Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-04-30
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

What Barnum don't know about adver
Using may not be worth knowing He
pays $1,000 for letting Jumbo walk
across Brooklyn bridge.
1t is understood that the Quebec Gen.
trail railway will lose S25O,0OO by the fail
ure in London of it's English agents,
Messrs. Cooper, Hale & Co.
Four inches of snow fell at Champaign,
ILL.,, last Monday night, and light frost
prevailed in portions of central and
southern Illinois. Fears are expressed
for the fruit crop.
One of the severest snow storms of the
season struck Wyoming and Nebraska re-
Gently, prostrating the telegraph and
blockading the railways. The snow is
passing rapidly away.
Special dispatches from a number of
of places in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky
say the frost last Monday night was quite
severe. Some points report all the early
cherries killed and peaches injured.
Charles R. Miller, the editor-in-chief of
the New York Times, is probably the
| youngest man holding such a position in
New York. He is a Dartmouth gradu-
ate, very bright fellow, logical and bril-
liant writer, and horrible penman.
The exports of breadstuffs from the
| United States during the first two months
of 1888 were valued at an aggregate of
$32, 100000 against $23, 100000 for the
same time last year. The exports of the
last week were valued at $6,419,0 900.
Frederick N. Crouch, the composer of
Kathleen Mavourneen, has obtained
! an injunction to restrain a Baltimore
firm from selling photographs of himself.
He thinks that if any money is to be
made in that way he ought to make it.
The tallest trees in the world are said
to grow in Australia. A fallen Eucalyp-
tus in the forest region of Victoria, re-
Gently, measured, was found to be 435
feet long to the end of the highest branch.
Another still standing is estimated to be
$50 feet high.
| L
were drowned in pond at Rochester, n.
Y, one afternoon recently. The party
was out 'Maying," and the boat capsized
while crossing the pond. One of the par
ty, a young man, succeeded in swimming
| ashore.
The emperor and empress of Russia
4 Moscow ha LET of
and the coronation will take place on the
9th. The festivities, which include
eight grand balls, will be prolonged until
the 6th of June. The state entry into the
city will be made on the 10th of that
month.
New Orleans journal says that last
year over 300 houses, costing $4,000 00
were built in that city, and that this ac-
tivity has not stopped, for innumerable
houses, and as general thing houses OF
a superior class to those formerly erected
there, are now going up in various por
tions of the city.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Apr. 54. The
snow storm of the last two days ended il
high wind, which blew off the track anc
badly wrecked two Utah Northern pas
senger trains. 1t is not learned that any
one was seriously hurt. A train stand
ing at Ogden was blown over, and sever
al buildings were damaged.
The Brooklyn bridge will be formally
opened May oath. Hon. William M
Evarts will be the orator of the occasion
The total cost of the structure will b,
about $15, 800, 600. The president and ex
presidents of the United States, the gov
errors of all the states, representative
of foreign powers, and other distinguish
ed persons, will be invited to attend.
The second trial of the suit of JohI
, Lilly, train coupler, who sustained tn
, loss of both legs at the Grand Contra
Railroad depot, at New York, against, tn
Hudson River Railroad Company resulte,
in verdict for the plaintiff of S35, O0O
the full amount claimed. The trial wa
conducted in the supreme court, King
county. On the former trial the jury fai
: ed to agree.
Dakota is getting a large share of thi
springs emigration. Two trains a da
now leave Chicago, bound through
that territory, and it is estimated that ii
t southern half will contain before the en-
+ of the year population of over 0,00(
t A popularity of this occupation is thu
: the corners are chiefly from other parts {
o the United States, fully ninety per Gel
of the present inhabitants being natiy
O Americans.
e Jordan, Marsh & Co., the great Bosto
s firm, have retired from the wholesale dr
s goods trade, finding it no longer profit;
< BILE. They were believed to carry on
e business of So, 1000, 900, and the expens
of selling the goods seems to have steat
r lily kept pace with the increase of til
d sales. Two large firms in Boston witt
e drew from the same trade last year, NAL
e ing $S, 0O0,000 of business closed out in
S single branch of domestic commerce
|. which Boston was once conspicuous
The long credits have done their share
20 | uc1llOTdllZC IL IrdUc III WHICH CASH HO
\ means sixty days, and credit sales are
h proportion.
h All the testimony in the star-route TT
" al at Washington was concluded on Wee
le nesday of last week. and the court hear
d argument as to the statute on which I'll
indictment was based, and whether it wa
:, affected by limitation. During the pre-
;. ceedings the grand jury presented I'll
- indictments, as follows: Against Wi
liam Pitt Kellogg for receiving none
whilst United States senator for servi,
es rendered in relation to contract wit
:. the United States; witnesses John 4
Walsh, James B. Price, Joseph Cochra
and j. M. Brady; also against Thomas ,
Brady for receiving money whilst secon
=, assistant postmaster-general,f for service
~ rendered in relation to contract wit
rs the United States. The same witnesst
~ are named in the two indictments. Thel