Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-07-16
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Georgia has nearly 1000 900 invest
ed in factories, which give employment
to nearly $4,000 employees.
The wife of James Walton, Jr., was
killed at Fort Fairfield, Me-, by the break
ing of revolving swing in which she
was swinging.
A son was born on Saturday last to the
Princess Victoria, wife of Prince Fred
erick William, the eldest son of the Crown
Prince of Germany. The event occurred
at Potsdam.
Iowa's State Treasurer has just paid
the last dollar of the late war debt. The
State has no other Indebtedness of any
character not covered by funds now in
the treasury.
Henry d. Lloyd will describe in the
rext number Of the North american Re
Uiea1 the methods employed by specula-
tors in grain, and will show how they
operate to make bread dear.
Chief Engineer w. A. Roebling, of the
Brooklyn Bridge, has resigned his posi-
ton on the ground that his services are
no longer necessary. His resignation is
to take effect July 31st, and has been ac-
copied by the bridge trustees.
! Hon. Charles d. Hine, the new secre-
tary of the Board of Education in Con-
necticut, reports fifty-three schools with
an average attendance of less than three
| scholars each, and over two hundred
school-houses in dilapidated condition.
| The wheat harvest in the Valley of
Virginia is remarkably good. There was
a large acreage and the grain is plump
and sounder than for years, while the
yield is unusually large. Rockingham
county alone has raised a million of
bushels.
The celebration of the Fourth in Chi
cago involved 80 casualties, including 8
deaths, 8 cases of mortal injury, %
MANNED for life, and slightly injured
The chief instruments of havoc were toy
pistols and small cannon in the hands of
small children.
| A passenger and gravel train collided
on the New York and New England Road
near Plainville, Conn.,, on Monday, and
three men were killed outright, and sew
The disaster is attributed to a telegraph
operators neglect.
Miss Van Lew, of Richmond. Va.
whose services during the war in behalf
of the Union cause, and in aid of the
Union soldiers in Libby prison, gave he1
prominence, has been offered first class
clerkship in the Post-office department by
Postmaster General Gresham.
Senator Pugh of Alabama thinks that
President Arthur will be the strongest
man for the Republicans next year, as he
is the best President since the war. He
: also adheres to his previously expressed
opinion that Mr.. Hewitt of New York i.
the strongest man for the Democrats.
a Enoch Pratt, of Baltimore, executed
: last week deed of the property of tn
Pratt Free Library, on Mulberry street
to the city of Baltimore, and gave hi
. check for $3.50, 1873 So, which will be in
vested in city bonds for the support O
the library. The building is nearly com
i pleted, and the library Will be ready 70
use as soon as the interior is made read
> to receive it.
post-mortem examination of the bod
Of Jonathan Chesley of Northwood Ger
tire, n. III. blacksmith who died sudder
ly last week. showed that his stomac
had been eaten through by the commo
le bott, grub worm which attacks horse.
- 1t is supposed he swallowed the eggs
III the bott-fy which had been deposited @
the legs of horses that he shod, and tn;
i, they Matched in his stomach.
le LONDON, July IL. A number of unsu
u cessful attempts have been made to raj:
. the steamer Daphne, which capsized al
sunk on being launched at Glasgow {
er the 3rd inst. Eighty bodies of person
tie who lost their lives by the accident ha,
.. thus far been recovered. The inquiry i
IN stituted by the Government to ascerta
the cause of the accident has begun Il
he der the direction of Sir Edward Reed.
w PORTLAND, Oregon, July 8. IRENE
~ dous forest fires are raging south of X;
III anna. Six miles of the railroad and tv
NC locomotives have been destroyed at o.
Point logging camp. The losses up
ng this morning are reported at $4,000
M The flames extend for miles and are IA
re- ing so fiercely that is is unsafe to inve
in tigate the losses. 1t is believed that t
IN fires will continue until the coming
ey rain.
Celluloid, although originally invent
i've by an Englishman, and known under
SO auspices as Xlomite, has been brought
ial great perfection here, and an immer
is trade is done in it as material for KIN
rs, handles. 1t may not be generally kno'
lis that the main article in it's compositi
of is tissue paper, and that camphor
the largely used in its preparation, while
his owes its hardness to the admixtures
the pigment of white zinc lead
ct From present indications it is safe
ont assume that the Northern Pacific will
not completed by the last of August, VIII
my through trains will be run between
re- Paul and Portland. The road carries
ing pounds of baggage on the eastern di
nto sion, 100 pounds on the western divisi
re. and the stage company 40 pounds, fl
lgh Pullman sleeping cars will run betwt
dly st. Paul and Helena, and Pullman sic
ing cars on the western division.
hat Twenty-six cases of sun-stroke w
of reported at New York Friday, three
20, which were fatal. Many persons W
Did. stricken at Brooklyn, including
and Sheriff Daggett, a prominent republi
hen politician, who is dangerously sick. :
)rd, returns of the New York board of hea
lex show that the death rate there has b
to on the increase ever since the arrival
nce the hot wave. On the 4th the number
in deaths was $50; on the 9Th, 1879, and
his to noon yesterday, POS. The daily a,
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