Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-05-09
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

was elected in Indianapolis and Rich
mond, Ind, Tuesday.
A party of French engineer officers have
gone from Constantine, Algeria, to Tab
area to fortify the Islet.
The mining business in southwestern
Nevada and in Arizona is developing to |
unexpected proportions.
The grain elevator and warehouse at |
Girard Point, Pa, were burned recently, |
involving property loss of 100000.
The New York musical festival was
successfully inaugurated Tuesday night. |
Over 1000 people were in attendance.
Pure blood helps to make clear con-
science. Hoods Sarsaparilla purifes the
blood. Enough said. Send us big bottle.
Miss Diman, daughter of the late Prof.
Diman of Brown University, was killed
at Providence, Friday, while horseback
riding.
The lumber cut upon the Wisconsin
shore of Lake Superior has increased from
100000 feet in 1874 to over %, 0OO, 900
feet in 1881.
1t is rumored in Washington that Sena-
tor Conkling has called to his aid Ex-Sen-
ator Eaton of Connecticut, for the purpose
of defeating Robertson's nomination.
Acknowledgement MacVeagh decides
that the postmaster-general is justified in
Withholding money letters addressed to
Dauphin, secretary of the Louisiana lot
terry company.
The largest shipment of grain ever
foated in one cargo was 5000 tons which
arrived in New Orleans last Friday in
nine days from st. Louis, by the steamer
| Oakland and barges.
Ex-United States Treasurer John G.
| New is in Chicago making arrangements
for the sale of stock of the Mutual Union
telegraph company. He states that the
line will be built from New York to Chi
cago within six months.
| The old home of Lincoln was recently
torn down at Springfield. A boy bought
all the shingles for dollar, and, with a
scroll saw, is turning them into ornament
al mementoes, which he easily sells at
from fifty cents to one dollar each.
President Garfield, speaking of the
shabby conduct of the hotel-keepers at
Springfield, ILL.,, in refusing entertainment
to colored jubilee singers, says if they go
to Washington and cannot secure rooms
in the hotels he will welcome them to the
White House.
| Reports from nearly all the counties in
California show an increased acreage of
grain sown, and it is now in fine growing
condition. The wheat crop, it is thought,
will reach one million tons. Barley is
also grown extensively for shipment to
St. Louis and Milwaukee.
The failures reported to Bradstreets fol-
the past week throughout the United
States and Canada number 10S, an increase
of II over the preceding week. In the
Middle States, the number reported was
&c, an increase of Z; New England States
%, an increase Of 6; Southern States 30
an increase of q; Western States 25, the
same as above; Canada and the Provinces
6, an increase of 2.
A ferry boat crossing Fox river at Ell
gin, ILL.,, Thursday morning, was capsized
The passengers, including thirty little
r girls, were swept down the current, utter
, ing heartrending cries. Twenty person:
were rescued with boats. The number O
drowned is estimated as high as fifty
The boat, when first used Wednesday
was condemned. Much indignation i!
felt toward the authorities for permitting
, its use.
r New York expects more building thi
a year than at any time since 1873, both il
: dwellings ON the East side up TOWARD
/ Harlem and in business places downtown
/ Thus far this year the building Inspector
f have received AGO plans, representing so
: buildings, to cost about 1905, 900. Il
: the same time last year only $50 plan
e were received. The plans now averag
f about eight day, and the number i
t steadily increasing,
1t happens that the star routes upol
which the most stealing is supposed t.
Y have been done are i'm democratic states
d that the bondsmen of the contractors ar
c such thorough-going democrats as Bar
g mum, chairman of the national committee
y Senator Maxey of Texas, Congressmel
It Money Of Mississippi Blackburn of Ken
e tuuky, and the Missouri delegation; an
e yet the average democratic editor invite
e us to believe that this is purely a reput
e lican steal.
. A Chicago ring consisting of John M
: Armstrong, James J. Eagan and Cler
L Periolat, is charged by the Times wit
e stealing from $500, 900 to $500, 900 in build
y ing the county half of the city and count
buildings. The estimated cost of tn
county half of the buildings was 81, 500
600, and up to date $4,000, 900 has bee
n expended. The system adopted was
4, let the contracts on one set of plans, an
il then furnish the contractor with anothe
is set, calling for inferior work, the diffel
/, ence to be divided among the architec
lie ring contractor and the commissioners.
= The price of iron and the cost of il
manufacture have had for some months
very small margin between them. Pr,
duction appears to be fully equal, if it
not somewhat larger, than current COZ
: sumption, both at home and abroad.
England and on the continent stocks
iron and steel are slowly banking up, an
no one expects in the current year tt
profits in iron which marked the las
English exports of iron and steel for tt