Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-04-17
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS,

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. j.
The New York canals were opened for
business on Tuesday.
Many of the strikers at Lawrence,
Mass, have resumed work.
British Columbia has been visited by a
fierce and fatal wind storm
Secretary Lincoln is now the only Gar
field member of Mr.. Arthur's cabinet
Three sisters residing in Philadelphia,
died suddenly Saturday night, all within
half an hour.
1t is rumored that Minister Lowell has
been recalled, and that Judge Taft ofOhio
will be his successor.
All the American citizens who have
been held as prisoners in Ireland have |
been released except eight.
Sara Bernhardt was lately married to
Greek gentleman named Damala. He is |
rich and Sara is worth about $25O,OOO.
The czar has relieved GortschakofF of
the functions of minister for foreign al
fairs on account of his age and shattered
health.
Mr.. Parnell has been released from
prison on parole for one week for the
purpose Of visiting a sister whose child
has just died.
Rev. L. Hamilton, pastor of the indie
pendent church at Oakland, Cal, died
suddenly, Sunday morning, in the pulpit
during the sermon.
Asa I. Barron Of the twin Mountain
House, White Mountains, was badly in
jured by kick in the stomach from
COW, at Newburyport.
Guiteau has sold to circus manager
the suit of clothes he wore when he shot
President Garfield, and sculptor is MAX
ing bust Of the assassin.
In New Haven the Malley boys and
Blanche Douglass have been arraigned
on charge of numbering Jennie Cramer,
and all pleaded not guilty.
A cyclone on the 9th destroyed Chase,
a Kansas town, and killed six people;
and a hurricane in Michigan the same
day killed three persons
Mrs. Ida Greeley Smith, the elder of
Horace Greeley's daughters, who was
married to Col. Nicholas Smith, in 1875,
died at Chappaqua, Tuesday.
Col. Henry D., aged sc, brother of the
late President Pierce, died suddenly at
his residence at Hillsborough, N. H.,
Sunday night. He leaves two sons.
The manufacture of oleomargarine in
st. Louis has been investigated by the
Board of Health, and proof was obtained
Of the use Of fat from horses and dogs.
George Bruen, coupon clerk of the
Bank of America, New York, is said to
be defaulter to the amount of ST. 900.
No action was taken against him, as his
friends paid up.
The Methodist Episcopal Church South
will hold its Conference at Nashville,
Tenn, in May, when plan for reunion
with the Northern section of the church
will be fully considered.
The House Committee on Agriculture
: has agreed to recommend an appropria-
ton of $40, 900 for the distribution of seed
among the people of the submerged sec
ton of the Mississippi Valley.
The court in banc at Washington has
set the Guiteau case for hearing the fourth
Monday in this month Mr. Read of Chi
cago, as counsel for Guiteau, will ask 8
postponement of two weeks from this
date.
Judge Westbrooke at Hudson, n. Y,
granted new trial to Henry Moett, the
5 Laghkona murderer, who has been foul
times sentenced to be hanged. The
next trial will probably take place il
October
An unknown person fired shot through
the windows of the dwelling of Horace
? Jones, Sunday, in the town of Union
! Wis. The shot took effect on Jones, his
wife and a domestic, probably fatally
, wounding them.
= A letter received dated January 16 from
|
- in his great exploration in Africa, say:
that the expedition is prospecting, and hi
hopes to accomplish the object of the ex
petition this year He was far up tn,
Congo river.
: The st. Louis papers publish accounts
: of the Winter wheat crop from over l5
different points in Kansas, Missouri, I'LL
nois, Indiana. Ohio, and Michigan, all o
& which are quite favorable, and represen
the wheat in an advanced state, and tn
prospects for good crop to be very fine
Hon. Daniel f. Beatty, the piano an
organ manufacturer, was reelected may
or of Washington n. j., on the 10th inst
for the fourth time, by handsome mf
jority. 1t is a great compliment, a
three years is considered full term, an
;, he was the only man elected on tn
" ticket.
. The Adams family, of Massachusetts
is getting good deal of praise for pros,
;, cutting gang ofscoundrels who swindle
=" Charles Francis, the head of the family
:. out of a check for SIS, 700. 1t may
~ that the generous comment in the case
V all deserved but there are few familie
that would not do as much to save $1S
n 0OO
N En- the Rhode Island election, the 5tl
$ the Republican ticket for state officer
) was elected by large majority. Littl
field, for governor, has between thrt
m and four thousand in the state. The Sci
10 ate will stand twenty light Republican
N to eight Democrats; and the House prol
20 ably sixty Republicans to ten Democrat
g 1t is understood that most of the Repu1
licans favor the reelection of Senate
Anthony.
N A company has been formed in Phil
q delphia to manufacture glucose. or crap
tuh ind;