Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-26
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Snaue trees destroyed In Washington.
A torpedo cutter exploded in Rus
sian harbor last week. killing thirty
four persons.
An official estimate puts the number
of deaths from the famine in India at
l,850,OOO.
The English national debt is e777,-
78I,596. During the last twenty years
it has been reduced g6l.737.73O.
A dispatch from Big Butte, Oregon,
states that fire destroyed nineteen
buildings, all business houses except
two.
Mrs. Livermore is winning the hearts
of thousands in England who come
under the influence of her magnetic
oratory.
A recent dispatch states that Gill
more's Band is exceedingly popular and
successful in Germany, and has been in
vited to 60 to Russia.
Nearly all the hostile Snake Indians
in Oregon have surrendered, and the
troubles in that region are thought to be
over for the present.
Kansas has increased her population
over 100000 during the year ending
June 3Oth, and over two million acres
of government land were taken up.
The awards of the international jury
are not published, but it is said that
American exhibitors have more than
their proportionate share of medals and
awards.
Over three thousand sheep, one hum
dred and three cattle and four hundred
and sixty hogs, valued at $4,000, were
shipped last week from Montreal for
England.
Seven young Swedes went out sail
ing on the river five miles above Daven-
port. Iowa, on Sunday afternoon. The
boat was capsized, and four of the occu-
pants were drowned.
In Pennsylvania the crop of apples
exceeds anything before known. In
Washington county an entire orchard
was sold at two cents per bushel, hand
picked and delivered.
Captain Kennedy, resid ent of Nuces
county, Texas, owns tract of land con-
tanning $50 square miles, on which are
pastured $4,000 cattle, $4,000 horses
and mules and 1000 hogs.
Charles w. Angel, of Chicago, Sec
rotary of the Pullman Car Company, is a
defaulter of 100000. His social rela-
tions had, until recently. been of the
very best character.
Thousands of potato bugs may be
seen floating on Lake Champlain. Usu-
ally they are struggling in the water,
but nearly every floating weed and chip
has one or more on board.
The United States consul at Bankok,
Siam, writes that he has closed over
three hundred liquor establishments
formerly under American protection
through licenses sold by his predecessor
A widow woman, aged seventy-nint
years, committed suicide last week by
leaping into the East River from Full
ton ferryboat. She was born on Dec. Il
1879, the night that Gen. Washington
died.
The ravages of the yellow fever al
New Orleans are likely to surpass thi
season those of any preceding year
Already there have been more than one
hundred new cases and forty-sever
deaths in a single day.
Two freight houses in East st. Louis
each two hundred and fifty feet long b,
twenty-five feet wide, belonging to tn
Chicago and Alton Railroad Company
were burned last Friday. They wer
pretty we'll filled with general merchan
disc. Loss SIS, 1000.
Another famine in Ireland is threat
ened by the failure of the potato crop
The Boston Pilot states that the presen
season has been almost REPETITION o
that of 1947, in which and the preced
ing year there were half a million death
from famine in Ireland.
Thirty-two sheep belonging to Hon
John Sanford, of Hopkinton, N. Y.
were instantly killed by lightning on
day last week They were lying dow
along side of fence, the materials 0
which, including the posts, were CONVEX
ted into kindling wood by the bolt.
George William Curtis, the New Yorl
Herald thinks, is almost the only prom
inent Republican who stems the drift
} toward General Grant, declaring that
whereas the party originally split O
General Grant, its divisions cannot b
healed by making him the Republica
, candidate.
On Tuesday morning of last week th
late President Raymond of Vassar Co
lege, then sinking rapidly, turned to a
attendant and spoke for the first tim
: in three or four days, saying. ooh, no
peaceful how peaceful 1t is so pleas
; ant to glide from the work here to th
work." and then he remained silen
Among the finest specimens of tt
5 jewelers. art at the Paris Exposition al
t jewel casket, POWDER box and port
monnaie of Pacific Coast gold and quar-
rock in mosaic. They are exhibited b
Mrs. A. Sunderland of California, WI
had them made by San Francisco jey
0 eler from her own designs at cost
$ $4,000.
]. The recent disclosure of the true sta
!. us of the trade dollar is taking effect Of
: West where they are in general circul
i tion. Cincinnati banks discounted the
/. five per cent Monday, and expected
pay only ninety cents for them today, al
? many country banks in Ohio and Ind
ana are following the example, causil
. great excitement in business circles.
e A bold robbery was committed la
week on the Kansas City, St. JOSEF