Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-05-12
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS,

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Senator Edmund's private law practice
is said to be worth SO, 700 year.
1t is claimed that the cattle interest of
the country represents over $4,000, 900
head of live stock.
At Rochester, N. Y, Fridays gale did
great damage. At Troy the roofs of sew
eral honses were lifted. In Schenectady
the walls OF the proposed Mcqueen loco
motive works were blown down.
According to the Boston Journals cal
culation the two leading candidates,
Blaine and Arthur, will enter the conven-
ton with about 800 delegates each, leav-
ing $50 to control the nomination, if they
refuse to join either Arthur or Blaine.
Fitzgerald won the six-days walking
match which ended, at New York, Satur-
day night, making 61O miles, Rowell, the
second man, making COZ miles. The
highest record previously was Hazael's
600 miles. FitZgerald's receipts were
about $50, 800.
BY financial disaster in New York in
which the banking company Grant &
Ward are involved, President Grant is
thought to have lost the greater share of
his fortune. One of the firm in which his
son is doing business risked the fortunes
of the company in speculation and carried
down the firm and the Marine bank.
Raleigh, n. c., May s. Henry Swain,
the negro who last Monday so brutally
murdered Mrs. Reed at Washington, near
! Winston and has since been in Jail at the lat
ter place, was taken from Jail at 2 O'Clock
this morning by a large party of masked
men and hanged. He confessed tn crime
which he declared was for the purpose OF
robbery. The murdered woman was Ga
years of age.
Recently Mr.. Emery and wife
| arrived in Portland from the West
on their way to Gray. In the Eastern de-
pot Mr.. Emery left his wife for few mo
ments to see about the baggage. WheI
he returned she had disappeared, The
police have searched this afternoon an(
evening but can find no trace of her. Thu
woman has been insane previously, ant
it is thought, in an insane fit, wandered
to the wharf.
Counsel for Chas. II. Rugg, the negro
now under sentence of death in the coun
ty Jail for the murder of Mrs. Maybee a
Brookville last November, will appeal t
the general term for new trial, thu
staying the execution which was st
down for June 6. Rugg is constantly IN
der supervision and still wears the doubt
set of manacles with which he is chaine
to the cell. He does not expect ne
trial and is preparing for his execution.
t A special to the Times Democrat fro
\ St. Joseph, May S, says that back-watt
+ continues to rise slowly. Hopes ofplan
: ing this year are abandoned. The prol
e lem now presents itself, how are the NJ
= groeS to subsist from now until work 0
: the ieveeS Will commence, which cann(
i be earlier than August? Planters at
/ merchants refuse further advances. Thel
> are many instances Of actual want. Tw
houses were blown into the river du
/, ing the storm of Monday night. The o
e cupants barely escaped with their live
h The tendency of the butter market
IS still downward and prices are about
II caDfS - Dnnnd la,yar than Iuct xvaaE Il
J. the finest dairy lots % cents is top Sc
ing price to the trade, though in Il jobbil
way the range is little higher. T
best creameries are down to 26 % cen
in large lots, and as the supply has
IL creased they may be still lower.
ceivers are anxious to sell, and in t
is present condition of the market will Il
refuse any reasonable bid. There is
rs wide difference in the quality of new bl
ne ter coming in, and a large portion of t
dairy is offering at 90 to % cents. De
e. ers look for slow and unsettled marx
ed during most of this month, as nobo
wants to hold the present make, a
o. country shippers should be prepared
he low prices. At Elgin and st. Alba
prices show decline of 2 to 3 cents
To pound. Boston journal.
he All speculation as to the fate of
overdue State line steamer State of FL
II ida, whose two empty life boats were
an Gently picked up by the steamer Dew
was settled yesterday by the arrival
MS Quebec of the Donaldson line steam
IA Titiauia from Glasgow with "a OF
crew of the Florida on board whom 5
n rescued from small boat. These
:, port that the Florida was sunk in N
ri ocean by collision with a bark, the ]
mano, which also went to the bottc
OF the 167 souls on board the Florida
~ escaped in life-boats and Of 10 souls
:, the bark the captain and two others "
saved The total number of lives lost
disaster is, therefore, 1877. The TIVE
- persons who escaped in life boat ;
- were not picked up by the Titiana
probably those on board the Norweg
bark, Theresa of Christiana, which TT
ID to signal the City of Rome. They
now on their way to Quebec.
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