Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-25
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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half-past five Monday night
Adirondack tourists this year will find
new hotels and far better accommoda-
TONS
Secretary Window says he has no in
tention of retiring the small notes in cir
culation.
1t is reported that big frauds have been |
unearthed by the Post Office Department |
in the Star Route business.
The surplus revenue of the United |
States government for the current fiscal |
year is expected to be 800, 900, 900.
Several of Vice-president Arthur's rul-
ings while collector of the Port of New
York are sustained by the supreme court.
The steamer Zealandia brought gold
bars worth $98, $50 to San Francisco We'd
nesday, the first consignment of the kind
from Australia.
John Olive & Son, railway material
manufacturers and proprieters of paper
mills at Manchester and Bury, England
have failed; liabilities 91OO, 900.
James w. Brooks of New York has re-
covered $4,000 for injuries on the New
York & Greenwood Lake railroad, train
having run into an open draw November
4th, 1879.
A dispatch from Pesth says the River
Thesis has broken down the bikes and in
undated 5000 acres of land and two vii
lagos near Sznolnok. Rain is falling
again at Szegedin.
Cincinnati will be 100 years old in 1888,
and is planning to celebrate. Marietta,
settled nine months earlier, the first col
onization in the Northwest territory, is
also moving for "a time"
Whitelaw Reid Of the New York Tri-
| bune is to be married on the Sd of May,
and will sail for Europe on the 9Th of the
same month. He and his bride will be
absent for several months.
Since January 1st over three thousand
horses have been exported from Canada
| to the United States. The duties are
| twenty per cent and the United States
customs have received $4,000 revenue
| therefrom.
1t is said there is firm in New York
city engaged in making artificial honey
comb from paraine wax. 1t is an exact
imitation of real honey comb except that
the walls of the cells are little thicker.
1t is filled with glucose and the cells are
waxed over so as to resemble genuine
box honey.
Alexander Jones, farmer of Water
town: Ontario, took an old gun to q
blacksmith for repairs. He assured the
blacksmith that the weapon was not
loaded; the blacksmith placed the BARRE
in the forge, and the gun discharged its
contents into Jones body killing him Oh
the spot.
Three years ago the cities of st. Louis
Kansas City, St. Joseph, Jefferson City
Springfield, Carthage, Clinton, Warrens
burg and Sedalia, in Missouri, were al
under the control of Democratic admin
istrations. To-day every one is Repub
. lican, with the solitary exception o
Sedalia.
At Indianoia, Texas, last week, Han
Rugley, Deputy Sheriff of Matagord;
County, was accidentally shot and kille'
by a young lady friend, who playful
pointed pistol at him, saying: 81 be
lieve l will shoot you, Ham," The con
tents of the pistol struck him in the neck
causing death in three minutes.
e All the nihilists except the woman
Hessy Helfmann, condemned to death 70
: connection with the cars assassination
r namely, Russakoff, Michaelotf, KibaltS
E chitisch, Jeliaboff and Sophie Pieoffsk
r were hanged at ten O'Clock Friday morn
/ ing Michaelof7s rope broke twice. Oh
a der was not disturbed. There was a
D immense concourse of spectators.
John Beck, a milk dealer in Brooklyn
came home drunk, and taking down hi
: pistol from a shelf commenced to clea
t it. Suddenly there was an explosion an
t Beck's wife gave scream. The bulle
;. from the pistol had struck her on tn
/ hand as she held her little eight-mOnth
: old baby and had then hit the child, xii
d ing it instantly.
d The witness OBrien, alias Lindsa!
Il who was induced by Hancock's manager
to swear that he was acquainted with I'll
II mythical H. L. Morey, has gone to I'll
/ state-prison for eight years for perjur!
l. The sentence is light enough, but he we
e the least guilty of any of the scoundre
is convicted with the stupid and bunglin
G crime which was relied on to make tt
1t superb President.
% An unprecedented rise of the Rock ri
II er at Rockford, ILL.,, has thrown 1,5(
men out of employment, and the waite
le power factories will lose thousands
rs dollars by being forced to stop in the
n busiest season, while they have large o
he ders ahead. Many shops, stores al
,e houses are flooded, and the damage wi
a. be great. Nearly all the rivers in Wi
e. consin are very high. The Missouri riv
20 at Omaha, Neb., is again booming.
80 The bonds for continuing the outstan
al ing 6s of 1881 at 3 p per cent have be-
delivered at the treasury departing
rs from the bureau of engraving and priI
is ing. They are similar to the original
es per cent bonds, except that they have Il
&c Endorsement of the conditions printed {
IL the back. A number of the new bon
Mt were issued last week to those who ha
in expressed desire to extend their 6 p
I. cents.
er The falling Of the brick Presbyteri
w church at Houma, La, was recently !
ported. 1t is suggested that teaches
nd hardness NAV have saved MANY live