Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-10-30
General Ne,Cs Iten,S.


in Chicago. and still She isn't happy,
A Connecticut druggist received
prescription calling for eight inches OF |
bloodroot,
The Russian Government has contract |
ed with a Springfield firm for twenty
thousand revolverS,
Two Euglishmen recently made
/ Journey of seven hundred and fifty miles
on bicycles in about fortnight.
A Philadelphia jeweler has been de-
teeted in substituting imitation diamonds
for real ones left with him for setting.
Mrs. Jane NJ. Walker. President Folks
sister, who died at Columbia, Tenn, n
few days ago, left Just one hundred grand
and eat-grand-ohilaren.
If tenth part Of the eggs deposited
hatch out, there win be grasshoppers
enough to devour every green thing IN
the st ,te of Minnesota next year.
The Boston AdrertiSsr. thinks it no
longer possible to dispute the fact of
business revival. 1t appears everywhere
and in nearly all branches of trade.
At an auction in Thomastou. Conn,
seven hundred bushels of potatoes were
sold for eighteen dollars, or little more
than two aud one half cents per bushel
The value of the natural and manu-
featured products of Rhode Island for
the year 1875 was over five hundred
dollars for each man, woman, and child
in the state.
The indians at Standing Rock have
signed the treaty relnquishing the Black
Hills. The treaty was SO far modified
as not to insist on their removal to the
Indian territory.
A student in the Manchester ENG
landl infrmarv lately gave twenty-five
ounces of his blood to revive poor fac
tory operative who was sinking, exhaust
ed from hemorrhage.
/ The fall in the price of diamonds in
London has caused staguation and panic
in the South Africa fields. Hundreds
E of miners have departed. and starvation
E threatens those who remain.
4 Lord Albemarle, who remembers all
e about such things. says that Queen Vic
: toria, when seven years old, used to
5 water her feet as much as she did the
flowers. That is how they came to grow.
q A letter from the Adirondacks says
4 that deer this autumn are more abundant
j.. than for many previous years, but that
< they keep away from the lakes, finding
n more security in the second growth
d timber.
: Jewish silver shekels have lately beer
found near Jerusalem, belonging to the
n time of Simon Maccabeus, B. G. l44
:, On one side they have the cup of mamma
/ and on the other the budding rod O.
) Aaron.
r. The European ''war cloud has beer
d of great advantage to some of the Lon
II don newspapers. The daily circulation
of the Daily Ne,0s has gone up from
is 100, 900 to 100000, and the Daily Tel
/ egraph from 10000 to 100000.
1T The first conviction in Virginia unde
s. the civil rights bill has just been secur
re ed at Stanton. where depot-master ha
IN received a sentence of four months i'm
c, prisonment for ejecting a cOlored woman
D. from the women's waiting-room.
A trader in Manchester is buying on
s. ions and is to pay for them three dollar
t, bushel-when Tilden is elected. H
to is selling the same onions for one dolla
ne bushef payable when Hayes is elected
es He expects to make a dollar bushel.
OF Mrs. Phoebe A. Hanaford, Universe
81 ist minister in Jersey City. recently PEI
d formed the marriage ceremony at ht
daughters wedding. This is. perhap
I'M the first instance in the world in whic
a lady has been married by her ow
as mother.
" 1t is reported that Beecher is hea
~ over ears in debt, and that the brethre
q are consulting whether they must n
'Se give him a long leave of absence fro
preaching, this fall and winter, to en-
~ bic him to strengthen his exchequer
ny lecturing.
The wool clip of the country in 18I
u was nearly two hundred million pound
whereas in 1860 it was emily sixty-f
IT' millions. In 1875 the country bong
nc ne about fifty million dollars worth
On wooden goods, and eleven millions
IL wool.
,bt A man at Fairview, KY. with era
ar ing for liquor. after selling everythi
i'm of value wherewith to buy the stimuler
took his few msnths' old child and trad
it over the bar for drink of whiskt
81 The child was afterward redeemed
AT the mother on paying for the liquor.
has A watch has been presented to Mn
ing MacMahon so small that a poweri
ing magnifying glass is needed to tell t
ear. hour. The duke of Aumale has order
the set of these microscopic time pieces
DID, shirt and wrist studs. which will
ter ready in time for the exhibition of 81
res Judge Henderson, of Lebanon count
sla- Pa, at a late session of the court
quarter sessions, issued an order forb
Ter ding the admission of boys into The CO..
Re- room during the trial of cases.
elds based the order upon the demoralizi
who effects of the narration Of crime w
on the young.
ana The yellow fever is abating at Saw
am nah. and the mayor of the city has
glh- sued letter saying that further outs
into ae.;otanca will not he necessary AZ =,
Ons, emf The whole number of deaths
ans Savannah. from August Dist to Septc
more Der Both. was seven hundred and sew
lire' ty-fye. Of which FIVE hundred and S
own enty-eight we're from yellow fever, m
ing an average of fourteen fever dea
raw per day. About one-third have b
-: children and one-ffth negroes