Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-11
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

1ne demand Ior higher wages by work
ing-men in New York is very active.
Judge Robertson, nominated for col
lector of New York, proposes to stick,
and will not decline the proffered office
-Four thousand emigrants for the Uni
ted States left Bremen, Wednesday, max
over 10000 during the first quarter of
1881.
A nitro-glycerine bomb which was
found under Westinghouse in Brook
Ign, if exploded, would have torn down
the entire front of the house.
1t is reported that 1000 Cinnamon have
been murdered in the valley of Canete,
Peru. Valuable property has been wreck
ed by the negroes and foreigners from
the valley.
One hundred and sixty-six French Can
adian families, aggregating 900 persons,
left Montreal by railroad in March for |
permanent settlement in the New Eng |
land States.
Over fifty per cent of the bridges have
been washed away by the freshets in Ne
braska, and numerous grist mills de-
stroyed. Cattle have been drowned in
large numbers.
Mrs. Garfield, who speaks French and
German fuently, is said to be the first
presidents wife able to talk with foreign
diplomats in the court language of Eu-
rope. Her husband is also accomplished
! in German and French.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works, in
| Philadelphia has contract, to be finish
ed before the close of next year, for two
hundred locomotives for the Mexican
Narrow Gauge Railroad. The value of
| the contract is $780, 900.
| Senator Hoar's definition of a Bour-
| bon: she was once man who never
learned anything or forgot anything. The
Bourbon has advanced somewhat. He is
now man who never learns anything
and forgets a great deal"
New York parties took 100000 of the
Bennington re-funding town bonds at par
and accrued interest Monday. This
places the loan at $4,000 of Benning-
ton town bonds, bearing per cent in
terest. These bonds are drawn so that
the principal is paid in 20 years, a por-
ton maturing yearly.
f DETROIT, Mich, April John 7.
Rich (Rep.) was elected to Congress in
the Seventh District yesterday to succeed
, Hon. o. d. Conger, by majority Of over
5000. Mr.. Rich was Speaker of the last
, two houses of the State Legislature and a
member of the State Senate. He is g
prosperous farmer.
A gentleman has used the same gold
pen for twenty-five years. In that time
- it has been used in signing bonds OF
drawing checks or notes aggregating
: over $50, 600, 900 in value. 1t has draw
/ the papers by which railroads were built
factories established, hotels put up, ant
: employment given to thousands of men.
S The managers of the New England
Fair, to be held at Worcester, Mass.
Y have decided to solicit President Gar
l. fields presence, and have also made pro
vision for extra features in the way c
J. awards, which promise to greatly ell
,r nance the interest of the competition j
sheep, swine, stations and working oXer
/ Heavy floods have done $1,000, 90
" worth of damage in southern Spain, an
# 10000, persons are in want of supplies
In the provinces south of the capital tn
authorities report an immense destruC
81 ton of property, cattle and crops. Tt
y Guadalquiver river has inundated fol
~ square miles of Seville and 40 squal
miles of the country around its montl
I'm The floods are increasing. The MAJ
,e zaneres river at Madrid is also threaten
nd ingly high.
d. company has been formed and a cha
ter obtained from the state of Florida
- construct a ship canal across the stat
:! The route will be by the way of tt
=. Calooshatchee river, Lake Okeechob,
y and thence to the Atlantic ocean at
near the month of st. Lucie river. I'll
mt capital is $4,000 ,00O and this is su
Us stantially the company having the CO.
on tract with the state to drain the Oke
gh chobee. They will begin at once.
The first months operations und
Wy Postmaster General James, show sa
j." ing in the star route service of $3.50, 7G
oh in the steamboat service Of $50, 725 a.
as in mail messengers of $685. making
tie total of 1928, O19. At this rate the saw
in this one branch will amount to abe
om two and half millions annually. II
he result is due to an order issued about
he 18th of March forbidding any increase
an expenses in particular branches of
ED service except by special authority of
Postmaster General.
has The Troy conference of the Method
ate Episcopal church will hold its forty-nil
ire. annual session at Glenns Falls, n
am York, on Wednesday, April Goth, at N
vas O'Clock a. M, Bishop j. w. Wiley p
all siding The question of reducing
and number of districts in the conferel
from five to four will be acted upon,
,;,s a Encouragement of charges is talked
ill Unusual interest for Vermont pertains
sed 'iiis eoiiieien'o iioii 'ie i"O' 'i,"'
VIZ question of boundaries between the
.oor mont and Troy conferences will come
ron, fore it.
a. The new union depot at Chicago, b
and owned by the Pittsburg, Fort Wa
and Chicago Railroad, is this week to
thrown open to public traffic. 1t is
'ooe of the most magnificent depots in
country, having cost an even MILL
wv dollars. The great iron shed cover
suo- six tracks is 1900 feet long and 157 W
tion M 1,,;,d;, :; +t,.oo s+nios !
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