Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-05-15
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS,

Ia. nope III Is Il IdlSe d1arln. silver anu
gold mines in this section do not turn out
well for their owners.
st. Louis newspapers took church at
tendance census, last Sunday, and found
a total of 119 ,49S church goers. OF this
number So, III attended the Catholic
churches, representing over 80 per cent
of the membership.
LITTLE Rock, May 10. A furious wind
storm visited McAllister, station on the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway in
Indian Territory, Monday night. The
hurricane demolished all the buildings of
the coal mining company, and killed eight
people and wounded forty others. Very
serious damage was done at other places
in the vicinity. The wires are down in
all directions, and many washouts have
occurred on the railways.
DR. Macdonald of Sutton, who tele-
graphed to the chief ofpolice at Brighton,
England, when the body was found on
Sutton mountain, received cablegram
on Thursday last, from the friends of
the deceased residing at Manchester,
England, stating that they have written
and asking him to give them additional
particulars. 1t is believed that the man
last seen with the murdered Jackson is
under surveillance at Boston and will be
arrested. In the meantime the authori-
ties are very reticent and are working
the case up quietly.
The hard, black German slate pencil
has been superseded of late years by the
round white pencil of white clay slate.
AT the quurry near Castleton, about 80
workmen produce $4,000 pencils daily,
and it is proposed to increase the daily
output to 100000. The blocks when
quarried are sawed into pieces seven by
twelve inches, split to a thickness of one
half inch and smoothed with palmer.
The block is placed under semi-circular
knife, and, after being turned over, the
process is repeated. The result is so
seven-inch pencils. A particle of quartz
in the block would break all the pencils.
They are pointed by a grindstone, turned,
assorted and sent to market in boxes of a
hundred.
The work of Messrs Moody and Sankey
| in Scotland has in its results, been all
| that could be desired. The attendance
| upon all the meetings has been very
| large, and the number reached by the
power of the Divine Spirit very great.
| Very timely, too, has been this visit and
work of the evangelists. Scotland is at
present passing through religious crisis.
In recent years the rationalizing tendency
in her higher institutions of learning has
been very marked, but this has not yet
had time to filter down to the people
And while the great mass of the Scottish
people are distinguished by their strong
religious faith, the lapsed masses, as the
non-church-going classes are called, have
been increasing ominously of late. May
we not hope that the revival begun by
the American evangelists may mark thu
point where the tide turns from ebb tx
flow?
Mr. Joseph Cook has met with complet,
success in his lecturing tour in India
Great crowds have attended his meetings
among whom were many influential ma
tives. During Mr. Cooks stay IN Caleut
ia numerous visits were exchanged be
tween him and the leaders of the Brahm'
Somaj, or Society of Thirst, the great re
form party of India. These, visits wer
very gratifying to both parties, affordin!
an opportunity for the explanation of tn
religious views of each. At the closin
lecture of Mr. Cook in Calcutta, vote G
Chunder Sen. It is expected that grea
good will result from Mr. Cooks labor
in India. From India Joseph Cook wi
go to Australia, returning home by wa
| of San Francisco. He expects to resum
) his Boston Monday lectures about tn
} first of next December.
People in the North are not fully awal
of the efforts making for education in tt
South Charleston, S. c., has scho'
1 tax of 81 mills on $2l, 900, 600, which
$ more than Boston pays. That city h;
$4,000 inhabitants, and has over 1000
r both colors, evenly divided, and 6
: equal number of both colors are NJ
: schooled at all simply because tt
city is too poor to provide the schoo
# rooms and the teachers. Charleston
S doing all that can reasonably be expeo
y ed; other communities are not DOH
|. as well, but the nation at large wi
e its abundant resources ought
come to the aid of that section
n country which once suffered gre
: destruction of values and had forced up
r it great demand for educational faci
al ties. Let Congress help the cause of e
5. ucation, not for the sake of the Sout
e but for the good of the whole nation.
~ We clip the following from Manchest
+ Mirror and Farmer.
Il "Sl7.79 PROFIT ON $6.21 WORTH