Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-04-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

is doing him good.
A London physician says the English
sparrow is subject to smallpox and can
spread the disease.
Mr.. Daniel F. Beatty of Washington,
n. j., has been elected mayor of that |
city for the fifth time.
French Investigator finds that in pro- |
portion to its size, bee can pull thirty |
times as much as a horse.
The garden-truck raised about Norfolk,
Va, this season will require 10000
barrels in which to market it.
Duties ON all hay brought to this coun-
try from Canada will be 50 per ton after
July 1st regardless of quality.
Alaska promises to be the California of
the north, and pioneers are likely to flock
there this year in great numbers.
A West Point cadet begins with the
same pay which Prussian captain re-
ceives after twenty years of service.
QUEBEC, Apr. Is. The navigation from
Quebec to the sea is now fully open.
Several schooners have left for below.
The portrait of General Grant that was
commenced by LIE Clear and finished by
Bierstadt has been placed in the east
room of the white house.
The Georgia democrats have nominated
Mcnon;al 20 Tho
republicans will not make any nomina-
ton. THIS plan simplifies politics won
derfully.
The London Observer states that an
English vessel with large cargo of dyn-
amite has sailed from Antwerp for En-
gland, and that the police are cognizant
of her movements.
There are now 1000 dock laborers on
strike at MaTseilles, and it is expected
that still more will join the ranks of the
strikers. Shipping interests are at a
complete stand-still.
Stilwell Fl. Russell, late United States
marshal for the western district of Tex
as, has been sentenced to two years i'm
prisonment for defrauding the govern
ment of nearly $4,000.
Virginia's monument of Robert E. Lee
will be unveiled at Lexington on the 9Th
OF June. Jefferson Davis will preside,
Gen. Joseph E. Johnson will be chief
marshal, and Major John w. Daniel, or
ator.
There is a general movement in New
| England to dispense with binders on
horses-a reformation begun years ago in
England and on the Continent, and now
fast spreading throughout the civilized
world.
Miss Mamie Holding of Kentucky has
been appointed to the Mexican Mission
Episcopal church, South, and has accept
ed. She goes to Laredo, on the Mexican
border.
A cavern occurred at the Red Ridge
Mine, two miles from Quinnesee, Mich.
on the 10th inst, carrying down the en-
gine-house and eight men. One man was
afterwards rescued, but was found to be
fatally injured.
The constitutional amendment for pro
House by nearly party vote. OF the re
publicans voting, ia voted for and
against it, and Of the democrats, IA voteC
for it and 76 voted against it.
Chicago has about 1000 liquor shops
and her police last year made 31,713 ar
rests, of which 1876 were for drunken
ness. And yet some of her people seen
to be astonished at the recent sweepin:
democratic victory in the great city O
the plain.
, The money sent from this country t.
relieve the sufferers by the floods nea
the river Rhine had not reached them b.
the last accounts. We hope the receirer
entrusted with the funds will explain tn
delay, for starving people can hardl
, | wait months for bread.
: tinuance of the practice of having certai
e classes of pension cases advanced a
''specials,' owing to the diligent use mad
q by congressman of such Announcements
increase their own Importance. He az
: pears to be chip of the old block.
e Cremation of the dead makes littl
e Roadway in the United States, and quit
d as little abroad. Here for $4,000, 900 {
people there is one little furnace in til
v interior of Pennsylvania, and that is g
s ing only at long and uncertain intervals
! Cremation is ordered by living crank
r and their friends comply with the
# wishes.
IT Freeman, who, in a fit of religious FREE
# zy, murdered his child at Pocasset, Mass
g four years ago, and was committed to 8
insane asylum at Danvers, is now CO
( sidered perfectly sane. An indictmel
| for murder is pending against him, al
+ the case will come up in the May teri
in Freeman has no recollection of commi
% ting the crime, and says his ssinspiratiol
m must have come from the devil. There
rs much speculation as to the final dispos
Y. ton of his case, but it is believed that
will be released.
a New Jersey took the prize at the scho
at exhibits at the Centennial in 1876, and s.
j. has very admirable school system,
IN though, out of 343, 7S9 pupilage childre
eft about so, 900 of them attend no school
es ALL The teachers are paid 5000 mon
as for males and 1884 for females, and t
en- schools are kept in operation nine mont
out of the year in each of the 1900 d
!, tricts, in which there are 1,577 scho
. houses. Some of the teachers ha
~ taught in the schools twenty five, fol
n and fifty years. Last year New Jers
m spent over S2.000,000 on her comm
Of schools.
ad Mr. C. o. Holton. Canaan, VT, says: Il consi
he Browns Iron Bitters excellent medicine