Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Henry Ward Beecher has his life insur-
ed for 100000.
Minnesota expects to furnish homes for
10000 immigrants this year.
The British house of commons has re-
jected the bill to abolish capital punish
ment by vote of It's to 80.
1t is reported that the khedive of Egypt
will shortly decree the total abolition of
slavery throughout his dominions.
Yale's valedictorian this year was
Jew, her salutatorian a Dutchman, and
the prize declaimer Chinaman.
In May 117,OOO emigrants arrived in
the United States. The number arriving
the past eleven months was 564 900.
Ex-United States Senator Hitchcock
died at Omaha, Sunday, aged forty nine.
He was classmate of President Garfield.
Maud S. trotted on the Hamptramck
track at Detroit, Monday, to beat st. Jul
lens time over it, 2.1615. The mare made
it in 2.13A.
There are about two hundred and thir-
teen tons of bullion in the mint at Phila-
delphia. The gold and silver on hand is
valued at $31, 100000. a.e
Philadelphia and New York are con-
nected by more telegraph wires than any
other two cities in the world, the number
being one hundred and ten ..t....
RICHMOND, Va. July 13.-To-day was
was the hottest for years. The thermom-
eter stood at los in the shade. Several
prostrations and one death are reported.
A whole boat-load of picnickers at War
rensburgh, Missouri, six hundred in all,
were lately poisoned by drinking artificial
lemonade, made from acid. None have
yet died but many are very sick.
Secretary Blaine says that his new resi-
| dence in Washington is to be simply ga
| square old-fashioned house" The whole
lower floor is to be so arranged that the
rooms can all be thrown into one.
1t is reported in San Francisco that the
running time of the overland train be
tween that city and New York is to bt
reduced from six days three and one
quarter hours to five and one-half days.
1t has been decided that gold and silver
may be deposited by national banks fol
the redemption of circulating notes, anC
that it may be paid out by the United
States Treasury in the redemption of ma
tional bank notes.
/ Ex-Vice-President Wheeler has inform
ed the board of education of the town o
Malone that he will repeat his last year.
gift of $500 to the schools, to be distrib
uted during the ensuing year to student
making the best record and greatest i'm
provement.
Even Ingersoll was thrown off his guar,
enough when he heard that the presiden
i was MORALLY wounded to exclaim, SEQ
save our country" And later he has as
serted that nothing short of miracl
could save his life. So he seems in
hopeful way.
Two hundred and forty-one thousan
immigrants have landed at New York i
the past six months, the greatest numbe
for the period on record. During tn
past six months employment has bee
procured by the Castle Garden author
ties for "a ,657 immigrants.
At New Haven, Tuesday, David Seal
was engaged with another man in draw
| ing hay, and while moving away the ha
in a sheep-barn, suddenly fell through
trap-door into the shed below, and stril
ing his neck on the edge of hay box
was dislocated, causing instant death.
What experts say will be the fine.
lighthouse in the world is being takel
piece by piece, from a foundry in Phil
delphia to a rock off Cape Henry, in Che
;, apeak bay, where it will be located
will be all of iron, weigh L ,OO0, 900 pound
t and require 1000 pounds of bolts to pl
it together. 1t will be octagonal in shal
ana 100 IeeC nlgh.
!, A fortune of $4,000, 900 has been left |
! Mr.. John Burnside, sugar planter
a Louisiana. His pay roll included Il
names of two thousand to three thousal
e hands, to whom liberal wages were pal
!. His success proves that the abolition
e slave labor was not necessarily an inju
Y to southern industries
Attorney General McVeagh intimat
II that President Garfield had just resolv
/ upon new departure in the polite
e course and tone of his administrator
FL "Ah," said Mr.. McVeagh the other da
che was never better president than
d was at the moment when Guiteau's bull
& struck him down. He never saw mo
Is clearly, and he never had firmer or b,
a. ter purpose. He was going to be all til
q the best thought or the country ever G
pected of him. He was going to BIZ
great president"
VI Why ARE You BILIOUS ?-Because you have
t. lowed your bowels to become costve and liver tori
p Use KidneyWort to produce free state of the b.
els. and it will stimulate the liver to proper acti
cleanse the skin OF Its yellowness cure bilious he