Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-02-14
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


The newborn baby of the Japanese
minister to this country has been named
Ulysses Grant Yoshida.
Four thousand cotton weavers have
struck for an advance at Hyde, England.
Eleven thousands looms are idle.
Philetus Sawyer, the new Wisconsin
senator, gave his two daughters 100000
apiece when they were married.
The average temperature registered at
the observatory at Toronto during Janu-
airy was l6 degrees above zero, which is
six degrees lower than the average of
January for forty years.
The richest man in the Senate next to
Fair is David Davis, and twenty are
worth more than half million each.
Blaine, Cameron, Davis of West Virginia
and Plumb are worth more than million
EACH
The steamer Bohemian, from Boston
Jan. 81, for Liverpool, went ashore on
the Irish coast during severe gale,
on Sunday night. The steamer is total
loss. Over thirty persons were known
to have persisted. .ea ags..
The ice gorge near Delaware breakwa-
ter is heavier than ever before. The
ocean, so far as can be seen with field
glasses, is solid field of ice. Many YES
sells are fast in the ice and some are in a
perilous condition.
Major d. I. Corbin of South Carolina,
a native of Vermont, who was elected to
the seat in the United States Senate which
was given to Wade Hampton, has been
stricken with apoplexy at Columbia,
South Carolina, and is in critical con-
dition.
Speaking of the project to cut a rail-
road tunnel under the Falls of Niagara,
the Montreal Witness says; ''This con-
nection between Canada and the United
States will be made partly by tunnel and
partly by tube. Certain railways are
forming combination for Western trade,
and this project is part of the scheme.
An adventurous English tourist as
cended the magnificent ice mountain be.
low Niagara Falls and after reaching the
summit, slipped and went down in the
direction of the river. In his frantic en-.
70 I, N sle
literally torn from his fingers. He only
stopped in his terrible career within few
| feet of the river.
An accident happened on the Cheshire
railroad, near Fitzwilliam, N. H., on Sat
| urday night Feb. 9TH. The train ran into
the rear end of a fright train, wreckins
the engine and several cars. The engi
neer, John Lang Davis (who for many
years acted in that capacity on the Cen
trail Vermont was killed. Hejumped of
and slipped down the bank nnder tn
train, breaking his neck. Baggage Mas
! ter Caldwell and Brakeman Pike wer
more or less injured. No passenger
were hurt. a-na.4
The coffee-houses established in tn
great English cities, as a means of keep
ing men away from taverns, have been a
great success in pecuniary as the
have been in moral point of view. Mos
of the companies pay an annual dividen
of ten per cent. on their capital. TIL
| FOG or,1
soups, cold meats and bread and butter
all the articles being of good quality an
the prices low. Newspapers are kept
abundance, and the customers are free t
remain and read as long as they please
Why should not the same means for hi
manizing men be equally successful
this country?
The roof of the old New York Centr;
depot at Buffalo, weakened by the remo7
al of the officers, which formerly supper
ed it, and weighed down with snow, fe
in at O'Clock yesterday morning, KILN
Henry Walters, Superintendent Tillin:
hast's private secretary, Capt John Burr
William Wells, clerk for Inspector How
of the Lake road, and Levi S. Huntin.
clerk in the Buffalo. New York and Phi
adelphia railroad office. A Lake Shol
train end switch engine were waiting
, the depot, but their occupants were NJ
injured. The fire department and raj
road men began at once to overhaul tt
ruins and soon recovered the bodies
the dead. The old depot, built in 49,
: and 450 feet long by 100 feet wide, is
mass of ruins. An express train w;
soon due from the East, and a local ira
for Niagara Falls had just left.