Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-06-09
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Always Company, Glasgow, Scotland,
were destroyed by fire on Saturday, Two
hundred horses were burned to death.
A violent shock of earthquake occurred
May 10 on the Island of Kishm, near the
Persian Gulf. Twelve villages were de-
stroyed, two hundred persons killed and
many others injured.
There has been no new develop |
ments in the financial situation, but in |
some quarters there has evidently been !
an increase in confidence, as prices for |
railroad stocks have recovered in meas |
ure from their recent extreme depression. |
A deficiency of between forty and fifty |
thousand dollars has been discovered in |
the accounts of Col. j. 0. Burnside, dis |
bursting clerk in the post-office at Wash |
ington. The losses are attributed to oil |
spcculationS, but the Government will
probably be reimbursed by the defaulter's
bondSmen.
The GuiOn steamer Arizona landed at
Castle Garden last week 272 Mormon
converts under the care of an elder, and
assisted by seventeen other missionaries,
all of whom are returning to Utah after
two years work in Germany and the
British Isles. The converts are mostly
in families, not over fifty Of the entire
party being single.
Shocking revelations have been made
in connection with the suspension of the
! Penn bank at Pittsburgh, Pa. There APP
pears to be no room to doubt that the de-
positors have been defrauded out of
81, 200, 900, and possibly more. Largely
overdrawn accounts appear upon the
books, in the name of firms that have no
existence. 1t is stated that officers of
the bank have been specializing heavily
and disastrously in oil.
number of heavy wheat growers from
all parts of northern Dakota witnessed,
at Fargo, Tuesday, an experiment in plow
ing by steam, and express themselves as
pleased with the result. \ traction en-
CINE drew eight plows, turning sod
four inches thick us evenly and as well as
could be done by horsepower, and at a
rate of over twenty-five acres a day. This
will make q new era in wheat growing, as
it will enable farmers to plow at cost
of not more than 81 to the acre
According to Il despatch from London,
the present pool of Atlantic cable compa-
MES is organizing for Il bitter competi-
! ton against the Bennett Mackay enter
prise. There are four companies in the
pool the French, the Direct, the Anglo
and the American. 1t is announced that
they have agreed to open the competi-
ton by establishing a uniform rate OF
three pence, or six cents, per word on all
business filed on the pool lines as soon
as the Bennett Mackay cable is in opera
ton.
The aged Shaker known as "Aunt'
Dolly SaXton, of the Mount Lebanon,
Mass. society, is dead. She was born in
New Lebanon. May 6, 1776, making hel
; over los years old. She was the adopted
OF harrington, one of Ann Lees first con
verts. Prof. Chandler, of Lebanon
Springs, delivered a short address at hel
: funeral by invitation of the community
and several Shakers made brief remarks
: John Shaw, over 80 years Of age, is now
/ the oldest Shaker at Mount Lebanon.
q The New York Herald reckons up til,
# decline of Jay Gould's stocks of late a
o. $50 ZOO GOO and upward. This is not al
: exaggeration, but it does not follow tina
is Gould is on the eve of bankruptcy, as S,
# many affect to believe. Men worth from
fifty to one hundred millions can stan
IN shrinkage, if they have not been borrow
n ing on the highest value of their stocks
w The same is true Of Vanderbilt. No,
IF the public are not aware that either {
II these men has of late been undertaken
ot any enterprises to call for large amount
III of new capital. If they have not, it
10 difficult to see how they can be dragge
. down.
he Mr.. Dwight L. Moody, the evangelis
he announced at one of his revival Sc
"a vices on Thames embankment that tt
to health OF his colleague, Mr.. Ira d. S al
al ey, had again collapsed. He added th
at Mr. Sankey's complete restoration
81 health was deemed improbable, and tn
De- his voice, which has so often led so mar
las thousands of assembled worshipers in Il
III songs Of Zion, would probably never
he heard again in their services The preac
I'VE er said that Mr.. Sankey's present pro
en- traton was SO complete that he had be
is compelled to retire from the work
ich evangelzation and would sail for his hor
ew in the United States on next Saturda
m Mr.. Moody pronounced touching eul
ice GUM on the service of Mr. Sankey. a
ere concluded by asking the prayers of t
)rk congregation for the preservation of
ion useful and honored life.
cry
of Depend Upon It.-Aother Shipton's prophes
a., and Louisiana elections very uncertain thin
but Thomas Electric Oil can be depended u,
ieu always. 1t aches and pains of every descl
It'll ton.