Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-01-08
General NetCs Items.


Queen Victoria has twenty-five grand
children.
Five iron ships are building at Ches-
ter Penn, giving employment to one
thousand five hundred men.
Two hundred houses were unroofed in
Baltimore. by the gale on Saturday of
week before last.
A terrible boiler explosion occurred
in a saw mill at Texaskana, Arkansas,
last Monday, killing nine men.
The ship Circassian was lost on Long
Island. Dec. 20, and % persons lost
their lives.
A Colorado woman has collected fifty
bushels of grasshoppers. and scalded and
dried them for winter chicken feed.
The mother of General Fitzpatrick is
dead. She was eminent for patriotism
and piety.
The Grand Trunk strike has ter
minated, and trains are running regu-
larly.
Owing to great falling off in the
revenues, during the month of Deem
Der, the national debt was increased
over So. 100000.
All the electoral returns have been
received by Mr.. Ferry. Four States
send two sets of votes, and Mr. Ferry
has not recognized either.
Two men and pair of horses were
blown to atoms at Petrolia, Pa, Sunday
afternoon, Dec. 81. by the explosion of
600 pounds of nitro glycerine.
A circular has been presented IN
Washington inviting southern rife clubs
to visit the capital and assist in the in
auguration of President" Tilden.
A broken rail near Belefontaine, Ohio,
threw a passenger train from the.-fss0K
week before last, woundine ABOUT thirty
persons some fatally.
Col. Nathan Huntoon of Unity, Sulli-
van county, n H., has been Mason
seventy years, and will be ninety-fve
years of age if he lives till March next
The city of Toxic. in Japan. has been
!
loss is Sl0,000.O00. Sixty-fve streets
and 5000 houses were burned, and fifty
lives lost.
Mr.. Moody invites every Sunday
School in the country to take penny
I collection January IA. for the benefit of
the children of P P Bliss and the cree
+ ton of a monument to the parents
r There are now in the State of New
York alone nearly 1000 cheese manufac-
tories. which use the milk of more than
| 100000 cows. making therefrom SO,-
! 0O0,0 pounds of cheese.
Two hundred thousand barrels of ker.
osene oil are to be taken to Portland
Maine, this winter for export and the
&, city authorities are troubled about its
: storage.
! fAirty-fve thousand barrels, two iror
; tanks ana nve Erie railroad boiler cars
! hlled with oil were GArned at Oil City
! Penn, week before last, ooaasioning
: loss of two hundred thousand dollars.
!. Kansas folks are rejoicing becaus
their young grasshoppers, which hatch
4 ed out during a warm spell. early in tn
X season, have been pretty much killed Of
4 by later cold weather.
0 Laconia, N. H.. has had thirteen in
s cendiary fires in the last few weeks
1t Dickey. the alleged inCemdiary, who re
" Gently attempted suicide, is very low. |
e Is said that he has made important con
e fessions
d A dispatch from London says: 1T
= certain that at least one hundred person
h were drowned on the northeast coast G
Of Scotland during Friday and Saturday q
g week before last. The loss within
IN fortnight is estimated at the least at %
he men and 100 vessels"
y PARIS, Jan. 2. A tremendous gale ha
been raging on the Atlantic coast {
IS France. Two villages were threatene
ID with destruction by high water. Severe
e. lives have been lost. One of the tel,
S graph cables between France and Ems
he land has parted.
{. NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-The Tribune
u Washington special says the Presider
: contemplates sending message to Cor
III gress at an early day, suggesting inves
Oh ing the surplus of the Geneva aware
ie and devoting the interest to the paymer
a a. of subsidies to American shipbuilders.
e. President Grant has deferred his pr,
D. posed voyage to Europe until next Jun
n. and will in the meantime visit the We
n Indies after the expiration of his Pres
r, dental term. He will also reply to tt
t.. house resolution calling for informatio
relative to the sending of troops to tt
South.
90 New YORK, Jan. 3-The Herald r
- ports an interview with VIM. A. Whe
= Ter, now in this city. and says Wheel,
" spurns and rebukes in digni6ed mai
= ner all talk about compromise. He
= clares that the great issue must be Sc
a. tied by the strict carrying out of tt
80 letter and spirit of the constitution, b.
!! not by bargain.
y. When Ulysses S. Grant retires fro
ed an office that always gathers to itse
cd the bitterest shafts of criticism, the r
nd spect and esteem in which he is held /
It his fellow citizens will continue to i
ire crease during his life. and his name wi
on ever hold conspicuous and honorab
en- place in the annals of his country.-Z
mr. On's Herald.
III SALT LAKE. Jan g A snow slide O
Ter Cured near Alta. on Dec %, which
om stroyed the Wellington mine boardir
,m house and buried the inmates The
CT loss was not discovered until last eve
nj ing. To-day two men were taken fro
at the wreck in an exhausted conditio
llv Four more nersons were buried and n