Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-08
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

France has paid Germany all but S3,-
296,35o of the 5000, Ol2.8l4 war in
demnity.
Scales that will give the weight of a
grain of dust are used in the Philadel-
phia mint
The Russian government has ordered
500 Krupp guns, in addition to its pre-
vious order.
South Carolina now has $500 spin
dies and l,40O looms in operation, d.
vided among ten prosperous factories.
The Portland Oregonian says the
beating of the ocean waves in the last
great storm could be heard distance
of forty miles.
The British army in India is composed
of 10000 infantry. $4,000 cavalry,
5000 engineers, $4,000 artillery, and
400 field pieces.
A child in Brooklyn was straDgled
Sunday, by tobacco smoke playfully
pulled into his face by his father, and
shortly died.
10 the close of March one million sill
yer dollars had been coined The
Philadelphia mint will turn out 1,750,-
900 dollars in April.
Says the Philadelphia Times: San
act to repeal the present session of Con-
gress would do a good deal to revive
the spring trade.
Russian intolerance does not prevent
the free circulation Of the Bible among
the Russian troops who have bought
many copies at Adrianople.
One million two hundred thousand
dollars is the sum called for in Congress
for the transportation of troops during
the July labor riots last year.
Among the attractions of Atlanta,
Ga, are the breastworks around the city
thrown up during the late war, which
are in good state of preservation.
An explosion occurred last Thursday
in the Opedall colliery. North STAFFORD
shire. England. Thirty persons were in
the pit, all of whom persisted.
West Virginia has already lost $780,
900 through defaulting sherifs, an
amount which does not include what
they owe to the counties and districts.
Queen Victoria has sent the crown d.
Almonds to the French Exposition. The
Koh-i-nor diamond is in the casket, and
the total value is forty-two millions Of
francs.
The will of Samuel Wood, of New
York, who died worth three million
dollars, which provides for the establish.
ment of musical college, is to be con
tested.
A booth for the sale of Bibles is t.
be erected opposite the main entrance t.
the Paris exposition, where visitors will
be supplied with the Scriptures in theil
own tongue.
Inside of twenty-five years all tn,
five million acres of the free land il
Iowa, with the exception of two million
acres, have been taken up and converted
into farms and villages.
AS the Chinese have no alphabet, tn
telegraph has proven worthless; but tn
telephone has been adopted by the au
thorities, and five hundred miles hav,
been spoken over readily.
Last years labor riots cost the coun
try something over five million dollar
in property destroyed, besides an I'm
told amount in loss of work and the de
e
A woman has just died at Grimisuat
Switzerland, at the reputed age of on
hundred and fourteen years, leaving tw
daughters, aged respectively eighty ST
and eighty-two years.
The internal revenue receipts i
March were over 81, 100000 less tina
In the corresponding month last yeal
, and for the past eight months $1,000
600 less than the same time in 1877.
Six steamers left for Europe Satul
day, all heavily laden with America
, produce, including over two hundre
, thousand bushels of grain and one hur
, dred and twenty-five head of cattle.
At Western Port, Md, gang
r burglars entered the store of J. S, Jane
son & Co. and blew open safe las
Friday night. and stole about $5O,OO(
mostly IN United States bonds and casl
There has been a general resumptio
S of operations in the Schuykill mimi
e regions. The amount of 100000 tor
t of coal is to be mined IN April, whic
I will give employment to all hands fl
;. two weeks.
!, John B. Cough said at the close of
recent lecture that he intended to 90
London to deliver thirty lectures !
: June, after which he would go to SON
: country where the English language
: not spoken.
|. Edward Wheeler, who died in Nashu;
! N. H., worth eleven thousand dollar
il was unable to take his money with hi
:. but he came as near it as he coult
! He ordered the expenditure of tn
n whole of it on his funeral and tomb.
An old woman named Ruth Ross W;
found dead in her house in New Yor
J last Saturday. She had lived alone fl
u years and is supposed to have starved
= death, though the house contained S:
IS 900 worth of oil paintings, choice plant
: and other things to match.
= = A number of men called for oyster
in a Flushing, L. l., saloon recent
! with the understanding that he who a
= the least should pay for those eaten |
the others. One John O'Brien prove
himself the champion. He swollowt
= two hundred and fifty. Payment fe
I upon John Brady, who was equal on
L to %.
i Patrick and John Reilly, brothers.
n Chippewa, started to return in ro'