Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-03-05
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Inc puDllc QeDC statement SHOWS Tie
decrease of the public debt during the
month of February to be $1,000, 67s.54.
Jay Gould will in June start in his
yacht on two years tour around the
world The yacht will take 20 besides
the crew.
The Tennessee legislature has forbid
den the sale of toy pistols in that state.
Nobody seems to have thought of licens-
ing them.
One hundred conversions have been
made at Derry, N. H., during the revival
meetings which are being held at the
Methodist church.
Mrs Marshall Jewell widow of the late
Ex-Governor Jewell, died in New York
Monday, of heart disease, surviving her
husband but fifteen days.
There is great alarm at Buffalo over
the spread Of diphtheria Physicians say
that the number of cases exceeded 300,
and that it is of a type more fatal than
smallpox.
A murderer in the jail at Mewaygo,
Mich, died few days since from terror,
imagining the noise of party in neigh
boring house to be that of mob about to
lynch him.
The first installment, amounting to
1000 marks, of the money subscribed in
Germany, in aid of the sufferers by the
floods in the Ohio valley, has been dis
patched from Berlin.
Rev. William Suddards, D. D., forty
! eight years rector of Grace Protestant
Episcopal church, Philadelphia, and for
| the last three years it's pastor emeritus,
died last week in his eighty-third year.
| The college students at Middlebury
| tore up a recitation room the other night,
pitching stove, benches, table, etc, out
doors, and now every student pays his
little assessment for the repair of DANA
ges.
Up to the present time the ground hog
is the most successful weather prophet
of the year. The goose bone ranks sec
!
gin, Vennor, and the muskrat for the
third place.
Thurman Brookins, a prominent farm
er and sheep breeder OF Shoreham, which
town he has represented in the general
assembly, was recently found dead near
Richville, on load of lumber which he
was hauling.
At the recent term of Grand Isle Coun-
ty court, Capt. Warren Corbin, of South
Hero, got $4,000 verdict against Horace
Fairbanks, Bradley Barlow, and others
on the ''Maquam" steamboat trade be-
tween them.
Ex-Lieutenant- Governor Dale was ar
rested recently in ST. Louis theatel
charged with intoxication and the carry
ing of concealed weapons. He was ar
raigned before the police court. Th
case was adjourned.
A young son of Peter Bordo, of Els
sex Junction, while at play with othe
boys around the cars in the yard, one at
ternoon recently, was run over by tn
, cars, and one leg crushed above the knee
; it having to be amputated.
A farm hand, named Arson Foster
aged twenty years, was drowned in Pleas
ant Lake, near Morrisville, N. j., recent
ly. He sank in an ice-hole while on tn
way to drowning boy, whom he hope
| RI racouo Tho how
The family of David Sullivan, Of Pin
Grove, Sullivan county, N. Y, are terri
, bly, afflicted with trichiniaSis. One {
the victims, child, has already diet
and four others are dangerously i'll. TIL
E disease resulted from eating raw pork.
kilograms and reports received ;
: Omaha from over 100 points in the pri
# cipal regions of the cattle trade regardir
o the effect of the severe storms for tt
a last two weeks on the cattle interes
). west, giving an aggregate loss of near
100000
Charles Corliss of Moultonboroug
N. H., has made a steel trap, perfect
NJ every proportion, weighing Is of
ounce with chain and grapple to CORE
e pond. The trap is only q of an inch
20 length and is of sufficient strength
take rats.
The steamer Moro Castle, of the ely
. Line, running between New York a
:, Charleston, was totally destroyed by Fl
II at her wharf in the latter city recent
She had received on board about half
~ her cargo of cotton, naval stores, et
IL The loss is estimated at over $500, 900.
A Honeoye Falls boy, who attain
~ majority last week, received 500 in &C
IL from his father in fulfllment of a pro
hs Use made by the latter years ago, up
W condition of the sons abstaining frC
nS the use of tobacco in any form during
W. minority. A good investment for be
parties.
Al The young son of Melvin Batcheld
q" of Piermont, aged 21a years, came to
death recently by very sad occurren
III At play with screw, it became lodg
NC in his throat, and though the mott
o' could touch it, she had no means of
Gu moving it and the child lived but a f
moments.
vi A most singular and horrible accid
nv occurred at 8 York street, in New Yo
'u' on Monday A woman was hang
ho clothes on the roof of a shed extensi
H. when she fell through a Skylight upor
'h' large circular saw in the shop benea
~ The saw passed from shoulder, to she
der causing instant death.
us The damage by the flood at New Al
ny ny, Indiana, is estimated at 81 ,250,0
III The Brentwood works, the largest in
CO diana, are total wreck. The De Pa
10 glass works lose 5000, 900. Many he
re- of families will be without work all 81
I'LL mer, and twenty-one hundred fami
have been driven from their homes.
) The Boston Daily AdUitertiser celeb
M ed its seventeen anniversary by reno
Y, to its new building, 246-24S Washing
mp street, in that city, and by the issue
ran paper of twenty pages, the largest sill
ing issue of a newspaper ever published
rho Boston. The Aduertiser is a good sp
ers men of the results of New England
in terpriSe and energy and we wish it