Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-01-23

CURED among the pupils of a Buffalo |
school, Fifty children attending at the |
same school are sick with the same dis
ease.
There are now 2,208 school districts in |
Pennsylvania, with Is, 1876 schools Last |
year 1894, 705.O1 was spent on these
schools, which were under the charge of |
1882 teachers.
The comptroller Of the currency has de-
clared dividend of 25 per cent for the
creditors of the Mechanics National bank
of Newark, n. The total amount is
about $3.50, 900.
Mayor Grace of New York has proved
much better official than those who NOM
mated him expected he would be, and his
chance for a denomination is therefore
very poor one.
A special from Clinton, Mo-, says: ssThe
house of Geo. C. Smith at Lewis, 5 miles
north of st. Louis, was burned at 8
O'Clock a. m. Jan. 10, and five of the in
| mates persisted in the flames"
New York state finances are in very
healthy condition. The state debt is but
| 100000, mere bagatelle for people
who have $424, OOO, 900 in savings banks
and other property in still greater abund-
ance.
The will of John II. Barstow, who kill
ed himself in Boston on Christmas day,
was probated Friday at Portsmouth, r. l.
| He leaves $150,000 to his relatives, ex-
cept his sister Catharine, who is residu-
airy legatee.
Sixteen of the twenty-one cities in Mas
sachusetts report a less amount of debt
at the close of 1881 than at the close of
| 1880, and in most of them there has been
a marked increase in the valuation of tax
able property.
James R. Wilmot, reputable and we'll
TODD farmer living near Lancaster, KY,
in fit Of insanity, killed his aged mother,
his wife, his two daughters and then hung
himself He attempted to kill son, who
escaped.
Between five and six hundred negros,
bound for Arkansas, passed through At
lanta, Ca, one day last week. They were
all from Edgefeld, S. c., and in charge of
a colored minister, who had been to Ar
kansas on tour of inspection.
Three children were killed in New
York on Saturday through the careless
ness of the fire department, who allowed
1 q hr1i1d 70 I
was resorted to as playhouse by the
children, who were instantly killed by it's
falling.
1t has been found that every one of the
fifty -four persons on board of the Inflated
steamer Lynn, which was lost off New
foundland last week, persisted in the sea.
The skillful captain was probably deceiv-
ed in the early morning by the illusory
| frosty vapor over sea and land.
Illinois has the largest COW in the
world. She is 171a hands high, and
weighs 5000 pounds; is red, with a
sprinkling of white, and is said to be a
beautiful creature. She belongs to M. S.
Stokes of GRANVILLE, White County, and
has been exhibited in four states.
So microscopically perfect is the watch
! making machinery now in use that screws
, are cut with nearly 600 threads to the
inch, though the finest used in the watch
has 250. These threads are invisible to
, the naked eye, and it takes IA 900 of the
screws to weigh pound, their value be-
/ ing six pounds of pure gold.
The Marquis of Lorne sailed for Cana
) da last Wednesday. He was accompan-
| led to Liverpool br the Princess Louise.
7 He said it was by his particular desire
| that the princess remained in England, in
< the hope that her health might be perfect
| ly restored; but he trusted she would be
able to rejoin him in the spring.
The floods at Nashville reached eli
5 | max Jan. Is with an additional two feet
rise. Nearly all the principal streets in
| the lowlands are covered and the cars on
three different street railroads have stop
e ped running. Innumerable piles of lum-
D Der in the various yards Of saw mills have
n toppled over and now lie in confused
n mass. The city is surrounded by water
on three sides. Efforts are being made
t to succor those who have been driven out
s of their homes by the back water. Many
d Of these people have suffered for want OF
shelter and food. 1t is estimated that
v not less than 1900 people have been fore
# | ed to abandon their homes which are now
r | submerged 1t is impossible to estimate
$ the losses caused by the inundation of the
v 1900 or 1000 houses that are under water
7, Judge Gilbert, on Saturday, sent fifteer
1t of the Brooklyn aldermen to Jail for con
e | tempt of court in refusing to obey an in
4, junction issued by Judge Henty A. Moore
is The Injunction was issued to prevent
<, them from overriding Mayor Howell's We
g to of series of resolutions comforting OF
# the Brooklyn elevated railroad compan,
* (the old Bruff road) the right of extend
r ing its route so as to take in Fulton ave
nue., Myrtle avenue, and other of the prin
+ cipal streets of the city. The fine wa
e. $3.50 in each case, but the sentence of i'm
IN prisonment varied from ten to thirty days
of At late hour the same night the impris
ne oned aldermen were released on an orde
e. issued by Judge Calvin E. Pratt of tn
of supreme court, and left the jail Thei
" bonds had previously been furnished an
I'd approved by the same judge.
lie A Seattle CIV. To dispatch says Jane
ch Sullivan and William Howard have bee
he arrested on charge of numbering Georg
n R. Reynolds, young man whom the
if waylaid and shot. The prisoners wer
e. taken before a magistrate for preliminar
en- examination on Tuesday. At the close
n their examination the committee of SAT-
ty forced it's way into the court room an
On overpowering the officers took the pris'
IA ners and hanged them. Their bodi'
III were left suspended, and the crowd, nun
raj bering 400, then proceeded to the count
it'll Jail, and overcoming the guards al
I'd. breaking down the doors of his cell toe
ter out Benz. Payne, who was confined fl
'en the murder of police officer Sears. I
nat was taken to the place where the bodi
ere of Sullivan and Howard were Suspend