Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-02-12
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

DR.. Kalloch is in trouble again, be-
cause he allowed his San Francisco tab
ernacle to be used for a Sunday evening
sparring match
The democrats of New York are paying
off the civil service reformers for their
votes in November by turning out of Of
flee every republican in their reach.
The Chicago Inter- Ocean wants to know
if something cannot be done to celebrate
the anniversary of the birth of Abraham
Lincoln, which occurs on the 18th inst.
The only fire-proof residence in the
United States is that owned by Ed
itor Storey of the Chicago Times He
cannot take it with him, unfortunately.
serious railway accident has occur
red in Hungary. Six cars fell down
steep mountain. Seven women and sew
eral men were killed and many persons
were injured.
The Philadelphia Press refers to one of
the West Virginia senators as johnson
n. Camden, the representative of the
Standard Oil Company in the United
States senate"
Within eighteen months an Episcopal
minister at Frederick, Nd, has been call
ed to mourn the death of seven children,
and week before last his wife died leav-
ing him alone.
Some mind reader at Washington has
discovered that Mr.. Blaine ''has- the
sense to perceive the worthlessness of IA
presidents nomination without a pros
pect of success
John Weber of Chicago, obtained a
verdict of one cent against Col TAYLOR
accused of alternating the affections of
Webber's wife. A motion for a new tri-
al on the ground that the damages are
excessive has been granted.
Chief Justice Agnew of Pennsylvania,
favors the proposition to amend the Penn
| sylvania constitution so as to prohibit
the manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors. He gave it as his opinion that
the experience of two hundred years had
shown license laws to be failure, and
that prohibition is the demand of the
times.
A snow slide near Crested Butte, in
Colorado, recently swept away building
occupied by thirty men, employed in the
Howard Smith Anthracite Coal Mine A
rescuing party from Crested Butte, af-
ter several hours hard labor, uncovered
the unfortunate men. Eight Of them
were found dead. Eighteen Others were
injured, several fatally.
1t is said that Gambetta's habits has
tened his death. He has always been a
bon oiUant. Having work to do requiring
great temperance, he has made dinner his
great pleasure, has been fond of wine and
constant in his devotion to the table. The
result was that when a serious infiamma
tory disease seized him his system was
unable to resist its consuming fire.
first issue of the new five-cent pieces
designed by Superintendent Snowden was
made from the Philadelphia mint Oh
Thursday, 1O2, 400 pieces, valued at S..
l20, being put in circulation. For five
hours there was constant stream o.
purchasers at the distributing desk. The
supply was exhausted long before the
closing hour. The new coin will b'
struck off at the rate of So, 900 per day.
Alice, daughter of ex-secretary Blaine
was last Tuesday married to Brevet Col
onel John Coppinger. The ceremon
was witnessed by a brilliant assemblage
) including the president, the members G
: the cabinet, the justices of the suprem
court, a large number of senators an
A members of the house, nearly all the d
plomatic corps and many officers of tn
f army and navy. Col Coppinger is o
General Pope's staff.
5 A Washington special alleges that tn
| gold discoveries in Alaska are far NOR
t | important than generally thought; tina
t | one quartz vein two hundred feet wild
yielding So to IS net to the ton has bee
7 | struck in Southern Alaska, and that man
more equally rich are reported. 1t say
, that coal and timber are reported to b
, plentiful near the diggings and Ney
York and San Francisco capitalists wi
: begin operations there early in the spring
: An earthquake shock was felt at Vol
i borough, N. H., on Sunday afternoon a
, 3:05 O'Clock. Windows and chinawar
ratified, and the movement, which wa
n from west to east, lasted five seconds
S Ten minutes later another shock wa
: felt. At Bloomington, Ill.,, at 5 o'cloc
!, Sunday morning, an earthquake shoe
i was distinctly felt. A prolonged run
II bling was heard for several second:
) which was followed by shock. 1t wa
s observed in all parts of the town. TIL
shock was felt in various points of sOutl
V ern Michigan and northern Indiana.
e tremendous storm ragged through tt
states of Indiana, Ohio, New York an
lie Pennsylvania recently and the damas
II was immense. 1t was probably the mo-
Il | destructive SIOTIn ever Known III G1O'
1t states. Only one telegraph wire W;
y working on Saturday between Chicas
and New York. That failing, dispatch
IN were sent by way of Burlington al
III Montreal. Buildings flooded, vesse
n sunk, railway bridges carried ava
s. horses, sheep and cattle drowned, fan
D. lies driven from their homes, and eve
1e lives lost,-such in brief is the story,
. At the Maine legislative hearing on Il
U capital punishment question, Jud:
Whitehouse stated that, while for Il
ie seven years following the abolition
the death penalty there had been 90 pc
IF sons killed in the state, prior to the alb
d. lition 80 had been slain. Judge Godda
de | replied that from 1920 to 1887, with
er average population of 100000, but ty
it. murders were committed. During t
it last 80 years there has been an appallil
W. increase of capital crime. While t
a population of Maine has increased on
nd 10b per cent, high crimes have increas
en- 37S per cent, and there are 202 more &C
n victs in the state prison than there we
by | in 1851.