Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-02-26
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Inc Name senate mas passed the con- |
stitutional prohibitory amendment-only |
three members voting against it.
A fire recently in the building of the
Globe Rubber Jewelry factory, at 21O Ca
nal street, New York, caused loss of
$1,000
The will of the late Governor Jewell of
Connecticut contains requests amounting
to about $500, 900, none of which are of
public character.
The collecting committee in connection
with the proposed exposition at St. Lou
is, Mo-, report half of the needed $780,
900 subscribed.
Messrs. j. V. Aver & Co., the prom
inent Chicago iron firm, have failed.
Their liabilities are estimated at over
million of dollars.
The oldest member of the British cab
met is Mr.. Gladstone, who is seventy
three, and the youngest Sir Charles
Dixie, who is thirty-nine.
Senator Bayard's wealth has been esti-
mated to be S155, 200. He chooses his
own company, and while he likes a good
story and hates social hypocrites, he is
never willing to surrender himself to vul-
gar politicians.
1t is asserted that Illinois has more
courts of record and more judges than
Great Britain. And still the cry is for
more courts. The last directory of the
city of Chicago contains the names of
1853 lawyers
There was seized in the foreign mail at
the New York post-off1ce, the other day,
small dictionary, addressed to a dealer
in jewelry, in the cover of which were
secreted a diamond ring, 60 canoes and
1876 cat's-eyes.
Moody and SanRey are to visit Liver
pool during the month of April next. The
local committee have hired Henglers
Circus, the most commodious building in
the place, for a month, and propose to
use other buildings for district meetings.
1t is said that Queen Victoria saves up
100000 every year, for her grandchil-
dren, who are stated to be twenty-five in
all; and that she has been thus dong for
more than twenty years. She is a
have been born to two such grand
mammals.
l Panornft 10 uanarahla hiStnri-
| an, told at dinner recently, with great
neatness and grace, the story of near
| sighted old Governor Lincoln, of Massa-
chusetts, who in crossing Boston Com
mon, 60, 20 or so years ago, bowed grave
ly and courteously to a flock of geese
then advancing towards him, with a
"Thank you, my children; very polite OF
you to bow, I'm sure"
A west-bound passenger-train on the
Grand Trunk Railway struck broken
rail, near Flint, Michigan, few morn
ings since, and three coaches were thrown
into ditch. One of the passengers
Mrs. Hudah L. Seaman, aged seventy
four years, was killed; her daughter
Mrs. Hill, was badly injured, and became
insane from the shock; and another
Thomas Lindsay, sustained fatal injuries
Nearly twenty other passengers were in
jured; but none, it is believed, danger
ously.
Mr.. Jennings, London correspondent O
the New York World, who has also liveC
in this country, thinks that England has
seen her best days, that the cotton ant
iron trades are falling off, agriculture ha'
become poor occupation, and there il
an ambition among the laboring classes
for freer life. England has more PEG
pie on her soil than she can support
Hence he expects to see, beginning evel
within the year, more extensive emigra
ton to this country than has been seel
since the days of the discovery of gold il
California.
Miss Catherine L. Wolf of New York
often called the Baroness Burdet-Coutt
of America is the richest maiden lady i
this country, her real and personal prop
erty being valued at $I0,000,000. Sh
lives alone with her servants in a gres
. house on Madison Square, where, in th
winter, she entertains two or thre
times. She is very religious, and give
generously to the church and poor, sh
being an Episcopalian and member {
Grace church, whose rector, Rev. ID
Potter, advises her how to distribute he
charities.
A land slide occurred recently in
shaft of the Wilmington Coal Mimi
a Company's mine at Diamond, H., a lit
village two miles northwest of Brai,
: wood. Owing to the heavy rainfall an
: sudden thaw, the prairie there for mar
4 miles had been transformed into lax
When the land slipped the water quick
permeated the mine, and seventy-fou
the miners were unable to escape, and
lost their lives. 1t is said that the ear
"caved in" nearly in the same spot, that
had ON previous occasions yielded to Il
weight of water upon it.
A dispatch from Thunder Bay, Mar
says: ga party of twenty-five men lie
Dawson's camp on Friday for Burke
camp. The party separated, four STIR
ing out across the ice for the portage
Sawyer's Bay. At that point they m
:, Indians, and fearing an attack, retrac,
their steps. The weather was very col
and on the way Max Malelauer, Ga
Gerser and L. Gelhogasi lay down e
y hausted. Isaac Losirella pushed on
lie Brown, which he reached in an exhaust
N condition. Next morning he started o
K with assistance for his companions, b
Il found them frozen to death.
Hon. Paul Ansel Chadbourne, d. [
Ii. D., president of the Massachuset
Agricultural College, died at the re-
3 dence of Mr.. A. Schenk, No. 126 Eff
$, avenue, New York, recently. He we
IS to New York on the 18th inst. for t
;. purpose of attending the funeral of t
G late Ex-Governor Morgan, and while
Is the train was seized with severe cramI
le which made it necessary for him to
l. conveyed to the house of his friend, N
Z Schenk. His illness was caused by t
passage of a stone from the left kidne
|, resulting in peritonitis. The illness /
20 came so serious that his family was Sc
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