Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-01-24
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

I The trial of J. G. Farr for the murder
of his wife opened at Portland Tuesday.
4 Tuesday, Great Britain and France
were treated to a very heavy fall of snow.
The theatre at Cronstadt has been
burned, and eight persons persisted in the
flames.
The colliery strike in Lancashire, Eng,
has thrown about $4,000 men and boys
out of employment.
A fire at Point Breeze, Philadelphia,
Thursday, oceasioned by the explosion of
an oil tank, caused a loss of about $780,
600. u t 4va as a4.Ti
Glass eyes for horses are now made
with such perfection that the animals
themselves cannot see through the de-
ception.
Steamship Gallia brought 81 ,402,00O in
British gold bars; Arizona $4S5, 900 gold
bars; Pereire $193, 900 French gold coin;
Gellert $96,5O0. r e-
At the recent election the total vote of
Georgia, which has nine Representatives
was forty-five thousand less than Kansas,
which sends only three. Ia. ss...
Local banks in Ottawa have several
million dollars now uninvested, which
they are at present offering at two and
three per cent in large sums.
General Garfield is to travel to Wash
ington with his family in fine palace
car, which is the property of Mr.. w. d.
Washburne, and which cost SIT 900. j.
At Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday, Mrs.
Matilda Scott and her son were murdered
being beaten to death, it is thought, with
a club by negro named Robert Garner.
A. B. Martins morocco factory at
Lynn, Mass, was totally destroyed by
fire Tuesday, and Lancaster's factory was
considerably burned. The loss is about
! 100000.
With the end of the session barely five
! weeks away, the House of Representa-
tives is still introducing hundred bills
| y
for the Congress. s
The postal card agency at Holyoke
Mass, is having its largest orders of the
quarter, running up sometimes to 1000,
900 cards day, and one day they sem
nearly 5000, 900.
terrific boiler explosion occurred il
the Methodist Book Concern building
New York, Jan 16, damaging property tt
the amount of $4,000, but, fortunately
causing no loss of life.
BY the burning of barn on the Eliza
beth (Pa.) stock farms, Saturday, fifty
two heads of thoroughbred Jersey cattle
seventy-five game chickens and five thor
oughbred hunting dogs persisted.
From the second of November until h
resigned his seat in the House, Gen. Gar
field was a member of Congress, Senate
elect and President elect, the holder O
the three highest honors in the gift of tn
American people. .,.E 43 "A
Mr.. Moody was followed to his lodg
ings fortnight ago by convert VIII
wished to ask whether it would be right
now that he had protested to be a Chris
tain, to pay his whiskey bills. The evan
gelst told him to pay all his debts, N
matter how bad they might be, and the
: to make a new start,
Gen. Grant had great welcome in A
bany, Monday, 10000 people being sal
to have been in the streets. Committee
have been appointed in both houses {
the Legislature to arrange the details {
his reception by that body. This hone
f when paid to q private citizen, is MOI
: rare than it is generally supposed to b'
: With the exception of the reception give
: to William Cullen Bryant and, turtle
5 back, to Horace Greeley, we recall L
e other instance for many years past.
At the election in 1873 in Florida, IL
republican candidate for Representatiy
e to Congress, Bisbee, claimed that he W;
e fairly elected to the Office, though tt
!. certificate of election was given. to HUI
n democratic. The House committee {
t elections have just got round to decla
0 that Bisbee was entitled to the seat. Bi
: bee loses his two years in the Hous
e while Hull has acted all this time in
place to which he was never chose
:, They will each draw pay for the tv
n years. This is what might be call
e tardy justice.
n Rev. Samuel W. Nichols died Decor
d Der s, 1880, at Royapooram, Madras,
= Ola, at the age of thirty-four years al
l. six weeks. Mr.. Nichols was formerly
If resident of Burlington and connected
ID various capacities with the Free Pre-.
He was graduated from Hamilton c.
/, lege in 1875, and after. the usual cour
If of study entered the ministry and serv
N a short pastorate across the lake. M
it rying daughter of the Rev. DR.. Jewet
in for many years missionary in India,
n 1878 he went to that country in a simil
r. capacity and did faithful service up to t
" time of his death.
No, SIRi--A Scotch minister once said no won
~ could bear pain as well man. That is not
W The fact is generally the other way. Mrs. Edw
Meyers of Rondout. N. Y. submitted to the operat
: of the removal of her hand by amputation, with
taking ether, or moving muscle or uttering gro
~ DIR. Kennedy. also of Rondout n Y. who perform
to the operation. said he never saw such heroism.
r. ladys disease was eryspelas and afterwards the
n tor gave his Favorte Remedy" to cleanse the bic
Mrs. Meyers is well and strong. Dr.. Kennel
"Favorite Remedy at dollar bottle is the tn
Oh for female weaknesses aud all complaints arising fl
n bad blood. But the Scotchman was mistaken.