Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-12-26
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Secretary Frelinghuysen assumed his
duties on Monday.
A house divided against itself! One OF
Bob Ingersolls daughters has become
convert of Presbyterianism.
Benjamin Harris Brewster of Pennsyl-
vania was on Friday nominated for attor-
ney general. Rumor had assigned him
the place.
Judge Horace Gray of Massachusetts
has been nominated by the president for
associate justice of the United States SUI
preme court.
Frederick S. Phillips is appointed Pres
ident Arthur's private secretary. He
was his secretary when he was collector
at New York.
1t is officially stated that the number of
victims of the Vienna theater fire is sew
Ell hundred nintey-four. All the inside
of the theater is a heap of human bodies
and charred remains.
Assistant Postmaster-Ge General Hatton
Bays IllstJ bllCIc dIC lLLCC HuuulCo pICSl-
Dental post-offices vacant, that there are
from five to ten applicants for each office,
and that they are all in Washington.
The Garfield Monument Committee of
Cleveland still require $155, 900 in addi-
ton to what has been received or pledg-
ed to carry out the plans for the erection
of suitable memorial over the late pres
ident's grave.
Mn. William H. Vanderbilt gained not
only son-in-law, Tuesday, but a grand
daughter. Mrs. Mex. Twombly, who at
tended her sisters wedding, Tuesday af-
ternoon, presented her husband with a
fine daughter that evening.
The annual meeting of Plymouth Church
Brooklyn, was held Friday night. The
report showed a membership of 2491, an
increase of 1874 over last year. The re-
ceipts of the year from pew rents were
$40, 900, and from other sources SIS, 200.
The president will disapprove of the
finding of the court-martial in the Whit
taker case, and the colored cadet will be
restored to duty. General Howard Is
now the superintendent at West Point
and he will see that Whitaker has fail
chance.
A vote was taken Wednesday in the
general assembly of Virginia for United
States Senator. A full vote was cast in
both houses and resulted in the election
of H. H. Riddleberger, readjuster. The
democrats voted solidly for Johnston, the
present eneumbent. Thus Virginia steps
out of the old style of democratic Bour
| bonism.
The joint committee on the part of thu
two houses of congress to arrange suit
able exercises In commemoration of Pres
ident Garfield have invited Secretary
Blaine to deliver the eulogy. That it will
be an effort BETTING the occasion is as
sured, and the premier and confidential
friend of the dead president is the prope
man to perform the service.
The London NeaCs says: ''The Euro
pean powers have no desire to meddl
with affairs on the American continent
but it is very remote from meddling wit
them to agree together that, if the Pana
ma canal is completed, no war ships shal
go through it in time of war, and that
shall never be closed by any hostile flee
against peaceful cargoes, which, it is hop
ed, will find their way from Europe t
the western shores of the American cor
tinent, and to our own Australian colo
MES by that route"
Congress is not going ahead with an
great celebrity. The senate has had niue
| debate and little action and the house ha
: pretty much confined itself to the Intro
duction of bills. On the first day 72
bills were introduced; on the SECOND
: 867. OF the 724, 233 are for the ''relief
4 or for the 'sbenefit' of somebody, 1874 otl
ers grant pensions or increased pension
D to individual claimants and Al others al
0 strictly private bills-45S in all. OF til
f 867 about five hundred are private bill
i similar to those just mentioned.