Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-11
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

but once.
An Indiana couple want Sl5,O 900 for
their baby's arm, which was cut off by
locomotive
Two Cleveland girls are making a
pedestrian trip up the st. Lawrence,
carrying only satchels.
The health of Kate Stoddard, the
Goodrich murderess Is rapidly failing
and strenuous endeavors are being made |
to release her on bail.
A dreadful accident occurred at Wiean
last Saturday, to an express train from
London, England. Twelve persons were
Instantly killed and thirty wounded,
many of whom will die.
Frank Donnelly, of White River, Pa,
recently fell while at work near large
circular saw and struck his head against
it. In an instant the whole of his head
above his eyes was cut off
Miss Matte Allen, daughter of the
assessor of Lake county, CAL, put 10
consecutive shots into a bull the
size of silver dollar, at the distance of
so yards, the other day.
A favorite method with sneak thieves.
just now, is to call for the doctor in his !
absence, and wait in his office till lie
returns, appropriating, in the mean-tlme.
any articles of value that may be lying
around loose
A destructive confagration visited
Portland, Oregon, Saturday Aug de-
stroying S1,OO0.OOO worth of property,
on which there was an insurance of
100000. One man was killed and
two others seriously injured
The Charleston Is. CO. Nesos and
Courier says that that city can point
to scores of young men of gentle blood
and excellent education who are making
comfortable livelihood by hard manual
labor. It's just so in Vermont
1t now turns out that the unfortunate
eronaut who was killed in so horrible
manner at Ionia. Michigan was not La
Mountain at all, but was an imposter,
having assumed the name of LaMoun-
tain for the purpose of drawing crowds.
| A Chicago paper asserts that while
an old lady lay i'll with menengitis, at
her home in Laporte, Ind, last week,
her son procured some boards and pro-
ceeded to make a coffin in the same
room. She begged MIN to desist but he
refused and the coffin was about COM
pleted when she died.
i Grosvenor Crockett, of Norway. Me-,
who was sick and delirious, left his bed.
Thursday afternoon of last week, and
wandered into the woods. His wife
attempted to stop him, and, failing.
called assistance, and an unavailing
search was made till dark. The next
morning he was found in the woods dead.
, J. S. West. of Louisville, KY, was
shot and dangerously wounded in a
: horse car by his. wife last Saturday.
She placed pistol against his person
and fired. the shot taking effect in his
e hip. The woman was disarmed by the
, passengers and arrested. The husband
e asserts that she is subject to attacks o.
:. emotional insanity, and went bail fol
her.
!, Boys and girls beware of green apples
: In New York a boy named Archibald
McIntire ate Unfortunately of green apples
e and Peaches on Wednesday night
+ Within an hour he was suffering will
i. terrible cramps IN his stomach. The
) doctors tried to save him, but he passed
e into spasms and commissions, sunk int
V comatose state and red eruptions GOV
i cred him from head to foot. He diet
5. the next morning.
l. The postal cards are finding an enor
nous demand, and the wonder is that
= nation with such sharp scent for tn
:. useful should not have thought out thi
d little convenience and adopted it lon
1t ago. In less than three months tn
ir demand for cards has reached 50,OOO,OOt
< and it is thought that the first year
to business will aggregate 100000 900 a
E. least. The manufactures are now turn
c. ing out from seven to eight hundre
lie thousand daily.
= Senator Carpenter says he can &c
:, :, $4,000 year by practicing law, an
= he thinks congressional services ar
worth as much and this is his pie;
IT, If other senators and representative
a. acted on the same '.opinion," and BIZ
g was passed On system of gauging th
w pay received from government in som
or degree by that received from privat
ri business, and if Vanderbilt or Stewal
a. were in Congress, we might find thel
II. trying to pass bill giving themselvt
u hundred thousand or million dollar
IS. a year.
20 James Morgan, an extensive lumbt
a. dealer at Glen Falls, N. Y, heard h
Il horse kicking in the barn, Thursda
pn night of last week, and got out of be
. to ascertain the cause. Shortly aft
e the barn was discovered in flames an
- before assistance could be procured Il
y barn and its contents were destroye
- After the fire was extinguished scare
~ was made and the remains of Mr.. Mo
~; gan were found burned to crisp. 1t
IN supposed that one of the horse kickt
~ Ia him. and the lantern exploded and e
~. ~ veloped him in the flames.
nj Miss Ella Craft was fearfully mangl'
In by having her dress caught by two 7
of volving shafts in Touring mill whi'
an she was visiting at Beaver Falls, Pa
he last week. The distance between t
ely shafts was only six inches and one-ha
ar but before the machinery could be sto
in ped she had been drawn through th
ate narrow space about 100 times. H
7as limbs were broken, her scalp torn fro
be- her head and her body was badly brui
al ed, but with all this, and serious int
nal injuries faint hopes are entertain
~ of her recoverey.
ian A serious accident occurred at Tarr
ed town, on the Hudson River railroad, Ia