Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-06-07
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

In the war department it is doubted
that General Miles has offered rewards
for Indians, 'dead or alive"
Two immense gas wells near Pittsburg
were struck by lightning. The flames
extended two hundred feet upward.
Jay Gould is alleged to have ordered
the discharge of all Knights of Labor en-
ployed in the Southwestern coal mines.
A huge grist-mill at Grand Rapids,
Mich, fell in from the weight of grain
stored there. The damage was 100000.
Balls statue of Daniel Webster, pre-
sented to Concord, N. H., by B. p Chen
ey, will be unveiled with impressive GER
emonies June 18th.
A Waterspout struck house and barn
in Abingdon, Va, destroying them and
injurine the inmates. One lady was car
red half a mile away.
There is bigger run of salmon in the
Penobscot river this year than for many
seasons. Fish weighing from fifteen to
twenty-five pounds are plenty.
1t is expected that the betrothal of
Princess Louise, eldest daughter of the
Prince of Wales, to Prince Oscar, son Of
the King of Sweden, is to soon be declar-
ed officially.
The destruction of the town of Nicolosi,
in Sicily, seems inevitable, as the erup-
tions from Mt. Aetna have greatly in
creased, showers of lava and stones con-
stantly falling.
A Chicago packing house has contract
ed to supply the French government with
100000 pounds of beef. in cans, to be
| put up in the special can adopted for use
by the French army.
Mrs. Edwin Thorn, who came to Chi
| cago from England with her husband a
| fortnight ago, pricked her finger with a
| black pin which she found in her pillow.
Inflammation ensued, from which she has
since died.
Thirty-one deaths from cholera in
twenty-four hours was the record OF
May 29th in Venice. The dread disease
has assumed u more or less epidemic
form in Southern Europe for several
years past.
Though Secretary Manning is steadily
progressing in the recovery of his health.
he does so slowly. 1t is thought that he
will not resume his official duties at the
Treasury Department until at least next
autumn. Assistant Secretary Fairchild
has accordingly arranged to continue the
performance of his duties as acting Sec
rotary of the treasury during the summer
The Memorial day exercises at the
tomb of General Grant on Monday were
| attended by an immense concOurSe
Among the distinguished persons present
were President Cleveland, General Sher
idan, General Schofield, Secretaries Endi
colt and Whitney and Postmaster-Gener
al Villas. There was large military dis
play, and brilliant Grafton was deliver
ed by General Logan.
An elderly maid, who for many years
resided in a New Hampshire town, die,
the other day, and neighbor who was
commissioned to make an examination o
the house after the funeral found an eX
tensive collection of various articles
which the old maid had been boarding
Only a portion OF the house was look
ed over, and following is list of wha
was discovered: Eighty dresses, seventy
five pieces of dresses, tifty-six aprons
sixty -four pairs Of cotton stockings. fifty
seven pairs wooden stockings, tifty-eigh
pillow-cases, seventy-tve sheets, siXtee
dish-wipers, sixty-eight towels, ninetee
pairs OF new boots and shoes, six pairs o
rubbers, one hundred forty small rem
nants of calico, Il large pile of cotto
. cloth remnants, between seventy-tive an,
one hundred handkerchiefs and twent
cats.
had the rheumatism in my left shoulder for tw
and in three days after using Atiilophoros til
I ha1t IL