Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-09-24
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

HAS ISSueu Call loT 910,OOo,OOU |
of per cent bonds.
The largest cow in America, weighing
8 200 pounds, belongs to John Pratt, of
Chase county, Kansas.
President Arthur and several members
of his cabinet will attend the forthcom-
ing cotton exposition at New Orleans.
The Grand Trunk railroad has it's ter
minus at Portland. Arrangements are
nearly completed to remove it to Boston.
The first reports Of the damages done
were exaggerated. The crops have
been injured, but not so severely as was
stated.
The returns of the census taken on JAM
uary l, 1883, for the Empire of Japan
have just been published, and show that |
the whole country contains a total of &c. |
70O,11
In Ohio, recently, one of a party of |
young men, while endeavoring to inter-
rupt camp-meeting of colored people.
fell over a precipice 800 feet high and
was killed.
Last year John Wannamaker, of Phila-
delphia, gave up 100000 for advertising
purposes, but it made 1000, 600 for him
in trade, and he still thinks well of the
| newspapers. 4
Eighty packages of silk lace, valued at,
$1,000, were seized by the revenue officers
at New York, Tuesday. 1t is claimed
they were Struggled by employees of the.
steamship City of Berlin.
Massachusetts, dominates Hon. Geo. D.
Robinson Of Chicopee for Governor. He
is one of the strongest, cleanest, bright
est men in the State and ''Uncle Ben"
will find him hard fellow to beat. But
Ter dominates himself.
A portion of the Amoskeag mills has
been shut down at Manchester, n. H., till
the river rises or the engines, now being
put In, are ready to run, which will be in
about four weeks. From $500 to 1000
operatives are temporarily idle. The
other mills will run nearly if not quite on
full time.
A five-year-old trotting horse, Jay Eye
See, has been trotting the past season al
a wonderful gait, and recently made {
mile in Providence, r. l., in 2.103, en-
titling him to the honor of being King O
the Turf: Maud S. being the only horse il
t the world that has better record.
| The oil business in Bradford, Penn.
: booms as it never doomed before. TIL
actual sales or clearances at the Bradfor,
exchange for two days were "a, 500, 00
barrels, the heaviest sales for that perio
: in the history of any oil exchange. TIL
S sales at the Producers exchange for tn
b same time were nearly 10000 barrels
q There is great excitement.
O The statement of the United State
4 Treasurer shows gold, silver and Unite
States notes in the Treasury as follows
Gold coin and bullion $2O4, 667 ,245, silve
" dollars and bullion $119, l34, 497, fraction
N al silver coin $27 ,441, S12, United State
If notes SOL, 676, 9O5; total $403, 22O, ass
n Certificates outstanding: Gold 500, 1872
rs 040; silver, SIT, 277, Gal; currency, $l2
l. $4,000.
ir A Chicago despatch says Messrs
a. Moody, Veterinarian, and Whittle, th
Is evangelists, will leave this country O
N October 2, for Ireland, where they COZ
20 template carrying on an active mission
he airy campaign in the south of the islant
c. where, Notwithstanding the preponde
il ance of Roman Catholic sentiment, the
q, expect to receive fair hearing on a,
r count of their being Americans.
t. The Herald publishes full and exhau
q, tive crop reports from all parts Of I'll
fd State, showing the condition of crops
We far above the average. Threshing is f:
C. in advance, the yield of wheat and GA
I'M is phenomenal, while the corn crop pro1
ises to be very heavy. Three days mo
an will take it out of the reach of frost. I'll
CHI first frost has formed, but it is not hal
enough to do damage.
NC According to reports from various h
'io yards, published in the last issue of t
ne Malone Palladium, the hop crop of Mort
ISL ern New York falls considerably belo
ie' expectations. One yard that yielded l
us boxes last year turns out 100 this seaso
NC some growers report % per cent less
se crop than last year; some got abo
U.s. two-thirds as much of a crop. Sol
Ire twentv-two growers have heen intarv;e
'nt ed, and all tell the same story OF she
Ut crop.
ice
in George K. Anderson, of Titusville, P
ms has enioyed the distinction of being I