Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-05-27
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

OF gold and silver per year.
India rubber tires for wheels are be-
coming quite common in England.
Dr. Dio Lewis is reported to be very
i'll with congestion of the brain and
partial paralysis of the left side.
The crop reports for the Province of
Quebec indicate favorable season, not
outstanding some damage by the recent
frosts
The authorities of Porto Rico have
prohibited the introduction of potatoes
from Holland, Germany and all parts
of America.
A Washington correspondent writes:
Strawberries. four boxes for quar-
ter p is the street cry to-day, and they
are fresh, sweet berries.
It's estimated that 10000 people
have emigrated from Pennsylvania,
| Ohio, Indiana and Illinois to Kansas,
taking with them 100000.
Colonel Forney says that there are
over thousand millions of dollars held
in the private banks of England, draw
ing not more than one per cent. interest,
held simply for safety.
lady in Texas saw an advertise.
ment in New York paper of an opium
cure. She sent for it, took it, and died
in commissions in less than an hour.
The New York physician has been ar
rested.
Waters. the young Harvard senior
who recently died in the Worcester in-
sane asylum, is said to have killed him.
self by studying nineteen hours on a
stretch, without cessation for eating or
sleep.
The New York legislature adjourned
on Wednesday after long and not
very profitable session, beginning Janu-
airy lst. This is the last session to be
held in the old state house, which has
been occupied seventy years.
Pork now sells at nine dollars and a
half per barrel. Only twice in the last
twenty years has it been as low as four
teen dollars at this season of the year.
Thus it appears that while wages are
low provisions are also low.
The average daily wages earned by
2.042,209 workingmen, as shown by the
last census of one hundred cities Of
America, was only ninety-seven cents
and each had an average of only one
hundred and eighty days employment
a year.
Paris was so crowded with strangers OF
the morning of the opening of the Elk
hibition that English ladies coming il
the early trains could not find carriages
to convey them to their apartments, anc
were obliged to sit all day on thei
trunks at the depots.
A rude investigator went to spiritu
al seance in Memphis with squirt GU,
IN his pocket filled with bright red dye
and when ''materialized' form appeare,
at the aperture of the cabinet, he sho
: the liquid with skilful aim. The medi
UNI was afterward revealed with hi
e face stained red.
The duelling pistols used by Aarol
Burr in his duel with Alexander Ham
: ilton are said to be IN the possession 0
citizen of Louisville. They were lief
to him by his uncle, an army officer
}, who himself purchased them from Bur
s for five hundred dollars. 1t is asserte,
4 that they have been used in eleven duel;
: The English labor troubles continue
n the efforts to effect compromise be
: tween the operatives and masters hay
a ing proved abortive. A serious rio
began at Blackburn on the 18th an
Il l4th, the residence of the chairman wa
e burned and the windows of all the mill
e in the place smashed.
+ The steamship State of California
II recently launched at Philadelphia, ha
d been sold to the Russian government
n The first installment of 100000 i
j gold has been paid and the balance wi
be paid within two months. The vesst
k will be one of the fastest afoat, and
/. three hundred and twenty feet long.
IS A bold and mysterious robbery, whic
N occurred at Manchester, N. H., La
" June, has just been made public. Du
rs ing a circus parade, and while only or
Is clerk was on duty. between $4,000 an
"a $4,000 worth of postage stamps wei
ii stolen from the post Office, and the mo
skillful detectives have failed to discov
N er the plumber or the robbers.
g 1t is said that so many ingenious pr
a. cesses for diminishing the labor of sho
ne making have been evolved during ii
ID past few years, that there are to-da
I'd thirty thousand less workmen employe
ne in Massachusetts in that branch of il
I'd dustry than in 1865, although the pr
ne ductlon the past year exceeds that of Il
IS time mentioned by ST., 100000.
A new industry is likely to sprir
at up soon in Kentucky, and is alreac
ty full of promise. This is the manufa
rt ture of dress fabrics from dressed hem
a, which, when bleached, dyed and prope
lie ly prepared, is pronounced equal to Il
ne best wooden goods. Trousers made fro
u. this material have already been wo
n, several months, and show no signs
I'D weariog out.
eu A singular cattle epidemic has brok'
III out near Indianapolis, the cause
which is supposed to be the eating
I'd dew-covered white clover by the animal
NJ which generates highly expansive G
NJ in the stomach, and this, spreadil
ry throughout the body. causes death in
sw few hours. The only known remedy
by to thrust knife in the sides of the ;
de ficted animals. just back of the shouldt
n, blades, thus liberating the gas and ;
OK fording instant relief.
ne A new use has been found for gu
nu cotton in warfare. Hereafter it is to
;. employed for disabling the guns of t
in enemy, and will take the place of t
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