Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-07-14
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

thousand barrels more oranges than last
season.
Dartmouth College has conferred the
degree of L. L. D., on the
Marquis of Lorne.
The temperance people of Springfield,
Mass, supplied free lemonade to all
who wished it on the Fourth of July.
A letter mailed from Washington made
the circuit of the world in seventy one
days-the fastest time yet reported.
A dispatch from London says fifty
men were killed by colliery explosion
in High Blantyre pit. near Glasgow. on
the Sd instant.
Mr.. Robert Falkner Of Warren county, |
n. c., is one hundred and five years old |
and has voted eighty-on times in con-
secutive years.
There is rose-bush in New Haven,
Conn, which has upon it, according to
a pretty accurate estimate, ten thousand
buds and blossoms.
Every Russian subject is required to
take out passport each year. The pre-
scribed cost of a passport is about 50,
but in fact it costs twice that.
Over two and a quarter million acres
of land have been taken up in Kansas
during the past nine months. under the
homestead and presumption laws.
A merchant, sitting in his Office in
South street, New York. recently re-
ceived an answer to his dispatch sent to
Shanghai only six hours previously.
Shanghai is thirty-six thousand miles
distant from New York.
The last slave in the Confederacy was
in 1865, near Richmond, negro man,
who was bought for nine hundred head
of cabbage. Cabbage was worth dol
lar head, consequently the negro man
footed up at 5000.
Farmers at Wichita, Kan, are haul
ing buffalo bones into town every day.
There has just opened in Wichita good
market. The bones are gathered in
Harper and Barbour counties, where
they lie in countless numbers, and are
hauled from fifty to one hundred miles.
1t is stated that within the last eight
months some fourteen joint stock COM
panies have been formed in the United
States and Canada for the manufacture
of sugar from beets. The satisfactory
success of the Maine company has given
an impetus to this particular industry.
A Michigan lady writes that to kill
insects she uses one teaspoonful of kero-
sene to gallon of water and sprinkles
it on the plants with a hand broom. II
destroys the green flies, currant worms
and other pests, and is used without in.
jury on fuchsias, geraniums, callas and
other plants.
The monument to Major General Wool
now being cut, will be seventy-fve fee
high, the shaft being a single stone
sixty feet high and weighing one hundred
tons. 1t is to be the largest stone shat
of the kind cut in the world in thre'
thousand years. Cleopatra's needle il
only nine feet longer.
A man named H. P. Peet few month
ago made successful leap from tn
suspension bridge at Niagara. Last Fri
day he advertised to again perform tn
feat, and large numbers of people cam
from Canada and the States to witnes
it; but when he made his appearance h
was too drunk to do it and was SNUG
gled away.
A few weeks ago the wife of the post
master of Bristol, Rhode Island, Will
partially insane, shot her husband i
the head while he was asleep. Las
week when he went home to dinner b
!, found the doors fastened, but forced a
, entrance and found his wife in be
: wrapped in flames. She had saturate
the bed with kerosene oil and set it o
fire. She has since died.
Scarlet fever of a most malignant typ
: is raging in some parts of Southern Ii
= diana. In the city of Evansville it ha
. assumed the shape of a terrible scourg
and within month more than ave hui
:, dred cases have occurred, a large pr,
; portion of them being fatal. Many fan
lilies have lost two and three childre
each, the schools have been suspendet
u families shut themselves indoors, an
L alarm and gloom are everywhere az
L parent.
:, Parts of Minnesota were visited by
. heavy storm on Wednesday of last wee
- which stopped railroad travel and brol
= the telegraph lines. At Visa, Geodh,
- county, in that state, there was teri
BILE cyclone. which killed nine person
Is and injured thirty. Storms are report'
ID as having taken place in Iowa and Wi
s, consin also. In Iowa and Minneso
1t the damage to property was very gres
S, The wind demolished houses and fenc
$, and carried off trees. and did other dal
$. age. The damages done at Red VIII
of are estimated at 100000.
70 An English physician relates that
~ the 18th of February his wife, aft
IN mixing some corn meal for feeding t
the fowls, missed her wedding ring fire.
IN her finger, and after fruitless scar
to gave it up for lost. On the 9Th of Apr
to while engaged eating an egg at brea
nd fast, she felt the egg-spoon CRATE agar
n something hard at the bottom of the e
nd below the yolk. and on further inves
We cation found the lost ring firmly fix
At by membarneous adhesions to the bottt
re of the egg. The egg was of extra lar
nd size, and was laid the day before.
ia The notable feat of changing the ira
U.s. of seven hundred miles of railroad fir
'er a broad to the standard gauge was p
oi- formed on the St. Louis. Iron Mount;
and Southern railroad last week. l
ed work was commenced at daybreak a
he completed before night, about tn
to thousand men being employed for