Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-03-20

Moses Brown has sold his farm to
his sons, and has moved into Elder
Gilman's house.
Daniel Anger, who has been visit
ing at his fathers during the winter,
has returned to California.
WheeIock.
Judge Chase has gone to spend the
summer with his son at the Adrion-
dacks
Mr.. E. Mathewson had sugar
party and visit at his house last We'd
nesday. The first sugar party of the
season and very pleasant time.
How many of the town authorities
attended that dance at Hines When
the town has to support such things
they had better all turn out and en-
joy them.
James Ryan came near having a
serious smash up in consequence of
the neck-yoke breaking coming down
the hill this side of S. Weeks house.
He escaped with some broken straps
and slight injury to horses.
Some of the facts respecting the
| Panama Canal deserve attention.
Over a thousand of the workmen
have already died. But how much
the canal will cost seems to be
matter of conjecture. The estimate
of the Paris convention was $780,
900, 900; of the Lesseps technical
commission, S168, 100000; of En-
gineer McAlpine $500, 900, 600; and
of Colonel Totten, builder of the
Panama Railroad, $500, 100000
M. de Lesseps believes that $131,-
$40, 900 are needed to finish his I'M
dertaking, which has used considera-
BILE money and is only just begun.
The friends of the Nicaragua route
show the cost Of the Panama Canal
to be $452, 400, 900, and engineers
who do not appear to be prejudiced
say that the Nicaragua cutting can
be made for S65, 722,137. The great
obstacles for NJ. de Lesseps to over
come, aside from the difficulty of
keeping his men alive, are the lift
ing of the great Chagres River from
its bed and sending it to the sea by
new outlet, and cutting through
eight miles of the basaltic walls of
Culebra, which rise more than 800
feet These tasks seem practically
insurmountable and it is said that
M. de Lesseps underestimate the
force of the Chagres, which in the
wet season has been known to rise
thirty-eight feet in twenty-four
hours, changing the quiet valley into
an inland sea. The work drags, and
the projectors find it much harder to
construct a canal at Panama than
the elaborate plans in Paris.
MONTPELIER, VT, March II.
Matthew Mccartney, the Waterbury
murderer, goes to the Insane Asylum
in Brattlebore, tonight. He has re-
covered the full possession of his
senses, exhibiting no signs of insani-
ty to-day. He says he first knew of
what he had done on Thursday, when
his brother James visited him in jail
and told him. He sent for Father
Duglue, the Catholic priest of Mont
pelier, and asked him to take charge
of his children and place them in a
convent. He also asked Daniel Hop
kins of Waterbury and James McCaf-
frey, to look after his property. He
is willing to 90 anywhere, and blames
his family because they did not have
him locked up two months ago, when
he first showed symptoms Of insanity.
The employees of the Pacific Mills
of Lawrence, Mass, are on a strike,
resisting the cutting down of wages,
. and that immense mandatory is liza
1 BILE to shut down. The number of
hands is $500. 1t is said that 49,
900 people are dependent on these
mills for support.
2 Mr.. Edmund's departure from the
senate would be regarded by his re-
publican associates as an almost IT.
l repable misfortune. No man now oil
5 recently in public life has exerted sc
a powerful an influence in shaping i'm
portant legislation as he has DONE
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