Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-04-10
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Fall River have joined the striking spin
ners.
Sunfower yellow, elegantine pink, and
pale sea green are the aesthetic colors in
high vogue.
Some of the English nobility and clergy
are urging Moody and Sanky to spend
year in London.
1t is estimated that i'll Arkansas alone
there are 2l,OOO people destitute on &C
count of the floods.
The reports from the flooded districts |
of the South are still sufficiently discour-
aging, although not so dark as they have
been.
Sterling P. Rounds, just nominal |
ed for public printer by President Arthur,
is about fifty-fve years old and native
of Richford.
While two laborers were digging a
drain in St. Louis, last week, they I'M
earthed an old earthern pot that contain
ed $4,000 iu gold coin.
Hunts picture of Niagara sold for $lO,-
900 the other day. The purchaser thought
it cheaper to buy the picture at that price
than to visit the falls and drive around in
a hack.
BY the defalcation Of George E. Lane,
treasurer of Rockingham county, New
Hampshire, his bondsmen are left with
liability of ST., 634.54, this being the de-
| ficiency to be made up.
The bill of exceptions in the Guiteau
case was signed last week by Judge Cox.
The exceptions taken are to the non-ad-
mission of certain evidence and the rul-
ings on points of law.
Cornelius S. Vanderbilt, brother of Will
liam H. Vanderbilt. committed suicide at
the Glenham hotel on Fifth avenue, New
York, Sunday afternoon, by shooting
himself through the head.
All the hands in the bureau of engray-
ing and printing in Washington employ
ed on internal revenue stamps. number
ing five hundred, mostly females, have
been furloughed because the appropria-
ton is exhausted.
1t is said that Beatty's large organ fac
tory, at Washington, n. J., is turning out
over 80 organs day, and that the de-
mand for the Beatty instrument is on the
increase. The factory is running night
and day to fill out orders promptly
The senate committee on Territories
voted, to recommend the bill for the adj
mission of Dakota as a State, the objec-
I ton regarding the alleged reputation OF
Yankton county bonds. being Regarded
+ as a matter for the courts, and not fol
congress, to settle.
i" The secretary of the treasury has issu
: ed a call for Sl5, 100000 bonds, extended
skies, payable on the first Wednesday il
oRas T4ke y iGr Be tbe has hath R Ga fSr t de
cided not to anticipate the interest on tn,
: bonds included in the 1OSth call, whicl
: natures next week.
Member of the Virginia assembly re
q Gently offered substitute to the bill tt
:. suppress dueling, which sets apart ont
n acre of ground in the state for duelsts
l under condition that duels shall be Tough
+ to the death. The member offering the
e proposition meant it in sport, but the
t assembly refused to allow him to with
draw it.
S Moses Taylor, the well-known New
e York banker has placed in the hands O
two trustees $685. of the first mort
8 gage bonds of the Delaware, Lackawan
n ma and Western Railroad Company t.
: found hospital at Scranton, Pa, for thu
. benefit of the sick and disabled employee.
! of the railroad company and of the Lack
T awanna Iron and Coal Company.
f Although there have been an unusually
a large number of bills introduced this ses
e sion the actual business as respects til,
{ different appropriations is much more ad
= vanced at this time than for many years
S OF the fourteen appropriation bills tn,
d following have been reported Fortified
I ton, January 20; post office, January 81
7 consular, January 80; Indian, Februar,
e Z; Little deficiency. February 10; militia
/ ry academy, February IL agriculture
u February IL army, March 49, Indian
p March 81;
o President Taylor of Salt Lake City
. Utah, and some of the apostles who hat
n their polygamous wives living in on
/; house with them have scattered them on
s for fear of arrest under section of th
Edmunds bill, which makes cohabitatio
with more than one woman misdemean
or, Taylor turned out all his wives, say
ing if he could not have them all he woul
"a not have any of them, but they live i
houses provided by him, and it is not see
Is how he can help himself much Thi
third section is just beginning to be IN
lie derstood and it promises to trouble tn
,e polygamiists much more than disfran
chisement.
Is Old soldiers who have pension applica
10 tons on file, will be glad to learn tina
Commissioner Dudley has issued an orde
which, if adhered to, will give then all a
equal chance. The order is designed t
- correct the abuses growing out of the aI
:, plication of congressman to have case
made especial" and thereby iumpin
over others.-The order will read as fo
: lows: Ceases will be made special onl
70 when such cause therefor is shown to til
. commissioner in writing as would satisf
AZ the other worthy claimants, whose claim
preeede it, should they know the facts
$, that such action is proper. Hereafter n
ct case will be made special that is nc
IN brought clearly within this rule.
The recent snow-storm in Dakota, re
suited in several deaths. dispatch froI
~ ST. Paul, Mimi, says: Ever since til
~ great snoW-storm and blizzard of last Sat
" urday began, scattered rumors of loss {
~ life on the frontier have been received j
st. Paul. 1t is difficult to get at the e,
lie act facts, as the persons best informed
III both here and at the remote railway sta
ne tions from which the news comes, are il
III terested in covering them up. 1t is cel
20 tain, however, that there has been niue
suffering and many deaths. The storl
ne came after several days of bright an