Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-01-24

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An ingenious sinner has invented
pocket flask shaped like Bible. This
will make the Scriptures popular with
commercial travellers.
DIS MONIES. Ia. Jan. Is. S. j Kirk
wood was elected United States Sena-
tor. receiving los votes to 81 for Shep
hard LETTER. in the Iowa Legislature
to-day.
Jackson. Miss, Jan. lin the |
vote for United States Senator, in the /
Senate. Lamar had % and Martin |.
In the House Lamar had 50. the Re |
publican members voting blank.
CINCINNATI, O.. Jan. Is James b.
Beck was elected United States Senator
by the kentucky Legislature to-day. re-
ceiving loo votes, Wadsworth (Rep.)
Is; VIM. Preston. I J. Proctor Knott
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The cash receipts of the Palace Hotel,
San Francisco, one day last week.
amounted to SO, 1868. This is the
largest amount ever received in any one
day by any hotel in the world for legit-
innate patronage,
Gov. Luddington. of Wisconsin, rec
ommends the repeal of the Potter Rail-
road law and the substitution of law
prohibiting unjust determinations and
extortionate rates, and making provision
for the continued supervisory control
over these corporations.
NEw YORK, Jan. IL. A cable dis
patch received to-day by Gildersleeve
from Sir Henry Halford, shows that the
English Rife Association desires to make
up Its team of twelve from among the
rifemen of the English, Irish and Scotch
associations at the Centennial. Glider
sleeve says: "Send any team that you
please"
Capt. Josiah Briggs, of Coxsackie,
his wife and two children. were drown
ed in the Hudson. near Coxsackie, on
the night of the 18th inst They were
returning from church. the mother and
children on a hand-sled, which the Capt.
was pushing across the river on the ice,
when they all disappeared through an
air-hole. The bodies have not been re-
covered.
The Lowell Mass Courier says that
Mr.. Joel Powers, who is taking the list
of births for 1875 in Ward No in
that city. found one family in which
two remarkably small children were born
during the year. One of the little ones
weighed but a pound and a half when
born, and died when five months old
weighing four pounds. The other weigh.
ed two pounds when born, and is now
three months old. active and healthy, al
a weight of three and a half pounds.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Jan. Is. The
North Hoosac wooden mills at Blackin
ton. owned by R, Carpenter & Co, were
destroyed by fire this morning, together
with the Troy & Boston Railroad bridge
: a store and two tenement houses. Tht
mills were in full operation at the time
and the operatives narrowly escaped Will
their lives. About 200 persons ar
thrown out of employment The tota
loss. on the mill and buildings vii
D reach $4,000, on which there is 100,
e 900 insurance. Loss on the railroad
bridge over insurance. $4,000.
The Boston Journal says: Messrs
Hook & Hastings, of this city, are t
| furnish an organ of great size and i'm
mense power for the main exhibition
: hall. IL VIII be placed IN the cenUra
gallery at the east end of the vast nave
), which is 1888 feet long. This instru
e ment is designed not only to form
e prominent and attractive feature of th
r Exhibition by its unusual size and eft
e fectiveness, but its builders intend
:. shall embody the various improvement
S and devices pertaining to their curion
r art which they have introduced, man
'e of which are peculiar to themselves.
The Richmond Wig, which. strang
l. to say, is a Democratic newspaper i
10 spite of its name, does not intend to b
% frightened away from the Centennia
t celebration next year by any amount {
d lurid rhetoric either from North or South
h 1t says: The Radicals will find us i
g full force at Philadelphia on the 4th {
a July, side by side and shoulder
d shoulder with all who truly love thei
country and are devoted to the Unio
D. and the Constitution, and if Mr. Blaine
E. friends don't like it, they may 90
ID New Jersey and ''get up Fourth of j.
70 ly of their own
s Gen. o. o. Howard, as Commander
'g General of the Department of the Co
as umbia, made visit to Alaska. and b;
be transmitted quite an interesting repo
BY that is cow in print. He recommend
n that the Territory be made countl
on of Oregon, or, in some way be provide
an with such government as was conten
ed plated by the treaty with Russia. T
ry refers to the charges against the Alasl
er Commercial Company. and says citizt
as of standing on the Pacific coast writ
him that the company are making nj
sw lions of profit; that their operations a
in concealed as much as possible; tn
he vastly greater numbers of seals are XII
Oh ed annually, than agreement allows, al
lis that large amounts OF hush-money a
lat paid to keep the matter quiet.
ot- There is reason to believe that t
ed ship Harvest Queen, of the Black Bs
lily Line, was sunk by collision in t
bis Irish Channel, some time between ID,
dy 3 and Jan. 3. and that her crew, nul
m bering thirty men, was lost, not a 81
pie gle survivor having been heard frc
ng since the disaster. Some of the passe
nd gers of the steamship Adriatic. of t
az White Star Line, which arrived in Ii
be city last Thursday. assert that the Ha
lat vest Queen was sunk by collision wi
MS the Adriatic. The captain and ofic'
all Of the steamship admit there was