Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-06-11
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

UhN hhAL IN Il w y llGMO,
Col. W. A. Roebling, chief engineer of
the Brooklyn bridge, was A years old on
Saturday.
Mr.. James A. Harris, the orange king
of Florida, received S63, 200 net for his
orange crop this year.
Senator Allison of Iowa suggests Judge
Miller of the supreme court as the repub-
lican candidate for president.
A boat filled with workmen capsized at
Oleggio, near Milan, on Thursday, and
twenty-five of the men were drowned.
The Pennsylvania Legislature visited
the Gettysburgh battlefield on memorial
day, and the members who were in the
fight acted as guides.
A dispatch from Austin, Texas, says
the grand jury indicted forty to fifty men,
bers of the legislature for gambling
Quite number of those indicted have
left money with counsel to plead guilty
and pay the minimum fine rather than go
to trial in the court.
On Saturday, May &c, as Walter ingalls,
of Frelighsburg, P. O., was cutting brush
in the woods and attempting to cut down
a tree, loose limb fell upon him, killing
him instantly. Mr.. ingalls, was prom
inent citizen of that place, was sixty
years old, and leaves q wife and four
sons.
A Philadelphia boy, while looking for
his baseball recently, found a wallet con-
tanning bonds and mortgages, deeds,
checks and notes, amounting in the ag-
gregate to over $4,000. None of the
contents, however, were negotiable. 1t
transpired that they had been stolen from
the owner five years ago.
The widow of the late Congressman
James O. Smith Of Selma, Ala, has mar
ried her nephew. As the laws of Alaba-
ma are against such a marriage, they
went to Kentucky, and as the same laws
were found to prevail there they went
Immediately to Gelatin, Tenn, where
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these obstacles the couple have returned
to their plantation, near Selma.
Peter Conlon of Middlesex has been in
the employ of the Central Vermont rail
road for over thirty years, and has walked
the six miles from MiddleseX to Montpe-
lier Junction and back six times a week
during all that time, making seventy-two
miles a week, or about 3,744 miles per
year, and in thirty years he has travelled
1890 miles. He is still active and Wig
orous and putting i'll his twelve miles q
day.
A tornado struck Greenville, Texas
Sunday evening with terrific force. The
rain fell in torrents for twenty minutes
and $50 houses were either blown dowT
or moved from their foundations. Only
one life was loSt-that of a colored child
Several persons, however were severely
injured. The Methodist and coloreC
chuches were totally wrecked, and thu
Presbyterian and Baptist churches wer
badly damaged.
Dies MONIES, Iowa, June f. A Grove
of about 100 men assembled at Winteres
) shortly before Sunday morning, and be
) ing refused the Jail keys, broke in wit
crowbars and sledges. They then le
: out John Hammer, held for the murder @
VIM. Newell a year ago, and hanged hir
- ;,,T
2 he was struggling one of the mob sho
him through the heart. The party fire
f volley and escaped on horseback. Their
: was little excitement
:, The first confederate battle-fiag of til
war has been presented by Gener;
BeaureSard to the battalion Of Washing
g ton artillery, of New Orleans for sal
e keeping. The flag was the handiwork
d Miss Hetty Carey, Baltimore youn
It lady, who was refugee in Richmon,
O and who made it out of her own sil
dresses, cut up for the purpose. Nil
9 Carey afterward married General Pegra
# of the confederate army, who was killt
Il in battle three days after the weddin
q She is now school teacher in Baltimor
l. A sad scene occurred in the Unite
States district court, Philadelphia, I
l. Gently. Oscar Adelstein, white hair,
n old man, convicted of having embezzled
II letter containing check for 500, w
S, called up before Judge Butler for Sc
+ tence. He approached the bar with f;
tering steps, and said he had never be-
w in a courtroom before except as a spe
n tator. The judge began to make sor
q remarks before imposing sentence. B
n fore he had finished, the prisoner, WI
N had been trembling violently, fell in
swoon. Two officers carried the old m
!, out into the freer air of the hallway, a.
;, when he revived he was told that t
: judge had decided to defer the senten
until another day. The old man, howe
:. er, with tears in his eyes, begged to ha
= the matter over at once; he said that
was quite strong again, and would try
bear up. He was accordingly brought
e- the bar a second time. He tremble
C. however, in spite of himself, and as t
lu court imposed upon him sentence
H. nine months Imprisonment and fine
40 800, he fell again into the waiting arr
he of tipstaff. He was not unconsciol
but so affected that he could not star
IT and when, after a little time, he was
sst to the rear of the courtroom, the tie:
at were rolling down his cheeks.