Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-11
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The city OF New York owes debt
of 1925, 100000.
Four masons at work in belfrY in
Chicago fell distance of 60 feet and
were terribly injured.
Secretary Sherman. says the tax on
whiskey and tobacco is sufficient to pay
the interest on the national debt. A |
fact with double moral.
Vanderbilt has no personal property, |
not he. but last week, just as flyer, he |
purchased s4,ooo,ooo worth of four per |
cent bonds for his family.
Our silver dollars, it is said, are at
twenty per cent discount it Nova Scotia
and Prince Edward Island, while green
are considered as good as gold.
There was large falling off in the
Democratic vote for Governor, last week
in the Kentucky state election. The
Republicans made slight gains.
Secretary Sherman's order in regard
to the disbursement of the Silver dollars
is having the effect to get quite large
amount of this money into circulation.
The New England fair, will be held
this year in the city of Worcester. Mas
sachusetts, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday, September I'd, Sd, 4th
and 9Th.
Alexander H. Stevens, the famous
Georgian. invites silver from all the
mines from all the earth until we get
thousand millions and paper currency
based on it.
Secretary Sherman expects to make
speeches on financial topics in Ohio dur
the announcement will carry sadness to
Democratic councils.
1t turns out that Mr. Greenback
Smith of Maine offered to sacrifice his
creed and his party last winter if the Re-
publicans would make him governor.
Cruel fate to get found out.
Patrick Moran, Of Binghamton, N. Y.
while making repairs on church at
Towanda. N. Y, last week, fell from a
scafolding, distance Of 35 feet, and
was almost instantly killed.
A whole family, consisting of Z. P.
Lesuem. his wife and two children, was
struck by lightning at Rochester, Mimi,
on Sunday night. The wife and chill
dren are dead, and Lesuem is dying.
The New York Herald says to Sam
uel: "You can never be President. of
the United States, Mr.. Tilden; and
with your clear head and practical mind
you ought to see this as everybody else
does. :"
A new ferry boat in San Francisco is
four hundred and twenty -four feet long
and one hundred and sixteen wide, has
four rudders at each end. and eight boil
ers and will carry twenty-four railroad
cars at one time.
The large crops at the West have pro
duced a very buoyant condition in finan
cial affairs, and some of the leading
railroad stocks show higher figures thar
they have previously exhibited for three
or four years.
AS gentleman and two ladies wer,
returning to their home in Lewiston
Me-, from a wedding on Monday last
their carriage was run into by train
while crossing the track at Lisbon, ant
all three were killed.
!, Margaret Connolly, of Harrison, N. J.
a hard working widow. with two chill
dren to support was killed last week O.
the Pennsylvania Railroad. She wa
going across the street to spread som
: clothes on the grass in field.
r Politics run high in Maine. TIL
t Republicans feel that they have bi
: job to beat the greenbackers and tn
r democrats. and these parties havin
D divided the spoils last year are dispose
Q to do the same again if they can.
The yellow fever continues in Memphi
e there being on an average about twely
l. cases day with from four to seve
n deaths A few cases have occurred
/. other parts of the country but the effort
e to suppress it seem to by very effective.
: John Smith of Hanover. N. H.. VII
Is died at Ypsilanti. Mich. July 23d, age
) 81 years. is supposed to have been th
% oldest Freemason in New Hampshir
q He took the degrees in 1912 in ii
Franklin lodge of Lebanon. Eleaz,
Aspinwall of Lebanon took degrees
% 1915.
; The Boston Herald dominates Pres
II dent Hayes for reelection. 1t says /
&c has done as much for the South as Ii
:, den could have done and in his trus
- 1t also says it has feeling that M
70 Tilden does not enjoy the confidence
10 his fellow-countrymen to the degree TIL
= he did in 1876.
j. The suspension bridge at Niagara is
ut grand piece of mechanism which b
r. stood the test of immense strains d;
and night for twenty years. A rece
= inspection shows perfect strength
l. cables, which have been kept careful
III coated with paint. applied in part by a
a paratus constructed for the purpose.
$ /; David M. Anderson, age twenty thre
ly a salesman in New York city. fell q
Oh feet over the Palisades at Englewoo
he N. j.. on Friday night last, but, accor
ce ing to latest reports. is alive and e
lis pected to recover One arm was brok
to and number of bruises received, b.
rk it is believed, no internal injury "
ed done.
or Mrs. Margaret Kennedy was kill
oep on Sunday while walking on the ira
ne of the Erie Railroad, near Chester, N.
Mrs Kennedy. who was SO years q
h and slightly deaf, was returning frt
ais church when she was struck by the G
err CINE of the way freight train from Pc
ice Jervis to Newark. The body of M
of Kennedy was thrown forty feet down
he embankment. and was landed within
In few feet of the door of her own hon