Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-02-11
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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The amount of trade dollars shipped
from San Francisco to China in 1877
was $8.619,O0O.
The public generally will rejoice to
learn that the coinage of 20-cent pieces
will soon be discontinued.
The unclaimed dividends now lying
in the Bank of England amount to 3D.
5O6,956 Put IN claim.
Maine thinks that she has more than
her proper proportion of tramps. IT'S
the same with every other state
ST. Petersburg is given over to thanks
giving rejolcings in consequence of
Russia's triumphant conclusion of the
war.
1t is estimated that the damage to
agriculturists by the recent floods in the
Sacramento river, California, will reach
S1,O00.oOO.
Sing Sing prison cleared six thousand
dollars last month. The New York |
J Herald thinks it is a satisfaction to
know business is good somewhere.
A tree telling machine has been In
vented in England by Mr.. Ransome,
which, worked by three men, will do as
much work as twenty-four woodmen fell
ing by the axe.
Club life in New York is said to work
the ruin of great many young men, who
are led to spend their time at the club
in card playing and drinking, thus
forming the most destructive habits.
The small pox Is raging terribly at
Huntingdon. Penn, and such is the ex-
citement in the town that all public
assemblages, whether religious or other
wise, have been prohibited by the au-
thorities.
The stocking of New York rivers and
and streams with fish continues. Four
hundred thousand trout and So, 900 sal
mon eggs have just been received in the
Matching house at Palenville, Greene
l county.
A despatch from Pekin, China, con-
veys information of horrible catastro-
phe at Tien Tsin. The asylum for
!. women and children in that city has
n been almost totally destroyed by fire,
r and two thousand persons in the institu-
1 ton persisted.
/. OF the 189 Representatives who voted
for the Mathews resolution, n were
Republicans and I12 democrats. 1t
. will be seen that the Republican major
ity for the resolution was 81. The New
v England delegates were unanimous in
opposing the resolution in the Senate,
and all but unanimous in the House.
.e man who was recently taken pris.
d oner by Chief Joseph and released says
d of his captor He is tall, finely built
b has a thoughtful, intelligent face, and is
about forty five years old. His slightes
wish is law. He has SOD, about TWEEN
= ty, who is as brave as his father. anC
- who is what we might term his father
- chief of staff
e. One of the first acts of Don Pedro O
ee Brazil. after his return home, was t
purify his government All the member
= Of the old ministry, some of whom ha'
:. been clearly shown to be guilty of cor
.. rupt practices, have been displaced, an
- new ministry has been formed on tn
- principle of retrenchment and reform
- and the introduction of more enlight
ened policy toward other nations.
William D. Seybert of Salem, Pa,
to years old, undertook to clean out a we
r. in company with his father the othe
1t. morning, and started to reach the bo
ed tom by means of rope attached to
&C. windlass. When about Is feet down tt
lst entire top of the well caved in, an
tu- young Sey bert was buried alive. Afte
Sc hours digging the body was foun
:. at depth of sc feet, the head partl
''O crushed and the limbs distorted:
ge The banks of New York are quietl
sr, substituting gold for their currenc
he capital so as to circumvent the oper;
in. tions of the Bland Silver bill I'll
me president of bank here says when tt
he West and South wants loans in futul
as from the banks either here or in Boston
ng they will get them only in silver, whic
of will be sent by express in quantities s
ed that by the time it reaches them it wi
tu- be pretty expensive money.
aw The wife of Governor Phelps of Mi
as souri,, who died a few days ago VIZ
Ut noted for her patriotism during the civ
war. When General Lyon fell on tt
he field of Wilson's Creek she repaire
,ut thither and secured the body, and had
ay temporarily buried on the Governor
til farm near Springfield. AS recognitio
os- of her meritorious acts to disabled Unto
The soldiers, Congress, at the close of til
by war, voted her twenty-five thousand do
raj lars.
ext Probably the oldest person in Kel
oc- lucky is William Blakenship of CIR;
er- hamton, who was born in Virginia
to- 1865 and is consequently l13 years
ok, age. He is now living with his thir
re, wife and has child who is only fly
the years old He has never been sick
m his life, and is still able to do sun
vii work at wood chopping. He remembe
as hearing Of several battles of the Rev
BILE luton at the time of their occurrenc
ma and several times during his life sa
George Washington.
of The evil effect of the silver agitatio
nal long ago forseen and foretold by eve
was intelligent opponent of the scheme, a
lee, beginning to. appear in such tangib
ted shape that even blind Congressm;
is can see them. German houses in Ne
zee York report that over $25.000,000
llly United States bonds have been recent
er's returned from Europe, owing to a gro
.wn ing feeling of distrust at the action
CHI Congress, and of belief in possih
nix. reputation. 1t will take years to repa