Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-12-24
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

to prove hatterlng success. Over y IL
900 has been received in the first three
days, and the committee hope to get at
least 10000.
Allen Congdon, aged 4 years, of
Westfeld, Mass, died Friday, after
three days illness, from the bite of
Spitz dog received six weeks ago. The
doctors pronounce the case one of genu-
inc hydrophobia.
People who have been swindled by
fraudulent life insurance companies will
be glad to hear that in the case of I. S.
Lambert, Chairman. of the American
Popular Life Insurance Company, for
swearing to false report of the Com
pany's affairs, the jury yesterday brought |
in verdict of guilty.
A dwarf said to be fifty years old and
IA 1-2 inches tall, named Sato Yukichi,
is about to be exhibited in Toxic. The
irregularity of proportion for which Mr..
Sato is conspicuous is not less remarka-
BILE than his condensed compactness.
His head is Z IL inches long. while all
the rest of his body measures only 7
inches.
Boston has spent within the year
$4,000 in sweeping and cleaning the
streets, work that employs eighty-six
men, fifty horses, twenty -six wagons,
six water carts and ten sweeping ma
chimes. During the warm weather the
principal thoroughfares are swept regu-
larly every morning, and the other
streets twice week.
Gale. the Cardiff pedestrian, who
recently performed the unprecedented
feat of walking 1900 miles in 1000
consecutive hours, has just completed
successfully an attempt to walk 1000
quarter miles in 1000 consecutive quar-.
ter hours. This is beyond doubt the
greatest pedestrian feat on record, and
it is not likely to be matched, much
less excelled.
Six negro children. two being girls,
none over Ii years. while picking cotton
on plantation near Columbia, S. G. were
harrassed and beaten by youth of Is
years. Finally, upon striking one a
hard blow. they all turned on him to
protect themselves, and beat and cut
him so that he died. The children
were arrested and held in $4,000 bail
for trial for murder.
The division of California into two
separate states is again under discus
sion. The people in the lower part of
the state want capital of their own
and government of their own, and
they would locate both in Los Angeles
This idea was exploded soon after the
opening of the war, when it was raised
by the same parties. Most of the San
Francisco papers are opposed to it.
While several men were at work
blasting in Hollister, Tyrel & Co. IS mar
BILE quarry, at East Dorset, recently,
they were blown up by an explosion of
quite large quantity of giant powder
one of them having nearly all the
flesh burned and torn from one of his
arms, while the clothing of the others
was burned from their backs, and they
were injured in shocking manner.
, A young man named Campbell froze
to death under peculiarly distressing
! circumstances, recently, in Victoria
county, Ont. He was out hunting with
: his parents. and chased deer across g
small lake on the. ice. Before he haG
reached the opposite side the ice brok,
! up and he saved himself by climbing OF
= a rock projecting from the water. Hi,
parents on the shore were powerless tt
help him. and the young man sat on tn,
! rock until night came on and he perish
ed from the increasing cold.
While several children were feedins
pet bear at Austin, Texas, the othe
Gay. the animal playfully seized littl
u girl and pulled her toward him, where
! upon house dog, supposing the chile
to be in danger, sprang upon the bear
: Bruin, to save the child from the dog
:, y carried her to the end of the hogsheaC
y in which he slept, and returned to tn
fight A party of darkies then came u
y to protect the child from her other pro
W tectors, and her mother. coming out o
y the house with musket killed both do
{, and BEAR There has seldom occurred
d more general misunderstanding.
y A painter named Benjamin Godfrey
) aged eighteen years, shot and Instant
e killed Miss Nellie E. Winninger, age
seventeen, at Norfolk. Va. The tw
were engaged to be married, and quar-
le rel taking place between them, tn
Is young lady refused to allow her lover
s escort her home from church. He the
"a went to a saloon, got drunk, procured
&c revolver and going to Miss Winninger
T. residence, asked for an interview TIL
l. being granted him he fired twice at tn
Sc girl killing her, and then mortall
le wounded himself
In the State prison at Charlestowi
d. Mass, is man named Duuannin, VIII
l. has had an eventful career. He VIZ
as there when the war broke out, serving
ye sentence of thirty years, but he was pa
D. doned on condition that he would enIil
~ in the army. His bravery quickly wo
&c the good will of his officers, who kne
te nothing of his antecedents, and aft,
G. the battle of Fredericksburg he acted /;
in spy, gaining important information
He was afterward captured and sent
he Libby Prison and parole, re-enliste
D. deserted and committed burglary, ar
as is back in his old qearters again, wit
lis twelve years more to serve.
n During the past three weeks the shi
is. building industry has taken very a
Ie- tive movement. The two last season
er while not dull, have tagged on accou1
sr, of the hesitation and pecuniary inabil
le- ty of vessel owners to have their vesse
to overhauled but the activity of trade
in the past summer has placed them in
position to obtain the needfull repair