Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-11-05
General News items.

Statistics show that the potato crop
of the United States this year is the larg-
est ever known.
A bronze statue of Horace Greeley, to
cost $4,000, is to be placed in City Hall
park, New York City.
The usual winter carnival is to be held
at Montreal after all 1t will open Febru-
airy and continue six days.
1t is reported that the number of lu4.
tics is alarmingly increasing i'm England.
The cause is attributed to the rush and
hurry of modern life.
An alarming strike is progressing
among the English golfers. In York
shire $4,000 strikers have gone out. The
coal owners refuse to make concessions.
The republican national committee has
already paid out 50. 900 of the $4,000 de-
posted for the purpose of procuring the
conviction of ballot-box violators.
The Rand, Avery company, the largest
printing house in Boston, assigned Friday
to Nathaniel j. Bradley. Their liabilities
are about $40, 900; assets estimated over
$500, 900.
The scarcity and high price of jute,
used in balng cotton in the South, has
excited the spirit of invention, and pine
straw, or pine needles, is now used for
the purpose.
Perry county, Georgia, is now agape
over a prodigy i'm the shape of boy
preacher only thirteen years old, who can
recite a ,arge portion of Scripture and
preach wish wonderful eloquence
About four thousand naturalization pa
pers have been granted in the United
States courts in Boston. Registration
has closed with total Of nearly 1900
names. In 1884 the number was 65,574.
An association of British Americans
resident in the United States has been
formed in Philadelphia. Representatives
were present from most of the states of
the Union. 1t is proposed to form an in
ternatonal association.
Mrs. Henrietta Spere and Mrs. Martha
Beckel. inmates of the German home for
the aged of Baltimore, Ind, were found
Friday morning dead, both being suffo-
Gated by gas. Mrs. Beckel blew out the
gas before retiring.
A wholesale robbery of the mails oc-
Cured Thursday on the Michigan South
ern railway The affair is involved in
mystery, but the robbers made clean
sweep and have made a great haul, as It
I .-.z -. a.. tLrouogb Dnafon trafn
A party of Union Pacific carpenters
pushing "A hand-car along the track TWEEN
ty-five miles west of Cheyenne, w. t.,
were run down by train i'm deep cut at
a sharp curve Tuesday. One man was
killed and four others fatally injured.
A head of sixty cows was struck by a
Hartford and Putnam, Conn, train at a
grade roSsng and curve near Bolton
Notch. Saturday, and fourteen were kill
ed. The high rate of speed alone saved
the train from being hurled down a forty
I 6ve-foot embankment.
/ John c.. Chandler of Boston was con-
/ victed in the superior court at Belfast,
Me, recently of passing a forged check
/ last May, purporting to be signed by Chas.
/ F. David of Boston tor S237, drawn on
the Belfast national bank. He was SEN
fenced to four years i'm the state prison.
Two ladies were killed recently by a
Burlington and Cedar Rapids passenger
train neaa West Liberty, Ind Their
death was the result of the stubbornness
of a boy, who persisted i'm driving them
across the track when the engine was AL
most upon them. The lad paid the pen
atty of his folly with his life.
The cranberry culturists in Massachu-
sets have been peculiarly unfortunate this
wear. There has been scarcity Of pick
ers and the early and severe frosts have
ruined large part of the crop. Those
who insist upon cranberry sauce with
their roast turkey at Thanksgiving time
must pay a good price for the luxury.
Mrs Henry L. How'd of New Haven,
Conn, was arrested Friday night for the
accideutu ~honting of her daughter in
law, Mrs f. J. How'd The ladies were
examining a revolver, when it was dis
charged, the ball taking effect i'm Mrs Il.
J. Howd's head. The wound is quite Sc
rious, but it is thought she will recover.
Late reports of the Italian land slide by
which railway train was buried show
that it is much more serious than at first
supposed Ten cars loaded with eNcur'
sionists wers crushed. The scene was a
horrible one. Already seventy injured
passengers and ninety corpses have been
taken from the wreck. There are still
two cars under the fallen rocks.