Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-03-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS,

GENERAL MY Is ITEMS,
Dakota is only territory, but it has
two hundred and seventy-five newspapers
more than any New England state ex-
eept Massachusetts, or any eastern state
except New York and Pennsylvania. In
the number of postoffices it ranks above
twenty three states and territories. and it
has population as large as Nebraska or
Connecticut, and nearly twice.as large as
Vermont or Florida.
Last year million and a half of cats
were killed for their skins, which have
become valuable as fur lining. The in
dustry of cat-skin collecting is ofvery re-
cent growth. If within so short space
of time, the casual destruction for their
hide of a few stray cats has assumed the
respectable dimensions of solid traffic.
estimated in round numbers at hundreds
of thousands of skins, what will it be in
a decade hence?
General Grant went to sleep between
after hypodermic injection of morphine
had been given him. He slept we'll dur
ing the night and only awoke twice during
that period. He arose at 1890 O'Clock on
the morning of the 18th, and partook of
his breakfast of liquid food half an hour
afterwards. 1t was said that he was
feeling better in the morning after good
nights rest. Mrs. Satoris is expected to
arrive in the city at once.
Hon. David Fisher of Ohio is the old
est ex-congressman, being in his ninety
first year. He was soldier in the war
of 1912 and danced with Gen. Grants
mother before her marriage. He was
elected in 1916 and served in the same
congress with Abraham Lincoln. When
in congress they roomed together and
formed the closest relations. He
strongly advocated the nomination of
Mr.. Lincoln in 1860. ssJohn Quincy Ad-
ans, next to Lincoln says Mr.. Fisher,
twas the grandest man ever met" When
Mr.. Adams fell in the House, few days
before his death, Mr.. Fisher, whose sea-
was just across the aisle, caught him as
he was sinking.
The roller skate mania is raging with
such virulence in the West that legislators
as well as clergymen feel called upon to
consider how it may be checked men,
Der of the Minnesota legislature has in
/ troduced a bill providing that ssmales and
/ females shall not be allowed to occupy
| the floor of any skating rink at the same
| time He insists that skating Kinks shall
not be allowed to do business without a
license. Meanwhile in some parts of
the saloon keepers, whose business is Sc
riously damaged by the rival attraction.
The saloon keepers have resolved to boy
| colt the stockholders of the Kinks, but if
the latter happen to be total abstinence
men they may be able to survive ostra-
| cism. The roller skate seems at present
| to be the most disturbing element of
American civilization.
The following remarks were made by a
Canadian judge in sentencing violator
of the liquor law: ssMen go into this bus
mess, which requires no brains, no CAPT
tai, and no ability. This man went into
it, in defiance of law, for the sake of the
one hundred per cent profit. yes, two
hundred fifty per cent profit; and, after
putting the commonwealth to much trou-
BILE in conyicting him, comes into court
and whines and asks that clemency be
children. Now it seems to me that i
men are willing to 20 into this business
and take their risks for the immense pro
fits, they should come up and take theil
punishment aud say nothing. Ny prac
tice is to affirm the sentence of the lowe
court unless good cause is shown to tn,
contrary; no good cause has been shown
in this case why that practice should b.
changed, and. Mr.. Clerk, you may affirm
the sentence of the lower court.
A dispatch from Marquette. Mich, Mar
18th, says: 4 terrible blizzard has beei
prevailing here since Sunday The snos
drifts at the cuts on Tie railroad are eigh
feet deep, aud several locomotives ar
derailed- At 10 O'Clock on the night o
the 18th, the thermometer marked Is dc
grees below zero. Ii Is reported tina
several choppers have been frozen t
!. death Hiram Deyine, a farmer iisin
J near ST. Ignace, was found frozen 10 deaf
in his barn, whittier he had gone 10 car
for bis horses His wife, after waifin
some hours for his return, went in scare
of him. So deep was the SNOW that Mrs
DeyIne lost her balance. and was smofI
/ cred to death within % feet Of the spo
where her husband lay When the neigi
b0rs opened the house they found the tw
little boys, aged ? and years, also dea
from starvation and cold. Even 50 Il
west as Montana tie blizzard has mad
7 its terrors felt. Three miners, wifo Lei
! Bozeman six weeks ago for Bridger's q
non hare been buried alise under til
snow slide 4 rescning party i st worI
hut no trace Of the men Of their cabin ha
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