Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-13

legislature just adjourned. He is the
cousin of DR.. Perrin, of Essex Junction,
and ST Rev. G. E. Ferrin, of Plain6eld.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
A 100000 fire occurred at Elgin,
Ill.,. Jan. 2.
Bowen the escaped murderer of DAILY.
near Compton. P. O.. has been arrested
in Texas.
The Academy OF Holy Angels, Butta-
10, N. T. was burned Saturday. Loss
$4,000.
Over one hundred people were on the
skating pond in Central Park, New
York, Sunday.
A steamer running between Osaka
and Dive, Japan, was blown up Octo-
Der %, and SO lives were lost.
A thirty CLIFTON gun burst recently
on board the British man-of-war Thun-
derer, killing seven men and wounding
forty.
Great distress continues to prevail in
many parts of England, and extensive
measures of relief are undertaken. Ex-
tensive strikes are also threatened.
A tornado struck Santa Barbara. Cal
ifornla, JAN 2, and demolished several
buildings, unroofed others, uprooted
trees and killed one man.
The weather on Saturday and Sunday
in Florida was the coldest known for
thirty years. The effect on the orange
trees is not yet reported, but it is fear
ed they will be injured.
There has been another heavy fail
ure of bank in England, the Cornish
Bank with liabilities of over Gl.OOO,-
900. The number of business failures
in the year 1879 was over $4,000.
The largest locomotive ever construct
ed in this country is now in Chicago.
1t is intended for use on the heavy
grades of the Southern Pacific railroad.
The engine has eight drivers, and weighs
$4,000.
A number of girls employed in the
Birmingham factory, Conn, were made
very i'll by eating motto lozenges." A
physician pronounced it case of ar.
senieal posing. A sample of the candy
is to be chemically aualyzed.
Gen. Longstreet has been nominated
for postmaster of Gainesville, Ga. Thi:
is proper recognition of the persecu
hands Of the Southern nB o1r6oSnrss beea us
he is inclined to be Republican.
Hon. Julian Hartridge of Georgia
one of the most brilliant men in tn,
House, died suddenly at Washington
Wednesday, ofpneumonia. This make
the sixth death among the members OF
the present Congress.
The British army are meetings will
some Obstacles in their march int
Afghanistan. The British forces hav,
again tried to strike terror into tn,
Afghan ranks by hanging four noun
taineers for numbering camp follower
At Cleveland, Ohio. on New Year
day. two boys, Patrick Cooney anc
William WEIGH. sixteen and seventeen
years old respectively, were shedding OF
Lake Erie, when the sled carried then
off into the water. and both drowned.
While crossing on the ice between
Richmond and Melbourne, Canada, OF
the 3lst ult.. team drawing vehicl
containing Messrs. Rowe and Kemp o
Kin gsbury and Mrs. Sadler of Melbourn
broke through. and all were carried I'm
der by the current and drowned.
A FIRE in Chicago Saturday, Jan. 4
, destroyed the Honore block on the cor
ner of Dearborn and Adams streets. Il
: it were located the post-office. Gen Sher
{ idan's headquarters, the Chicago ant
) Alton general offices and many privat
{ Offices; loss about 100000.
A young man, named Albert Van
arnam, aged 20 years. son of Levi
Vanarnam, of Pittsburgh, went GU
hunting foxes on Friday last, and as h
e did not come home at night immediat
search was made for him. Three day
later he was found in the woods. deat
f and frozen. with gun shot wound i
f his thigh and abdomen. 1t is though
, he fell over the gun, and accidental
0 discharged it.
0 Ten convicts at Dubuque, Iowa. brok
0 out of the stone-cutters' shed Thursda
: of last week and made desperate e.
o fort for liberty, the yard being enclose
0 only by a board stockade. One wa
t shot dead by the guard. while anothe
d was shot through the bowels, and wi
die. The remainder escaped from th
p yard. but two were shot by the guards
i both dropping with broken legs. Fiv
e others were soon recaptured.
n A dispatch from Terre Haute. Ind
n says Noah Williams and "Modoc" Gair
:. ey arranged to burglarize store +;
}, Oak Town last Thursday. Several cit
s zens obtained information of the schen
d and waited in a saloon near the stor,
G having put out all the lights. I'll
Il burglars went to the saloon before III
d dertaking the job, when the citizen
= fired, and over 80 shots were exchanged
Williams was killed, and Gainey pr
# badly fatally wounded. Henry Morton
l. citizen, was slightly hurt.
g The Portland, Ne, Argus records
o remarkable instance of family Athletic
e in that State. Mrs. Woodbury.. of Pa
" is. was last week stricken with paralys
% and lying in a precarlous condition
r At the same time her sons wife's mott
, er died, and the daughter was attendin
g. the funeral, when intelligence was re
= ceived that the husband, who resides
L Cambridge, Mass, had been kicked b
;, horse and dangerously injured.
q sister of Mrs. Woodhury went to atten