Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-25
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Dean Stanley is dead. He will be bur-
led beside his wife in Westminster Abbey.
A fire in Paris on Sunday destroyed
over one million francs worth of prop
erty.
The wealthy widow" whom Guiteau
has been expecting to marry is Mrs. Van
Colt, the revivalist.
The subscriptions to the fund for the |
benefit of the family of President Garfield
now amount to $148,411
A Kentucky editor sends this message
to the secretary of state eve tender
hope for the president; hemp for the
assassin
Insurance aggregating 100000 is
found to have been placed on the life of
Robert Bell, an aged negro, who has just
died at Westminster, Md.
Miss Ida Iveson of Chillicothe, Mime
sofa, public school teacher, has fallen
heir to $2,5OO,0O0 in Scotland, and has
left to take possession of her property.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, who was sup
posed to be dying, is recovering in
marvellous manner. She is able to take
drives, and is rapidly gaining strength.
The republicans at Speaker Sharpe's
home fired a salute in honor of the cleo
ton of Mr. Miller. At least nine-tenths
of the republicans of the district are OPP
posed to Mr.. Conkling's reelection.
Judge Clifford of the United States SUI
preme court has undergone amputation
of foot at Portland, Maine, for gangrene,
and is as comfortable as could be expect
| ed, though the chances for his recovering
are exceedingly small.
A sand-hill crane killed at Gridley, Col
| orado, recently, had wire around its
neck to which was attached a silver dol
lar bearing this inscription: Captured at
Fort du Quesne May %, 1888. Released
| at Fort Dearborn November II, 1843.
BALTIMORE, Md, July Is. Four more
cases of lockjaw from wounds from toy
pistols have occurred here. Three have
proved fatal, and the fourth is not expect
ed to recover. This makes total Of II
cases of lockjaw from the use of toy pis-
tolls on the Fourth of July.
CINCINNATI, O., July II. The weather
to-day is the coolest for the last sixteen
days. In the seven days from July 10 to
the 10Th, inclusive, the deaths from sun
stroke were 264 and from excessive heat
$50, making Ala deaths. On July IA the
deaths from these causes numbered sc.
LONDON, July 49, The Morning Pos
says by an arrangement just concluded
between the German Telegraph Company
of Berlin and the German Union Tele
graph Company an independent cable vii
be laid from Germany to Valencia ant
thence to the United States, at cost Of
E165,O00.
Thursday was generally observed il
Arkansas and Kentucky as day of fast
ing and prayer for the recovery of Gener
al Garfield, having been set apart by Gov
errors Churchill and Blackburn for tina
purpose. Religious services were helC
in all the churches, and all state offices
were closed as well as prominent business
houses.
Mrs. Eliza Garfield, mother Of Presiden
!, Garfield, on Friday had severe attack o
cholera morbus, and is now prostrate'
by fever. On account of her extreme age
she being eighty-one, her condition is re
> garded as very critical, and fears are Ell
tertained for her recovery. Every effo1
will be made to keep the news from th
e president, as the shock might be injuriou
/ to him at present.
ST. PAUL, MIMI. July Is. A Winon
y special says Paul Held, Swiss emigrar
who had lately bought farm in Eagl
II Creek Valley, became insane through fai
y ure of crops and inconsistencies. Sunda
= morning he was found dead in the fror
d room of the house; his wife and two chi
dren dead in the next room; three chi
a, dren dead in a bed upstairs, and the tW
III OlueSt DOyS III onO nay -AoAo' AAioA'0A
~ wounded, all shot in the head. One be
s. may recover. The revolver was found
i. the house.
tie The town of New Ulm, Minnesota, {
Mt the Minnesota river sixty-five miles we
o. from st. Paul, containing ABOUT thr
n thousand five hundred persons, was wrec
ed by cyclone Saturday afternoon. T.
in telegraph wires went down in the rive
de and only meager details can be given.
n seems two currents of air swept the V;
ed ley simultaneously, coming from differe
ir- directions. The scene was appalling
of the extreme Stone and brick buildin
were RACED to their foundations, and
et air was full of debris. The town and S
ly burbs are now a mass of ruins. We
oil. Newton, in a neighboring county, W
he visited and family of three killed.
as the valley of New Ulm, so far as is kuo1
al, twelve were Killed and twenty woundt
oh some very seriously. 1t devastated
of country for forty miles around. The
tent OF the disaster is not yet known,
10 two grain elevators were destroyed a
zer many people killed and wounded
- Prof. GuiImette. the inventor of the French Kid
Pad bearing his name, was one of the most nj
medical of his day in France. Its cures of kid