Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-05-02
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

nihilists have threatened him with death.
The emigration to Texas is immense.
The railway officials report an average of |
1000 day pouring through the cities of
Dennison and Texarkana
The Hartford Coarant says: "Some- |
body ought to figure out the precise |
amount of profit which has resulted from |
the deadlock business, or is likely to-
A sale of 1873, 900 acres of railroad land
in Barre county, Mo-, has been effected to
the Missouri Land Company of Scotland.
A Scottish colony will be settled on the
land.
The revival in Rev. DR.. Talmage's Tab
ernacle still goes on. About 500 have
given evidence of a change of heart, and
the church membership.
General Grant states the exact truth
when he tells the people of Mexico that
the people of the United States want no
more land. We certainly want none
which Mexico now possesses.
During this month all matter passing
through the post-office will be weighed
in order to find a basis on which to pay
the railroads for carrying the mails. This
is done every fourth year.
Vienna looks out for the health of her
people so far as their food is concerned.
Careful chemical analysis of articles sold
are frequently made, and if adulterated to
any injurious extent, thrown out of
market.
Congressman Miller, who has returned
from Florida, says the state is improving
rapidly and falling into the hands of
northern people, who are buying up the
lands; in few years they will own three
| fourths of the state.
| James T. Fields, well-konwn as pub
Usher, author and lecturer, died suddenly
| at his home in Boston, of heart disease, on
Sunday. He had been out of health for
some time but had visited the old corner
bookstore on Saturday last
es of the Metropolitan horse railroad, who
petitioned for an increase of pay, will be
required to withdraw their petitions be-
fore Friday or be discharged The petit
tions will generally. be withdrawn.
The Massachusetts legislature pro-
poses to give the public an opportunity
to see what is going on in the liquor sa-
looms, by a compulsory removal of all
screens, blinds, partitions and stained
glass windows in front of their bars.
A woman in Corning, N. Y, who has
been receiving government pension fol
40 years, has just received notice that il
will be stopped it having been discover
ed that her husband did not serve in the
war of 1912, as had been alleged.
1t is reported that American machinists
are so overworked this year that order:
for machinery are going to Europe ever!
day, and two large machine shops hav,
sent over to Europe recently for the tool.
needed to make more machinery.
tory operatives are emigrating from Brad
ford, England, chiefly to the United State
at the rate of fifty per week. Some man
ufacturers contemplate removing thei
business to America. Hundreds are un
employed.
Gen. Wagner, head of the nationa
, | ormoni1otio,, ,ano,.tc
new interest in that body and a growing
membership. Organized effort is bein!
: made to enroll every living Union veteran
The veterans sensibly keep their societ
out of politics.
The arrival of immigrants at Cast
l Garden on April 10 were the largest of an
l single day since 1868, and the largest eve
known on any single day in April or May
They numbered over 6 1000. The immigr;
l ton so far this year is about %, 600 MOI
t than during the slime period of 1880.
A passenger train on the Chicago, Mi
waukee and ST. Paul railroad, fell throug
a trestle work bridge near Albany, Ia, @
. Thursday. Eight lives were lost in col
sequence and some others were hur
/ There were scarcely a dozen passenger
v on board the train or the loss of life mu
/ have been much larger.
Gen. Joseph Lane, whose death la
{ week in Oregon was chronicled by lii
| in the dispatches, was candidate for tt
vice-presidency in 1860, on the tick
q headed by Breckenridge and nominate
q at Baltimore, senator from Oregon fro
e 1859 to 1861, governor of the state in 1S
a and major-general in the Mexican wal
le An order declaring postal-cards u
Is mailable after June l, with anything b
le the direction written on the address sid
was issued at the post-office departing
u last week. But senseless people can co
st tinue to write all over the back side, al
IS then crosswrite, and then turn it the OF
ty er end up, and continue to write until
IL one can read it.
III Some newspapers, whose motives a
+ past finding out, persist in representa-
Secretary Blaine as too i'll to attend to |
st official duties. The truth is that N
US Blaine has not been absent from his {
tn partment a single day for the vast s
d, weeks, nor absent from the city an no
en- since he was appointed to the State /
lg partment He is on the street daily, a
st appears to be in his usual health.
81. The jealous haste which some iourn:
p have shown to inform the public that t
lis two brothers Foster who tried TO conn
is burglary at Andover last week, one
n them being shot in the act, were theolo
he cal students, illustrates far too comm
he recklessnesS of statement if not also
ut unkind spirit. The facts are, as we
We informed by the authorities, that the t.
brothers were day scholars at the Philli