Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-11-24
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Inc commissioner OF internal revenue
reports that the government has lost Sill
100000 revenue by the reduction of the
tax on tobacco and the consumers have
gained nothing.
General Grant refused some native
wine at reception in California, the
other day, stating that when he sailed
for Europe, two and half years ago.
he resolved not to drink liquor of any
kind.
Postmaster General Key directs the
postmasters at New York, Louisville
and New Orleans to return registered
letters and to refuse payment of money
orders to the prominent lottery agents
in those cities.
The grand total of specie imports since
the resumption of specie payments is
S56.0Sl,97l. 1t is not unlikely that
the first year of specie payments will
witness gold imports to the amount of
SIS, 100000.
The Central Pacific Railroad paid
$500. $40 into the United States Treas
ury on the 18th inst This is the first
cash payment made by any of the Pacific
roads on their Indebtedness to the gov
eminent.
The total product from the gold and
silver mines IN this country since mining
began in California is estimated at ST.
Gl7,000.000. The value of staple agri-
cultural products harvested this year
alone is Sl00,0O0,000 larger.
A dispatch from Singapore says the
king of Siam has sent the decoration of
1.-The Golden Flower of Siam" to Hon.
Thaddeus Fairbanks, inventor of the
platform scale. This is the first time
this distinction has been conferred on
an American.
President Hayes thinks if the election
in Indiana were to take place o-day the
Republicans would carry the State by
10000 to $4,000. He also thinks if the
election in New York had been a presi-
Dental one it would have gone Republi.
can by 10000.
Congressman Blackbur of Kentucky,
who will talk, thus disposes of Mr.. Til
den: "He might as we'll be hermeti.
cally sealed in terra Gotta casket and
buried twelve feet under ground as be
in his present situation. He is as dead
as Thurman. politically speaking
The property left by the late Senator
Chandler is estimated at Sl,900,000
1t consists of twelve stores and a fine
dwelling in Detroit, fine dwelling ir
Washington, an extensive farm neal
Lansing, Michigan. quantity of pine
lands, and SlOO,OOO in bank stock.
One of the largest of the dry good,
stores in Paris was recently visited il
a single day by 64,92l, persons, whc
paid into the till $227.070. There wer,
sold $4,000 worth of silks, $l,4O(
worth of umbrellas, $1,000 worth o
artificial flowers, and $4,000 worth O
fichus.
A recent social event in Pittsburg
Pennsylvania, was the marriage of
Phlladelphian to the daughter of DR.
Hostetter, the patent medicine man
The presents of the brides father wer
worth over 100000, and it is reporte,
that he has given her $l,000,0O0 il
bonds.
Secretary MoCrary has just writer
a letter In which he places the cost 0
the Mexican war, exclusive of pensions
at one hundred million dollars the cos
of the rebellion to the United States a
ten billion dollars and to the confeder
ates at two billion dollars. Pretty ex
pensive luxuries wars are.
Here is singular instance of goo
fortune speedily turned into a sad calam
ity. At Marietta, Ohio, Mrs. Emil
Smalley, soldiers widow, drew $3.50
arrears of pensions, and bought a re
volver as a protection against robbers
On Saturday her son, in carelessly hand
ling the weapon, discharged it, KILN
his mother instantly.
The British steamship Joseph Peas
sailed from New York Oct. l, for MAJ
settles with full cargo of wheat an
corn on French account, and has ne
been heard from since. Steamer Te
ford sailed from the same port Oct.
for Antwerp with wheat and corn, an
! has not been heard from since. 1t
believed that both have been lost. Bot
were English built iron steamers
} about 100 tons, and had crews aggr
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