Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-05-29
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
jennings, the New York Worlds cor
respondent, predicts home rule for Ire
land within year.
Mr.. Blaine authorizes a statement by
the Washington Post that he is not can
didate for congress or anything else.
1t is understood that Sergeant Mason
will not remain in the penitentary long
after Guiteau is hanged, and he may be
| released before that.
The Chinese in San Francisco are learn
ing to set type and it is reported that the
type setting on two weeklies in that city
| is done entirely by All Sins.
| Speaker James L. Martin, Pheneas
| Chamberlin, c. P. Hogan and Edward
| W. Bisbee have been admitted to practice
in the United States courts.
The Oregon election which occurs June
9TH, will be the first ON the docket this
year. full state ticket is to be elected,
also member of the 4Sth Congress.
Perhaps it is not worth mentioning,
but it is stated that Whitelaw Reid's new
baby keeps the editor of the New York
Tribune awake about half the night.
Guiteau still claims God as his 'spart-
ner,'' and wants San unconditional par
don or nothing" His claims will be forced
upon the public only few weeks longer.
Moody and Sankey will probably re-
main abroad through part or the whole
of 1888. Their plan is to spend this year
in Scotland and next year go to London.
A large number of township elections
were held in Indiana this month, and a
summing up of the gains and losses show
that the Republicans more than hold their
own.
While work train on the Northern
Pacific Railroad was taking men to din
ner on Tuesday, the 10th inst, it was
thrown from the track near Spiritwood,
Dakota, by broken axle. Three men
were killed.
James Watson Webb of New York is
81, and smokes necessarily. Thurlow
Weed is 81, and drinks large quantities
of Santa Cruz rum. Peter Cooper is 81
and lives on a diet of oatmeal. They are
all vigorous, healthy and happy.
Col. Corkhill proposes to have Gui-
teau's brain examined by board of the
most eminent medical experts in the Uni
question of his sanity. After the autop-
sy, the body will be delivered to the as
sassin's friends if they call for 1t.
A dispatch from New Orleans, relating
to the floods, says: 1t is almost as decid-
eddy present evil as it was sixty days
ago, for a total decline of from five to
seven feet of water in a flood of from ten
to fifteen feet, can give only partial relief.
There is no dimunition in the estimates
of damage done to the crop.
The Gunion steamer Alaska arrived of
Sandy Hook at 11.40 A. NJ. Sunday, hav-
ing left Queenstown at I1.55 A. NJ. on the
18th inst. She made the voyage in
days, hours, and minutes, corrected
time, which is hours and IL minutes
faster than even her own previous best
record from Queenstown to Sandy Hook.
The Postmaster General has recon-
mended to the house of representatives
that the postage on newspapers and mag
azines be abolished. He states that mer-
chandise is carried in the mails at loss
to the government, and if the people are
to be taxed for either it should be on the
merchandise rather than on the papers
and magazines.
The public library building erected in
Quincy, Mass, by the sons of the late
Thomas Crane, a native of that town, but
in the last years of his life a resident OF
this city, is to be dedicated on Decora-
ton Day. The building is of stone, will
accommodate 10000 volumes, and has cost
upward of 10000, exclusive of the site
which is presented by the town.
The directors of the Pacific National
Bank, Boston, have determined to close
the institution and put in liquidation
Mr.. Linus M. Pierce has been appointed
receiver. This is the concern which sus
pended in November last, and resumed
business March Is. The directors have
not received the confidence and suppor
anticipated; hence this latest proceed
ing.
John McMenomoe, a farmer living L:
miles west of Muscatine, Ia, aged 65, ha:
daughter. The father and daughter wer,
quarreling, when the girls brother, aget
Is, handed her a revolver, with which sht
shot her father through the breast. 1t i:
possession of their fathers property
, The mother is in an insane asylum.
| During the last winters season of tn,
Life-Saving Service on the New Jerse,
coast, since September l, 1881, there hav,
been thirty vessels wrecked or stranded
between Sandy Hook and Cape May, on
hundred and seventy-eight persons hav
been saved, and only one has been lost
r Coasting schooners have suffered NOR
than other trading vessels, the list o
: wrecks including nineteen schooners, on
steamer, one bark, two briggs, two brig
: antines, two sloops, two yachts, and on
t sailboat.
Hot SPRINGS, May 23.-Reports Of de
l struction by a terrific tornado last weel
t in Polk county, are just coming in b
t mail. The residence of Mr. Turner a
r Iron Forks was demolished; two childrel
/ killed: Mr.. Turner badly and his wifi
fatally injured. In escaping some of tn
inmates had their clothes torn from thei
+ backs. DR.. McDaniels's residence wa
2 torn to pieces and his wife seriously,
not fatally, hurt. The entire family o
7 Scott Lindsey were badly hurt and Mrs
James Davis, a visitor, probably fatal.
injured. Mr.. Barber lost every building
on his farm, and Meningitis residence
: was destroyed. Joseph Peppers littl
; daughter was killed. Mr.. Holmes ant
: wife were fatally injured. The Baptis