Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-10-10
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

More than $3.50, OOO,O of the national
debt wiped out in July, August and Sep
TENDER!
The railroads of Kentucky are assessed |
at $31 ,OOO, 900, an increase of over S., 000-
900 over last year.
Princess Louise will sail from Liverpool
for Canada on the Allan line steamer, Pa
risian, on the Goth inst.
General Banks has accepted an invita-
ton Of the city council of Boston to de-
liver a eulogy on General Garfield.
A Rochester, N. Y, man in delirium
tremens, killed himself while under the
delusion that he was Guiteau.
Fifty-two national banks have been Or
ganized during the last six months, with
an aggregate capital of SIS, 665,OOO.
Presley Cowan, an eronaut, made an
ascension at Washington, O., got entan-
gled in the trees, fell out of his balloon
and was killed.
Gen. Rusk, the Republican candidate
for governor in Wisconsin, went to that
state when it was territory, and began
life as stage driver.
The next president pro tenapore Of the
senate will draw $4,000 salary, this be-
ing the provision made for that officer
when there is no vice-president.
The grain warehouses of Chicago are
| practically filled to their utmost capacity.
There are now in store in that city about
100000 bushels Of corn alone.
During September the arrivals of emf
grants at Castle Garden, New York, num-
bered 36,379, an increase of 9, 437 over the
arrivals in the same month last year.
The second train conveying several
carloads of passengers to the funeral of
hand-car at Beaver, Pa, and killed six
men.
William Ryan, one of the robbers of the
railroad train near Glendale, Mo-, was
convicted at Independence last week, and
sentenced to twenty years. Imprisonment
in the penitentiary.
BY the Michigan fire, the father, step
mother, half-sister and brother of Capt
William E. Day, of Georgetown, Mass,
lost their lives. Their bodies burned tt
cinder were recovered.
President Arthur has one brother, al
officer in the regular army, and three sis
tiers, Mrs. John L. McElroy of Albany
Mrs. J. H. Masten of Cohoes, and Mrs
H. j. Haynsworth Of Albany.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is greatly con
constantly fears, will be assassinated lik'
his father. She desires him to retire from
the cabinet and leave Washington.
When Gen. Garfield passed through
Cleveland a year ago he rode out to LAX
View cemetery, and, after talking cheer
fully and philosophically of the beauty O
the spot, said: 81 think shall make m
e home here, in the end"
HAvERHILL, Mass, Oct. 4.-Col. Lev
5 B. Tucker, prominent citizen of Plais
$ tow, N. H., was instantly killed this Al
D ternoon at the crossing near the static
of the Boston & Maine railroad at tha
place by being run over by a passing e1
press train.
: Sir Samuel Baker, the African explore
and his wife arrived in New York on Fir
day from the Pacific coast. They are @
a tour around the world having crosse
, the Pacific from Japan to San Francisco
They will start for England in fe
days, after an absence of nearly thr'
:, years.
!. Ham White, alias Burton, who has pc
petrated some of the boldest stage 70
berries on record in Arkansas, Texas al
" Colorado, was sentenced to life impriso
ment at Pueblo, Col, Friday. His la
IL exploit was the single-handed robbery
a stage coach and it's twelve male occ
u pants near Alamosa, Cal.
G. The Garfield family fund has nc
III reached 1884, 428. The subscriptions nc
come in slowly, and the fund can scarce
be expected to go much higher, though
:, would if any necessity existed for
y The Garfield monument fund at Clevela
has reached SIS, 1877. This is a dollar ST
scription, and the purpose is to make
40 national. 1t deserves generous
Spouse from the whole country.
A. o--o,,,,o;o,, +ro;n ~, +la Air Tine
~ the exhibition grounds at London, On
ID collided with freight train at Orw'
,1o two and a half miles from Aylmer,
,.+ the 29th ult. Five out of the nine p
senger coaches were completely wreck
Five persons are known to have b.
NJ killed: several were missing, and it
'i'' supposed they were buried in the wre
VIZ About twenty persons were severely
III iured and large number slightly hurt
rt.
nal According to the official figures,
received from Albany, the total value
Al real and personal property within the
GRO it's of New York city is now $1,255,3
- 500. The real estate alone is set dowl
,,.o, S., O54, ,772. The total shows an
hoa crease of $40, ZOO, 900 since last year.
hoe the figures of the total are correct,
,or property in New York would, if dist
tho uted on the communistic plan, give 81
to each man, woman and child in the C
The net debt of the city has been brou
0eh down to about $1,000 900, but the ia
still keep high. For the coming year
'eo' will be over $50, 100000. The official
ures are below rather than above the
, value of property, as they merely re
sent the tax valuation.
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,on+ decayed and aching tooth. you do not take an
your stomach with drugs to cure it, but apply co
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