Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-01-29
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

brother of the Emperor of Germany, died |
recently, at the age of elghty-two years. |
The wardrobe of the Chinese Minister
at Washington is valued at $3.50, 900. He
never appears at reception twice in the
same dress, and all of them are of the fin
est silks and satins.
- The number of pension certificates is
sued during the week ending, January
Is, was as follows: Original, 633; in
crease, 100; reissue, So; restoration, 81
duplicate, So; accrued pensions, 81; to-
tai, &C.,
The Methodist Alliance of Detroit has
raised money to pay the debts upon ev-
cry church of the denomination in the
city, and it is now engaged in similar
work for the feeble and mission churches
of the state.
On Sunday afternoon the Giant Powder
Mill near West Berkeley Station, four
miles north of Oakland, CAL, was blown
up and three other explosions followed in
quick succession, thirty Chinese work
men being killed.
Twenty-one persons are under arrest in
Dublin, charged with conspiring to muir
der officials. On the trial, which is in
progress, an informer has sworn to the
existence of an Assassination Committee,
of which he was member.
Three terrific explosions took place in
a gunpowder mandatory in the town of
Muiden, Holland, on Friday, and nearly
all the houses in the place were uhroof-
ed by the conclusion. The neighboring
towns and villages were much damaged.
The machine-shops of the Great West
ern Manufacturing Company, at Leaven-
worth, Kan, were destroyed by fire re-
Gently. Most of the patterns were saved,
but the machinery and buildings are to-
tai loss. Four hundred men are thrown
out of employment.
A dispatch from Madrid says: ''There
were twenty-five shocks of earthquake In
| Murcia on the 10th inst, and several
| houses were destroyed" Eleven shocks
of earthquake were felt in the town of
| Archena, causing the greatest consterna-
ton among the inhabitants.
Scheller, the alleged Newhall House
incendiary, was taken quietly back to jail
the 10Th. There is evidence that Schel-
Ter removed his stock the day previous to
the fire. He even removed the balls OF
seven billiard tables before the fire. The
value of the stock secreted was about
$1,000.
Matamoras Mex special says news
has been received of a desperate battle
near Tehuautepec, between the seventh
battalion and the Tehuantepec Indians
The Indians lost 80 men killed and man.
wounded. The troops lost so men killed
among them their lieutenant colonel. TIL
Indians were routed.
A great land-slip has occurred in tn
valley of Faverges, Switzerland. Thu
village of Marais has been completely de
stroyed by an enormous mass of earth
rocks and trees, dislodged by recent snow
storms. The movement upon Marai
was gradual, and the inhabitants wer
able to affect hasty escape.
On Jan. Goth, the Western Union Tel
egraph company made twenty-five cent
its maximum rate for a message of te
words between any of its offices in Vel
mont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Yor
city and the southeastern part of th
state of Maine. Orders have alread
been given to reduce the present rates c
80, So, 40 and so cents to the 25-cent rate
The magnificent sarcophagus OF til
Duke of Wellington, in the crypt of S
Paul's, is one huge boulder of prophyr.
weighing over seventy tons. Nearly til
whole of it has been standing aboy
ground for ages in the parish of LuXul
on, Cornwall, and it is the actual fat
J. that before it was selected the continer
had been searched in vain for such
, monolith
According to dispatch from Milwal
kee, Wis, the search in the Newha
House was finished, the 18th. Two cha
red bodies were found, making fort
eight. Of III people said to be in Il
hotel at the time of the fire, 176 are a
counted for as follows: Identified, q
- unidentified, 46, saved, 102. There
= still one person missing, making the t
tai loss of life seventy-five.
e The variety in the Century, for Febr
n airy, is so great as to make it difficult
g select the articles most worthy of speci
attention. 1t is an excellent number, al
entertaining as well as solid. Stedma
Howells, Smalley, Cable, Stoddard, c
? nant, and Marston are among the fam
lar names of contributors. Louise Stoc
ton sets forth forcibly and sensibly t
folly of giving supper" whenever frien
g are invited for an evening sociable.
l. Senator Morrill, of Vermont estimat
e that the reductions in the Senate tai
< bill will aggregate S79, 100000. The ]
ID duction on sugar and molasses by Il
s. bill is 500, 000,0 900. The other reductio
are on cottons, iron and steel, silk, VIC
r. and woolens, to moderate amount. L
at taxes on matches, bank checks and ba
l. capital are abolished. There is also
n reduction in the tax on cigars and tob;
IF CO. This appears to be an honest bl
4 and if the country could vote on it,
IN would pass by a mighty "aye."
lg The necessity Of protecting the flores
~ of the Adirondack region from furtf
u devastation, has at last been recogniz
d. in the New York Senate by a bill prob
n iting all further sales of state lands in
OF counties of Fulton, Hamilton, Warr
IN Essex, Clinton, Franklin, st. Lawren
ms Saratoga and Herkimer. The reasons
rs its favor were so conclusive that the s.
If ate ordered it to third reading witht
OF dissenting voice. Mr.. Bowen OF u
ton, moved to except his county, toge
w. er with Franklin, st. Lawrence, Hell
~, mer. and one or two others, but the 1
No. ton got no vote but his own, and
half q million acres of land owned by