Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-02-12
General NeaCS Items.

Treasury, continues very Ill at wash
ngton
The annual report of the Bank of TIA
y shows that the Pope has $50, 1000, 900
IN that institution.
The knavish cashier of the National
Bank of Franklin, Indiana. robbed the
bank of 100000 and fed.
President Smith of Dartmouth COL
lege appeared on the street Saturday for
the first time since his sickness last
fall.
1t is said that portrait of Governor
Van Ness, ordered by the late Mrs.
Judge Roosevelt, Is being painted in
Paris, and will be presented to the
State of Vermont in due time.
At Trenton N. j., on Sunday evening
a building, occupied as a shelter to Pen
nsylvania Railroad locomotives, was
burned, and eight locomotives, valued
at 100000, were destroyed.
Senator Thurman is a great sufferer
from neuralgia. During the ten days
preceding last Friday he had scarcely
slept at night, or been free from pain
an hour during the day time.
Three little girls, Minnie and Annie
Striley and Nellie Voorhus, aged 5. s,
and 10 years, were drowned at Salem,
Mass, on Saturday evening. of break
ing through the ice at the foot of Os-
good street.
Boston has an assessed valuation of
S600,000,000, and over two thousand
of Its citizens pay tax on 100000
and upwards, while the tax-roll Of thirty
men show that they are justly entitled
to be ranked among the millionaires.
Charles O'Conor asked Secretary Fish
to accompany him on visit to the
President last Saturday, for the pur-
pose of apologizing for the incorporate
and unjustifable language used IN a
letter written by him, concerning the
President, last Fall.
The income of the demented DR.. Aver
is two thousand dollars day, and it is
said there has never been time in the
last dosen years when he has had less
than five hundred thousand dollars ly-
ing idle and awaiting investment-all
made by judicious advertising.
A New York lawyer settles the ques-
ton as to whether James Gordon Ben
nett has gone to Europe or not. by
showing a letter from friend of his
who recently crossed the Atlantic in the
Inman steamship City of Richmond, and
who says that Bennett and his party
were among his companiOns on the voy
age.
About four hundred shanties are fal
ont OIL the ice in Saginaw bay. Thes,
structures are made of thin wood, hneC
with heavy building paper, and rest OF
runners, so that they may be moved rea
Oily. The inhabitants are fishermen
who cut holes through the ice and cap
tnre great quantities Of fish. The pop
Ul~tinn is over a thousand, and Their
are stores, sal00@~ and hotel in thi
strange village, which WIN Iss.t probabl,
until March.
Midhat Pacha, the Grand Vizier o
the Porte, has been deposed and Edheir
Pacha appointed in his place. This i
regarded as an indication that Turke
is growing more and more stubborn i
her determination to reject all attempt
: at foreign intervention. Edheim Pach
was one of the Turkish representative
at the Conference, and was noted fo
his determined opposition to the de
| mands of the Powers. Midhat Pach
r was ordered to quit Constantinople, an
has left for SYRIA.
A communication from one of the rep
resentatives in Canada of leading fri
of hardware merchants in Staffordshirt
= England, contains the following: I"
have just returned from trip throug
the lower provinces. find that tn
, whole country is overrun by America
= travellers soliciting orders for their man
ufactures at almost any price to secur
a sale. l feel sure in my own min
: that very large proportion of the HARD
: ware trade is altogether lost to England
y From all 1 can learn they are in a pos
g ton to retain the hold they have go"
A few days ago, as the President wa
s walking with his son Ulysses, Jr., nea
|. the White House, passer-by accoste
It him and begged light. The Presider
n handed his cigar to the stranger, wh'
between the whifs, remarked: "Ths
# seems very pleasant house to live in,
a to which was made the quiet rejoinde
"Well, it is pretty comfortable" on
3 with a mutual salute they separates
1t is suspected that the stranger kne
whom he was addressing. and made IL
S experiment to see what would con
t. of it.
- cat the breaking out of the war
# 1861 citizen of Mobile, Ala, by Il
name of Nichols. espoused the Unic
cause, while all his family and relativ
! went over to the Confederates. He W;
> given "a hours to leave the South, al
. taking what he could, he started for IL
70 North to seek his fortunes as best
u could. For some time he has been fl
ing the position of Station Master at Il
lie Lincoln depot, on the Fitchburg Raj
al road. A few days since he sent IN b
D. resignation, as an uncle, recently d
ID ceased in Alabama, has left him heir
ID fortune of over S1,0OO,00O."
en- 1t is stated that the cold has be-
more severe the present winter ats
be Petersburgh than for 1913 years prev
Mt Gus. On the 3Oth of December t
H. thermometer in the city fell to 80 de
d. Reaumur below zero, equal to 40 dc
ne Fahrenheit). Several cabmen we
&C. found frozen to death on their sea
while cats, pigeons, and even sparro
IN were found dead in the streets.
= night large fires were kept burning
the nnhlic snnarns for the hnnnfit Of I