Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-24
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


In Florida the corn is foot high al
the people are eating young cabbag
and green peas.
The New York senate has passed b
Furnishing grave robbers with five year
Imprisonment.
1t appears that for fifteen years
Governor Of North Carolina has serv|
out his full term.
Twenty freight cars were burned
Cincinnati, the other day by the burs
ing of an oil tank.
TORONTO, Can, Feb 21.-There
another cold spell throughout Ontar
to-day, the thermometer ranging fro
zero to $50 below.
Peter Cooper celebrated his eight
eighth birthday by reception at b
daughters residence in New York Il
18th.
The Secretary of the Treasury h]
issued the eighty eighth call for the r
demption of 500 bonds. The call
for S2O,O00.0OO.
At the end of last year the number
Free Masons in the world was about f
million, and of lodges about fifteen tho
sand.
The Soldiers Orphans Home ne;
Xenia, o.. was burned Sunday morning
loss over $75, 1000. The inmates bad
narrow escape.
An international convention to secu
the stopping of Sunday trains on a
railways of the world will shortly
held in New Yory city.
The iron beams of the new Chicad
custom house have been ruined by rus
and will have to be replaced by the go1
eminent at cost of $4,000.
The Boylston Museum in Boston,
variety theatre, was closed by the polio
authorities last week. on the ground thu
the performances were immoral.
The detectives who have been inve
tigating the Barron murder, with sue
remarkable lack of success, hav
brought in bill of $4,000 against th
state Of Maine.
The Connecticut Legislature adopte
resolution Tuesday denouncing the re
cent anti. Chinese legislation as fl
grant violation of scored and honors
BILE treaty.
Zach Chandler, who has been electe
to succeed Senator Christiancy of Mlcg1
gan is 65 years old. He has alread
served three full teams in the Senate.
He swears when he is mad. but no mai
ever accused him Of ever stealing cent
In recent trial in Rochdale, Eng
land, it came out that while twenty year
ago cottons were sized with from l to
per cent. of flour, they are now loaded
with from 70 to 23O per cent. of -four
with China clay, epson salts, and var1
Gus chemicals.
A serious fire occurred at Patterson
N. j., on Thursday destroying a larg
building, forming a portion of the Roge
Locomotive Works Containing valuabl
patterns of machinery and the fax mill
of Barbour Brothers. The total los
will foot up about S250000.
Machinery Hall, the second bigges
of the Centennial buildings, has beer
sold at auction for $24, 900. 1t cos
1854, 867. contained 100000 pound
of wrought and cast iron. 1000, 1000 fee
of lumber, 100000 feet of tin roofing
and 10000 square feet of glass
The average Democrats who read Til
denis testimony in regard to the ciphe
dispatches, is in very much the sam
state of mind as was the man who afte
hearing sermon in support of the doc
trine of universal salvation, went HON
muttering to himself, 81 would give fly
dollars if it were true"
Statistics just complied in New Yorl
city show that the number of unemploy
ed mechanics and laborers there is les
than one-half the number four or fv
years ago. In 1878 the average of tn
unemployed reached $4,000, and, sui
sequently, for time, 10000. 1t i
now only about 10000.
A despatch from Louisville says
mob of 200 men rode into Campbellsvill
KY, on Saturday, the 9Th inst, i
search of J. K. Robinson who had bee
appointed Receiver to collect railroa
tax from Taylor county, in satisfaction
of judgment of the United States CHI
cult Court at Louisville. The scare
was fruitless.
The machinery has been put into tn
basement Of the United States Senat
chamber for the purpose of lighting th
chamber with electricity, and this wee
the experiment is to be tried with twely
large burners. Two Wallace machine
have been connected with the shaftin
in the basement and four wires exten
through the exhaust air fues to ii
space above the ceiling of the chamber.
, This is terrible winter in the Alp
i A correspondent of the. London Das
: NeaoS writes: 1.-The tidings which I r
ceive from the Alps are distressing. III
cold is frightful. In the valley
Freyssinieres the snow is more than tW
/ metres (more than two yards) deel
} The roads are everywhere impassabl
: Neither wood or coal can be obtaine
, for love or money. am going
/ send up some blankets. The people a
l cutting down their trees and trying
warm themselves with green wood. I'll
t sufferings are terrible"
7 A RAILROAD BUILT ON THE Ice
: despatch from Bismarck, Dakota, of t
: 18th, says: The first Northern Paci
$ train, loaded with visitors and railro'
e iron, crossed over the Missouri to-da
;, The track is laid on the ice, with
i foot ties. The train was the first tn
( ever went over the river-ice witho
= some special bridging underneath. II
t ice is three feet thick, and the thermon
o eter 20o below zero. Nine hundrt