Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-09
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

olu Uldch uIeSS Has SUue.
millions for potatoes. but not cent
for Parnell," is the platform recommend
ed to freshmen by the St Louis Globe.
There are nine hundred and ninety
seven penitentiary convicts in Missis-
sippi, whose labor is leased by the state
at Sl.1O month.
Jay Gould has authorized the COVER
nor of Kansas to draw on him for S.. 900 |
to be expended in relieving those in dis
tress in that state.
A negro girl living near Albany, Ca,
who had her limbs crushed in rail-
road accident. has recovered $4,000
damages from the Georgia Central Rail-
road.
Mr.. Surgeons condition is such that
he writes TO his congregation that he is
'altogether laid aside, without either
brain to think, or heart to write" Ano-
Their victim of over-work
A company with $4,000 capital has
been formed at Portland for the manu-
facture of oval buttons and general
turning work, and John A. Emery is
president Valuable and newly patent
ed machinery is used.
The oldest post-office in the country
is that at jamestown, Virginia, where
letters have been delivered in some form
or other for 263 years. Henry Clay
has just been appointed postmaster there
at salary of $5l year.
1t may be confidently expected that
the federal census of 1880 will place
Iowa as the sixth state in the Union in
population, the first in the production of
corn and pork, and not lower than Sc
cond in the growth of wheat.
Henry L. Clinton. the New York law
yer. demands fee of S25O.OOO of Will
liam H. Vanderbilt for professional SER
vices in the celebrated will case. The
railroad king refuses to pay, claiming
that $4,000 is enough. Clinton re-
| fuses to take off cent.
1t is estimated that this years crop
of grain. the world over, will be $780,
100000 bushels above the average, or
about ten per cent, and, as the stock
carried over in this country is likely to
be larger than ever before, cheap food is
tolerably certain to be the rule next
summer and winter.
Archbishop Purcell has been failing
pretty fast of late, aud is now an inmate
of a convent in Brown county. O., hav-
ing entirely given up administering the
work of the church. He is reported
very weak, and prayers for the restora-
ton of his health are offered in all the
churches of his diocese.
Israel Boothbay, cashier of the First
national bank of Augusta, Maine, re.
Gently committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head after he had jumped
into cistern on the bank premises
with weights tied to his feet. A direc
tor stated that the accounts of the banl
were probably all right.
On the 28th of January, at Fort Blu
ford, Dakota, some Uncapapa indians
raided' on the Grosventre camp and cap
tured herd of ponies. The next day /;
war party of Grosventres, after ridin!
; 40 miles, attacked the marauders ant
; joined in battle which was fierce ant
ipus' E:ftaon man --~-~ Li1laa a.1 Al
stock rccaptured.
The collections taken in the Roma
Catholic churches of Boston and vicini
ty on Sunday in behalf of the poor Q
Ireland will probably foot up abou
$4,000. Returns from 43 churche
give total of Sl6.5Ol. The Churc
of the Immaculate Conception and th
Cathedral, in this city. gave $3.50 ali
$500, respectively.
California is thriving and happy
> and little boastful Last year wa
the most prosperous in the history of th
State, the exports including 100000
;. gallons of wine and S2O,OOO,O0O wort
: of wheat. although her distance frol
= :, the worlds markets makes her profit 0
the latter commodity small. Thel
u were built on her coast $50 vessels. an
the exports of gold and silver were S26
), 100000.
q The county hospital in the town
u Wauntosa, Wis. has been burned. I'll
Il account books being burned, the exa
= number of inmates is not known, but
- is supposed that there were CO. Abo
~ 80 were carried out, 8 others made the
= own escape, and 2 bodies have been r
10 covered, one that of Christian Nelst
and the other not known. The wal
re partially fell in, and it is thought TIL
tie there are several bodies yet among Il
D. ruins. Loss $4,000.
a. The Russian army now boasts fgf
70 ing strength of over 100000 men.
AZ respective of Landsturm. The stat
~ tics of the other great Continental armi
"a are as follows: France, 1928, O0
~ Germany, 2,004,300; Italy, 2,024
200; and AustroHungary, l,194,3l
!. A simple addition of these figures W
~ demonstrate the appalling fact that,
r. ~ the present moment. five of the prin
v pal Continental States are in positi
y to put nearly 100000 trained sol
q iers in the field.
~ Fifty years ago, so per cent. of
on total foreign trade of the United Sta
On was carried in American vessels; THU
hv years ago. the proportion so carried v
Ia ~ per cent. in 1856, the figure b
fallen to 70 per cent; and in 1878,
was little over 25 per cent. In 18t
~ the value of goods carried in Americ
d. bottoms was over S5OO.000.000
ng 1878, it was only $3lO,0O0,O00. D,
.op ing the late war, a large number
lc- American-owned vessels passed unt
ed foreign flags, to avoid the Alabama, a
m hence, under the American navigati
ct laws, became forever debarred from So
OF ing under the American flag.
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wv Az.4a...A No 4al OQ0Q cs~L.