Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-07-01
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Anderson refuses to testify before the
Senate investigating committee.
The prospects are not favorable for
large crops in Europe this year.
Mrs. Tilton has been formally excom-
municated from Plymouth church.
More postal cards are now used by
the United States than by any other
nation.
At a sale of Shorthorns in Clark !
county, KY, $50 head realized over
100000.
A fire at Faribault, Mimi, Tuesday,
destroyed two banks and several stores
loss 100000.
In 1889 the Catholics were one six
ty-ffth of the people of this country.
Now they are one-sixth.
The First National Bank of st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, was robbed of $4,000 on
Friday. How or by whom is a mystery.
The estimated value of the works of
art contributed to the Paris Information
al Exhibition by England is S1,75O,OOO.
S. Angler Chace, the Fall River en-
bezzler, has plead guilty and been SEN
tie need to twelve years in the state pris-
on.
The Moffett bell-punch takes the fan
cy of st. Louis, a committee of its city
council reporting decidedly in favor of
its adoption.
A Madrid dispatch dated the Oath
instant announced that Queen Mercedes
of Spain was dying and had received
the last saeraments.
A Jacksonville Qll.) farmer named
Sawyer plowed up a pot the other day
containing $4,000 in gold eagles and
half-eagles coined in 1906.
One of the West Point graduates this
summer is John G. Whitaker, colored
youth from South Carolina, who stands
forty-six in class of sixty-six.
A diver who went down to the wreck
of the Grosser Kurfurst, is of the opin-
ion that the ship has broken into two
parts. He saw nothing Of any bodies.
The Sugar Hill Starch Co.'s factory
in Lisbon was burned on Thursday af-
ternoon. 1t was occupied by Kimball
Priest. Loss, $4,000 insurance, $500.
Treasury Department experts estimate
that counterfeit gold and silver coin to
the amount of 100000 is in circu-
lation in in this country, and this sum
is believed to be constantly increasing.
An Allegheny county IN. " wife
recovered six hundred and fifty dollars
from the dealer who sold her husband
the liquor which enabled an Erie train
to amputate his leg.
The work of missionaries has been
extremely successful of late in some
parts of India, and in Tinnevelly alone
eighteen thousand natives are now un-
der instruction for baptism.
A little girl in Montana got hold of
500 in greenbacks belonging to her
father and used them to make a head
dress for the doll, clipping off the cor
ners to make a good fit.
, North Carolina contains one thousand
t and twenty-five distilleries, the largest
e number of any state in the Union.
) Kentucky comes next, with seven hun
dred and ffty-four distilleries.
f Prairie du Chen, Wis. is proud of its
magnificent artesian we'll, nine hun.
{ dred and sixty feet. deep and flowing
8 one million gallons day, from which
| the city receives It's water supply.
1t is expected that the wheat cror
! will ho
r gate of 400.000.OOO. With such al
abundance, the cry of "bread or blood
e ought not to be heard in the land.
n The Secretary of the Treasury hal
e issued the sixtieth call for the redemp
# ton of 500 bonds of 1866. The cal
j. is for FIVE millions-two and hal
e millions coupon and two and hal
+ registered.
1t A two-years-old child of Mrs. Werk
heiser at Easton, Pa, got hold of bot
n tie of turpentine during the temporar,
., absence of its mother, Wednesday, ant
e drank it. 1t died not long after il
it great agony.
o Three members of the House Commit
't tee on enrolled bills were so intoxicated
y towards the last of the session that th
re hour of adjournment had to be changed
Their constituents in Indiana, Louis
y lana and West Virginia must be prou,
st of them.
!; Geo. William Curtis remarks: an
L conviction is daily stronger that tn
~ spirit and aims of the administrator
he are generally approved in every part G
T. the country, and should be cordial
OF sustained by the republican party an
by all patriotic citizens
D. The long railroad bridge over tn
u Scotch Tay was opened May 3lst, hav
IN ing been building since 1871. Th
s. stream is two miles wide, and the bridg
d. is Lightweight feet high, with eighty
IN five spans of from sixty-seven to tw
OF hundred and forty-fve feet.
a. A. Of the eight millions of silver dollar
a. coined since the passage of the silve
10 bill, only one million have found the
ar way into circulation, the balance bein
y. locked up in the treasury vaults wit
a no,demand for them. The silver bull
re BILE may now be regarded as burst.
W A singular case of death from loci
IN jaw recently occurred at Seneca Fall
MS N. 7. Mr.. John E. Langdon, vel
Ut known resident, shaved off his beart
ne which he had worn for a long time, an
xt the next day complained of stifne
about his jaws. Two days later spasm
ct developed, which the doctors declare
B. indicated lock jaw, and at noon the ne1
MS day he was dead.
Il. The Sultan of Turkey is representa-
VI VI as being. in most uncomfortable stat