Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-05-20
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


The average salary of minister in
Denmark is $3.50 year, and in Sweden
$ll0 year.
Ordinary laborers in Dublin receive
sixty cents day, and skilled laborers
one dollar and half.
The license to carry or use gun
costs ten shillings in England the IL
cense to kill game costs e3.
SALT LAKE CRY, MAY 14.-There
was another heavy fall of snow last night
in the Eastern mining districts.
Bermuda is looked upon as coffin
by the British soldiers. The mortality
there is greater than at any other sta
ton except China.
David Thomas and daughter were
struck by lightning while sitting in their
house in Lone Jack, Missouri, April 30,
and instantly killed
Gregoria Peri, the Italian saloon keep
er, convicted of numbering O'Brien at
Chicago, has been sentenced to be hang
ed on the 29th of this month.
The total loss by the late earthquake
in lnyo county, Cal, was, Lone Pine,
$4,000; independence, $4,000;
Camp Independence, $4,000; other
places, $24,750. Total, 1927, 900.
A gang of counterfeiters have been
arrested on the border of Virginia and
North Carolina and committed to jail at
Lynchburgh. Presses and dies for coun-
terfeiting gold and silver coin were seiz-
ed.
1.-The Alabad Claims, and how the
Ya-kees Fixed the Yn-Gheesh being
Fragment Of some lately discovered
Annals of Monkeydom,' is new En-
glish brochure whose title speaks for it.
self.
SPRINGFIELD, MASS, MAY 14.-In the
Supreme Court at Pittsfeld to-day Dan
lei Gleason, the North Adams wife MUIR
derer, Unexpectedly pleaded guilty tc
murder in the first degree. He was re-
handed to Jail to await sentence in Sep
TENDER.
A boy in Palmyra, N. Y, playing
with ball of worsted thread attached
to his mothers crotchet work, acciden-
tally swallowed it, and had to be hello
by several women while every yard Of
it was unwound in his stomach, by reel
ing the end projecting from his mouth.
Canadian authorities say the govern
ment proposes to undertake at once, anc
to prosecute vigorously, the enlargement
and improvement of the canals of the
Dominion, and the construction of tn,
Bay Verte canal. connecting the water
of the Gulf of ST. Lawrence with thos
of the Bay of Fundy.
A bill to encourage Workmanship ha
been passed by the New York Legisla
ture 1t approprlates $4,000 towart
the purchase of rifle ring in the vicin
ity of this city for the use of the militia
ON condition that the National Rifle As
ISOLATION contributes similar sum-
This measure is considered as the enter
ing wedge for the introduction of
system Of competitive rifle matches il
this country similar to those which hav
become so popular in Great Britain an
Canada.
New YORK, May l4.-Tennie c
4
Chafin, in letter in the San tomorrow
applies for the Colonelcy of the Mint
Regiment protesting that it would b
wrong to the memory of its dead leade
to select as its successor any one lackin
the magnetic influence he possessed owe
soldiers. She will accept the positio
and pledge herself, if elected, to Civ
such impetus to recruiting that in thirt
days the regiment will be the foremos
in the State. There can be no objection
she says. to me except that | am a won
an; but Joan of Arc was woman, an
while | don't pretend to have her mil
tary genius, it has always been my desir
to become actively connected with til
service In the whole rules and tactic
| am we'll versed.
An official return on the productio
and consumption of coal in the Prussia
monarchy shows the importation to hay
amounted in 1870 to 81, 100000 cwt
and the expectation to Sl.250,000 CIV
Prussia, therefore, sells four times q
much coal as it buys. The importatio
reaches almost exclusively the norther
coast districts, to which British coal
more handy and useful, the freight b
sea being cheaper tnan the carriage b
land or river. The province of Silesi;
ON the other hand, exports about IL, 900
900 cwt. to Austria and 100000 |
Russia. Hanover exports $4,000
cwt. to Holland, Bremen, and Hamburg
Rhenish Prussia 56,50O,000 to Franc,
Belgium, etc. In 1869, the export;
tions even reached l00,500.O00 cwt
and the importation 24,500O,000 CIV
The falling off in 1870 is accounted f
by the war. Berlin consumed in l87
100000 cwt. ordinary coal, an
100000 coke.
HORACE GREELEY TEMPORARILY Y.
GATES THE EDITORIAL CHAIR.-NE
YORK, May IA, 1872. To-morro
mornings Tribune will contain fo
NAL announcement of Horace Creole
of his complete withdrawal from all col
troll, responsibility and connection vii
the paper during the Presidential ca
vass. 1t is understood that some of Il