Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-06-27
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Mr.. Window reckons the saving by his
refunding scheme, so far as carried out,
at S14 1892, 900 a year.
There are 5000 ''Blue Lodge" Masons
in this state and l 900 Royal Arch Masons.
The council numbers only S14.
A sharp political canvass is being made
in North Carolina on prohibition or nom
prohibition with probability that the
former will win. ase@
De Winter Dumas, a colored clerk in
one of the departments at Washington,
speaks half dozen languages and is an
expert shorthand writer.
VIM. E. Goodyear, who lately died in
East Haven, Conn, rode on horseback
from the Atlantic to the Pacific in 1852.
He was, during the war, a distinguished
scout under Gen. Terry.
At Newburyport, Mass, early Sunday
morning, the people were startled by a
rumbling and shaking as of an earthquake
which lasted several seconds, during
which the buildings shook with visible
vibrations.
i Parker and Gates's steam saw mill in
Jefferson, n. H., and shovel handle and
bobbin factory connected, operated by A.
F. Mason, were burned on Monday last.
Loss $4,000; insured by Morrill, & Dan
forth of Concord.
New Orleans, La, experienced exceed
ingly hot weather week before last, and
during the first five days of the week six
teen cases of sunstroke occurred, four of
them on Thursday, which was pronounced
the hottest day for eight years. g
A shower of rain and hail passed over
the neighborhood of Freeport, L. L. Sun
day evening. Some of the hailstones
measured five inches in circumference.
No wind accompanied the storm, but the
growing grain was badly beaten down.
Mr.. Georne 1. Seney of New York has
donated $4,000 to the Wesleyan Female
College at Macon, Ga. This makes $7O,-
600 Mr.. Seney has given the college in
two months. $4,000 will be expended
at once in erecting the finest college build
, ing in the South. a
Miss Aver, the daughter and heiress Of
the late pill maker of Lowell, Mass, re
Gently refused an offer of marriage from
Bourbon prince, cousin of Don Carlos
of Spain. In response to remonstrances
from the princes chamberlain, who 'spop
ped' for his MASTER she said: 81 dom
want title half as much as he want:
; cash.
The Mount Warrington Railway is being
entirely rebuilt before summer travel shall
commence. No expense will be spared tC
make it absolutely safe. The first excur
sion train of the season went up Mt
: Washington June 16. It was run by
special arrangement for a few guests from
; the Crawford and Fabyan Houses, anG
regular trains will not be put on for sew
eral days.
, Methodists all over the world are in
2 terested in their ecumenical conference
: which will meet in London, England, Sep
: TENDER 1929 of this year, and which vii
/
| be one of the most important religious
gatherings ofthe decade. It will be com
posed of 400 delegates, representing al
branches of Methodism in all parts of thu
: world. Two hundred will go from thi.
t side of the globe to meet 200 from thu
, other side. In America alone there ar,
| fifteen different Methodist bodies. Thes,
will all have a part in this conference
5 and it will be the first time they have al
come together. 4e
e The first trial in New York under tn
: statute which makes the proprietor o
s publisher of paper liable to Indictment il
t any county in which the newspaper is cir
: culated and read for inserting lottery no
: tees, has just come off in the Schenecta
: dy County Court and Court of Sessions
I. W, England, publisher of the New Y or
9 San, was the culprit and was found guilt
, of the charge. On motion of the defend
ants counsel, forty days stay of proceed
; ings has been granted, and the case vii
: probably go to the General Term. Jane
Gordon Bennett, of the Herald, is to b
tried for similar offense in Schenectad
, in September.
A Boy AGAIN.-Pain and sickness bring on old ag
q with fearful rapidty. They make an ncessant drai
. on the vital forces and the weary steps and fade
cheeks of age often when the enjoyment Of lii
should be at its highest. DR.. David Kennedys 'FaN
It orite Remedy turns this kind of old age into yout
again. Headache. pains in the limbs troubles of tn
liver bowels or kidneys vanish before it. and eebl
men and women become like rolicking school boy
s and girls once more One dollar bottle. either