Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-12-31
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

tuouoono Pouuos W Tue Temperature
cause in London.
A speaker at the Moody aud Sankey
meetings in Providence. Friday night.
said the sales of liquor in that city had
fallen off one-half during the past three !
weeks.
Matt Carpenter is said to be the most
brilliant pleader before the United
States Supreme Court. and to be making
there an income of $4,000 or 100000 |
a year.
The public debt statement will be is
sued on the I'd instead of the lst of |
January. 1t is believed it will present
a much more satisfactory exhibit than
that of Que year ago
The Lowell and Nashua Railway
Company will extend to the southernly
end of the depot in Lowell so as to abate
the nuisance caused by trains standing
on the Middlesex street crossing.
Mary Cannon, mill operative at
North Andover, Mass, was caught by a
shaft last week Wednesday. and Der
scalp torn completely off. Other inju-
ries were inflicted which proved fatal,
William H. Vanderbilt's wedding
presents to his daughter was necklace
with six dimond pendents, valued at
$4,000. Then there were checks,
stocks, &C., amounting to million dol.
lars
The San Francisco mint is the most
productive institution of the kind in the
world. Its coinage last year amounted
to $42, 500 more than the aggre-
gate production of the three largest
minis in Great Britain.
The horrible fate of Mrs. Mary Ma
hogan, the South Boston woman who
was burned to death Sunday night by
the explosion of kerosene lamp thrown
at her by Cornelius Tobin, was the re-
suit of one of those drunken rows.
1t is reported that Sitting Bull has
crossed to this side of the Canadian line,
and camped at Bear Paw mountain with
large force of Sioux and Nez Perces.
and is burning the PARTIES south of
Bear Paw. Lone Deer's band of lodges
is said to have joined him.
A shocking tragedy was enacted at
Farmville. Va, yesterday. A premi-
nent lawyer named Randolph Berkeley
was shot dead in his Office by Captain
William H. Kennedy, who Immediately
after the murder shot himself and will
probably die The cause of the murder
is unknown.
r Three children, two belonging to
, David Hatfield. broke through the ice
at Tusket lake, Is miles from Yarmouth
2 N. S. Sunday. The Hatfield family
5 rushed to the scene, and in the excite
ment all got into the water. daugh
| ter 10 years old. another s, and a sol
l9, were drowned.
a A horrible murder was perpetrateC
0 Christmas evening at the farm of Mose
t Wingate in Methuen. Mass. The vic
q tins were Michael Doran. % years O
age. belonging in Lawrence. and tn
r wife of Geo. Slade, an Englishman
e Slade was arrested as the supposed
}. murderer. The affair was the result o
2 drunken row.
!, The demoralizing effects of the read
!. ing of sensational literature was neve
$ more pointedly illustrated than in tn
case of the Boston boy murderer. Henri
Hickey. His imagination had bee
! thoroughly kindled by tales of ruffian
a ism, and he had been possessed for som
4 months of the notion of winning motor
; iety by a deed of dreadful note
d At Randolph. Mass. on the 10th
e Mrs. Catharine Ryan. living in Lafayett
street. was found nearly dead. being vi
% der the influence of coal gas. Later
was discovered that her children. thre
: boys and girl, and Mary E. Barry
% aged fourteen years "a relative VIII
e passed the night with them. were al
!. dead, having been sufocated by th
r same cause Uncessful efforts wei
!. made by several physicians to resusc
IN tate them.
, The oldest inhabitant says he nevt
knew such an open December as "
y have had. and all the younger inhab
ne tants agree with him in his recollec
lg ions. There was not particle of fro
re in the ground last week the farmers
H. this region were ploughing their lane
e for spring planting. one farmer haviu
it ploughed sixty acres since the lst
ID December. year ago last Thursda
is one thousand sleighs passed throug
on the Fifth avenue gate of the. Centr
Park; this year the weather was iii
10 April. Such are tbs contrasts presen
ng ed by our climate.-New York Paper.
The renowned trotter Flora Temp
e- died last Friday, near Philadelphl
er Pa. The animal was born in l645.
d. Oneida County, N. T.. and was sold f
no $l3 at four years old. After passiI
ed through several hands G. E. Perrin,
no New York. paid $500. and had the ar
~ NAL prepared for the trotting course.
ST. 1857 it had secured record of 2:24
nd and was sold for $4,000 to William NJ
Donald. In contest at Kalamazoo
ha Mich. it trotted mile in 2:l9 "a.
IL the spring of 1860 Patchen was beat
- the Union course in 2:2l, 2:24 al
70 2:2l 2. The government con6scat
- it in 1867 because Of its owners S
nd cession sympathies, and its trotting da
10 were ended. Mcdonald died in lS6
~ and Mr.. WEIGH. of Chestnut Hill, P;
IL bought the animal for $1,000, and
'oe last public appearance was at DuBo
"a track when General Grant reviewed I
ho great trotters. Its hind legs faili
soon after, the mare was thencefor
kept from breeding.
ad A despatch from Boston states tn
nos on Wednesday afternoon about o'clo
he as Mary Cronin. aged 6, and her lit
- brother John a child years and