Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-05-26
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Great Britain has 10000 miles of
underground telegraph wire.
Under Connecticut laws, every horse
taking part in race is forfeited to
the state.
The Baltimore papers report a quiet
but very general revival of religion in
that city.
A baby died of blood poisoning at
Easton, Md. the other day, caused by
rat bite on the hand.
A gang of students of the University
of Michigan have been caught at coun-
terfeiting and systematic stealing.
The city debt of Boston was reduced
two millions last year, but it is still
two millions more than S4O,OOO,OOO
Some visitors at great shoe factory
in Lynn, Mass, recently saw pair of
kid boots made from the stock in just
eleven minutes.
The ten dollar certificates are being
delivered at the rate of 100000 per
diem, and by next week the delivery is
expected to reach 100000 per diem.
New Brunswick. N. j., borrowed
money in 1871 to build an opera house
for its fifteen thousand inhabitants cost
ing S276.000, and has just seen it sold
for $4,000.
Four hundred and ninety-four persons
have committed suicide in San Francisco
in the last six years. Stock gambling
is said to be responsible for one third
the entire number.
Through the vigilance and energy of
three life eaving boys of New York on
the East River, about forty persons have
been pulled out of the water within a
year and half.
Michigan has had cold. dry Spring,
but has a larger acreage of wheat than
ever and hopes to match last years crop
A good percentage Of old wheat is still
in the farmers hands.
The wages of male and female teachers
come nearer to being equal in Colorado
than in any other State in the Union
Men average $500 per month pay
women S46.95-less than So difference
About dozen mechanics in Lewiston
Maine, whose funds are limited, are try.
ing to charter box-car to take them tt
California. Their plan is to board them
selves on the way, doing their cooking
in the car.
Louis Barron. machinist of Water
town, N. Y, recently went home from
work sick, fell fainting in his yard. and
exclaimed to his wife, Il am dying.
This frightened his wife so that she dice
shortly after.
William Tyndale, the first English
translator of the Bible, is to have stat
ute on London's Thames embankment
The Archbishop of Canterbury is chair
man of the committee having the enter
prise in hand.
Governor St. John. of Kansas. speak
cheerfully of the negro emigration to hi
state, and says the refugees deserve a
kind treatment as they extended to tn
Union soldiers who escaped from South
ern prisons during the war.
1t shows how fast Kansas is filing up
that the books in the general land ofic
, at Washington record two million tw
hundred and fifty thousand acres take
up under the homestead and pre-emptio
laws in the last nine months.
Canada's commissioner to our Centen
NAL exhibition spent $40, in his fe,
T months of service, and the recent publ
! cation of his bills shows such items a
S. for champagne, cigars twenty. iv
cents, and other expenses even les
creditable.
Messrs. r. L. & A. Stuart, of Me-
) York, recently gave $4,000 to tn
S Home Mission Board, $4,000 to tn
Foreign Mission Board. $4,000 to tn
Board of Church Erection and $4,000 t
the Board of Ministerial Relief of th
Presbyterian church.
The biggest wheat farmer in the cour
: try is DR.. HI. J. Elan, of Colusa count,
: Cal. He has $4,000 of his 600 acre
f in wheat this season. and hopes to rails
. 100000 bushels-enough to pay tn
interest on the 100000 he is said [
owe, and have some profit
There was singular incident in on
t Of the Hartford churches last Sunda,
:, Wong Shing, in full Chinese dress-pi
f tail, cork shoes and mantilla-oficiate
as deacon at the communion service
- the Asylum Hill Congregational churcl
0 He was one of the first Chinese boy
: who came to New England to get a
J.. education.
e The commissioner of pensions b;
issued circular letter to persons ent
!, tied to pensions prior to the 10Th
January of the present year, informir
$ them that in consequence of the limite
s amount of available funds but con
t paratively small number of claims ca
] be adjusted monthly. An effort will
: made, however, to distribute the none
t. on hand equitably, SO that the sever
a agencies can participate in the disburs
ment.