Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

AsA'SA' SNSoS0, AAuioudy dIlCluooA.
1t is stated that the fall bonnet will
resemble squeezed cabbage with tomato
trimmings.
Eight hundred cattle and 4 300 sheep
were shipped to England from Montreal
last week.
Eggs exported from Chicago last
month were eaten at Dublin breakfast
tables two weeks later.
There is and has been all the while
more yellow fever throughout the South
than has been reported in the newspa-
pers.
The total balance Of trade in favor of
the United States for the eight months
ending August 31st, is estimated at
$140,00O,0OO.
Sixteen million dollars have been paid
out for pension arrears by the govern
ment since the passage of the arrears of
pensions act
The British accomplished by bribery
what they could not do by force of arms,
namely, the capture of the redoubtable
Cetewayo.
There is being exported from New
York over S6,00O,000 in value of grain
weekly. Her general imports aggregate
weekly over $7,O00,O0O.
Incensed villagers at Waterville. Ohio,
blew up a tavern with gunpowder re-
Gently, because its owner refused to
stop selling liquor.
The Chinese keep grapes long time
fresh, by cutting hole in a pumpkin,
clearinp ii ont and aftar Gllinn With
ripe fruit replacing the cover.
A Dighton Massachusetts farmer has
just sold five hundred bushels of onions,
the product of single acre, most of
them bringing S per bushel.
Six misbehaving young men were
taken from their beds by mob at Wes-
ley Chapel, Indiana, tied to fence in
a row, and whipped almost to death.
The failure is announced of the prom
inent firm of James Adgcr & Co., of
Charleston, S. G. Their liabilities are
currently reported to amount to nearly
100000,
DR.. Glenn, recently candidate for gov
ernor of California. but defeated, raised
wheat enough during the summer to load
twenty clipper ships, has hired 500 men
and distributed over 100000.
Brighton, New Jersey, contains three
fruit-canning establishments, which, to-
gether ship some two million seven humid
red and fifty thousand cans of tomatoes,
peaches and the smaller fruits yearly.
Fifty years ago Stephenson ran his
first engine over iron rails in England.
There are now one hundred and fifty
thousand miles of iron rails in the world,
of which more than half are in this
country.
A tugboat was blown up by an ez-
plosion of its boiler, on the lake just
outside the city of Chicago H.. on Mon.
day morning. and the captain, stewart
engineer and fireman were killed, al
traces of their bodies disappearing.
The tidings from Memphis are of &
more hopeful character than hitherto
during the prevalence of the fever. The
number of new cases for the past week
is smaller than for many previous weeks
and so is the number of deaths.
If Jefferson Davis goes to the United
States senate from Mississippi, some o
his adherants believe that he can b,
elected president pro tenn of that body
and so stand possible chance for TIT
presidency in case of some political &C
cident.
The trial Of William Buckholtz fo
the murder of his employer, Schultz
whose dead body he admitted robbing o
several thousand dollars, was concluded
at Bridgeport, Conn. last week, the jur,
returning verdict of murder in the frs
{ degrees
The closing ceremonies of the battl
, flag celebration at Hartford, Connecticut
l were peculiarly impressive. The marcl
3 of nearly ten thousand veterans of tn
late war, carrying their old tattered ban
ners. was witnessed by nearly one hund
red thousand people.
The improvement in the iron industr
: all over the country is very decided
' Merchant iron has gone up S IA, railroa
| iron $40 to II. pig iron $3.50 to So
' and iron one fifty cents per ton, all with
q the present year. The rolling mills ar
f now running night and day.
Frank H. Leuring. a Louisville mel
$ chant, committed suicide last week b
pouring coal oil over his clothes and sci
ting himself a6re. He has taken tn
g precaution to bolt his door. and the pee
r pie who rushed to his assistance wer
= unable to gain admission until the bod
: was burned to crisp.
Work on the East River Suspensio
;, Bridge has been going on rapidly fc
u several months past. and it is now al
e nounced that should the coming winte
s be favorable, the bridge will be open fl
/ travel within a year from the preser
q time. The stretching of the wires fl
q the roadway will commence in October.
During the past six years ninety thrt
e monasteries and forty-one converts hay
been suppressed in Rome. and their il
mates 2,9S9 in number. cast adrift. I'll
net proceeds of the confscations and sa
of the church property in the city We
IA only $4,000, 000-a mere trife IN cor
90 parison to the great expectations ente
= tanned by the authorities.
of Nearly S2,5o0,o00 of the sums pa
er out under the peasion arrearages bill h
ne gone South. the Southern states furnis
in ing three hundred thousand white m
Sc to the Union forces. not so very mai