Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-11-17
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

thors OF plnatore, have arrived IN New
York.
Germany is doing all in its power to
prevent hostilities between England and
Russia.
The Treasury officers believe the sur
plus revenue for the present fiscal year
will reach at least $25,O0O,O0O
The Republican party in Maryland is
lively organization. In the late cleo
ton it nolled 69 900 votes to 10000
for the Democratic candidate.
A man was killed by falling under
the cars while cheering for Gen. Grant
at his reception at Burlington, and anoth-
er in similar manner at Council Bluffs.
Wisconsin gives the Republican tick
ct $4,000 majority. the largest vote by
which the Republicans ever carried the
State. Wisconsin is "solid" with the
rest.
The receipts of internal revenue for
the last fiscal year were $114.OOO,oO0.
Not dollar was lost or stolen. Not
much chance for civil service reform
there.
The wife of Senator David Davis of
Illinois is dead She was a daughter
of Judge Walker of Lennox, Mass, and
was greatly loved for her charity and
womanly virtues.
The Utica Herald estimates the
scratchers' vote in the State at twenty
thousand, not including the number
that was Offset by Kelly men who voted
directly for Cornell.
Adventists in New York predict the
close of the worlds career on Friday.
We just mention this to give people an
opportunity to get ready-that is, if
they take any stock in the prediction.
The Cincinnati Gazette says that sit
looks now as if the contest for the Re-
publican nomination for President would
be between Sherman, Blaine and Wash
burne. and that it would be in the order
named"
An advance of thirty per cent in the
prices of all kind of rubber boots and
shoes has been ordered by the manufac-
turers, the price of raw rubbers having
advanced one dollar per pound since last
January.
Among the recent applications for
pension is one from General w. +.
(Baldy) Smith of New York, who claims
his health was impaired during the war
by chills and fever. The arrearages
will amount to $4,000.
The reception of Gen. Grant in Chi
cago on Wednesday, was a citizens
movement. All political parties united
to do honor to the General and the re-
eeption was very enthusiastic Gen.
Grants speech on the occasion was the
longest of his life.
A most atrocious murder, which would
have been worthy of Kemper county or
Yazoo, was committed at Baltimore on
Tuesday, where rowdy politician NAM
ed Trust shot and instantly killed a
colored man named Robinson who de-
clared himself Republican.
The readers of the Boston Journal
will regret to learn that Rev. Matthew
Hale Smith, widely known as Bur
leigh" died on Friday morning at his
residence in Brooklyn. New York His
connection with the Boston Journal be-
gun some twenty years ago. and his
letters have been always interesting and
widely read. HIS death was caused by
pneumonia.
Mr.. G. W. Flagg of Braintree. the
famous wrestler, has issued ga challenge
to James Owens of Fairfield, H. M. Du-
fur of Marlboro, Massachusetts, McMa-
hon, McLaffin-or any other man-for
the championship of the United States.
The wrestling must be collar and elbow,
to be governed by the established rules,
and to be for from 500 to $500 Who
will be the first to accept the challenge ?
While long freight train was cross.
ing the st. Louis. Kansas City & North
ern Railroad bridge over the Missouri
river at St. Charles, the west span Of
the main structure suddenly gave way
precipitating seventeen cars of live stock
caboose and seven men into the river
The engine and one car, with the con.
ductor, engineer and fireman, were saved
by the breaking of the connection be
tween the cars. Three dead bodies anC
three men badly injured were recovered
from the river
A singular and probable fatal accident
occurred on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad last Friday. An uncompletec
switch was left open and a south
bound freight train followed the switch
and ran off the track and on the side
walk for about two hundred feet, veereC
toward a building and struck and com
pletely demolished it and good-sixeC
law Office. Mr.. Francis, the occupant
who was writing at desk, suddenl,
found himself badly injured and lyinI
in the midst of rubbish and timbers
He was the only person in the house
Frank Dennis, engineer of the train
will probably die from injuries received
At Kansas City, Mo-, on Saturda,
last, four three-story brick buildings
occupied in the manufacture of cracker
and candy, suddenly tumbled down, an,
catching fire, were IN a short time en-
entirely destroyed and their content
consumed. Out Of one hundred an
seven persons at work in the building a
the time of the accident, five we're killed
the rest escaping with their lives. lively
of those escaping were wounded NOR
or less seriously. A heavy explosio
which Immediately preceded the fall G
the walls gives rise to the opinion tina
} the cause of the disaster was the sudde
! ignition of starch dust.
Humbugged again.
saw much said about the merits of Hop Bitter