Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-09-03
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Edwin Arnold has published another
Indian poem, which will be published in
October 1t contains five idyls from the
Sanskrit of the Mahabharata.
That republics are not always migrate
full is shown by the fact that the United
States has paid it's soldiers 81 1000, 900
in pensions, and will pay many millions
more.
It is said that Broad river at Anthony |
Shoals, Ca, has horse power of 81 1856,
while Lowell, the finest developed water |
power in the United States, has only &c. |
900 horse power.
The copper product of Arizona last |
year was over 100000 pounds. Thus far
this year the increase has been 38 per
cent, and as new furnaces are going up
the output in 1888 is likely to be 25,000,-
900 pounds.
Wolf Meyer, aged LOG, a veteran of the
wars of Napoleon L., died at Newark, N.
j., on Thursday evening. He was ma
tive of West Germany, and came to
America with his relatives about twenty
five years ago.
A Berlin correspondent of the London
Meas says that China can meet hostile
invasion between Tientsin and Pekin with
an army of at least 15O, 900 troops, ''equip-
ped and drilled equal to Europeans"
They are armed with Manser rifles and
Krupp cannon.
Three men got on top of a sleeping car
on the Hudson River Railroad at Peeks-
kill, on Saturday night, for the purpose
of stealing ride to Albany. While the
train was passing through the Roa Hook
tunnel, two of them were killed by their
heads striking against the roof of the tun-
mel.
Dollarville, Mich, town of 800 inhab-
itants, and the headquarters of the Amer
lean Lumber Company, was nearly de-
stroyed by fire on Thursday, twenty of
the principal buildings being burned.
Two children are reported to have been
burned to death. The loss is placed at
| $4,000.
A natural bridge is reported in Arizona,
| 100 miles from Phenix, fully equal to the
| famous one in Virginia. Its span is so
feet; height, 1853; width, $50. The rock
is lime stone, curiously followed out, and
| some of the veins are said to be very
beautiful. The little stream under it is
called Pine creek.
Western Union line has been compile
ted to Cinnabar, Montana, fifty miles
south of Livingston, Montana. or the
Northern Pacific Railway, from which
point messages to the Hot Springs Hotel,
Yellowstone Park, are delivered free by
pony express. President Arthur and
party were to be the first to use the line. j
MONTREAL, Aug. Pin regard to the
dispatch from st. Adams, VT, that the
Southeastern railway has been sold to
the New York Syndicate, the directors
here deny the truth of the statement, as
they alone are authorized to make sale.
The secretary and treasurer state that no
definite offer has been made for the road.
The cholera continues to diminish in
Egypt. On Saturday there were twenty
six deaths in Alexandria from that dis
ease Among the number were three
British soldiers. Two hundred deaths
from the disease occurred elsewhere in
Egypt. On Saturday the deaths number
ed l26 in Upper Egypt, and 3S in Lower
Egypt.
| A collision occurred at three O'Clock
Sunday morning off Eddystone Light, il
the English Channel, between the French
steamer st. German, Capt. Bonneau
bound from Havre for New York, and the
British steamer WOODBURY., from TIT
East, by way of the Suez Canal. Tht
' WOODBURY. sank Immediately after thu
collision, and eighteen of her crew wer
drowned. The remaining eleven wer
rescued by the St. German. The latte
: vessel had 462 passengers.
A fire at Williamsport, Penn, whicl
started Monday evening in the saw mill O
Finley, Young & Co, quickly destroyed it
i and the flames then spread northward
: destroying the offices Of that firm an
. Merriman & Sons. They then entel e.
the lumber yards and burned over
e square of ground, destroying a larg
Y quantity of lumber and piles. Sewers
l. dwellings and barns were also burned
s 1t is estimated that from 25,00O,000 t
r 80 ,OOO, 900 feet of lumber was burned
The total loss, it is expected, will reac
1t $5OO,OOO.
n Captain John Ericsson passed his SOt
IS birthday, July 3lst, much as he has pass
10 ed every other day of the last ten years
d working hard in his dingy New Yor
chamber from eight in the morning unit
> ten at night. The inventor of the screw
'e propeller, the rival of George Stephenson
D. the builder of the Monitor and originate
De of what is believed to be torpedo-bos
ST of terrible power, is still a strong an
III hearty old man, and he has now pract
u cally finished steam-engine-sunmo
designed for pumping water on tt
he plains, where it's small cost is likely
Oh make it invaluable.
ne great lumber raft from st. John, !
VI B., in tow of the steam-tugs Cyclops al
IL Bertram F. Haviland arrived at FlushiI
le- Bay recently. The raft was 1880 fe
he long and 80 feet wide, consisting of
cargoes or sections of $50 tons each,
at 65-foot splitting logs. 1t is the first
eS fort ever made to bring lumber such
Ic- distance in such way. To have broug
is, the logs here by sailing vessels won
cost S25, 900, but with the present met
Ter cd of transportation it will cost less tn
Ir. one-half that amount. The immense RI
he will be towed from Flushing Bay to Ne
York in smaller sections.
nv Who has not seen the fair fresh young girl tr;
IcK formed in few months into the pale. haggard,
it pirited woman The sparkling eyes are dimmed.
ION the ringing laugh heard more. Too often
causes are disorders Of the system which DIR. Pert
"Fayorite Prescription would remedy in sh
iu- time. Remember. that the "Favorite Prescrptt
op- will unfailingy all female Weaknesses"
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