Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-10-31
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Mr.. Vanderbilt now holds eighty mil
ions of government bonds.
At his death Washington was the rich
est president we ever had. He left an es-
tate worth 100000.
The sales of the public lands for the fls- |
cal year ended June 10th were 1O,093, 200
acres, realizing S. 100000.
Notwithstanding the severe freezes last |
winter, Florida will send 100000 or
anges to market this season.
An ex-slave in North Carolina is the
owner of a plantation of twelve hundred
acres, upon which he has fifteen tenants.
It has been decided that the monument
to General Burnside shall be an equestri-
an statue, and that it shall be set up in
Providence.
The treasury received last week $500 in
bonds and $3.50 in money, with note
asking that the whole be credited to the
conscience fund.
The Cincinnati Gazette says that thus
far Boston hes contributed more literally
for the Michigan sufferers than any city
outside of Michigan.
The crown prince and princess of Den
mark have come into fortune of about
$15, 900, 900 by the death Of Prince Fred
erick of the Netherlands.
HonaroI norAaId,c ,,;ofuro 80 +o In ,11oc
ed upon the five cent international postal
letter stamps. A fine engraving is now
being made by the bank note company.
Ex-senator Conkling is still confined to
his house and is reported to be suffering
from malaria" which is what the doc
tors call it when they do not know what
is the matter with a person.
Messrs. Robinson and Scoville, attor-
neys for Guiteau, notified District Attor-
ney Corkhill to-day that they will make
motion in the District criminal court to-
morrow for postponement of the trial
of the prisoner from November to No
vember 81.
Mrs. Mary Bradford, sister Of Jefferson
Davis, died at the house Of her daughter
at Newhope, KY, Saturday, of general
debility, aged 81, end was buried yester-
day in the cemetery at Gethsemene Abbey.
Mrs. Bradford was well known through
out the South.
A Washington letter says: t'The gov
errors of the different states, who have
been here endeavoring to ascertain some
thing about appointments, find that the
president is keeping his counsel better
than any executive who is remembered.
The silent days of Grant were garrulous
compared to them.'
Henry Ward Beecher has sold his inter-
est in the Christian Union and retired
wholly from connection with journalism.
In his valedictory he says: "With this
to the Christian Union. My reason fol-
so doing is that other duties are so many
and so pressing that l cannot give that
attention to the paper which it needs"
The Bangor Commercial says that about
4,O0O,O 900 feet of logs will be hung up il
Pleasant river this season. The mills be
| low the Penobscot boom will winter about
| 10000, 900 feet, and Is, 100000 more will
remain in the boom itself. A good cut is
expected this winter, and in any even
the amount of logs wintered over will in
sure brisk saving through the spring.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey are hard a
work at their second campaign iu Grea
Britain. They have begun at Newcastle
which is one of the first places they visit
ed in their tour in 1873. The Londol
Neacs says their opening meetings, after
noon and evening, were greatly crowded
Overflow meetings were held, and tn
largest chapel in town is not large enoug
for the crowds to gather to hear them.
Baron James Rothschild died Tuesda
at his residence in the avenue De Fried
land at Paris aged 81. He was the grand
son of Baron James, the first chief Of tn
Paris house, the nephew of the actus
chief, Partisan born, an advocate b
profession, railroad man and bibliC
phile, With Anatole de Montaiglon b
brought out, some six years ago, a colle'
ton of French poetry of the 18th and lot
centuries.
ST. JOHN, N. F., Oct. &c. The val
guard iceberg of the huge arctic armad'
1 now sailing southwark along the coast {
appearance off the harbor of st. John
! 1t is one of twenty three huge masses
glacial drift ice reported during the pa
twenty days as deploying downwal
across the track of European and Amer
q can commerce. The bevy now in sigl
$ from the harbor is about fourteen mil
3 distant, bearing southeast. 1t is of emo
t nous dimensions, being not less than
quarter of mile in length, and soaril
a through one of it's turrets to an altitut
Y of 800 feet.
: The Chateaugay Record of last we,
e says: ssMrs. L. o. Center of East Chaz
, who has been stopping at Chateaugi
Il during the summer under treatment, I
}. turned to her home last week. For S
e years she has been compelled to go abo
e on crutches, owing to the drawing up
one of the limbs from disease. By 81
IS gical operation the deformity was entil
y ly removed and the limb again made us
e full. One of the very interesting featur
in this case to science, is the grating
the skin taken from the inside of the /
N of lamb, where no wool grows, into t
ID wound, which not only FASTENED a fave
s, able result, but prevented the return
g the deformity by contracting of the sc;
N This is the first INSTANCE of the kind