Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-20
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS,

have resumed work
Late Florida advices state that the or
ange crop will be nearly as large as last
year.
The disturbances throughout Armenia
threaten to assume the proportions of an
About thirty lives are believed to be
lost by the burning of the steamer Marine
City on Lake Huron.
There $4,000 men under arms in Greece.
The minister of war has ordered winter |
garments for "a, 900 men,
The loss of property by the Manhattan |
market fire in New York on Thursday |
morning will aggregate $1,5OO,OOO
Work is progressing rapidly on the |
Washington Monument, and the only
drawback is that the contractor cannot
furnish the stone fast enough.
The winter wheat crop of Illinois for
1880, has never been equaled in the history
of that State. 1t will amount to $780,
The reunion of Gen. Garfield's regiment
(the 42d Ohio) occurred at Ashland ON
Wednesday in the presence of 10000 peo-
pie. The General, with others, made
addresses.
Bushrod Johnson, the well-known con-
federate brigadier, has jtst died at his
farm in Brighton, Macoupin county, III.
He was born in Ohio in 1917, and gradu-
ated from West Point.
Manufacturers of glass bottles and 9th
er hollowware throughout Pennsylvania
began work last week at Is per cent adj
vance ON the wages paid when the fires
went out, making total of 25 per cent
since last April
DR.. Tanner had AN audience Of nineteen
men and one woman at Springfield, Mon
day night. He declined to lecture to so
| small house, and refunded their money.
| The same ceremony was repeated at Law
renee last evening.
The internal revenue receipts for Au-
| gust amount to so, 497, 900, a gain of
| $1,069 900 over August, 1879. The total
| gain for the first two months of the pres
ent fiscal year, July and August, over
| 1870, is g, 429, OOO
The interest on the per cent bonds,
registered and coupon, due in October
will be 81, 49,, 1880. The largest amount
| to no maid To aov ono individual iS cA7S
600, the quarterly interest on $47 100000
of registered per cents.
Jerome B. Brown and wife of Adams,
Mass, while driving across the Boston &
Albany railway track on Thursday morn
ing, were instantly killed by locomotive,
which they apparently did not see APP
preaching as they drove on to the track.
Mrs. Oliver Jolly and three children,
aged l, 6, and 10 years respectively,
were drowned by the upsetting Of small
boat in the River st. Lawrence, at Ber-
thier, Can, on Wednesday. Two men
and woman saved themselves by cling
ing to the boat.
| IN
AZ, died Monday morning last week OF
diptheria. He was on the street Friday
morning, but was taken soon after an6
lived only three days. He buried his wife
and only child but short time since by
the same terrible disease.
The October HdTper's is a number rarely
equaled, either for beauty of pictures O
general excellence of reading, either b.
this admirable magazine or by its rival
. Scribner's. The articles are, with scarce
T ly even small exception, on interestin;
subjects and admirably written, and man
: of the engravings are of remarkable beau
4 | ty both of design and execution.
1t is now believed that between $50 an
14O miners persisted by the Seaham eng.
colliery explosion on Wednesday morn
: ing. Thus far only sixty-six bodies hav
been recovered. The exploration for tn
i victims is greatly retarded by the prev
: alence of fires in the middle and lowe
: seams, which it is found difficult to e1
y tinguish.
: The queen of Spain has been safely d'
y livered of daughter. A few minute
|. after the birth of the princess, King A
Ii fonso attended by his ministers entere
V the ante-chamber, bearing the child ell
d veloped in cambria and lace on a golde
It tray. The prime minister then raised I'll
t, coverlet and the king presented the new
It born infant to the diplomatic corps an
t. the officials of the court.
Major Gould, paymaster in the arm
is is quoted as saying that he was preSel
E. at Gen. Hancock's headquarters when tt
N news came of the Vermont election; al
g that, of course, he watched the effect
ic the news on Gen. Hancock. Hanco(
ii gravely said ssThis is not as wanted
)r The campaign was badly managed on Of
part. If had my way I should have p
10 our ablest speakers in Vermont, not tn
\ / expected we should carry it, but
g order to keep the republican MAORI
o. down in the remainder of the Mort
4 There is q bad showing for us in the b
n ginning. 1t demonstrates that the repu
Of licans are holding their own in the Mort
III and that L shall make no gains from 81
diers. Their party is solid in the North
OF Pleasant Letters.
~ They are sheets Of sunshine. Methodist cler
man of HARTFORD. Conn., writes DR.. David Kenne
of Rondout. n. Y. that "Favorite Remedy" cured h
Ell of Chronic Liver Disease and Indigestion. from viii
al he had suffered for long time. This spend
ee but nothing m ore than anyone may expect who u
~ this medicine. One dollar bottle is a small cons
Grafton when health is In question The clergyn
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