Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-03-21
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Hon. Levi P. Morton, of New York,
who has been nominated and confirmed
as United States minister to France, was
born in Shoreham Vt, May is, 1924.
If as is reported Secretary Blaine is to
pursue vigorous foreign policy, he can't
do better than to begin on Vennor, the
Canadian weather fiend-ldnchester MIR
rOr.
The coinage at all the minis during
February was 1,O36, 800 gold pieces, val
ued at $7,2l4 ,060; silver dollars, 2,907,-
600; three cents, $4,000 pieces; cents,
100000.
Four of President Garfield's cabinet,
Blaine, MacVeagh, Hunt and Lincoln, be-
long to families prominently represented
for more than one generation in the pub
lie service.
President Garfield has applied a new
| test to personal office-seekers. He asks
| them to reduce their claims to writing.
That will have the effect on many to pack
! them in ice.
The world moves. Down in Connec-
ticut two allopathic physicians, one
homeopathic and one eclectic are serv-
ing amicably together as committee APP
pointed by the Legislature to draft med
ical practice act.
Illinois is happy over the appointment
| of Secretary Lincoln. The Senate of the
| 20 hoe an Init
thanking President Garfield for nominal
ing him to the cabinet, and the Senate
for its prompt confirmation.
Luther Dixon, eX-chief justice of the
Wisconsin supreme court, who looms up
as a formidable candidate for the success
sion to the late Senator Carpenter, is a
Vermonter, native of Milton, and was
in early life law student in Burlington.
1t is stated that Messrs. Lincoln, Blaine
and Hunt were the personal selections of
President Garfield; MeSsrs. MacVeagh
and James were recommended and strong
ly urged by ex-President Hayes; Mr..
Window by ex-Secretary Sherman, and
|
Jay Gould and party have returned
from their southwestern trip, and are en-
thusiastic over the great resources of the
localities visited, and the brilliant future
consequent upon their expected develop
ment. Gould invested largely in enter
prises at New Orleans and st. Louis, in
: connection with his railroad schemes.
Texas is moving for once in the right
direction. The bill to submit to the PEG
| pie the constitutional amendment pro
hibiting the importation or manufacture
and sale of intoxicating liquors in Texas
except for medicinal and sacramento pur
!. poses, has passed the Senate of that Stat'
r by vote of % to Z.
> The Pennsylvania Railroad is a type o
the colossal power which this mode o
: land transportation has attained in les
!, than half century. Its gross incom
0 last year exceeded $4,000, 900, and its ne
/ earnings exceeded $28, 900. 900. Its aggre
Q 100000. Judged by its income, if not b.
e its power, this corporation is a create
J. empire than was the United States befor
% the rebellion.
e The Detroit bridge and iron works hav
, contracted to build the great Norther
Pacific bridge at Bismarck, OAK, whic
will be the most important structure 0
m the line. The bridge, Pratt truss, is t
,r cost 100000. Its 1,500 feet embrac
is three spans of 400 feet each and it is to b
ID built high above steamboat travel, 20 fee
al above low water, the piers resting on be
he rock 60 feet below the low water mari
K The bridge will not be finished till I'll
spring of 1882.