Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-08-30

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Complete census returns show the pop
ulation of Wisconsin to be 1,915, 464, an
increase of 296, 1914 since 1870.
Among President Hayes mail recently,
were four invitations requesting his at
tendance at the opening of agricultural
fairs on the Pacific coast, for which Sec
ton he leaves shortly.
Ole Bull, the great Morse violinist, re-
Gently died at his birthplace, Bergen in
Norway. He was 20 years old last Feb
ruary, but apparently in rare and vigo-
rous health, he seemed sure of long old
age.
The latest plan for crossing the English
channel is embodied in model now before |
the British admiralty for monster float
ing railway station, which is to carry
trains holding 1000 passengers across at |
the rate of IA knots an hour.
The rigorous winter in Paris did much |
damage to the Jardin DIES Plantes, whose |
menagerie has lost hippopotamus that |
cost $4,000, bear, two lions, five gazelle, |
panther and two swans, not to mention |
many kangaroos, antelopes and deer.
Ninety-five per cent of the great tide of |
immigration now flowing from Europe |
goes to the states of the Northwest, and |
It's calculated that the number aggregates
enough every two months to give an addi-
tional congressman under the new census.
The total amount of salt received at the
bonded warehouse at PASSPORT from Au-
gust 1879 to August 1880, was 1912
bushels, the greater part of which was
used in the. local fish packing houses in
that town and surrounding places.
The great Tiff estate, estimated to be
worth $1,5OO,OOO, owns 80, 200 head of
cattle, which feed over eight ranches
lying in Colorado, Wyoming and Nebras-
ka, between the Union Pacific road and
the South Platte river, and reaching west
ward to the foothills.
The British Museum contains the oldest
| specimen of pure glass which bears any
| date. This is little lions head, having
on it the name of an Egyptian king of the
| eleventh dynasty. Thus it is shown
thateyen at period at least B. c. 1000
years glass was made with skill that
indicates the art was not new one.
Berlin dispatch says that while de-
plorable harvest reports continue to be
received from Silesia, Posen and east
and west Prussia, the most favorable ae-
counts come from south Germany. All
the crops there show yield such as the
oldest people scarcely remember to have
seen, and the farmers hardly know how
to garner them.
Horace Maynard recently paid his re-
spects to President Hayes, who handed
him his commission as postmaster-gener-
al, and he was subsequently sworn into
Office by Judge Lawrence. The president
has also signed the commissions of Judge
Key to be district judge for the eastern
district of Tennessee and Gen. Longstreet
as United States minister to Turkey.
Three little girls had great fun in a
neighbours house at South Bend, Ind,
during the absence of the family. They
first broke all the window panes. Their
,, they poured several gallons of milk Oh
the parlor carpet. Finally, they emptiet
, six dozen cans of raspbeories and buckle
berries into tub, and dyed all the fine
dresses they could find in the juice.
Reading, Pa, is almost without water
none being found east of Seventh street
tories are compelled to stop in conse
: quence, and the citizens are depending
, upon pumps and natural springs for wa
ter for domestic use. The distributin.
t reservoir is empty, and the scanty suppl.
e remaining in the storage reservoir is re
i served for use in case of fire.
The French assembly has voted $40,
: 100000 to establish high schools for girl
n in that country. This is convincing
proof that the statesmen of France appre
ciate the fact that intelligence is the onl
K safe basis for Republic. In providin
# for the education of the mothers of til
& next generation, they take the best mean
of putting intelligence where it will d
rect the ballot Educated women do no
as rule, raise ignorant sons.
% Eureka, CAL, was visited by destru,
i tive fire last week Wednesday, the create
portion of the place being consume,
N Loss about $1,O00,OOO. A strong win
g prevailed. The prominent buildings an
h institutions destroyed are Mann's brew
N cry, the 'Leader" printing office, the Cd
Fellows building, the Jackson house, Il
!, ternational hotel, the theater, and almo
: all the intervening buildings. All of tt
private residences on Spring, Buelar
and Paul streets north of the Episcop
w church, were consumed, and many fam
lies rendered destitute.
:. The United States is fast coming
bo supply the world with oil. The yield
o., flax seed is the largest ever produce
~ while the yield of cotton seed oil for Il
- present section year," ending Septemb
1st, is believed to be fully 100000 barrel
the larger part of which has been, or W
M be, exported. This is not the who
nc product of the crop of the cotton seed,
Is even a tenth part Of it, as the grove
" have not yet had their attention direct
III to it. The supply of castor oil is al
DIS steadily increasing from the Southwe
and the crop is a profitable one.
=, Ex-Governor Herschel v. Johnso
died at his residence in Jefferson count
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