Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

in New York.
The Hon. Schuyler Colfax is lectur-
ing to large audiences in the West on
the Life and Character of Abraham
Lincoln
The French ship Byzantine was lost
in the Mediterranean on Thursday night
by collision and large number of those
on board were drowned.
CoHoEs. N. Ii. Dec. l9.-Patrick
Rourke and family of FIVE children were
burned to death by the destruction of
their home last night.
OMAHA, Dec. 19.-Six soldiers, insane
from the exposure of frontier life, pass
ed through here yesterday. bound for
the Army Asylum at Washington.
The safe of the firm of Turnbull &
Co., bankers, at st. John. n B., was
robbed last week of a box containing
securities to the value of 100000.
Mr.. Conkling says decidedly that he
is not and will not be candidate for
the Presidency. He is understood to
favor the nomination Of General Grant.
The next House of Representatives in
Massachusetts will contain among its
members 81 mechinics, Sc merchants,
33 manufacturers, 20 lawyers and 81
farmers.
Seven million passengers in six
months on the Metropolitan Elevated
Road, New York city is pretty good
evidence of the need there was for rapid
transit.
Buffalo Bill has made, it is reported
about $780, 900 on the stage, most of
which be has invested in cattle, having
in all $500 head.
The money value on mans life is
often held at $4,000, but the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company has just
paid $l2.555 damages for killing a
trotting horse.
Boston is going into extensive i'm
provements. A million dollars has been
voted for sewerage, and projected
court house will cost another million.
Mr.. Sturgeon of the London Tab
neracle, will not keep the $4,000
which his friends have given him for
his own use, but will devote it to char
liable purposes.
| 1t is stated that Mr.. Keene, who has
now 100000 bushels of wheat on
hand in Chicago, has about closed a
contract with railroads and steamship
companies to move two or three million
bushels of wheat from Chicago to Liv-
erpool, by way of Boston.
The Bayard family of Delaware has
a somewhat remarkable record of politi-
cal service. The present Senator enter
ed the Senate in 1869. His father was
his immediate predecessor. and occupied
the same seat for eight years. His
grandfather occupied it for thirteen
years, and an uncle was also for many
years member of the same body.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. 19.-Pro-
fessors Houston and Thompson exhibited
last night before the Franklin Institute
an invention of an electric light, which
they claim solves the problem of cheap
lighting by electricity. The light is
prodused by the incandesence of carbon
points, and not burning as in the electric
lights hitherto exhibited.
The Mercantile Trust company of
New York has served notice upon the
receivers and managers of the Portland
and Ogdensburg railroad. citing them to
show cause before the United States
district court of Burlington, Iowa, at
next rule day, Jan. l. why they should
not be eDjolned from issuing the propos-
ed 100000 preferred bonds
Trenor w. Park, who is now in New
York. has taken lively interest, it is
said, in the proposed tunnel under North
River, connecting New York with Jersey
City, and expresses the belief that the
project will be carried through. He
estimates that 100000 will be re-
quired to complete the tunnel, which is
to be three miles in length.
| Charles E. Buell. of New Haven, a
telegrapher, is said to have devised an
electric light which admits of use in
either single or divided current, re-
quires no adjustment. avoids the en-
ployment of platinum. or carbon elec-
trcdos. and may be said to be without
expense for material consumed. and the
light can be of any color known in
pyrotechnics.
The Rochester Democrat of Monday
the 9th says; 1.-The through freight
business on the New York Central Rail,
road received a great impetus by the
closing of the canal. From II o'clock
Saturday night until 9 o'clock last night
-twenty-one hours-thirty- five through
freight trains passed through Rochester
on the Central, each way. There were
more than 1900 cars in the east-bound
trains, mostly laden with grain and
winter fruit"
| An alarming disease is prevalen
among the cattle on Long Island. anc
reports from different quarters show
that hundred mich cows have dice
! within ten days. 1t is believed to b,
pneumonia. Swine are reported dyins
in many parts of Jamaica and Hemp
stead. One farmer has lost ten pigs il
three days. Scarcely farmer has es
capped the loss of one or more. The frs
symptom of disease is refusal of food
The flesh turns black. seemingly par
alysis follows, and death occurs almos
Immediately
The temperance meeting under tn
, leadership of Major M. L. Holden o
, Providence, R. l.. held at Colebrook
N. H. closed last Friday evening. afte
600 signatures had been obtained t
the total abstinence pledge as the result
of eleven evenings work. Both hote
keepers having signed the pledge, Cole
brook reioices in something never be