Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-10
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

hCIIiiudC IltCr, near OOuCOTu, IN. H.,
last Sunday, while bathing.
Frank Clifford of Plymouth, N. H.,
stoned his horse to death the other day,
because it was not able to draw pillow
alone.
Last season J. w. Nichols, of West
Concord, from six cows and three heif-
ers. sold seventeen hundred pounds of
butter.
Baltimore was glutted with 100000
quarts of strawberries Wednesday, which
brought from three to six cents quart
in lots.
The King of Sweden has conferred
upon Edward H. Williams Gan old-time
Vermonter). of the Baldwin Locomotive
Works, the order of Knight of the Polar
Star.
James Miskella was drowned last Sat.
urday, while fishing at Lake Massabesie,
near Manchester, N. H. He was 80
years old, and leaves wife and FIVE
children.
Vincent Stiles, 8 yeals old. Earnest
Page, 9 and Albert Page, 10, while play
ing on raft in Cemetary pond, Water
ford, N. Y, last Saturday, fell in, and
were drowned.
Twenty Russian officers are now in
Philadelphia, and it is stated that the
iron steamship Saratoga, of the New
York and Havana line. has been pur-
chased for about 100000.
On the line of the railroads between
Philadelphia and Pittsburg it is report
ed that not less than $4,000 commun-
lists stand ready at moments notice to
begin the scenes of last summer.
Patrick J. Sullivan caught his foot in
a frog" while helping switch cars at
Howard City. Mich. last week, and the
train that was backing down ran over
him, crushing him almost instantly.
Two trains on the Louisville and
Nashville railroad collided in a cut on a
curve near Louisville, KY, last Saturday,
and both were pretty well wrecked, five
persons being injured, two fatally.
Joseph Ropes robbed his uncle E. L.
Doe, of Newmarket, N. H., of $l25, but
was captured at Nashua, and $l04 Sc
cured. He had procured revolver. and
was about to take to the road as tramp.
A little girl at Yonkers, N. Y, swal-
} lowed her toy balloon, tube downward.
1t slipped into her windpipe, partly FL.
ling whenever she breathed. and, as NO
relief could be afforded, she was chok-
ed to death.
?. J. McElory, aged about 40 years,
was almost instantly killed last Thurs
day. at P. c. Cheney's paper mill in
Manchester, N. H, by being drawn into
, , the paper machine. He leaves widow
and six children.
A horse kicked the tines of pitch.
fork the son of Joseph Rock, of Morrin.
sonville, N. Y, was carrying recently
so that they passed through his body,
and came out each side of his spine, bu
t the boy is about again.
! A boy named Balkley, l6 years old
has been arrested Cor putting pile o
: stones on the Gunther railroad, that runs
q from Greenwood cemetery to Coney isl
t and, and for detaching car on dowr
gradeto wreck an incoming train.
A terrific cyclone passed over Rich
mond, Mo-, Saturday, June l, and owe
100 houses were totally destroyed. Tn
loss of property will reach $4,000
+ Ten persons are known to have beel
$ killed, and large number injured.
George R. Waterman, who, as pay
master at the Pacific Mills at Lawrence
). embezzled Sill, 900, which he could no
= repay, was last week sentenced by Judg
Bacon, at Newburyport. to twelve year
in the State prison. He plead guilty.
n A gentleman in Lawrence, Mass; ha
# In his possession the identical bill o
n programme of the play at Ford's Thea
\. ter, and which President Lincoln held i
his hands at the time of his assassina
. iton on the night of the 18th of April
= 1865.
d An enemy of the potato bug has arise
in this country, as certain naturalist
. long since averred would be the cast
- Farmers at Grown Point, N. Y, are haE
Ply in discovering these beetles deae
=. with myriads of tiny lice clinging
5 them to show the cause.
Saturday night, June l, three despel
=, ate tramps entered the house of youn
widow named Baldwin near Taxewel
! Va, and demanded her money. Sh
killed two of the scoundrels with an a
= and received in return two stabs, whic
soon proved fatal.
40 A special from Rome says the Pope
"a i'll in body and distressed in mind by I'll
. plots and cabals designed to prevent tt
~ reforms he proposes. 1t is reported tn;
l. l. the Pope manifests disposition to al
= dictate. Cardinal Franchi is doing b
~ utmost to check the Vaccinations of I'll
90 Jesuits. The latter, on the other han,
CO are striving to secure Cardinal Franchi
- downfall.
The Mississippi court of appeals b;
% awarded to Jefferson Davis large plal
81 tation for which he once paid his brotl
~ er, but did not secure legal transfe
=. and which his brother (now deceased
he afterwards sold to negro for $500. 90
at though he left evidence that Jefferst
he had paid the full value of the estat
or The decision makes the ex-president
%. the confederacy rich man. But VIII
w. becomes of the poor negro?
tn In Lumpkin County. just at the foot
the Blue Ridge Mountains, two m.
an were taken from their houses stiThur
st day night just before day. and most crue
m. ly whipped with hickory switches by
ms party of men in disguise. The perso
ras whipded were witnesses in the Unit,
las States Court at the March term, and we