Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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ference will be held at Great Falls, on
the 9Th of next month.
1t takes about fifteen per cent. of the
entire revenues of the United States
government to pay pensions.
About 336, 100000 gallons of beer
were manufactured in the United States
in 1879. and l,245, 100000 gallons in
Great Britain.
The Connecticut House has passed a
bill. by vote of 100 to SO, giving wo-
men power to vote in matters affecting
liquor licenses.
John Kelley, "Boss" of the Tammany
Democracy. boldly announces that there
can be no peace in New York until S. J.
Tilden is shelved.
Returns from nearly three hundred
points in the west in regard to the
wheat crop, indicate almost uniformly
favorable condition and fattering pros
poets.
Edison, who appears to be quite as
eager for money as for fame, has sold his
patent on the eIectromotor telegraph to
the Western Union Telegraph Company
for 100000.
Three million acres of fall wheat have
been sown in California, the early and
abundant rains enabling farmers to put
in full crop, which is said to be a
very unusual thing.
In Texas during the past year four
hundred persons have been tried for
murder or rape, and only fourteen SEN
fenced to death. Four of these have had
their sentences committed by the gov
ernor.
There are 10000 locomotives in the
United States, and each contains q
500 different pieces, requiring renewal
every ten or twelve years. This conveys
a notion of the industries which railroads
foster.
The importations of dry goods at the
port of New York were fifty per cent.
larger in last January and February
than in the corresponding months last
year, or So. 2O3. Ol9 for the two months
III 1880, and SIS, 1851, 1874 in 1879.
Gen. Grant will leave New Orleans on
the 6th of April, and travel by way of
the river, to his home at Galena. He
will stop at various places on the route,
and will visit Little Rock and Hot
| Springs, in Arkansas.
The Southern Pacific railroad has
just been completed to Tucson. Ariz.,
making 1000 miles of railroal built from
San Francisco The work will be COLI
tinued across Arizona, the mineral reg
ion reached being second only to Lead
vile.
Indians attacked party of six men
near Santa Barbara, n NJ. Tuesday,
killing all, including Green Wortley and
Domingo Martinez The Indians also
attacked the village of San Jose, but
were driven off, and no depredations Of
any consequence were committed.
Ex-senator Christiancy of Michigan.
now Minister to Peru, does not get along
we'll with his young wife. formerly a
clerk in the Treasury Department at
Washington. They can't agree, and it
is said that divorce proceedings are pend
ing. The old gent ought to have known
better than to marry such girl.
There is new movement of the ne
groes in the Southwest. One hundred
and fifty of them, comprising men, wo-
men and children, passed Memphis on a
steamer on Friday night, bound to Gin
cinnati. They are the advance guard Of
large number who are to follow from
the vicinity of Helena, Ark, and are en-
route to Liberia.
Sir Alexander T. Gait was entertained
by the citizens of Montreal, without dis
tinction of party, at a farewell dinner
Wednesday night. previous to his de-
parture for London as resident minister
Of Canada. In the course of speech
Sir Alexander said that ne would try tt
induce emigration to Canada and to take
part as diplomat with her majesty's
government in making commercial trea
ties affecting the trade of Canada.
The White River Junction Observer
relates that one day recently farmer
from a nelghboring town went to tbt
seminary at West Lebanon, N. H., witt
two little girls, and inquired for thu
measles. He said he wanted his chill
dren to "catch them" now. before tht
busy time of the year came on, wher
they could not so we'll be taken care of
He was told that they had no measles
on hand, and he went away disappoint
ed.
A strange incident occurred in Pear
son county, n c., few days ago. 4
three-years old child was sitting on
stile feeding chickens when larg
eagle swooped down at the chickens
scattering them in all directions. A
the child was moving off the eagle mad
second swoop. catching the child in 1t
: talons. With its prey 1t rose In the all
but the child was too heavy. and tn
eaglesmanaged to hutter short distanc
!, to the limb of a decayed oak. Its talon
we're so entangled in the clothing of tn
: child that it could not get loose, and tn
weight soon made it come down to th
, ground, when the father of the chill
came up and killed the eagle. Th
child save some deep scratches, was IN
| injured.
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