Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-02-19
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The Penobscot ice crop amounts to
$4,000 tons. One hundred thousand tons
were held over from 1882, making 49,
600 tons for shipment.
Ex-Governor Heads physicians state
that his sickness has assumed critical
character. They are hoping that he will
be able to take a tropical journey.
Watertown, N. Y, has had nearly IL
feet of snow this winter, and all rail-
road business in that vicinity has been
seriously interrupted for some time past.
The three years old daughter of Oliver
Cameron of Buffers Island, near st. AL
bans fell into a kettle of boiling soap re-
Gently, and was so terribly burned that
she died.
Callenders seven-story billiard table
factory was burned to the ground Thurs
day night. The loss is estimated at
1925 200. The fire originated in the var
nish room by spontaneous combustion.
The voters of Maine will have chance
to express their opinion on the question
of constitutional prohibitory amend
ment The resolve to that effect has
passed both branches of the legislature
by an overwhelming vote.
A. A. Thurlow, freight conductor on
the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad,
fell between the cars at Bartlett Thursday
afternoon and several cars passed over
him. His body was terribly mangled.
He resided at Deering. Me-, was unmar-
ried and about % years of age.
The suspension of several of the larg-
est iron firms in the country shows the
injurious effects of the prOtracted tariff
agitation. The latest failure in this line
of business is that of the Bay State Iron
Company of South Boston, Mass, and
Port Huron, N. Y, which throws thous-
and men out of employment.
Senator Harrison says that one trouble
| with the senate is ''there are too many
young presidents in it. Every other MAI
has the fever and got it bad. The result
| is the senate has become an organization
| for the filing of claims to the white house
But 1 can tell 'em one thing, the more
they've got the fever, the less chance
they have"
Marshall Jewell died in Hartford
Conn, Sunday, after a brief illness. o.
pneumonia. Mr.. Jewell was born il
Winchester, n. H., October 20, 1925
was brought up tanner. In 1850 h
began in Hartford the manufacture o
leather betting; was governor of Con
necticut from 1868 to 1870; was appoint
ed minister to Russia in 1873; and il
1874 was appointed postmaster genera
by President Grant Mr.. JEWELS recen
services as chairman of the republican
national committee are familiar. He wa
very wealthy and always generous to tn
poor.
In the Boston Journals railway articl
it is announced that the arrangement
which have so long been under way, look
ing toward extending the Lamoille val
lev extension from Swanton to Rouse
Point, have been completed and the nee
essary means for its building secured
At Rouse's Point connection will b
made with the Ogdensburg and LAX
Champlain railroad, forming a thoroug
line for al rail passenger and freight bus
mess to the Canadas, northern New En-
gland and the east. This road will prob
ably be operated by the st. Johnsbur
and Lake Champlain railroad or the os
densburg and Lake Champlain, and
: bridge charge will be made sufficient t.
pay all expense of operating and main
tanning the same The opening OF thl
route will make shorter rail connection
for the Vanderbilt lines than any now i
force to the points mentioned 1t is eS
pected that the new connection VIII o
completed next August.