Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-05-19
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The stove works of Fuller, Warren &
Co., at Troy. N. T., were damaged S65-
900 by fire last Monday night. Insured.
To the London Standard it seems
'.highly probable that, at last, '.the
United States are entering upon a long
period of prosperity"
An Iowa man who has been married
four times has his four mothers-in-law in
one house. and they live together in the
greatest harmony.
The better part of the business portion
of Unidilla, N. Y, was burned Sunday,
including nine stores, three dwellings,
and three barns. The loss over insur-
ance is $4,000.
John Harrington. of Havana, ILL.,, shot
his partner, Henry Thomas. dead in
quarrel last week Tuesday, and fatally
shot an officer who attempted to arrest
him, but was put in Jail.
Cannes &Harrick's hat store, Frank
enthal & Brorher's furnishing goods
store. and Goldstein's clothing store, at
st. Louis. Mo-, were burned Saturday
night Loss $28O,000.
Timothy Wright, Brookline, N. H.,
81 years of age, after working all day in
his field, drove home, and while alight-
ing from his wagon in the door-yard,
fell and broke his neck.
Thursday morning last the repair
shops at Troy, N. Y, of the Troy and
Boston railroad were burned by an in
cendiary fire, supposed to have been set
by discharged striking workmen. Loss
$4,000.
Minnesota never had such a rush of
settlers as have focked into the state this
Spring. Three trains heavily loaded
with immigrants are sent out of st. Paul
every morning, and most Of the new
corners settle IN the state.
A gentleman residing in Westfeld, N.
j., who was robbed of valuable gold
watch and chain ten years ago, received
his property from Catholic priest in
New York last week, the thief having
made confession and restitution.
The country doctors in England are
substituting bicycles for horse flesh, TO
some extent, in visiting their patients.
The machines they use are iron. with a
rubber rim on the wheels, and make
eight or ten miles an hour.
A four-years-o son of William E..
Mousley, of Lyme, N. H., found bottle
containing whiskey in cupboard of his
home on Friday morning. and unseen by
his parents drank pint of the fiery liq-
uid, dying from the effects not long
after.
In the first nine months of the pres
ent fiscal year the general land office
has sold two million two hundred thou
sand acres in Kansas, or three times as
many as were sold in the fiscal year end.
ing in 1877, and fifty per cent. more in
1878.
The widow of ex-Postmaster General
Alexander w. Randall still thrives as a
raiser of cattle upon her lands in Neb
For several years, it is said. her sales
of stock have reached $4,000 a year
and the herd is as large again as it was
when she assumed the management.
The torrid wave which struck New
England Tuesday appears to have rushed
in upon New Hampshire from all quar-
tiers. At Concord the thermometer reg
istered 100; Plymouth, 81; Littleton
90; Lancaster, "a; Lebanon, 100; Man
chester. 90; Exeter, 81. This is an ex
traordinary 'spell'' for May in this lati
tude.
The Providence Tool company resume'
work Thursday with the full number o
workmen for the purpose of finishing
their contract with the Turkish govern
ment for 100000 rifles, of which %,
600 or 10000 remain to be manufac
tured. This will keep the full numbe
of men at work for three or four months
probably.
Governor Gear, of Iowa, was latel
asked to pardon convicted rum-sellel
and replied: "While have great sym
pathy for Mr. Newton. | also have grea
sympathy for the wives and childre
who have been made sufferers by tn
sale of whiskey to the fathers and huI
bands by Mr.. Newton. The petite
cannot be granted"
Cox, who shot and killed Allston 6
Atlanta, Georgia, to settle quarr'
over contract for state prison labo
was sentenced to hard labor for lif
Aston was the author of law allowiu
murderers to be sentenced in this wa
on recommendation of jury, and it is
singular poetic justice that his ow
murderer should be the first man to |
sentenced under the law.
Opiophagy, otherwise called opiu
, eating, has grown to formidable propo
, tions in the United States. In 1885,
when our population was thirty-seve
millions. the amount of opium importe
,, was one hundred and thirty-six tho,
sand pounds; in 1876, with an increa'
of but seven millions in the population
the importation had risen to three hui
! dred and forty thousand pounds.
The construction of ship canal
o connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceal
3 across the isthmus of Darien is to
r considered in Paris this summer by
f conference headed by De Lesseps, Il
o protector of the Suez canal. The co.
ference is preliminary to scheme f
starting a great ship canal compaI
: with a capital of $lO0,00O,O0O or
under the patronage and presidency
, De Lesseps.
J. Queen Vicoria has left golden OPT
b ions behind her in Italy. She talk
|. with ease and kindness to the pc
e washerwomen by the lake and the oliv
n wood workers in their shops she stopp
t. her carriage and spoke pleasantly to t
peasant boys, who dotted their caps
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