Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-01-08
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS,

NaANA4oAA' NIL w ~ l. oiAOs
Mayor Galley of Salem committed sui
eide by hanging himself the day his term
of office expired
Minneapolis, that young giant of the
west, has built 2O54 houses and 500
stores the past year, at an outlay of S.
242 1925.
San Francisco had the heaviest fall of
snow on Sunday experienced for thirty
years. 1t was followed by heavy rain
storm.
The boiler in the flour mill at Perry,
Sheawassee county, Michigan, exploded
recently, demolishing the MILL and killing
the engineer.
The use of barbed wire fences has in
creased surprisingly since 1874, when
only 10000 pounds were made and sold.
This years sales will amount to 100000
900 pounds.
William Walton, coal miner at West
Belleville, H., Thursday morning shot
Jane Melbourne because she would not
marry him, and then shot himself. Both
died almost instantly.
Elisha Allen, minister of the Sandwich
Islands, fell dead in the cloak room at
| the white house during the New Years
reception. The cause was heart disease.
| The reception was Immediately discon-
| tinued.
Seven thousand men are now working
on the British Columbia section of the
Canada Pacific railway, and rapid prog
ress is being made. The contract will,
to all appearances, be completed within
the allotted time.
Gov Stephens of Georgia is getting an
unenviable reputation as dispenser OF
pardons. He gave twenty convicts their
liberty on Christmas, and during his
short term is said to have turned twenty
murdereas loose upon society.
The public debt was reduced S15,4l3,-
222 last month The decrease in the last
half of 1882 was Ss1, 370,7S3 This is at
the rate of one hundred and siXty-two
millions year, and it is too much, be-
cause it represents just so much exces-
sive taxation. 1t should be cut down
one-half
Miss Josephene G. Meeker, daughter OF
the late n. C. Meeker, who was tortured
and killed by the Ute Indians in the mas
sacre of 1879, died at Washington re
Gently of pneumonia. She was clerk il
the office of the secretary of the interior
and was held in high ecteem for her per
sonal qualities.
A Dallas (Oregon) dispatch gives thu
particulars of the lynching in Princeville
Crook county, of horse thieves who wer'
known as leaders of gang who hav'
been robbing the farmers for months
Three of them were shot and two wer
hanged. The rest Of the band escaped
but the vigilants are on their tracks.
, Literature suffered the greatest loss il
the death-roll of 1882. The names in
clude Emerson, Longfellow, Dana, Rob
ertson, Auerbach Rosetti, Trollope, ORA
per, Darwin and Marsh, besides man.
names of less note. No year since 1856
has recorded so many names. In tina
year died Macauley, Prescott, Irving
Hallam and DeQuincy.
A colored clergyman at Washingto
offered the following prayer just be
fore the assembling of congress: 81
t Lord. Thou seest all desc CONGRESSMAN
fiocking to this city like de fishes to d
'postle's net o Lord! have mercy O.
4 desc poor sinnahs; make dem genoowin
: men, and presarve dem from concilia
: ton wild de debbil, for de good Lord
sake: Amen"
: The great music hall organ in Boston
! as well as greater one in New York
o will soon be cast into the shade. Riga, i
Italy, is to have an organ which will b
the largest in existence. 1t is to hav
12O sounding registers. The largest o.
9 gan, at present, is in New York, and ha
lis registers. This new organ will hav
two sets of manuals, one in front an
one on the side. Hence the instrumel
can be used by two performers at IL
same time; while one plays the solo, tt
other can play the tutti. The price
. this instrument will be $21 800.
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