Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-07-06
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


railroad in California as it does in New |
York
Thirty-six out of 1872 applicants for adj
mission to West Point have been found
deficient.
United States greenbacks are so popu-
lar in Cuba that they command Il premi-
UNI over gold and silver.
Bent and White, the Bank of Scotland
forgers, were sentenced June Both to ten
years in the Penetentiary each.
The debt statement to be issued to-day
will show reduction of the debt during
the month of June of So, 5000
Civil service reform has proceeded so
far that it is said that number of Grip
pied soldiers are to be removed from the
Pension Office.
The republicans of Ohio have soldier
ticket. this year. The blue above the gray;
the stars and stripes above all other flags,
and the men who have preserved the flag,
| uppermost.
Five hundred and forty-one more Nor
mons sailed from London on the steamer
''Wisconsin," on Saturday, for the United
States. Why not have law prohibiting
such immigration?
A special dispatch from Dallas, Tex,
| July Sd, says: Mr.. S. P. Samuel of Mes
| quite, Dallas county, yesterday sold to
| Samuel L. Brother of Silver City, N. NJ,
his Plata Hermoso silver mine for So, 900,
900.
| P. T. Barnum wishes to have the fact
noted that his greatest show on earth
| ''never was, is not, and never will be di-
vided,' but will be shown in its entirety.
| The New York Times started story to
the contrary.
Congressman Burleigh recently stated
between New York City and Fort Edward,
representing capital of So, 5000 and
only three of them are in operation. The
statement carries it's own comment on the
condition of iron trade.
Counterfeit two dollar notes OF the Do
minion of Canada are reported to be in
circulation. They are quite cleverly ex-
ecuted with the exception of the portrait
of Lord Duferin. The paper is also quite
poor; otherwise the bills could not be de-
tected from the genuine except by experts.
The president has issued an executive
notice stating that temporary agree
ment has been reached between the Unit
ed States and Great Britain by which the
provisions of the existing fishery treaty
will be continued during the season OF
1885. On it's reassembling congress will
be asked to assent to the appointment OF
a joint commission for the negotiation Of
a new treaty.
Eli Buel, 60 years old, of Pittsfeld
Mass, committed suicide on his wife's
grave in the cemetery, July LIST. He was
formerly a prosperous photogl apher, but
afterwards lost his money. His first wife
| committed suicide by hanging, and hi
J was divorced from his second wife. HI
! spent the night in the graveyard and sho
himself, it is thought, about six o'clocl
in the morning.
BY the first of next month every irol
e and steel mill in Pittsburg and vicinity
with one exception, will be using natura
;, gas as fuel, which will reduce the con
sumption of coal there 3S, 25O, 900 bushels
per annum, or one-seventh of the yearl.
output of the region tributary to Pitts
burg. 1t will also throw out Of employ
ment thousands of firemen, coal HEAVIER
and ash haulers employed in the mills.
= From a report made to the British Gov
eminent by its Consul General ct Frank
fort, it appeared that all over German
the consumption of ardent spirits is rap
idly increasing, especially among tn
working classes. In Prussia for instance
between 1869 and 1880 the number of pub
lie houses increased at the rate of 50 pc
cent, while the population only increased
at the rate of thirteen per cent. This i
, the more remarkable from the fact tina
the use of spirits amongst the upper class
es in Germany has gone out of fashion
The workmen do not follow suit.
e Sometime ago several valuable Jerse
e COWS belonging to Henry Weinberg o
(, Cape Elizabeth were poisoned in the pas
ture with potatoes treated with pari
o green. Detectives have been on the hun
e after the guilty person, and July I'd arrest
l. ed Thomas C. Cooper, aneighbor of Vein
d barg. 1t turns out that Cooper had
quarrel with Weinburg and poisoned hi
h COWS to get even. A quantity of pari
e green, and potatoes cut in two and file
/. with it were found in Cooper's barn
brought before Trial Justice and boun
!. over in the sum of $1,000.
Y A republican senator states that tn
lie programme agreed upon by the republic
1T an senators privately as to the confirms
}; tions is this: That there will be no oppt
sition to confirmation in any case whel
-e term has expired or where the perso
d nominated occupies position where
1t represents the policy of the Administrs
A. ton; that in all cases where removal
E. have been made during term on th
lie ground of offensive partisanship thel
will be most rigid inquiry to ascertai
r whether the person nominated to succee
S. the suspended officer is also an offensiy
T. partisan, in which case Il rejection
lg probable.
IN Financial reaction has come to MeXic
Dr. and the developing of the country by on
a. siders must stop for awhile. Railroa
U. building there has been tremendous
as stimulated by government subsidies
of percentage of customs receipts has bee
he given to them outright on the groun
It. that the roads greatly increased those l.
he ceipts-but now the government is in ht
v, water and fatty repudiates it's agreemel
D. about the payments. This leaves I'll
re roads, whatever may be their promise
to time to come, generally unable to pay e!
penses, stops railroad building and effec
b. ually dampens all the new enterprise
is which have been growing so fast.
IL Boston alone the loss by the shrnkage
nt the value of securities amounts to maj
nd millions of dollars, and there are 9th
~ losses, present and prospective, very lar
IT, and widespread.