Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-02-19
General NeacS Items.


Texas has 100000 sheep and only
wo wooden mills.
The exact debt of New York city is
scertained to be 1921, 168,455.
Eleven hundred workmen are employ
d in New Haven making cartridges
or the Turks.
Utah exported little over six mill
on dollars worth of precious metals and
minerals last year.
Widow Sarah Wheeler, native of
Toronto, Canada, died at st. Louis, the
,ther day, at the age of one hundred
md nine years.
The dial of the clock constructed for
the Crystal Palace, Sydenham. England
is forty feet in diameter; the minute
hand is nineteen feet long.
A terrible explosion has taken place
in one of the coal mines at Graissessac,
in the Department of Herault. Fifty
five miners are known to have persisted.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
has held that a sale of goods by sample
is not warranty that the goods ordered
on the faith Of the sample exhibited will
be equal to the sample in quality.
The American Hotel block and the
Arcade Building at Watertown, were
sold at public auction on Monday, and
purchased by Mrs. Judge Schley, for
merly Mrs. Henry Keep, for $4,000.
The American heirs of the Jennings
estate in England held a meeting in
Bridgeport, Conn, Wednesday night,
and formed an association to prosecute
the claim to the property valued at $780,
100000.
A letter from the Black Hills coun-
try to the Chicago Tribune estimates
last years gold production of that Sec
ton at $2,O00,O00' and predicts that
this years production will amount to
$7.0OO,O0O.
During the present winter thick ice
has formed at Shreveport, Louisiana,
and eleven inches of snow fell, while
Red River was gorged with ice. No
such weather was ever experienced IN
Louisiana before.
Henry Ward Beecher preached in Mr.
Moody's church in Chicago, Sunday.
The crowd was almost unprecedented.
People gatherd around the building from
7 o'clock in the morning, and by the
time of opening there were more seeking
admittance than could have possibly been
put into building five times the size.
Upwards of 10000 people were turned
away.
The French Government is making
large purchases of military and naval
supplies in New York, and bids are to
be opened shortly for 100000 pieces
of white oak lumber, 8 feet long II
inches wide and inches thick pur-
chase of 100000 pounds of copper is
also reported. The French Government
is supposed to be acting as agent of
Turkey.
A centenarian cat has turned up at
Gundaigia, New South Wales. The an
imal is reported to have been brought
from Engiona in the Golden Grove, one
OF three store ships which oecompanied
the first fleet of convict ships that an
chored in Botany Bay, Jan. 20, 1778.
1t is supposed to be the sole survivor of
seventy-seven quadrupeds transported
on that vessel.
The locomotive engineers on the Bos.
ton and Maine Railroad made combin.
, ed strike at p. m. on Monday and all
along the road drew fires and abandoned
their locomotives. At p. m. about
1000 people were at the depot in Boston
awaiting transportation out of the city
The Portland train, which left Boston
at II: 80 p. m. was laid up near Ken
nebunk, Me-, as also the Boston trair
which left Portland at 8 p. m Freight
! trains were laid up on "sidings" along
the routes. The strike was caused by
! final refusal of the road to accede to tn,
demands of the engineers for an increas
of pay.
A dispatch from Washington, of tn
Sth inst, says: The Belknap case wa
E finally disposed of in the Criminal Cour
e of the District of Columbia to-day. Tn
ex-Secretary's trial for bribery had bee
postponed from time to time for nearl
year, until recently his counsel de
manded that the case should be calle
e Immediately. One or two definite post
K ponements have lately been made, bu
b to-day the District Attorney entered
T nolle prosequi, saying that he did so b
!, direction of the Acknowledgement. Th
: Attorney Generals report, which wa
l. filed in the case, contained an indorse
ment by the President approving thi
- course, giving as reasons the improbs
bility of conviction, the long suferin
= of the ex-Secretary, and the great ez
y pense to which he has been subjected.
d The correspondent of the Daily Neat
;, at Kisheroff gives full account of tt
1t Russian modified army in TELEGRAM
: dated February 8, which has been d,
r layed in transmission. He states tn;
}, the army at Kisheroff, which would fir
4. move against the Turks, numbers 100
;. 900 infantry, 5000 cavalry and AZ
:, - guns. 1t would be Immediately follow
~ ed by two corps, which are now at Cd
., . ssa, making the total of the army
advance 100000 cavalry and 720 gun
NJ y, The correspondent continues: GAS f;
y, ~ as can ascertain everything is read
: for the army to take the field at a m
y ment's notice. A thousand horses ha'
y been bought for the train. The brid!
~ lying here is capable of passing tt
- whole army over the Danube in da
" There are also thirteen enormous stea
launches large enough to cross the A
10 lantic, two large barges seven small
re boats and masses of other things, sho1
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