Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-02-22
GENERAI NEWS ITEMs.

next. will be legal holiday.
Alvah Frost. Of Charlesiown. \. IL.
tax collector and deputy sheriff was
found dead in his bed last Friday morn-
ing
Three Catholic churches were burned
in Connecticut. Saturday afternoon, at
Hartford. New Haven and Norwich
total loss SlSo.00o.
4 bin to cqualize the bnunties paid to
soldiers and sailors during the late war
was passed last Saturday. in the House
of Representatives. adding nearly $50
600 900 to the liabilities of the govern.
ment
Mrs Oliver Perry Rice. of lndianap-
oils, is informed by Hon George Il.
Pendleton. her lawyer. that she Is the
legitimate heir to Sos. 100000 worth of
property in Allegheny county, Pa, and
She proposes to assert her rights IN
court
A man who had served twelve years
sentence in the state prison at Auburn
n. T.. absolutely refused to depart, and
the iailer. 70 get rid of him, sent him to
sweep the sidewalk and then locked the
doors on him. He made many attempts
to break in. but finally gave it up and
went away.
Official report of persons killed and
wounded IN Louisiana on account cf pol
itics since 1866: killed. two thousand
one hundred and forty one Wounded
two thousand one hundred and fifteen
Total. four thousand two hundred and
fifty six. Nice state to live In and easy
state to die in.
President Dillon, of the Union Pacific
railroad, has proposed to pay into the
United States Treasury half million
annually for twenty years, and three
quarters of million annually thereafter
as "a sinking fund for the cxtingui>hment
of the government mortgage until the
mortgage Is cancelled.
The Secretary of War has directed the
Adjutant General to send kilograms 20
the Commandng-Gencrals of the De-
partnents of Dakota. the Platte, and the
Missouri. instructing them to carry out
the directions of the ~recent General
Orders providing for furnishing supplies
to the sufferers by the grasshoPper raw
ages with the utmost dispatch.
a wrought iron bridge on the Chesh-
ire railroad, near Keene. \. II built by
Hawkins & Burial. Of Springfield. Mass.
was completed and tested last week
three of the heaviest engines on the
road were first placed on the bridge. and
then they were Iun over with twenty
three heavily loaded freight cars attach
ed, and in each instance the DETECTION
WAS seven-sixteeDths of an inch
I he tunneling of the British Channel.
from Dover on the English coast to Cal
ais on the French, Assistance Of twenty
miles. bids fair to become an accomplish
ed fact. The opinions of engineers, in
regard to the safety of tunnel through
the chalk formation which underlies the
Channel, is altogether favorable. and OK
perlence in sinking shafts below the
water line. is in the same direction. The
=" PtdilSAo WV nav tibUtf tdhcll Tue lHdG-
ter. propose to spend nearly a million If
dollars III preliminary tests 1T both ends,
as soon as they can obtain the necessary
from the French and Eng
llsh governments The tunnel would If
course be without ventilation. excepting
at the extremities but the Mont Gems
tunnel has no central ventilation.
HENRY WILsoX.-It was twenty
years OIL Saturday since Henry Wilson
the Senate chamber at Washing
ton. as United States Senator from
as the successor of Ed /
ward Everett. who had recently resigned |
his seat. or the SIXTY ono other gentle
men who occupied seats in the Senate.
twenty years ago, thirty seven are dead.
and OF the twenty four who survive. the
only one now in the Senate is Hannibal
Hamlin. who has not served continuous
y. having meanwhile served as Vice
President Of the United States. as Gov
ernor Of the state of Maine. and rs col
ector of the port Of Boston. Mr.. Viii
son has kept an autograph album in
which be has obtained the signatures of
Ill with whom he has sat in the Senate.
accompanied by the dates Of their births.
md the number is now two hundred
md sixty.
Every week adds to the evidence that
he celebration of the centennial of the
fepubiIc. Is to be a success The numer.
'uS important events which preceded
he Declaration Of our Independence.
hose OF Lexington. Concord. Bunker
I'LL. DC will be duly commemorated
tut these celebrations will only add in
crest and force to the grand conlmemo-
alton that Is to take place at Philadel-
MA. The preparations for the contiu-
iaice OF the jubilee. by an international
Exhibition. are going forward with great
pirlt. and we trust that tie cxampie
ihlch has been SO notably set on similar
ccaslons, that of being wholly unrcady
men the time has come. will have no
GLOWING IN this case. But there is an
mount OF work to lie done. and the peo.
lie Of the whole country must take a
art IN It. We have always felt that il
ught to have been a national and not an
International affair. but now that we
ave invited the world to como and sec
> the thing must be done up thorough
aud to the credit of the whole couutrr
20 local or sectional jealou,ies must lie
Moved to Impair the grandeur If the
OF all event which formed AN
IA N the history of the world. as well
ot our own country We must an
IN heart and hand t. make it successful
There was little business Of imnort
nee transacted IL the national senate
edne-day The post Office appropria
on OIii was considered at length by the
ou'e' several important amendments.
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