armed. On the Fourt
l ofJuly they gave evidence of this by free
e ly f1ourishing revolvers in the faces o
S Gentiles and defying and insulting them
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