Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-03-04
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


senseless by bursting emery wheel last
Friday. receiving possibly fatal injuries.
A terrible boiler explosion occurred
at Quincy, H., on the 10Th, by which
two men were killed, and the owner and
another man scalded fatally. The mill
was completely destroyed.
The measure passed by the Virginia
Legislature, known as the Barbour bill,
which in fact repudiated the State debt,
was vetoed yesterday by Governor Hal
liday, to the CONSERVATION of the advo-
Gates of the measure.
Vice President Wheeler has been COM
PEELED by l.health to vacate his place
for time, and Senator Ferry has been
chosen president Of the Senate pro tenn.
He received 20 votes, and Thurman,
the Democratic candidate, %
DR.. Mudd, who was sent to the dry
Tortugas for setting the bone in J.
Wilkes Booths leg, now petitions Con-
gress for $4,000 as a compensation
for his services as physician during
the prevalence of the cholera on the
island.
A machine that will knit stockings in
one piece at the rate of one a minute, is |
the invention of a Swede of Rockford.
I'll. Twelve machines can be operated
by one boy. whose wages, $3.50 per
week, make the cost of knitting one cent
for sixty stockings.
wheeling despatch says Martin
Coyle, John O'Brien and a third man.
name unknown. employees Of the Pitts
burg, Wheeling and Kentucky Railroad.
attempted to cross the river on a fiatboat
on the 18th, near Wheeling, and were
drowned. All three were intoxicated.
L. Herbert Chase. of the confeetion-
ary firm of Chase & Co., has been con-
victed of adulterating his wares with
chromate of lead, and thus giving his
customers a poisonous article of food.
The evidence proved conclusively that
the chromate Is poisonous. The penalty
provided by the statute is imprisonment
not exceeding six months, or fine not
exceeding 5000.
A northern bound express train on
the Hudson River railroad, drawn by
two engines and going 40 miles an hour
ran into freight train which had brok-
en- while going on a switch at Low
; Point Thursday evening, but the engi-
, neer and fireman on the first engine,
Jumped off and was only slightly injured,
those on the second stayed aboard un-
harmed, and, though engines and freight
= cars were damaged $4,000 worth, no
body was seriously hurt.
. Snow in the mountains and heavy
rains in the valleys have caused unpre
! cedented freshets in the California riv
ers. The Sacramento is higher than i
was ever known before. and considerabl,
: damage is reported The town of Wash
: lngton, containing Eve hundred inhab
itants, opposite Sacramento, is almos
e totally inundated. Many houses hav
? been swept away and wrecked. and hal
y the people are homeless. No lives wer
- lost, but narrow escapes were made.
The mangled remains of William
o. Silvernail. formerly Superintendent Q
y the ore beds at West Stockbridge, Mass
- were found on the track on the Bosto
% and Albany railroad, about mile cas-
&c of the State Line station, Friday nigh
- and it is believed he was murdered an
y afterward thrown on the track by hi
assassins to hide the evidences of the
es work. The body had been shockingl
be mangled by the traip. but an investig'
- IL Il L.
W side; also other evidences OF foul play.
Nv A terrible coasting accident occurre
~ at Poughkeepsie recently. Among oth'
u u ..bob sleds" on the hill was the "Blac
NC Crook" seating ten persons. The hl
is quite steep one, and the sled W
III under great Roadway when the till
rk broke and the helmsman, John Thorn
St son, lost control of the sled. Almo
ire Instantly another heavily laden sled b
ca hind ran into it and drove the "Bla
ird Crook into tree. Four persons we
lge seriously injured. A man named Blu
rye cigar maker, had his forehead lacel
to ted and nearly all his teeth were knoc
ed out Eugene Rowe had his left ]
en-. broken Elmore Weddle's hip was brc
are en- George Slater had three ribs brok
tbo and several others were badly bruised
Mr.. After long and bitter contest Ala
for son w. Beard, of Boston, has been no
liar mated by the President to succeed 4
to Simmons as collector of the port of b
and ton. Both the Massachusetts senat
pro- were opposed to Mr.. Simmons re.
lex pointment, but he was supported by
he majority of the members of Congr
and a large outside influence, and
the defeat is likely to make lively work
arm Massachusetts, politics hereafter 1t
gon- not be strange if it makes him the n
cult governor of the commonwealth. He
it'll admitted on all sides to have been
ion, of the best collectors ever in the SER
If of the government.
llles The steamboat Old Colony. of the
any River Line, was disabled on the nj
and of the 18th by the breaking of the W;
and ing beam. The after end of the W;
ing beam, together with the shackle.
w. and connecting rod, weighing about
ven tons, went crashing through the W
mon deck, carrying the floor of the
the along with it into the hold, where
off. brought up with great force upon
twice keelson. All the woodwork of the
hit sci and furniture about the place of
him. accident was shivered to pieces. G
lane CONSERVATION prevailed among the
wing sengers, about 175 in number, unit
right was ascertained that the boat was
nded, leaking. The vessel was taken IN
He by the steamboat City of Fitcht
teady and was brought to Newport, wher
ause. has been ascertained that the daI
alton to her would amount to about 500,