Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-04-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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Postage stamps are manufactured at
an average cost of one cent hundred.
The population of Maine has decreased
sixteen thousand since the census in
1876.
The speakership of the coming extra
session of congress is generally conceded
to Mr.. Randall.
The winter in Europe has been mild,
but the weather last month, almost
everywhere, was tempcstuous and severe.
Another great European tunnel will
be finished January lst, 1878, through
the Pyrenees, connecting France with
Spain.
At the Southern ice factories beauti-
full wreathes of flowers are artistically
frozen into the centre of blocks of ice of
any desired size.
The contract for postal cards amounts
to between S1.3O0.OO0 and $1.4OO.-
00O The number used during the last
fiscal year was 33.0O0,000.
: Astronomers report the discovery of
two more comets. making total of three
now bearing down from Pegasus toward |
the earth with terrible velocity.
Strawberries are retailing at thirty
five cents pound in San Francisco, and
the indications are of the heaviest yield |
this summer ever known in the state.
Virginia liquor dealers have raised a
fund to resist the introduction of the
gong punches provided for under the
new whiskey law, just enacted in that
state
A vessel is loading at Port Royal for
Holland. 1t will carry four hundred
and fifty thousand feet of lumber, and
will be the first shipment thence to that
country.
Gen. Sherman wishes to have some of
our ablest young officers permitted to 60
to Europe, if there is to be war there,
and serve as volunteers on the stats of
the commanding generals.
General Sherman will shortly remove
his family from Washington to ST. Louis.
He will from time to time visit the capt.
tai and remain there as long as official
duties require his presence.
Instead of the 10000 unemployed
workman at New York four months ago,
there are now only 10000, the other
10000 having been furnished employ
ment by the revival of business.
/ The Greek government has ordered
that an army of 10000 men be in read
mess for active service In case of need.
i A London Times dispatch says that the
feelings in Athens is intensely anti
Russian.
Clusters name is being conferred on
large number of Western towns and
counties. Colorado has just set apart a
Custer county. Nevertheless the habit
of giving the same name to so many
places is great Custer the country.
! The ;, new jury law of Florida provides
that when IN any ~4se. civil or criminal,
a knowledge of reading, wfit;ne. and
| arithmetic is necessary to enable juror
, to understand the evidence to be offered,
E he may be challenged if he does not
e possess such qualifications.
5 The San Jose (Cal) Herald tells how
q a man put three highwaymen to fight.
He was stopped by them in a dark
bridge. but raising his umbrella to his
D shoulder, he snapped the spring on the
b handle, and the robbers, installing the
e sound for the cooking of gun, took tc
e their heels.
III Con P-~~o:~-- pad loops.
: showed diabolical ingenuity in Kidding
/. the city of its unregistered CANNES. Ad
vertising for a dog wanted, he secured
the attendance of over four hundred, o.
' which all but twenty wese found to b.
: unlicensed. and the rest were ruthlessly
: seized and slaughtered according to law
d The terrible appetite which liquor ex
S cites was shown in Providence Monday
S night, when George Harding, dissapa
S ted young man, was arrested in an In
toxicated condition, and having in hi,
4 possession black silk shawl which b,
Is had stolen from his mother who had haC
n it for twenty-five years. and which b,
It had tried to sell to buy more liquor.
e The gale in the Chesapeak which pre-
, vailed during the early part of las
d week was the severest ever known il
that region. The wind at Cape Henri,
blew 60 miles an hour for SO hour
If continuously. The signal service tele
If graph line along the coast was complete
4 ly demolished, poles and wire having
a been washed out to sea. A large mum
IL Der of vessels suffered severely.
\; The dog fish which Captain Boyto1
ID encountered while crossing the Straits Q
ID Messina was bravely engaged by tn
e, famous swimmer. who gave the ferociou
IN animal a prompt and telling cash in tn
head with the long knife he carries i
ID his girdle. The fish turned and FLED
Ii but not without giving its antagonist
al heavy blow with its tail, which bruises
TX one of the Captains shoulders
T. The st. Louis Republican, Demo
~ cratic paper, in abiding to the Souther
nc policy of the President. says: There
u no alternative for Democrats but to az
nc cept and applaud it. He has solved tn
Gu Southern question in manner and b
"' a method above criticism, and it will M
be worth while for any public mai
y. Democrat or Republican, to challenge th
lst justice or suficiency of the solution"
~ France is learning lesson of En-
nc gland. and proposes to import America
ne beef on large scale-only it is tt
Us South American article that she wi
ns draw upon at first. A joint stock con
% pany with an immense capital have col
Co. troll of patent refrigerating process
10 and if it works we'll they are to build
'lp factory near Buenos Ayres and do b
ms business, employing special line