Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-06-20
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

over sixty lives are reported lost by the
storm in southwest Missouri.
Martin Garrison was arrested in Boston
Tuesday, charged with perpetrating
frauds through the mails. 81
Charles A. Cowles of Rochester, N Y,
suddenly and mysteriously recovered his
hearing while at supper the other evening
after being deaf 81 years.
Locusts are reappearing throughout
large portions of the West and South, in
| accordance with the prediction of United
states chronological Commissioner Riley
| six months ago.
| The Secretary of war has prohibited
the use of tobacco by the cadets at West
Point. The order has created great dis
satisfaction 'as four-fifths of the cadets
are tobacco users
Siemens, the European electrician, has
cleared 500, 000,0 900 from his inventions,
and expects to make as much more from
! the electric railroad which he has put in
| operation so successfully at Berlin.
Mormonism, in spite of it's infernalism,
makes progress rapidly. There are now
fifteen Mormon settlements in nothern
Arizona, with an aggregate population of
1000, and they are growing rapidly.
President Garfield thus far during the
three months of his administration has
granted three pardons. 1t is said that the
pardons granted by President Hayes aver
aged forty month during portion of his
administration.
1t is proposed to erect colossal image
of the Virgin Mary, 20 feet high, on the
summit of Cape Trinity, Saguenay River.
On the head of the figure will be au enor-
nous star, from which an electric light
will cast it's beams.
Indianapolis during the last six months
has had the most remarkable religious
revival in its history, no less than 1000
converts having been made. Much Of this
result is due to the Rev. Thomas Harrison
we'll known as the boy preacher"
Twenty-one thousand voters of Virginia
have signed pledge to support any can
didates who favor local option law. II
none of the regular party nominees SC
pledge themselves, the local optionists
will nominate candidates of their own
The Hudson river tunnel at New York
is progressing favorably. The south
tunnel is now out $50 feet under the river
and the north tunnel about $40 feet. 1t il
| expected that the tunnel will be finished
f ready for travel, by the summer of 1888.
Mr. Walker Blaine, the eldest son Of the
Secretary, has been performing the dutie:
of the Assistant Secretary of State, in tn,
absence of Mr.. Hit in Europe. Mr. Blain,
$ will not return to Minnesota, where h,
: has been practicing law, but will hereafte
live and work at Augusta, Me.
: At meeting of the directors of tn
a Nothern Pacific railroad, Thursday, Hon
Frederic Billings resigned the presidency
f and Ashbel H. Barney was elected pres
d ident pro tenn. +. f. Cakes was electe'
+ first vice-president; James B. Williams
second vice-president, and Henry Villar
; a director.
S A syndicate of liars, whose object it i
l. to circulate false reports bearing upon tn
stock and grain markets, exists in NeN
York, with agencies in number of leadi
cities. On Monday they bulletined a
announcement of the shooting of ia
: Gould, but the lie was detected in time t
prevent its circulation.
- A terrible accident occurred near NJ
y komis, Illinois, on Tuesday night.
l. wagon containing J. Creswell, his wifi
III two children and three neighbors, wa
III struck by a Wabash freight train at Ra!
mond. Mrs. Creswell, both children an
rd her brother were thrown under the el
by CINE and all four instantly killed. Nor
ey of the rest were seriously hurt.
81 Ex-President Hayes, says a CORE
AZ pendent who recently visited him, lool
after his valuable farms on the Sandusk
;e, attends to his interest in the First n
RS tional Bank of Fremont, drives out wit
it out coachman, opens and closes the pa
er- gates, has joined the grand Army of t
g, Republic and is happy. He refuses poi
ed blank to beinterviewed. $50 to Albany
he says, if you ''want to interview"
on On Sunday destructive fire broke o
lay at the Asbestos Mines, in the township
m Thetford, Province of Quebec. Thir
ex- six houses belonging to laborers in
'he works were destroyed, together with
nil 500, 900 feet of lumber, which is said to
at owned by the Boston Asbestos Packi
Company. The johnson Asbestos Co
rye pany is also sufferer. Three or fl
Ed miles of the Quebec Central Railway trs
end is also reported burnt with everything
nd its vicinity. The fire was said to be f
rec spreading.
orn At Nortonville, a town on the Atchis
lid. Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, and alb
and seventeen miles from Atchison, KanS
three masked burglars entered pro
IA. nent store in which at the time were {
ne, of the proprietors, one of his clerks, {
irm some lady customers. The robbers, inn
ms. diately on entering, drew their revolv
20 and commanded the inmates to keep {
;tra ct. One of the thieves then proceeded
! 20 the safe, one lookup his post at the d
ggs and the third kept guard over the oc
pants. While the robbers were thus
cupied, two clerks who had been to
NJ depot, returned, and were at once ia
charge of bv the sentinel at the door
safe contained between 81, 900 and s
20 600 in cash, and this the robbers carr
:. -, off. Gaining the street, they rode RAJ
ly away. @
,ans E Intelligence from Western Iowa, incl
.llod ing Audubon, Cass, PottaWattamie