Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-12-17
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
The population of France is set dow

In New York.
D. R. Locke petroleum V. Nasby)
has taken editorial charge of the New
York Erening Mail.
The Paris Exposition buildings will
be all under one roof, or succession of
roofs, and will be over five miles In
length.
The damage resulting from the un-
precedented storm which visited the
Atlantic coast, though not as great as
first reported. are very heavy.
A Secretary of the Treasury informs
broker that he can buy silver to pro-
duce $4,000 in silver coin for $l37-
937, by paying in gold or bonds.
Postal cards to the number of &c.
$4,000 were sold last month. This
is the heaviest consumption in any sim
month since their introduction.
The value of the Washington county,
N. Y, potato crop this year will amount
to 100000. As many as 100000
bushels were shipped to New York last
week.
A confidential clerk of the Rothchilds
in Paris lately absconded. after robbing
his employers of over 100000. The
money had been nearly all lost in stock
speculations.
The farmers in Scotland have suffered
severe loss this year by bad weather.
| ond their aggregate revenue will fall
short of that received in good years by
about $40,OOO,0OO.
Richard B. Connolly. ex-Controller of
New York city. and ring thief, has been
before Judge Davis and allowed YER
dict of $8,537,l70 to be entered against
him without contest
The New York Worlds arithmetic
man figures out that the Democrats have
gained something more than 100000
over last years election. leaving out
Virginia and Mississippi, where they
had no opposition.
A farmer in Kincardineshire, Scot
land. has been fined for assaulting his
servants. He rode through his house
on horseback, even entering the sleeping
apartment of the female servants, and
laid about him with his whip.
The United States minis turned out
during September, $4.492, 200 in doub-
le-eagles; 1,677, 900 in trade dollars !;
$4oo, 100 In half dollars S349, 900 in
quarter dollars, and $l29, 900 in dimes,
making total coinage of $7,O56, 200.
Carl Christman, of New York city,
has been killed by the discharge of a
gun that was not loaded. While clean
ing it, he poured into it some kerosene
oil, and placed it on hot stove and i,
exploded, making an ugly wound in his
head.
At Northampton. N. H., last week
Tuesday, a long standing family feud
between two brothers, named Joshua B
and Freeman Drake. eliminated in /;
quarrel at the formers house, durin,
which the latter was fatally beaten b.
the former, aided by two sons.
The wholesale arrests of unlicenset
liquor dealers, hundreds of whom wer
arraigned in the Police Court, and re
leased on bail. has caused great excite
, ment in New York city. Of the 5000
, bar rooms in that city not more thai
1000 were open last Saturday.
| Over year ago the store of John B
p McCuin. at Belvidere, was broken into
? and quantity of boots and other good
q taken. Week before last Deputy Sher
| iH RaHar &C TohDsnp orroe&ol p@,o
Q Locke, of Waterville. He waived a
!. examination. and for want of bail wa
taken to Hyde Park Jail.
| 1t is officially announced as to til
f great cyclone and storm wave which wiz
e tied certain districts in Bengal on tn
n morning of the lst of November, 1875
n that the total number of persons drown
/ ed was 10000, and that the outbreak
!, cholera which followed carried of rs
lie 900, making total mortality of 165
d 600.
'e The seventy eight oil re6neries owne
7e by the Standard Oil Company in Pitt
burg, Penn, will hereafter be fed
Te oil pumped direct from the wells.
n line of pipe thirty miles in length, fro
1t Great Belt to Pittsburg, for that pu
d, pose, has just been completed. A fou
It. inch stream of oil will be kept constan
IN ly flowing from the wells to the refine
10 les.
be While Hon. John A. Burleigh,
lg South Berwick. Me-, ex Member of Co
ge gress and President of the Nation
In Bank, was out riding the other day h
to horse sheered while crossing brid.
and went through the railing. goil
ell down distance of 25 feet. Mr.. Blu
DIS leigh and the horse were instantly XII
nd ed. and the carriage wrecked. The a
zee cident was not discovered till the ne
IS, morning.
a Senator Morton's will gives the who
OK of his property absolutely to his wido
Dir leaving her to use her own judgeme
nd and discretion as to what aid she sh;
'as give their children, In their educati
lid and otherwise, '.she being the sole jud
XII of what aid shall be rendered" Nj
'k- Morton is named in the will as execut
The estate is valued at about 5000
of The signature to the will is said to
tai the last written by Morton's hand
adj A. 7. Stewards hotel for women,
for New York, will be opened on the LIST
os. January. 1t has cost SO. 900, 900, a
me is expected to be self-sustaining. FRI
led 81 to S. being charged for board. 1t
ter seven stories high and little more tn
the 200 feet square. The walls arc of gre
ON thickness. The floors of the first TIL
,to stories are of marble, and of the otE
ill stories of hard wood, laid on iron a
RS cement. Brick walls separate eve
second room and the nartitione aro m q