Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-10-02
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
The strike Of the Pennsylvania iron
workers has ended, the men going bach
to work at the old prices.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey are to be
gin in Paris, Oct. s, series of religious
services: to be continued two weeks OF
more.
Thanks for the success of the British
troops in Egypt were given in the church.
es in London and in the provinces Sun.
day.
The sultan of Turkey has ordered the
surrender to Greece of all the territory
claimed by that government on the boun-
Diary between the two countries.
Notwithstanding the blighting drouths
of July and August, the crops in large
portion of New Hampshire and western
Maine will, with few exceptions, reach
the average Of the preceding year.
dispatch from London says: 1t is of
ficially announced that Gen. Wolseley and
Admiral Seymour will be raised to the
peerage in acknowledgment of their re-
cent distinguished services in Egypt.
At Fairfield. Me-, on the night of 10Th.
during thunder shower, the house of
Mr.. Timothy Osborne was struck by
lightning. His daughter Mabel, aged
twenty-five years, was killed, and his
wife was FRUSTRATED.
The Franklin sugar refinery of Harri-
son, Havenmeyer & Co., Philadelphia,
was partly destroyed by fire one day re-
cedtly. The financial loss is esti-
mated at million dollars, and it is fear
ed that one man lost his life while trying
to extinguish the fire.
The United States Supreme Court will
reconvene Oct. 8. 1t is expected that
there will be full bench. The docket is
overburdened. Among the cases set for
early trial are two which involve ques-
lions of civil service and election laws.
There are now 93S cases on the docket,
and more are being added.
Jay Gould offered George Jones 81. 250.-
600 for controlling interest in the New
York Times, which offer was declined.
This offer fixes the value of that paper at
nearly three million dollars, the highest
price set on any paper in this country ex-
cept the Herald, which was sometime
since valued at four million dollars.
Gov. st. John, of Kansas, writes to an
eastern inquirer, under date of Sept. IA,
that there is not word of truth in the
lately circulated report about suffering
among the colored refugees in Kansas.
He says "While there are many among
the colored immigrants, as well as among
the whites, that are poor. yet as a rule
they are getting along well, and Kansas
is abunduntly able at present to take
care of the few worthy destitute.
A sensation was produced at Logans-
port, Ind, recently by the declaration
OF the Democratic Mayor Jacobs, not
only that he was in favor of the submits
sion of the prohibition constitutional
amendment to a direct vote of the peo-
pie, but also that he favored prohibition
as well. He put his opinion upon the
ground that as mayor of the city acting
as police judge he had been convinced
that four-ffths of the crime was the re-
suit of the traffic in intoxicating liquors.
The total rainfall from the goth to the
10Th of September was 9.2S inches, the
greatest that has ever been recorded by
the signal service in this city. The an
nual average rainfall in this latitude is
slightly less than forty inches. Fully a
third of this amount has fallen here since
the 1St Of September, and fourth of it
since last Wednesday. To find parallel
case we must go back twelve years, and
there is no record of single days rain
fall in New York so heavy as that of Sat-
urday.-N. 7. Observer.
The blowing for winter wheat in Kan
sas is all done and good deal has been
sowed. The heavy crop of this year and
excellent quality for seed will stimulate
farmers to put in a large acreage Ow-
ing to low prices the farmers are holding
back their wheat, but the work of thresh-
ing is vigorously progressing. The agri-
cultural exhibits at district and county
fairs were never before equaled, either in
quality or size. The corn crop is now
well matured and beyond any possible
danger from early frost. Many fields
will yield from so to 100 bushels per
acre. Cattle and sheep are in fine condi-
ton and well prepared for wintering.
Grass has been unusually good.
The total exports of wheat and -four
from the Atlantic ports for Europe in the
week ending September 20 were equal to
4,009,50O bushels of wheat, against $685.
900 the preceding week, and the total for
the last eight weeks is equal to about
"a, 100000 bushels of wheat. This is be-
sides the exports to South America and
the West Indies, and not counting any
of the exports from the Pacific ports.
Presenting, therefore, that the exporta-
BILE surplus out of this years crop OF
wheat will be, say, 200,ooO,OO0 bushels,
about one-ffth of it has already gone.
These continued large exports of wheat
from the United States, Notwithstanding
the reiterated statements of large crops
in almost every country in Europe, sug-
gest the probability that either the crops
there have been exaggerated or else that
the consumption of wheat is greater than
has been presumed.
THE INCONSISTENCY OF MAN.-scheming diverse
and manifold advertisements of worthless goods will
never attract profitable Customers only mer;torons