Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-10-24
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS,

Ex-senator Conkling is sick, and his |
family physician says he is suffering from
chronic malaria
The tax levy for New York city for 1881 |
is $31 ,071 ,840.19; the rate 1892 on the |
hundred dollars.
Pere Hyacinthe has been lecturing in
Paris on the late President Garfield to
audiences
The rule forbidding the employment of
married women as teachers in the Chica-
go schools has been repealed.
lady of Pekin, Illinois, has given
birth to boy on every Fourth of July
during the last four years.
The deepest well in the world is at Blu
da Pesth, Hungary. 1t has a depth of 81
200 feet, over three-fifths of mile.
There is still outstanding 81, 094, 900 in
fractional currency, which long since was
redeemable and probably very little of it
will ever be presented.
Owing to the deficiency of water the
New York fire department have arranged
to have 5000 pounds of dynamite in read
mess to blow up buildings in case of great
fire.
A Russian correspondent in high po-
sition states that the Gar has been suf-
fering from extreme nervous excitement
Of 1oto 1a 70 fhn liant
zic meeting. He suspects everybody.
Complete returns from the entire state
of Ohio show republican gains of II, 446,
and democratic gains of $3.50; net repub-
lican gain, 5,o57. This, added to Town
sends plurality last October, gives Foster
for governor "a, O62 plurality.
In one of the Switzerland landslides a
whole tract Of wood slipped down hill
side and spread over some meadows with
out unrooting or even injuring the trees,
thus converting at one stroke tract of
pasturage into piece of forest land.
1t is said that the American Land League
in this country have forwarded 100000
to Ireland since July. What is done with
this vast sum does not appear. 1t would
hardly reasonable that any state of things
short of actual war would call for such q
vast expenditure.
Many Boston capitalists are interested
in the Iverness oil and land company Of
Nova Scotia, which has just bought 25,
900 acres of oil land in Cape Breton. The
company's machinery and tanks, which
will be in place in a month, have capac
ity of 125, 900 barrels.
After protracted and intense contest
the bridge question in Lowell has beef
settled by the city councils providing TO
the construction OF a bridge across tn
Merrimack river at Aiken street, at a cos
of 5000, 900; $4,000 is to be raised annu
ally as sinking fund to liquidate the loan
George W. Lendereg of Bridgeport
Conn.,, offers to place at the dispositio
of the officers of the fund his large QUAR-
near Bridgeport and allow them to tax
out tree of charge as much gray grant
as may be needed for the erection of tn
proposed Garfield memorial hospital built
ing.
A wicked attempt was made at Me-
York, ON Monday, by two unknown pei
sons, to burn the Cunard steamship Boil
mia, by pouring combustible chemical FIJI
id on the carpets. Fortunately no dan
age was done except to the carpets. TIL
miscreants, who escaped, are supposed
be agents of the "Irish SkirmiShers."
Fire broke out early Friday morning
the four story brick building on the CO
ner of Washington and Dover street
Boston, occupied by Messrs. Briggs
Co., piano and church organ manufactu
ers. The fire originated from a Chimes
laundry on the Dover street side of tt
building, and the loss was large.
A dispatch from Hong Kong, Chin
tells of disasters to life and proper
D wrought in the interior by typhoons.
village named Shetasha, in the Kow di
, trict. was completely swept away by Il
floods, and all the inhabitants browne
upwards of 200 bodies having been reco
cred. The typhoon passed over F.
Chow, doing great damage to shipping.
n There were $50 British and foreign We
sells wrecked last week. The approxima
value of the property lost is fS0,000,0C
> of which f6, ZOO, 600 represents the Britt
losses. Eighty-fve vessels, principal
% British, were lost off the coast Of t
10 United Kingdom during the recent ga
is against only 20 wrecks in the early pa
e of the week, in all parts of the world, a
= 1919 persons were reported lost or mi!
ing.
, There was an indignation meeting
= the rotunda at Dublin, Ireland, last F
~ day, which was so large that $40, 900 pt
pie could not get in. Two hundred ]
lice were stationed near the rotunda.
h. Biggar and other members of parliamG
n were present. Mr.. Dillon said that
should be greatly disappointed II Mr. +
80 nell's arrest facilitated the payment
70 rent. The police dispersed noisy GRO
mt outside.
A collision on the Fitchburg railro;
near East Deerfeld, Mass, last Frid
morning, wrecked two engines and n
loaded freight cars, causing heavy Il
on rolling stock and merchandise.
d. regular freight was tagged to avoid
,y 'sset off, at East Deerfeld, and spec
ct following closely behind crashed into
ny freight, sending the engine and seven c.
of the special down a thirty-feet embal
at ment. The engineer and fireman w
n down with the wreck, but escaped inju
s. A short time before this accident happ
nv ed ewild" freight from Greenfield !
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