Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-03
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

According to Joseph Cook, Boston ha
eight miles of grog shops.
The state of Missouri has two hur
dred convicts in her penitentiary.
The ice scenery at Niagara this VIII
ter is described as the finest known.
Nebraska farmers have heen plowin
and sowing for the past two or thre
weeks.
Boston clergymen of various demon
nations have united in asking for legi
lation against church lotteries.
The Christian people of Louisville
KY, are waging war against Sunda
amusements, theatres and open saloons
Schuyler Colfax is lying very i'll
his home in Great Bend, of erysipelaa
and his condition is said to be critical.
Close & Co.'S confectionery at Cam
bridge, Mass, and adjoining dwelling
were damaged $4,000 by fire, Monda]
Sankey is holding crowded meeting
in England, and the movement he an
Moody started in Great Britain is sti
full of life and vigor.
John G. Howard, the tallest man
Kentucky. died on Wednesday. He wa
six feet eleven and half inches hig
and weighed 267 pounds.
Dennis Kearney has begun the publ
cation of paper called the Daily San
Lot. AS might be expected from il
editor and its name it is dirty sheet.
Seven Manchester, N. H., liquor dea
ers were last week fined $500 and cost
apiece. and given the choice of payin
up in three days or working out th
amounts in Jail at 81 day.
All cattle from the United States al
to be killed ten days after reaching Eng
land. The Mersey dock and harbd
board have decided to spend $l75,OO1
in erecting slaughter sheds.
The 1859, 143, 900 cigars made du
ing the last fiscal year would encirc
the globe five times if placed end to end
Two hundred and fifty thousand person
get living from their manufacture.
The late Pope Plus TX, it is said
never allowed lady to kiss his foot a
his audiences, always giving her hi
hand. Pope Leo Kill, on the contrar
sees ladies 60 through the ceremony wit
calm Indifference.
A temperance mass meeting was hell
at Lake Village, N. Y, one night LAD
week. Over thirds of the populd
ton of the place signed the pledge. an
among the number five rumsellers, on
destroying all his stock in trade.
The managers of the Methodist Mi4
sionary Society have sent a protest
President Hayes against the Chimes
bill, characterizing it as a crime agains
civilization, and stating that the live
of their missionaries will be endangere
by it.
A nugget of pure gold weighing thil
teen ounces, or over pound, Tro
weight, has recently been dug up j
Cabarrus county, North Carolina. 1t
a well-known fact that the largest lum
of gold ever found in the United State
was picked up in this country man
! years ago.
A safe containing relics of the Cel
tennial was locked up at Washingtc
the 22d, to remain closed for one hal
= dred years, and number of public me
gathered to witness the ceremony ar
hand themselves down to posterity
deposlting their photographs with Il
other curies1ties.
Canada has abandoned special effor
to induce immigration, and her agen
abroad, who have for years been holdir
! out all sorts of allurements. are to
recalled. The trouble about the bus
ness has been that, while Canada pa
the heavy expenses the United Stat
!, received large share of the benefit.
J. A rail has been patented by Fl.
Moore, roadmaster of the Long Islal
: railroad, which he claims will DIVA
= all noise on elevated or surface railroad
The top is of the T pattern and made
!, steel. fitting into the base. resting on
. wooden or rubber bed and securely ia
;. tened to the surface rail by bolts.
q Edward P. Bond, one of the sharpe
h horse thieves in the country, has be-
a arrested in Boston. He recently play
successful game on a livery stab
r keeper in Haverhill, Mass. He is wan
f ed in Baltimore for Jail breaking,
Manchester, N. H.. for larceny of tea
, and in other places for similar offences
r In Harlan county. Kentucky, an II
mense gray eagle swooped down upon
fve-year-eld grandchild of Col. G.
: Galloway, and, but for the interferen,
: of the father, would have carried Il
). child to its eyrie. The bird was kill'
r and measured nine feet eight inches
e stretch of pinions.
s Henry S. Tudor has left New Yo
e on two years horseback ride to t
o southermost point of Patagonia, Jam
Gordon Bennett having wagered $1,000
J to his $1,000 that he could not do
q Tudor takes an attendant with him al
e will reach the gulf of Mexico at Mobi
IS and steer for the city of Mexico, whe
r he will decide upon his further course
; Martin Murphys wife of Waterbur
$ went out the other night to visit 81
d friend, and as she did not return Mart
locked the doors and went to bed. T
$ wife returned late, could not get in, al
y in the morning was found ON the doc
e step nearly dead from the cold. Doctc
K were called and all that could be W
II done to restore her. but she died abo
Is noon.
: A terrible boiler explosion occurr
y in Stockton, CAL. on the 22d inst. whel
~ by fifteen persons were killed and tive
ty-slx wounded. A crowd of more th
II two hundred people had assembled
IS witness the working of new propell