Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-05-05
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

ton. with directions to take teaspoon
full every three years. The patient re-
covered.
Four young men went out sailing
from Albany, N. Y, ON Sunday, their
boat collided with canal boat and the
young men were drowned.
Owing to the troubled condition of
Spain, a great number of families are
leaving the country. The steamers ar
irving at London and at French ports are
crowded with refugees.
Kerosene kindling wood burned
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, woman to death,
Monday of last week, and permanently
disabled her husband, who tried to save
her.
Edward Callahan, of Worcester, 10
years old, was killed by freight train
on the Providence and Worcester rail-
road, Saturday.
William Allen, a carpenter, aged %,
fell from a staging on a three story
house at Fall River, Mass, and struck
upon his head, killing him instantly.
A boy named Frank Emerson commit
ted suicide in Exeter, N. H., Wednes-
day of last week, by hanging himself in
the cellar of his father house.
A laborer engaged in grading the rail-
road near Toledo, unearthed a twenty
dollar gold piece, and the company got
a full quarter of mile of grading done
gratis by excited treasure hunters
A Georgia clairvoyant revealed the
Whereabouts of $4,000 recently stolen
in Savannah, and the ungrateful owner
promptly had her arrested for the theft.
And she confessed her guilt, too.
Several deaths are mentioned in New
Hampshire papers, as occurring from
cerebro-spinal meningitis. This disease
has prevailed in Boston for several
weeks, and somewhat fatally so, too.
Recorder Hackett of the Court of Gen
eral Sessions in New York city has re
ceived through the mail letter threat
ening him with death in case he again
sentences prisoners to long terms of i'm
prisonment.
The jury, that embodiment of wis
dom, have decided in case lately tried
at Keene, N. H.. that beef at one dollar
pound is as cheap as lawyers charges.
That ought to depend on the quality.
Mrs. David W. Simonds, of Charles
town, Mass, had an unusually heavy
quarrel with married daughter, last
Friday, and at the conclusion cut her
own throat so that she will probably die
As construction train on the Della.
ware, Lackawana and Western railroad
was passing Little Falls. n j., last Fri
day, a number of rails on a car swung
round, killing John Shannahan and in,
juring five other men. Shannahan leaves
a wife aud seven children.
The dry house of Osgood Bradley
car mandatory at Worcester, Mass.
was burned. and the cabinet shop in
connection partially destroyed last Fri
day afternoon, including lot of valua
BILE lumber. Loss $4,000; insured fol
$4,000.
Elizur w. Williams, of Hartford, CT.
well known tailor. hung himself to &
bedpost Thursday of last week. Wher
found life was extinct. Fancied bust
ness troubles, and consequent desponden
cy caused the deed. His age was So.
A heavy frost visited certain portions
of North Carolina and Tennessee FRIDAY
night, and seems to have greatly dam
aged vegetation and the fruit crop
+ throughout the eastern and western
counties. The cotton thus far planted
: is considered ruined.
| The Mississippi Legislature adjourn
S ed on the 10Th, to the popular satisfac
| ton. Much praise is given to tn
G Speaker, John Ii. Lynch, who though
e born slave has educated himself, and i
now member of Congress elect.
]. TERRIBLE Loss.-During the month
: of January, February and March, forty
2 three vessels, all belonging to the singh
: port of Boston, were lost. This loss i
e said to be unprecedented in the ANIMAL
| of American commerce In the month
e of January and February $50 sea goin
e vessels were lost
e Gen. Grant is now out West. H
n went out there to visit his farm near ST
!, Louis-where he lately suffered los
of buildings by fire, but has gone be
: yond, and will have chance to lear
something of the Indian troubles. II
f was to be at Omaha, Nebraska, on hi
n homeward trip, the first of last week.
e The New Orleans Ptcayune, havin
% refused to pay its taxes to the kellogg
/. collector, has been notified that its type.
= presses, etc., will be sold at auctio
= within ten days. 1t prints virulen
o double loaded leader abusing "Radica
e carpet baggers and scalawags," an
r prophesying that it will yet be the il
1t strument of their overthrow.
: Two workmen in the yard of th
u Portland aims house had quarrel las
Friday morning, in which John Ware
a. struck Michael Sullivan backhande
o blow that laid him dead at his feet. II
Is feeling had existed between them fl
st some time past, caused by a woman wi
IN is an inmate of the work-house.
y The remarkable steps now being Ia
i en- by the Western States to secure Il
Of proper national recognition of Westel
~ interests, are commanding general atte
v ton. The West is beginning to asse
20 its rights, if not its authority. The ce
4 sus returns surprise even Western ms
70 with the proofs of the growth and streng
J. of their section. and particularly wi
e. the demonstrations of what their streng
y will be at the next census
9 A terrible tragedy occurred at Edg
sn worth. village in Maiden, Mass, We
T. nesday of last week. Mark Boothby,
y carpenter, was in a drinking saloo
Sn when his wife came for him, and he a