Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-09-25
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manila, Phlllpplne Islands, and during
two days recently 142 deaths occurred in
the city and 315 in the vicinity.
Speaker Keifer thinks that the most the
democrats can do is to elect six of the
twenty-one congressman in Ohio. The
other fifteen he believes will be republic
cans.
The Boston Post, the best democratic
daily in New England, has come out with
"neW dress of the most approved fall
style" 1t is entirely worthy of it's evil
dent prosperity.
A severe earthquake occurred at Pana-
ma on the It'll inst, at 500 a. M, and
was succeeded by another about half an
hour later. Property was damaged to
the extent of $25O,O0O.
That is happy thought of the Philadel-
phia Times, that if Gen. Butler can only
manage to live until all the republicans
in Massachusetts are dead, he may sue
coed in getting elected governor
M. M. Ballou, the well-known Boston
editor and publisher, started, Saturday,
on years voyage westward around the
world, going from San Francisco to Jap
an and thence to China, India and Egypt.
Delaware and New Jersey are yielding
immense peach crops this year, the Penn
sylvania railroads having already carried
over 1880 carloads. They are promised
| 700 carloads more, making total of g.
| ZOO baskets for the season.
The English victory in Egypt will lead
to a revival of commerce in the east,
where war and suspense have for several
months paralyzed all commercial activity
1t will also stop the drain of gold from
England and relieve the exchanges.
The English are learning to like Fanny
| Davenport, the actress, though at first
they said she had no subtlety of manner
or expression. Her handsome presence
is universally admired, and her jewelry
and dresses are a revelation to London
| erS.
Subscription lists have been opened
throughout the state of Georgia for a
fund of 100000 for erecting a monument
| ----~-y I'M.
Contributions are limited in amount to
from one cent to ten dollars, the aim be-
ing to make the movement thoroughly
popular one.
There exists in Philadelphia what is
called an 'tOpium Parlor.'' 1t is place
to which women who are slaves to the
opium habit may go and indulge in the
intoxicating drug at their pleasure. The
woman who established the place saws
that the customers are constantly in
creasing, and that among them are some
of the wealthiest ladies of the city,
Judge Wylie has set aside the absurd
verdict of the jury in the Star-Route post
Office trial, by which two subordinates
were convicted of conspiracy and not the
principals in the case. The chief ground
of setting the verdict aside was that a
| discussion was held among the jurors in
regard to the offer of brides, but its ''gen-
eral unreasonableness" was also stated
by the judge as one of the grounds. The
first Monday in December was the time
appointed for the new trial to commence.
The international military match, be-
tween representative teams of twelve vol
unteers from Great Britain and twelve
militiamen from this country, was shot at
the Creedmore range recently. The
teams shot at targets distant 200, 500,
600, 800, 900, 1000 yards, and the result
was that the score of the British team ex-
ceeded that of the Americans by 10
points. The total scores for the two
days shooting were: For the British
team, 1875; for the American team,
1906.
The National Telephone Association
met recently in Boston. C. N. Fay, of
Chicago, from the committee on central
office system, ETC., said that reports had
been received from eighty-one exchanges,
representing about $4,000 sub-renters
''There are about 10000 to 10000 sub
scribers in the United States. In New
York there are 2,S73 exchanges, and the
smallest number in any one place is ten
There is steady and continuous growth
all over the country. The number of con-
nections increase each month at all local
| tiles.
Many people have exaggerated ideas of
the number of foreign born people in the
St1tnC A hIllIa OF i,,
sued shows the following: Native born,
white, 36,S43, 291 colored, $685., $40;
| foreign born, 6,679 643. The latter con-
! stitute between one-seventh and one
eighth of the population. OF the foreign
born 2,772, 1859 were natives of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
| 1866, TAP of the German Empire, III ,O34
OF British America, 1914, 1877 of Norway,
| ISL, 1923 of Sweden, LOG, 971 of France 1O4,-
54l of China, and the remainder repre-
sent all the countries of the earth.
One would think that of all the difficult
things to steal and carry off through a
big city full-grown hog of the western
pattern would be about the most so, but
three men are now being tried in Chicago
for stealing 100000 worth of live pork
ers during the last three years. It seems
that they formed partnership in 1879
with man who had the keys to the stock
yards belonging to a packing company,
and with his help have been accustomed
| to drive out lots of 40 or so two or
three times week, and nobody has sus-
pected them until recently Now the
keeper OF the keys has turned states ev-
idence, and they are likely to quit the
pork business.
| The NATIONS CHARAcTERIsTIcs.-Shrewd and
incredibly are the predominant charteistics of the
American people They win take stock in an arti-
Gle unless it is meritorious. When Dr. Swayne launch
ed his Ointment for the piles that itch SO intensely at
night, a of human suffering he ,hvsicians