Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-07
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


ing the Fourth.
The Brooklyn bridge is to be made free
for foot passengers.
Hon. Randolph Tucker of Virginia, is
very i'll in New York city.
Miss Frances E. Willard is lecturing
on temperance in San Francisco.
Ex-senator Conkling is to be the dec
Grafton day orator in New York city.
Ex-Vice-P President Wheeler has return
ed from his southern health visit, but is
not recovered.
Mr.. Gladstone will retire very soon. He
will be made peer of the realm, with the
title of earl of Midlothian.
George Bancroft, though past eighty
two, still rides on horseback, and sits
more erect than many young men.
Mrs. Asa Bacon, nearly so years old,
drowned herself at North Haverill, N. H.,
last Wednesday, in small stream near
her home.
The hop-raisers about Malone, n. J..
have bought about one-half million hop
poles this spring. They are preparing to
| run the price of hops down to four cents
| a pound.
The Cunard steamer Catalonia, from
Liverpool, reached Boston on Sunday
with 1,241 steerage passengers on board,
| the largest number ever taken there in
one steamer.
| The Canadian Pacific Railway Compa-
| ny has offered to settle 5000 Irish fami-
lies, or about $4,000 persons on govern
acres of land free.
The estimated decrease of the public
debt in April was So, 5000 The small
ness of the decrease is due to the fact
that $10,000,000 has been paid for pen
sions the present month.
Ingersoll expressed willingness to sub
nit the case to the jury for the Dorsey:
if the government would forego argument
but they declined to do so and Bliss be
gan his opening speech.
Mr.. Beecher having expressed wisl
for a season ticket to Barnum'S show, tn
circus man has sent one, with the mes
sage that he is always glad to eXtent
managerial courtesies to rival managers.
Fred Douglass is soon to marry yer.
accomplished and very handsome WON
an, almost white, and many years his jun
ior. Mr.. Douglass wife died year o
two ago, and, although he is about 6
: years old, he has a perfect right to marry
providing the girl is willing. He is sal
to be worth 100000.
, The total exports of the United State
for the twelve months which ended Marc
31st, 1888, amounted in value to $S08
1886, an increase of $17,917 1886 o
I those of the preceding twelve months
: Our total imports for the twelve month
5 which ended March 31st, 1888, wei
! $743, 442 ,259, an increase of Sal $685.
on those for the twelve months whic
ended March 3lst, 1882.
Although Mayors Edison and Low, {
New York and Brooklyn respectively, al
!, trustees of the East River bridge, by vii
| tue of their offices, neither of them ha
ventured upon the structure until on
both undertook to escort parties offriend
n across it. They met near the middle {
) the bridge, and the meeting was followe
t by general congratulations.
Eight thousand Pennsylvania coal m
k ners, several hundred cigar-makers an
T. large number of journeyman plasterel
have threatened to quit work this wee
/. unless their demands for wages are me
r The miners will strike against a redu
l. ton of half cent per bushel in the mil
ing rate, while the cigar-makers want
+ per thousand advance, and the plasterel
: an increase from So to 1925 per day.
}. Two leading democratic papers at tt
south, one published at Louisville al
/ the other at Vicksburg, invite all dem
: cratic protectionists to leave the dem
g cratic party. As of old, these spokesmt
want their party run in the interest
whlskey, tobacco and cotton, and it lool
), to-day as if they would fully succeed
next year. The doors of the republic;
= wigwam are always open to men who b
lieve in America first and Great Brita
second.
twenty-five pounds of Atlas powd
was exploded at Fall River, Mass, la
= Tuesday, in an attempt to blow up t
standing tower of the burned Flint mill
but the direction of the explosion was e
ie tirely lateral, and the tower, which w
~ scarcely shaken, is still standing. HUI
e pieces of granite flew from the side W;
. down the streets in which were neaI
: ], 900 spectators, blowing up the grou
es for 200 yards, and scattering the peoI
r. right and left. A 50-pound rock stru
II, James Mcguire, Waterman at the Wa
to panoag mill, and threw his dead body
he yards. The broken stones flying he
and there. between groups of people a
ce horses legs, created a panic, but the