Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-09-10
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

four million last month.
If London continues to grow at il
present rate, it will have a population
of 100000 in 1900.
Alvin Adams, the founder of IL
great express company which bears h
name, died at his residence in Waite
town Saturday night after a long il
ness.
The great Gorliss engine in MachiI
cry Hall, Philadelphia, has been take
down and packed ready for removal
Providence. Seventy railroad cars wi
be needed to carry it.
1t is a notable fact that the soldier
almost to a man, sustain the Southe1'
policy Of President Hayes. It is I'll
politicians who talk of losing what a
fought for.-Bosto,a Journal.
William Williams of Fairhaven hid
been held to bail in the sum of 5000
for attempting to burn his mother
house few days since, and for wan
thereof has been sent to jail.
Our mobs and riots are mainly cal
ried on by foreign-born Catholic, an
their children, and we have the right
hold any religion responsible for I'd
character of those who have been educa
under it-Independent.
1t is estimated that 10000 oil vel
have thus far been dug in Pennsylvani
and West Virginia at an aggregate CO..
of S162.00o,0oO. They have yielde
about SS,000,O0O barrels of oil, value
at the wells at $30O,OOO,OOO, or $500
100000 at the seaboard.
William Lloyd Garrison said in
speech at Chester, England, that ''v
have never had SO high an example {
political rectitude as under the RepuI
lican Administration of Presider
Hayes.
Congressman Joyce of Vermont say
he has talked with great many me
about the Presidents Southern polio,
and he is yet to find one who is able
tell him what other course could hay
been followed with any hope Of success.
That Is the whole case in a nutshell.
Canada is reaping harvest frol
American tourists this season. Th
travel down the St. Lawrence, throug
the Thousand Islands, to Montreal an
Quebec and the River Sagueny, has N
been SO great in three years. 1t is sai
that in one day last week over OF
thousand Americans arrived in Montrea
The proposition that paper can an
ought to be made money without ar
purpose or hope of redemption Secretal
Sherman regards as '.a mild form of i
nacy"-which must be allowed to
pretty plain talk in the State that h
SO large a population of ''lunatics" {
the money question.-Goldeaa Rule.
A heavy snow storm prevailed on N
Washington. Monday morning common
ing at s o'clock. The thermometer
the base of the mountain was 81
grees where it rained. This is the fir
snow storm on the summit of Mt. Was
ington since the 23d of June. II
month just past is the first Augu
without snow storm for years.
| One Joseph Sears is in Sweetsbu
| Jail, on the charge of being one of Il
parties who attempted to rob and mu
der DR.. Brigham in his house at Phillip
burg. He was identified by the Doct
as the principal of the gang, and it
said that he has confessed his gui
Sears is about fifty years old, and b
been engaged in many disreputah
transactions.
The famine in the Shan Tung d
trict of China has attained fearful e
tent and intensity. Widows have SO
themselves as slaves to obtain food, al
fathers have given away their daughte
as slaves and concubines to keep the
from dying of hunger. The very that
of the houses, the bark of the trees, a.
the MOSES on stones have been cate
and no living thing but man remains
the fields. beasts of labor, dogs, ca
vermin, all having been devoured.
LONDON, Sept. 4. Yesterday NOR
ing ex President Grant and party Il
Edinburgh on visit to Mclrose al
neighborhood, and returned in the e
ening. The General left this mornil
for the north on a visit to the Duke
Sutherland at Dunrobin Castle. &c
Grant has arranged another visit
Dundee next week. He is to be pl
scented with the freedom of the burg
of Elgin and Inverness. The magistrat
of Inverness are expected to confer t
honor when he is returning from SUIT
erlandshire. A deputation of the Elg
Town Council will be invited to W;
upon him at DunrobIn Castle.