Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-04-30
CYCLONE IN THE SOUTHERN
STATES.

AMERICUs, Ca, April "a. The
cyclone in this vicinity yesterday was
from three hundred to a thousand
yards wide. Houses were blown
down, forests leveled and all vestige
of fences swept away. Cattle, swine,
and horses were killed by hundreds.
All the farms and plantations in the
track of the storm are in ruins and
all the grain crops destroyed. Twen-
ty-fve people were killed and 200
wounded in this county. Many
houses and mills, with their contents,
animals and children, were blown
hundreds of yards.
Highways forty feet wide are COM
pletely blocked with timber, the fen
ces being leveled. The entire area
of crops will be total loss. The
estimated damage to this county is
100000. This is evidently the same
cyclone that passed through Missis-
sippi and Alabama.
New ORLEANS, April "a. The lat
est reports received from those Sec
tions of Mississippi visited by the
cyclone show that 83 persons were
killed and about 800 wounded. many
dangerously. The loss of property
is unprecedented.
Dies MONIES, Ia, April "a. The
cyclone destroyed the Catholic Church
at Danbury, two dwellings, severa
barns and all fences. The farm
house Of Mr.. Spencer was destroyed
and several of his family injured.
A MASSACHUSETTS SCANDAL
The belief that Gen. Butler would
"stir things up" if he were elected
Governor was undoubtedly con
vincing argument in his behalf will
large share of the floating vote O
Massachusetts and there is on,
public institution of that State whicl
he has stirred up as much as til,
most ardent advocate of the stirring
process could desire. We refer o
course to the Tewksbury almshouse
as to the character of which a legis
lative investigation has been in pro
gress for a fortnight past. Th
testimony against the management o
the institution has not yet been close
and the defence is yet to be heard
but it has nevertheless been prove,
conclusively that the management o
the asylum has been corrupt, ineffi
Gent and cruel. The institution ha
ever since 1858 been in the charg
of family named Marsh; and
has been proved by large numbe
of witnesses that the Marshes sol
the dead bodies of paupers to med
cal schools, burying collins eithe
empty OF filed with sand and thu
they appropriated to their own us
the clothing and personal propert
of the paupers. As to the inefficiel
cy of the management, it has bee
proved that insane paupers we
made to act as nurses in the hospita
the result being in one case the mu
der by smofhering of a patient
her insane nurse, and in others gre
abuses. 1t furthermore appears til
several insane women were confin
in solitary rooms, were provided wi
no clothing whatever and given b
little food, several narrowly missi
death by starvation. OF the revo
ing details of the almshouse abuses
such as requiring half dozen p,
sons to battle in the same water
our telegraphic dispatches have Civ
our readers some account. The 81
ry is a disgrace to Massachuse
and to the nineteenth century. Z
inmates of the institution were a
are the most forlorn, the most able
1y helpless of all Gods creatures
the wrecks of society, the unhap
victims of hereditary sins and e
passions, the wronged and forsaker
and these hapless ones the State