Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-10-17
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Wisconsin.
A fire in Landenbergers mill in Phila- |
delphia on the 10Th caused a loss of $780, |
900 and at least twenty lives.
Edison, the American inventor, carries |
off the highest awards, five gold medals,
at the great exhibition of electric appara-
tus in Paris.
Ex-chief of police John McDade and
gambler named Jackson of Quincy, ILL.,,
shot each other fatally on the 9th inst,
in an ARRAY in which McDade was the ag-
gressor.
The president and cabinet have decided
to attend the Yorktown celebration. They
will go in the dispatch boat Speedwell,
which is being fitted up for the transpor-
tation Of army and navy officials.
A locomotive on the Old Colony rail-
road became manageable recently at
North Abingdon, and collided at South
Weymouth with passenger train from
Boston. Fortunately no one was killed.
Gen. John Echols of Virginia reports
that on tour through the back woods of
Kentucky and West Virginia he found
even the cabins of the colored people with
their bits of Grape in mourning for Gar
field.
The estimated cost of the proposed
monument to Garfield in Lake View Gem
etery is not less than 5000, 900. The COM
mittee believe that this can be raised in
three weeks. Cleveland is expected to
give $4,000.
Mr.. Arthur is the sixth president who
goes wifeless into the White House. His
predecessors in this respect were Jeffer-
son, Jackson, Van Buren,, Tyler and Blu
chanan, all but the bachelor Buchanan
having been widowers.
By the recent forest fires in Michigan
it is carefully estimated that the number
of dwellings burned was 1147; school
houses %; churches 8; hotels II; stores
and offices 100; mills 81. The total loss
is estimated at $2,346,413. The insur-
ance was 1928, 632.
Gov. Long says the asserted decadence
of American churches was never more
thoroughly disproven than in times of
great national calamity, like that through
which we have lately passed, when the
voice Of the pulpit speaks with cheering
words of consolation and courageous hope
for the future.
DIES MONIES, Ia, Oct. Is. Seventy-eight
counties give Sherman net majority over
Kline of IS, 900 and sustains previous es-
Inmates that his majority will be over 49,
900. The senate stands 40 republicans to
democrats and 2 greenbackers, and the
house stands 70 republicans, 20 democrats
and greenbackers.
The four Arkansas officers who arrest
ed the Iron Mountain train robbers and
secured $4,000 of the stolen money, divid-
ed it among themselves and swore to Sc
crecy, but one of the rascals broke faith
with his pals and exposed the transaction.
The robbers have been sentenced to pris-
on for seventy years each.
The Canada Mutual telegraph company
is now constructing a line of wire to New
York city. The line enters Vermont at
Richford, reaching st. Adams via the
Missisquoi railroad. The new line will
follow along the Central Vermont road
through the state, and offices will be es-
tablished in the towns through which the
wire passes.
HARTFORD, Conn, Oct. 6. Reports
from the 1877 towns which held local cleo
tions on Monday show that the republi.
cans carried 80, the democrats SO, and %
were evenly divided. This is republican
gain over the similar elections of last
year, when the republicans carried an un
usually large number. Thirty-thret
towns voted for no license
Mr.. Nash, the chairman Of the republi
can state committee, Ohio, says that Eos
ter's majority over Bookwalter will b.
$4,000, and the other candidates on thu
t republican ticket will be about 500 more
/ The house will stand 20 republicans ant
: 40 democrats, and the senate % republi
a cans and IL democrats. The official fig
/ ures cannot be obtained for several days
The Fourth Avenue horse-car stables il
New York city, owned by w. II. Wander
j bilt, and occupying an entire block, burn
: ed on Monday evening. Some 200 horse
). are said to have persisted. The loss i
n estimated at 5000, 900. The flames sprea
v to Monells large furniture storage buil6
e ing, which was destroyed, with some c
v the finest furniture in New York, incluC
# ing $4,000 worth of paintings, the prof.
d erty of Vanderbilt. The loss is estimate
at $4,000, 900.
e With the arrival of cold weather, til
is general trade throughout the Unite
If States is strengthened in its heavy pr
l. portions. Special kilograms to Bra'
IS streets from 81 leading commercial Gel
IL tres conclusively point to this. Repor
i from Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimor
20 Cincinnati, Boston and elsewhere, me-
it ton largely increased business in seve
al lines over the corresponding week la
= year. The prospects for good trade du
eff ing the remainder of the year are ali
;: said to be very favorable.
d. Mrs. Garfield will remain at Mento
ID 1t was the home built by her husband al
80 herself as their refuge from the world,
a their resting place from the cares of pu
IS. lie life, and the spot to which their fe
% would gladly turn when life's sun W
is sinking toward the close of day. The
visions of peaceful old age, crown
he with blessings and free from care, a
tel gone forever, but to no spot on ear
er could the sorely wounded heart OF t
v. one who has been left so freely go as