Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-09-18
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The cholera is raging in Cochin China.
Mrs Garfield has removed to Cleye- |
land for the winter.
The British Government has bought 500 !
Kentucky mules for services in Egypt.
A powder explosion at Guaymas, de-
stroyed property to the amount of $780,
000
A severe earthquake, in which no lives
were lost, occurred at Panama last
Thursday.
Under the new law of Russia only one
saloon is permitted to every six hundred
inhabitente.
Mr.. Thomas Hugbes's mother remains
at the colony in Tennessee, and still be
licves in its future.
The California Cinnamon are said to be
pleased with the restriction bill, because
it will enable them to get higher wages.
The Concho food in Texas two weeks
ago, it is found, caused the loss of more
than one hundred lives and 860o, 600 worth
Of property.
The almost total failure of the years
opium crop is announced from Persia.
The champagne product in France viii be
unusually small.
Since the war Alexander H. Stephens
has collected more than $500,000 of war
claims for southern people, for which he
has refused to accept any compensation.
Justice Stanley Matthews has just COM
pleted in Washington one of the finest
residences ever erected within sight of
the capitol The buildings cost about
$4,000.
Small pox has broken out in Paterson,
n. J., and has created q good deal of ex-
citement. There has been over forty cas-
es from the beginning, of whom four
have died.
The yellow fever continues in Browns
vile, Texas, from fifty to sixty new cas-
es being reported daily, but the deaths
are few as compared with former records
of the rayages Of this plague.
Under a new law three women are to
be appointed in each county of Ohio in
conjunction with two men, as a Board oi
Visitors for the charity and correctional
institutions. They are to serve without
pay.
For last year the worlds production o
u lead is estimated by Herr Landsberg a
d 40, 600 tons. China and Japan are no
included as producers of this metal, al
though the probability is that their out
put of lead is very large every year.
A. B. Chase, Of Stockholm, St. Law
renee county, New York, was awakene,
early in the morning by the barking 0
I his dog He opened the door and tn
b dog bounded in, thus escaping two full
S grown wolves which were outside.
Mrs. Burns, Of Troy. n. Y, one of tn
= women injured by Barnum's elephant
died last Friday. Patrick Burns, he
husband, also injured by the elephant, j
o not expected to live Patrick Conlor
II another of the injured, has begun So
i for $4,000 damages.
IS An indiscreet benevolence is sometime
V almost as bad for man as temperate,
II William Peak, formerly manager of IL
, Peak family of bell-ringers, was recent
- arrested at Goshen, n. Y, as a yagran
e and sent to Jail for ten days. Ten yea
ago he was worth 100000 but now is
pauper. Beneyolence is said to be Il
~ cause of his poverty, as he was alway
,so liberal to a fault.
its CHICAGO, Sept. 8.-A special to the 7
" Ter ocean from Little Rock, Ark, say
The returns come in slowly, not over on
fifth Of the state is heard from. The fin
result will show that the Republica
have increased their vote forty per ce
'ei over any previous vote. They have dou
led their numbers in the Legislature Al
nd by supporting Independents and Gree
hackers have almost, if not quite secur
err an opposition majority. They have al
len carried, perhaps. two congressional d
tricts. Reports Of bulldozing and fra
nd continue to come in.
eli; The NATION s CHfRAcTERIsTIcs.- Shfewdness
increduiity are the predominant charteristies of
American people. They will take no stock in an a
mo Gle unless it is mertorous. When Dr. swayne aur
ay, ed bis Ointment for the tea that itch 50 ntense
night. On Of human suffering. tEe physici
the i,s 81. 80 80 ! at, e e',,g 'a :
OF Now The aliopalhs and homeopathic are laughing
other way This world is full of reyerses.