Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-05-08
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Weeks Vi GdCH OGIleF.
Bishop Foss of the Methodist church
is very i'll at his residence at Minneapolis,
recover sufficient strength to discharge |
the duties of his office.
Sergeant Mason, who is in good health,
is employed in the shoe factory of the |
Albany penitentiary. He expects par
don soon after the execution of Guiteau,
and says his only regret is that he did
not succeed in killing the assassin.
Ex-Secretary Blaine, Thomas Ewing of
Ohio, and Senator Davis of West Virgin
ia, have formed syndicate to purchase
the Washington and Ohio Railroad,
which will be short line between Wash
ington and Cincinnati. This railroad
will open extensive coal beds owned by
the syndicate in Virginia.
The steamer Marion burst her boilers
on the Wateree river, near Kingville,
S. c., yesterday morning. She had
picnic party of nearly forty persous on
board. One young woman was killed,
a deck hand was drowned, two young
women and a man are missing, and sew
eral others were injured, two fatally.
Stanley, the African explorer, reports
satisfactory progress in his work on the
Congo river. He has laid out road
around the falls SO as to open free COM
munication between the upper and lower
river His object is to open the interior
to commerce, but the details of his plans
and prospects are not yet announced.
The death of Mr.. Emerson takes anoth
er of the very old men from the list of
our worthless. Among them who remain
are Thurlow Weed, who is s.; Charles
O'Conor, rs; David Dudley Field, II;
Charles Francis Adams, and John A.
Whittier, IA; Oliver Wendell Holmes IS;
Wendell Phillips, II; Alexander H.
Stephens and Horatio Semour, TO-
1t is officially confirmed that there was
a fight between General Forsythe and the
hostile Indians in Arizona, near old Camp
Rucker, on Wednesday of last week, in
which six Indians were killed. In fight
at Stems Peak, New Mexico, on Wednes-
day afternoon, between Indians and Cap
tain Tupper's detachment of the Sixth
! Cavalry. fnur Indian scouts and two col
diers were killed 1t is said six Indians
were also killed. Possibly both reports
refer to the same fight.
Since January 1st nine hundred houses,
which for the purposes of taxation are
valued at $4,000, 900, have been erected
within the municipal limits of New York
| city. In other words, dwelling houses
and business establishments sufficient to
make a good sized town in any part of
the country have been built on Manhat-
tan Island in the short space of less than
! four months. The ratable taxation of
ten million dollars means an actual in
vestment of nearly double that amount.
The New York Methodist says that the
professed conversions in the revival at
Cincinnati to April 9th number 2, 12S with
zoos additions on probation. Newport,
Covington, and Ludlow, across the river
in Kentucky, record 400 conversions and
$50 accessions, giving total for Cincin-
natl and it's Kentucky suburbs of2, 5S3 con-
versions and 1856 accessions. The work
has extended in all directions and among
all denominations. The Presbyterians
report 272; the Baptists, 800; the Con-
gregationalists, 80; one Lutheran church,
10; the Disciples of Christ, SO CONVEX
sions or additions, and even St. Xavier's
Roman Catholic Church had a revival.
The New York Times presents an elab-
crate crop report, covering thirty-seven
states and four Territories. With few
exceptions the general condition on Apr.
20 promised can abundant harvest throgh-
out the country" winter wheat promising
WELL spring wheat very well, corn large
ly increased acreage, sugar a splendid
yield, save where drowned, hay and
grass sight reduction, potatoes heavy
increase, fruits an average yield or less,
the diaries, and provisions a heavy in
farming and greater variety have been
the objects OF the agriculturists, and il
the season be at all favorable it will be
year of plenty with nearly everybody.
The fire at Dover, Tuesday, which de-
stroyed the Washington street Baptist
church and L. B. Laskey's brush factory
was attended with fatal consequences.
portion ofthe floor of the church fell, in The
evening, burying five persons in its ruins
Four were rescued from the debris anC
removed to their homes. Their names ar,
Mrs. Clifford, Mrs. Whitney, J. H. Bur
leigh and a youth named Peters. Thei
CHASTITY and mangled condition make i
almost impossible that they can recover
A search among the ruins resulted in tn,
discovery of the body of Judge John R
Varney, who had been missing sine,
noon. His body was beneath two heav,
timhers at the entrance of the vestry, ant
was crushed beyond recognition.
Horace Maynard died at l o'clock on
morning last week of heart disease, a
his home at Knoxville, Tenn. He go
out of bed at that hour, telling his wifi
he felt unwell and dropped dead ON tn
floor. Mr.. Maynard served several term
as Congressman from Tennessee, wa
minister to Turkey and then Postmaste
General under President Hayes. He wa
Ga years old. Mr.. Maynard was nativ
of Westboro, and graduated at Amhers
college. He had been one of the mos
] prominent of Tennessee's public men, an
one of the best, also. As mark of re
!. spect to the late Horace Maynard tn
post Office department at Washingto
: will be closed on Friday next, the day c
!, the funeral, and the building will b
:, draped in mourning for 80 days.
Clear head and voice, easy breathing. breatl
perfect SMELL taste aud hearing, cough. disres
These are conditions brought about in catarrh by tn
: use of sanford's Radical Cure. Complete treatmer
/ for 81.
. Terrible itching and seay humors, ulcers, sores an
scrofulous sweings cured By the Cuticura and Cut
cura Soap he great skin cures) externally ana Cut
a cura Resolvent blood purfer) internally. Ask abol
h them at your druggists.