Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-05-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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The Yorktown monument is to be of
Virginia granite.
Gold value of the legal tender silver
dollar (412115 grains), S7.15 cents.
Two shocks of earthquake were felt at
Contoocook, N. H. Wednesday.
Louis A. Cooley of GOdeys Lady's Book,
left an estate inventoried at $221, 1854.
The army worm has appeared in North
ern New York and is doing great damage.
British Minister Thornton has notified
Secretary Blaine that he has accepted the
PruSsian mission.
Postmaster-generalJ James says that At
torney-geueral MacVeagh is intrepid, |
able and energetic
An Ohio doctor cured himself of small |
pox by eating lemons, and declares that it |
is specific for the disease.
Nearly every state in the Union was rep |
resented at the convention of brewers in |
session at Chicago last week.
During a storm at Cincinnati on Monday
of last week a man who was blown from
roof and fell sixty feet was uninjured.
Mrs. Jessie Fremont has organized class
es in history among the grown up sons
and daughters of poor settlers in Arizona.
The East River bridge is promised to be
ready in May, 1882. Its cost will be SIG
| 100 000 and it has been ten years under
construction.
Annie Myrtle, girl thirteen years of
age, died at Racine, Wis, Thursday, from
the effects of jumping the rope" one hun
dred and two times.
The Census Bureau reports the total as
sessed value of real estate in New York
city at 81, O49, $40, 1856, and the personal
property at s197, 532,O75.
The internal revenue receipts for the
present fiscal year will aggregate nearly
S134, 00O, 900, or $40, 900, 900 more than dur
ing the last fiscal year.
The most costly piece of real estate in
New York is the Trinity building, next to
Trinity church, assessed at $1,700,000,
and next is Fifth-avenue Hotel.
The question is no longer asked, 'Have
we President ?" Even the Senate has
found out that there is full-grown man
at the other end of the avenue.
All the workmen, three hundred and
fifty in number, in the Grand Trunk car
shops at Montreal have stopped work,
demanding an increase of wages.
National bank circulation was higher
Monday than ever before. 1t stands at
about 1882, 100000. Seventeen years ago
it was nearly as much, but some 100000
less.
The largest check ever drawn by an
, American, probably, was that fJay Gould
in favor of Tom Scott, April 18th, for So
400, 900 on the Fourth national bank of
New York.
C. A. Young, the astronomer, says in a
, published letter that s'two tom-cats fight
ing in the streets of Pekin will disturb the
world more than all imaginary planetary
conjunctions."
' Connecticut has struck a blow at timer
; ant quack doctors by demanding that
henceforth they shall pay the same license
as a circus; that is, $40 day for every
day they hold forth in town.
! A barber at Bloomington, ILL.,, who had
Lake Erie Road has been awarded $l2, 500
damages, on the ground that due care was
: not used by the railroad company.
Thespread of the small pox at South AID
: ans, Mass, has compelled the establish
ment of quarantine there. The towr
now has forty-seven small pox patients
Il and neighboring towns begin to repor
t. cases.
> On the 18th inst. Treasurer Gilfillan re
IS ceived through Postmaster General james
: $3.50 conscience money from some person
re in New York, who anonymously requested
that it be placed to the credit of the in
IS come tax.
lie A new order of the postoffice depart
=, ment calls the attention of postmasters t.
IS the frequency of underpaid postage. TIL
J. public will do wisely to be more careful il
~ this respect, and see that when letter i
posted the postage is wholly paid.
lie According to Prof Bell it is only fiv
a. years and quarter since articulate speec
st was first transmitted by the telephone. /
y the short time that has elapsed since jan
w uary Is, 1877, the exact date its discoy
ly cry, the telephone has come into daily us
to in all civilized countries, as well as Egypt
China and other places not usually incluc
ay ed in the term civilized. Only one city i
ce the United States is now without a telt
NJ phone exchange. There are 408 of sue
IT. exchanges, and 1872, 692 instruments in us
d: in the States.
~ East Hardwick, VT, Dec. /, 1880. M