Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-01-29
General NescS Items.

Maine produced two million five hun
bred thousand bushels .ot potatoes this
year.
The weather in France is so unseason-
ably mild as to alarm the agricultural
interests.
Special seats for deaf people are to be
reserved at the Moody and Sankey meet
ings in Boston.
Congress has practically decided to
act unfavorably upon all bills which
propose to repeal taxation.
The West last year sent abroad l2,-
10000 pounds Of butter, an increase
of 100000 pounds over 1875.
David Ewing, mill overseer of Clar-
emont N. H., was killed last Tuesday
by being wound up around a shaft.
The export form Philadelphia to Great
Britain and Ireland amounted in Novem-
Der to over two and quarter millions.
A fire at Browns mill in Whitefeld
N. H., Oh Tuesday last, destroyed prop
erty to the value of $4,000. No insur-
| ance.
Arms and ammunition intended for
Turkey, to the value of SLIGO, 100,
were recently shipped from New Haven
Conn.
Senator Christiancy of Michigan, who
is GA. and who married the pretty young
female clerk, is the joyful father of an
infant son.
A Detroit restauranter hangs out a
sign of free chops" and when the old
loafers come around he shows them an
ak and woodpile.
The Rosthschilds have a comfortable
little fortune of three billions four hun
bred thousand million dollars, and are
still making money.
TIE Chicago Tribune says there is a
large amount of the corn of the crop of
1876 in the country which farmers are
anxious to sell and ship.
Charles Collins. Chief Engineer of the
Lake Shore Road, has committed suicide
for fear that he would be held response
BILE for the Ashtabula disaster.
An effort to extend the time for the
completion of the Northern Pacific Rail-
way was defeated in the House yester-
day by the ruling of Speaker Randall.
The democrats have elected Senator
in New Jersey to take the place Of the
eminent Frelinghuysen, and Judge Da-
Wis of Illinois is chosen in the place of
l Senator Logan.
/ The Turkish grand council on Thurs
!, :, :A-I oil the nrnnositions of the
European powers. The Ambassadors
will leave Constantinople at once, and
war will probably commence Immediate
: ly.
D The State of Maine pays five dollars
. bounty for every bear killed within its
| limits. Last year FIVE hundred and
t forty-nine were killed, costing the state
| two thousand seven hundred and FORTY.
: i've doliOsS
While coastlng, In Preston, CT, Fri
:. day night, James Adams had both leg
1 broken: Charles Coy, badly cut in tn,
:, groin, and four others badly bruised
!. All were from New London, and wer
: on one sled.
t At the close of Moody's revival ser
e vice at Chicago, sixty-seven thousant
;, dollars was contributed to pay off tn
|, debt of the Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION, continue meetings and pa
a past expenditures.
n During the heavy rain storm, las
j. week, fall of some lives snakes wa
5, noticed in the southern part of Tennes
/, see. thousands of which were to be see
v, next day. They are from a foot to
N foot and half in length.
&c The chase. England's national sport
re engages the energies, almost daily. {
thirty thousand men, twenty thousan
a, hounds and one hundred thousan
D. horses, and costs three million five hui
g dred thousand dollars year.
he The annual report of the inebriat
as asylum at Binghampton, N. Y, state
g. that from May lst, 1867, to Decembt
ne 3lst. 1876, two thousand and sixty-fv
r. patients were treated. More than on,
re half of these were permanently cured.
ne There arrived at Jersey City, Tue
y day Of last week, a car containing thrt
70 million dollars In twenty dollar gol
pieces. Fourteen iron safes containe
n. the treasure, and the guard consisted
IN eight clerks, eight select men, and
H. cavalry captain.
III John Z. Willis of Gorham, n. H.,
,e; many years a Deputy Sheriff of Co
~ ~ county, was caught in the deep snow
'et =. Milan on Saturday night by the ira
.u' on the Grand Trunk Railroad and ca
&c, ried about twenty rods. When extrica
~ ed he was lifeless and terribly mangle
~ ~ He leaves family.
,ee At Chaplain Junction, near Londo
Il no less than $50 trains leave daily, the
de rate of succession during the busie
He part of the day being seventy five trai
mr. per hour, or one every forty eight Sc
onds,-At this point there are thirte
- lines of railway, and one along
- thirty-fve points or switches, wi
,I' thirty interlOcking signals, all CONTROL
ell from single "box."
;ob The immense cotton crop raised t
,tv past year in the South is valued
zen S300,000.000, and the greater porti
MN of this last sum has been left in t
inc hands of the farmers, planters and Ia
loe orers in the Southern States I
the Southern cotton planter is more inc
sed pendent to-day than he has ever bee
hat He has raised for the last two We;
Nv nearly all his meat and bread, and h
,ett even sold off a surplus of such artic
in in many places.
sad The moderation and clear comm
cen sense of the President are in refreshi
his contract with Mr.. Morton's assertio