Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-11-07
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

III PuOAAN uOOG was ICOuCCu OCGO-
Der more than $13,0OO,OOO.
The counsel for Guiteau has subpoenaed
ten witnesses for the defence.
Gold value of the legal tender silver
dollar (4121a grains) 87.12 cents.
Mrs. Garfield will take possession of
her Cleveland home in about fortnight.
Senator Edmunds, who is now in Wash
ington, is writing magazine paper on
the political aspect of Mormonism.
The president recently appointed Jo-
seph K. McCamman commissioner of rail-
roads, in place of Theophilus French.
Bayard Taylor's father and mother, who
have been man and wife for sixty-seven
years, are still living and in good health.
Massachusetts will go through the mo-
lions Of an election next Tuesday, but
there will be no Butler and no excitement.
Senator Malone says the readjuster
majority in Virginia will be from ten to
twenty thousand. The readjusters are
likely to secure the legislature, which
will elect United States senator.
Frank Hatton, the new first assistant
postmaster-general, is an Ohio man, be-
ing native of Cambridge, Guernsey
county. He is thirty-six years of age.
He was once newsboy at Cadiz, Ohio,
where his father published a paper.
The total amount subscribed toward
the Garfield fund is 1851, 1872. The amount
paid by the United States trust company
for $311, 900 United States four per cent
registered bonds is 1851, 40, leaving a
balance of cash at the credit of the fund
of S22.
The Great Eastern is 679 feet long and
when she was built 300 feet was thought
a great length for ship. Now vessels
measuring over 500 feet are not uncom-
mon, and three new steamships soon to
arrive in America are respectively 500,
$50 and SAG feet in length.
The Mississippi democrats are round
ing up the campaign with a little shotgun
practice. Three republicans were shot
dead in Sharkey county while on theil
way to a political meeting. 1t is satisfac
tory to learn that prominent citizens i'm
mediately-adopted resolutions on tn,
subject.
The annual report of director of tn,
mint Burchard shows that over $4,000,
600 OF gold was used in the United State
in the industrial arts during the past year
There have never been any statistics col
lected on this subject before. In the yea
1880 the production of gold was $36, 200,
600 and of silver $39, 2OO,O 200.
Judge Charles J. Folger, the new sec
rotary of the treasury, was born in an old
fashioned wooden house in Nantucket
; His ancestors were men of education
some of them men of remarkable learnin
and scientific and mechanical skill. Alb
ah Folger, an aunt, many times removed
of the new secretary, was the mother c
Benjamin Franklin.
Mrs. Garfield has requested that five {
the flags which decorated the inside of th
. pavilion wherein her dead husband lay 9
, Cleveland, should be given to her chi
dren. Of the remaining three, one is t
be given to the elder and another to til
younger Mrs. Garfield. The dais and tn
f casket which first held the president
q body are to be carefully preserved by tn
Western Reserve Historical Society.
: The navy department has received shol
d dispatches from the Arctic relief ship
} Rodgers and Alliance. The Rodgers ws
at st. Lawrence Bay on August 18th, ha-
: ing experienced heavy weather and vex
= tious delays. She was about to leave fl
a Herald Island, and had ample stores fl
o the winter. The Alliance was at Har
q merfest, Norway, on September 18th, r
i. ceiving fresh supply of coal and provi
ions. She had found no trace of Il
Q Jeanette. Her commander intended, 9
ter another short cruise to the northwar
! to sail for New York on September 25th
# 1t is said that the recent demand
r. Confederate bonds has grown out of Il
a circumstance that 1900, 900 in go
n placed in English banks during the W
a. to the credit of the Confederate cover
!. ment is still held on deposit. The Unit
It States treasury, it is further said, h
made several attempts to obtain posse
sion of the gold, but has always faile
. the English banks contending that t
gold could not be surrendered except
the holders of bonds issued by the Co
r federate government. 1t may not be &c
= orally known that in Paris at the prese
. time Confederate bonds of f100 are wor
!, f6 in cash-that is to say, there are br
= kers who speculate in them, and who b
them at that price. The company in LC
don who has undertaken to rehabilits
e these lingering evidences of rebellic
vs. publishes a weekly advertisement
oi French financial papers.
on A SUFFERER FOR THIRTY YEARS.
1r grateful patient writes: 81 had not tax
~ the Oxygen three weeks when 1 fount
IS. great change. 1 could scarcely belle
lie, that could be relieved so soon. Rel
ON is all / expected, for had been or,
sufferer for thirty years. Treaties