Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-06-02
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS,

The fastest railroad time yet made was
that of Vanderbilt's special train from
Detroit to Cincinnati, the other day,
which ran seventy-four miles in sixty
four minutes.
The Cunard Steamship Company, it is
stated, has purchased the Gunion Line
steamer Oregon, which has beaten all the
records between Queenstown and Sandy
Hook both ways.
John Donovan, for 90 years night fore
man in the office of the Journal, of Bos-
ton, was last Friday night drawn into the
machinery of the press, and one leg was
so terribly crushed that he died from the
effects of the wound.
The 25th was Il warm day in New York
and the vicinity. On Broadway the
thermometer registered 81 degrees in the
shade and ia degrees in the sun. In
Mobile, Ala, the thermometer rose to
so degrees in the shade.
Elk Judge H. Beebe, well-known law
yer of New York, was killed last week by
a locomotive near Plainfield on the New
Jersey Central Railway. He was seventy
five years of age, and had practiced in the
United States courts for fifty years.
The secretary Of the treasury has is
sued his one hundred and twenty-eighth
bond call for the redemption of $l0,000,-
900 of three per cent bonds issued under
the act Of July u, 1882. The principal
and accrued interest will be paid June 80,
| interest to cease on that day.
During Il heavy thunder storm at Grand
| Lake, near Calais, Maine, recently, lC
men on raft were Knocked Senseless by
lightning, and several Seriously burned.
A child was fatally hurt, and four Others
were injured, while playing in an out
building that was struck.
The total number of immigrants who
arrived in the United States during Apr.
was &C 800, against 7S,475 during April
1888. The total arrivals of immigrants
during the ten months which ended OF
April Both last, numbered 81 ,635
against AT $3.50 during the corresponding
period of the previous year.
Three monster iceburgs have been re
ported on the Newfoundland coast, on
over nine miles long, drifting along a
the mouth of White Bay, one, estimated
to be seven miles long, passing south for
ty miles east of st. Johns, aud third
several miles in circumference, in st
Johns Bay, aground on Georges Rock
and almost blockading the harbor of ST
, Johns.
) The colossal bronze statue of Marti
Luther, in front Of the Lutheran Memoir
al church, in Washington, was unveile
on Wednesday, the 2lst inst. The Gel
emonies were presided over by Justic
1 Miller, of the Supreme Court, Senate
| Conger, of Michigan, made the openin
address, and was followed by Rev. ID
J. g. Morris of Baltimore, after whic
Justice Miller unveiled the statue
The past week has been one of anxiet
and suspense in financial circles and tt
e outlook is most unpromsing The ban
+ deposits were largely diminished and
!. lieu of surplus reserve there is now
= deficiency of six millions. Railfoi
mortgages have been active, but the d
clines in value have been numerou
Il The coal and iron trades are very dull al
n the stocks of coal-carrying railroads ha'
dropped heavily. Although the failur
|s of the week have been few and as col
=, pared with the previous week unimpo
tant, yet they have helped to keep up t
- sense of uncertainty.
= A gentleman who saw General Ora
Is in New York last week says he is utter
t. broken down by the disclosures viii
5 have followed the failure of the bank
mr. which he was interested, and that t
shock has shortened his life by ten yea
He talks freely about it to his lntim;
III friends, but keeps himself secluded a
t. fears that he has lost the respect a
Dis confidence of the country. The gene
If admits that some of his friends came
-, him months ago and warned him Il
y Ward was an adventurer and was usi
his name in an improper way, but
Isl confidence in the young man was
yer great that he repulsed them, and thin
on he may have treated some of them COO
= He is said to be sensitive about the NJ
ter, that he does not read the newspap
" and knows but little of the magnitude
pm the failure or the extent of Wards fra
lc- ulent operations.