Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-09-16
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

GENEhAL MI WIS lTEMS.
Ohio Democrats nominate Greenback-
ers for Congress.
The public debt statement for August
shows decrease of $6,475, 2O4.
Two inches of snow fell at Camp Sram-
baugh, Wyoming territory, Sunday.
Diphtheria is raging in Sutton, P. @. |
-Four deaths have occurred in four days.
Twenty-Five colored people in Wash
ington claim to be one hundred years
old.
New York has contributed over $780,
600 for the relief of the yellow fever
sufferers.
New Orleans physicians say the yell
low fever this season is the most malig-
nant ever known.
The total coinage of the minis during
August was $9,5OO,OOO, including 3d.
100000, of standard silver dollars.
Moody's Sunday evening Bible read
ings at his North6eld home are getting
SO popular that his large house is usually
filled to overlooking.
Fifty young Sioux are being educated
to useful labor in the Virginia Agricult-
ural Institute. They learn fast and are
reasonably industrious.
The San after extensive inquiries,
says that the banks and great merchants
Of New York will take and pay out the
trade-dollar at one hundred cents.
Last Wednesday party of seven men
mounted and well armed, rode into the
mining camp of Cariboo. Idaho, and rob.
bed the miners of 10000, mostly in gold
dust.
A North Carolina editor says that .'the
man who will read newspaper three or
four years without paying for it, will
pasture goat on the grave of his grand
father.
The London Times warns ladies
against wearing green gloves, lest they
should be poiosed by the coloring matter.
Several cases of poisoning have recently
occurred by their use.
A statement prepared at the Treasury
Department shows the expenditures of
the government for the fiscal year 1878
were S236,964, 1926, including payment
of interest on public debt, $lO2. $780,
974.
About twenty-five thousand people
visited the New England fair at Worces-
ter on the 9TH, in spite of mud and rain
which increased with declining day, and
the receipts from admission alone were
$4,000,
The $4,000 Touring mills of the
United States turn out annually 5O,-
100000 barrels of -FOUR 100000 bar
rels of which are exported The annual
wages paid to employees amount to $780,
100000.
We may safely estimate the average
cotton crop of the United States from
1870 to 1880 at 100000 bales per an
mum, or for ten years, 100000 bales
which, at $50 per bale, makes the enor-
nous sum of $2,500.00O,00O.
The National Democratic Campaign
Committee has thrown off its mask, and
is now sending broadcast over the coun-
try Humans greenback speeches,
| which were confined to the South and
West until after the Maine election
General Grant writes home that he
intends to visit Spain and Portugal this
fall and then settle down for the winter
t at some pleasant place, probably in the
} south of Italy. In the spring he will
) return to the United States.
The Grand Central Hotel in Omaha
costing 100000. the finest between
: Chicago and San Francisco, and tn,
r Herald building. worth $4,000, wer,
r destroyed by fire on the evening of tn,
| 4th. Four fremen were killed by fall
: ing walls.
AT the mines of the Andover Irol
D Company at Hibernia, N. J., on the 9Th
/, a mass of rock fell from an upper level
/ crushing through the timbering below
$ and burying four men, working on th,
a lower level, to the depth of thirty feet
c beneath mass of rocks, timbers, etc.
A Wisconsin dentist recently received
f the following from patient writing 70
g advice; "My mouth is three inche
: across, ive-eights through the jaw
o Sum humoky on the edge. Shaped lik
e hoss-shoe. toe forrard. If you wan
: me to be more particular 1 shall have t
o cum thar"
The Mosque of st. Sophia in Constan
y tinople is always fragrant with the odo
s Of musk, has been SO for hundreds o
l. years ever since it was rebuilt, an
e nothing has since been done to keep
p perfumed. More than thousand year
n ago the mortar with which it was bull
is was charged with musk, and the odo
is there to this day!
:, Georgia fes!s proud of its gold mines
: Sales's mine in Lincoln county has yield
h ed $4,000 In the precious metal with
a out machinery since January !, and
VI exhibiting solid bar worth $4,000;
lie new mine has been discovered in MUIR
d county. and in an Oglethrope count
pasture grains have been washed out Q
10 large as kernels of wheat
): President Hayes and party on Frida
!; paid visit to the great wheat produ'
10 ing section on the Red River of til
to North. where he saw $4,000 acres
J. wheat under cultivation by one manage
~ ment, and where the yield was thirt,
a. FIVE bushels to the acre. Upward q
fifty teams were to work blowing f;
!" next years crops.
* A New York dispatch says that IL
IS, fever recalls a curious prophecy of
n negro Vaudoo sorcerer last New Year
n. that a plague would come upon the eli