The Monitor., 1885-01-02
GENERAL NEWS.

The public debt statement for December
is expected to show reduction of$400 900.
Sweet potatoes go begging in the mar
kets of Yalata, Fla, at twenty-five cents a
bushel.
1t is estimated that the Exposition has
already drawn over 100, 900 visitors to New
Orleans.
From single grape vine in Levy county,
Fla, 1000 pounds of grapes were taken
this season.
Bethlehem, n. H., has only some 1900
inhabitants, but she is credited with six
post-offices.
Russell Hancock, son of General Win
field Scott Hancock, died on Wednesday
at CIarksville, Mississippi where he was
settled as planter and merchant. He was
only 80 years of age.
Chicken cholera, the american Culti-
cdt0r asserts causes an annual loss amount
ing to so, 100000 in this country.
Each visitor to the Worlds Exposition
is required to deposit a silver half dollar in
a glass box in charge of the doorkeepers,
no admission tickets being sold
Some inventors, after all, get the benefit
of their ingenuity. Sir Henry Bessemer
holds IA patents. One of them has paid
him 5000, 900 annually for twenty years.
London Truth has started on a new cru
SADIE. II is after a spritualistic medium
who has been showing visions of their de-
ceased children to wealthy parents at $3.50
apiece.
The substitution of glass flooring for
boards continues to increase i'll Paris, this
being especially the case in those business
structures in which the cellars are used as
offices.
1t is announced that u meeting of the
National Committee of the Prohibition
party and conference of its leading work
ers will be held in New York City on the
7th inst
The high price of qunime strikes no ter
ror to the heart of the average manufacture
ing druggist. 1t is stated that he makes
500 pills, of one grain each, from an ounce
of the drug.
1t is reported that Gen Grant will give
up his home in New York for the benefit of
his creditors and take up his abode tenn
porarily with the benevolent Mr. Childs,
of Philadelphia.
The electric light is pronounced by an
English scientist, who claims to have ex-
haustivey examined into the subject, the
only illuminant by which the surrounding
atmosphere is not vitiated.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union of Ohio has served notice upon the
Democratic Legislature that it will be ex-
pected to submit prohibitory amendment
to the people at this winters session.
The number of deaths reported in New
York during 1884 was 5,044, against 3d.
9S2 during the previous year. The num-
Der of births registered in the year just
closed was 30, 527, against 28, 972 in 1888.
The Prohibitionists are in majority in
the Georgia house of representatives and
they appear determined to pass a general
local option law. Ninety counties in the
state now have partial or total Prohibition.
A telegram from Portland, Me-. says
that the number of ships built in Maine
during 1884 has been 81, against 10 in
1888. OF the vessels built five were 200C
tons register and twenty mine We're under
100 tons. Owing to low freights the year
has been bad one for ship builders, and
it closes with few contracts on hand.
To protect the Washington Monument
from lightning, the block of aluminium
that caps it is connected by heavy copper
conductor with the four heavy metal col
umns supporting the elevator, and these
with well near the base of the mon
ument, thus securing good earth connec
ton. Thus protected the monument should
be able to withstand very heavy electri
cal discharge.