Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-28
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

New York last week.
William Boyce of Woodstock found in
his garden the other day a perfectly pre-
served Liberty" cent of date 1877.
| Rev. Church Tabor, a member of the
Vermont Methodist conference, has been
appointed to the vacant passionate at Rich
ford.
| The president is making arrangements
for a trip this summer to California. On
the return trip he will visit Yellowstone
park.
The Kentucky state democratic conven-
ton nominated J. Proctor Knott for gov
ernor and the nomination was made unan-
imous.
Professionalism is advancing in France
with rapidity not equalled since the
murder and expulsion of the Huguenots,
while Rationalism is beginning to die
out.
LYNCHBURG, Va, May ga foot of
snow fell last night on the line of the
Richmond & Allegheny railroad. The
weather is exceedingly cold and has done
considerable damage to crops.
WASHINGTON, May 14.-Information
has been received at the treasury depart
ment of the death of Stephen J. w. Ia
Dor, formerly fourth auditor, at indie
pendence, Iowa, last Thursday.
BELLOWS FALLS, Vt, May "a. To-
day for violating the liquor law c. w.
. Towns, proprietor of Towns hotel, paid
a fine of $3.50, and druggist II. H. Davis
$40 and costs, amounting to 500.
G Lydia Pinkham, the well known patent
medicine proprietor, is dead. She began
: by manufacturing medicine in Il tea ket-
n tie, and in a few years built up business
9 of $500, 900 year. She spent S1S0,000 a
year in advertising.
S The pope's letter to the Irish clergy
e has caused great dissatisfaction among
l. the Irish American Catholics of Balti-
J. more. There was marked falling off in
y the amount of the annual collection OF
). Peters pence in the churches on Sunday.
1t is believed that the wheat crop in
1888 will be much less than last year,
Is when it was exceptionally large, being
,e 500, 200, 900 bushels, against 3S3, 100000
" bushels in 1881, and showing an average
of 354 900 900 bushels for the last ten
is years.
u The dwelling house and furniture OF
III Henry W. Moody in Lyme, n. H., were
III destroyed by fire Tuesday afternoon, and
re Luman Moody, aged so years, the father
IT. of Henry, was burned to death, the res
of the family being temporarily absent
ol Origin Of fire unknown. Probably no in
u surance.
large interest in young alligators has
grown up in Florida, and about the mex
:, thing we shall hear of will be alligato
farms. The baby alligator is worth abou
25 cents to 81; two years old, so cents t.
So; fourteen footer is worth $25 t.
oo SIS. Eggs are worth five to fifty cent
each.
ou The Central Vermont railroad passer
on ger depot and wood shed and N. Gibson
no cooper shop at Hartland were burne
in Saturday noon. 1t is supposed that til
we fire caught from a passing locomotive
,rv Frank Martin of Hartland lost about $40
worth of pine lumber stored in the woo
mi shed.
an The bones of Charles j. Guiteau, aft
of having been in the army medical mus
use UNI since July Sd last, have at lengt
and it is stated, lost their identity as b
tile bones. Recently c. Fl. Crane, the su
In general, took the bones into his pc
ons sonal possession, and he has made di
lere posal of them of which every other pc
,ad- son is ignorant. General Crane w
ity. doubtless keep the secret to himself.
ally London papers of the 10th of May &
and scribe the weather as very cherries a
With depressing. 1t was then showing heavi
nor in Berkshire and North Hants, and t
up day before a terrific snow storm rag
and over Kings county, Galway and the sno
that was two feet deep in some parts. t
lass agricultural prospect in the midlands, {
ond cording to dispatch from Birmingha
ork. had become very serious, a violent stol
rely of snow and sleet having done irrepa
He BILE damage.
The Denver club, the most promine
organization Of the kind in that city, b
expelled ex-senator Tabor from its ME
bership, adopting at the same time I
} re- olution to the effect that the expulsion
and due to the fact that he married won
ward with whom members or their famil
could not associate. The significance
wife, the clubs action is seen in the fact Il
brat all the prominent politicians of the C
1 the are members of the club, including S
,use- ator Hill, Secretary Teller and Henry
Walcott.