Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-11-13
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Russian diplomacy is making great ex-
ertionS to influence France to unite with
Russia in policy unfriendly to England.
The Methodist Episcopal church pro-
poses during the ensuing year to expend
$4,000 on foreign missions, which is
$25, 900 more than last year.
All the New England States show, this
year, an excess of postal receipts over
expenditures. The greatest deficit is in
California, $50S,351, and the greatest ex-
cess is in New York, S2,6Ol, 400.
United States Senator Vest, of Missou-
ri, had a narrow escape from drowning
on Thursday while fishing in the Ouchita
River, six miles south of Hot Springs,
Ark. He was carried over a milldam in
his boat and came near being swept away
by the swift current.
While New York city spends some $780,
100000 year for whisky, the total ex-
penditure for the support of religion, in
GLIDING Catholic and Protestant dcnom-
nations, is about $6,500,000 This is
about one dollars worth of gospel to
twelve dollars worth of rum.
Ex-Gov. William P. Hall, of st. Joseph,
Mo-, died on Friday, having had two
strokes of apoplexy. He became govern
or of Missouri after the death of Gov
Gamble, during the war, and was in con-
gress before that time. He was one of
the ablest lawyers in the state.
A skeleton, supposed to be that of the
started for the woods at the head OF
Moosehead Lake, has been discovered
with both hands caught in bear trap
He had evidently in some way got his
hands in the jaws of the trap and being
unable to remove them had died of star
walton.
1t is estimated that from 100000 tt
100000 tons of charcoal are annually
made in the United States. No better
way to get through forests. 1t was thi:
which, more than anything else, deprived
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more barren of timber, although tradition
AYERS that a squirrel could once trave
from tree to tree from Antrim to Kerry.
The December number of the Mort
american ReUieac is to contain two sym
posiums, one on the Health Of American
Women, by DR.. James R. Chadwick, Mrs
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and DIR. Dio Lew
is; and the other on Success on tn
Stage, by John Mccullough, Madam
Modjeska, Joseph Jefferson, Lawrenc
Barrett, Maggie Mitchell and Williar
Warren.
Mrs Letitia Howard, member of th
First Methodist Protestant church, ALE
ghany city, Pa, died on the 4th inst
aged one hundred and five years, tw
months, and eleven days. She retaine
the use Of her faculties in a remarkab
manner. She leaves two sons, aged T.
spectively seventy-five and eighty year
both strong and vigorous, and able to
:, full work in the yard of the Pittsburgl
!. Fort Wayne Chicago railway compan
The memory of Washington is guarde
sacredly in Tennessee, even by poli'
L magistrates. A young man figured
, the father of his country in a maskt
: ball, and became uproariously drum
The justice duly fined him the next NOR
s ing, assuring the offender that if he h;
) been drunk as private citizen the orc
If nary fine would have sufficed, but the pc
sonating of Washington and the oblivio
J. condition demanded heavier punis
i ment. In classic phrase the justice sal
IF 81 will have to gently stick you for So
e. 1 will not have this patriotism busine
brought into disrepute."