Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-11-22
General Ne,rs items.


has resulted in several heavy failures,
Arkansas has changed the name Of
CLAYTON county to Poland, compliment
to Judge Poland. of Vermont, but not
to Clayton.
The value of cotton lost this year for
want of picking. is estimated to be over
S5,000000.
In West Tennessee large fields of cot
ton are still standing. and it is said to
be next to impossible to procure pick
ers.
Farmers in Western New York are
complaining of potato rot. The pota-
toes decompose and the skins slip off, as
if they had been frozen.
Senator Dawes. of Massachusetts,, was
seriously injured while on visit to his
house in Pitts6eld. last Friday. by be-
ing kicked in the leg by horse.
The woman who calls herself the wife
Of Miles, the Barre bank robber, says
she has arranged for the $4,000 bail,
and is going to get him out this week.
Things are lovely in Louisiana again.
Governor Kellogg permitted the use of
two Napoleon guns belonging to the
State for the celebration of the Demo-
cratic victory in Mississippi
Silk manufacture goes on increasing
| in the United States. where there arc
now one hundred and seventy-6ve silk
manufactures, there having been none
at all as late as 1855.
Fourteen hundred empty houses give
evidence of the dull times in Toronto
Many mechanics and others have been
compelled to remove in search of en-
| ployment
LONDON, Nov. l5.-The tide in the
Thames river this morning was the
highest on record. Greenwich and the
low lands along the river were partially
inundated.
A stockman near Austin, Texas. is
raising camels, and has just sold FIVE
young ones for $3.50 EACH He expects
to begin the breeding of ostriches, ele-
plants and Shetland ponies shortly.
A man named Riddle, who had rent
ed his farm at Houston. o., to one Will
liam Snap, ordered the latter to vacate,
Wednesday of last week, and upon his
refusing killed him instantly with a
club.
The danger of giving way to passion
has received shocking instance in the
death at Troy, n Y, of woman at
whom her husband threw a lighted
lamp, it breaking and igniting the oil
which ran over her.
While Mrs. Timothy Collins was get.
ting from train of cars at Salem, Mass
last Thursday. her dress caught, ano
she was pulled under the cars. Botf
legs were cut off, and other injuries in
, ficted, which resulted fatally.
LONDON, Nov. 13-The large cottor
: mills at Glasgow belonging to Robert
son & Co., and Young g. Co.. were to
! tally destroyed by fire yesterday. Tn
loss is estimated at Sl,5O0,O0O, ant
!, 1900 persons are thrown out of employ
ment by the disaster.
MIngee Roane, a beautiful youn
t Southern woman, shot herself throug
the heart, in New York city, last wee
e Wednesday. because her sleepy lover
n whose mistress she had been for over
s year, would not get up from loung
e and talk to her.
4 New York is considering a projec
for establishing an enormous piggery o
}. some island in the neighborhood, whel
IS 10000 swine may be fed on the CARL
'. age of the city, and be tended by pa,
d pers. 1t is claimed that the city stree
le would be cleared, and paupers emplo,
IS ed to good advantage.
/. A farmer in Seymour. Ind while e.
N aiming his corn crib the other da,
N came across small jug, whose mout
lie was stopped by the body of ra. whic
e. had tried to get in but had stuck fas
On breaking the jug. he found four otl
st er rats inside, all alive The latter ha
v. evidently crawled in, eaten till the
IN sides were stuffed out, and then four
to it impossible to crawl out.
y near Pittsburgh. A man who was e.
&c gagged with number of others in cuttir
So down large tree sat down to rest on
70 rope stretched between two posts clio
~ by. when the tree suddenly fell of
''S self, striking the rope heavy blow (
its descent, throwing the man sever
of feet into the air, and causing him
p turn three or four somersaults befo
1y reaching the ground. When he W
he picked up life was extinct.
AS To be satisfied that solid wealth m;
wv be acquired by farming one only nee
en- to look over the country and enumera
k the number of thrifty farmers, who
Iu- farms are adorned by substantial al
as even elegant buildings. whose HON
Is are surrounded with luxury. and who
It, sons and daughters are as promisin
Z as well cultivated. and as we'll receiv
at as any in the land, and then look ba
asst for only few years to see how rapid
int that number has increased.
re- WASHINGTON, Nov. l6-Informati
lnt has been received from Madrid viii
lne indicates that the negotiation betwe
hg Minister Gushing and the Spanish &c
in- eminent are likely to lead to friend
un understanding. As one of the resu
gut of the correspondence, Spain has agre
vac that in future American citizens on tr
son before court-martials in Cuba shall ha
vs. the right of defense by counsel of tn
ey, own nationality and their own select,
an The fast train which started fir
hin Pennsylvania Railroad depot in Jer.
sed City at 7 o'clock Tuesday morning rea'
ind ed Pittsburgh, Penn, at 8 o'clock
'at. same evening, making the entire q