Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-11-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


years. sailed for England Saturday.
Charles IL. Hickey of Calais. Maine,
suicide on Monday by cutting
seven gashes in his throat with pen
knife.
A female doctor. dressed in boomers,
was chased out of jamestown. Pennsyl-
vania, the other day, not so much on
high moral grounds as because she wore
No. boots.
The stockholders of the new Globe
theatre at Boston will draw for seats next
Thursday, the building being nearly COM
pleted,
The Boston board of aldermen, Mon
day evening, appropriated $4,000 to pro-
vide for the distribution of soup to the
poor during the coming winter.
A Calais, Maine, man boasts that he
made the best rife shot. He recently
fired at dog in the night, being direct
ed only by his bark, and hit him IN the
throat.
The dwelling house and barn of David
b. West, in Taunton, Massachusetts,
were destroyed by an incendiary fire
Tuesday moraing. Loss $500; insured
sI700.
Monday morning. while two French
men, named Sabine and Brooks, were
gathering driftwood at Biddleford, Maine
their boat was overturned. and Brooks,
II wears old. was drowned
The steam tug Lily exploded her
boilers Tuesday near the government
works at He'll Gate, killing FIVE Of her
crew and fatally injuring the captain,
David Ravens of Brooklyn.
Mr.. Alanson Barbour and wife of
Canton, Connecticut. celebrated the Goth
anniversary of their marriage Monday.
Mr.. Barbour's age Is 50, and his wife's
rs. Both enjoy comfortable health.
4 Westfeld. Massachusetts. firm is
now manufacturing from seventy eight
bushels of grain. 234 gallons of rye gin
per day. an increase of sixty gallons per
day since November lst, ali of which
goes out of the state, of course.
Thomas Hughes, French Canadian,
fell into the canal at Three Rivers, Mass
achusetts, Saturday night, while intoxi-
tated. and was drowned. His body was
found Monday morning No inquest
was deemed necessary.
John Hassatt. desperate New Ca
naan. Connecticut. drunkard, was seri-
ously and perhaps fatally shot by Con-
stable Dam. last week, while the latter
was attempting to arrest him for beat
ing his wife. Ia order to protect him
self Damn was obliged to fire.
at Marry. Tennessee, few nights
ago, young man went to bed, leaving
burning candle and a pistol on his Ia
bic. The dripping sperm ignited the
the table, the table ignited the pistol.
the barrels began to explode, and when
the young man awoke he was nearly
burned. smothered and shot to death.
The pillows received the balls and saved
his life
A man in New York has musical
tree, shrub about FIVE feet high and
made in exact imitation of nature. Touch
a knob in the side of the tub in which
it stands. and the branches are at once
covered with birds of all colors and notes,
their songs blending beautifully togeth-
er. Touch the knob again and the birds
disappear. 1t is supposed to be the
only one in America
Tuesday. Nov. 18th, the dead body
of Henry B. Hastings, twenty years old,
student in the Sophomore class at
Hazard college, was found at a boarding
house in Cambridge with a pistol shot
wound in the region of the heart. He
bad been Ill for two days Temporary
insanity is assigned as the5cause of the
suicide
Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, Nov. II.
An extensive cave occurred in the Sem
eca mines, owned by the Pittston and
Elmira coal company, at Pittston to-day.
Five or six men were at work getti ng
out coal, when the roof gave way with a
terrible crash, killing Elias DAVIS and
Henry Jenkins. and dangerously injur-
ing John S. Williams
The bodies of two men named Stall
and Clayton, belonging respectively in
Central and Golden City, who started
out on prospecting trip up the Cochita
Poudre, SIX weeks since, we're found last
Saturday, on Coal creek. about % miles
from Greeley, Colorado, riddled with
bullets and partially covered with brush.
They had been probably murdered for
their outfit. as neither had anything else
with them. Three men who are suspect
ed OF being the murderers are being
pursued, and will undoubtedly be cap
tured
Benjamin Cummings. who died recent.
~, at Burtonville, New York. was the
inventor of the circular saw. Seventy
years ago. at Albany. he moved a large
block of brick buildings. and. to the
wonder and astonishment of the world
constructed mile and half of Fri,
Canal through bed of rock and be al
SO built, per contract, those first low
bridges over the same. He also aided
IN the construction of the first ten milei
Of railroad built in the United States
and founded both the villages of Esper
ance and Burtonville, Oh the old Schora
RE, near Amsterdam.
CINCINNATI. Nov l7th.-Edward J
Hackney. the third confederate in th,
American express robbery. was arreste
to day. but denies completely or knowedg
Of the affair. He has been recognized
as one Of the two men who carried tn,
trunk out Of the Office. George Black
who assisted III the removal of the trunl
and safe. confessed tn.dar sarinn he