Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-08
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The apple crop in New Hampshire is
very good, elsewhere it is light.
About 10000 telephones are now in
use in this country, and about 500 in
England
A Texas paper is of the opinion that
if the Democracy is beaten in Ohio,
Yazoo did it.
The number of post-offices in uncle |
Sans dominion is 41,O00, double the |
number in 1852.
James G. Flood. the California mil
lionaire, will soon build dwelling house
to cost 100000.
Sixty lives were lost in the recent
great fire at Irkutsk, Russia, the greater
number of whom were children.
The swimming match between Webb
and Boynton, at Nantasket Beach has
been postponed on account of rain.
The Orchard City mills and elevator
at Burlington, Iowa, burned Monday,
destroying property valued at upward of
100000.
Sir Rowland Hill, the noted English
reformer and the author of the penny
postal system, died in London on Wed
nesday.
There were only twenty-four failures
here in August. with liabilities of 1884,
900. This is the smallest exhibit of a
month since 1878.
There have been thus far twenty five
thousand deaths in Japan by cholera.
The Emperor has given from his own
purse $4,000 to aid sanitary measures.
1eaped down an embankment fifteen feet
in height near Scranton. Pa, on We'd
nesday, killing two men and inJuring
several others.
Rarus was entered for the free, for-all
race at the Charter Oak Park races on
Thursday, but he did not appear, having
been sold to New Yorker for ut is re-
porteD $4,000.
An Englishman who has not consulted
the census, predicts that Canada is to be
the great power of this continent. The
population of the Dominion is 4, ZOO, 900;
of the United States SO, 900, 900, or more.
If any one has missed any of the
''John Smiths they can be found in the
Massachusetts state prison, which in.
stitution has the honor of entertaining
just twenty-si gentlemen of that name.
The Republicans of California proba-
bly, elect all of their candidates for State
offices by almost $4,000 plurality; in
San Francisco they elect almost their
entire ticket; they also elect three Con-
gressmen.
Twenty-six murderous scoundrels were
captured by the New York police Mon
day last. They were returning from a
debauch in which they murdered man
who had demanded pay for clans which
they had stolen.
The New York Herald says that
friends of General Grant, at the sugges
tion of Southern men. are considering a
proposition, to lay before Congress, Of
making him Captain General of the
army during his life time.
Two farmers named Debbins and
Burns, in Wyandotte, Kansas, fought &
duel to settle an old feud, recently. Sew
eral shots were fired, the men clinchec
and both died soon after. The familie
stood by during the fight
!, The reported revival of revolution
in Cuba is confirmed by late advices from
that island. An army convoy was re
Gently captured between Manzanillo ant
Bayamo, and $4,000 in gold, 10000
cartridges, 800 rifles and much othe
e property secured by the insurgents.
President Hayes is swinging aroun,
the circle, having left for his home il
Ohio. From thence he will 60 as ia
west as Colorado, visiting several state
and stopping to attend meetings am
t fairs on his way. His trip will be on
of ovations, speeches and receptions.
The sheet-iron and tin-plate works o
Thomas W. Hooker & Co., which hav
been in operation near Cardiff, England
since l740, have been closed owing t
business depression; this failure serious
ly affects about six thousand people VIII
q have depended on these works for live
: lihood.
9 Holloway, the English pill manufac
turer, is to build college near Londol
for the higher education of woman, at
cost of $1.25O,OOO, and endow it witt
half as much more The way in which
. he became able to do so much good wa
by spending about 100000 in adver
Using during the past thirty years.
The Republican state convention il
+ New York occurred Wednesday. an,
! at the present writing the result is no
known. 1t seemed quite probable befor
5 the convention that A. B. Cornell woul
q be nominated for governor, but the lates
/ advices say he will likely be defeated
! Vice President Wheeler opposes him
! Senator Conkling was made temporar
| chairman.
a According to returns of the Nationa
debt of Great Britain recently published
q the total funded and unfunded deb
and capital value of annuities on tn
! lst of April, 1879, was S3,99O,394,2 zoo
a Some additions have been made by tn
: South African war. The National deb
of the United States on the lst Of Au
4 gust. 1879, Qess cash in the Treasury
+ was S2.O33. 293, 600, little more tina
e half that of Great Britain.
f A Toronto despatch states that a
e unsuccessful attempt was recently mad
e to abduct the Hon. George Brown. hea
of the government. and Robert Jafray
q prominent wholesale grocer of Toronto
h who is supposed to have knowledge 9
r some of the questionable operations G
n the late government. The latter wa