Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-03-19
General Ne1CS Items.

General Ne1CS Items.
Hon. Carl Schurz has lost his wife,
father and mother within about a year.
An unknown man deliberately walked
into the rapids at Niagara last week.
and was swept over the falls.
Nearly every prominent lottery-dealer
- N,-- York city was arrested, Friday,
on warrants obtained by special Agent
Comstock.
The London Times says that the Unit
ed States funds are now almost the only
legitimate object of investment in the
foreign market.
The graves of Andrew Johnson and
his wife are unmarked by headstones and
the grounds, are in the Same condition
as at the time of the ex-presiI~nt's
burial.
Another shipload of about one hundred
mechanics sailed from New York for
Australia on Saturday of last week.
their families.
A Bourban county (Ky.) man has
found in the heart of an oak tree a peice
of Buffalo skin, which, judging from the
tree, must have been deposited there ole
hundred and fifty years ago.
in New York an aged stationer named
Joseph l.. Lewis. died the other day,
leaving his entire property, amounting
to upwards of million dollars. for the
purpose of helping pay off the public
dept.
A railroad panic broke out at the be-
ginning of the year in Switzerland, and
the shares of the two principal lines fell
about one-half. This, with the decline
of the watch trade, makes the Swiss feel
poor.
Elder Evans, the leader of the Leban-
on Shakers. has started graveyard on
a new plan. The graves are to be TWEEN
ty feet apart, with tree planted over
each, so that in time there will be a
handsome grove.
Up to the oath of December last, OF
the ZOO feet of the entire tunnel
through Mt. Gothard, in Switzerland,
22,l99 feet had been excavated. 1t is
believed that the whole work will be
finished in 1880.
The Astors have given notice to all
their tenants, and they are numbered by
hundreds, that after the lst of May mex
a reduction of ten per cent will be made
upon their rents. This is the third re-
duction of similar amount which they
have made since the panic, making il
all thirty per cent.
The day upon which President Hayes
was inaugrated the London Times an
nounced rise in American stocks, will
the further remark that they were nov
recognized as the safest of foreign in
vestments. Thus, at home and abroad
the election of a Republican President i
received as a guarantee of national gooC
faith and prosperity.
A bad state of feeling between Franc
and Germany is coming to the surface
A Paris telegram of the 10th says: In
formation of the gravest kind reache
me from a well-informed source. TIT
German government have assumed al
attitude toward France which is calcu
lated to cause serious uneasiness as t
the maintenance of peace.
The Harding Paper Company's mill a
Franklin. Ohio, took fire on the LIST ult.
and in two hours was burned to tn
ground. 1t was magnificent building
fitted up with new and costly machine
ry, and was regarded as the finest es
tablishment of the kind in the country
and the second largest in the world
The loss will not fall short of quartz
of million dollars.
The strike on the Boston and Main
Railroad is stated to be at an end. Tn
road is running more safely than eve
before, according to Rrailroad Commits
sioner Adams; the engineers have prac
tically given up the fight, and the pub
lie is in a fair way to be protected b
special enactment against future deten
ton and danger from any organizes
!, abandonment of railroad trains by thei
engineers.
The Albany Argus of Friday says MI
Verplanck Colvin returned to this cit
yesterday, after a fortnight's sojour
among the Adirondacks, where he ha
been doing some important topographlca
engineering. He brings with him
large panther. an animal now compare
lively rare in the wilderness. He wa
discovered standing boldly on dea
tree, on the edge of precipice, only 2
J or % feet from his pursuers. glarinI
upon them, when Mr. .Colvin raised hi
rifle and sent bullet through the crea
lures brain. The panther is over seve
feet long from nose to tip of tail, and
very muscular and heavy animal
; weighing probably about 200 pound
when killed.