Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-09-29
GEN ERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The late Mrs. Caroline E. Brown, of |
Waterford, Maine, left $500 to be expend- |
ed IN the erection OF a monument to her
son, Charles +. Brown-the whole worlds
sArtemus Ward" The little grave is now
marked by a bit of moss-covered slab.
A herd of valuable Jersey cattle affiict-
ed with pleuro-pneumonia were condemn
ed and killed in Illinois last week by the
gov eminent inspector. A like fate will
befall several other diseased herds. The
owners are paid the value of the animals.
The steamer Rose Standsh of the Bos-
ton and bingham line was sunk in Bos-
ton harbor recently shortly after leaving
her wharf, by collision with tug boat.
There were 101 passengers on board but
all were saved, although the boat sank in
six minutes.
An unprecedented rise Of rivers in Wis
conSin succeeded the tornadoeS, and
brought a heavy loss in property. At
Chippewa Falls the river rose twenty feet
and swept away everything before it. At
Eau Claire ten bridges and 200 houses
were swept away. In and between Eau
Claire and Chippewa Falls the total loss
was estimated at S1,500,0O0.
The annual meeting of the Vermont Bar
Association is to be held at the court
house in Montpelier the evening of the
Tuesday on which the Supreme conrt is
to be begun, Oct. %. Hon. B. F. Fifield,
the president, is to deliver the annual adj
dress, his subject being Judicial Tenures
of Office" Judge Ross is to read an es
say on the late Chief Judge Pierpont, and
Judge Rowell a paper upon the late Judge
Peck. The supper will take place at the
Pavilion.
About 8 O'Clock Tuesday morning Mrs.
Melvina Butler met with strange death
at her home in East Boston. She was
working about the stove in the kitchen
when spent rife ball came through the
window and struck her on the left breast,
entering her body and breaking u rib near
| the heart, and then falling to the floor.
| The sudden shock, with the conclusion
over the, heart, caused the woman's death
almost instantaneously. The bullet was
fired by John c. Murray a marine at the
Charlestown navy-yard, who shot over the
head of Il river pirate who was trying to
steal from the ship Pennsylvania. Muir
ray says his orders were first to warn of
the thieves, then to fire over their heads
and finally, If they did not leave, to fir
at Them He was mile across the har
Dor from Mrs. Buffers house, and wa
| shocked to learn that the bullet had dom
harm to any one mile away. He wa
arrested, but will be released.
A gentleman who has just returne
from an extended tour of Observation
through the West, having Travelled as fa
as the Pacific slope, says that Californi
will certainly give an emphatic republic
an majority this fall, and that not NOR
than one democratic candidate for cor
gress will be returned from that state
The enthusiasm for Blaine in all the Pr
, cific states is overwhelming. He report
6 that even the democratic editors of Cal
fornia concede Blaine's success in Orr
gon, Nevada and California, and expires
u little hope of the reelection of Cassidy
t Congress from Nevada. In Michigan
@ this gentleman says, the republicans haV
p placed in nomination for governor Gel
Alger, the most popular man in The stat
and that the democrats will certainly los
three congressman, and very likely fiy'
: He pronounces the statements made
! the democracy to the effect that they haN
: any chance in Michigan and Wisconsin
:, | as mere buncombe. Those states are
certainly republican as Maine or PEN
sylvania.