Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-04-13
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Franz Abbott, the German composer,
is dead
Ex-Governor Randall is quite i'll at
Washington from nervous prostration.
1t is expected that Bartholdi, the
French sculptor, will visit the United
States this year.
Ex-Governor Fletcher, of Missouri, has
been missing since March 21st, and much
alarm is felt over his mysterious disap-
pearance.
1t is rumored that the Anamese have
risen against French authority The
rising is attributed to the French revers-
es, and to the intrigues of the Chinese
Mandarins.
Riel's rebellion in the Northwest pro-
crosses. The latest dispatch received
from Biddeford briefly announces the kill
ing Of ten citizens and the burning of
| towns.
| The Christian AdUocdte says: ga rea-
| sonable estimate justiies the opinion that
more than 10000 persons have protested
| conversion during the past three months
and Joined, or are intending to join, the
Methodist Episcopal church."
The supreme court of Nebraska has de-
cided that wholesale liquor dealers, hith-
erto exempt from the Slocumb liquor law,
must hereafter pay $1,000 annual license
| This decision adds at least $20,0 900 each
year to the school fund of Omaha, which
already receives 100000 from the retail
ers.
Virginians are confident that Gen. Fitz-
hugh Lee, the nephew of the Confederate
General, Robert E. Lee, will be appoint
ed marshal of the district. Fitzhugh Lee
is the ex-Confederate soldier who was
more wildly cheered in the Inauguration
procession than any other person in it,
Union or Confederate.
survey of Lake Ontario was made
from u point 224 feet about the lake level
at Oswego, N. Y, the other day, and the
ice was found to be solid in all directions
as far as glass could reach except due
north from the harbor, where open water
appeared at a distance of seventeen miles
and extended over the horizon.
julius Fournier, aged % years, was kill
ed at Cones Crossing, just above Var
Deusenville, Mass, on the HousatoDit
boy on a load of household goods, wher
a down train struck the wagon, demolish
ing it and the furniture. The boy was
thrown from the load and had his heat
badly cut, but will recover. Fourniel
was thrown some distance and instantly
, killed.
, President BorrioS of Guatemala, was
, killed in the battle of Chalchuapa las
Thursday. Hostilities between Guatema
la and the allied republics have been sus
pended, and an armstice for month il
f. announced. The Legislative assembly o
t Guatemala has annulled the decree pro
mulgated by President Barrios, Februar.
2Sth, in which a union of the Contra
American republics was proclaimed, ant
Barrels was announced as Dictator ant
2 supreme military cheftain of all Contra
America.
Vanderbilt is worth 5000, 100000, 0
which $50 900, 900 are in United State
bonds and can be turned into gold at an
J time, and the rest is made up ofstocks an,
bonds, the bulk of which are above par
Y Vanderbilts wealth, therefore, represent
1 so much gold. The ordinary mind ca
get no sort of notion of such stipend
Gus pyramid Of gold as $500, 100000 Pu
. it into pyramid of Egypt, what monu
Il ment it would make in the desert for it
: owner Vanderbilts capital of gold
e greater than all there was in the world
9 conquering Rome in the glittering reig
of Augustus Caesar. 1t is greater tina
: the whole amount of gold and silver ther
8 was in the civilized world in 1892, at th
time of the discovery of America; NOR
than the entire product for the past hur
dred years of the great gold mines of tn
Gar of Russia. It is more than the Who'll
! product for two years of all the gol
mines Of the world. 1t is nearly twice q
much as all the precious metals produce
thus far in the gold and silyer-bearin
- state of Colorado. Counting this vas
. fortune dollar by dollar at the rate of si2
= ty per minute, it would take six years
accomplish the task. placed one ats
y another it would make a string of dollar
le from New York to St. Louis.
ef -.--
Peleg Simmons Of hiagstaa, Mass, foF sever
wears prior to 1853, had suffered with rhepm
: ism &C., that the cords of his neck became co
& tracted as to draw the head back that the top
10 the head rubbed his back, and the hair
- nv contact with the clothes. Frequent spasms a
e. companied this distress. Various physicians al
fnally treatment at the Mass. General Hospit
:ere 'sried with no help. One years application
- the Liniment prepared by DR.. B, Streeter, ar
nc nnder his treatment completely cured the ma
at These facts verified oath before Justice
six prominent citizens, and by the selectmen
m Kingston Mass. The entire statements yerifie
r. &c, will be sent to any address by Gilman Bros
Boston. See advertisement of DIR. Streeter's Liz
H. ment in this weeks issue.