Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-12-05
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS,

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millionaire.
Paul Boyton is to undertake to swim
1000 miles down the Amazon
1t is said that Sammy Tilden's tailor's
bill averages $4,000 year.
Ex-Lieut.-Gov. Tabor of Colorado was
a stone-cutter at Augusta, Me-, in 1854.
Now he is said to be worth So, 100000.
The works of the American Rubber
Company at East Cambridge, Mass, were
burned, with a large quantity of stock
and machinery, Monday night.
California yields the precedence to Col
orado in the production of the precious
metals. Last year the former state yield
ed SIS, 100000, and the latter $23, 200, 900.
The first killing frost of the season fell
at Washington ON the oath ult. Ice form
ed in exposed positions half an inch thick.
Thermometer at 7 o'clock on the morning
of the 25th was 3115 degrees above.
The reports of Guiteau's trial excite the
utmost establishment among the English
lawyers that such continued violations of
| deceucy are permitted in court, nor do
Englishmen understand how criminal is
| enabled to communicate with the public
| through the newspapers.
The Norfolk Virginian states it as fact
that Major Daniel and Colonel Cameron,
the opposing candidates for governor at
the late election in Virginia, received the
same majority, nine hundred eighty six,
in their respective cities, Lynchburg and
Petersburg.
The British government does not toy a
great while with convicted murderer
even though there is some evidence that
he is monomaniac. Arthur Leroy has
just been hanged in England for a muir
der committed only recently. British
methods in this line might proftably be
adopted in this country.
A Washington correspondent says the
"landau" is the most popular vehicle in
Washington, ''as it can easily be changed
from an open to closed carriage, and
nearly every senator owns one. Senators
Morrill, and Bayard own the bay teams
and landaus in which they take their af
ter-dinner airing, while Senator Edmunds
not only owns bay team and a landau
but has two saddle horses besides.
George H. Bixby, postmaster and sta
ton agent at Merrimac, died on Sunday
the 9th ult. under suspicious circum
stances. He attended to his duties OIL
Saturday forenoon, but after dinner wa
seized with cramp in the stomach, ant
excessive vomiting followed. He contin
ued to fall hourly, and died on Sunda,
forenoon. A post norton examination
found the stomach and internal organs il
a healthy condition.
Just at this time, when bank failure
are forcing themselves upon the publ
mind, and bank directors are provin!
their unfitness for such positions, it is re
freshing to glance again over an old par
agraph which tells US that 'when a BAN
fails in China, the officers are immediate
ly beheaded and their bodies are place,
around the room among the furniture an,
: nominal assets. There has been but ON
bank failure since the year $751;"
Another democratic paper in Mississ
ippi, the Jackson Comet, takes exception
to the propositions of the Meridian Mel
curry to take the ballot from the colore
man. 1t says: "Human slavery is ah
5 horrent to both God and man. The onl
5 way in which the ballot could be take
4 from the negro would be civil war, an
God forbid that we should ever have an
/ other. The right to vote is annexed t
e his freedom, and no power has the RICH
: to destroy either"
The London Standards Vienna CORE
S spondent says; "a report has Deen re
4 ceived here of an unsuccessful attemp
/, made by the Terrorists against the czal
The plot was an extraordinary one.
was decided to cause balloon to ascen
! near Gatchina, carrying a quantity c
p dynamite and explosive fire balls, togetI
er with appliances to cause the balloon
fall within the palace yard, when it woul
' explode and set the palace on fire. 1
the confusion it was intended to seize tn
car and his family. The machinery sci,
ed shows that everything was in read
ness for the execution Of the plot.
/ Government has paid in pensions, frol
r the first, 5000, 600, 900, of which $50, 900
Il 600 was before the rebellion. There al
now living over 5000 pensioners of til
war of 1872 and about 1000 of those VIII
served in the Mexican war. The tot
number of the survivors of the last nan
ed war is estimated at $4,000 or 40,00I
The Union survivors of the war of the r
bellion are estimated at 100000 to l
200, ZOO. There were about 26S,000 pei
Y sioners on the roll July LIST, and there al
:, 100000 applications on file, of whic
about two-thirds will probably be gran
ed. Not less than 80, 900 new claims wel
IS filed in the last fiscal year. 1t is though
ID that the roll will continue to increase fl
Ie ten years, and that then it will numb,
"a 400, 900 names.
New York Commercial Advertiser: an
one would have believed year ago TIL
Roscoe Conkling or James G. Blaine, u
- less stricken with incurable diseas
would be in retirement to-day. This
- one of the wonders of the wonderful yea
A year ago both seemed ON the thresho
of greater power than they had ever e
Oh joyed, but that power has melted ava
Ia Their future will be one of the most int
L esting studies of the time. That of bo
u is uncertain. Mr.. Blaine's friends say
d. makes no disguise of his hope of obtai
lg ing the presidential nomination from Il