Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-11-22
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The republican majority in Virginia is
between l6, 900 and II ,OOO
Complete returns from Minnesota give
a republican majority of 2,3l4.
M. Bartholdi and party sailed on sLa
Gascoigne' for France Saturday after
noon. Prince Louis Napoleon was pass
enger on the same steamer
Eighteen thousand salmon are said to
have been caught recently in Puget
Sound at one haul of two seines, and a
great many got away by the breaking Of
a seine.
A regular western blizzard prevailed
in Iowa and Colorado Wednesday. It
was the worst storm for 10 years. Trains
are blocked on the railroads and travel
temporarily suspended.
Miss Frances A. Greenway, niece of
the well-known Syracuse brewer of that
name, fatally shot herself the other day,
because she did not want to return to her
convent school at Montreal
A Russian engineer claims to have dis
covered a process of reducing petroleum
to the form of crystals which may be cas-
lily and safely transported to any distance
and then re-converted into liquid form.
News has just reached San Francisco
of the laundering of the steamer Norman
tore off Pashima, japan, with ~ persons
on board, only II of whom reached land.
The steamer was laden with tea for New
York and Canada.
A Washington dispatch states that it is
now conceded that Speaker Carlisle will
be re-chosen speaker in congress. The
democratic leadership will be between
S. S. Cox of New York and Gen. Patrick
A. Collins of Boston.
A citizen in Durham, Me-, has reached
the advanced age of 102 years, but retains
his memory remarkably. Many years
ago he and another man caught 1850 cod
fish in a single day, and he tells the tale
now without forgetting fish. A fisher
mans memory is kind to the last.
A company of soldiers have been or
dereu TO CaIuwcIi, KAN, from Fort Reno
to keep prospectors out of the Indian ter
ritory. The greatest excitement prevails.
Thousands of claims have been staked out
in the territory below Caldwell, where
silver is believed to exist in large quanti-
ties.
The craze for tobogganing promises to
rage higher than ever before this season.
Burlington, Vt, and Montreal will Guido
all previous efforts; Orange, N. j., will
put up two slides in addition to those
used last year, and Albany and Saratoga
will go into the sport more extensively
than hitherto.
The first forgery on the bank of Eng
land was committed in 1858 10y a lawyers
clerk, an Oxford graduate of thriftess
when he could save S250O. He committed
the forgery in order to hasten the day,
was convicted and was executed at Ty-
burn day or two before the time set for
the wedding.
A tage-coach that left Leadvile, Col.
early Tuesday morning with nine passen-
| gers for Aspen, was caught in a snow
| slide on top of a mountain Is miles from
Aspen late that evening and coach, pass
| engers and horses We're carried over a
| precipice 200 feet high. The turnout was
| buried deep in the snow at the bottom
of the declivity. A relief succeeded in
digging out the passengers. Four were
uninjured but five cannot probably live.
Charles Baker, well-to-do farmer of
| Greenville, Texas, recently lost his wife
and became a raving maniac. His serv-
ants all fled for their lives and Baker
stalked about his plantation day by day
shooting every live animal he could see
Some neighborS tried to capture him one
day. They surrounded the house anC
| three men ventured in. The maniac re
treated up -S5aicS an / opened fire, erious
| ly wounding one man and driving tn,
others in rush from the house. Bake
then tried to get out but finding the house
guarded, rushed upstairs, and, standing
before window, calmly cut his throat
before all his neighbors. When they trie(
to save him he put bullet through hi