Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-02-21
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Several thousand miners are striking in
South Yorkshire, England.

There were one hundred and fifty-two
suicides in New York city last year.
1t is estimated that 1000, 600 tons of
ice will be harvested this season in and
around Boston.
An American Watch Company has re-
ceived the highest award at the Mel
bourne Exhibition
OF the $685. emigrants who arrived in
Canada last year, all but SO, 535 passed
through to the United States.
Carlyle's remains were inferred in the
family burial ground of st. Fechan's
churchyard, in Ecclefechan, Scotland.
A black walnut tree of average size, cut
in Wisconsin, shipped to England and re-
duced to gun stocks is worth from 81 900
to $1,000.
Fernando Wood, ex-Mayor of New York
and for many years member of Con-
gress, died at Hot Springs, Ark, on Sun
| day evening.
Kansas wheat is said to be looking bet
| ter than for years past. The entire west
appears to be getting ready for great
crops in 1881.
The late John Pinkerton, of Boston,
left by his will $4,000 to the academy
at Derby, N. H., which was founded by
his grandfather.
| The Arkansas senate has passed the
bill appropriating $4,000 for colored
normal school. This is practically the
first step by Arkansas to educate the col
ored race.
The South Seas still furnish groups OF
| Cannibal Islands. 1t is ascertained that
in the last year two crews Of British yes
sells fell into the hands of sayages and
were killed and eaten.
The city Of Brooklyn employs 633 po-
licemen. The number of arrests made
last year was 26, 1856. Of$57 ,543. O3 worth
of property stolen, the police say they re-
covered $37, 444. Al worth.
Colonel jerome Bonaparte and his wife
are now living in Washington and entain-
ing a great deal. Mrs. Bonaparte-a
granddaughter of Daniel Webster-is q
clever and charming woman.
A fire at Memphis, Tenn, destroyed
property valued at $4,000 including
t 1000 tons of cotton seed, 1900 barrels O
; oil and 1000 tons Of oil cake, together
I with the build of the Southern Oil Works
; The total traffic of the Suez Canal dur
ing 1880 amounted to 2,O26 ships of 4,
$40 ,54S tons, producing revenue of 80,
100000 francs, thus largely surpassin:
L the traffic of any year since the openin!
of the canal.
: At Waterbury, Conn, the button sho
of the Scoville Manufacturing Compan
was destroyed by fire early Sunday morn
ing, involving loss of nearly S2OOOOC
e Two hundred operatives were thrown on
S Of employment.
wedding is reported from Virginia i
which the groom was ninety-two year
e old and the bride forty. The granddaugl
|, ter and great-granddaughte of the grooI
d stood up with the couple and the groom
L son married them.
The Baroness Burdutt- Coutts was ma
n ried, on Saturday the 18th to her privat
y secretary, Mr.. w. Ashmead Bartlett
l. She was the richest single woman
L England and forfeits a large part of he
property by her marriage.
h A farmer near Logansport, Indian;
g lost forty sheep by dogs recently in oil
4. night 1t was too much for him, and
7, took his gun and set on. Before he W;
satisfied he killed twenty-three dogs b
IF longing to his neighbors.
n, Three men were carried over Niagal
rs Falls on Sunday before last, they havin
e. been hunting ducks near Navy Island, al
er their boat being caught between tw
large cakes of ice, from which they we
g. unable to extricate it until too late.
y A Great Falls, n. H., hired girl, on
IS wager of So and a promise of a pair
Id gloves and cashmere shawl if she W;
IL successful, descended into 50-foot we
and laid the bottom course of ston
i'll which all the men were afraid to do
- A wholesale conversion is noted
~ Bertolla, a town near Turin, where Il
80 entire population have gone over en- mas
nc to the Protestant faith. The ArchbishC
III has suspended the priest and closed t
church against the parishioners, numbe
$, ing 1900.
III The last religious census in Fran
no shows that in that country there are 81
e, 3S7, 7O3 Roman Catholics, 467 ,531 G;
ho vinists, 80, III Lutherans, and SO, 113
IL other Protestant denominations. I
Jews number about $4,000 and 10000 a
&c attached to no church.
"a Six men were killed and several bad
a. hurt by terrible colliery explosion
no Robbins, Ohio, last week. 1t was caus
n0 by man disobeying orders and passi
~ through room containing fire-damp WI
'uV a lighted lamp in his hat. The seen
- were heartrending in the extreme.
- Several laborers in the stone quarr
at Pond Eddy, near Port Jervis, n.
- went on drunken spree on recent S
80 urday night One of them was found
:; a sleigh on Sunday morning, frozen
- death, and two or three others had tn
- hands and feet so badly frozen that a
"a putation will be necessary.
The first detachment of engineers
~, the Panama Canal have arrived at Pa
in ma anu "oiN "iii W rs '' 80 =
nh cipally in locating the line of the car
A year or more must elapse before
=, employment of machinery will be nee