Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-07-03
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Mr.. c. w. Hallowell of Elizabeth City,
N. c., sold his Irish potato crop Il 400
barrels) for $1,000.
At an artesian well sunk near st. Ber-
nard, Ohio, the flow is 80 gallons min
ute, and that amount of water contains
bushel Of salt.
A large whale is reported cruising
around in Delaware river and bay. One
was seen there in 1888, and another small
one some fifteen years ago.
The final splice in the Mexican cable
was made June 21st, placing Galveston
in direct communication with Vera Cruz
and in Geographic communication with
the whole of South America.
The London police found in stable in
Clerkenwell and have seized 100000
to Ireland, and 400 rifles with bayonets
and % boxes of revolvers.
Last week a perfect deluge of good
limitations of ten dollar bills of 1875 were
put in circulation in Boston by gang of
expert counterfeiters. The officers were
unsuccessful in their efforts to trace the
criminals, and the matter has alarmed the
Treasury officials.
The powers will be able in a little time
to hold quite respectable dress parade
of war vessels in front of Alexandria.
Germany, England, France, the United
| States and perhaps one or two other
Governments will soon have naval repre-
sentatives there.
There is wild excitement at Cherry
Grove, Penn, oil field over the opening
of the Anchor Company's second well.
1t is gushing 1920 barrels a day. This
we'll and three others are producing 5000
to 10000 barrels daily. Oil men are anx-
ious about the market
A Florida paper says that within IA
dius of eight miles of Sanford, that state,
there are 1892 orange groves, containing
l65, 235 trees; and although only five per
cent of the trees are now bearing, they
produce $500, 900 oranges annually. The
entire state is said to produce 10000, 900
oranges.
The state of affairs in Egypt is rapidly
growing worse. Over $4,000 Europeans
have already left. Arab Bey is doing his
utmost to stay the exodus, promising
special protection for Europeans, but his
promises are distrusted. The natives are
now showing signs of fear of the ven
geance of Europe.
A work train on Manitoba line from ST.
Paul, Mimi, consisting of engine, ca
Atwater, Mimi, while going II miles al
hour. The engine, caboose, and five cars
went down a II feet embankment, into {
pool of water. Twelve persons were
killed, and many injured.
Mile. Lucy de Rothschild, was married
on the 3lst of May to M. Leon Lambert
head of the Brussels house of Rothschild
in the synagogue of the Rue de la Victo
ire in Paris. She is Is years old, grace
full, thoroughly educated and accomplish
l ed, and brings her husband dowry o
t 600, 900, 900 francs, or $12O, 100000.
l David Thomas died at Catasauqua, Pa.
: June Goth, aged 81 years. On July A
. 1910, he put into blast the first furnac
which successfully smelted iron ore b.
| o. cit ho
blast, and has lived to see the presen
e vast extension of such furnaces, produt
: ing 100000 tons Of pig iron annually.
s The Wilmington Star is authority fo
the statement that the Delaware peac
: crop is one Of the largest in the histor
of the state. The information is all til
{ more welcome owing to the fact that TIL
IT is about the time that the public is con
k monty informed that the Delaware peac
J. crop has been severely smitten by lat
9 tarrying frost.
70 The Johnston Harvester Works
Brockport, N. Y, were burned Monda
- night, causing loss of five hundred tho
sand dollars worth of property, al
( throwing out of employment over fol-
st hundred men. One of the workmen w;
a. burned to death while endeavoring
save his tools. The supposed incendia
- has been arrested.
A mortgage for So, 100000 was receive
in the office of the county at Poughkee
Id sic, N. Y, June 18th, which was Civ,
I'd by the Mutual Union telegraph compan
ne and covering their entire lines, extendil
IL through the Eastern States, New Yor
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ne
- Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, MINI
u sofa and other states.
III Dea. Jeremiah Chamberlin, a we
d, known and highly respected citizen,
be Brookfield, N. H., about rs years of ae
,,t was burned to death on Saturday, VIII
= engaged in burning brush heaps in
pasture He was absent from the hou
but a short time before he was discover
al by his wife lying among the partially CO
sumed brush, burned beyond recognize
~ butchers Extract of Roots makes the best beer
ms drank just try one bottle and judge for yo
~ self. II you don't find it so write franklin Medic
Co. St Adams Vt and they will send you Dutch