Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-12-27
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

imparts new life and energy to all the func-
lions of the body. Try bottle and realizeit.
1t is expected that the Hudson River ice
crop will this year reach four million tons.
The industry is now employing 1000 men
and 600 horses.
Jay Gould's latest acquisition makes
total of 10, 900 miles of railroad under his
control, or ninth of the entire railroad
mileage of the country. 5s lnd .asi.4t
A Glens Falls, N. Y, paper mill sent
recently a continuous roll of paper to
New York, four and half miles long and
weighing 1000 pounds. o.,.f. ..,
The population of the State of Oregon,
according to the new census, is 174,767,
of whom 1879 are females; 3O,44O for
eign born, and IL, $50 colored. 't''t
The New York Herald says Hancock's
letter of acceptance was revised by Tilden
and his letter on the claims was written
by an table young political leader" Til
denis friend.
The fourth child of Mrs. Sartoris, for
merly Miss Nellie Grant, was born in
England last month. Her first child,
boy, died when about one year old. OF
her living children one is boy and two
are girls. ;sl1. +. s8set
-Four of the largest steel wire ropes ever
made in this country have been shipped
from Trenton, N. j., for use in the Brook
Ign bridge. Each rope is 1850 feet in
length, three inches in diamter, and their
aggregate weight is 1O2, 495 pounds.
Maine boasts that the governors Of
Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Michigan, Cal
Oregon, and two Minnesota congressman
were born in her arms. There are other
things of which the Pine Tree state does
not boast.
Queen Victoria, having been easily able
for many years to save $1,000, 900 year,
is probably the wealthiest woman in the
world Putting aside all other sources of
income, her Duchy of Lancaster and leg
acy from Mr.. Neeld bring her in $500, 900
a year, and her income altogether is prob
ably nothing short of So, 600, 900 year.
An insane man escaped from his keep
ers, near Chester, H., last week, and,
running to house a quarter of mile
distant, entered it and killed three of the
occupants-the owner, a man seventy
years of age, his widowed daughter, and
her little girl. A lad of II escaped and
gave the alarm in time to prevent other
murders. -ft.-.. t
| The annual report of the Bureau of
Statistics at Washington shows the five
| leading articles of export during the year
ending June 80, 1890, to be as follows :
Bread and breadstuffs, $2SS, 036, S35; cot
ton, manufactured, $2ll 1885, 9O5; pro-
visions, S127, 0+3, 242; mineral oils, $780,
2lS,625; tobacco and manufactures of,
SIS, Az, 273.
The Buffalo House and five other build
| ings at Olean, n. Y, were destroyed by
| fire last week. The fire was caused by
the explosion of a lamp in the Buffalo
House. The proprietor of the hotel mar
rowly escaped with his life, but his wife
and three children We're burned to death.
! 1t is believed that drunken man upset
the exploding lamp, and so caused the
disaster.
There have been many serious cases OF
diphtheria of a malignant type in Batavia,
| N. Y, the past few weeks. On recent
Wednesday farmer named Chas. Hirsh
lost daughter, years old, from the dis
ease; on Saturday, a son of S,years; on
Sunday, daughter of %, and the follow
ing Wednesday, two sons, respectively 13
and 10 years old. The two last named
died within two hours of each other.
Fourteen years ago the same family lost
four children from the same malady.
Three remaining children were i'll with
the disease, but hopes were entertained
that they would recover.
Friday evening, 18th inst, fire broke out
in the wallpaper factory of George w,
! Tiff in Buffalo, N. Y, an immense five.
story building. The building had eighty
/ feet front, and about three hundred feet
/ in depth. About one hundred and fifty
men and boys were employed at the time
the business demanding extra help; all OF
that number were at work. In less than
twenty minutes after the alarm was given
the building was mass of flames. The
/ walls crumbled and fell and probably bur
led twenty to thirty of the employees. The
doors to the different rooms swing in, anC
each had heavy spring closing it, there.
by retarding the egress of the occupants
The building was without a fire-escape Of
any kind. The terrified workmen TOOK
to the windows, and many escaped
with broken bones and bruised bodies
Those in the upper stories unable to es-
cape appeared for a moment at the win
dows, then sank back suffocated by the
smoke and flames. Besides those burned
in the building, the loss of life and broken
limbs caused by jumping from the win
dowS, was appalling.
Why is it So?
The why DIR. David Kennedy's .'Favoritt
Remedy" cures complaints of the Liver Kidneys
Bowels and Blood that it is compounded of the yer,
remedies which Nature herself has provided for this
purpose. Being at first scattered through the wood,
and fields DIR. K. has collected them, and after lone
and careful ex pertinent has condensed their virtues
in the form which he now confidently offers TO the
sick and suffering. One Dollar expended for bottle