Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-15
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

railroads embracing five thousand miles
of track.
Both branches of Congress have agreed
to adjourn from Friday, 18th inst, to
Tuesday, 9th, for the holidays.
The wife of Rev. James G. Smith died
very suddenly of heart disease Wednes-
day morning, aged seventy-eight.
Secretary Evarts has telegraphed to
the Gar of Russia the Presidents con-
CALCULATIONS on his escape from assassin
alton.
Captain Thomas Simpson of Burnett,
Texas. keeps the remains of his wife,
recently deceased, in his parlor in an
elegant metallic case.
We beg leave to call the attention of
the southern brigadiers to the fact that
we have made a solid North without
killing single Democrat.
On November 18th numbers of per-
sons were skating at Wimbledon, near
London. on lake surrounded by trees
most of which were in leaf.
Lord Derby is one of the wealthiest
men in England. and as his money stead
ily increases it is reckoned that his an
nual income will soon be $2,750,00O.
A memorial to Congress is being sign
edat~uRMe compulsory legal tender power
of the treasury notes be abolished.
A despatch from Upper Silesia tells a
sad story of famine and suffering among
that people. 1t is alleged that at least
one-third of the population is starving.
The New York Times Washington
correspondent thinks that Democrats as
well as Republicans are anxious to ''let
we'll enough alone" in currency matters
John Drew of New Hampshire has
inaugurated strong temperance move
ment at Atlanta Ga, and some three
thousand persons have bound themselves
to total abstinence.
The Secretary of the Treasury calls
for proposals for the sale to the Govern
mcnt of one million dollars of any of the
per cent interest bearing bonds of tht
United States, known as the "sixes O
81"
The largest fire since 1862 visited
Troy, N. Y. last week, destroying prop
erty on River street to the value o
| S35O,O0O. About eighteen hundred EN-
ployes, fifteen hundred being girls, ar
thrown out of work.
The Kellogg-Spoford committee ha
closed its operations in New Orleans
after examining one hundred and seven
teen witnesses. Kellogg claims that h
has put his enemies utterly to rout, ant
secured himself firmly in his senatorial
seat.
1t is estimated that $4,000 men an,
women are employed in Philadelphia i
the manufacture of clothing. and 100000
900 suits are made there every year
Cutting machines are gradually fndin
their way into all of the large manufac
turing establishments of the city.
The attorneys managing the incom
case against Tilden have discovere
where he made SOL. 700 in one opera
ton in 1869 without risking a cen
y Altogether they have found that be mad
} 81, 100000, in that year. while he swor
that he made only $l4,000.-7oled
Blade.
Il On Thanksgiving day fine marbl
monument was set up over the grave {
Nancy Lincoln, mother of the late Pres
dent Lincoln, near Lincoln city, static
! on the Rockport & Jasper railroad
Spencer county. Indiana. Near this vi
lage Nancy Lincoln was buried in O,
tober, 1918.
Fire broke out in an annex of th
Bellevue Hospital. New York, late 0
Saturday night, 9th inst, and in tt
course of the confagration little DO
and two infants lost their lives.
| patient, in the last stages of consum]
ton, was safely removed from the burr
, ing building, but died from the shoe
about twenty minutes after. All tt
other patients were removed withol
injury.
The men, numbering 600. employed
the car shops Of the Delaware, Lack
wanna and Western Railroad, Scranton
Pa, were given notice, last week, of a
. advance Of from 5 to 10 per cent.
: their wages without any request on the
part. About 500 men of the Lack;
wanna Iron and Coal Company. employe
in the Iron and Steel Works, have bee
J. given an increase of 10 per cent. in the
Il uaoae without apv domand