Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-03-14
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


The public debt statement, shows that |
the decrease for the month of February |
was $11, S43, 1851.
1t is believed there is no ground for APP
prehension that there will be an extra |
session of Congress.
Great Britain's imports for February
increased SIT, 100, 21O over February, 1880 |
and the exports 81 ,655 900.
Much distress and sickness attributed to
dyspepsia and chronic diarrhea is occasion
ed by humor in the stomach. Hoods Sarsa-
parilla is the remedy.
Postmaster-G General James saws that
his New York assistant, Pearson, cannot
be promoted to the head of the New York
office because he has ''the misfortune to
be married to my daughter"
The London Times says that Italy can
borrow all the money it needs for the re-
sumption of specie payments, about $12S,-
100000 at 5 per cent; but this is on con-
dition that the revenue remains as now
"elastic" and increasing.
Judge J. w. McDill of Union county,
Des Moines, In, has been appointed by
Gov. Gear to the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Senator Kirkwood. Judge
McDill was member of the Forty-third
and Forty-fourth Congresses, and also of
the Electoral Commission.
Some of the national banks that retired
their circulation in anticipation of the
Funding bill becoming law, now want
to have Secretary Window cancel their
application for the withdrawal of bonds.
Treasurer Gilfillan is opposed to such a
course. An early decision is expected.
The second and fatal shock of the earth
quake on the island of Ischia lasted seven
seconds, and was accompanied by noise
like subterranean thunder; then came a
| crash of falling houses, accompanied by
the shrek of the victims. The probable
loss of life will reach 200. The damage
to house property is 5000, 900.
CHICAGO, March 8.-A special from Mil
| ford, Ind, says the Baltimore and Ohio
through freight train was thrown from
the track three miles west of there this
morning by a broken rail. The engine
and ten cars were piled up together.
| VIM. Dock, fireman, was scalded and
VIM. Blackmore, brakeman, badly injur-
ed. Rest unhurt.
The Chicago lumbermen's exchange
held its annual meeting recently. The
presidents address contains the startling
statement that, owing to the enormous
growth of the lumber business, it will
take only 20 years to exhaust the great
pine forests of the country if the present
rate of depletion continues. The receipts
of lumber of all kinds at Chicago during
1880 were 1854 100000 feet.
The snow-storm in Scotland has abated
but it will be some days before railway
communication is restored. About nine
vessels are lost on the Aberdeenshire
coast, and about 100 persons are drown
ed. The ship Benrhyding, from Calcutta
to Dundee, was wrecked near Aberdeen,
and 80 persons were drowned. Two or
three small vessels were lost, with all
hands, on the coast of Northumberland.
Alden Wakefield, prominent granger
and forehanded farmer of Wardsboro,
on Tuesday of last week taken before the
United States circuit court at Burlington,
and held in the sum of 81 900 for trial on
a charge of carrying on the business OF
a distillery without having given bonds
as required by law The still said to
have been used was the now somewhat
noted one formerly owned by R. E. Da-
wilson.
General Garfield, at his Inauguration on
Friday, occupied the chair from which
Washington arose to take the oath for
presidential office in 1889. The interest
ing relic has been in charge of William G.
Waddell of New York for the past fifty
years. Mr.. Waddell, who has forwarded
the chair to Washington at the request Of
the Inauguration committee, was made
United States marshal for the southern
district of New York by President Jack
son in 1881
Gas in the Rocky Mountain coal and
, iron companys mine at Alma, Wyoming
exploded last Thursday evening, throw.
ing the flames many hundred feet il
height, carrying away the buildings
around the mouth of the shaft and setting
the machinery and buildings ON fire
Just before the explosion large number
! of men-white and Chinese-had gone
into the mine, and none of them have
been rescued alive. Miners from sur
rounding pits went hard at work in res
cue efforts, and business for twenty miles
around was entirely suspended.
1t is estimated that during 1881 Their
: will be requirement for rails to be uset
in the construction of new railroads il
? the United States of about 935, 900 tons
7 and for renewals on old roads about $50,
: 900 tons, a total of l, 1856, 200 tons. TIL
A estimated consumption in 1880 was l,
r 485,000 tons, which was supplied by tn
4 production of 755, 900 tons of steel ant
: 425, 900 tons of iron rails manufactured il
2 the United States, the deficit of 275, 90
= tons having been made good by importa
t tons from abroad. The indications a
/ present are that probably some 200, 90
] tons of foreign rails will be imported thi
e year.
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comes, do not buy tonic bItters" 1t is better to d
of disease than drunkenness Buy bottle OF "Favo
, lite Remedy" and cleanse the system. The great mu
titude of human ills have their foundation in lmpur
blood. Dr. Kennedy's 'Favorte Remedy attack
these at the fountains head and makes the stream