Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-02-25
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Corn is dime bushel in Atchison.
Kan.
It Is understood that the new Pope
will continue the policy of his predeces-
sor.
1t is reported from Montreal that
Marie Dupemon died at Nicolet, recent
ly, aged III years
Since the passage of the Silver bill,
tailors are utilizing doeskins
for pockets of pants.
Cardinal Pecci, an Italian. has been
elected Pope, to succeed Plus TX. He
takes the name of Leo XIII.
The honest silver dollar, that is, the
silver dollar which would be as good as
a gold one of 25.8 grains, must weigh
about 455 grains. :.
The Pope's wealth altogether is said
to amount to 120,OO0.O00 lire (S24,-
100000, which is mostly in the hands
of the Rothchilds at Paris.
By order of mayor Ely of New York
the flags were displayed at half-mast on
the City Hall in that city on Saturday,
in honor Of the memory Of the late Pope.
A snow drift thirteen feet high and a
half mile long is the best Michigan
can do this year. Anoth er winter things
will be fixed to show up something
worth four line notice.
More than thousand persons were
in Nashville, Tenn, last month looking
for homes in famous farming country
near by. They were from half the
states in the Union
Among the nominations sent to the
Senate last week, by the President, was
that of Bayard Taylor to be U. S. Min
lister to Germany. The nomination is
very generally commended.
The CINCINNATI Enquirer Dem.
advocates sixteenth amendment to the
Constitution, which shall confer upon
Congress the power to issue an unllmlt-
ed amount of irredeemable paper curren-
cy.
The last attempt against the Mofett
liquor-punch law in Virginia has failed
the supreme court deciding that it is
constitutional, and the present estimate
Is that it will net the state over half a
million a year.
Professor Peters, of Clinton, N. T.,
announces the discovery. on February
6, of bright planet of the tenth mag
nitude in 10 hours I6 minutes, right
ascension, and 13o 43 north declination
with daily motion north.
Fifty three republican members Of
the Louisiana Legislature have signed
an appeal asking executive clemency II
behalf of Thomas G. Anderson. Their,
has been no decision in the case Of An
derson's appeal for new trial.
MIR. Belmont estimates that of thu
SLIPS, 100000 of Government bond
$1,000, 100000 are held in this country
! more than nine tenths of which ar
owned by people IN moderate circum
stances, banks and other savings institu
tions.
DIR. Linderman, Superintendent c
United States MINIS. thinks that 30
10000 of silver dollars can be coine
the first year after the passage of til
, bill. That is more than three times {
many of the 4l2 IL dollars as wei
ever coined.
There was a shameful outrage con
: mitted on two Sophomores of Princeto
: College Monday night by eight Fresl
: men, who tied the Sophs to chairs an
shaved their heads. During the mel'
$ one of the Sophs was shot in the ting
1t is reported that the Boston Clio
> is soon to change hands and that it wi
: appear as two-cent morning and ever
:, ing democratic paper The stock hs
all been taken by prominent democrat
of Boston and other cities of Massachu
t etts. Manton Marble, late editor of IL
: New York World, is taxed of as edito
: with salary of $4,000.
HAVANA, Feb. 10. The Official G.,
: sette to-day publishes the bases of IL
peace conditions. They are the same
J, those telegraphed hence on the AT
inst. All the insurgent chiefs have gi,
: en- in their adhension to the condition
General satisfaction is expressed all owe
the island and peace is no longer doub
: ed. Captain General Jovellar has r,
' turned from the interior
f The Moody meetings in Springfield
d began the second week with most graf
S flying tokens of success. The aggrega
n attendance at the Sunday afternoon an
: evening services is estimated at seve
: thousand persons, which is probabl
o fifty per cent. more than the doze
K churches engaged in the work woul
b have in their evening congregations
g their palmiest days. So say the loo;
b papers.
What is probably the most extensiv
r and elegant wardrobe ever owned on tn
; side of the Atlantic has just been r
: ceived in San Francisco for a wealthy l.
! dy of that city. 1t comprises between 3
e and 40 dresses and robes of all sort
t many of which came from Worth, Il
b Paris MILNE, and were ordered son
d six months ago. The cost of the ware
e robe was over 100000, and the di
t monds which 60 with it cost as muc
more, single set of necklace, brac elet
! etc.. being valued at $4,000.
/, According to the latest statistics pul
J. lished in Berlin Feb. 5, the active arm
o of Germany consists of 607,594 mel
e 1900 cannons and 233. 095 horses. Ii
reserve consists of 1926 officers, 243
/. 095 men, 426 cannons and $50 horse
s The militia, and in time of war intende
/ for garrison duty, consists of 10, II
:. officers, 353. 1O2 men, ia cannons ar