Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-08-25
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A man named rockingham, belonging
in Haverhill, fell overheard from the
steamer City of Haverhill just after the
the latter left Black rocks, this afternoon,
and was drowned.
The excessive death rate among infants
in Montreal continues, it being materially
aided by the intense heat. Out of the to-
tai of 126 deaths last week, 81 were chill
dren under five years of age.
Hanlan has been compelled to lower his
colors to an Australian. The sculling
match on the Paramatta river, n. S. W.,
took place last Saturday, and was won
by William Beach by several lengths.
In nineteen years the national debt has
been reduced from $2,756, 00O, 900 to ST.
$50, 1000, 600. and the annual interest charge
from 150, 100000 to less than $50, 200, 900.
No nation has ever made such record.
Maud S. has been sold to Robert Bon
ner for $4,000. Vanderbilt preferred to
sell her to Bonner at that price on the un-
Outstanding that she shall be retired from
the turf, than to accept an offer of $780,,
900 from the tnrfmen.
The second annual meeting of the Irish
National League of America opened in
Faneail Hall, Boston, on Wednesday af-
tenon. About 400 delegates were pres
ent, and the galleries were crowded with
spectators. Many distinguished persons
are present, including Messrs. Sexton
and Redmond, Members of Parliament.
John Calvin Palmer of Hampton, N. H.,
| was fatally shot by the accidental dis
charge of gun recently, in the hands of
young man named Perry. One leg was
! terribly shattered and Palmer died from
the effects of the shock before amputation
could be performed. Mr.. Palmer was a
represenrativ in the legislature few
/ years ago,
There were 432 suicides reported in
this country during the three spring
months of the current year against 81
in 1888. 1t is supposed that at least q
part of the apparent increase is accounted
for by the better gathering of the cases.
There were 324 males and 80 females; 12s
bachelors, 10S husbands, IL widowers
II divorced men, % maids, 80 wives,
widows and divorced women.
A colored woman named Chloe Ashby
died at Washington, ID. c., on the It'll
inst, who is said to have been 116 year.
old. Her relatives say that she was borl
in 1768, on the farm of Gen. Henderson
at Dumfries, Va, and that she lived as
slave until 1851, when she purchased he
freedom. She was the mother of sever
children, two of whom survive her-sons
: seventy-nine and seyenty-one years oil
: respectively. ~
: The Toronto Globe, ofAugust IA, says
seThe Captain and crew of the Silkswoith
now at Montreal, assert that they saw th
sea serpent off the Gasbe coast on tn
voyage up. The monster rose frequentl
!, thirty feet out Of the water, and swelle
c out tremendously every time. At tn
D water line it was about four feet in dian
q eter; its head was that of a conger eel
mouth that of a shark; body striped lik
: a mackerel; fins simply immense, an
voice a horrible yell. There is no dout
P that the Captain, who is fully corrobo
f ated by the crew and passengers, believe
/. his story, which is regularly entered
the ships log. Sceptics can object I
nothing except that the monster was see
: at half mile distance by moonligh
II which may have exaggerated his size,
d not his awful below