Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-02
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

President Cleveland will vote in Buffalo,
N. Y, on Tuesday, and will leave Wash
ington for that city on Sunday evening.
The report of the postmaster general
will show decrease in the postal re-
ceipts as compared with the last fiscal
year Of upwards of S., 100000
Ex-Governor Ramsey, chairman of the
Utah commission, has presented the re-
port to the Secretary of the Interior. The
commission say it is now only a matter
of time when polygamy becomes extinct,
and recommended continuation of the
same policy.
London, with population of about
four million, has thirty-seven hundred
letter-carriers, while in New York, with
one million five hundred thousand inhab-
itants, the carriers number only about
five hundred London has also eleven
deliveries a day, and New York only eight.
During the II weeks ending October
II, smallpox steadily increased in Mon
treal. The only encouragement lies in
the fact that the increase has not been as
large during the past few weeks. In the
II weeks the record is 1900 deaths, and
there were 203 deaths for the week ending
Oct. II. 1t is fearful record
A creditor in Mexico can have debtor
| arrested on the day the debt falls due.
The prisoner is chained to a post five
| days, guarded by an officer. At the end
of the time, if the money is not forthcom-
| ing, the mans labor is sold to the Gov
eminent at 40 cents a day for as many
days as will be necessary to discharge
the obligation.
The widow of General Grant has been
greatly grieved and panied by the public
discussion of the domestic affairs of her
daughter, Mrs. Satoris. The Philadel-
phia Public Ledger is authorized to say
that all reports to the effect that Mrs. Sa-
toris has applied, or contemplates apply
ing, for divorce or separation from her
husband, are entirely without founda-
ton, and cruel wounds to her feelings.
There was a terrible accident at Je-
rome Park, n. Y, on the afternoon of
Oct. 30, resulting in the death of Jockey
and valuable horse. The first race was
called shortly after one o'clock There
were ten horses started. They got of
all right, and were coming around the
CLUB house turn when there was a col
lision. Four jockeys We're thrown from
their horses; one was picked up dead.
Kelsos horse Brookwood, valued at $751;
600, broke his neck. There was great
excitement.
A dispatch from ST. Johns, N. F., says
ga great storm ragged off the coast OF
Labrador the 18th Of Oct, doing immense
damage among the fishing fleet gathered
there Eighty vessels were wrecked OF
driven ashore and at least 70 men LOST
their lives. Two thousand persons are
now ashore and destitute. The news ere
ated great excitement here. Steamers
will be Immediately dispatched to the
scene of the disaster with provisions
clothing and other comforts for the use
OF the castaways" Other advices stat,
that over thousand lives were lost
and that the storm ragged from the It'll
to the 10Th.
: The November number of st. NichOla
is out with a new and very attractive
| cover, which is in perfect keeping witt
| the objects and aims of the magazine. |
; the rising sun to its MONDAY splendor
> through temple Of literature and art
Between the covers are to be found tn
most entertaining of stories by Miss Al
I colt, Mrs Coolidge, the late Mrs. Jack
son and many others. The illustration
are unusually fine, notably those in tn
: article on turtles" The article upo
! s.Christmas gifts will be opportune 70
i the Young folks and the whole humble
e useful and enjoyable. Terms $500 pc
e year. Published by the Century Comps
e ny, Union Square, New York.
t Mrs D. r. Boland, daughter-in-law G
b a leading Methodist clergyman, who ha
Il Just been discharged from St. Roch
d smallpox hospital at Montreal, publishe
y a statement which discloSeS a revoltin
: state of affairs in that institution. Th
doctors gave her no professional after
S ton. Very little nursing is done, exceE
l. by covalescent patients. The cries of pr
n tients for water are often heart-rendins
: and only met by the response to "shr
S up" The stencil is revolving; and ther
S is no deodorizing. No attention is eve
S given those sent to the black small-po
It ward. The cries that come from ths
e awful place are frightful She mention
d case in which Il doctor when entreate
: would give no relief to a;patient, and sh
= died unattended. The place is said I
= be infested with vermin. committe
L of doctors have inspected the hospita
7. which will probably De burned, and a
y patients removed TO the new Mount Roy
al hospitals.
e Is NEGROES
Who left the United States for Liberia last ye
have lately returned, being unable to stand the c
u mate Everybody going to climate shou
It have a bottle of Sulphur Bitters with them as
If safeguard against disease. Hartford Courant.