Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-01
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

is brought to the. English market.
Kansas is the principal field for sup
plies of castor beans, and the crop this
year is estimated up to ten million BUSH
els.
American canned fruit Is in great de-
mand in England, and is being shipped
thither in large quantities by our manu-
facturers.
The Aroostook, Maine, starch factories
sone of them using 1900 bushels of po-
,tatoes daily.
The hog packing business in western
cities for the past year will show total
of IL, 10000 of these creatures, which
Is in excess of any former year.
The heaviest fall of snow known in
Augusta, Ca, for years occurred there
on the 18th. 1t showed steadily for
over three hours.
Four-ffths of the business part of the
town of Pennington, Mimi, was de-
stroyed by fire on Saturday night. in
volving pro badly loss of $4,000.
The four electric lights which illumin-
ate the reading-room of the British Mu-
scum at evening have each a power
equal to 5000 candles, and yet cost only
shilling an hour.
Jim Keene, the New York stock spec
ulator, is reported to have made during
the recent excitement S3,0O0,0OO, and
during the fall to have cleared Sl2, OOO,-
900, while Jay Gould has doubled his
enormous fortune since July.
Twenty-Five barrels of the finest Amer
lean winter wheat -four, made by the
newly patented process. were sold re.
Gently on the floor of the New York Ex-
change to fill an order sent direct from
the household of the Queen of England.
The price paid was SO per barrel.
Peter Goelet, New Yorker, died last
Saturday childless. leaving from S12,-
100000 to S20.OO0,OOO to his nephews
and nieces. He inherited fortune from
his father, and has been constantly ad-
ding to it by shrewd investments and
constant attention to business. He was
eighty years old.
| A farmer by the name of Barry, resid-
ing near Milford, Kansas, is the owner
of a pig. cross between the Berkshire
and Poland China breeds, which meas.
ures eight feet around the throat, eleven
inches around ito nuolElos, and from the
! tip of lite nose to the tip of its tail z
feet s IL inches, and weighs 1865
pounds.
The Denver and Rio Grande railroad
company have made contract with q
Pittsburg firm for $4,000 tons of stee
rails to be delivered. 1000 tons pei
month; also for 1000 freight cars, which
are now going forward at the rate of ter
per day; and are receiving bids for forty
locomotives, delivery to commence il
January at the rate of two per week.
The First Congregational church o
Columbus, Ohio. was recently connected
by the telephone with different parts o
the city. The wires ran from the pulpi
to the newspaper offices, the Governor
room and several stores. At each plac
the various noises IN the church wer
distinctly heard-the rustling of peopl
in their seats, the organ voluntary
the congregational singing, the praye
and the reading of the notices. "Then.
says paper. FOLLOWED the sermon. a
much enjoyed by the distant groups Q
listeners as by those in the church.
The excitement in financial circles i
: New York has continued, but has hap
PLY not been communicated to regula
business. The stock market has bee
wilder than ever, and in the middle G
the week break in prices caused rus
to sell and larger transactions took plac
in Wall street than have ever bee
known. 1t is believed that the brea
was caused by manipulators who wisbe
to brighten weak and timid holders, i
order to serve their own purposes. How
ever this may have been. the markt
yielded on all sorts of fancy stocks frol
r 5 to 20 per cent, and although the r.
s covery was prompt. it was not up to tn
former figures.
4 An equestrian statute of General Ge
> Henry Thomas, the work of Mr.. J.
!, A. Ward. was unveiled at the interse
ton of Fourteenth street and Massachl
| sets avenue, Washington, D. c., Q
3 Wednesday of last week. processio
q nearly two miles long, principally con
. posed of uniformed troops, was featul
of the occasion, and an grafton was d
/ livered by Stanley Matthews. who pr
! sented the statute to the people of IL
: United States, on behalf of the Army
the Cumberland. President Hayes mac
. brief speech in reply. In connectio
with the evening ceremonies address
were made by Generals Arson G. M
!. Cook, Sherman and Garfield, Presidel
2 Hayes, and others.
: A despatch from Los Pinos, und
/ date of Nov 20. says '.Ouray has stat,
: to the commission that he is prepared
prove, by the testimony of members
the tribe, that secret emissaries from Il
J Mormons have been comforting with Il
V White River ties, and attempting
: prolong hostilities by promising to fu
D. nish arms and ammunition for their u
= at certain points on Grand River.
= adds that although the information til
has come to him is not sufficient to co
sr vict, yet he has little doubt but that
n will be able to establish the connecti
y of the Mormons with the origin of t
a. outbreak, and that similar inducemer
. were held out to the Indians prior to
be firing of the first shot at the agency"
Feeble Ladies.
~ Those languid tiresome sensations, causing you
II, feel scarcely able to be your feet; that const