Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-12-18


Ex-senator Mcdonald of Indiana is
confident that he will be the next demo-
cratic candidate for the presidency.
Eight houses back of the Alhambra
Theatre, London, were destroyed by fire
recently The total loss is f150,000.
Ex-Secretary Blaine has expressed him.
self very strongly against the proposed
interoceanic canal through Nicaragua.
The public demand for silver dimes is
ahead Of the supply, but quarters and
halves to the amount of $26, 100000 are
lying idle in the treasury vaults.
Ninety-three thousand acres have bsen
planted under the new horticulture act in
Kansas. Preference is given to the cot
ton tree because OF it's rapid growth.
The Potomac River is frozen over sol
id from the foot of Analostan Island to the
Little Falls, a spectacle unprecedented
within the memory of the Oldest river
men.
George Muller, the founder of the or
phanage at Bristol, England, who has |
been seriously i'll for a long time has |
become so weak that it has feared his |
work on earth is done.
The pension estimates for the coming |
year will exceed 100000, 900, and it is
said at the Pension Office that they may
even reach $3.50, OOO,O 900, of which pension
claim agents will get a considerable
share.
There is every reason to believe that
thousands of persons are drawing PEN
Sions who have no claim whatever on the
government, but there seems to be no
way of detecting or Furnishing them.-N.
Y Tribune.
A monument to the Confederate dead
was unveiled in Magnolia Cemetery,
Charleston, S. c., on Thanksgiving Day,
in the presence of an immense gathering,
estimated at $4,000 persons. Senator
Butler delivered the Grafton.
The British possessions in Australia
| cover 100000 square miles. The popu-
| lation, white and colored, numbers 1885,
954, by far the greater part being concen-
| trated in few cities. The debt of the
colonies is already nearly 500, 100000.
| Gov. st. John of Kansas, attributes his
defeat when seeking a reelection to the
combined effort of the liquor dealers of
the state against him. He states that
/
leagues, which took an active part in the
campaign.
A banquet is to be given at Washing
ton on New Years Day in honor of Fred
erick Douglass, in recognition of his long
| services in the interests of his race and
humanity Ex-senator Bruce is to pre-
side, and it is intended to make the occa-
sion memorable.
Mrs. Alice Slayback has brought suit
against Colonel John A. Cockerill, of ST.
Louis, for $4,000 damages for killing her
husband in self-defense, which is the
highest sum the law would allow her.
Editor Cockerill should pay the money at
once and be thankful to get off so easily.
The British ship Fiona has been lost at
sea, with all ON board. A collier has
foundered off Berwick, and ten persons
were drowned, and steamer, the name
the rocks near Penzance, on Friday, and
foundered. Nothing further concerning
the disaster is known.
Congressman Flower of New York of
fers an amendment to the constitution
: providing that the president may veto
! one or more sections of a bill or resolu
E ton, and approve of otherparts oft. The
vetoed parts may be re-passed by two
thirds vote of each house, but if not 81
passed the veto defeats them.
The prospects for new national bank
| ruptcy bill are better, at least in the Sen
: ate. Senator Brown of Georgia wanted
. the measure killed by indefinite postpone
ment. but the motion failed, 26 to 81
Then the Lowell bill was substituted TO
the Equity bill by vote of 81 to 30, ant
J recommitted for amendments.
A dispatch from Kingston, Jamaica
: says that the business quarter of the cit.
d was burned recently The loss is 10000,
/, 600 $3.50, 0OO, OOO). Hundreds are home
: less. Wharves, warehouses, stores
e banks and supplies are gone. Food sup
s plies are needed. Charitable relief shoul
g be sent to w. X. Azbill secretary, Kings
ton charity organization.
tv The London Times, on the occasion @
st the 5Oth anniversary of Mr. Gladstone
I'd entrance into public life prints a retro
~ spect, covering six columns, of his ca
reer Many political associations hav
felicitated Mr.. Gladstone and nearly a
the London papers and the greater POI
he ton of the provincial press devote LEAD
u ers to the subject of a recount of the il
fuence of Mr.. Gladstone during the La
in half century.
y Four territories would like to be admi
ted as states. Dakota and Washingto
r have sufficient population and it is of tt
IN right kind; but the population of Ne
e. Mexico and Utah is anything but RICH
1g New Mexico stands at the head of the
u literate column, while Utah is saturatt
with barbaric institution that ought
or be bar to the admission Of the territo
of so long as the institution exists. The
Mt is room enough, however, for Dakota al
of Washington. Their population is indu
he trious, intelligent and law-abiding. L
les them in, and then we shall have total
ly. 40 states.
Sir Hugh Allan died suddenly at Ed
,a+ burgh, Scotland, recently. He W
i born in Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1910, a
~. was the son Of shipmaster. He cal
20 to Montreal in 1926, and was clerk in
inf dry goods establishment four yea
< Subsequently he became clerk for
ON firm of ship-builders, and four years lat
I'm was admitted a partner. In l641,
mo- firm was employed to build several 81
ctS boats for the great lakes, and afterwaT
built sailing vessels, barges and t
boats. About 1916, they established
- Allan line of steamships. They at fl
-, encountered great difficulties and loss
-. but finally succeeded in placing the i
on a sOund and prosperous basis.