Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-11-12
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Small pox is raging in Clintonville,
N. T.. twenty persons having died with
in short time
Cyrus Nelson, of Sanborton, N. H.,
16 years old, committed suicide, by
shooting. last week Tuesday.
Like Vice President Wilson, Senator
Morton died a poor man. The entire
property left to his family does not ex-
coed $4,000.
Walter F. Bartlett, Tax Receiver of
Trenton, n. J., is defaulter to the
tune of between fifteen and twenty
thousand dollars.
The October failures in New York
reach 81, the largest number in any
one month for the year. The aggregate
liabilities are $3,60O,000.
Herbert Stone, brakeman on the
Boston. Clinton and Fitch burg railroad,
was killed by the cars at Clinton, Mass,
last Thursday night.
1t is estimated that the remains of
Senator Morton were viewed by $4,000
persons as they lay in State in Indian
apolis on Sunday.
DR.. J. G. Aver continues under treat
ment at Winchendon. and is quite COM
Portable; being permitted to make visits
about the town in company of attendants.
Lydia Wilcox, an elderly woman who
lived alone in Comfortable, r. l., was
burned to death on Friday evening last.
1t is supposed she was lying on a lounge
smoking, and fell asleep.
A second line of ten great fortres ses
is to be constructed at Rome, all to be
connected, and to incloee a large belt of
uncultivated land, and work on seven of
them has been begun.
A woman in Wilton. Wis, who had
been deserted by her husband, killed
her three children and set fire to the
house. The mother and children were
burned to crisp.
Mr.. Moody has accepted an invita-
ton to labor in Portland and other parts
of Maine during the winter. and with
Messrs. Whittle, Sankey, etc., will be-
gin work early in December.
In 1863 the post-ofice delivery at the
town of Pithole was the third largest in
Pennsylvania. Last November it cast
six votes, and the survivors of the great
oil metropolis have now petitioned for a
dissolution of its charter.
1t is satisfaction to know, by the
October statement of the treasurer OF
the United States. that the nationa
debt has been reduced since July l by
the amount of $42. ,522. In Octo
Der the reduction was S4.236,854.
One mill of the American Powder
Company, at Acton, Mass. exploded
Saturday morning, Nov. 8, killing an
dmploye named Charles H. Perry. Tht
sound of the explosion was heard fo
miles and the force of the shock felt
great distance.
| Ex-Mayor A. Oakley Hall, who secret
ly went to England seven months ago
is now back in New York. He claim
that when he went away, as we'll as fo
a great part of the time during his alb
sence, he was not in his right mind, ow
ing to severe and protracted work in hi
profession.
Van Dyke, who murdered his wife OF
a farm near Ogdensburg. N. Y, in Jun
last, has just had his trial. and is sen
fenced to be hanged on December 2lst
Van Duke was a farm laborer, an
claimed he did not know that the GU
hepointed at his wife was loaded.
The American ship Louisiana, whic
sailed from Panama few days sine,
left eight men of the crew confined i
prison for mutinous conduct. The
! have been detained by the Consul, q
there was no American ship going HON
by which they could have been sent fc
trial
, When the intelligence of Senate
! Morton's death was received at WASH
ington, the organist of the Metropollta
Methodist church played the "Dea
March in SAUL from the steeple, tt
melancholy music of the chimes pr
ducing most sombre effect in the sti
night time.
Jesse Pomeroy, the boy murdere
serving out life sentence in the Charlie
town, Massachusetts, State Prison, W;
recently detected in an attempt to CT
{ his way out of his cell. He had move
, large stone several inches, and wou
doubtless IN a short time have been alb
to effect an egress.
e The State of Texas has just purcha
( ed 400 acres of land, with valuab
t buildings and improvements, near Ham
Y stead, for the State University for CO
5 ored youth, paying the sum of $1,000
b The intention is to combine the Sta
}, University with the Agricultural al
:" Mechanical college.
Moody drew tremendous houses
: his first days services in Manchestt
. N. H., last Sunday, thousands beil
unable to get into Smythe's opera hous
: the largest hall in the city. Whit
: and McGranahan had similar audienc
. at Portsmouth, and Needham and Ca
n almost as large ones concord.
A passenger train on the Utah Ce
d trail railroad, October 3Oth, was lift
y from the track and turned upside do,
J. by the wind. The Goals from the sto
n were scattered through the cars, but t
TO fires were put out before any dana
il was done. Several persons were bad
c. hurt, but are expected to recover.
4 The officers of the United States Mi
at Philadelphia have just discover
0. that some dishonest practices have be
G going on in the refners' department
some time past. They are confined,
a far as is known at present, to sin!
y, workman at whose house about Q
~ hundred ounces of silver were diseov
r ed. Director of-Mint Pollock refuses
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