Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-11-14
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS,

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the Irish land league.
The damage to property occasioned by
the recent overflow of the Mississippi riv-
er will amount to nearly $4,000, 900.
Judge Coe of the criminal court decided
that the trial of Guiteau cannot be post
poned beyond the 14th unless by agree
ment Of the counsel on both sides.
The superintendent of the experimental
tea farm at Summerville, S. c., sent three
thousand tea plants to the Atlanta expo
sition ON October 31st. They look healthy
and hardy.
Ex-president and Mrs. Hayes are ex-
pected to arrive in London some time this
month on their way to the south of
France. They will return to England, it
is said, in the spring.
A train on the Bedford Bloomfield
railroad fell through bridge over White
river recently near Bloomfield, Ind. A
brakeman was killed and all the passen-
gers were slightly injured.
Mr.. Samuel Morley says that when the
queen cabled to Mrs. Garfield that tender
message of sympathy and love which has
passed into history, she voiced the senti-
ment of every Englishman in the realm.
The Tribune says that the democratic
leaders in New York apportioned $780,
600 to ten state senate districts now rep
resented by republicans in order to secure
control Of that branch of the legislature.
There is already a scarcity of fuel in
Minnesota, and repetition of last win
| ter's famine is feared. The railroads can
| hardly get enough wood for their own
use, and there is but little coal on hand.
The trial Of defaulting cashier Baldwin
of the Newark, N. j., Mechanics bank
cannot be held before January, as the ac-
counts to be examined are long and COM
plicated. Nugent & Co. are dismissing
their workmen.
George N. Rogers of Bangor, Me-, rode
home on bicycle from Boston recently.
| Tuesday he went from Boston to Ports
mouth, SO miles, Wednesday to Portland,
so miles, Thursday to Augusta, So miles,
and Friday to Bangor, IA miles; total,
237 miles.
1t is widely aeported that Prince Bis
marck intends to resign, as he sees no
way of remaining at the head of a gov
eminent which he practically cannot con-
troll. The conservatives have determined
to vote for socialists rather than progress
sists, in the constituencies yet to ballot.
Heavy snowstorms prevail in the Lake
Superior regions, and the temperature is
below the freezing point throughout the
whole Northwest, and at all the Rocky
Mountain stations as far south as Texas
, A heavy snow storm, the first of this sea
son, began Friday morning at Chicago.
Last week the ST. Gothard TUNE
through the Alps was thrown open tt
public use. 1t is a little short of min,
, miles in length, and has cost about $50,
: 900, 900, which was shared by Italy, Ger
many and Switzerland. 1t is theIgreates
7 tunnel enterprise thus far pushed to
successful completion.
4 In the year ending Oct. 81, the New
t York elevated roads carried 1855, "a
: passengers, on some days handling
f number equal to one-ffth the population
of the city. There are 34oO men on tn
i payroll, 203 engines, 612 cars, 161 sta
4 tions and 80 miles of track. The earl
: ings for the year were So, 279, 536.
:. The new president makes friends anon
: those who were disposed to be critica
A prominent ex-member of Congress, VIII
r recently visited him, says: "Presider
i Arthur is the plainest, most matter-of-faC
e man who has yet filed the PRESIDENT
s chair. He never puts on airs, and he r
s ceives every caller cordially, irrespectiy
of position
+ The precise deficiency in the account
r of the defaulting cashier of the Mechal
q les Bank of Newark, N. j., as shown
Ia the official report of the government e
10 aminer, is $2,411 ,00O.45. The examin
70 estimates that the depositors will recei1
from 90 to 60 per cent. That was ce
tainly the most gigantic and astoundiI
steal ever committed by any one man.
PARIS, Nov 9. The Foreign Missio
airy Seminary has received telegra
from Hong Kong dated Tuesday, sayil
: that terrible typhoon has just ravag
western Tonquin. Two hundred churc
es, thirty-four parsonages and colleg
Y and 1000 houses have been destroye
III 5000 Christians have been ruined and a
Ill mense and the distress is terrible. T
e telegram begs for the promptest help.
The three boys, one sixteen, and t
others about twenty years old, who ditto
III ed train and killed an engineer in 10y
~ a few weeks ago by displacing the raj
nu say that they were led to commit the de
80 by reading about the James brothers
ne Missouri. They had talked the matt
over for weeks, and their plan was
steal what money they could from
an train, go to New York and buy pist,
y anu SulIIS VI Hldll, anu IHen SICK TIE
ng west. Two of the boys are in Jail chal
il ed with murder.
TN The signing of the Minnesota bond
us by Gov. Pillsbury was made quite
ild event. A considerable number of prof.
ne nent citizens of the state were prese
OF. several made little speeches, and the G,
list ernor declared that the signing of
M which would wipe away the stain uI
ne Minnesota's reputation was the proud
ers act of his life. Finally delegation
nu- those present asked for the pen W
25; which the signature was written, carr
*. it to the rooms of the historical soci