Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-01-01
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Malarial fever is prevailing to an alarm
ing extent in Highland, n. J. board
of health has been organized, and every
possible effort is to be made to prevent
its spread.
The ministerial conference at Ottawa,
Ont, has published a card calling upon
the christian community to avoid offering
wine and other Intoxicating beverages on
New Years day.
Forty thieves attacked the town of AL
macattan, Mexico, and captured the may
or, justice and aldermen and carried
them to their rendezvous where they
hold them Ior ransom.
Those who have watched the proceed
ings in the star-route trial express the
opinion that the prosecution will make
much stronger presentation of the case
and their evidence than they did during
the former trial
A passenger railway company in Phil
adelphia is considering the expediency of
running it's cars by electricity, on a new
principle, which will not only drive the
cars, but furnish light for the same and
illuminate the track for a third of mile
ahead.
The Germans of this country come hon
estly by their beer loving propensities.
The German empire last year drank $780,,
| 600, 900 gallons of beer, or about so quarts
70 oh IN, l,n II ie nIot
ed that the average beer-drinker dispOses
| of about two quarts day.
At Concord, New Hampshire, one of
the largest and most brilliant meteors
| ever observed there, was seen on the af
| ternoon of Wednesday, the goth ult., be-
tween four and five o'clock. 1t passed
| from west to east, and was as plainly
visible as meteors usually are after dark.
A sharp shock of earthquake wat felt
on the afternoon of the 10th ult., about
quarter past five O'Clock, in Concord,
Dover, Contoocook, Manchester, Great
Falls, and other New Hampshire towns.
1t lasted from eight to ten seconds, caus-
| pCOpIC W lush IHOO CuC StICCGS' AC
earth wave appears to have travelled from
east to west.
Mrs. Sarah Ray, a washerwoman OF
| Leadville, has had an eventful life. She
was the first white woman who ever dared
set foot in Leadvilie, and as such helped
to found the city. She dug in the mines,
| +ho lact
but not least, took in washing from the
Leadville miners, and to-day has snug
little fortune that pays her an income OF
100000 year.
When Joshua Hill, of Georgia, was in
the United States senate, he bought for
1000 an old field lying in the suberbs OF
Washington. He thought little of it, but
held it as an investment for his children.
The British Minister built fine residence
in the quarter in which this land was sit.
uated, made it fashionable district, anC
Mr.. Hills purchase is now estimated tc
be worth $250,000.
An excited meeting of stockholders O
| but utluHCb bdHh VI DOSIOu wa
held there recently. A resolution was pre-
!, scented condemning Bank Examiner Need
: ham and pronouncing him incompetent
and unworthy of confidence for his fail
: ure to properly investigate and report tn
r affairs on the books. A committee wa
appointed to determine how to meet tn
r second assessment. A resolution wa
adopted urging that suits be brough
| against the directors and that all person
responsible for the disaster be prose
cuted
! Lucius w. Pond, ex-state senator an
+ formerly q prominent manufacturer {
q Worcester, whose financial irregularitie
V exposed in the autumn of 1875, occasion
q ed such a connection in the communit
where he lived and was so much respec
ed, and who was sentenced in Januar
1876, to fifteen years Imprisonment in Il
state prison, was pardoned by the go
ernor on Christmas day, with the advi
:. of the executive council, in response to
strong appeal for executive clemenc
:, His pardon has been urged by many
the most prominent men of Worceste
=, among them majority of his creditors
Through misrepresentation of t
funds of the City bank of Rochester,
u Y, by its president, c. E. Upton, to C;
" ry on oil speculation (the misappropr
" ton amounting to about S350,000 t
10 bank has closed its doors. The amou
% of deposits is stated at $500, 900 and t
~ amount of paper held by the bank
:" Western New York Episcopal dioce
NC and had its funds in the bank. The So
'0 ings bank of the city had large sums
:" deposit in the bank. Most of the dept
~ itors were merchants in the city. In &C
sequence of the above failure the banki
house of William c. Moore at Victor,
Y, has suspended.
The funeral of Sir Hugh Allan
Montreal was in every sense a pub
- one. the mayor, aldermen and other CT
wv officers heading the procession, with
| police anu Tie HTe UElSduC IduSCu vi
nV ther side. Following the hearse we
the immediate relatives of the dead m;
III the remaining part of the procession
ing composed of leading citizens walk
~ six abreast, the line extending a b
i'' mile. Every mercantile, manufacture
W. shipping and other city interest was r
''' resented. The usual burial services W
held at ST. Andrews church, after VIII
the procession moved to Mount Ro
!, cemetery, where the body was deposi
'Ae in the family vault An immense mu
tude lined the streets, and the utm
list respect was shown during the passage
MS the funeral procession.
CT A sad railway accident occurred
le Upton, near Altoona, Pa, recen
jus Two young men and two young Lac
hce were returning from prayer-meet
ing about nine O'Clock, on the track. I
Ill were on the north track when W
up bound train approached and they t
ION to the middle track. At the same tin
my train passed on the south track, e
the While hedged in closely between the
aa- trains rapidly moving locomotive
the preached them and struck the whole