Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-04-26
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


now supposed to be the Charles H. Morse
of Bath, Maine.
Arson X. Warner of Greenfield, Mass,
injured in the Deerfield railway disaster,
has since died.
Mrs. George B. Mcclellan is going to
Europe for a sojourn Of two years, ac-
companed by her son and daughter.
Rev. Arthur Gray Howe, an English
clergyman, who died a short time ago,
left SIC, 900 to two sons.
The wages of the GOO trackmen employ
ed by the Boston & Albany railroad
have been raised from Sl.3O to $3.50 per
day.
Five thousand citizens of Louisville,
| Ky, have held meeting and denounced
| the disappointment of Mrs. Virginia
| Thompson as postmistress. Now let us
hear from the 10000 other voters of
Louisville.
The forty days during which no new
Knights of Labor were to be made hav-
ing expired, limitations are now going on
at rapid rate. There are over 5000 as
sembies in the country and it is expect
| ed that 1000 more will be instituted this
| month.
Mr. Knerals, the law partner of ex-
President Arthur does not believe the
widely circulated report that General Ar
thur has Bright's disease and will die
shortly. On the contrary Mr.. Knerals
says that his partner is improving and
will soon be out.
| The latest gift of the Vanderbilt boys
is fund of $250,00 to be applied to the
construction of a clinic building for the
New York college of physicians and sur
| geons. Wealth devoted to the encour-
agement of science and the promotion of
philanthropy. is we'll spent.
Miss Folsom of Buffalo, said to be af-
famed to President Cleveland, is %
years old, and has been the Presidents
ward since early childhood. She is said
to be beautiful and accomplished and to
|
her a model mistress of the White House.
terrible fire prevailed at Stry, Aus
tria, the first days of last week, in which
Il large number of persons were burned
to death, and thousands of persons made
bankrupt. The prisons were opened and
the prisoners let out, but IA of them were
| To H.
ed, and some committed suicide on ac-
count Of their ruin, and the charred re-
mains Of many victims were taken from
the ruins.
The losses by the flood in Montreal, it
is said, will reach over 100000 The
city council appointed special committee
floods. Alderman Grenier, chairman of
the finance committee, will call a special
meeting of the committee to take steps
to borrow $4,OOO,OOO, to be used in rails
ing the level of the low-lying districts Of
the city, and also charging the present
revetment wall.
Lovers of nature will find a choice NOR
sci in the article s'Sap Bewitched," by
w. H. Gibson, in the May Harper's, beau
tifully illustrated by the author. Mr.
Gibson's poetic fancy gives this title to q
description of the strange swellings, com
monty known as gals, which occur in
surprising variety on nearly all plants
and trees. Many accurate facts of orig
2 inal observation are woven together with
occasional touches of imagery in style
worthy of Thoreau.
One of the most disastrous conflagra
lions that ever visited Lacrosse, Wis.
broke out at 10 O'Clock Tuesday morning
: in John Paul's mill, and swept southwark
v destroying the mill and several Thousand
y feet Of lumber belonging to Mr.. Paul
h Thence it swept to the yards and mill o
CT. Colman, destroying everything t.
the river and for two blocks to the south
J ward. The flames leaped rapidly fror
q one pile to another despite the exertion
O of the entire fire department. A careful
J. estimate of the loss places it at 81 ,000,0OC
Of which, as individual heavy losers, c
L. Colman is greatest, his loss bein
100000, with no insurance. John Paul
+ loss, mill and 5000, 900 feet of lumber, i
n estimated at $3.50, 900, insured for $50, ZOO
a The cause of the sinking of the Cunar
g steamer Oregon, off the Long islam
if coast is at last known. On Sunday, APP
70 IL, the ocean being calm, one of the div
ers of the Merritt coast wrecking comp;
nv was sent down to examine the vesse
le and he remained below sufficiently Ion
ID lover half an hour) to ascertain beyon
rs question that her sinking was caused
IN a collision. Ten feet below the mai
deck. and about 20 feet forward to tt
bridge, the diver found hole in tt
u steamers side, the heavy iron plate
e. crushed in. The hole is six feet deep al
AZ three feet ia breadth at the widest par
In the immediate vicinity Of the bre;
. the cargo is stove, us it is 20 feet fro
the bridge. The steamer is broken
two, and her upper deck parted over
We feet on top. Most, if not all, of her ca