Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-03-27
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
The president has approved the anti-po-

The murder of Mrs. Bell in Boston is
still shrouded in mystery. All clues thus
far followed have been unavalling
No doubt is expressed as to the ability
of C. A. Sweet & Co. of Boston to pay
their liabilities in full. 1t is also expect
ed that they will have surplus Of sever
al hundred thousand dollars
1t is stated that over 100000 will
have to be refunded to sugar importers
as result of the decision of the United
States supreme court in the case of Welsh
VS.. the United States on Tuesday.
WINNIPEG, March %. Trains are block
AIDED in every direction, owing to the re-
cent snow storms. The worst experience
is on the western division, upon which
no regular trains have run for week.
The report of snow-slide at Genoa,
New, is confirmed. Three white people,
Mr.. and Mrs. Nimrod Bowen, Miss Bor-
lin, and a number of Indians were killed.
All the bodies have not yet been recov-
cred.
A dispatch from Odessa says sSeveral
persons have been arrested here who are
supposed to be connected with active Nj
hilism, and clandestine press, together
with type and copies of proclamation
denouncing the late political trials, have
been seized.
Miss Emma Key, oldest daughter of ex-
Postmaster General d. M. Key, was
thrown from buggy Saturday afternoon
by runaway horse at Chattanooga, Tenn,
and hurled down steep embankment,
falling on her head. Serious consequence
es are feared.
The meetings at Cincinnati, under the
charge of Rev. Thomas Harrison, contin-
ue to be largely attended. OF the 1000
persons who have expressed desire to be-
come Christians, over 700 profess to have
been converted. The meetings are to be
kept up till April.
A Copenhagen dispatch says: sit is
stated that the Car has received convinc-
ing proofs that the Nihilists are deter
mined to abandon their policy of assassi-
nation. Imperial clemency will conse-
quentlv be extended to political prisoners
and executions will be reduced to the ut
most possible limit"
While Michael Garrish, Allen Failes,
| Samuel Montgomery, John Montgomery
and Nicholas Kell, boys in their teens
were digging tunnel at st. Joseph, Mo.
on Thursday the earth caved in, buryins
them alive. One alone showed symptoms
of life when the bodies were recovered
but he died as he was being taken out o.
the pit.
A remarkable experiment was made a
the Crystal Palace in London few even
ings since. An electric light of 150,00(
candles was produced. The effect wa:
surprising. The light was like the sun
no one could fix his gaze upon it, but TIT
light did not seem too strong so long a:
the eye was not directly regarding it
Such light would fill whole distric
with illumination.
The Boston papers report that owe
1000 horses i'll that city are sufferin.
from severe types of blood-poisonin:
which have in many cases proved fatal
The distemper is thought to have beel
caused by poor quality of salt sprinkle,
by horse railroad corporations on thei
tracks to free the latter from snow AM
ice. Horse owners are alarmed and con
siderable excitement prevails.
CINCINNATI, O., March 81. The rise i
the Ohio river has been IA feet in 2
hours and is still rising, both here an
above. Four coal barges and larg
number of RATS of logs were torn loose
Nearly all railroads have suffered froI
washouts. Streams in central and south
ern Ohio have risen to an unprecedente
extent and losses to farmers will be great
The wind is so high to-day as to pract
cally suspend navigation on the Ohio.
The New York Commercial Bulleti'
having made extensive inquiry in regar
, to the condition of the winter wheat an
a the supply on hand of last years crop
the ten states yielding large proportio
of the crop of the country, is Statistic
that the average of 1882 will be large
than that of 1881 that the condition
February, 1882, was much better than tt
j. average, and as to the supply, there wi
5 be enough for consumption for the peric
Intervening between this and harvest, al
n for seed, with limited supply for shi
! ment east.
r Gentlemen with whom the presidel
has consulted as to the cabinet say tn
! to appoint Senator Teller secretary of Il
!. interior. The only cause for delay h
been desire on the part of the preside
to consult with ex-senator Chaffee, who
. friends have been trying to secure the p
sition for him. Mr.. Chaffee arrived
Washington Wednesday night, and t
next morning called upon the preside
and stated that he would be entirely S;
lSueQ Will Tie appointment OF Iellt
IL The speedy nomination of that senator
therefore expected.
=, BISMARCK, ID. T., March 81. Me-
reached here at II o'clock tonight Of
terrible wreck at Sweetbrier, about
= miles west Of here ON the Northern I
p cific. An engine came over from Mand
~ for physicians and assistance to atte
'o sufferers by the wreck. Wires are do
W between Bismarck and Mandon, but it
stated by the engineer from Mandon tt
as Black Jacks work train, bound we
W went through bridge and that p
5. senger train but little behind follow,
DIT Thirty persons are reported killed a
DIT many more wounded. All the phySicis
to be found in this city have just start
ad on special engine for the wreck. T
n, particulars at this writing are impoSsit
d,
nd GREAT BLESSING TO MOTHERS AND NURSE
,,a sSWayne's Teethlng Cure" for infants. This
y theory and infallible remedy has saved the live
W thousands of children. When the child is in pain
restless with its teeth shooting in its gums. sin
of rub the gums for Two three minutes with