Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-01-15
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

The total debt of New York city is
500, al, GAS.
Hon. Lot. M. Morrill,, the Maine states
man, died last week aged 6S years.
/ 1t took Governor Butler two and half
hours to read his inaugural address.
1t is unfortunate that the election of
senators at the West has come to be so
largely question Of the longest purse.
Miss Jennie Flood, of San Francisco,
received 100000 in United States per
cents, as New Years present from her
father.
The thermometer registered SO degrees
below zero on Saturday the 9th, in the
northern portion of Penobscot county
Maine.
There is greater snow fall in Wash
ington than there has been for years.
Travel is greatly obstructed. The Signal
Service predicts additional storms.
Treasurer Polk was arrested at San
Antonio, Texas, by detective as he was
boarding the train for Laredo. He was
the Governor.
By the burning of the Newhall House
in Milwaukee on Wednesday, about sixty
persons lost their lives; it was very
large six-story hotel, without adequate
means to escape in case of fire.
Gambetta's last words took the form of
a prayer of thankfulness that death was
coming to end his suffering: II am lost
| it is useless to hide it; but have suffer-
ed SO much it will be deliverance.'
Nine tons of postage stamps, so tons of
| envelopes, 113 tons of postal cards, and
| II tons of newspaper-wrappers were sold
at the New YORK postoffice during 1882.
| The value of newspaper and periodical
| stamps sold was S439, 500. 80, and the to-
tai receipts of the office were 81, 22S,-
$500.
The Washington monument is now 30
inches above the highest point of the
headdress of the statue of the Goddess OF
Liberty on the Capitol. The height OF
the shaft is 1856 feet 81 inches above the
floor of the obelisk, or 375 feet inches
above the average high water of the Po-
| tomac.
Trains on the Rock Island Road be-
tween Keokuk and Des Moines were
abandoned last Wednesday night on ac-
count of the snow blockade west of Pella.
| The Wabash Road has two trains in a
snow bank west of Centreville, and the
| Chicago, Burlington and Kansas City
Road is blockaded between Moulton and
| Bloomfield.
The Cincinnati Wesleyan College is the
first chartered college for women in the
world. 1t has graduated five hundred
and seventy-one women, who are in all
| parts of the world, molding Christian
sentiment, presiding over homes, teach
ing in schools, missionaries in India and
Japan, etc. Who shall measure the pow.
er for good of this single institution?
A saloon-keeper in Jersey City has
been arrested for enticing children into
his place on Christmas Day, making them
drunk and getting away their money. An
| indignant mother, who went there and
found her son, ten years old, insensible
with drink, was elected from the place,
and has made charge of assault and bat
terry. The saloon-keeper was committed
| for trial.
| Mrs. Garfield is now living in her new
home IN Cleveland-a plain, unpreten-
tious, but CHEEKY and attractive house.
The mother of the late President and the
wife of DR.. Boynton are spending the
winter with her. She is said to be now
| looking much better than she has before
| since her bereavement, although marks
of age, care and sorrow are fixed upon
her face.
Another branch of the public service
department in which there is the least
possible politics. The receipts of the
Patent Office during the year 1882 were
| $1,000, 1865. The previous years re-
ceipts were 1858, 665.S9. The increase il
1882 is S155, 520.76, an increase of S50S
for each working day in the year. The
net revenue of the Patent Office during
the year was about 1926: 700.
The Minneapolis flour mills begin the
year with a maximum capacity ofproduc
ing 20, $50 barrels Of flour a day, in TWEEN
ty-five establishments. During 1882 they
received Is, 403, 200 bushels of wheat
shipped 1854, 800 bushels of wheat an(
made 1924, 919 barrels of flour. OF this
latter amount about 70 900 barrels were
used in the Minneapolis home market
and in 1881, 1,1S1,32 barrels of flour
worth 81 ,67s, 1854, was shipped directly tc
Europe.
The Marquis of Lorne wrote a letetr tC
| General Sherman asking him if it would
be safe for his wife, the Princess Louise
to winter in Charleston. 1t seems from
the Marquis letter that the Princess haC
changed her mind about Bermuda anC
preferred Charleston. General Sherman
promptly replied to the letter, stating
that, in his opinion, there was no safel
or more pleasant place in the United
States for the Princess to winter thai
Charleston.
dispatch from Troy to the NeU YoTl
Times says: ''Six firms, with 500 men
have begun cutting ice at Castleton. Thu
ice is from s to 10 inches thick, and i:
taken from the Hudson River. Abou
81 900, 600 are invested in the ice bushes:
at Castleton, and, if the weather permits
$40. 900 tons will be harvested this sea
son. There are no spectators in the
business, and ice will be cheaper mex
summer than last if the weather should
be cold for the next month.
The family of President Garfield have
been spending the holidays all at home
together. Mrs. Garfield is busy arrang
ing memorial room, set apart to con
tain relics and mementoes of her illustri
Gus husband. The walls of it are cover
ed with framed resolutions and letters o.
sympathy, and there will be tables and
cabinets loaded with similar tokens
When the arrangement is complete, The
room will be one of the most noteworthy