Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-14
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


day morning, DESTROYED two newspaper
offices and three stores, causing a loss es-
timated at $4,000.
Josiah Kibbee of Brookfield, who died
the other day at the age of eighty-six,
left ten children, twenty-seyen grandchil-
dren and sixteen great-grandchildren
Mr.. Sullivan, the president of the Irish
National League elected at Philadelphia,
was born in Maine. He is a lawyer in
Chicago and husband of Margaret Sulli-
van, nee Buchanan, a brilliant writer.
A fire in Tullahoma, Tenn. destroyed
all the stores in the town, the two depots,
the Guardian newspaper office, the Tul-
lahoma file works and wheel and spoke
factory. The loss is estimated at $780,
600.
General Joshua l.. Chamberlain is rap
idly recovering from the operation per-
formed on him n few days ago. The
wound has almost entirely healed, and it
is confidently expected that he will be out
in week or ten days.
The Graniteville cotton manufacturing
company of Augusta, Ga, has declared
dividend of 81 per cent. During the
year 100000 yards of cloth were turn
ed out, being an increase of $780, 900 yards
over the product of the previous year.
The grinding-roo of the Boston Rub
Der Shoe Companys factory, Boston,
Mass, was started again last week, and
it is expected that work will be resumed
in full. thus giving employment to over
two thousand hands. These mills have
been shut down for the last two months
owing to the high price of rubber.
At Winona, Mimi, on Sunday after
noon, during light thunder shower,
three little daughters of Jacob MorowiZ
were playing in the street under an UNI
ming. The two older girls, aged nine and
eleven years were instantly killed, and
the third, aged six years, was paralyzed
on the right side, but will recover.
Mr.. William II. Vanderbilt has retired
from the active management of the New
York Central, the Lake Shore and Mich
! igan Southern, and the Michigan Central
railroads. He remains, however, di-
rector in the three corporations with
which his name has been identified since
| the death of his father, the Commodore,
in 1877. Controlling positions have been
| created for his sons, so that the direction
of the roads may remain in the family.
The fame of an American lady doctor is
declared by Nature to have 'spread far
and wide over North China" Her name
| is Miss Howard. Some time ago she at
tended the mother of Ii Hung Chang, the
| great Viceroy, and now she is treating
his wife. She is said to have great
number of applications for assistance and
advice from the women of wealthy fam
lilies, s'who would die rather than be
/ treated by a foreign male physician
i Nature adds that it CLOCKS as if the vari
Gus countries of the east offered an al
| llIOSG 1llCAuduStlDlG uelu 1OE WOllleu DOS
sessing medical knowledge and skill
There was some pretty lively time
made on the Canada Southern few days
ago, when the Vanderbilt party were OF
the return trip from Detroit to Buffalo
Two engines were used, both built fo
fast running. One run of So miles wa
made in SO minutes, including two stops
occupying seven minutes; and the re
J manning 116 miles was made in Ill min
utes-the whole run of 212 miles bein.
made in 206 minutes, which is said to b.
the fastest time on record. One of tn
: engines used weighs 2S15 tons, and had
e 17x24 cylinder and 160 fiues; the othe
t weighs SO tons, and has an 1sx24 cylinde
and 1877 fiues.
: The Williams & Gunion steamer Alas
/ ka, Captain George A. Murray, arrive
2 Sunday morning from Liverpool vi
i Queenstown, thus making the tastes
western ocean passage on record. Sh
: left Queenstown at $50 a. IN. on Apr
: 30 and passed Sandy Hook at "a a. N
e. Friday, May 4, her actual time being ST
days, twenty three hours and forty-eigh
minutes. The fastest time on record fo
western passage was by the same veSs,
and was made in seven days, one hou
: and fifty minutes. The Alaska has ais
: the credit of making the fastest time frol
New York to Queenstown, her record b.
ing six days, eighteen hours and THIRTY
seven minutes.
d WHY THEY CALL HIM "OLD MAN."-"Yes. thai