Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-08-07
General -Neacs Items.
Henry Ward Beecher is sixty-three.

is engaged to be married to an Alabama
lady.
a stalk of corn with fifty we'll devel-
oned ears is one of the things Rusk'
Texas, is feeling proud about.
Wires will he stretched across East
river. New York. this week, as the be-
ginning of East river bridge.
The gold in the vaults of the Bank OF
France at the present time is estimated
to exceed five hundred tons in weight
An explosion in the Black Diamond
Coal Mine, California, caused the death
of six men and the serious injury of i've
others.
Paid admissions of the Centennial.
one week ago Saturday, amounted to
sixteen thousand nine hundred and four
teen dollars.
The editor of the Chattanooga Times
is tearing his hair because the intelll-
gent compositor made him announce
that .Rev. ". W. Simpson would
preach at Sl0.45."
Both the sons of Stephen A. Douglas
are hard at work for Hayes and Vince
Ter, and one of them is Republican
candidate for Congress.
There is baby, two weeks old, in
Vassar Mich, which only weighs one
pound and half It's mothers wedding
ring will easily pass over the child's
hand ana up 10 tho shoulder.
In France, out of a population of thirty
six millions, only two millions live on
the revenue of accumulated wealth, the
balance depending on the product of
labor
The President of France receives as
Marshal of France $4,000 and as Pres
ident Sl20,000 per annum.
An iceberg one thousand five hundred
feet high has grounded just outside Of
the harbor of st. Johns. Newfoundland,
and the inhabitants are cool and happy.
Mr.. Moody is at his home in North
field, Mass, preparing for the fall cam
paign in Chicago He breaches on Sun
day evening to immense congregations.
A nickel mine has been found in
Seymour, Conn.,, and the metal is said
to be in paying quantities.
A petition signed by five hundred
residents of Buffalo, will ask the Legis-
lature to prohibit rope walking across
Niagara.
David Smith, of Ludlow, Maine, has
killed seven bears since May lst. The
skins bring him seventy dollars. and
the bounty thirty-fve dollars.
On Tuesday, July 18th. when the
thermometer was ninety-four degrees in
the shade at the foot of Pixies Peak,
Colorado, there occurred on top of that
high mountain furious snow storm,
completely covering the peak and sides
with coat of white.
A New Bedford man is going to pad
die his own canoe 10 the Centennial ex-
position. The canoe is fourteen feet six
inches long, twenty-seven inches wide,
nine inches deep in the center, and
weighs fifty pounds. 1t is decked over
with the exception of hole to sit in.
1t has been estimated that since the
first of April from seventy-fve to eighty
thousand bushels of oysters have beer
taken from st. Michael's river, Mary
land, aud sent to Jersey waters to b
planted, while from other points larg
shipments have also been made.
Postmaster-General Marshall Jewel
of Connecticut, Hon. E. w. Stoughtol
, and Hon. Lucius E. Chittenden of New
: York, Gen. John L. Swift of Boston
Hon. Trenor w. Park of Bennington
Hon. Luke 2. Poland of st. Johnsbury
i have been invited to speak at the variOu
. republican meetings in Vermont.
q DIR. J. G. Atkinson, of Amsterdam,
o Centennial Commissioner and membe
q of the Board of Awards from Holland
{ was robbed of $2,4OO at Philadelphia
0 Saturday, by Frcnchman named Der
r vlllier.
:. A. F. Fairbanks, Cashier of the Stat
S National Bank of Elizabeth, n. j., Is
s defaulter to the amount of $4,000, {
which $4,000 is accounted for by hi
"a acceptance of checks of E. p Williams
n whose account was overdrawn. william
10 has been arrested as an accessory to tn
. defalcation.
Ie Dispatches from China states that fan
s inc is threatened in the provinces {
Is Chill, Shantung, Honan, and Nankil
N in consequence of a prolonged drough
E. The crops have been destroyed over sc
l. square miles of country, inhabited |
W 7O.00O,000 people. Russia is endea
ID oring to secure coolie labor for improv
ments on the Saghalien Island. The
az has been disastrous inundation at 70
n chow and in the surrounding countr
<. 1t commenced June 10, and ended {
a the 18th. 1t was the highest food tn
il his occurred within the memory of Il
v oldest foreign resident. There was gre
n loss of life, some five thousand de-
lis bodies having been found near FoochC
k alone.
ed The Plattsburg (Mo.) Lever tells t
r. following: sin a Methodist meetin
he house in this city on Wednesday event
last, the prayer-meeting was broken
ire by the entrance of a small pig. Z
70, sexton tried to eject the pig. but the I
A had no thought of abandoning the fel
O.. and as the sexton dashed down one ali
no the pig ran up another. occasional
nd running under the benches and destrC
ed ing the solemnity of the occasio
ter Meantime the Pastor retained his speec
er. less gravity in the pulpit. But wh
he the pig evinced so much audacity as
led climb into the pulpit and take up
on sitlon beside the Pastor, the latter flu
it. realized the extremity to which he '
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