Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-04-09
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Gold SI.O5.

Gold Sl.05.
The National debt was reduced more
than fourteen million dollars in March.
Oakley Hall, the missing ex-Mayor of
New York has arrived in England
The total reduction of the national |
debt during the two terms of President |
Grant was $436,682,ll6.
Tweed will surrender his property to
the city of New York, and the city will |
surrender the right to punish the great |
thief as it Furnishes small thieves by a |
long Imprisonment in the penitcntiary.
Such is justice.
Bismarck, the greatest Prussian sur
renders his high Office as German
Chancellor and Minister He has been
the great power in that nation and his
resignation is of great consequence.
The Khedive of Egypt has sent g.
100000 cartridges to Turkey, and has
promised to send troops. The Bey of
Tunis has sent four complete mitraiI-
leuse batteries and large sum of mon
ey.
A dispatch from Rome, says: Gen.
Oarette presented to Cardinal Simeoni
on Friday an album containing the sig
nature of over 10000 volunteers prepar-
ed to shed their blood for the temporal
power of the Pope.
The engineers appointed by the Mag
ara Suspension Bridge Company to ex-
anime and report upon the state and
stability of the bridge have reported
sisas the bridge is entirely safe for the
transit of regular trains, such as have
heretofore used it.
Out in Montgomery county. Oregon,
there is lady lawyer. She is, or was,
married. And the other day a client
went to her Office and found the door
I locked, with the following notice pinned
on the outside: "Gone to my husband s
funeral; back in thirty minutes"
The Nebraska legislature has proyia
ed for a grand grasshopper war. Road su-
pervisors throughout the state are au-
thorized to order out all the voters in
their respective precints to do twelve
t-uays work each IN killing grasshoppers
for which each of these home guards is
to be paid two dollars per day iu county
warrants. Besides this, grasshopper
war clubs are being generally formed
throughout the state.
A magnificent excursion steames, in
tended to run between New York and
Rockaway, and calculated to carry four
thousand excursionists, broke In two and
y was abandoned while being towed from
Norfolk to New York. where the upper
works and the machinery were to be
added. 1t was merciful storm which
tested the strength of the hull before any
of the four thousand excursionists were
on board; for it requires no credulity
to believe that steamer which breaks
in two from the mere violence of the
waves could ever have become other than
a magnificent coffin.
The preparation of the Main Exhibi-
ition Building for the opening on
May lst. of the Permanent Exhibition
is being pushed forward rapidly. The
, Exhibition, covering space as great as
that occupied by the first international
Exhibition in London, comprises as
many departments as were represented
, at the Centennial, aud will contain
exhibits from most of the foreign nation:
which then occupied space in the MAR
: Building.
The value of all our exports shows al
increase over the last fiscal year from
E 1857, Oll,81S to S687. 1852, l68. The
vigor and profit of our trade in bread
d stuffs are shown by an increase from
$1l3.656, 467 in 1876, to 1882, O85. TAX
in 1875, and the growth of our foreign
, trade in meats which has SO frightened
! the British butchers is attested by al
j. increase from $43,463.O77 to $62, 100,
/. 223. The tables also disclose that not
withstanding our industrial depression
which has closed good many facto
ries, those which have kept in operation
!, have been able to export goods wortl
8 $50, 3l6,383, as compared with S68,
4 93S,527 in 1875.
i Affairs at the Vatican are attractin,
!. considerable attention. The Pope ha
= again fallen i'll, and daily becomes NOR
enfeebled. His physicians regard tn
3 fatiguing receptions of the pilgrim
# with apprehensions. Strenuous effort
d are being made to place the Papacy il
accord with ali the Catholic Powers
! and it is hoped to induce Italy so far t
recognize the Pope's temporal power a
e to eede the Leonine City to the Hol
1t See.
e The Hartford Courant condenses in
e word some facts that cannot be too thor
IS oughly impressed upon the public minG
"a The same thing has been stated man
times, but never with more force an
50 clearness Fortune will rarely
g made as rapidly in this country as the
have been; We have passed our vii
stage of speculation, and must settl
W down to the moderate incomes and slo
1T accumulations that are the rule in a
IS European countries. we waste MOI
of food and wear out more clothes than an
! other people on earth i; and we do NJ
= get the comfort in proportion to our ou
- lay. The Englishman has much MOI
D. comfort of life on smaller income tina
Of the American We have ridden hig
,s horse good many years; now v
= must get off and walk awhile"
- Providence. April 4th. The State ele
- ton was held to-day. The Republican
oi nominated Gen. G.. G. Van Zandt
j. Newport for Governor. and the nomin;
OF ton was Endorsed by the Prohibition
If Convention. The Democrats nominate
J. B. Barnaby of Providence, who W;
supported by the liquor interest ar
as disaffected Republicans, under the lea,
or it is alleged, of the present Governo