Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-04-03
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

-Four tracks will soon be completed on
the Pennsylvania Railroad between Phila-
delphia and New York.
There are stored in Pennsylvania 3d.
100000 barrels of crude petroleum, enough
to last the world five years
Many of the striking operatives in Law
renee have obtained situations in Fall
River, Lowell and Manchester.
The president has approved the anti
polygamy bill. 1t looks now as if the
Mormons and Chinese must go together.
Advices from Wisconsin and Northern
Michigan indicate heavy fall of snow.
In some places it is a foot deep and still
falling.
The senate has passed bill giving pen
sions to Mrs. Garfield, Mrs. Polk and Mrs.
Tyler, at $4,000 per annum, commencing
on the 18th of September.
The white pine standing in Wisconsin
is estimated at Al ,000, 900, 900 feet; in
Michigan, So, 900, OOO,O 900 feet, and in Min
nesota at 6,100, 900, 900 feet.
William H. Vanderbilt appears to be
model father-in-law. He has just paid
$500, 900 for Fifth avenue lots upon which
he will build houses for his sons-in-law,
Hamilton X. McTwombly and Seward
Webb.
There is most remarkable and sue
FIJI A,I-
sas. The Memphis Appeal quotes from
its exchanges all over the state express
sious of qualification over the closing of
saloons, signing of pledges and growth of
prohibition sentiment.
regular graded promotion is hereaf-
ter to be inaugurated on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, employees beginning at the low
est round of the ladder and moving up,
after competitive examinations establish
their ability, to the higher grades of the
department in which they serve.
In making Archbishop McCabe of Dub
lin cardinal, the pope has given the
Irish land leaguers on both sides of the
Atlantic, very strong hint of what his
opinions are on the Irish agitation. DR..
McCabe has been very obnoxious to the
land leaguers, and now he is to wear
red hat
The secretary of the treasury announc-
es that hay imported into the United
States is dutiable only at 10 per cent ad
valorem, as a non-enumerated unmanu-
featured article, under section 25I6 of the
revised statutes; and that when duties on
hay have been exacted in excess of 10 per
cent ad valorem, and the parties in inter-
est have taken the proper steps under
section 1881 of the revised statutes, to
preserve their rights to return of the
excess of dutiet exacted, certified state
ments in the usual form will DE forwarded
to the treasury department.
The review of the commerce, trade and
manufacture of Chicago for the past year
makes favorable showing. In spite of
short crops and uncommon extremes of
weather, the prosperity in the business of
the city has been remarkable The entire
sales within the year amounted to over
thousand million dollars. Chicago is now
the largest grain market in the world.
Its receipts of grains were 14S, 100000
bushels; of cattle, Lab 900 head; of
hogs, 6,4O6, 900. It's whole transactions
amount to $3.50, 000,O 900. The addition to
the population of the city during the year
was at least 80, 900, and the city expended
| over million dollars on it's public schools.
| Frederick Douglass, in letter to Sen
ator Hoar, takes very manly view of the
| Chinese question. After warmly COM
mending the senator's position, he says:
| II really do not know what to make of
some of our republican friends on this
question. They have allowed ''Dennis''
to scare them out of their most cherished
principles. They bow to his ignorant no
| ton that every crumb of bread that goes
| into the mouth of a Chinaman is taken
from the mouth of an Irishman; whereas,
the more mouths, the more hands, the
more hands the more labor, the more la
Dor, the more bread for everybody, in the
true view. Let the Monaghan come, the
Caucasian will hold his own, and I have
no fear for the negro"
The American Newspaper Directory,
which will be issued next month by Geo.
| P. Rowell & Co., of New York, will con-
tain the names of 1851 periodicals in the
| United States and Territories, which is
| gain of 344 in the year just passed. The
number of daily papers has increased in
somewhat larger proportion, and is now
represented by total of 996 against 92l
in 1881 The largest increase has been in
| New York-10 dailies, 20 of all sorts. II
linois and Missouri show a percentage of
| gain which is even greater, while Colora-
| do leads all others in the percentage of
! increase, both of daily and weekly issues.
! California, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont and
| West Virginia have fallen behind 1881 in
| the total number of periodicals issued.
In Georgia, Maine and Massachusetts the
suspensions have exactly counterbalanced
the new ventures. In every state not
mentioned above, and in the territories,
there has been an increase.
FADED CoLoRs REsroRED-Faded gray hair
gradually its youthful color and lustre by the