Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-05-13
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
PARIS MAY 1O.-Gen Grant and pa

Inc celebrated running horse Learn
ington fell dead at Chestnut Hill, Phil
adelphia, on Monday last.
During the twelve months ended
March 3lst last. the exports of the
United States exceeded the imports by
the unprecedented amount of 5000, OOO,-
900.
W. 5. O'Brien, supposed to be the
wealthiest man on the Pacific coast, died
at San Rafael, CAL, recently. His prop
erty is estimated at from Sl5,0OOO0O
to s2o,Oo0.Ooo
Vice President Vanderbilt and party
rode l5 miles in Is minutes during
their recent trip to Cleveland to attend
the annual meeting of the Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern railroad compa-
ny.
The stoppage of the bankrupt Fall
River mills has had the effect of decreas-
ing the production of print cloths l5O.-
900 pieces week, and in consequence
quickened and improved market has
resulted.
The first bar of steel ever made South
was rolled Thursday evening at the Ten
nessee steel and iron company's mill in
Chattanooga, the quality being first
grade and equal in appearance to the fin
est steel bars ever produced.
Two acres of the business portion of
Bedford, Pa, were burned over Mon
day, and large hotel, a livery stable,
several stores, oil offices and dwellings,
and other buildings were destroyed.
Loss 100000; insurance $4,000.
The corner stone of the new Plus TX.
church. a memorial of the late Pope,
was laid at Baltimore Sunday, with i'm
posing ceremonies. The church will be
built of marble and other stone, with
two towers 122 feet and 235 feet high,
and will cost 100000.
The tug-boat Warner, from New Or
leans to st. Louis, was blown up at
Memphis on the lst inst. Capt. Daw-
son, Dixon Kendall (piloD, William
Petit. William Radcliffe and fireman
were killed and many others wounded.
The shock ives felt throughout all the
city.
| The right of way has been purchased
by Philadelphia and the Oil City, Pa,
capitalists for an oil pipe line between
Parker City and Columbia on the Phila-
delphia and Reading railroad. 1t will
be capable of carrying one-fourth the
production of the Pennsylvania oil re-
gion.
A spiritualist humbug named Mott,
who had astonished all Memphis (Mo.)
by his naturalization, was exposed
Monday night by an unbeliever who
squirted aniline into the face Of the
Esprit as 1t appeared at an aparature
in the cabinet Lights were brought
and Mott was discovered looking very
tsblue."
The man-eating stallion "Risingham'
Hambletonian, was killed at Middle
town, N. Y, Thursday night, after hav
ing crippled more than 20 keepers anG
killed three persons in his eventful life
. of 81 years. His owner, DIR. James A
Schultz, once refused $1,000 for him
> believing that he could be cured, bu
= finally became convinced that the horse
: was insane beyond doubt.
John Gendrean, aged 20. his brothe
: Peter, aged 10, and Charles Ward, age(
81, were drowned in the Chicopee Rive
: at louisville, Mass, on the 30th ult
They went out in row-boat, and tn,
: river being unusually high, the boa
: was carried over a dam 20 feet high
then through series of rapids, and the
over second dam. At this point tn
+ boat went to pieces. Their bodies wer
u not recovered, the stream being so dee
! and rapid that they were probably cal
n ried to the Connecticut.
William Moan died on Monday wee
;. at $50 West 18th street, at the advanc
. ed age of lO5. He came to the Unite
States from Ireland when eighty year
Of of age. His health did not prevent hil
h from supporting himself as day labor
re er until he was 100 years old. He di'
he tinctly remembered Robert Emmett an
k the Irish Rebellion of 1898. I'll
O. grandfather died at the age of ll5 year
ID and his father is said to have lived to til
at age of LOG years. William Means vic
er ow is now in her one hundred and thir
year, without trace of change In tt
n color of her profuse black hair. ST.
n has never used spectacles, and still a
b tends to the household duties of h
mr. home. Her husband was the father
~ IL children, and numbered so CRANE
n. and great-grandchildren.
rs Senator Gordon and a party of Soutl
as erners were entertained at Boston an
s !; neighboring places last week, makir
ir- several speeches concerning the indu
trial and agricultural enterprise of Ne
of England. but usually ending with Il
leo prediction that Southern labor and W
ca- ter powers were soon to contest wi
IN New England the palm of leadershi
70. At Lawrence, speaking on the subje
MI of sheep, he said: "In Georgia, shee
,re raising was more profitable than runnil
al mills. Gen. Sherman, in his famo
IN and demonstrative march to the sea, C
;ts off every railroad in Georgia, exceptil
ID. that into Egypt as the section W
called where they got the Dest graz
oats, mutton, and wool. There was
" abundance of grass and no brambles
nu underbrush. Land there had recent
~ been sold for As cents an acre, and t
's profit in raising wool is so to so (
: :ls cent. No better opportunity to APP
'.u intelligence, to make money, is offer
70 than in Georgia, and all reports to t
~ u contrary Notwithstanding, warm W
-, come to Northern men and Northern {
10 !. 81 terprise is awaiting these there"
m The dispatches bring accounts of
legged bodies of men at Chicago,
Louis, Richmond and elsewhere, W
nv are constantly drilling in the intere