Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-01-19
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


s making no Roadway in st Louis.
All the Catholic property in Cincin-
nati has been scheduled among Archbish-
op Purcell's assets.
Gen. Grant and party were welcomed
to Fernandino, Florida, the thermometer
marking so in the shade.
There were hundreds of school child
rem who had never seen snow in Charles
ton, South Carolina. until the last week.
One day recently at Deadwood. Dakota
territory, the mercury rose from 80 below
zero to 400 above in half an hour.
We buy steel railway rails in England. |
England brings her steel rails from
Germany and the ore IS taken from Eng
land to Germany.
Canadian trade with Great Britain has
decreased, while with the United States
it has increased nearly 100000 the
last year.
The checks sent out from Washington
for the payment Of the intrest on regis
tered bonds filed twenty mail bags.
They numbered over 10000.
Frank Leslie. the publisher, whose
real name was Henry Carter, died in New
York, January 10th, from ibrous tumor
Of the throat He was born in 1921.
Two men have been arrested in Wash
ington who entered into conspiracy to
steal General Grants Arabian horses
from General Beal's farm.
A Gypsy camp was recently found be-
tween Loslan and Bybink. with all its
inmates. numbering eleven persons. fro
zen to death in sitting posture around
au expiring fire.
General Grant has ordered his Ethan
Allen colt, now on the farm Of General
Beal, near Washington, to be sent by the
next steamer as present to the mikado
of Japan.
COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 13.-Gen Gar
| field was formally elected Senator to-
day over Thurman, the vote being Sc to
"A in the assembly and 20 to l3 in the
senate.
For more thau four CENTRES the cod
fishery has been carried on without in
terruption on our coast. and still the sup
ply is undiminished. The fecundity of
| this is somethinG wnndnfnl-
Twenty kegs of gold were received in
Chicago from New York city few days
ago. Each weighed about 800 pounds,
and contained $74. 900. making $780,
900, in all. This money was sent by
Jim Keene in payment for wheat.
The statement is made in Dublin that
the number of paupers in Ireland is
about 100000 or about eight per cent
of the population. while fully double
that number will need assistance to pre-
vent being forced into the workhouse
and charitable institutions.
The case of the lottery dealers against
the post-master-general for Withholding
their letters goes to the supreme court
of the United States. The lottery mer
are disappointed at not getting prelim-
mary injunction since the action of the
department is fast running their bust
ness.
1t now appears that there is no such
thing as the Hyde estate in the bank Of
England, and further, that there is nc
estate unclaimed in that bank thai
amounts to $500 And yet there are
plenty Of fools in this country who are
looking up pedigree with the expectation
of inheriting an English estate with
millions in it.
A Bridegroom was belated at Roches
ter, and the time appointed for the wed
ding was over before he arrived in tn,
city. In order not to miss the train OF
which the pair were to start on thei
honeymoon tour, the bride and he
friends met him at the station, and tn,
ceremony was performed hurriedly OIL
the platform.
That venerable colored philanthro
pist, Sojourner Truth, is in Kansa
laboring for the good of her people there
She is one hundred and five years o
age. but still retains mental and physi
cal vigor, having recently gone one hun
! dred and seyenty-6ve miles across tn
J praires in an open wagon, for the purpos
of giving aid to needy immigrants.
One hundred years ago, during tn
winter of 1880, the weather was so col,
that some of the harbors along the coas
were frozen over for nearly six weeks
, In Marblehead horbor several vessel
were frozed in from the last of Decembe
to the middle of FEBRUARY. The extreme
4 " mild weather of the past month fur
. nishes quite contrast
Six European steamers, all of whic
were some time overdue, arrived at Ne
York last Saturday. One of the vessels
the Arragon, had once been reported los
: They all report weather of remarkabl
e severity during the passage. blindin
8 storms and furious gales prevailing fc
t the whole time, to the constant terrc
e and great discomfort of the passenger
The arrival of these steamers gave Ne
t York post office Sundays work {
n 100000 letters to handle.
: The cold weather they have been ha,
: ing on the Pacific coast is without
e known precendent. In the bonanza mine
e which are so intolerably hot, water froz
i six hundred feet below the surface. |
$ private houses water-pipes burst, eve
when the fires were all burning by whic
|. the place could be warmed, Out {
! doors, all but spirit thermometers gu
d work as beneath their notice. Telegrap
j wires snapped by the contraction in til
b cold and all communication was for
!. while broken up on that account.
= Father is Getting Well.
Ny daughters say, "How much better father is sim
: he used Hop Bitters." He is getting well after h
long suffering from disease declared ncurable al
Z We 40 clad he used ynnr Ritfers-A Indy