Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-02-16
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

about to marry an Italian Count.
Within the past year Canada's national
debt has increased twenty per cent.
In Elkhart county, Ind, recently, a
young lady.
The managers Of the New Orleans Elk
position are seeking a further appropria
ton from Congress.
Montreal's new stock yards cover % |
acres, will hold over 10000 animals, and |
cost more than 800, 900.
More than $4,000 cattle are said to
have persisted in Indian Territory owing |
to the severity of the weather.
A horrible traffic in white girl babies,
who are sold to Chinese dens for $50 |
apiece, has been discovered in San Fran
cisco.
An entire train of cars was blown from
the track into a ditch near Georgetown,
| Col, and of the twenty persons on board,
| eighteen were more or less injured.
Joseph Mitchell, a boy aged Is years,
employed in the mandatory of Taft,
Morgan & Co., while engaged i'm running
a trip saw, Saturday afternoon, had all
| the fingers on his left hand sawed off
nearly to the hand. He was filling the
place of man usually employed in run
ming the saw, and being unaccustomed to
the work, met with the accident. He was
taken to the office of DR.. Rutherford who
dressed the wound burlington Free
Press.
Miss Matilda Chase, who was burnt to
death at Annapolis, dreamed a few days
before her death of the terrible fate await
ing her. She was so much agtated that
she at once sent for her lawyer to draw
up her will. The arguments of her rela-
tives against the truthfulness of dreams
induced her to change her mind, and a
few days later the dream was literally full
filed Having made no will her property,
valued at nearly 100000, went to her
only sister.
writ for libel was served on Tuesday
by Deputy Sheriff John L. Tuttle, against
Hiram Atkins of the Montpelier Argus,
in behalf OF l.. L. Durant, Esq, of Mont
peler. Damages placed at So, 900. The
suit grows out of a court report written
by Henry Oviatt, which appeared in the
Argus last April, in which some very Sc
we're reflections were cast upon the pro-
fessional character of Mr.. Durant. The
case is set for the March term of the
Washington county court.
There is much Indignation at Ottawa,
Ont, over the killing of lad named Pou-
lin, by the inhuman act of the owner of a
toboggan hill. A man named Sicard, in
order to prevent boys from sliding on his
hill, placed planks across the slide at the
bottom of the hill, so that those who ven
tured on it might get the full benefit of
| the conclusion. inst after young Poulin
had started, his friends called out to
warn him of the danger ahead, but the
warning came too late, and with light
ming speed he dashed against the planks,
| cutting his face open, breaking his neck,
5 and crushing in his skull SO that his brains
+ protruded. Sicard was hidden near by to
watch the effect of his dabolical work.
He was arrested.
The fireworks for the inauguration and
4 the dedication Of the Washington Monu-
!. ment will be something unique. Among
: those for the inauguration will be rep
: resentaton of Niagara which will be 800
o feet high and 165 feet broad Most of the
fireworks will be displayed from the tor
of the monument on both occasions. The
{ Inauguration procession, it is estimated
e marching company front, will reach from
: the Treasury to the Capitol In all thu
n government reservations refreshmen
= stands will be provided, where the multi
tude can get sandwiches and coffee. AL
ready windows are being hired on the av
enue, some at the corner of Pennsylyani;
avenue and Fifteenth street, where tn,
turn into the avenue from the Whit
House is made, being as high as $50.
u The Boston papers contain obituar
notices of Joshua x. Qsgood of Maine
the well-known temperance reformer, an
the originator of the wonderful reform
club movement that swept over the coun
: try. Mr.. 0sgood came to Claremon
about ten years ago and inaugurated th
y, greatest temperance revival that Clare
II mont has ever seen. About 1900 signe
~ the pledge, including many who had bee
he habitual drunkards. Many of that nun
E. Der have never broken that pledge, an,
II dating their interest in the temperate
cause from the days of his labor there
g they have Il lasting friendship for the oil
or temperance hero, and express many re
eff grets at his demise Claremont was on
ne of the places he liked best to visit, an
he on his last visit here, two years ago, b
IT, held a weeks series of meetings and trie
: to stir up again the old reform spirit
. Telegraph.
WHY is it that the girl with the biggest fe,
~ always wants to play Cinderella? We don't know
ne but we do know that the best remedy for cougl