Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-07-05

Grams of Waterloo fought at Bunker Hill
The yield of melons in Florida is SO
great this year that the farmers don't
know what to do with them all.
The failure Of 0sgood s Lord. of |
AthOl. Mass. dealers in dry goods. boots
and shoes. is reported with large liabih- !
ties.
George ]. Smith. of Leominster,
Mass, was found dead in saw-mill.
Thursday June %. The manner of his
death is mystery.
Thursday evening of week before last,
a son Of ". II. Remission. of Concord, \.
H.. about Is years old. was drowned
while bathing in Horse Shoe Pond.
Donaldson and three newspaper men
made an ascension from Toronto the
oath. and were blown out over Lake
/ Ontario. They fell into the water, and
were rescued after being IN the water
four hours.
On June "a. young woman named
Sophia Sehedler. of Philadelphia, Pa.
was shot in boat near Governors
/ Island. n. Y. by her step-father. who
Immediately after put bullet through
his own head.
Tne South is very hopeful over its
crop prospects, which are said to De the
finest ever known. Less provisions
have been imported this year. than any
year since the war, and less will be I'M
ported next year than this.
/ A Cincinnati gardener named Louis
\ Vollmer. attempted to killa cat. one day
week before last. with double barreled
shot gun. He fired one barrel. then. IN
using the butt end of the gun, the other
barrel discharged into his thigh. sever
ing an artery. so that he bled to death
in a few minutes.
Joseph Mazrall, of Littleton. n. H..
was caught on shaft making 500 rev.
olutions a minute, few days ago. and
whirled around three minutes before the
machinery could be stopped. He was
not seriously injured, though his cloth
: lag was completely torn of. except the
; neck band and one sleeve of his shirt.
Richard f. lyman residing on Nashua
2 street, Boston, quarreled with his wife
Saturday night, June 26, and finally at
tackled her with a razor. inficting a
fearful wound. from which her bowels
protruded. The injured woman was
= taken to the hospital in a dying eOndi.
. ton, and lyman was arrested and lock
ed up.
/ Yellow fever has become epidemic a
Key West, Fla. The deaths now aver
: age about two day. The German bari
! Won Moltke arrived at Pensacola, Fla
= Monday. with several cases of yellow
! fever on board, and one death has sine
: occurred. The vessel was subjected t
= strict quarantine, and there is no appre
= henson of the fever reaching the navy
: yard or city.
s. England is passing through fnan
y cial crisis. Several very heavy failure
s have occurred, and a recent dispatch an
= nounees the suspension of fourteen house
last week. The cause for the preser
- depression is assigned to be that the de
u ! mand for English manufactures has fall
~ en- off in an alarming degree during tn
> past year. seriously involving every on
connected with the industries of th
or Kingdom.
- The loss of life by the food at Tor
~ louise, France, is appalling. In the G,
Z. P-ian quarter Two hundred and nftee
" corpses have already been found. II
- violence of the torrent frustrated all e
i forts TO secure the unfortunate inmat,
of the houses. Several men were drowl
ed in the attempt Twenty thOusar
persons are deprived of the means
at subsistence in Toulouse alone. Disa
mt tiers elsewhere are of almost equal ma
te' nitude.
= The Cheshire County almshouse,
- Westmoreland. n. H., has lately 7
IS ceiVed an unknown man, found strolliI
around in an adjoining town, probab
quite recently afflicted with insanit
at He has the appearance of gentlem;
81 of culture, is slim, FIVE feet eight inch
me in height. light eomplexioned, wears
an full beard, and is about forty-thr
nat years old. Masonic emblems are t.
TO- tooed in India ink on his right forearl
III, indicating that he is Mason of hi,
IND degree.
- The London Times, in a leading ec
- torial on the centenary of the bat
of Bunker Hill, after giving an histo
rs cal review of the event and its con-
ar quences. says: "Not only America,
AZ England and the world will have reas
N. to hold in grateful remembrance t
III day. 1t was gain on all sides
lelr the great unguestionable principles
me- popular representation, self-governmt
'cu, by popular municipal institutions. in,
anu pendence of judges. and complete resp
Oh sibility in the exercise of power ",
equally at stake on both sides of {
aica Atlantic"
iOie They are starting On their annual
rah drophObia scare in New York. A n
III q named Jackson has died in terrible c
anu vulsions. exhibiting all the custom;
zen symptoms He was bitten in the
inc some weeks ago by a Newfoundland
up while playing with him. The dog '
70 all right, and is vet, and the wou
ant which was slight one, readily heal
sing But the man was troubled with the i
at that he might have hydrophobia,
he fell to broodIng over it until he q
soon nervous and sleepless and finally
,one. ually worked himself into the terri
ould malady which be dreaded.
ntie- Three executions in one day is a D
MS ty heavy record for New England.
the day of week before last, Louis HI.
y IT, Wagner, who committed an atroci
ner- murder at the Isles Of Shoals. more t
two years ago; John t. Gordon. wi
ange horrible crime at Thorndike. Me-,