Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-06-04
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
The Washington monument has reach
ed a height of $50 feet.

GIN ERAL NEWS lTEMS.
The Washington monument has reach
ed a height of $50 feet
Nelson Herbet, aged %, fell in a fit and
was drowned in the creek at Sheldon. He
leaves wife.
The debt statement shows the decrease
Of the public debt during the month of
May to be 81, 800, 1850.
BY law Of the Maine legislature the
legal school is now five days, instead of
five and a half days, as formerly.
Over half million trout of all sizes have
recently been placed by DR.. Charles Bar
Der in J. M. Ravens pond at Shrewsbury.
In New York, the police seized six box
es containing $4,000 slung shots, one of
the most deadly weapons carried by Grim
inals.
1t is estimated there are about 10000
dead laws on the statute books of New
York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and
Ohio.
Ex-Governor Frederick Smyth of New
Hampshire has just reached home after a
tour of nineteen thousand miles in the
Old World
A serious fire destroyed about 100000
worth of property in the business portion
of Lynchburg, Va, recently. Five per-
sons were killed.
The monument to the memory of Thorn
as Jefferson, erected near his old home at
Monticello, Va, will be unveiled with APP
pirate exercises on July 4.
During fierce wind and rain storm, at
Beloit, Wis, one day recently, a number
of live fish, one of them weighing "a
pound, dropped in the business streets.
"Aunt' Dinah John, the Oldest known
Indian, died at the Onondaga reservation
recently. She was born on the reserya-
ton early in IVA, and was therefore
more than 100 years old.
The Anti-Masonic or American party OF
| the state will hold convention at Mont
pelier this week Tuesday and Wednes-
day. The Central Vermont road gives
free return tickets to those attending.
Civil Service Commissioner Eaton is
reported as saying that he is absolutely
tired of having the press of the country
constantly criticising his actions" Why
then does he not stop reading the papers
The annual report of the New Hamp
shire state prison show the number of in
mates as 120 males and one female, anC
that the total expenses last year were
$40, 1867, or So, 522 in excess Of the earn
ings.
At st. Paul the Washburn will contes
has been decided in favor of the widow
of the ex-governor. Under the decision
she gets third of the estate (wortl
about $500, 0O0) in addition to provision
made for her in his will.
Miss Maria S. Osgood of Warner, onl
child of Jacob Osgood, received fata
burns recently by her clothing coming il
|
She lived three and a half hours. He
age was about thirty-two.
Statistics of the American Sunda
school union: OF new schools organize
during the year there were 1852; teach
ers in same, 1876; scholars, $4,000,
decided increase over last year. Sine
TO nar1iz of fha nninn hoe fnnn6a
74,O27 schools with membership of SO
: 587, 900.
Sir John Lubbock has been analyzin
. the balance sheet of the British govern
ment, and finds that of the fS5 100000
i spent in 1882, not more than f5 ,000,0 C
was for the comfort or happiness of I'll
people. Twenty-Five million pounds ws
n spent for war and e6, 900, 900 for the pul
e ishment of crime.
: A steamboat blew up near Lakevill
e Cal, Friday morning. All the forwal
l. part of the boat was blown away. I'll
q after part fioated three hundred yard
$ then grounded on the west side of tt
creek. Eight persons were killed al
y seven wounded, while ten are missiI
/ and supposed to be drowned.
% The Rev. Thomas Battle, of Georgi
9 whose death was recently reported, W
Is said to be the oldest preacher of the Met
N odist Episcopal church in America /
id was born in 1856, and lived under the a
he ministration of every president of t
United States. His descendants numb
a. 400, three of them being grandchildren
# his grandchildren.
n Here is late Pacific coast item: Ser
er tor Edmunds was greeted at Fort Poll
Ii, near San Francisco, the other day by
It. artillery salute. The noise FASTENED t
OF entry into this world of strife of We
en- young American, who was at once nam
lis Edmunds Cullins. Under the circu
stances Mr.. Edmunds blessed the ba
II and gave him silver cup.
es One of the most noted reunions of V
he eran soldiers that has occurred since t
i. cruel war was over was at the meeti
IS last week at Niagara Falls, where I
OF Fifth Virginia Regiment of confedera
ID were the guests of the Twenty-eighth n
nd York regiment. At the battle of CeC
he mountain the Virginians captured the f
is of the New Workers in a desperate
is counter, and on Tuesday they returned
to their original owners. A one-legs
2 confederate major handed back the fac
EAR one-armed union colonel, with app
nix pirate pacific and fraternal speeches
am the part Of giyer and receiver The b
ars tle-scarred veterans have seldom fou.
he their battles DER again under more pie
er, ant circumstances.