Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-09-02
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


phone. 1t is to be especially serviceable
on the outposts.
General Grant and wife were the
guests Of the Emperor of Austria on the
Goth and 21st insts.
The sight of a snake in her path so
frightened Herkimer county On. ",
woman that her glossy black hair turned
white.
A woman of Boston has given S25, 1000
to Oberlin College, which was the first
to give girls chance for higher educa-
ton.
Anna Dickinson is about to settle
down in Philadelphia, and the brotherly
lovers don't know whether to feel hon
ored or not.
The last Potter witness turns out TO
be lunatic. The committee itself
seems to be rapidly sinking into the
same category.
One of the largest audiences ever as.
sembled in Leipsic attended Gilmore's
farewell concert at the Schutzenhaus on
Wednesday last.
The effort to establish a vice-regal
residence in Montreal for the Marquis of
Lorne is meeting With much favor. 1t
will cost $4,000.
The United States steamships Con-
gress, Sabine and Kansas are found on
inspection to be worthless, and have been
recommended to be broken up.
The Springfield Republican says the
next president of Vassar College should
be a woman. Certainly if a woman
with the right qualifications can be
found.
The new Pennsylvania tramp law, un-
der which tramps are sentenced to thir-
ty days hard labor in the chain gang,
breaking stone in the street, works eff
fectually.
Mrs. Mary A. Lapsley. of New Alba
ny, Ind. has left the bulk of her estate,
estimated at nearly 100000. to the
Foreign Missionary Society of the Pres
byterian church.
Dr. 1. I. Hayes, the Arctic explorer,
is comforting with James Gordon Bennett
at Newport, and rumor has it that we
shall soon hear of another Polar expedi-
ton, under private auspices.
Colorado boasts real living glacier,
on the celebrated Wind River Peak. 1t
was recently visited by party of travel
ers, and is supposed to be the first living
glacier discovered in this country.
A party of Americans propose to de-
velop the oil region in Southern Russia,
on the shores of the Caspian sea. and
an order was received in New York the
other day for machinery for the purpose.
Rarus trotted three successive one
mile heats at the Charter Oak Park
course Friday, in 2.l5, 2.13 IL, 2.13 "a
respectively. Edwin Forrest also trot-
ted two one-mile heats in PA IL and
2.16.
New York, Aug. 29.-The bankrupt
business at the Registers office is indeed
lively. Forty three petitions were filed
on Wednesday, representing debts, as
per estimates and schedules, amounting
to S2,750.OOO.
Lord Lorne will have salary of $50
900, as Governor-General of the Cana
dian Dominion; and his wife's income
is $4,000. This is hardly enough for
the high post he will hold; and the
Argyll family is not very rich.
The explosion of a Russian torpedo
cutter. at Nicolaieff, on Monday, caused
thirty-four deaths. An explosion some
where in Roumania, last week, destroyed
almost sixty lives, and wounded many
persons. Such are the lees and dregs of
war.
The amount of standard silver dollars
coined is $12,896,5OO; outstanding.
1860, 1856; ON hand, $1O,237,l86.
The demand is increasing, especially BIZ
the banks which pay pension checks. the
payment of which, aggregating $1,000
| 600, will commence on the tn of Sep
! TENDER, when pensioners will receive a
small portion of standard dollars.
New York. Aug. 29.-The yellow fe-
YER reports continue discouraging
There were 81 deaths at New Orleans
yesterday, So at Memphis. IA at Vicks-
burg. % at Grenada. and Is at Port
Gibson. In these five places 525 new
cases were reported yesterday. 1t is
now satisfactorily established that the
filthy streets and rotting garbage
brought on the disease at New Orleans,
and that the pestilence impregnated the
| atmosphere.