Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-07-12
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Texas produces cider from tomatoes.
1t sells for $1.25 per gallon.
Both Hancock and English married
Southern women. The South gets the
.'better half of the Democratic ticket as
usual.
A young man engaged in a walking
match at Sag Harbor, L. l., became ex-
hausted on Monday and died after being
removed from the track.
The total valuation of the city of New
York is now placed at 81, 143, 767, 727,
these figures showing an increase of
nearly $5O,0OO,OOo over those of last
year.
The prospects for good crops in Ire
land are said to be excellent. The potato
crop promises to be enormous. Favora-
BILE crop reports also come from France
and Austria.
Acknowledgement Nash of Ohio has de-
clared the law recently passed by the
Legislature permitting women to become
notaries public in conflict with the state
constitution.
At Kennebunk, Me-, on Wednesday
Mrs. Sylvester Chick took her only son,
| and held him under the water until he
was drowned, and then attempted to
drown herself.
South Carolina has six colleges in &C
tive operation, each having full corps
of competent instructors, six fiourishins
seminaries for young women, three mill
tary academies and university for col
ored persons.
The largest pump factory in the world
is said to be that of the Southern pump
company at East Nashville, Tenn, wher,
a complete pump is turned out every tw,
minutes. Their works cover IA acre
and employ 225 men.
United States District Attorney Wood
ford of New York has begun libel suit
against nine steamboats, running in tina
harbor, for noncompliance with tn
United States laws in regard to havin:
the boilers and machinery inspected.
Turkey, it is alleged, has rejected tn
Greek boundary as laid out by the con
ference, and war with Greece is consid
cred imminent, Turkey having commend
ed active preparations for offensive meas
ures. Greece is also preparing for war.
In 1850 Holyoke, Mass, was a littl
village of 324 inhabitants; in 1856,
had 1894; in 1865, 564S; in 1870, 10,73S
in 1875, 1920. 1t now has 81 1856. TIL
growth is unprecedented in New Eng
! land, and more like the rapid growth c
some western towns.
st. Louis consoles herself that, if sh
has not Chicago's grain trade, she ha
something better in her growing cotto
receipts, which have nearly reached 480
900 bales since September, gain of $50
E 900 bales over last year, and represen
ing cash value of over $2S, 900, 900.
Says the Hartford EUening Post: CHI
tory repeats itself We are to have til
old combination-eight to seven-ovt
again, thus:
G fss45-s7s H 1safS-s7
and everybody knows at which extremit
of the familiar formula victory perches.
There are twelve firms in Wilmington
> Delaware, engaged in the manufacture
. morocco, which employ in the aggrega
D | about one thousand hands. They have
: capital invested of some 100000, an
turn out total of about eight hundre
finished skins per day. This leather
made exclusively of goat skins, whie
$ are procured from all parts of the coul
!. try.
d The new leaden roof that is being pla
d ed on the cupola of st. Peters at Ron
. will be complete in two years. Som
thing of the magnitude of the buildir
IS may be inferred from the fact that tn
e roof was begun IL years ago, and 6
p though the laborers have not bee
constantly at work, the work is en'
: nous. The roof is divided into 16 Sc
4 tions, each of which requires millit
pounds of lead.
A Renaissance of war days was plo'
ed up by J. r. Alexander in Jackst
county, Kan, the other day, where b
share turned out box II by inches
a piece of newly-cleared land. The be
contained 500 bills, which crumbled
2. dust when the air struck them, but Il
n figures $18, 200 cut on the box-lid show.
how much had been buried.
! The census enumerators of Louisvill
KY, found centenarians in every bloc
l. One registered the name of lady wi
q reached her 115th birthday last mont
She walks about the house with ease,
= unusually afable, has never been sick
her life, and can thread needle as qui,
as young girl. She resides with h
ir great grandniece, who is her only livil
lrelative,