Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-08-20
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
The only survivor of the cabinet which |
Abraham Lincoln gathered about him is
Simon Cameron.
There are nearly 10000 German voters
in Iowa, and they are said to be solid |
against the republican party on the pro-
hibition issue.
eff you would hear music Of the heart,
music that will take you back to other,
and may be happier and better days, SO
and hear the Alleghanians."
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has been very much Inconvenience
by the cutting of many of its wires. The
operators on strike deny all knowledge
of the contemplate proceedings.
As an indisputable evidence of the
growth of the territory Of Dakota, it is
stated at the postotfice department that
the mail for the territory has more than
doubled itself during the past year.
The rails are being laid from Maquam
to Rouses Point, to connect the st. Johns
bury and Lake Champlain with the Og
| densburgh and Lake Champlain, and the
work is expected to be finished by Octos
| Der l.
The New York Aqueduct Commission
met last week, when Edison was formally
| appointed president, and Mr.. William
Dowd vice-president. A plan before the
| Commission calls for the expenditure Of
$14, AGO. $40.
Mr.. D. L. Moody leaves in early Sep
TENDER for months work i'll Ireland
and then to England for the winter. Lon
don is to be divided into ten sections,
and two movable buildings are now being
prepared for the use of the preacher.
The pugilist John L. Sullivan opened
saloon in Boston Tuesday night, and 49,,
900 roughs attended, packing the street
in the vicinity and requiring the services
of the reserve force of the police in the
district, with a half dozen mounted po-
licemen to preserve order.
A fire at Vine Haven, Massachusetts,
which began at 8 o'clock on Saturday
night, Aug. u, and continued until after
O'Clock on Sunday morning, destroyed
fifty acres of buildings in the heart of the
town, causing loss estimated at $780,
900. All the buildings were of wood.
Several hundred persons were made
homeless by this fire.
The le-union of the ex-Union and eX-
Confederate soldiers at Wilson's creek,
near Springfield, Missouri, closed on Sat
urday, when abont $4,000 visitors were
attracted to the camp. An organization
known as the stSurviving Soldiers Union
League" was formed on the battle-ground.
1t embraces soldiers of both armies, and
The London Times, reviewing the har-
{ vest prospects in England, estimates that
wheat and barley will be below an aver
age crop 1t is reportd that the yield OF
wheat will be eight and one-half per cent.
below the standard average per acre and
barley six per cent below the average.
t The yield of oats will be six per cent
= above the average and that of potatoes
= twenty per cent above.
: The cholera has abated in Cairo, if the
1 reports Of death are correct, but the mum
: Der reported as having occurred in Egyp
on Friday was 926, and ON Saturday 789
In Alexandria thirty-two persons dice
from cholera on Saturday, including tiv'
Europeans. These figures are probabl.
: not at all accurate, but there is wide
d spread prevalence of the disease in TIL
Il provices of Egypt.
/, The Ohio liquors dealers association
~ ize for the fall political campaign an
take into consideration all other question
, of interest The Scott and Russell bill
were denounced as unconstitutional, ty
n rannical, monStrous and corrupt, under
k mining, all democratic Institutions, an
| it was res olved that the associatio
= should act with the democracy, partic,
larly in the coming campaign.
II 1t appears that DR.. Glenn of California
:, who was frequently paraded as the grea
est farmer III the world, was enormous
J in debt, and whether his estate is banl
N rupt or solvent is to-day an unsettle
lie ques ton. 1t was found after his deaf
10 that his estate was in debt not less tina
a 81, $50, 900, which it is hoped can be pa
off by selling stock ranch in Oregon al
III another in one of the territories of Il
'e Northwest. There probably was not az
ld other agricuturist in the country wi
was CARRYING such load of debt.
for Few people realize how rapidly the n
ta- tional debt is being reduced, and what /;
immense sum has been paid off since Il
close of the war. In 1866, when the de-
reached it's highest point, it stood at s.
ne 773, 236, 900. Since that time more tn;
of $3.50 ZOO, 900 Of the principal has been +
is deemed besides paying interest amour
as ing to 81, 805, 100000 At the date of t
to last report, July I'd, 1888, the princip
40 had shrunk to $1,S84 ,727. At t
present rate of decrease it might be
:, paid off in the next fourteen years, thoul
- the late reduction of taxes will de dimi
no ish the revenue that may be applied
100 this purpose, and throw some of the bl
IN den upon posterity.
es- A very destructive hail storm pass
Nv, over Audubon, Carroll, and Sac count
d. on the evening Of the 7th On the
id, lowing morning the hail was piled oy
7. the fence-tops in places, and sect
,rs' men had to shovel through drifts of ha
sed to permit trains to pass on the Andub
ing Branch. and one tract of four ac
inc was reported four feet deep with hail.
any train was stopped by hail between W
ars' Lake and Odebott. house in the lat
mi place was struck by lightning, as w
his several barns throughout the count
the The barn of Os car Draper, contain
his 500 bushels of corn, was burned to
ground. The house of Peter Larson,
leld uated six miles north of Odebott, '
the beat en- to the ground by the hail;
xv;fo xrrac EilIod apd ha yyac badly ipin,