Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-11-22
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS,

The majority for Garfield in the state of
New York by the official count, is 2O,923.
Your health depends on the purity of your
blood. People who realize this are taking
Hoods Sarsapariiia with the best results.
Andrew Gillen, a young lawyer, shot
his sweetheart, Miss Mary Sigersan, in
New York, because she would not marry
him.
LONDON, Nov. 18.-The British ship
Galatea, for Bombay, has foundered off
Cape Clear. Twenty-one persons were
drowned.
Full returns from Wyoming Territory
show the election of M. E. Post, demo-
crat, as Congressional delegate, by $50
majority.
Passenger rates on all the trunk lines
between Chicago and New York have
| been fixed at 500; between Chicago and
Boston at $21.
| Justice Clifford is so i'll that he cannot
recognize his most intimate friends,
and there is no probability that his con-
dition will improve.
| Two violent shocks of earthquake were
felt at Agram, Croatia, Monday at mid
night, causing panic, and the flight of
| inhabitants was renewed.
| The late Mary Shields of Philadelphia
left $934,9OO Of property, $3.50 of
which will go, by her will, to various
Pennsylvania charitable societies.
Great as our victory was, believe that
the forged letter cost us all the northern
states we lost. I do not intend to let up
on those rascals until they are punished
to the fullest extent of the law.-Jdmes
a. Garfield.
The Baldwin locomotive works at
Philadelphia, which have eight acres I'M
der roof, are now employing $500 hands
and turning out two locomotives daily.
There are about twenty engines constant
ly under way in the erecting shop.
Congressman Garfield, who enjoys the
singular distinction of being congressman
senator-elect and president-elect at one
and the same time, has resigned his seat
in the House, and has another office left
to give away before he 'tgoes up higher"
Frederick, the 12-years-old son of Ran
dolph Burt of Lowell, Mass, was killed
last week at Pelham, where he was work
; ing for Daniel M. Atwood. Preparatory
to going out hunting, he was putting a
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3 of shot was fired into his head.
{ Senator Cochrane, a leading Dominion
! capitalist, has taken up 10000 acres Of
land 500 miles west of Winnipeg, and will
establish stock rancho to raise cattle
> for the British market. The senator has
e imported so Hereford cattle from England
/ with which to improve the Canadian stock
t Prince Bismarck, it is reported abroad
has made repeated applications to hi.
q Emperor to be released from the cares o
office, and an anecdote has got into circu
lation that when the latest of these appli
u cations went up to his Imperial maste
e the latter wrote across its margin in i'm
mense letters, "No; never"
WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. 18.-Repre
sentative Alex. FL. Stephens expresses tn
IS opinion that all the necessary Legislation
J. will be enacted this winter without an ex
ira session of Congress. He says he shal
vote to pay the Supervisors and Deput
# Marshals without further opposition, an
!, that as they are entitled to their pay,
"A will be voted them.
The November crop report of the Obi
state board of agriculture makes tn
wheat crop harvested in 1880, SO, 500, 90
bushels. The total for 1879 exceeded an
. previous crop by 100000 bushels, an
. that of 1880 exceeds 1879 by more tina
- IL, O0O,00O bushels. Ohio probably is tn
first state in the Union both in averag
H. yield per acre and in total produce.
The State Insane Asylum at st. Pete
Mimi, was partly burned on Monda
- night, and a large number of lives los
: variously estimated from twelve to fit.
The inmates were turned out into the col
and snow and many wandered away, S
that the loss of life is not actually know
III the scenes are described as terrible
NJ witness. The loss to the building is e
TO timated at $500, 900.
~ Margaret Dempsey, an Ellenville, N.
:. hermit, said to be Ill years old, W;
found dead the other day by party
hunters in her hut in the mountains. TIL
note, written with a pencil, was found
her bedside: 81 am dying by inches
eo hunger. My money will be found
ay There is tradition that she became
ice recluse because deserted by the low
as with whom she ran away from home.
- Eugene Harding, known as Signor Bill
- the sleigh-of-hand performer, met wi
=, his death suddenly yesterday mornin
He was duck shooting on the Hackensa
River, near Little Ferry, in Bergen Cou
NJ ty, N. j. He had rowed his boat to t
ay- shore and was in the act of stepping
leu the bank when the trigger of his g
not struck on the gunwale of the skiff. T
mo gun was discharged, and the confer
tie entered his left side. He died alme
re" Immediately.
A despatch from Atlanta, Georgia, say
1t is remarkable that while the democr
ic masses all over the state rejoice o1
tne the election Of Governor Brown as Sci
ller tor, the republicans are equally hapl
ar because they consider it defeat of Bo
ere bonism, and prescription in Georgia. I
ms negroes had torchlight procession
ng- honor of Browns election. and the u
am versal verdict of the colored race all O.
st. the state approves his election. Bro
sur was the first man of prominence in &c
asst gia to advocate the acceptance of rec
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