Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-02-27
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
The house currency committee will re-
port bill to retire trade dollars.
The estimated expenses of the proposed
peace congress at Washington is only
about $5OOO
The house, Saturday, passed the imme-
date deficiency bill, which appropriates
nearly 100000.
A. B. Meacham, the well-known Indian
commissioner, died suddenly the other
night at Washington.
Brady and Dorsey have been indicted |
for fraud in the star route transactions by |
the Washington grand juay.
H. Disston of Philadelphia offers forty |
acres Of land in Florida, gratis, for each |
family of Jewish refugees from Russia.
Two boxes containing Internal ma
chimes exploded at Edinburgh last week,
on being opened, and eight persons were
hurt.
The wholesale boot and shoe dealers of
Chicago have subscribed $2100 for the
benefit Of the sufferers in the late fire at
Haverhill.
The insurance superintendent of New
mutual benefit associations that want to
do business in that state
At the court martial for the trial of
Sergeant Mason for attempting to shoot
Guiteau, which convened in Washington,
Monday, the prisoner was arraigned and
plea of not guilty entered.
A person who was found earning an
honest living in mems clothes in New
York has been arrested, tried, found gull
ty of being woman, and sent to the
house of correction for the crime.
A thunder storm in mid winter is
| strange phenomenon, but New York city
had such an event last week, and the
electricity interfered with the telegraph
and telephone wires in all directions.
A student one day asked the late Pro-
fessor Pierce how he knew that the sun
would rise tomorrow. Pierce answered,
SIN the same way in which know every
other law of nature; on the veracity of
God
When Carlisle of Kentucky or any other
man proposes to commence the reduction
of the governments receipts by taking off
third of the tax on whisky, he begins at
the wrong end. When the tax on match
es, bank checks and bank deposits is abol-
ished, it will be time to consider the re-
duction of that on whisky, and to con-
clude to let it remain as it is.
Marion Davis, wife of Daniel Davis of
North Adams, Mass, whose legs were am
putated by the cars while he was intoxi-
Gated recently, brings suit for $4,000 each
against John Doyle and Pete Snyder, liq-
uor dealers, under the civil damage law,
chased his liquor of these two dealers.
A dispatch from Buenos Ayres, S. A.,
says that there has been a massacre of
the inhabitants of Pisco by the Peruvian
soldiery. A thousand pipes of wine were
distributed among the soldiers, who burn
ed the houses and murdered the inhabi-
tants. Four hundred foreigners who at
tempted to resist were hacked to pieces,
three hundred being killed. including the
French consul. The total number of VIC
tins was 1000.
1t is not often that the judiciary of New
England comes under a small or a large
temptation. Judge Tucker, at Pittsfield,
Mass, was confronted on Monday with a
little attempt at bribery, and promptly
resented it. A liquor dealer, under in
dictment, handed him letter containing
$40, and asked that the dealer be let of
easy. When the liquor dealer took the
stand, Judge Tucker told him that this at.
tempt at bribery he should put into the
hands of the district-attorney, and that il
was the first time in his ten years of ser
! vice on the bench that any one had at
; tempted to bride him. That Judge de
serves to go up higher.
/ Two disastrous fires lately occurred a
/ Chester, Penn. Thursday night thu
Pennsylvania Military Academy was burn
: ed, happily without loss of life. Earl,
Friday morning the old Porter homestead
= owned by Admiral Porter of the United
Y States Navy, and used as a manufactor,
Y of fire works, was discovered to be OF
d fire. A large crowd had assembled arount
| tha h,,i1 +lo ~
upon the roof, when a tremendous eX
e plosion occurred hurting the roof of al
l. extension into the air, the mangled bod
d les of the firemen upon it into the grea
E. trees near by, and the walls outward il
al fragments upon the crowd. The Shove
of stones and timber killed and wounde,
u over forty people.
Il Last Friday night the city of Haverhill
IS Mass, was visited by terrible confagra
of ton which caused pecuniary loss c
ID about $2,000,000. An area of betwee
five and ten acres was burned over, an
III sixty buildings in the best part of th
. city were destroyed; eighty-six firms, il
i Guiding nearly every shoe manufacturer
II concern in the city, were burned out, wit
"a two national and one savings bank; bt
tween 2000 and $500 were thrown out
employment and many families rendere
u homeless. Worse than all, two or thre
~ lives were lost. The fire started in Wen
y, worth's leather store, ON Washingto
:. street, and spread with such rapidity q
= to battle all attempts to control it. Promr
measures have been taken to rebuild til
burned district, and most of the hand
= employed by the eighty-six firms will /
put at work again in few days. Tt
r. blow is severe one, but Haverhill wi
e. rise from the ashes in due time.
. "THE Domestic TYRANT."-"The average man
y. quoth Mrs. Parngton. sis weak and irritable dome
n tic tyrant. and Mrs. P. is Tyranncal to