Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-09-06
General Ne,cs Items.

visited by a fire yesterday morning
which destroyed the greater part of its
business section.
Specials from New Hampshire and
Maine report Sunday the hottest day OF
the season. At Bangor the mercury
touched 100 in the shade.
Israel Harris. a respectable farmer of
Greenfield, N. Y, 20 years old, has just
committed suicide, as his father and
brother had done before him.
Son-in-law Sartoris, wife and the Long
Branch baby sailed for England. Satur-
day, but will return in season to eat
Thanksgiving turkey at the White
House
J. H. Noe who was assaulted in his |
store in New York, died the goth. So
far his assassin has not been identified
but police authorities are keeping Wig
liant lookout for number of suspected
parties.
The Scotch express on the Midland
Road collided on Sunday with an excur-
sion train from Morecambe to Bradford,
near Kildwick Five persons were kill
ed and forty injured. several probably
fatally.
A Philadelphia dog ate sausages, and
died of modification when he discovered
that he had masticated near relative.
Living on your relations is considered
disreputable, it seems, even by the low
er orders of creation.
The famous stallion "Smuggier" was
speeded against his own record 2:20 at
Mystic park, Boston, Saturday, but fail
ed to beat it, his best record for the day,
made on the third trial, being 2:2l.
Thomas Callaghan, of New York city,
on going home last Friday evening, found
his mother in bed with negro. He
paid no attention to the darkey, but be-
gan demonstrating with his mother, and
the affair ended in the death of Mrs.
Callaghan at the hands of her son.
Mary Pointer, of Point Lick, KY, af-
ter submitting to severe beatings, and
other maltreatment, till she could bear
it nc longer, from loose woman named
Mrs. Scarborough, who has been living
with Mary's mother, went out and got
shotgun, Tuesday Of last week. and
shot Mrs Scarborough dead.
New Hampshire will soon be famous
for the use of poison as means of di-
vorce. There are rumors of another
martial poisoning case in Canada, in
which the husband, 33 years old, Is said
to be the victim. He died last winter,
and the body will probably be exhumed,
as the man who purchased the poison
has made some statements tending to
impEcate the wife.
Three burglars entered the house of
John Gottsberger, in New York city,
Wednesday of last week. but met with
warmer reception than they bargained
for. One of them, Donald Harris, got
blow from an Indian club in the hands
of young Gottsberger, who had been
awakened by the noise, that is likely to
cost him his life, and the other two, in
escaping by the window, fell plump into
the arms of couple of policemen.
The most decisive event for long
time in the war between the Alfonist:
! and Carlists in Spain occurred last Fri.
day, when the Carlist garrison of SEQ do
Urgel, one of the most important strong
holds in the country, after prolonged
!, | resistance, surrendered to the Alfonsis
forces. Things have been going agains
the Carlists now for some time. and this
latest reverse makes their prospect lool
decidedly gloomy. Indeed, it would
seem as though an energetic campaign
:, now ought to crush the rebellion out.
A sad drowning accident occurred nea
Amsterdam, N. Y, Tuesday of last week
!, As a canal boat was passing under
!. bridge, the captains boy caught hold o
: it, and held on after the boat passe,
: from under him; the steersman, a one
armed man, jumped into the canal ant
told the boy to drop, which he fnall
. did, and he had brought the youngste
! almost to shore when his strength CAV
> out and both drowned, the bystander
!, being too stupid to save them, as Their
. was ample time to do.
a Balloon excursions have been partic
% ularly unfortunate of late, several seri
d Gus and more than one fatal result oc
# curing. But we do not remember t
rs have seen in the history of eronautic
5 any account of an accident similar t
one which has just taken place in Eng
: land, balloon struck by lightning
- At Doncaster, on the 18th ult, an aero
naut was carried with his balloon into
- heavy storm cloud, where the balloo
- was struck by lightning, and rent THU
teen feet in length was made. The ma
= fell from a considerable height in Spro
ss borough Park, and lay insensible fC
Is nearly an hour, He was injured, bu
. not seriously.
ly There were good many very narro
re escapes during the recent floods OF
er West A man who lived on the Wild
e. cat river, in Indiana, awoke late or
er night to find the ground floor of h
ir house entirely submerged and the W;
ter rising rapidly. He took his chile
of rem out of bed, sat them up on the higl
nd est part of the roof, and began frir
wv shots from his gun, as a signal of di
ay tress, until his ammunition gave out
It. He had just set abont composing
ait mind for death, when some of his neig
en- bors, coming down the river on a boa
&c. sailed in at one of the windows and re
ers eued the party. Two young men livir
Use on the Wabash, were carried away
| a the water, and were saved from drow
ND ing only by clambering up on the lin
5ty OF an overturned tree which had stuC
The IN narrow channel, where they clul
me for day and half When they we
Ich taken off, they passed the followil